Laura Heeger joined Prudential International Insurance as their Chief Compliance Officer in February 2019. Prior to that, she worked at MetLife for 12 years, most recently as Senior Vice President and Head of Regional Ethics and Compliance. She previously served as a prosecutor in the Bronx DA’s office and as a stay-at-home mom for nine …
Elisa Garcia has been the Chief Legal Officer of Macy’s since September 2016. Prior to that, she worked at Office Depot in a variety of roles, including Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and then Chief Legal Officer after the 2013 merger with OfficeMax. Ms. Garcia previously served as General Counsel for Domino’s Pizza, among …
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Imagine if, overnight, 17.5% of funding dedicated to legal aid disappeared, leaving considerable areas of law—such as welfare benefits, housing, immigration, private family and employment—with significantly diminished coverage. On April 1, 2013, the UK found itself in that very position when the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into effect, cutting …
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Kathryn (Katie) Wagner is the Executive Director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), which provides legal and education services to the New York arts community. She is responsible for developing VLA’s legal services, education and advocacy programming and for facilitating pro bono legal representation for hundreds of artists and arts and cultural organizations in …
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Gillian Lester is the Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor at Columbia Law School, a position she has held since January 2015, after having served in various capacities at Berkeley Law School, Harvard Law School, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School. She started her career in her native Canada, …
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Last summer, the American Bar Association (ABA) issued a sobering report, First Chairs at Trial, More Women Need Seats at the Table, which exposed the extent to which women are consistently underrepresented in lead counsel and trial counsel positions for most types of litigations. For instance, the report notes that men are three times more likely …
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The Health Law Litigation and Woman Advocate Committees of the American Bar Association held a roundtable discussion on January 11, 2016 on the topic of mentoring women. The panel consisted of three pairs of mentors, Wendy Weiss and Jennifer Klem from Navigant Consulting, Inc.; Laura Colombell Marshall and Amy Bowen from Hunton & Williams LLP; …
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