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.

Beth Kaufman Honored at National Association of Women Lawyers 2010 Annual Luncheon

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The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL®) honored its 2010 Awardees and installed its new officers and board members at its Annual Awards Luncheon on July 22, 2010 in New York City. Beth Kaufman was inducted and honored as Vice President to NAWL’s 2011 Executive Officers and Board.

At the 2010 annual luncheon, NAWL’s incoming President Dorian Denburg stated “We will continue to extend the hand of NAWL to all lawyers, striving to do more to include all races and ethnicities, and to include men who are agents for change and who recognize that when women succeed, men win too.” Denburg encouraged NAWL members to continue to “communicate, collaborate, connect, reach out,” as the key to furthering NAWL’s goals.

Beth Kaufman is a Litigation Partner in our New York office.

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

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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.

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Beth Kaufman Named Second Circuit Representative to the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary

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Partner Beth Kaufman has been appointed by ABA President Carolyn Lamm to serve as the Second Circuit Representative on the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary (http://www.abanet.org/scfedjud/home/), evaluates the professional qualifications of all nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States, circuit courts of appeals, district courts (including territorial district courts) and the Court of International Trade. The Committee’s goal is to support and encourage the selection of the best-qualified persons for the federal judiciary. It restricts its evaluation to issues bearing on professional qualifications and does not consider a nominee’s philosophy or ideology. The Committee’s peer-review process is structured to achieve impartial evaluations of the integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament of nominees for the federal judiciary.

As Second Circuit Representative, Ms. Kaufman will evaluate all nominees to the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts in Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Her three-year term ends in August 2012.

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