Why Aren’t There More Women Leaders in Law?
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12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Stanford Law School – Room 280A
Avoid lines at the parking machines with the Parkmobile app
This event is free and open to the public. 1 hour of CLE Elimination of Bias credit
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Lora Blum
General Counsel, SurveyMonkey Lora joined SurveyMonkey in January 2017 and leads the company’s legal, equity, and compliance teams and initiatives. Prior to SurveyMonkey, she served as Vice President, Legal-Corporate at LinkedIn Corporation, where she managed corporate securities, governance, M&A, and international subsidiary matters for the legal team. She led the internal teams on the company’s IPO, follow-on equity and debt offerings, all of its mergers and acquisitions, and the company’s $26.2 billion sale to Microsoft Corporation in 2016. Prior to joining LinkedIn in 2010, Lora was in private practice for over 10 years, including serving as a partner in capital markets at Jones Day, and a shareholder at Heller Ehrman. Lora holds a JD from UCLA and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Emily M. Lam
Partner, Skadden Emily M. Lam is the head of Skadden’s Palo Alto office. She advises clients on a broad range of tax controversy matters, focusing on complex audits and appeals. Drawing on her prior experience at the U.S. Department of Treasury and her almost two decades of practice, she provides clients with sophisticated tax counseling on the most sensitive matters. She is active in recruitment, development and retention within Skadden and serves on the firmwide Diversity and Pro Bono committees. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and received her LLM from Georgetown. |
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David Sanford
Chairman, Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP David Sanford is the Chairman and co-founder of Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP. He has recovered more than one billion dollars for individual clients and the United States government since 2004. Sanford represents C-suite executives and non-managerial hourly employees throughout the US. He has served as lead counsel in more than 50 class actions and numerous qui tam cases around the country and represented more than 100 general counsel and attorneys (in-house and outside counsel) in contract disputes, employment matters, and severance packages. For his work in bringing cases and discussing the issues surrounding gender equality in law firms, the American Lawyer chose him as a finalist for its 2018 Attorney of the Year award. He is a graduate of Vassar College and Stanford Law School. |
