Elpidio Villarreal

Elpidio (“PD”) Villarreal was the Senior Vice President of Litigation of Allergan. Prior to joining Allergan, PD was Senior Vice President, and Head of Global Litigation at GlaxoSmithKline, where he had responsibility for all of the Company’s non-patent litigation. He was also Vice President of Litigation at Schering Plough from 2005 to 2009. From 1995 to 2005, PD was Senior Litigation Counsel for the General Electric Company. Before GE, PD was a partner at what is now the Dentons firm in Chicago. He is a 1982 graduate of Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1985 graduate of Yale Law School. He clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago for the Late Honorable Luther M. Swygert. PD has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, and Notre Dame Business School, and he is a frequent speaker on ADR, Litigation Management, and Diversity topics. He has won numerous awards for his work in ADR, Litigation Management, and Diversity. He is one of only two lawyers ever to be the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. In 2012, he was named one of the 10 Most Innovative Lawyers in America by Law360. He has served, in the past, on numerous non-profit boards including the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, the Latino Justice Fund, and the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center. He is currently on the board of the National Book Foundation. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt and a graduate of executive education courses at GE and Wharton.