NAFUSA member Sharon Zealey recently joined Cox Enterprises, Inc. as the Vice President, Compliance.Sharon is responsible for establishing and achieving corporate compliance operational objectives.She will design and execute the Company’s compliance strategy and training.Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a leading communications, media and automotive services company with revenues of $20 billion and 55,000 employees. Company divisions include Cox Communications, Cox Media Group, and Cox Automotive.
Sharon previously served as Lead Counsel for Carestream Dental LLC, a medical device company, where she established its global compliance program. Prior to that, she founded NextGen Compliance LLC in Atlanta and was a business consultant on compliance issues and risk assessment.
Sharon was the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for The Coca-Cola Company for seven years. During her tenure, the company was recognized nationally for its user-friendly hotline, effective global compliance network and corporate integrity.
Sharon served as the former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1997-2001.
Four new members have been elected to the Stanford Board of Trustees and will begin their posts this April, including NAFUSA member Carol Lam J.D. ’85, senior vice president and deputy general counsel of semiconductor and telecommunications company Qualcomm, Inc.
Carol Lam (Courtesy of Stanford News)
Lam became the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California after serving San Diego as a Superior Court judge. She worked on cases concerning health care and white collar crime and was instrumental in winning a bribery case against former Congressman Randy Cunningham that linked illegal payoffs to the awarding of arms contracts. Lam served on the board of The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California.
NAFUSA Past President Greg Vega has been named the Chair of the Litigation Department at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego. He replaces the retiring Jerry McMahon. “Honored to try to fill the shoes of the finest litigator in San Diego, Jerry McMahon. I’ll do my best to honor his great legacy,” Vega said.
Vega served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California (1999-2001). He began his career as a trial attorney for the Office of Chief General Counsel, Internal Revenue Office in Chicago. He also served as an AUSA in the Northern District of Indiana. In 1987 he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. He joined Seltzer Caplan in 2001 where his practice focuses on business litigation, white color criminal defense and advising corporate clients in regulated industries.
Arnold & Porter announced on March 19, 2018, that NAFUSA Board Member Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2009 to 2017, has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Fishman will lead Arnold & Porter’s Crisis Management and Strategic Response team and his practice will include internal investigations, compliance counseling, white collar defense, complex civil litigation, and appellate advocacy. He will be resident in the New York office and Newark, New Jersey.
During much of his service as United States Attorney, Fishman was a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) and also served as its Chair.
Firm Chair Richard M. Alexander said, “Paul is a tireless and talented advocate who will bring strategic vision to the most challenging problems facing our clients. They will greatly benefit from his excellent judgment and deep practical experience managing complex matters. He is an outstanding addition to our firm and we are privileged to welcome him back to private practice after his distinguished career in public service.”
“I am proud to join Arnold & Porter, a firm with a deep commitment to client service and a rich tradition of pro bono representation and civic engagement,” said Fishman. “The firm’s lawyers are an extraordinary group of dedicated, talented, and experienced professionals and I look forward to joining their team.”
In addition to his career in public service, Mr. Fishman was in private practice for 12 years where he handled a broad array of white collar and civil litigation matters, representing institutions and individuals and serving as a corporate monitor. In both government service and private practice, he gained wide-ranging experience across a number of diverse industries such as financial services; healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences; consumer products; manufacturing; transportation; energy; and defense and government contracting. He also has extensive experience as a trial lawyer and appellate advocate.
After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1983 to 1994; during that time, he served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of Narcotics, Chief of the Criminal Division, and First Assistant United States Attorney. From 1994 to 1997, he was a senior adviser to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
Fishman was appointed by the ABA President to the American Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion 360 Commission, and served as Co-chair of the Law and Justice Transition Advisory Committee for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. In addition, he was recently elected to the American Law Institute. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received his BA from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude. Mr. Fishman holds an honorary law degree from Seton Hall University where he is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
When Rich and Patty Rossman decided to spend the month of March in San Clemente, California, they were able to spend time with former NAFUSA Presidents Don Stern and Greg Vega as well as former Executive Director Ron Woods. Shown above in Del Mar are (left to right) Rich Rossman, Don Stern, Erica Stern, Patty Rossman, Sue Farus and Greg Vega.
The photo below was taken in Carlsbad with Patty, Rich, Greg, Ron and Patty Woods and Sue.
The NAFUSA Board of Directors has named Paul Fishman to fill the vacancy on the board caused by the resignation of Jenny Durkan when she was elected Mayor of the City of Seattle. Fishman will serve with the class of 2019.
Paul Fishman joined Seton Hall University School of Law in 2017 as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
Prior to his joining the faculty of Seton Hall, he served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey for seven and a half years. He was nominated for that position by President Barack Obama in June 2009; he was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on October 7, 2009, and sworn in on October 14, 2009. He resigned as U.S. Attorney on March 10, 2017. As U.S. Attorney, he supervised an office with approximately 150 attorneys and 125 support personnel in Newark, Camden, and Trenton with an annual budget of approximately $31 million.
Fishman was appointed by Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch as a member of the Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC), and he served as Vice-Chair and Chair of that Committee.
Fishman has spent much of his professional career in public service. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1983 to 1994; during that time, he served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of Narcotics, Chief of the Criminal Division, and First Assistant U.S. Attorney. From 1994 to 1997, he was a senior adviser to Attorney General Janet Reno and Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.
In addition to his public service, Mr. Fishman was a partner in the law firm of Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, where he headed the firm’s white collar practice and handled complex civil litigation from 1998 to 2009.
He graduated magna cum laude in 1978 from Princeton University and cum laude in 1982 from Harvard Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 2011, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law by Seton Hall University School of Law.
Governor Eric Greitens of Missouri was indicted on Thursday, February 22 on a felony of invasion of privacy charge. The charge grows out of an admitted extramarital affair when Greitens was charged with taking an compromising photo of a woman and then threatened her with retribution if she revealed the relationship.
The governor has retained NAFUSA member Ed Dowd to represent him and Dowd was all over the national media today defending his client. Dowd said the charge was baseless and that he would be filing a motion to dismiss. Dowd said the governor had offered to meet with the prosecutor, but that she had refused and “proceeded to file an indictment that has no facts.”
Dowd served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri (1993-1999) and is a former president of NAFUSA and a life member. He currently practices with Dowd Bennett LLP in St. Louis.
The March 2018 Georgia Super Lawyers issue highlights the career of NAFUSA member Joe Whitley. Whitely served as U.S. Attorney in both the Northern District and the Middle District of Georgia, and as the associate attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. The article describes how Joe became the first general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Many of Joe’s NAFUSA colleagues are quoted in the article.
Morgenthau speaks of Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge the destruction of the Armenian population by the Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915. Morgenthau’s grandfather, Henry Morgenthau, was President Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time. He protested to the Turkish leaders, who told him the Armenians were not American citizens and none of his concern.
Morgenthau urges President Trump to declare the truth of the Armenian genocide.
Morgenthau also served as the Manhattan District Attorney (1975-2009) and is currently of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
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