Women In Law Section

Kimberly Wolf Price, Esq.

Attorney Professional Development and Diversity Officer, Bond Schoeneck & King

Syracuse, NY

Kim develops training curriculum and programs as well as leadership opportunities for Bond attorneys. She focuses on inclusion efforts and implements strategies to increase the recruitment and advancement of diverse attorneys. 

Kim works closely with a number of firm constituencies including the associates committee and the recruitment committee to advance their goals. In addition, she works with Bond’s diversity committee, comprised of members, associates and staff, which is charged with advancing the firm’s diversity goals as well as with the firm’s Women’s Initiative and Pro Bono Committee. 

Kim’s legal practice began in the New York City office of Clifford Chance US LLP. She then worked for a small firm in Syracuse before working for Syracuse University College of Law (SU), first serving as Assistant Dean of Professional & Career Development for several years before taking on the academic role of Director of Externship Programs where she devoted herself to the professional development of law students and alumni.

Kim is a member of the New York State Bar and sits on the New York State Bar Association’s Executive Committee for the Women in Law Section and is a member of the Bar’s Committee on Diversity & Inclusion, where she chairs the Youth Law Day subcommittee. She is a former chair of NYSBA’s Lawyers in Transition Committee. Kim was appointed to the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education. She sits on the Programs Committee for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County.

Sheryl B. Galler

Law Office of Sheryl B. Galler; Moskowitz & Book, LLP

New York, NY

Sheryl is an experienced employment lawyer who represents both employers and employees. She advises clients on federal, state and local leave laws, negotiates and drafts employment, severance and non-competition agreements, drafts employee handbooks and helps clients develop and implement employment policies. Sheryl conducts training on sexual harassment prevention for law firms, nonprofits and commercial entities, conducts internal investigations of discrimination and harassment claims, and counsels clients on a wide range of employment law and compliance matters.

As an active member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), Sheryl is the author of Sexual Harassment and Retaliation in the Legal Profession: How To Stop It, NYSBA Journal (January/February 2022), Preventing and Handling Sexual Harassment at Law Firms, NYSBA Journal (January/February 2019) and Know New York State’s New Paid Family Leave Benefits Law, NYSBA Journal (May 2017).

Sheryl is Chair of the NYSBA Women in Law Section and a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section. She has moderated panels and presented continuing legal education courses on employment law and professional practice.

Earlier in her career, Sheryl handled the litigation, arbitration and mediation of commercial and employment law disputes for domestic and international clients of prominent New York law firms. She is admitted to the bar in New York State and the Southern and Eastern Districts of the U.S. District Court.

Sheryl is a 1993 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Nancy Sciocchetti, Esq.

Mercury LLC

Albany, NY

Nancy Sciocchetti is a managing director in Mercury’s Albany office. She has experience in health law practice, specifically in health-care enterprise development and transactions. Nancy was previously a managing partner of the Health Law practice at O’Connell and Aronowitz in Albany.

Nancy regularly speaks on topics involving health care licensing, corporate formation, not-for-profit corporate issues, Board of Directors best practices and corporate compliance, and various issues in health law, to trade associations, practice groups, and for State and County Bar Associations.

Nancy is the recipient of the 2016 Kimberly A. Trioisi-Paton Leadership Award presented by the Capital District Women’s Bar Association, recipient of the Legal Aid Society Distinguished Service Award, listed in the publication Outstanding Young Women in America, member of the New York State, Saratoga County, Albany County, and Capital District Women’s Bar Associations, and a graduate of Siena College and Albany Law School.

Laura Sulem

Senior Director of Litigation, Practical Law

Laura Sulem is the Senior Director of Litigation at Practical Law, a Thomson Reuters company, where she oversees editorial content and business strategy for the 65-member Litigation service. She is also a Senior Advisory Council member of Women@TR, a network of women and men committed to elevating women as drivers of commercial value to TR and furthering the goal of increasing female representation in senior leadership roles globally.

Before joining Practical Law, Laura was a litigator at Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP, where she concentrated on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts. She began her career at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where she was an associate in the Litigation department.
Laura graduated summa cum laude from New York Law School, where she was a member and an Executive Articles Editor of the New York Law School Law Review. She earned a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Laura sits on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Women in Law Section and is the Co-Chair of the Section’s Annual Meeting, Programming and CLE Committee.

Jennifer M. Boll

Member, Bond Schoeneck & King

Albany, NY

Jennifer is a valued partner to and trusted advisor of her clients. She focuses her practice on corporate, tax, and estate and business succession planning matters.

Jennifer advises privately held companies and individuals with respect to a wide range of corporate and tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, real estate, financial transactions, and complex trust and estate matters.

In addition to her legal practice, Jennifer is a lecturer for the M.S. in taxation program at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she teaches courses on federal, state, and interstate taxation. She is also an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, where she teaches courses on corporate tax, partnership tax, state and local tax, and estate planning. Jen is also a member of the firm’s management committee.

Lillian Moy

Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc.

Lillian M. Moy became the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc. in 1995. She is a 1981 graduate of Boston University School of Law. She is a former member of the Board of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and past Chair of NLADA’s Civil Policy Group. Ms. Moy is a member of the ABA’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and the past Chair of the ABA’s Coalition on Racial & Ethnic Justice, a past member of SCLAID, the Pro Bono and Public Service Committee and the Legal Access Job Corps Task Force. She is co-chair of the NYSBA’s task Force on Racism, Social Equity and the Law and serves on several NYSBA committees and the Board of Directors for the Albany Medical Center.

Mirna Martinez Santiago

Founder, Girls Rule the Law

MIRNA MARTINEZ SANTIAGO has more than 25 years of legal experience, handling a range of matters. Mirna lectures on an array of topics – with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and the elimination of bias – and has published on legal, as well as non-legal subjects.

Mirna has been featured in Latina Magazine and on NBC
News speaking about the Afro-Latina experience.

In 2016, Mirna founded Girls Rule the Law (www.girlsrulethelaw.org) to introduce middle and high school girls to the law and to provide them the opportunity to interact with mentors in the legal and legislative fields.

In addition to running Girls Rule the Law, Mirna has a successful DEI consulting practice (www.mirnasantiago.com), Co-Chairs the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and is an active member of the NYSBA Executive Committee.

Melissa Zambri

Partner, Barclay Damon

Albany, NY

Melissa is a member of Barclay Damon’s Management Committee and managing director of the Albany office. She is also the co-team leader of the health care and health and human services teams and is a former member of the Compensation Committee.

In her practice, Melissa focuses on enterprise development and regulatory guidance for the health care industry. She provides counsel to individual practitioners, owners, administrators,
executives, and employees of health care practices and health care-related facilities, including physicians, licensed medical personnel, providers of services to the developmentally disabled, hospitals, clinics, home-health agencies, senior residences and assisted-living facilities, laboratories, health care trade
associations, durable-medical-equipment providers, alcohol- and substance-use-disorder treatment facilities, physician practice management companies, mental-health programs, and medical transportation
companies.

Melissa assists health care clients with certificate-of-need applications, compliance programs, audits, investigations and self-disclosures, HIPAA compliance, and licensure issues. She also helps clients obtain approvals to operate health care facilities
and to complete significant transactions. She counsels providers on federal anti-kickback and self-referral requirements, regulations governing federal- and state-funded health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, and other regulatory requirements applicable to health care providers.

Anjali Chaturvedi

Assistant General Counsel for Investigations, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Anjali Chaturvedi is currently the Assistant General Counsel for Investigations for Northrop Grumman Corporation where she leads Northrop Grumman’s global investigations team. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Anjali was the Assistant General Counsel at BP where she was the lead in-house lawyer for the criminal and SEC investigations related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident. She also led the legal regulatory team with oversight for matters involving antibribery and corruption, trade controls and antitrust. Prior to going in-house, Anjali was a Government Investigations & White Collar partner at Nixon Peabody for several years. She started her career as an Assistant United States Attorney where she served for 12 years, 10 years in the DC office and 2 years in the Northern District of California, where she held various line and supervisory roles. During her tenure at the Justice Department, Anjali also was detailed to serve as Counsel to Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Anjali was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Hastings College of Law, where she taught trial advocacy and criminal procedure. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law School and Cornell University where she completed her junior year abroad at the London School of Economics. Anjali is a member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women, which enhances leadership opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and alumnae; the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, which brings together judges and lawyers to discuss white collar crime issues; the Washington DC Assistant United States Attorneys Association; and the Washington DC South Asian Bar Association. Anjali is a volunteer at the Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, VA. She lives in Chevy Chase, MD with her husband, son and puppy. Anjali is a certified yoga teacher. In November 2019, Anjali completed Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership Program for Leadership Coaching. She volunteers on the Boards of Circle Yoga Cooperative, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, Fairfax County and the D.C. Circuit Historical Society

Laura H. Harshbarger

Member, Bond Schoeneck & King

Laura was named Lawyer of the Year in 2019 by Best Lawyers in America® for management-side employment law in the Syracuse area. She continues to be listed in Best Lawyers in America® and New York Super Lawyers®.

Laura strives to be actively engaged with her clients, taking the time to understand each organization’s unique needs and goals, and providing tailored, practical
advice.

Laura counsels employers engaged in a wide variety of industries, including higher education, public school education, manufacturing, service and financial sectors,
not-for-profits, and health care. With a practice that includes all aspects of labor and employment law, Laura counsels employers with respect to day-to-day human
resources management, as well as specific issues concerning:
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
(ADEA)
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
New York State Human Rights Law
(NYSHRL)
Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA)
Family and Medical Leave Act
(FMLA)
National Labor Relations Act
(NLRA)
New York Labor Law

In the case of higher education, Laura advises colleges and universities with respect to Title IX (policy development, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct
investigations and hearings), as well as accommodating students with disabilities pursuant to Title II and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. She
represents colleges and universities in Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigations and in federal and New York state court litigation.

Laura regularly defends organizations in New York State and federal courts, as well as before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the New
York State Division of Human Rights. She also represents clients in arbitrations and mediations, negotiates collective bargaining agreements, and advises clients with respect to labor relations issues.

In addition to providing in-house legal training, Laura is a frequent lecturer. She has also authored and co-authored articles on a range of legal topics. Laura has been named to a national team of educational instructors for the National Center for Campus Public Safety’s Trauma – Informed Sexual Assault Investigation and Adjudication Educational Program.

For five years, Laura served as Governor Andrew Cuomo’s appointee as Chair of the Fourth Department Judicial Screening Committee and a member of the Governor’s State Judicial Screening Committee. These Committees evaluate the qualifications of judicial candidates and make recommendations to the Governor with respect to which candidates are highly qualified to hold judicial positions.

Anne L. Clark

Partner, Vladeck, Raskin, and Clark, P.C.

New York, NY

Anne Clark represents clients in a wide variety of
employment and discrimination cases involving race,
gender, harassment, pregnancy, age, disability, sexual
orientation, and identity. Anne’s experience also
encompasses retaliation, whistleblower, breach of
contract, and compensation and benefits cases.

A strong litigator accustomed to navigating highly complex employment matters, Anne leverages her skill, reputation, and pragmatic mindset to resolve issues while avoiding litigation whenever possible. When disputes cannot be resolved, she does not hesitate to take them to trial.

Robert Barrer

Chief Ethics and Risk Management Partner, Barclay Damon

Syracuse, NY

Robert is Barclay Damon’s chief ethics and risk management partner and is responsible for all ethics, conflicts, loss-prevention, and CLE activities. In this senior leadership position, he counsels
firm attorneys and provides analysis and advice on ethical questions involving conflicts of interest, privileges, and legal issues implicating the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Robert also supervises the firm’s CLE programs, lectures on a wide variety of ethics and practice-management topics, and is responsible for designing and implementing programs and policies to improve the provision of high-quality legal services for
firm clients.

Robert has over 37 years of trial and appellate experience in the state and federal courts and serves as a mediator for court directed and private mediation clients. Over the course of his career, Robert represented large and small corporations,
governmental and agency clients as well as individuals.

At present, Robert regularly represents lawyers and law firms in disciplinary and professional misconduct matters before the Grievance Committees of the Third and Fourth Judicial Departments of the New York State Supreme Court.

Robert is also chair of the firm’s Intake/Conflicts, Opinion, and Billing Committees. He also serves as a member of the firm’s Technology Committee.

Trisha Rich

Attorney

Holland & Knight

Trisha Rich is an attorney in Holland & Knight’s Chicago and New York offices, the national co-chair of the firm’s Legal Profession Team and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Ms. Rich also serves as the Deputy Professional Responsibility Partner for Holland & Knight’s Chicago office. Her practice focuses on legal ethics and professional responsibility matters and complex commercial litigation.

Ms. Rich is a national leader in the legal ethics community. She founded and coordinates the Attorney Defense Initiative, the nation’s first privately sponsored pro bono initiative that focuses on assisting impaired lawyers facing disciplinary charges. Ms. Rich serves on the board of directors of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers as the organization’s President-Elect, and is a frequent speaker and author on a variety of issues related to ethics and risk management. She is currently an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where she teaches legal ethics and professional responsibility. She previously taught legal ethics at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Ms. Rich is a member of the Ethics Commission of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, which adjudicates ethics complaints involving the agency’s governmental officers and employees. Ms. Rich is the author of Practical Ethics, the ethics column in the Chicago Bar Association’s publication, The Record. Ms. Rich is the third author of the column in the history of the CBA, and its first woman author. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming sixth edition of Attorney Fee Agreements in Michigan, published by The Institute of Continuing Legal Education.

In her professional responsibility practice, Ms. Rich advises lawyers, law firms, legal tech companies, and in-house counsel on a variety of issues related to professional responsibility and legal ethics, along with risk management, including legal malpractice, partnership and corporate structuring, regulation, law firm management and employment issues, fee disputes, conflicts and disqualification issues, confidentiality, privilege, attorney disciplinary defense, character and fitness proceedings, and all areas of legal ethics. Ms. Rich also advises both law firms and lawyers on ethical and fiduciary issues related to lateral hiring, law firm dissolution and expulsion matters. She also serves as an expert witness on legal ethics and professional responsibility matters, including partnership and fee disputes.

In her commercial litigation practice, Ms. Rich represents a wide variety of clients in litigation and other disputes, including national and international companies, small businesses, municipalities and state agencies, and individuals. She has extensive experience in resolving disputes between businesses and represents clients at the trial and appellate levels in a wide variety of matters, including actions for breach of contract, tort claims, breach of warranty, fraud, consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices, tortious interference and all aspects of real estate, property management and receivership litigation. Ms. Rich also has broad experience representing financial institutions in all types of litigation, including consumer financial litigation. Ms. Rich also has experience serving as an arbitrator.  

Ms. Rich has first- and second-chaired many trials and evidentiary hearings in both state and federal courts, and has extensive experience representing clients in administrative hearings. She is a member of the Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois, has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is a 2012 graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s national trial practice program.

Prior to practicing law, Ms. Rich taught practical and theoretical ethics at two universities.

Kim D. Ringler, Esq.

The Ringler Law Firm

Waldwick, NJ

Ms. Ringler has practiced ethics law for more than thirty years, handling matters throughout New Jersey from initial admissions through disciplinary proceedings, providing expert opinions on attorney ethics issues, and advising on government ethics. She is a graduate Georgetown University Law School where she was a Law Fellow. Her law firm concentrates on representing lawyers and other State licensed professionals on regulatory issues, ethics and disciplinary proceedings as well as character and fitness matters. She became a member of the NYSBA in 1980 and served on the Association’s Professional Ethics Committee. She prosecuted attorney disciplinary matters for the First Department Grievance Committee as Special Trial Counsel. After years in private practice, in 2008, she joined the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Law where she prosecuted State licensed medical and other professionals for violations of standards of practice and brought in over one million dollars in fines and recovered costs in six years. She led the prosecution of a compounding pharmacy for contamination; established a nationally watched precedent for misleading advertising by dentists; and negotiated the imposition of public sanctions upon three prominent orthopedic surgeons who violated financial disclosure requirements during clinical trials. She served as the Ethics Officer for the New Jersey Division of Law in Newark providing guidance on conflicts of interest and other executive branch ethics issues. The Attorney General presented an Exceptional Service Award to her in 2014 and appointed her Deputy Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs overseeing the operations of nearly 50 licensing boards. Ms. Ringler has argued successfully numerous attorney ethics matters before the New Jersey Supreme Court representing individuals as well as the New Jersey Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Advertising, and the Committee on Extra Judicial Activities. The New Jersey Law Journal included three cases she argued before the Supreme Court among its 2013 annual top twelve noteworthy cases. Martindale Hubbell has consistently rated her AV Preeminent. She is a frequent lecturer on professional responsibility, litigation techniques and health care issues. She was elected President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Other past memberships include the New Jersey State Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Unlawful Practice, the New York City Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Committee on Professional Discipline and the New Jersey Supreme Court District IIB Ethics Committee. She chaired the District IIB Fee Arbitration Committee, chaired the NJSBA Health Law Section and currently co chairs the Bergen County Bar Association Committee on Professionalism. Civic minded, Ms. Ringler was Deputy Mayor of the Village of Ridgewood, New Jersey from 2000 to 2004.

Ms. Ringler has presented on ethics for many organizations including the NJ Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, National Association of Attorneys General, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Bergen County Bar Association, Women Lawyers in Bergen, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Young Lawyers of Bergen County, North Bergen County Municipalities, National Association of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards, National Conference on Professional Responsibility, National Forum on Client Security Funds, National Organization of Bar Counsel, Statewide Cablevision program “Legal Ethics,” NJ Hospital Association, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference, PA Bar Institute. She has also published numerous articles about legal ethics.

Kaylin L. Whittingham, Esq.

Principal, Whittingham Law

New York, NY

Kaylin L. Whittingham is the principal of Whittingham Law, where she concentrates her practice on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, an area she has practiced in for the last 10 years, and Labor and Employment. Prior to private practice, she served as counsel at the Attorney Grievance Committee, First Judicial Department where she investigated and prosecuted a wide array of professional misconduct cases. Kaylin previously served as Staff Attorney at the Mental Hygiene Legal Services in the First Department; Judicial Intern to the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Honorable Milton Tingling, Supreme Court for the State of New York, New York County. She started her legal career in the Litigation Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office.

Kaylin is the immediately Past Chair of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Professional Discipline Committee. She served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Council on the Profession Committee and Litigation Funding Task Force; the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Ethics Compendium Board of Advisors; and Secretary of the Ethics and Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York Chapter.

Kaylin served as President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys and Board member of the National Bar Association’s Board of Governors. She served as member of the Network of Bar Leaders’ Executive Council, and the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates, Nomination Committee, and Committee on Leadership Development. Kaylin is the current co chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee of Bar Leaders and a New York State Bar Foundation Fellow. Outside the legal community, Kaylin serves on the Board of Catholic Migration Services and served on the Board of Unique People Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.

Kaylin is a frequent Continuing Legal Education presenter at Bar Associations, law firms, and other organizations. She has spoken at the American Bar Association (ABA); the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of New York, the Westchester Legal Aid Society, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Defense Association of New York, the Puerto Rican Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute(PLI), Lawline, and Harvard School of Law.

Kaylin is featured in the Book and World Exhibit—”200 Women: Who Will Change the Way You See The World.” She is the recipient of the 2016 Black Women of Influence (BWOI) Trailblazer Award; 2017 Association of Black Women Attorneys Achievement Award; 2018 National Bar Association Presidential Award; and the 2020 National Top 100 Black Lawyers. Guided by her mantra: “Inspire. Empower. Engage.”—Kaylin advocates for women rights, immigrants, victims of domestic violence, and the mentally ill.

Kaylin is admitted in New York, New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the United State District Court of New Jersey.

Michael S. Ross

Prinicpal, Law Offices of Michael S. Ross

New York, NY

Michael S. Rossisthe principal of the Law Offices of Michael S. Ross, where he concentrates his practice in attorney ethics and professional responsibility matters. He is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York and also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. Mr. Ross has been an Adjunct Professor at theBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law for forty-two years, and has taught a variety of courses in Criminal and Civil Litigation; Appellate Advocacy; Judicial Administration; and Professional Responsibility. Mr. Ross currently teaches Litigation Ethics at Cardozo Law School during both the Fall and Spring semesters and simultaneously, for the last sixteen years, he has taught Professional Responsibility at Brooklyn Law School during the Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters. He co-founded in 1983 Cardozo Law School’s annual two-week Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and for more than three and a half decades, has served in roles as the Executive Director, Team Leader or Instructor/Lecturer of the program.

Mr. Ross has lectured widely on ethics-related topics to organizations such as the American Bar Association (“A.B.A.”), the Practicing Law Institute, the Appellate Divisions of the First, Second and Third Judicial Departments, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Judicial Institute, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the New York State Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Ross has served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Discipline; the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force On Lawyer Advertising; the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Committee on Professional Discipline; the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on the Unlawful Practice of Law; the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Procedures for Judicial Discipline; and the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Mass Disasters. He previously served for a number of terms on the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Professional Discipline.

Mr. Ross completed a five-year tenure as an appointed member of the New York State ContinuingLegalEducationBoard, which, among other things,formulatesCLEguidelinesin theState. Mr. Ross has chaired the A.B.A.’s Grand Jury Committee and the City Bar Association’s Committee on Criminal Advocacy. He previously served as the A.B.A. Criminal Justice Section’s liaison to the A.B.A. StandingCommittee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and was an appointed member of the A.B.A.’s Special “Criminal Justice In Crisis Committee.”

Among his writings, Mr. Ross has co-authored a chapter on “Client and Witness Perjury,” for the A.B.A.’s Section of Litigation ethics training course book entitled Litigation Ethics: Course Materials For Continuing Legal Education.

Jennifer Wu, Esq.

Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

New York, NY

A partner in the Litigation Department, Jennifer H. Wu focuses her practice on patent litigation matters. Jennifer frequently tries cases in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission. She also argues appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and represents clients in the U.S. Supreme Court. She has litigated patents in a wide variety of technical areas including sequencing technology and GPS devices, with a particular emphasis on biotechnology. Jennifer’s work on biologics includes litigating issues of first impression as to the BPCIA.

Jennifer clerked for Judge Alan D. Lourie at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She received an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University in 1999, and her J.D. in 2004 from NYU School of Law where she received the Vanderbilt Medal for Service to the Law School Community and the President’s Service Award for Leadership at New York University. She is an Advisory Board member of the NYU Law Alumni of Color Association.

Jennifer has been widely recognized within the legal industry and the patent litigation bar for her achievements. In 2019, Jennifer was named to Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under Hot List – Northeast.” In 2018, she was selected by The New York Law Journal as a “Rising Star,” an award that recognizes top attorneys under the age 40. In 2017, Jennifer was a recipient of the “Best Under 40” award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).

Jennifer is a member of the Board of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA), and a former co-chair of the FCBA Patent Litigation Committee, the Mock Argument Committee, and the Rules Committee. She received the FCBA’s George Hutchinson Committee Award recognizing committee leadership in 2016 and 2018. In addition, she has moderated and spoken on NAPABA panels and mentored younger lawyers by judging the Thomas Tang Moot Court competition, of which she is a past Northeast Regional winner.

She is also a co-chair of the Women’s Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY). Jennifer is Paul, Weiss’s sponsoring partner for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a regular contributor to Paul, Weiss’s amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the American Bar Association, and the recipient of Paul, Weiss’s 2017 Teaching Award, awarded by the firm’s associates for excellence in mentorship. In addition, Jennifer is a Board member and the Finance Committee Chair of Friends of UNFPA, which supports the life-saving work of the United Nations reproductive health and rights agency, the United Nations Population Fund.