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Marines, was murdered in 2012 in Marylee Jenkins Ethics and a “Master” at the technology and offers practical
Afghanistan’s Helmand province on an American military base.
The Buckley family is suing
the Marine Corps for allegedly illegally covering up details of the incident. He was also featured in The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi, which was published in 2014. He is a partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman in New York, where he handles a diverse array of large commercial litigations, criminal and regulatory matters, and crisis-management for business entities and high net worth individuals.
Henry Dlugacz was featured
in “The Offender with Mental Disabilities: Critical Issues in Correctional Mental Health and Planning for Successful Reentry,” a lecture presented by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services
in August 2014. He is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College and partner at the New York law firm of Beldock Levine and Hoffman.
Jeffrey Fessler was named 2014 New York Attorney of the Year by SmartCEO Magazine in June 2014. The ESQ awards program was established to recognize the top attorneys who have made an outstanding impact on privately held companies. Mr. Fessler was chosen out of more than 20 finalists nominated regionally for the prestigious award. He
is a partner at Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP in New York.
was appointed to serve a two-year term as Vice Chair of the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office’s Patent
Public Advisory Committee by the U.S. Secretary
of Commerce in December 2014. She is a partner at Arent Fox LLP and heads the Intellectual Property practice in the firm’s New York office.
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Thomas L. Breslin was hired as the town manager of Dillon, Colorado in June 2014. As reported in the Summit Daily, Mr. Breslin spent more than 15 years in management and senior management positions in the public and private sectors. Most recently, Breslin served as county administrator for Clear Creek County, Colorado, which included overseeing an annual budget of more than $30 million.
William S. Greenberg writes
that his law firm, Greenberg Minasian of West Orange, New Jersey, was one of the honorees
in the New Jersey Law Journal’s 2015 Personal Injury Hall of
Fame in January 2015, as well as the recipient of a 2014 Litigator Award presented by the Trial Lawyer’s Board of Regents. He has also been inducted to the National Trial Lawyers Association’s “Top 100 Lawyers” and the New Jersey Association for Justice’s “Multi- Million Dollar Verdicts Forum.” In addition, he is a “Special Master” for the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney
Brennan/Vanderbilt Inn of Court.
Ben A. Indek was appointed one of two co-managing partners of Morgan Lewis’s New York office in January 2015. He focuses his practice on representing broker- dealers and their employees in governmental, self-regulatory organization, and state securities commission investigations as
well as conducting internal investigations for financial services firms. He also counsels broker-dealers on regulatory and compliance issues, including the development and implementation of written compliance and supervisory procedures and new rules and regulations.
Richard A. Klass was appointed chair of the General Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association in June 2014. The news was reported in ReadMedia and Insurance News Net. Mr. Klass is the principal of the Law Office of Richard Klass in Brooklyn, New York. His areas of practice include bankruptcy law, family law, real estate, and trusts and estates.
Brenna Mahoney writes that she is the new Chief Deputy for Operations at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn.
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Kevin Taylor writes that he authored FinTech Law: A Guide to Technology Law in the Financial Services Industry, published by Bloomberg BNA in 2014. The Guide explains the issues raised
by cutting-edge financial services
advice on how to address them. He is a frequent financial technology panelist at Computerworld conferences and a speaker and media contributor for Bloomberg Television, The Wall Street Journal, and CIO.com.
Peter J. Zuckerman won a special election for the North Hempstead, New York’s 2nd District Council seat in November 2014. He was initially appointed to the Town Board in January 2014 and previously served 11 years as a trustee for the Village of East Hills, New York. He is a partner at Peter Zuckerman, Attorney, P.C. in Uniondale, N,Y., and practices in the fields of real estate and litigation.
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Oliver Agha was mentioned in The American Lawyer article, “Holland & Knight Sets Sights on Americas with Abu Dhabi Closure” in June 2014. He is an authority on Islamic banking and the Group Chief Counsel, International, for Abdul Latif Jameel. Previously, he was a senior partner and the global head of Islamic Finance as well as the head of the Saudi Arabian and Finance Practices at DLA Piper .
Sylvia Lee joined Rawle &
Henderson LLP as an associate in the New York City office in July 2014. She
concentrates her practice in the areas of medical malpractice,
products liability, insurance
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