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Polsinelli PC issued the following announcement on Jan. 22.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli shareholder Richard Murray was honored with the 2020 Richard Marden Davis Award at a virtual ceremony in his honor. The award recognizes Murray’s exceptional service to the legal community, as well as his civic and charitable leadership.
Presented annually, The Davis Award is given to a Denver lawyer who is 40 years old or younger and combines excellence as a lawyer with civic, cultural, educational and charitable leadership. David Graham & Stubbs LLP (DGS) and the Denver Bar Association created this award in memory of Richard Marden Davis, one of the firm’s founders who was tirelessly devoted to the profession and his community. The award is presented by DGS, the Denver Bar Association and the Davis Family to the honoree who best exemplifies the character and promise of Richard Davis at that stage in his career. Murray follows a long line of winners who continue to serve the Denve
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the host of
Your Democracy, a program dedicated to exploring how the Constitution holds up against the complexities of 21st century American life in ways the framers could not have foretold.
She is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.. She addresses audiences nationally and internationally. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of law and justice in France, Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, South Africa and before the United Nations in Geneva and New York City.
he helped select nominees to New York’s highest court
NEW YORK – January 13, 2021 – Alan Mansfield, a beloved and highly respected New York litigation attorney who helped shape the New York State Court of Appeals as a 25-year member of the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination, passed away January 11, 2021. He was a member of the Executive Committee at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he had also served as the co-chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Practice. Mansfield joined the law firm in 1994 as the 11
th attorney in its then nascent New York City office, and the Commission two years later.
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Fox Rothschild LLP issued the following announcement on Dec. 23.
Fox Rothschild LLP congratulates Sarah B. Biser and Laurie A. Stanziale, who were honored among the 2021 Notable Women in Law by Crain’s New York Business.
The coveted annual list recognizes New York attorneys who are among a “legion of defenders and advocates like no other.” Crain’s chose this year’s nominees for their efforts to “shore up the edifice of justice” as well as their “professional accomplishments and contributions to industry organizations.”
Biser, who serves as Co-Chair of Fox’s nationwide Construction, International Arbitration and Israel Practice Groups, is highlighted for her involvement in some of the region’s most significant projects. Biser represented Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in its joint venture with Cornell University to build a $2 billion applied science facility on Roosevelt Island. She also worked on the construction of the Third Lane of the P