Profiles

From Legal Briefs to Boxer Shorts

The Connecticut Law Tribune

Previously a commercial litigator at Stroock in Manhattan and later the in-house counsel at a marketing company in Connecticut, Joan Wharton traded in her legal briefs for boxer shorts when she opened Charlie Dog Boxer Co. last fall. Wharton says she draws on her legal knowledge every day of building her new company.
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Assistant DA Sees Animals Get the Protection the Law Affords

New York Law Journal

Jed Painter leads the Animal Crimes Unit of the Nassau County, N.Y., DA's office, which investigates misdemeanor and felony cases ranging from animal abandonment to severe physical abuse and dogfighting rings. Related arrests have jumped from eight in the two years before the unit's 2010 creation to 40 in the past two years.
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'Tiger Mother' Has Her Professional Side

The Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale Law School professor Amy Chua ignited a controversy about parenting last year with her memoir The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and has since visited some of the countries where the book became a best-seller. In this Q&A she shows herself to be iconoclastic and insightful in discussing the reaction to the book and her love of the law.
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Entertainment Lawyer Does Double Duty as Filmmaker

New York Law Journal

Entertainment lawyer Marc Simon's latest film, Unraveled, focuses on the fall of attorney Marc Dreier, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after bilking investors of more than $400 million in a Ponzi scheme. In this Q&A, Simon talks about his professional pursuit of both filmmaking and the law and how the two interests influence each other.
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Ebay's Deputy General Counsel Relishes the Pace

The Recorder

Every second, people around the world trade about $2,100 worth of goods and services on online auction site eBay. Protecting the company's more than 500 patents is the job of Emily Ward, VP and deputy GC for technology and patent law. The work pace at eBay is like "drinking from a fire hose," Ward says -- which suits her just fine.
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Ga. Judge Expresses Himself With Bonsai Hobby

Fulton County Daily Report

Judge Michael B. Stoddard discovered the 3,000-year-old art of bonsai while serving in the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command decades ago. The tiny plants have given him enjoyment -- while testing his patience -- in the years since. He talked to the Daily Report about his rewarding and exacting hobby and how it has affected his work on the bench.
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N.Y. Solo's Unique Equine Law Practice Is a Good Bet

New York Law Journal

Andrew J. Mollica has been working in the horse racing industry for the past 35 years. After entering law school at age 45, he has added "equine law attorney" to his resume. Mollica represents "horsemen of all walks," be they trainers, jockeys, racetrack employees or owners. "It's a lovely, complicated existence," he says of his work.
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'Gorilla' Jiu-Jitsu Nickname Becomes Texas Solo's Marketing Magic

Texas Lawyer

Called "The Gorilla" -- first by Jiu-Jitsu competitors and later by his staff -- Davis W. Smith knew a good thing when he heard it. To help his firm stand out from the pack, the personal injury lawyer uses gorilla images, including photos of clients displaying their winnings while standing with Smith's 4,000-pound gorilla statue.
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New Weil Partner Took the Rocketship Track

The Recorder

Sonal Mehta, 30, is one of two patent attorneys recently promoted to partner in Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office. By all accounts, the young litigator is a rising star in the patent world, with a talent for tackling and simplifying complicated legal matters without ever losing her cool.
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Lincoln Center's GC Puts Down Her Violin and Pens a Book Not Just for Lawyers

Corporate Counsel

Since joining the staff of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2005, general counsel Lesley Rosenthal has helped steward a $1.2 billion redevelopment and brought in an estimated nearly $8 million in pro bono labor. Here she talks about her job and her new book, in which she translates corporate lawyering to the nonprofit world.
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