Alumna Anne Madden ’92, general counsel at Honeywell International Inc., was interviewed by Law360 about her professional career, leadership style, and diversity and inclusion in the legal industry. Honeywell won a 2018 Employer of Choice Award in October from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for its long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion. “It’s a tone that’s set at the top by me in the law department, but also very much a tone that’s set at the top by our chairman and CEO,” Madden told Law360 in a recent interview. “We’re committed to making a difference in inclusion and diversity at…
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Melanie Figueroa ’08, managing partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, was interviewed by Law.com regarding her career achievements. Figueroa has been recently recognized as an honoree of Corporate Counsel’s 2018 National Women in Law awards. What was your route to the top? I started my legal career when I was a sophomore at NYU as a corporate paralegal for a small firm. After graduating from Fordham Law, I returned and continued advising microcap companies with SEC compliance matters and alternative IPOs. Subsequently this firm combined with LA-based Richardson & Patel (“RP”) where I expanded and strengthened my practice within…
Alumnus Seth Helfgott ’09 was elected partner by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide. Based in WSGR’s SOMA office in San Francisco, Helfgott advises on corporate and securities law, including start-ups, venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters. He represents entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses, as well as the angel and venture capital investors that finance them. Helfgott represents clients across a diverse range of technology industries. He received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2009. Read full report.
Linda Sugin was quoted in a Fox News article about Rev. Al Sharpton selling his life story rights to The National Action Network, a nonprofit organization founded by Rev. Sharpton. The Rev. Al Sharpton has found an eager buyer for the rights to his life story — his own charity. The National Action Network agreed to pay the activist preacher $531,000 for his “life story rights for a 10-year period,” according to the non-profit’s latest tax filing, which was obtained by The Post. NAN can apparently turn around and sell those rights to Hollywood or other takers at a profit,…
Alumnus Susheel Kirpalani ’94, partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, was named one of Law360’s 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs. Susheel Kirpalani, partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has advised the largest group of bondholders in Puerto Rico’s restructuring as they maneuver a bankruptcy law he had a role in creating, making him one of Law360’s 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs. Kirpalani has continued his yearslong representation of a group of municipal bondholders in a dispute over more than $17 billion in pledged Puerto Rico sales tax collections. … “I’m a kid from Queens who didn’t know anybody,” Kirpalani said,…
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security, was interviewed by Al Jazeera about the future of US-Saudi relations, following Saudi Arabia’s role in the war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. [T]here is tremendous pushback right now against this Saudi relationship, but whether it can go forward under this president remains to be seen. Watch full video.
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on SiriusXM’s show Knowledge@Wharton where he discussed the impact the trade war is having on various businesses in the United States and what the Trump administration might do regarding tariffs going forward. “I think [President Trump’s] gotten to the point where he realizes this isn’t working – this whole idea of raising and re-raising and re-raising like a cub scout playing poker for toothpicks. It isn’t a smart idea when dealing with another superpower, and it doesn’t work out the same way. And he’s not playing for toothpicks.” Listen to the full interview.
Professor Nestor Davidson co-authored an op-ed for City Lab regarding the power of urban voters. Striking an optimistic tone after the midterm elections, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called for a coalition between urban and suburban voters in what he envisions as a durable metropolitan majority built around issues like education, health care, and infrastructure. There is much to Mayor Emanuel’s argument for city-suburb common ground, but this coalition will face fundamental structural difficulties implementing its agenda. As currently constructed, our electoral process systematically favors the preferences of rural and exurban voters. To move forward with its agenda, any urban-suburban…
Dora Galacatos, executive director of the Feerick Center, has been named by Attorney General-Elect Letitia James as one of the members who will serve on her transition committee. Attorney General-Elect Letitia James named three dozen individuals Thursday who will serve on her transition committee, which is made up of several big names in law, including former federal and state prosecutors, lawmakers and several litigators from across the state. Read full report.
Professor Tanya Hernández appears in a spotlight video by Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, where she talks about her new book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination. My work as a comparative legal race scholar is to look at the ways in which racism plays itself out across different jurisdictions… Watch full video.