Hong Kong – Sidley is pleased to announce that Olivia Ngan has rejoined the firm in Hong Kong from Linklaters LLP and will be a partner in its China Corporate and Finance group.

Ngan represents lenders and borrowers, including listed companies, real estate companies, bond issuers, corporate borrowers, financial institutions, and asset managers on a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has broad experience advising on pre-IPO, structured, acquisition, real estate, and equity margin financing, as well as general corporate lending transactions, with a particular focus on mainland China-related transactions.

Sidley’s China Corporate and Finance group is a vital part of the firm’s leading global Capital Markets group, representing clients in structuring and executing securities transactions and disclosure matters across several sectors, including fintech, telecommunications, media and technology, and life sciences.

CHICAGO – The global law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the formation of a new, fully integrated Global Privacy & Data Security practice. Sheryl Falk, Steve Grimes, and Alessandra Swanson will lead a cross-disciplinary and international team with a deep bench of experience in privacy and data security issues that span employment, health care, trade secrets, breach counseling, litigation, consumer, emerging technologies, private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

The new practice is the culmination of Winston’s Global Privacy & Data Security Task Force, formed in 2017, which effectively established a suite of capabilities to serve clients across a wide range of regions and industries. Now, the team of more than 75 attorneys in 13 offices across the world can work together seamlessly to address the full spectrum of clients’ privacy and data security challenges, including:
• Privacy counseling and compliance program building
• Regulated Personal Information
• Privacy and data security litigation
• Internal forensic investigations and cybersecurity incident response
• Theft of confidential information and trade secrets
• Breach notification, response and regulatory defense
• Technology outsourcing
• Private equity and mergers and acquisitions
• Health care privacy and security
• Financial privacy
• Employee privacy
• Emerging technology
• E-commerce and consumer interaction
• Marketing and online advertising
• International trade, export controls, and sanctions

Falk draws on her deep expertise in privacy, data security, and forensic technology, as well as her strong litigation background as a former federal prosecutor, to handle complicated privacy and data protection issues. She concentrates her practice on privacy and data security counseling and diligence, providing strategic advice to mitigate privacy and data security risk in emerging technology, investigating trade secret theft, leading data security incident response, and handling privacy and trade secret litigation.

Grimes is a former federal prosecutor, an experienced trial lawyer, and a former chief compliance officer and senior litigation counsel for a global, publicly traded Fortune 500 company whose practice focuses on compliance counseling, sensitive internal investigations, and complex litigation. He works with companies across many industries to investigate highly sensitive and urgent issues related to trade secret theft, technology and security breaches, employee misconduct, conflicts of interest, financial fraud, and potential violations of anti-bribery and other laws.

Swanson is a former federal privacy regulator and leverages her unique experience to help clients understand their regulatory and compliance obligations regarding the use, disclosure, and protection of personal information. She focuses her practice in the areas of Regulated Personal Information, privacy and data security counseling, security breach response and regulatory defense, marketing and data ownership issues, corporate advisory services and outsourcing, and large-scale commercial contracting.

Brouse McDowell welcomes former Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell to the firm. Justice O’Donnell, retired from The Supreme Court of Ohio, and joined the law firm of Brouse McDowell in an Of Counsel capacity focusing on alternative dispute resolution and appellate matters.

Justice O’Donnell served on the Supreme Court of Ohio from 2003-2018, and is one of Ohio’s longest-serving justices. During his time on the Court, he led statewide efforts to promote integrity and professionalism in law, leading to the creation of a nationally recognized Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program. Justice O’Donnell also served on the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for 14 years and the Eighth District Court of Appeals for eight years. He previously practiced law at Marshman, Snyder & Corrigan in Cleveland.

Justice O’Donnell has dedicated significant time to non-profit causes. He served as Chairman of the Ohio Legal Rights Service Commission, an organization that advocates for the human, civil and legal rights of people with disabilities in Ohio, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Our Lady of the Wayside, an organization dedicated to serving the needs of the mentally and physically challenged.

Justice O’Donnell has received numerous accolades, including recognition as “Person of the Year” by the Mayo Society of Greater Cleveland in 2015, and as the recipient of the Jurisprudence Award from the American ORT Cleveland Chapter in 2006. Further, he received St. Edward High School’s Alumnus of the Year Award in 2005, Kent State University’s award for outstanding graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Cleveland State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Justice O’Donnell received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Kent State University, and his JD from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that Micheal Binns has been named a 2020 “Rising Star” by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). Binns and his fellow Rising Stars share “the love of law, ambition, and pursuit of excellence, while possessing a compassion for those in need and a strong desire to give back to others,” according to MCCA.

Binns serves as Parker Poe’s Atlanta Office Development Partner and is a registered patent attorney who represents Fortune 500 corporations, midsize companies, startups, and individual clients regarding global intellectual property protection. His experience spans a variety of industries and technologies, including tech, biotechnology, chemical, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications arts.

Binns serves as board chair of Page Turners Make Great Learners, a nonprofit working to improve literacy in inner-city Atlanta. He has been deeply involved with the organization since 2012 and has led Parker Poe’s partnership with Page Turners on read-a-thons across Atlanta, through which he and other volunteers have read to hundreds of students and donated thousands of books. He also serves on the boards of directors for the Georgia Wildlife Federation and the Spruill Center for the Arts in Dunwoody, Georgia.

Binns will be honored at MCCA’s Creating Pathways to Diversity® Conference, which will be held virtually on October 27. He was also recently honored as “On the Rise” by the Daily Report, the leading legal publication in metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia.

Jeffrey K. Cassin in New York; Ross J. Switkes in New Jersey

Bridgewater, NJ (August 25, 2020) – The law firm of Norris McLaughlin, P.A., is pleased to welcome Jeffrey K. Cassin and Ross J. Switkes as Members of the firm. Cassin will be the lead corporate attorney in New York as part of its larger Business Law Practice Group, while Switkes joins the growing Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group in the New Jersey office.

Despite a pall of anxiety across the law firm industry regarding the economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, Norris McLaughlin’s Chairman John N. Vanarthos explained that these strategic additions were critical components of the firm’s strategy for emerging from the pandemic in a position of strength. He also added that it was important for the firm that both of these members reflect the dogmatic philosophy of always looking for “what’s next.”

About Jeff Cassin

Cassin represents companies at every stage of a corporate lifecycle, from start-up, investment stage, growth (through acquisition or organic), mature companies to their exit, with deep experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. Cassin has led several successful acquisitions and divestitures, guiding clients on deal structuring issues, negotiation and closing, and has recently closed transactions in media, technology, human capital, insurance, entertainment, restaurant management, and represented an underwriter before FINRA in launching a SPAC. He additionally represents mid-size businesses, funds, start-ups, media and technology companies, and individual investors, among others. Cassin was Co-Section Chief of the Business Law section of his previous law firm.

Cassin has a reputation for being solutions-oriented. He has taken a special interest in helping clients face issues arising out of the pandemic, such as accessing opportunities under the CARES Act and state programs, and preparing their business structure, operation and contracts for pandemic disruption or, in some cases, pandemic-related growth opportunities.

He earned his J.D. in 2005 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and his B.A. in 2002 from The George Washington University: Elliot School of International Affairs.

About Ross Switkes

Switkes focuses his practice on bankruptcy, debtor/creditor rights, corporate restructuring, and commercial litigation. He represents Chapter 7, 11, and 12 trustees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, purchasers of assets and stalking horse bidders, officers and directors, non-debtor spouses, landlords, defendants in avoidance actions, insurance companies, distressed companies, and municipalities.

Switkes currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, a committee that has served as a two-way conduit between the bankruptcy bar and the Board of Bankruptcy Judges for approximately 25 years. He also is a Trustee of the Mercer County Bar Association and Co-Chair of its Bankruptcy, Budget, and Golf Committees. In addition, Switkes is a speaker on educational panels conducted by the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, International Council of Shopping Centers, Mercer County Bar Association, and Essex County Bar Association. His articles have appeared in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and American Bankruptcy Trustee Journal, among other publications.

In 2018, Switkes was named in the New Jersey Law Journal Professional Excellence Awards as a “New Leader of the Bar” and was also recognized by the Mercer County Bar Association as “Young Lawyer of the Year.” He has been recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers® as a “Rising Star” in the area of Bankruptcy: Business every year since 2017. Switkes earned his J.D. in 2010 from Seton Hall University School of Law and his B.A., cum laude, in 2007 from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Perry Law founder recognized for her work in insurance law and litigation

DALLAS – Perry Law P.C. founder Meloney Perry has earned recognition in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and one of the most respected peer review legal guides in the nation.

A Best Lawyers honoree since 2019, Perry is recognized in the 2021 guide for insurance law and insurance litigation.

The Best Lawyers in America listing is compiled following a rigorous selection process that includes peer nominations, a review of prior nominees, and the final selection by the Best Lawyers editors, who recognize the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the country.

Perry has more than 25 years of experience defending insurance companies in insurance coverage disputes, bad-faith and class-action litigation. She serves as the primary counsel for a major national insurance firm and represents business owners involved in insurance and business disputes in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.

She has earned individual accolades by Texas Super Lawyers for her insurance practice, while Perry Law has earned placement in U.S. News – Best Lawyers/Best Law Firms.

Perry is an author and presenter, frequently conducting seminars that focus on insurance coverage issues and the law. In addition, she has held leadership positions in professional organizations including the State Bar of Texas Council of Chairs Committee and the Insurance Law Section.

Certified under the Women’s Business Enterprise National Counsel, Perry Law P.C. is a women-owned law firm focused on insurance coverage and litigation. Our group of attorneys invests in lasting relationships, takes time to understand your business, and makes you the priority. For more information, please visit our website, http://www.mperrylaw.com.

Veteran trial lawyer recognized by peers for outstanding white-collar and general criminal defense work

Dallas white-collar and criminal defense attorney Barry Sorrels has earned national recognition for his work as a trial lawyer with selection to the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

With a distinguished reputation for representing clients in high-profile criminal matters at the state and federal levels, Sorrels has earned this distinction from peers for his work in both white-collar and general criminal defense each year since 1999.

With a background as a former high-level Dallas County prosecutor, Sorrels is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. High-profile clients, including elected officials, business executives, professional athletes, doctors and other medical professionals, seek his representation to defend against fraud, corruption and other white-collar offenses. Last year, he was active in federal cases in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas.

Sorrels also frequently shares his criminal defense expertise with national news outlets, such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, TruTV and Dallas television news stations. In addition, as the former president of the Dallas Bar Association and the Patrick E. Higginbotham Inn of Court, he strives to advance the legal profession.

The Best Lawyers in America is the profession’s oldest U.S. peer-review guide and among the most respected. Selection is based on confidential evaluations by attorneys in the same practice area and from the same geographic region. For the full listing, visit https://www.bestlawyers.com/.

Sorrels is a longtime Dallas criminal defense attorney with a reputation for achieving success on behalf of his clients. To learn more about his work, please visit Barry Sorrels, P.C.

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“Environmentalists have lined up behind the shift to renewable energy required by the state’s energy transition act, but some are challenging language in the law that they say derails due process and eliminates standards of regulatory review meant to protect customers,” reports Susan Montoya Bryan in KRQE’s Politics – Government.

“New Energy Economy and Citizens for Fair Rates and the Environment filed a brief this week with the state Supreme Court.”

“Legal wrangling has been ongoing since the state adopted the landmark legislation in 2019. Aside from mandating more renewable energy, the law includes a financing mechanism that supporters say is necessary for the 2022 closure of a major coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico.”

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“New Jersey’s Supreme Court approved as legally binding an arbitration agreement provided to employees electronically, concluding the arbitration agreement was effectively, clearly, and unambiguously communicated to the company’s employees. The decision in Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc. … ratified a five-page Mutual Arbitration and Class Waiver Agreement rejected by the lower court. In doing so, the Supreme Court resolved years of conflict and provided employers with much needed practical steps for drafting similar agreements and communicating them to employees,” discuss Mark A. Saloman and Jeffrey A. Shooman in FordHarrison’s Employment Law.

This article provides helpful do’s and don’ts

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“Indemnification provisions are an important part of the fine print of many contracts. These clauses generally operate to protect one party against the other party’s actions or failures to act that lead to a loss claimed by a third party (not a party to the contract). A common example is the indemnification provisions (or entire agreements) used in the rental car setting. Before you drive off the lot, the rental car company will require you indemnify (or protect) it against a third party (not you) bringing a claim due to you being in an accident,” write Sean Byrne and Scott Ziance in Vorys’ Insights.

“Similarly, most incentive agreements contain one-way indemnification provisions, requiring the incentive recipient to indemnify and hold harmless the public entity against any possible risk and for any liability that could befall the public entity because of your project. The incentive provider will usually inform you that the indemnification provision cannot be mutual, is non-negotiable, and often includes provisions that go beyond traditional indemnification. Sorting through the legalese in these terms and conditions is a challenge in non-incentive contracts, and adding a public or quasi-public entity can make them more complicated. ”

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“Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA) has placed Rod Boddie as general counsel for Congressional Federal Credit Union in Oakton, VA. The assignment was led by Deborah Ben-Canaan, partner and senior practice leader; Christie Babinski, director; and Kimberly Hulsey, director, of MLA’s in-house counsel recruiting group in Washington, D.C.,” contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor in Hunt Scanlon Media.

“Mr. Boddie is a seasoned legal professional who comes to CFCU after 17 years with Seneca One Finance, a specialty finance company, where he most recently served as general counsel and corporate secretary. During his tenure, he led Seneca’s legal activities, oversaw a 25-person legal and processing team, and managed outside counsel. He also held a senior counsel role at Winstar Communications and began his career as an associate with Miles & Stockbridge.”

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77 Charters, Inc. brought a suit against defendants Jonathan Gould, Stonemar MM Cookeville, LLC, Cookeville Corridor, LLC and Eightfold Cookeville Investor, LLC “for a series of alleged ‘wrongful acts’ in connection with the management and sale of a shopping mall”, which also implicated Stonemar Cookeville Partners, LLC
and Cookeville Retail Holdings, LLC., discuss Scott Waxman and Rich Minice in K&L Gates’ Delaware Docket.

“In delivering its opinion, which centered on the nature of Delaware limited liability companies as creatures of contract, and thus, the controlling nature of the applicable operating agreements and contracts into which the parties had entered, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that only Plaintiff’s claims which could be connected to an alleged wrongful amendment of the operating agreement of Cookeville Retail could survive Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss.”

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“Bayer will pay about $1.6 billion to settle nearly all of the U.S. lawsuits that, over several years, have claimed the company’s Essure birth control implant caused serious injuries,” reports Conor Hale in Fierce Biotech’s MedTech.

“The German drugmaker’s agreements with plaintiff law firms cover about 90% of nearly 39,000 filed and unfiled claims, within all of the jurisdictions with significant numbers of Essure cases, Bayer said in a statement.”

“The company is also currently in talks with lawyers representing the remaining plaintiffs. Most of the terms of the settlement agreements are confidential, but they contain no admission of wrongdoing or liability.”

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“A lawyer representing Jennifer Dulos’ family has filed a federal complaint seeking to require the state Judicial Branch to foreclose on Fotis Dulos’ former Farmington residence even though housing proceedings have been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic,” reports Lisa Backus in Stamford Advocate’s Local News.

“Attorney Richard Weinstein, representing Gloria Farber and the estate of her late husband, Hilliard, wants the proceedings to move forward on the 14,000-square-foot home that was already in foreclosure when Fotis Dulos died Jan. 30 from an apparent suicide.”

“In March, Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order, putting a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions as the pandemic spread throughout Connecticut. Weinstein filed the complaint against Judge Patrick Carroll, chief court administrator for the state Judicial Branch, out of ‘sheer frustration,’ the attorney said. ‘Judges are precluded from entering into foreclosures and evictions even in non-COVID-related cases,Weinstein said. ‘My client is paying all this money every month and nothing is happening. I did not want to sue the judge, but every day that goes by, it costs the estate money.'”

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“The latest firm to roll back salary reductions is K&L Gates, another member of the billion-dollar club that placed 39th in the Am Law 100, with $1,026,626,000 in 2019 gross revenue. Back in April, the firm reduced salaries across the board, with equity partners seeing a 20 percent reduction in scheduled advances, and firm leaders taking even larger reductions. Income partners, associates, and allied professionals and staff were subject to a 15 percent reduction in their salary provided their income didn’t fall below a $75,000 floor (with some regional variations),” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above the Law’s Biglaw.

“Now, because the firm has ‘performed better than expected’ in 2020, those reductions are being reduced.”

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Firm shareholder Robert Tobey named Lawyer of the Year for Dallas-Fort Worth 

Once again, all four shareholders in the Texas trial and appellate firm Johnston Tobey Baruch have been selected by The Best Lawyers in America, and Robert Tobey has been named a Lawyer of the Year for Dallas-Fort Worth. 

 The Best Lawyers in America is the oldest and one of the most respected U.S. attorney guides. Inclusion in the publication is based on peer-review surveys submitted by attorneys who practice in the same legal fields and within the same geographic regions. 

Tobey, who serves as the current president of the Dallas Bar Association, earned Lawyer of the Year honors for Dallas-Fort Worth in the 2021 edition for his expertise in legal malpractice litigation. He was also recognized separately for commercial litigation and legal malpractice law for defendants and plaintiffs. Tobey’s practice also includes litigation related to liability claims, ethical issues and fee disputes for clients and lawyers. 

Firm co-founder Randy Johnston earned Best Lawyers recognition for commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation and legal and professional malpractice law representing plaintiffs and defendants. Johnston’s decades of experience cover a wide range of matters involving professional services, fiduciary duty, investment fraud, insurance and other business disputes. 

Chad Baruch, the firm’s managing shareholder, was recognized by Best Lawyers for his appellate work. In addition, Baruch is sought after for his legal writing and defense of constitutional rights expertise. 

As one of the rising stars in the legal community, Coyt Johnston was featured in the guide for both commercial litigation and mergers and acquisitions litigation. In 2019, Best Lawyers recognized him as a Lawyer of the Year for mergers and acquisitions in Dallas-Fort Worth. 

Best Lawyers has included each of Johnston Tobey Baruch’s three name shareholders since 2013. In addition, each attorney is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Baruch for Civil Appellate Law, Johnston for Civil Trial Law and Tobey for Consumer and Commercial Law. Coyt Johnston has been selected for Best Lawyers each year since 2016. 

“A flood of fintech in-house counsel hires continued this week, with announcements from both Plaid Inc and Robinhood Markets Inc.,” reports Caroline Spiezio in Thomas Reuters’ WestLaw Today.

“Plaid, a software startup that Visa Inc agreed to buy for $5.3 billion earlier this year, on Thursday announced Meredith Fuchs as its general counsel. Formerly general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Fuchs was most recently chief regulatory counsel at Capital One.”

“Robinhood, a commission-free trading startup popular with millennials, said Wednesday that former Applied Materials and Yahoo attorney Christina Lai had joined it as deputy general counsel. She’s the startup’s third major legal hire announced since May.”

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A.Y. Strauss, a leading boutique law firm focused on commercial transactions and litigation in the areas of real estate, construction contracting, bankruptcy, and franchising law, is pleased to announce that Kory Ann Ferro has joined the firm as an Associate in the Commercial Litigation group. Ferro was previously with Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP.

Ferro, who earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Law in 2013, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Temple University in 2008, is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey and of New York, and the United States District Court of New Jersey. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Bergen County Bar Association. Before entering private practice, Ferro held a clerkship with the Hon. Margaret M. Hayden in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

During law school, Ferro received the Justice Henry Ackerson Jr. Prize for the greatest distinction in legal skills as well as the Anthony Englebrecht Prize for the highest grade point average during the final year of law school. In addition to achieving academic excellence, she served as Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Review, and began honing her legal advocacy skills through participation in the Child Advocacy Clinic, the Urban Legal Clinic, and the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project. She also served as an Executive Member of the Moot Court Board; Justice (president) of the Phi Alpha Delta Mock Trial Team which placed first in a national competition and was awarded best advocate and prosecution team awards; and, she was a member of the Rutgers National Mock Trial Team which appeared in the National Trial Competition Finals and was awarded an American College of Trial Lawyers Medallion for Excellence in Trial Advocacy.

Ferro has been included in the 2021 list of “Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation” by Best Lawyers, and was honored as a “New Jersey Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2018-2019. She was also included in (201) Magazine’s list of Bergen County’s “Top Lawyers” in 2018-2020.

Washington, DC -– Venable LLP is pleased to announce that Grant Schneider has joined the firm as senior director of cybersecurity services in the Washington, DC office. As the most senior cybersecurity executive in the U.S. government, Schneider most recently served as the federal chief information security officer (CISO) for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and on the White House National Security Council as senior director for cybersecurity policy.

Schneider was responsible for enhancing the overall defensive cybersecurity posture of federal and critical infrastructure systems, leveraging the expertise of the U.S. intelligence community to identify and mitigate threats to federal cybersecurity, and leading effective and efficient responses to federal incidents. He oversaw the most comprehensive review of the federal government’s cybersecurity enterprise, implementing a cybersecurity risk assessment process across 100+ agencies, and worked with Congress to spearhead legislative initiatives, including the SECURE Technology Act, which established the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) to allow for a federal whole-of-government risk management approach to recommending the removal or exclusion of companies or products that pose too great a risk to the federal enterprise. He also served as the first chair of the interagency Federal Acquisition Security Council, establishing criteria processes, and procedures that will be used to evaluate the risk of products and services to the federal government.

Concurrent with serving as the federal CISO, Schneider facilitated interagency and industry discussions to enhance the cybersecurity posture of the nation as the National Security Council’s senior director for cybersecurity policy. During his tenure, he led White House efforts to develop and successfully gain cabinet and presidential approval for the first National Cyber Strategy in more than 15 years, and acted as the principal White House liaison for multiple public-private partnerships focused on securing our national critical infrastructure, including the National Telecommunications Security Council; the Enduring Security Framework; the Energy and Government Coordinating Council; and the Communications and Government Coordinating Council.

Schneider received his B.S. in Applied Math from George Mason University.

Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Labor & Employment practice with the addition of Partner John Zaimes and Counsel Roxanne Wilson in Los Angeles.

Before joining Arent Fox, Zaimes and Wilson worked together at Mayer Brown LLP.

Zaimes Experience

• A highly regarded labor and employment litigator, Zaimes represents clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including wage and hour class actions and PAGA claims, wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination and retaliation claims, as well as National Labor Relations Act, Railway Labor Act and Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues.
• Zaimes also frequently advises on internal investigations, reductions in force, non-compete agreements, employee non-solicitation agreements, and the protection of trade secrets and confidential information.
• His clients span the manufacturing, financial services, retail, life sciences, airline, consulting, food and beverage, and hospitality industries.
• Zaimes also defends clients in class actions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the California CCRAA and ICRAA and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Education: Zaimes received his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, his MA from Northwestern University and his BA, with honors, from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Wilson’s Experience

• Wilson’s practice focuses on defending and advising clients on employment-related class actions and PAGA claims and issues regarding wage and hour, exempt employees, drug and alcohol policies, reductions in force, sick leave policies, and employment application processes.
• She often works with clients on compliance issues relating to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the California Family Rights Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Ban the Box ordinances, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the California Disabled Persons Act.
• Wilson drafts employee handbooks and individual employment policies as well as conducting workplace investigations and audits on behalf of her clients.

Education: Wilson earned her JD from Loyola Law School, her MA from Claremont Graduate University, and her BA from Scripps College.