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ATLANTA—Womble Carlyle attorney John F. Sandy Smith played a key role in a recent  Economic Summit hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. 

The yearly SIEPR Economic Summit attracted top national and international business and economic leaders to discuss the state of the global economy. Other speakers at the March 11 event included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman, Oracle president Safra Catz, DirecTV chairman, president and CEO Michael White, Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who is also SIEPR’s Honorary Chairman.

Smith moderated a Critical Issue Session on financial reform featuring panelists Joe Grundfest and Gene Shanks. Grundfest, a former SEC commissioner and staff member for the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. Shanks is the former president and director of Bankers Trust Company, as well as founder, president and CEO of NetRisk, Inc. He is also a Director of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company (Freddie Mac).
 

Smith, a member in Womble Carlyle’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group, is an Emeritus member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees. In addition to serving on SIEPR’s Advisory Board, he chairs the Advisory Board of the Institute for Research in Social Science at Stanford University. He is a member of the MBA Advisory Board and has served as lecturer and executive in residence at The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He practices in Womble Carlyle’s Atlanta office.

 

 

Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.

The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 500 attorneys in eleven offices: Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE. n the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.