Miriam Wugmeister (’92) Is Interviewed
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Thomas J. Rechen (’88) To Receive Hartford Bar Award
Thomas J. Rechen, an attorney with more than three decades of experience, will receive the William (Bill) R. Davis President’s Award from the Hartford County Bar Association, also known as the HCBA, at its annual meeting on May 16. The President’s Award has been given out to a member each year since 2001 who has […]
Jeff Schenk (’04) Joins Jones Day as Partner in Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice
Jeff Schenk, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, will join the Firm as a partner in the Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice. Mr. Schenk will be based in the Silicon Valley Office. Mr. Schenk spent the last 17 […]
Neal Wolkoff (’80) Joins Abaxx Clearing’s Board of Directors
Neal Wolkoff served as a C-level executive at three financial exchanges and is now an independent attorney and adviser on matters relating to derivatives and securities markets. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the American Stock Exchange (Amex), negotiating and closing its merger with the NYSE. Prior to the Amex, Mr. Wolkoff […]
Building Honoring Barbara Jordan (JD’59, Hon.’69) Makes History
For the first time, the Texas Capitol Complex has named a building after a Black Texan, a decades-long politician known as a trailblazing lawmaker whose powerful speaking style captivated crowds. The Barbara Jordan Building in Austin, a $260 million 12-story structure, will house the Texas Department of Insurance. “Barbara Jordan’s impact on the state of […]
Renee Inomata (’93) Recognized as a 2023 Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyer
Inomata focuses her practice on employment law, where she advises clients on a wide range of high-level, complex employment-related matters, as well as solves sensitive employment situations with an understanding of the client’s culture, risk adversity and business goals. Clients often rely on her as their outside employment counsel to address a variety of day-to-day […]
Arthur Hoffman (’83) Joins Rimon PC as Partner
Rimon PC has added three product liability defense litigators from DLA Piper as partners in its New York office, the firm announced. Keelin Kavanagh, David Jaroslaw and Arthur Hoffmann are expected to continue to focus their work at Rimon on product liability issues involving the consumer goods and life sciences industries, dealing particularly with international […]
Jason R. Baron (’80) Pens an Opinion
This post was written by Jason R. Baron for Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s 2023 Sunshine Week essay series on how government transparency and the Freedom of Information Act have transformed society. Almost 30 years before the 1966 enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, the National Archives opened a reading room to the public for the […]
Barbara Jordan (JD’59, Hon.’69) Honored with a State Office Building Named for Her
In a mostly joyful but sometimes poignant ceremony late Monday afternoon, several Texas lawmakers and members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority dedicated the Barbara Jordan State Office Building, the first such building named for a Black Texan. The 12-story, 416,000-square-foot glass and granite structure rising 180 feet a block north of the Texas Capitol […]
Judge Kenneth Joel (’91) Runs for Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Before taking the bench, and for over 30 years, my legal practice was as a trial and appellate litigator. From 2018 to 2022 (when I took the bench), I was a deputy general counsel to Gov. [Tom] Wolf. Before that, I served various attorneys general and was a chief deputy to Josh Shapiro and headed […]