Labaton Sucharow Women-to-Women Networking and Mentoring Initiative

Mission statement

Although women have made great strides over the past several decades and opportunities abound, women are still under represented in the upper echelons of business. Therefore, Labaton Sucharow has decided to undertake an initiative reflecting its commitment to the advancement of women. The goal of our women’s initiative is to bring professional women together to collectively advance women’s influence in business. Each event will showcase a successful woman role model as a guest speaker. We will actively discuss our respective business initiatives and hear the guest speaker’s strategies for success. As women in the business community, we will mentor and promote the professional achievements of the young women in our ranks and others who join us for future events.

Our initiative is apolitical, and involves women in all professions. Ample time for networking is included in the program schedule to enable both business and personal networking or mentoring. All participants may share in helping each other learn from their experiences and set goals for our futures. We have designed our program to strengthen both the breadth of knowledge through collaboration with women as well as to connect professional women with each other.

These events provide a platform to formulating our goals and finding support in reaching them. Our events have featured speakers including: Rebecca C. Amoroso, National Leader of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s Insurance Industry Group; Lynda C. McDermott, President, EquiPro International, Ltd., a New York City-based international management consulting firm; Elahé Hicks, Founder and Director of Human Rights Policy Group; Judy Simon, President, Careseekers; Jacqueline Williams, New York State Lobbyist, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.; Deirdre Martini, Managing Director, Wachovia Capital Finance, and former United States Trustee in the Southern District of New York; Sheila Boston, Partner, Kaye Scholer LLP; Betsy Plevan, Partner, Proskauer Rose; Agnes Chapski, Vice President and Publisher, Allure Magazine; Holly Kulka, Senior Vice President, Global Legal Department, NYSE Euronext Inc.; Catherine Lieber Shimony, Co-Founder, Global Goods Partners; Louisiana State Senator Julie Quinn; and Jennifer Goodman Linn, Marketing Strategy Consultant and Founder of Cycle for Survival, the most successful patient-led fundraising event in the 125-year history of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

About the Women of Labaton Sucharow LLP - Senior Female Leadership

Our women attorneys are leaders, both in and out of the courtroom --- in their respective bar associations as well as in the community. For example, Partner Hollis L. Salzman is Managing Chair of the Firm's premier Antitrust Practice Group. She represents clients in complex high profile antitrust matters, achieving significant recoveries for victims of anticompetitive conduct and other federal antitrust law violations. Her group's pioneering pharmaceutical litigation won major savings for consumers and others around the country. Ms. Salzman is also active in the Firm's securities litigation practice, where she represents institutional investors in portfolio monitoring and securities litigation. She is Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association, Federal & Commercial Litigation Section --- Antitrust Committee. Ms. Salzman dedicates her legal talents pro bono to helping indigent and working poor women who are victims of domestic violence.

Partner Martis Alex concentrates her practice on complex shareholder litigation. She recently played an integral role in securing a $185 million settlement for Bristol-Myers Squibb shareholders. She has significant trial experience and served as Lead Trial Counsel in Zenith Laboratories Securities Litigation, securing a major settlement for shareholders during trial. Ms. Alex was Chair of the Firm's Mass Tort Litigation Group, which successfully represented consumers in high profile litigation. As Lead Counsel in Napp Technologies Litigation she won major recoveries for families and firefighters injured in a chemical plant explosion. Ms. Alex is the co-author of "Many Mentors, Many Lessons," November 8, 2010, New York Law Journal's Women in the Law section. She is also an accomplished photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times.

A seasoned litigator in matters concerning investor rights, Christine S. Azar is the partner in charge of Labaton Sucharow's Delaware office. In addition to prosecuting complex corporate and securities litigations in Delaware and throughout the United States, Ms. Azar oversees and prosecutes litigation brought on behalf of the Firm's institutional investor clients. She also has used her legal expertise to serve as a Volunteer Guardian Ad Litem in the Office of the Child Advocate. In this capacity, Ms. Azar has represented children in foster care in the state of Delaware to ensure that their physical needs are being met and their legal rights are protected.

For more information about the Firm’s attorneys, please see below. 

http://www.labaton.com/en/ourpeople/Attorneys.cfm

Labaton Sucharow is a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL). For more information about NAWL, please visit http://nawl.org/index.asp