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May 8, 2009 |
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“The Godfather”
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The great "School Night" is coming up, presented by Fight For Children, which also does Fight Night, for the benefit of kids and education. It's next week, Friday, May 15, with a wonderful party venue at the Reagan Building, and entertainment by Wyclef Jean! More info. For tickets, ask Simon Jackson at 202-772-0437.
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Our headline is the affectionate nickname DLA Piper’s storied fixture Earl Silbert earned from acolytes during his days as U.S. Attorney for D.C. His consiglieri turned out in full force last night, as a crowd of 300 made it to the Council of Court Excellence’s dinner at the Chamber of Commerce to see him receive the Justice Potter Stewart award.
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The award was so pretty Council of Court Excellence President Rodney Page, aka managing partner at Bryan Cave, had a hard time letting it go. He presented it to Earl (second from left) along with Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of District of D.C. and CCE Chair Marie Johns of L&L Consulting. In his intro, Judge Lamberth recalled how the dean of the white collar bar became something of a national hero through characteristically professional work as the first Watergate prosecutor, despite John Dean’s attempts to portray him as Deep Throat. Earl tells us he’s still playing hockey in his off hours, though due to injury, he’s getting his fix watching the Caps playoff run.
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The night’s other Potter Stewart honoree was Commander Lillian Overton of the Metro PD. The CCE’s mission is to bring lawyers and judges together with the community—law enforcement, business, and others—to improve the justice system. Lillian joined the police in 1982 (same year the CCE was founded), and has helmed the Youth Services division for the last 10 years. She promptly disarmed the crowd of legal elites with this: “Considering I’m the officer here, you folks are pretty intimidating.”
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Whenever we find ourselves in the Chamber’s Hall of Flags, we’re struck with the urge to give the Patton speech in front of Old Glory there. Fortunately for everyone, we refrained.
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You couldn’t swing a cat at the cocktail hour without hitting a white collar legend. Not that we’d ever do such a thing, but we did bump into Jack Bray of King & Spalding, who had a Watergate role himself—defending (unconvicted) Gordon Strachan. Jack tells us that the ADM price-fixing case in which he represented the vice-chairman will be hitting the silver screen in September by way of Matt Damon vehicle The Informant, based on the page-turning non-fiction account of the case. With him is Jake Stein of Stein, Mitchell & Muse, who has had his own drama-filled engagements: repping Monica Lewinsky, Sen. Robert Packwood, and investigating Ed Meese.
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Veterans of the U.S. Attorney’s office under “The Godfather”: Phil Fox of Sutherland and Mike Madigan of Orrick. What can top serving as a clerk to a Supreme Court Justice? Clerking for two. After a First Circuit clerkship (just a few short years ago), Phil clerked for Justices Reed and Powell.
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CCE Exec Director June Kress and Zuckerman Spaeder’s Peter Koller, who was on the CCE committee that selected Earl. Peter tells us the Zuckerman office is waiting word from the jury in the tax fraud case of a former Ernst & Young partner represented by Zuckerman house star Paula Junghans and others. The two-month-long trial was submitted to a S.D.N.Y. jury earlier this week.
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Immediate past CCE president Tim May of Patton Boggs (who we’re happy to see didn’t get the memo that legal wardrobes are supposed to be boring) with the Bar of DC’s Mary Eva Candon and Tim’s successor, Rodney Page. Rodney’s one of the prime architechts of Brave Cave’s merge with Powell Goldstein, not to mention its office move in a couple of weeks. He had some interesting thoughts on office configurations that we’re going to share in an upcoming Managing Partner Roundtable issue. Stay tuned.
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Part of the Arent Fox crew: Jay Hulme, Matthew Wright, and Adrienne Lawrence. Jay always seems to have an interesting case up his sleeve, and sure enough he tells us he’s prepping for a Third Circuit argument next week on a trademark matter involving an herbal supplement. It helps you get thin, so after last night’s big dessert, we asked him for a month’s supply.
John Ford, Bisnow’s Legal Editor, would like to publicly apologize to Arent Fox’s Barbara Wahl for taking yet another picture of her with her eyes closed. This time, he had the good sense not to use it. Story ideas to john@bisnow.com.
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