Larry Latourette
Larry grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, graduated from Stanford University in 1978 and then completed the joint JD/MPP program at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government in 1982. After graduation, he spent almost two decades practicing law at national firms, first as an associate at White & Case and Skadden Arps, then as a partner and Managing Partner of the DC Office of Preston Gates. During his legal career he has served as outside General Counsel for a publicly traded company, participated in international trade cases, argued before the 8th and 11th U.S. Circuit Courts and lobbied Congress. He is a member of the DC Bar and the ABA.
After founding Veritas Lex in 2001, he and his colleagues have successfully matched the needs of scores of lawyers and lobbyists , including several groups of professionals, with those of law firms and public policy shops (e.g., Sidley, Kirkland, Latham, SNR Denton, Holland & Knight, Dickinson Wright, Sullivan & Worcester, Howrey, Mayer Brown, Patton Boggs, KL Gates, Crowell & Moring, Greenberg Traurig, Bregman Berbert, and Williams Mullen Strategies.)
Larry can be reached at latourette@veritaslex.com (cell—202.276.6311)
Ron Peterson
Ron headed the investment banking of Three Arrows until joining Veritas Lex as a legal recruiter. He also served as a vice-president with firms such as Paine Webber and Prudential Securities, directed an institutional financial futures unit for Merrill Lynch, and held NASD security licenses. He co-chaired the Editorial Committee for the Bio Advisory Council of Maryland TEDCO, sat on a graduate education advisory committee for the University of Maryland, heads the advisory group for an early-stage life-sciences venture capital group (Hopkins Capital), is a member of the NIH Business Development Group, has been granted one patent in electronics and hosted an investment radio show for five years. He has also sold, managed the acquisition for or prepared public offerings with the SEC for many different types of companies.
Ron is the author of a book on raising capital, When Venture Capitalists Say "No"–Creative Financing Strategies & Resources, the author of Technology Transfer in the Life-Sciences, and a professional stock market book, Solomon's Riches. He has lectured on business topics at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Mason University and Johns Hopkins University as well as before the World Bank, national banks and corporations, the NIH, etc., and won two derivative trading contests.
Ron holds a BS in Economics from the University of Minnesota, both an MS in Biotechnology Studies and an MS in Management from the University of Maryland, MBA studies at George Washington University, and earned graduate certificates in: Defense Economics from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Clinical Pharmacology from NIH; and both Public Relations and Energy from the University of Maryland. He completed the Merrill Lynch government securities school and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange derivatives school as well as professional work in the Pentagon in intelligence, program and budget, and logistics, along with contracts studies in the USAF.
Ron can be reached at tarrows@verizon.net (cell—240.308.0337 )
Patricia A. Francis
Prior to joining Veritas Lex, Patti was a corporate partner at Dow Lohnes, working there for 19 years following three years of commercial lending practice in New York City, first with Nixon Hargrave and then moving laterally with a partner to Dewey Ballantine. She specialized in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, finance and other business transactions.
Patti served on the Hiring Committee at Dow Lohnes for 17 years, where she was actively involved in partner and associate hiring as well as on-campus recruiting across the country, including weekly Hiring Committee meetings throughout the recruiting seasons.
Patti served as a mentor to counsel and associates. She was also responsible for counseling senior executives at major media, private equity and other companies on a day-to-day basis. Patti received her JD from University of Virginia School of Law in 1988 and BA from Mississippi State University (summa cum laude) in 1984, having grown up in Amory, Mississippi. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the New York Bar. Patti is also a Certified Master Coach.
Patti can be reached at francis@veritaslex.com (cell—202.997.2546).
Marc Chafetz
Marc has a diverse breadth of legal and business experience. He has practiced law for over thirty years at two national law firms, served as a federal prosecutor and served as a general counsel to several companies. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia’s School of Law, and is a member of the DC bar.
Marc can be reached at chafetz@veritaslex.com (cell - 202.255.7505)
