CHICAGO, May 12 – LAWFUEL – Attorneys and staff from Piper Rudnick LLP will present two special “Power of Education” career panels to fifth and sixth grade classes at Chicago’s Barry Elementary School on Friday, May 14, focusing on reading, scholarship, and leadership.
The Power of Education event was organized by the firm to honor the memory of Katherine Nooney, a young partner at the firm who recently passed away. Among Ms. Nooney’s pro bono projects was her work with CBA Alliance for Women – Women Everywhere Project, a cosponsor of the event.
Piper Rudnick attorneys and staff members will tell Barry Elementary students about a variety of different occupations at the firm. Lawyers, accountants, legal secretaries, docket clerks, human resource directors, data entry/billing clerks, information technology assistants and computer support technicians, storage/file management clerks, librarians, and paralegals will come to the school to talk about their work. In addition, attorney volunteers will be assigned to fourth grade classes, where they will read books selected by the principal, discuss their legal careers, and answer questions on a more intimate scale. . More than 25 people from the firm will take part in the event.
The law firm has a corporate partnership with Barry Elementary School through CPS’ Futures Exchange program. As part of the Power of Education events, each child will receive a goody bag, and Piper Rudnick will make a donation to the Barry library to help finance additional books and new reading software.
Barry Elementary School is located at 2828 North Kilbourn in Chicago. The Power of Education events begin at 12:15.
About Piper Rudnick LLP
Piper Rudnick is a business law firm of over 975 lawyers with offices in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Edison, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Reston, San Francisco, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2004) selected 39 of the firm’s lawyers for inclusion (up from 28 in 2003), including two who received the rare “Exceptional” rating. The American Lawyer’s Global 100 listings for 2003 placed the firm 32nd by revenue worldwide and 31st by size.
The firm’s practice is focused on: § Litigation, including national business and securities, product liability and toxic torts, intellectual property, antitrust, labor and class action litigation, and a white-collar group featuring a former Watergate prosecutor. This group includes eight members of the American College of Trial Lawyers (one of whom also served as president), two former United States attorneys and a former federal judge. § Real Estate, comprising one of the largest and most diverse practices in the United States, with a focus on transactional, finance and securities capabilities for owners and investors in all property sectors. Based on the Chambers rankings, our Real Estate group is the leading practice in the nation, both by number of lawyers included as well as by number of states in which we are top-ranked.
§ Business and Technology, including corporate and securities, corporate governance, franchise and distribution, intellectual property, media, information technology, taxation, bankruptcy, biosciences, IPOs, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and other major transactions for companies of all sizes. § Government Affairs, including the nationally known federal affairs and legislation group formerly with Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand; a government controversies practice headed by the former general counsel of a leading telecommunications company; and prominent regulatory practices in government contracts, environmental, e-commerce and privacy, tax legislation, antitrust and communications. This group includes former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.
§ International, including international commerce and litigation, international dispute resolution and public international law, supplemented by the firm’s strategic alliance with The Cohen Group, an international strategic business consulting firm whose chair is former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, and whose vice-chair is former Supreme Allied Commander and General Joseph Ralston.
