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. We were delighted with the turnout and enthusiasm at our inaugural event on February 22, 2007 featuring Rebecca C. Amoroso, the National Leader of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s Insurance Industry Group. Ms. Amoroso had previously been honored as one of the “Top 50 Hispanic Women in Business.” Our second luncheon included a panel discussion. The panel consisted of three women who focused their presentation on the themes of perseverance and resilience - two important qualities which helped them to become successful businesswomen in their fields. Labaton's final event of the year featured Lynda C. McDermott, president of EquiPro International, Ltd., a New York City-based international management consulting firm. Ms. McDermott's experience involves over 30 years of line management, and internal and external consulting. In the spring of 2008, Labaton hosted events which included speakers from other professional service firms.

We were pleased that L’Oreal USA participated in a number of these events by providing gifts to the attendees and wish to specifically thank Jennifer Ocean of L’Oreal/Matrix for her support and responsiveness.


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 actively engaged in the prosecution of major antitrust class actions pending throughout the United States and is also involved in the Firm’s securities litigation practice group where she represents institutional investors in portfolio monitoring and securities litigation. She is presently Co-Lead Counsel in many antitrust cases, including: In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, In re Marine Hoses Antitrust Litigation, and In re Abbott Laboratories Norvir Antitrust Litigation. She was principally responsible for administering a $65 million settlement with certain brand-name prescription drug manufacturers where their conduct allegedly caused retail pharmacy customers to overpay for their prescription drugs. Ms. Salzman is a Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association, Commercial & Federal Litigation Section — Antitrust Committee. She is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Antitrust Committee and Women’s Antitrust Bar Association.

Partner Martis Alex concentrates her practice on prosecuting complex securities fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors. Ms. Alex has extensive experience managing complex nationwide litigation, including securities class actions as well as product liability and consumer fraud litigation. She has successfully represented investors and consumers in cases that achieved cumulative recoveries of hundreds of millions of dollars for plaintiffs. She is currently litigating In re American International Group, Inc. Securities Litigation, a major securities class action brought by Lead Plaintiff Ohio (comprised of several of Ohio’s retirement systems). Ms. Alex was an integral part of the team that successfully litigated In re Bristol-Myers Squibb Securities Litigation, where Labaton Sucharow was able to secure a $185 million settlement on behalf of investors, as well as meaningful corporate governance reforms that will affect future consumers and investors alike. She is a frequent speaker at national conferences on product liability and securities fraud litigation, and is a recipient of the American College of Trial Lawyers’ Award for Excellence in Advocacy.

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

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