DLA Piper’s Henry duPont Ridgely Appointed ABA Business Law Section Advisor
DLA Piper announces that Henry duPont Ridgely, senior counsel in the firm’s Wilmington office and former Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, has been appointed an advisor to the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section.
Justice Ridgely will begin his two-year term in September at the end of the 2015 Business Law Section Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Business Law Advisors Committee works to enhance the section’s educational opportunities through shared wisdom and experience of prominent individuals with distinguished records as practitioners, teachers or government officials in areas in which the section’s Substantive Committees are active. Justice Ridgely will be appointed to two of those Substantive Committees.
Justice Ridgely joined DLA Piper in March 2015.
In a release, the firm said he has a distinguished record of more than 30 years as a jurist in Delaware and served on the state’s Supreme Court for more than a decade, where he participated in more than 700 published opinions. Earlier this year, Delaware Governor Jack Markell awarded Justice Ridgely the Order of the First State, the highest recognition the governor can give for outstanding efforts, knowledge, integrity, prudence and ability in serving the State of Delaware.
At DLA Piper, Justice Ridgely focuses his practice on advising corporations, boards, special committees and individual directors and officers on transaction structure, fiduciary duties and managing and defending litigation at the trial and appellate level. He also can act as a mediator, arbitrator or independent monitor.
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