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David Horton, professor, University of California-Davis, School of Law in Davis, Calif. and Reid Kress Weisbord, vice dean, professor of law and Judge Norma L. Shapiro Scholar at Rutgers Law School in Newark, N.J.

Beckett G. Cantley, senior partner, and Geoffrey C. Dietrich, managing partner, both at Cantley Dietrich, PC, in Las Vegas and Dallas, respectively

Richard L. Kaplan, Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law, University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill.

David Horton, professor of law, University of California, Davis School of Law in Davis, Calif.