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Plans Begin for Atlanta Conference
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ABA Homeland Security Law Institute
 NAFUSA Board Member Joe D. Whitley announced that the American Bar Association's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section is holding its 7th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute on March 22 & 23, 2012, in Washington, DC. Whitley, a shareholder in the Atlanta office of Greenberg Traurig, served as the first General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. After his service with the government, Whitley, ABA Section Vice-Chair and Program Chair, founded the Institute as a way to educate those individuals who practice Homeland Security Law.
Click here to see an invitation from Whitley to attend the Institute. Speakers include former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, former CIA Director General Michael Hayden and Assistant Secretary to International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer to DHS (and NAFUSA member) Alan Bersin. ABAHomeland Security Law Institute Agenda 2012 contains the full agenda for the Institute along with registration information.
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Jim Richmond Named Chief
Legal Officer of QHI
 NAFUSA member and former board member James G. Richmond has been named Chief Legal Officer of Quality Healthcare Intermediary, LLC ("QHI"), effective March 5, 2012. Richmond described QHI as "a company that holds several innovative patents in the area of 'accountable care' and 'population management.' The QHI system", Richmond explained, "provides a way to manage chronically-ill employees and drastically reduce the 'healthcare spend' for those individuals while at the same time providing a much better outcome for them."
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Judge William T. "Bill" McGivern, Jr. Dies
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New Military Tribunal Case
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National Association of Former United States Attorneys (NAFUSA).
Richard A. Rossman
Executive Director
27 Oakland Park
Pleasant Ridge, Michigan 48069
Phone: 248-548-8289
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The conference will continue at the W Hotel with continuing education programs on Friday and Saturday mornings. Charlie Savage, left, of The New York Times has agreed to join us for the third year in a row, and will moderate a two hour panel on immigration issues on Friday morning. He is a Washington correspondent for The Times. Savage covered national legal affairs for the Boston Globe from 2003 to 2008. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2007. His book about the growth of executive power, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy," was named one of the best books of 2007 by both Slate and Esquire.
Judge William T. "Bill" McGivern, Jr., who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California from 1990-1992, passed away on February 19, 2012. He was 72 and died after a long battle with Alzheimer's. McGivern worked in the U.S. Attorney's office from 1973 to 1992. He served as the Chief Assistant to NAFUSA member Joe Russoniello before succeeding him as the U.S. Attorney. He later served as a judge on the Marin County Superior Court.
Bill Keller, shown left, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and writer for The New York Times Magazine, states in his Monday, February 20, 2012, Op-Ed column 
