| Date | | Headlines | | | 21 March 2006 |  | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Sponsors Breaking the Ice Journey
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Africa
21 March 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is sponsoring the current Breaking the Ice journey. Ten men and women - Christians, Jews and Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the former Soviet Union and the USA - are crossing the Sahara desert and the territories of five different countries and cultures. |
| | | 14 March 2006 |  | Minority Counsel Gathering to Highlight Diversity Gains
Article - Worldwide
More than 1,000 people are expected to attend Wednesday night's Midwest Region Diversity Dinner here that will honor three corporate legal departments and the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. |
| | | 20 January 2006 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion Congratulates Three Associates on Their Promotion
Media Coverage - Worldwide
20 January 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion proudly congratulates the following associates for their outstanding professional accomplishments and their recent elevation to partner. |
| | | 30 December 2005 | | Downstate Lawyer Helps Kids with Sweet Science
Article - Pro Bono, Worldwide
30 December 2005 - Carrie Brooke Marche, a downstate assistant appellate defender, helps some Will County youths pack a wallop. Much of Marche's free time is spent as coach of the Joliet Boxing Team. That's an unusual avocation for the native of Southern California. "I love it," Marche said of being a coach. "She's the biggest part of my life." Marche won a Golden Gloves match in 2001, besting a woman who had a 20-pound weight advantage and was about 10 years younger. The following year, she lost a Golden Glove match to a three-time kickboxing champion from Wisconsin. |
| | | 1 December 2005 | | Amendments to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
Presentation - Worldwide
1 December 2005 - The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure were amended effective December 1, 2005. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice group has prepared a brief summary of those amendments for the convenience of its clients and friends. |
| | | 28 November 2005 | | Heavy Involvement Makes for Light Load in Pro Bono Effort
Media Coverage - Banking & Finance, Pro Bono, Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Americas
28 November 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP real estate partner John J. Gearen is honored at the firm's annual pro bono luncheon for work with the Corporation for Supportive Housing in developing 2,000 units of new housing for the homeless nationwide. With Gearen are his wife, Ann, and the firm's pro bono director, Marc R. Kadish. Mayer, Brown lawyers in Chicago, New York, Houston and Los Angeles have worked with CSH on real estate financings involving a total of 46 loans valued at about $14.2 million. About 1,000 units are completed and another 1,000 units are in the process of being developed. |
| | | 27 September 2005 | | Seventh Circuit holds Vienna Convention Confers Private Right of Action
Media Coverage - Worldwide
27 September 2005 - In Jogi v. Voges, decided today, the Seventh Circuit became the first court of appeals ever to hold that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations creates a private right of action. This case, argued by Mayer Brown attorney Brad Rosenberg on a pro bono basis, involves the question whether a foreign national who is not informed of his Vienna Convention right to consular access upon arrest may sue for money damages based on that violation. |
| | | 19 August 2005 | | Special Thanks from the Lawyers Alliance for New York
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Americas
19 August 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, and in particular, Thomas M. Vitale and Diane Citron, were honored by the Lawyers Alliance for New York in a recent ad published in Crain's NY Business. The Lawyers Alliance congratulated law firms for providing business law services to more than 450 nonprofits that are improving the quality of life in New York City neighborhoods. |
| | | 8 July 2005 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Assists Pro Bono Net with Prisoners' Rights Practice
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Americas
8 July 2005, New York - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is one of three law firms and other organizations which has assisted Pro Bono Net in developing its Prisoners' Rights Practice. |
| | | 30 June 2005 | | Los Angeles Summer Associates Attend Western Justice Center Foundation Workshop
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Americas
30 June 2005, Los Angeles - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP summer associates were among a group of 70 law students who attended the Western Justice Center Foundation's second annual summer-associates workshop at the center's offices in Pasadena. |
| | | 22 June 2005 | | Special Thanks from the City Bar Justice Center
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Americas
22 June 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP was one of a number of law firms honored by the City Bar Justice Center, an affiliate of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in a recent ad published in the New York Law Journal. |
| | | June 2005 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Hosts Public Interest Lawyers at the Ballpark
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Americas
June 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw hosted various public interest lawyers and others who work with them as guests at the firm's suite at U.S. Cellular Field (White Sox). View pictures from the event. |
| | | 8 June 2005 |  | Expanding Duties & Liability: Corporate Directors in the Post-Enron Legal Environment (Webcast)
Media Coverage - Corporate & Securities, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Worldwide
8 June 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partners Steven Wolowitz and Richard A. Spehr addressed the topic of "Expanding Duties & Liability: Corporate Directors in the Post-Enron Legal Environment" in a Web seminar sponsored by the Washington Legal Foundation. Highlights include: What personal liabilities are lurking for directors in securities fraud suits? How do disparate state and federal governance standards impact directors? What new rules are being set by federal and state judges and regulators? How do the shifting standards and duties affect in-house and outside legal counsels? |
| | | 2 June 2005 | | David Ronn Participates in the Opening of the Government of Israel Economic Office in Houston, Texas
Media Coverage - Israel
2 June 2005 - On Thursday, 2 June 2005, Mr. David Ronn moderated the opening of the Government of Israel Economic Office in Houston, Texas. Mr. Ronn is a corporate / securities partner in our Houston office. He shared our firm's recent experience in Israel and the outlook for the continued expansion of Israel's economy. The Government of Israel has only four Economic Offices in the United States - Houston, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. |
| | | 27 May 2005 | | Bob Hertzberg Named Chairman of Los Angeles Mayor's Transition Team
Media Coverage - Worldwide
27 May 2005, Los Angeles - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Bob Hertzberg has been named chairman of Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa's transition team of 81 business, artistic, religious and civic leaders to serve as a "recruitment army" to build his administration.
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| | | 18 May 2005 | | Victory in Court Appointed Murder Trial
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Worldwide
18 May 2005, Chicago - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw attorneys Charles Harris II and Sheri Drucker, with the assistance of Erin Fallon, Automated Practice Support Trial Specialist, represented Deborah Taylor in a murder trial before Judge James Linn at the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago. |
| | | May 11, 2005 | | Günter Burghardt highlighted as among Washington's Ex-Ambassadors with High-Profile Careers
News Release - Worldwide
11 May 2005, Washington, D.C. - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP senior counsel Dr Günter Burghardt is highlighted in the current issue of the Washington Diplomat as among a group of ex-ambassadors who have continued with high profile careers.
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| | | 3 May 2005 | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Supports Pro Bono Institute's "Second Acts"© Project
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Worldwide
3 May 2005, Chicago - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is supporting the Pro Bono Institute in developing its "Second Acts"© Project - i.e., second acts of public service in the lives of lawyers approaching retirement age. |
| | | 23 April 2005 | | Lawyers Must Be Guardians of Liberty
Media Coverage - Pro Bono, Worldwide
23 April 2005, Chicago - In a recent Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article by Locke Bowman, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP lawyers Gary A. Isaac and James C. Schroeder were cited as "among the heroes in the work on behalf of the prisoners detained at Guantanamo. Isaac and Schroeder wrote a key amicus brief to the Supreme Court in Rasul on behalf of retired military officers in support of the Guantanamo detainees. They spent innumerable hours on their brief and in helping to shape the strategy for this historically significant litigation." Chicago associates Steve Kane and Jon Juenger co-authored the brief. |
| | | 13 April 2005 | | Judicial Internship Program Launched
Media Coverage - Worldwide
13 April 2005 - The Student Outreach Committee of the Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA), has developed a new summer placement program in cooperation with the Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage (AJHH), placing law students on summer internships with sitting judges. |
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