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Blake Lawit ’00, General Counsel at LinkedIn, shares his path from Biglaw partner, to joining LinkedIn as one of its first lawyers, to leading…

Learn some of the key distinctions between litigation and corporate work and advice for determining which might be the better fit for you. Ethan…

Erica von Pechmann '16 is a Managing Associate in the Houston office of Sidley. Erica advises clients in the power and renewable energy industry, with a focus on project development and finance, as well as project acquisitions, dispositions and other investment arrangements. Erica serves on the working committee for the Houston Chapter of Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) as Director of Marketing and has been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers as a Texas Rising Star. 

Christian Williams '17 practices intellectual property law as the founder and managing attorney of Bevel Law in the DC area. Prior to founding Bevel, Christian was an associate at Covington & Burling in DC where she represented top pharmaceutical companies and national trade associations.

Tammy Albarrán ’99, Chief Deputy General Counsel at Uber. Ms. Albarrán talks about her path from transactional work to litigation in Big Law, her move to Uber, how Uber’s 350 lawyer in-house legal team operates, and her recommendation for law students and alumni considering this type of work.

Tim Keifer ’98, practices criminal defense, DUI, and family law at his own firm, Kiefer Law Office in Madison, WI

Joel Fleming '11 is a partner at Block & Leviton LLP, focusing on securities, corporate governance, and merger-and-acquisition litigation. Mr. Fleming is one of the top plaintiffs lawyers in the country and has recovered over $100 million dollars for his clients since joining the firm in 2014. In 2019, Law360 named Mr. Fleming as one of the top six litigators in the country under the age of 40.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, Patricia Paul practiced public interest law and then was a litigation associate at Kramer Levin in NYC for more than five years. She’s been a legal recruiter doing both in-house and law firm placement since 2006. She also has leadership roles in the NYC chapters of the HLS Women’s Alliance and the HLS Association.

Michael Murphy is a partner at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher in Washington, DC. He is a leader of the firm’s Environmental,…

Tarek Austin '16 is an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He has handled a range of patent, commercial, and other litigation matters before state and federal courts, government agencies, and international tribunals.

Ben Wilson '76 is Chairman of the environmental law firm, Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, DC. He has been lead counsel in numerous complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer product corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers.

Bryan Killian '05 is a partner in the DC office of Morgan Lewis. Bryan is an appellate lawyer who represents clients facing complex, important, or unresolved questions of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law. He has argued more than 35 cases in the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits.

David Sclar ‘07 is the author of Workplace Strategies for Technology Lawyers, a book of practical tips to perform at a high level as an in-house counsel, with a tech company focus. For most of his legal career, David has advised tech companies at various stages, from startup to established company, as outside counsel at Ropes & Gray and Cooley, the first Chief Privacy Officer at Rally Health, and most recently as the Healthcare Compliance and Privacy Officer at WW International. You can email him at techlawyerdave@gmail.com and visit his website at davidsclar.com,

Ellen Ehrenpreis ’93 is a corporate partner in the Technology Companies Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP. During her career and prior to joining Orrick, Ellen was a litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the co-founder of Edgewood Law Partners LLP, CEO of the World Energy Innovation Forum, and, at the start of her career, an associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston.  In this podcast, Ellen talks about her practice advising companies from early stage start-ups to mature private companies, highlighting her advisory and transactional work handling company formations, venture financings, governance, M&A transactions, corporate and securities matters, commercial transactions and litigation strategy. 

In this episode, media lawyer Beth Lobel '88 draws from her over 20 years of experience at NBCUniversal, where she is Senior Vice President and counsel for news and non-fiction programming and Internet content. She lays out paths, considerations, and resources for starting a successful career media law, whether you’re 1L with some time to explore, or a law firm associate looking to make a move.

Isabel Yishu Yang '18 is the Founder and CEO of ArbiLex. ArbiLex is a predictive analytics startup specializing in international arbitration.

Eldy Roché is a senior associate in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration practice in the Houston office. Eldy is dual-qualified in civil law and common law: having first obtained her Law Degree from the Catholic University of Honduras, she also has an LLM from the University of Miami and a JD from Gonzaga University. She also attended The Hague Academy of International Law’s Summer Program on Private International Law. 

Today our guests are partners in the Business Finance and Restructuring department, also known as Bankruptcy, at Weil in New York. I am delighted to be joined by two extremely impressive women: Candace Arthur and Ronit Berkovich '01.

Kiisha Morrow '02 is the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Cravath, Swaine, & Moore. In this podcast she discusses her career path from associate to head of Diversity & Inclusion.

Alison N. Davis, a Shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C., represents management in employment and labor law. She has extensive litigation experience in the employment arena.

In this podcast we feature Jennifer Norris, a counsel with Sidley’s office in Chicago and a 2008 graduate of HLS. Jennifer works extensively with the insurance industry on a wide range of matters from M&A transactions, to reinsurance and securities transactions, to advising on regulatory matters.