Wayne A. Budd is a senior counsel in the Litigation Department at Goodwin Procter LLP, where he specializes in business and commercial litigation. He was previously a partner of the firm from 1993 to 1996. Prior to rejoining Goodwin Procter in 2004, Mr. Budd served as Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel at John Hancock Financial Services Inc. Before joining Hancock, Mr. Budd was Group President-New England at Bell Atlantic Corporation. Before entering the private sector, Mr. Budd was Associate Attorney General of the United States, appointed to the position by President George H.W. Bush in 1992. From 1989 to 1992, he was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

Jennifer L. Chunias is an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP. Her practice focuses on business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government investigations. She has been a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, where she was a faculty supervisor of the Harvard Project on Wrongful Convictions, and an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University School of Law. Ms. Chunias runs a clinical workshop at Harvard Law School with the NEIP, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Innocence Network.

Robert N. Feldman is a partner at the Boston law firm, Birnbaum & Godkin, LLP. Mr. Feldman's practice focuses on civil business litigation.  Mr. Feldman's clients range from large public companies to new businesses and individuals. Mr. Feldman also represents wrongly convicted individuals who are seeking compensation for their false conviction and imprisonment. As an associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP in 2000, Mr. Feldman coordinated the New England Innocence Project, a pro bono project of the firm.

Stanley Z. Fisher is Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. He teaches courses in criminal procedure, criminal law, and wrongful convictions. He has studied and written articles on faulty eyewitness identification procedures, police and prosecution suppression of exculpatory evidence. In April, 2002, the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment used his British research in framing recommendations for fundamental reform of police and prosecutorial conduct of investigations.

Daniel Givelber is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law where he previously served as dean for ten years. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. In recent years, his research interests have focused on the relationship between capital punishment and criminal procedure, with a particular emphasis on the accuracy of criminal adjudication.

Joseph F. Savage, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Department at Goodwin Procter LLP. He concentrates on complex civil litigation, white collar criminal defense and governmental investigations work. His practice involves representing individuals and companies in a wide variety of fraud, tax, public corruption, health care, securities, environmental and other investigations by federal, state and local law enforcement and government regulators. Mr. Savage is the Chairman of the NEIP Board of Trustees, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Innocence Network.

David M. Siegel is Professor of Law at the New England School of Law. He teaches Comparative Criminal Procedure, Criminal Advocacy, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Clinical Evidence and Evidence. He has written articles on the history of mental health defenses in criminal law, the ethical obligations of criminal defense lawyers, and involuntary medication of criminal defendants.