E. Norman Veasey

E. Norman Veasey joined the Wilmington law firm of Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A. (GFM) in January 2014. He is the former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, having served a 12-year term through May 2004. After his retirement from the Supreme Court, he was a Senior Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, until the end of 2013.

He was President of the Conference of Chief Justices, Chair of the Board of the National Center for State Courts, Chair of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association (ABA), Chair of the ABA Special Commission on Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Ethics 2000), former Member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Chair of the Committee on Corporate Laws of the ABA Section of Business Law, and President of the Delaware State Bar Association.

At GFM, he serves as an arbitrator, mediator, special master, counsellor, as well as providing other services in complex corporate, contract, and commercial transactions and litigation. Chief Justice Veasey is listed on the national Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and as a distinguished neutral of the Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR). In 2015 he was selected as the Delaware member of the newly-created AAA Master Mediator Panel for the Northeast in large, complex, commercial cases.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee); a Fellow and honorary founding Co-Chair of the American College of Governance Counsel; included in Best Lawyers in America; a director of the Institute of Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania; a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation; a frequent panelist and lecturer on the corporation law, corporate governance, ethics, and professionalism; and has been appointed as an Adviser to a project of the American Law Institute on Principles of the Law, Compliance, Enforcement, and Risk Management for Corporations, Nonprofits, and Other Organizations.