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Richard Ziegler
Partner at Jenner & Block LLP

Fellow, Center for Ethical Business Cultures

Richard F. Ziegler is a partner in Jenner & Block’s New York office. He is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Department and its Intellectual Property, Business Litigation, Securities Litigation, White Collar Defense and Counseling and Corporate Counseling and Governance Practices. Mr. Ziegler concentrates in complex civil litigation and government enforcement matters, including intellectual property and securities disputes.

Mr. Ziegler joined Jenner & Block from the 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he served from 2003 – 2007 as Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel. Mr. Ziegler was responsible for all of 3M’s legal affairs worldwide, counseled the Board of Directors and its Audit Committee, and led a department of more than 150 lawyers. He also served on the Company’s senior management Operations Committee. During his tenure as General Counsel he oversaw changes in 3M’s corporate governance and business conduct processes, its largest-ever acquisition and significant litigation involving intellectual property, antitrust, product liability, employment and environmental matters.

Before joining 3M Mr. Ziegler was a partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York for more than two decades, serving as coordinator of its New York litigation practice and a member of its worldwide Executive Committee. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney in that office.

Mr. Ziegler has extensive experience in litigating and arbitrating complex matters. He has conducted more than 20 jury and bench trials and arbitrations. He won a defense verdict in a $400 million class action trial against a major commercial bank in New York state court and represented another major financial institution in its $600 million resolution of federal criminal charges and related civil claims in the Southern District of New York. He has handled numerous SEC investigations.

Mr. Ziegler also has substantial experience in patent litigation, having won the Federal Circuit’s en banc ruling in Honeywell v. Hamilton Sundstrand. His other notable victories include landmark rulings in which the Delaware Supreme Court, en banc, clarified the scope of directors’ immunity from monetary damages for disclosure violations (Arnold v. Society for Savings), the Second Circuit changed the limitations period in securities actions (Ceres Partners v. GEL Associates), the Eighth Circuit determined criteria for vicarious liability under the RICO statute (Tonka v. Luthi), and the New York Court of Appeals clarified the law of tortious interference with contract in the merger context (NBT Bancorp v. Fleet/Norstar).

Mr. Ziegler was Chairman of the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the New York State Bar Association. He has taught a seminar on ethics and complex litigation at Columbia Law School and has been a member of the faculty of the trial advocacy program at Cardozo Law School. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul and chaired the school’s Audit & Finance Committee.

Mr. Ziegler has frequently appeared as a speaker at professional conferences and has co-chaired the Annual General Counsel Conference and PLI’s Corporate Counsel Institute, both in New York. He has written for the National Law Journal and other professional publications.

Mr. Ziegler graduated from Yale College summa cum laude in 1971, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1975 and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Ziegler also clerked for Federal District Court Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. He is a member of the bar of New York and Minnesota, the United States Supreme Court and numerous federal circuit and district courts.

For more information, please contact:

Center for Ethical Business Cultures
1000 LaSalle Avenue, TMH331
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2005
USA
E-mail: rziegler@jenner.com