Nancy A. Connery Speaks at PLI’s Negotiating Commercial Leases

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Nancy Ann Connery speaks at PLI’s “Negotiating Commercial Leases: How Owners and Corporate Occupants Can Avoid Costly Errors 2010” held November 18-19, 2010 in New York. She primarily focuses on lease provisions affecting the tenant’s right to assign and sublet, including restrictions on changes in control, recapture rights, reasoonableness requirements, and hidden traps.

For more information, please visit http://www.pli.edu/product/seminar_detail.asp?id=60420&t=DAT0_NGCOM.

Related Attorney: Nancy Ann Connery

Norman Greene Speaks at a Conference Entitled Race, Law and the Courts: Framing the Discussion for a Post Racial America

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June 16, 2010

Norman Greene will be speaking on diversity in the judiciary on June 16, 2010 at a conference entitled Race, Law and the Courts: Framing the Discussion for a Post Racial America. The conference is being hosted by the Franklin H. Williams Commission on Minorities and will be held at New York Law School. The Franklin H. Williams Commission has been an integral part of the New York State Judiciary’s efforts to ensure equal justice. The Commission has become a national model for how state court systems can work effectively to address issues of concern to minority employees, litigants and communities. For more information on the conference or for registration information.

Norman Greene is a partner in our New York office.

ATTORNEY: Norman L. Greene

PRACTICE GROUP: Litigation

Firm Secures Defense Verdict in SDNY Employment Discrimination Case

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On November 15, 2010, a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York returned a complete defense verdict in favor of Firm client Columbia University with respect to allegations of age and national origin discrimination and retaliation made by a former Columbia employee. Charlie Updike led a trial team that included partner Beth Kaufman and in-house counsel from the University. The case had been pending for 18 years in the State Division of Human Rights, where the plaintiff’s administrative complaint ultimately was dismissed, and in the SDNY. The favorable verdict closes a chapter in the longest running litigation in the Firm’s history.

Successful Motion in Foreclosure Action

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The Firm successfully defeated a borrower’s counterclaim against firm client Bank of America, N.A. in a foreclosure action, permitting the foreclosure action to proceed. On May 11, 2010, the judge in Bank of America, N.A. v. Peresgranted Bank of America’s motion to dismiss the counterclaim, in which the borrower sought damages for the allegedly improper filing of a notice of pendency on his property.

Beth L. Kaufman, litigation partner, Nancy A. Connery, real estate partner, were involved in the successful motion.

Related Attorneys: Beth L. Kaufman, Nancy A. Connery

Practice Areas: Litigation; Real Estate

Firm Secures Defense Verdict in SDNY Employment Discrimination Case

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On November 15, 2010, a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York returned a complete defense verdict in favor of Firm client Columbia University with respect to allegations of age and national origin discrimination and retaliation made by a former Columbia employee. Charlie Updike led a trial team that included partner Beth Kaufman and in-house counsel from the University. The case had been pending for 18 years in the State Division of Human Rights, where the plaintiff’s administrative complaint ultimately was dismissed, and in the SDNY. The favorable verdict closes a chapter in the longest running litigation in the Firm’s history.

Firm to Receive InsideCounsel’s 2010 Economic Empowerment Award

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The Firm is delighted to be the recipient of the 2010 Economic Empowerment Award, awarded by InsideCounsel as part of its first Transformative Leadership Awards for firms and individuals who have made substantial contributions to the empowerment of women in corporate law. The Award recognizes the Firm’s extraordinary achievement in advancing women as leaders in the profession, leaders in the Firm and client relationship managers with core clients of the Firm.

The winners were selected by a National Awards Committee, comprising general counsel from leading corporations and partners at top law firms. The committee is co-chaired by Allstate Insurance Company’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, Michele Coleman Mayes and InsideCounsel magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Cathleen Flahardy. Partner Beth Kaufman, on behalf of the Firm, will accept the Award at a gala dinner and reception on May 24 in Chicago in conjunction with InsideCounsel’s 10th Annual SuperConference.