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October 19, 2009 |
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Mexico's Highest Honor
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| We'll admit we never heard of the Ohtli Award in Law, aka, the highest honor Mexico bestows on non-Mexican citizens. But now we know somebody who has one. |
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Williams Mullen’s international trade whiz Jimmie Reyna received the honor last month for helping to open doors for Latinos in the US legal profession. As for his practice, Jimmie tells us that several of his clients (some of whom happen to be cigar aficionados) are interested in opportunities stemming from the relaxation of trade restrictions on Cuba. Jimmie sports a watch that a shopkeeper in his hometown of Albuquerque sold him at a steep discount just after law school. The condition? “Make us proud.” We think this counts.
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He tells us he’s worn the watch for every single important case he’s ever argued. A former Hispanic National Bar Association president and founder of the HNBA Journal of Law and Policy, Jimmie says that the rising role of Hispanic lawyers validates the impartiality of the judicial system. He’s hoping that Justice Sotomayor’s appointment will have the same effect on members of the Hispanic community that Justice O’Connor’s appointment had for female lawyers.
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| Patton Boggs' Great Environment |
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We think we're clever, but Mother Nature has us beat in the humor department. Scott Stewart’s first day in Patton Boggs’ Environmental Law practice last week was met by torrential rain. Formerly a top DoJ enviro-litigator, Scott hopes to build a clean-tech advocacy platform that caters to clients ranging from start-ups to renewable subsidiaries of traditional power plants. He anticipates Justice will single out his area for new enforcement priorities.
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Citing President Obama’s Oct. 5 Executive Order on federal leadership in energy, Scott points to Uncle Sam as a large potential customer for green tech. While he hopes to further establish his firm with companies behind next-gen clean tech solutions, he says he’s also open to solutions that are being developed in the cluttered garages of resourceful college drop-outs.
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| Innocent By Association |
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Pillsbury’s Jerry Jacobs belongs in DC. We're not being sentimental; the guy wrote the Association Law Handbook. (Every 10th person you see works at one of DC's associations.) Jerry, long-serving GC of ASAE (basically the association for associations) tells us that today’s associations do more than lobby and hold meetings; they increasingly operate like corporations. When not helming his J-105 sailboat, Jerry helps associations (from bankers to solar panel manufacturers) navigate regulations. His clients typically try to avoid litigation, but in one antitrust case he helped bring against credit card companies on behalf of the National Retailers Association, they netted a $3 billion out-of-court settlement.
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| Send story ideas to Patrick Dowd, patrick@bisnow.com |
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