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McDermott Will
McDermott Will & Emery is an international law firm with a diversified business practice. The firm is one of the List of largest law firms by revenue, largest-grossing law firms in the United States and globally, and its lawyers represent a wide range of commercial, industrial, and financial enterprises. History Chicago lawyers Edward H. McDermott and William M. Emery founded the firm in 1934. They were initially focused as a tax law firm, and a Corporate law, corporate department was established in 1941 when Howard A. Will joined the firm. As the century progressed, the firm added capabilities across the legal spectrum, eventually opening eight more offices. By 1984, the firm had amassed one hundred fifty lawyers. Over the ensuing twenty years, the firm grew; in 2004, McDermott numbered over one thousand lawyers. In November 2023, amid a wave of Antisemitism in the United States, antisemitic incidents at elite U.S. law schools, McDermott Will & Emery was among a group of major l ...
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River Point
River Point, previously known as 200 North Riverside Plaza, is a 52-story 730 ft. (213 m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, located at 444 West Lake Street. The 52-story building has of floor space. It sits on air rights above active railroad tracks and as well the subway portion of the CTA Blue Line, which affected the angle of some support columns, which in turn produced the parabolic arch in the base of the building. Groundbreaking and main tenants It was developed by Hines and designed by Pickard Chilton. The building was designed before the Great Recession of the early 21st century, and constructed after it. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the tower in January 2013. The building has Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED certification. The US Green Building Council indicates that the River Point building achieved Platinum LEEDS status as of January 30, 2019. The building became the headquarters of Morton Salt in December 2016. The a ...
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Steuerberater
Steuerberater (StB) is the professional license for tax advisors in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu .... The provision of tax advisory services is restricted and basically permissible for ''Steuerberater'', Rechtsanwälte (attorneys-at-law) and Wirtschaftsprüfer (certified public accountants) only according to German law. In order to obtain this qualification, an individual must pass the ''Steuerberaterprüfung'', a special uniform nationwide state examination. Merely being qualified as an attorney at law is not sufficient. Individuals may hold several of the aforementioned qualifications at the same time, e.g. be dual qualified and licensed as Rechtsanwalt (attorney-at-law) and Steuerberater (licensed tax advisor) at the same time. A similar license exists ...
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Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university with its main campus in Westchester, Florida, United States. Founded in 1965 by the Florida Legislature, the school opened to students in 1972. FIU is the third-largest university in Florida and the List of United States university campuses by enrollment, eighth-largest public university in the United States by enrollment. It is a constituent part of the State University System of Florida and one of four state-designated Preeminent State Research Universities. FIU is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified as a Carnegie "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" institution. It has 11 colleges and more than 40 centers, facilities, labs, and institutes that offer more than 200 programs of study. It has an annual budget of over $1.7 billion and an annual economic impact of over $5 billion. The university is Higher education accreditation in the United States, acc ...
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Andrew Batavia
Andrew ("Drew") I. Batavia (June 15, 1957 – January 6, 2003) was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury. He earned a JD from Harvard Law School and an MS in health services research from Stanford University Medical School, and as a White House Fellow (1990) worked under Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to draft regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he co-founded Autonomy, Inc., to represent persons with disabilities who wanted choices and control over their lives, including the choice to end it for those with disabilities who were terminally ill. Early life Batavia was born at Beth-El Hospital (now Brookdale) in Brooklyn and lived in the Italian-Jewish neighborhood of Bensonhurst on 80th street until he was eight years old. In 1966, the family moved to Yonkers, New York, where he attended fourth grade at Public Sch ...
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United States Court Of International Trade
The United States Court of International Trade (case citations: Ct. Int'l Trade), or CIT, is a U.S. federal court that adjudicates civil actions arising out of U.S. customs and international trade laws. Seated in Lower Manhattan, New York City, the court exercises broad jurisdiction over most trade-related matters and is permitted to hear and adjudicate cases originating anywhere in the United States as well as internationally. The court originated with the Customs Administrative Act of 1890, which established the Board of General Appraisers as a quasi-judicial entity of the U.S. Treasury Department to hear disputes primarily concerning tariffs and import duties.Patrick C. Reed, The Origins and Creation of the Board of General Appraisers'' pp. 92-92. In 1926, Congress replaced the Board with the United States Customs Court, an administrative tribunal with greater judicial functions, which in 1930 was made independent of the Treasury Department. In 1956, the U.S. Customs Court ...
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Essex County, Massachusetts
Essex County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, seventy-eighth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston–Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge–Newton, Massachusetts, Newton, MA–New Hampshire, NH Metropolitan Statistical Area). The largest city in Essex County is Lynn, Massachusetts, Lynn. The county was named after the England, English county of Essex. It has two traditional county seats: Salem, Massachusetts, Salem and Lawrence, Massachusetts, Lawrence. Prior to the dissolution of the county government in 1999, Salem had jurisdiction over the Southern Essex District, and Lawrence had jurisdiction over the Northern Essex District, but currently these cities do not function as sea ...
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Massachusetts Senate
The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state. All but one of the districts are named for the counties in which they are located (the "Cape and Islands" district covers Dukes, Nantucket, and parts of Barnstable counties). Senators serve two-year terms, without term limits. The Senate convenes in the Massachusetts State House in Boston, the state capital. Qualifications The following are the qualifications to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate: * Be 18 years of age * Be a registered voter in Massachusetts * Be an inhabitant of Massachusetts for five years * Be a resident of the district when elected * Receive at least 300 signatures on nomination papers Recent party control Democrats hold a supermajority in the Senate. Current leadership Current members and distri ...
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ...
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Steven Baddour
Steven A. Baddour (born 1969) is an American attorney and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the 1st Essex District, which encompasses Amesbury, Haverhill, Merrimac, Newburyport, North Andover, Salisbury Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi ..., and his hometown of Methuen. Before assuming office in 2002, Baddour worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. Baddour served as the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Transportation and Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. He also served as a member of the Joint Committees on Children & Families, Post Audit & Oversight, and Election Laws. ...
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Neil Auerbach
Neil Z. Auerbach (born December 3, 1958) is a private equity investor and a pioneer in the sustainable investment sector. Over the course of his 20+ years in the sustainability sector, Auerbach has led over 30 investments in 26 countries and is known for his early leadership in the financial services industry’s transition to clean energy investment. Auerbach is the CEO & Chairman of Hudson Sustainable Group, based in Miami, Florida. Goldman Sachs After working in the Debt Capital Markets and Credit Derivatives units at Goldman Sachs, Auerbach joined Goldman's Special Situations Group in December 2003. He began to focus on the renewable energy industry in the U.S. and went on to launch the alternative energy investment business within the Special Situations Group with a principal focus on wind and solar energy. During Auerbach's tenure in the Group, he invested over $1.5 billion of firm capital in wind energy, solar energy, and biofuel companies and established a track record o ...
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Fernando L
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, and former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa and Asia (like the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka). It is equivalent to the Germanic given name Ferdinand, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey". Given name * Fernando el Católico, king of Aragon A * Fernando Acevedo, Peruvian track and field athlete * Fernando Aceves Humana, Mexican painter * Fernando Alegría, Chilean poet and writer * Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver * Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer * Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter * Fernando Antogna, Argentine track and road cyclist * Fernando de Araújo (other), multiple people B * Fernando Balzaretti (1946–1998), Mexican actor * Fernando Barrichello (born 2005), Brazilian racing driver * Fernando Baudrit Solera, Costa Rican president of the supreme court * Fernando Botero, Co ...
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The National Law Journal
''The National Law Journal'' (NLJ) is an American legal periodical founded in 1978. The NLJ was created by Jerry Finkelstein, who envisioned it as a "sibling newspaper" of the ''New York Law Journal''. Originally a tabloid-sized weekly newspaper, the NLJ is now a monthly magazine that publishes online daily. The NLJ is owned by ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media). In September 2017, Lisa Helem was promoted to editor in chief. Content and publications ''The National Law Journal'' reports legal information of national importance to attorneys, including federal circuit court decisions, verdicts, practitioners' columns, coverage of legislative issues and legal news for the business and private sectors. The journal releases its list of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" once every few years. The NLJ conducts surveys on issues of pertinence to the legal profession. In 1998, the NLJ released a survey that found that 82 percent of partners in large law firms believe ...
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