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Proskauer Rose LLP

Proskauer, founded in 1875, is a global law firm providing a wide variety of legal services to clients worldwide from offices in Beijing, Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Paris, São Paulo, and Washington, DC.

Our clients include many of the world’s top companies, financial institutions, investment funds, not-for-profit institutions, governmental entities and other organizations across industries and borders. We also represent individuals in transactions and other matters. 

Why do many of the world’s top organizations turn to Proskauer for representation? 

Go-to firm. Clients rely on us to support their critical business needs in four strategic areas: asset/capital management, business transformation, risk management and talent management. 

Sage advice and outstanding execution. Existing and potential clients seek us out for a broad range of services within our Corporate, Litigation, Labor & Employment, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Tax and Private Client Services practices. Our industry concentrations in sports; technology, media & telecommunications; health care; lodging & gaming; financial services; entertainment; and life sciences are highly regarded. 

Devoted client service. Devotion to clients is a Proskauer hallmark. Our lawyers are known for their accessibility, responsiveness and attentiveness. They go the extra mile to understand the client’s business — and think like business people in the process. 

Beyond legal services. We have long felt a fundamental obligation to try to make the world a better place. Under the umbrella of corporate social responsibility, we are actively involved in socially conscious activities that include pro bono legal work, community service, charitable giving, workplace diversity and environmental initiatives.

Associate
Cyrus Abbassi focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings and other corporate transactions with an emphasis on health care transactions.  He…
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Partner
Neil Abramson is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department and head of the Public Sector Group. He handles all types of employment litigation, including discrimination claims,…
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Associate
James Anderson is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Patent Law and Intellectual Property groups. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and…
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Associate
Julia Ansanelli earned her bachelor's degree from New York University and her J.D. from Touro Law Center, where she graduated as valedictorian of her division. During law school, she served…
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Partner
Peter J. Antoszyk is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit and Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Groups.
Peter represents…
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Associate
Philip W. Arnold is an Associate in the Litigation Department of Proskauer Rose, resident in the New York office. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2010 with his J.D.,…
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Law Clerk
Dana Berber is a law clerk in the Labor & Employment Law Department. She assists clients in a wide range of labor and employment law matters, including litigations, arbitrations,…
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Associate
Katrine Berger is an associate in the Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Katrine has extensive experience with executive compensation,…
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Associate
Heylee Bernstein is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employment Counseling & Training Group. Heylee earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard…
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Senior Counsel
Jean Bertrand is a Senior Counsel in the Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Jean advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international tax issues. Her practice…
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Partner
Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in the Private Investment Funds Group.
He has extensive experience in private equity secondaries, and has worked on many of the landmark transactions in…
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Associate
Scott Bertulli is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Patent Law and Intellectual Property groups.
Scott represents corporate clients in complex patent disputes,…
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Law Clerk
Zachary Chalett is a law clerk in the Litigation Department and a member of the Commercial Litigation Group.
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Law Clerk
Emily Chan is a law clerk in the Corporate Department.
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Consultant
Lynn Chan's practice focuses on the formation and management of private investment funds, acting for both general partners and limited partners. She also has extensive experience advising…
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Partner
Dr. Fangli Chen is a partner in the Litigation Department and vice chair of the Life Sciences Patent Practice. She represents all types of companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical…
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Partner
Sarah K. Cherry is a Partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. Her practice is focused on the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. private…
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Associate
Dakshïna (Shïna) Chetti is an associate in the Litigation Department.
Shïna earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, as…
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Associate
Daniel Desatnik is an associate in the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as a James Kent…
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Associate
Pietro A. Deserio is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department. Pietro's practice concentrates on all aspects of labor and employment law. His employment litigation practice…
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Law Clerk
Brian DeShannon is a law clerk in the Labor & Employment Law Department.


 Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 2015


Florida State University, B.S., 2008
Marketing…
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Senior Counsel
Lily Desmond is a senior counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of The Capital Markets Group. Lily concentrates her practice on capital markets transactions, including the…
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Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility
Wendy Hattler Dessy is the manager of corporate social responsibility for Proskauer. She oversees all aspects of employee engagement, board service and corporate social responsibility for…
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Law Clerk
Ángel Díaz is a law clerk in the Corporate Department of the New York office of Proskauer Rose LLP.
Education


University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 2014


University of…
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Law Clerk
Jason Finger is a law clerk in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Credit Group.
Jason earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and his Master of Science in Finance from…
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Partner
Daniel P. Finkelman is a Partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. His practice is concentrated in the representation of buyout funds, venture…
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Associate
Rachel Fischer is an Associate in the Labor & Employment Law department and resident in the New York office. She handles a wide range of employment litigation matters, including wage-…
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Associate
Rebecca Fishbein is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group.
Rebecca earned her J.D. from Columbia Law…
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Associate
Jessica Fisher is an associate in the Litigation Department. Jessica handles a variety of complex litigation matters for clients in a diverse range of industries in both federal and state…
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Law Clerk
Peter Fishkind is an associate in the Litigation Department.
Peter earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as the president of Penn Law’s Council of…
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Partner
Kate Gold is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department in the Los Angeles office.
Kate has over 25 years of experience representing clients in a range of industries, across all…
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Partner
Sarah S. Gold is a Partner in the Litigation Department and co-head of the Securities Litigation Group.  Sarah represents clients, including Fortune 500 companies, underwriters, boards of…
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Senior Counsel
Nolan M. Goldberg is a senior counsel in the Litigation Department and a member of the Patent Law and Privacy Groups.  His practice focuses on technology-centric litigation, arbitration (…
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Associate
Pinny Goldberg is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department. Pinny represents employers in a broad array of matters before federal and state courts, FINRA and other…
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Special Finance Counsel
Susan R. Goldfarb is special finance counsel in the Corporate Department. Her practice focuses on representing lenders and borrowers with regard to personal property secured transactions,…
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Associate
Laura Goldsmith is a corporate associate in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group. Her practice focuses on matters in technology, intellectual property, privacy and data…
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Senior Counsel
Daniel W. Hendrick is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets Group. Dan’s principal focus is on the representation of financial institutions in…
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Partner
Kristian Herrmann is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Kris advises private equity sponsors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger…
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Partner
Stephen Hibbard is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Litigation, Asset Management Litigation, and White Collar & Investigations groups.
A highly…
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Partner
Camille Higonnet is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group.
Camille concentrates in the areas of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on…
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Associate
David Hill is an associate attorney for Proskauer Rose LLP Law Firm in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups.
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Partner
Sean J. Hill is a Partner and co-head of the Private Investment Funds Group. His practice covers a full range of activities and operations of alternative investment managers, with a…
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Partner
Anne Kim is a partner in the Tax Department. Anne’s practice focuses on advising public and private companies in both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, cross-…
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Associate
Joan Kim is an associate in the Litigation Department. Her practice includes a range of commercial litigation matters, including product liability defense, antitrust, and contract disputes…
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Associate
M. Rina Kim is an associate in the Litigation Department and is admitted to the New York bar. Her practice focuses on securities litigation, including class actions and shareholder…
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Partner
Dr. Max Kirchner is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets and Finance Group. His practice focuses on the representation of private equity sponsors, multi…
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Associate
Emily Kline is an associate in the Litigation Department.
Emily earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an editor of the Human Rights Law Review. While at Columbia, she…
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Associate
Zachary Klinger is an associate in the Litigation Department.


New York University School of Law, J.D., 2015 


Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law, Senior Editor…
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Partner
Nicolas Léger is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department.
Nicolas advises French and foreign companies on complex reorganizations, and more broadly on collective labor…
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Partner
Hank Leibowitz, a partner in the Private Client Services Department, has a practice encompassing all aspects of estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration and fiduciary…
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Partner
Jeremy Leifer's practice encompasses private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions, capital markets advisory and transactional matters, and regulatory and intermediaries…
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Associate
Steven Leiser-Mitchell is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets group. His practice focuses on equity offerings, including IPOs and follow-on…
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Associate
Daryl Leon is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Firm's Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group.
Daryl has experience in managing all…
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Associate
Erin Lett is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets Group. Erin focuses her practice on capital markets transactions, including the representation of…
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Associate
As a corporate associate, Peter Martin focuses his practice on borrower finance transactions. He has experience acting for both borrowers and lenders in a wide range of complex finance…
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Associate
Tony Seda Martinez is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and assists clients in a wide range of labor and employment law matters.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Tony…
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Associate
Stéphanie Martinier is a senior associate in the Corporate Department, working in the Paris office.
Stéphanie advises French and international clients on the legal aspects of their…
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Partner
Jeff Marwil has held lead roles in some of the highest-profile chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in America. He is the U.S. co-head of the Firm’s Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring…
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Partner
Gregg Mashberg is co-head of the Securities Litigation Group and a former chair of the Litigation Department. He has a broad-based practice and experience before numerous judicial and…
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Associate
Owen Masters is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Antitrust Group.
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Associate
Alexandra “Alex” S. Oxyer is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department. Alex concentrates her practice in complex employment litigation and employment law counseling,…
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Law Clerk
Morgan Peterson is a law clerk in the Labor Department and a member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group.
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Associate
Nicholas is an associate in the Litigation Department, specializing in commercial, international, regulatory and public law dispute resolution.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Nicholas served…
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Partner
Stephen Pevsner is a tax partner and a member of the Private Investment Funds and Private Equity M&A groups. Stephen's practice covers the broad range of corporate and individual tax…
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Partner
Whitney Phelps provides practical and strategic counsel, solutions and analysis for healthcare stakeholders of all kinds. She has particular expertise in managed care and value-based…
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Senior Counsel
Rachel S. Philion is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department, co-head of the Wage and Hour Practice Group and member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group.…
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Associate
Natalie Philips is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department. She represents public and private companies in all aspects of employment and labor litigation and counseling,…
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Associate
Andrew E. Rice is an Associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of both the Labor Management Relations Group and Employment Law Counseling & Training Group.
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Associate
Kramer Rice is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the firm's Employment Litigation & Arbitration, Class & Collective Action, Wage and Hour,…
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Associate
Margo R. Richard is an associate in the Labor Department and a member of the Employment Litigation & Counseling Group.
Margo attended Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where…
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Associate
Mary Grace Richardson is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. She counsels clients on a myriad of…
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Associate
Sara C. Richland is an associate in the Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Practice Center.
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Partner
Jonathan Richman is a Partner in the Litigation Department and a co-head of the Securities Litigation Group. Jonathan has broad experience in a range of civil litigation matters, including…
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Partner
Brian S. Schwartz is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Brian’s practice focuses on representing private investment fund sponsors and investment…
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Special Employment Law Counsel
Jurate Schwartz is an Associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department, who devotes her practice to representing employers in federal and state litigations, arbitrations and…
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Associate
Robert S. Schwartz is an Associate in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department. His practice focuses on the representation of employers in all areas of employment relations. Robert…
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Senior Counsel
Adam W. Scoll is a senior Associate in the Tax Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. He has been practicing in the field of employee benefits and executive…
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Partner
Jennifer Scullion is a partner in the Litigation Department. She leads litigations, arbitrations and appeals for U.S. and international communications and sports entities, as well as for…
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Partner
Catherine Sear is a partner in the Tax Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group.
She focuses on the tax aspects of private investment fund structuring, including the…
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Associate
Alan S. Teran, Ph.D., is an associate in the Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group.
His practice focuses on a variety of intellectual property issues, including worldwide…
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Partner
Mark Theodore is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department. He has devoted his practice almost exclusively to representing management in all aspects of traditional labor law…
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Associate
Andrew B. Thomson is an associate in the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on business litigation, including securities litigation and governmental investigations and his clients…
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Associate
Chad Thornton is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employment Litigation & Counseling Group.
Chad attended Louisiana State University’s Paul…
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Associate
Marissa Tillem is an associate in the Litigation Department. She handles a variety of complex commercial litigation matters and focuses on securities litigation and investigations,…
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Associate
Imani C. Tisdale earned her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was a managing editor and articles editor for the Harvard Law and Policy…
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Partner
Steven Weinstein is a partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group and co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group. He has been practicing in the employee…
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Partner
Steven O. Weise is a partner in the Corporate Department and practices in all areas of commercial law.
Steven’s experience in financing is extensive, especially in those secured by personal…
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Associate
Jackie Weisman is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department, member of the Employment Law Counseling & Training and Employment Litigation & Arbitration Groups. She…
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Associate
Aaron Weiss is an associate in the Labor Department. His practice is centered on all things ERISA, with a heavy focus on multiemployer and single-employer defined benefit and defined…
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Partner
Jonathan Weiss is a partner in the Litigation Department. Jonathan represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of high-stakes litigation, including antitrust, class action,…
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Partner
Allan H. Weitzman, named by Best Lawyers as “Lawyer of the Year 2013” in Employment Law – Management in the Miami area, is a Partner in the Labor &  Employment Law Department and head…
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The National Law Review names Proskauer Rose LLP a Go-To Thought Leader in the field of health law for its coverage of healthcare worker benefit improvement in 2022 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Edward S. Kornreich, Whitney Phelps, and Laura M. Fant detailed how New York funded bonuses for certain frontline healthcare workers in the state budget. Additionally, Anthony J Oncidi and Ariel N. Brotman discussed the recent healthcare workers minimum wage reform in California. Proskauer’s thought leadership in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely well read and demonstrates the depth of knowledge of Proskauer’s Healthcare group in this area.

 

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