David Stark, Chief Legal Officer of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

01/03/19 • 10 min

Goodwin's Chairman David Hashmall interviews David M. Stark, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drug company. Mr. Stark discusses his role, the evolving relationship between clients and their law firms, the importance of diversity and inclusion in the legal industry, and more.

Mr. Stark became Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Teva in November 2017. From November 2016 to November 2017, he served as Group Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer. From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Stark was Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Global Specialty Medicines. Since joining Teva in 2002, Mr. Stark served in a series of roles with increasing responsibilities in Teva North America and Teva Americas, including as Senior Director, Deputy General Counsel, and Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to joining Teva, Mr. Stark was an associate attorney in the litigation departments at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP between 1998 and 2002, Chadbourne & Parke between 1997 and 1998 and Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens between 1994 and 1997. Mr. Stark received a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in political science from Northeastern University, summa cum laude.

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Trevor Morrison, the Dean at New York University School of Law

Goodwin's Chairman David Hashmall sits down with Trevor W. Morrison, the Dean and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, to talk about leading one of the world's top law schools, the value of a law degree, and the leaderships skills that every new lawyer should focus on.

Prior to his current role, Dean Morrison was the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he was also faculty co-director of the Center for Constitutional Governance and faculty co-chair of the Hertog Program on Law and National Security. Before that, he was on the faculty of Cornell Law School. Dean Morrison spent 2009 in the White House, where he served as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. Drawing on both his scholarship and work experience, he has developed particular renown for his expertise in constitutional law as practiced in the executive branch.

Dean Morrison's research and teaching interests are in constitutional law (especially separation of powers and federalism), federal courts, and the law of the executive branch. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among others.

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Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School

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Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including positions with McKinsey & Co., Procter & Gamble, as a Fulbright Scholar, and most recently as a professor with both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School Executive Education. Over the past decade, Dr. Gardner conducted in-depth studies on numerous global professional service firms and performed empirical research on organizational collaboration. Dr. Garner published the results of her work in Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos in January 2017. Her clear and convincing case that collaboration pays for professionals and their firms was recognized by the Academy of Management’s prize for Outstanding Paper with Practical Implications for Management.

Dr. Gardner has addressed more than 20,000 professionals in more than two dozen countries on themes of Smart Collaboration. She continues to lead discussions on topics of leadership and collaboration as a Distinguished Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, as well as the Faculty Chair of the school’s Executive Education Program. Her collection of published works includes more than 60 book chapters, case studies, and articles in scholarly and practitioner journals. All of this work has earned her a variety of esteemed recognitions, including being named a Next Generation Business Thinker by Thinkers50.