Our Team

Derek Wilson has 30 years of entrepreneurial and managerial experience, and he has helped to successfully build several businesses.

Wilson is currently CEO of The Truman Factory, a candy company he started with his teenage son, Truman, that is the “Official Candy of Gaming.” He also runs his family office called Rearden Steel. Prior to Truman Factory, Wilson co-founded and was Chairman of NeoSpire, Inc., a technology company in the web hosting industry.

Wilson has an AB in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business. He also serves on the Board of the Nasher Museum, as well as, served as a founding Board member of the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) at the Fuqua School of Business.

Judge Duncan (ret.) is a Duke Law graduate and currently serves on the Duke Board of Trustees. She served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, where she was the first female African-American judge.

Judge Duncan also held important positions in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was a law professor at NCCU School of Law, served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, was appointed as a Commissioner to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and served as a partner in the Raleigh office of Kilpatrick Stockton. In 2003, Judge Duncan became the first African-American president of the North Carolina Bar Association. She serves as a Member on the Bolch Judicial Institute Advisory Board.

Alice Marie Johnson, CEO of Taking Action for Good Foundation (TAG), author, advocate, and former federal inmate is a renowned leader, speaker, and luminary in the criminal justice reform movement. Since being granted clemency, and later a full pardon, Johnson has committed her life to helping others and continuing to fight for criminal justice reform for those who are still incarcerated.

Through her leadership of TAG, she has devoted herself as a force for good, creating a cultural shift for restorative justice. Following her clemency, Johnson was honored as one of four women designated as a “Women’s Right Defender” at the United Nations on International Women’s Day, as well as a CAOC Advocate for Justice Award in 2019.

Laura Menninger, an experienced civil and criminal defense trial lawyer, is a partner at Haddon, Morgan & Foreman in Denver, Colorado. She began her career as a civil litigation associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in NY before moving to Colorado to serve as a public defender with the Colorado State Public Defender system. Based on her extensive litigation experience, Menninger was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers where she serves on the National Trial Competition committee. Prior to law school, Menninger worked as a financial analyst with Goldman Sachs in New York.

Menninger has an AB in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and she earned her law degree from Stanford Law School. She currently serves as Chair of the CJA Standing Committee for the District of Colorado and on the executive team of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association’s Colorado chapter. She regularly lectures on motions practice, cross examination and other trial skills.

Vikrant Reddy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Koch Institute in Arlington, Virginia. He previously served as Senior Policy Analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he managed the launch of TPPF’s Right on Crime Initiative. He also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society.

Reddy is an appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Texas State Advisory Committee. He earned his law degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas.

Barry Scheck’s more than 35 years of trial successes have earned him a national reputation as one of the country’s leading trial lawyers. Barry’s criminal and civil trials have redefined and expanded the rights of victims of police misconduct and wrongful convictions throughout the United States.

In addition to his civil rights practice at Neufeld, Scheck, & Brustin, LLP (NSB), Barry, along with NSB partner Peter Neufeld, cofounded and co-directs The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The Innocence Project has been responsible in whole or in part for exonerating most of the over 300 men and women to be cleared through post-conviction DNA testing.

Seth Waxman is a partner at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., and a renowned trial litigator. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 to January 2001. He has extensive experience arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark Boumediene v. Bush.

In addition to leading WilmerHale’s appellate practice, Waxman engages in a broad litigation and counseling practice, with particular emphasis on complex challenges involving governments or public policy, intellectual property, regulatory, criminal and commercial issues.