Dow Jones & Company Appoints Joseph A. Stern As General Counsel; Mr. Stern Succeeds Peter G. Skinner, Who Is Retiring Dec. 31 After 20 Years of Service With the Company.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DJ), which publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information, today announced that Joseph A. Stern has been appointed general counsel, succeeding Peter G. Skinner, who is retiring Dec. 31 after 20 years of service with the Company. Mr. Stern, who will be joining Dow Jones this February, also will be a vice president of the Company and will serve as corporate secretary. The legal department, as well as the security department, will report to Mr. Stern. He will report to Peter R. Kann, chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Jones. Until Mr. Stern joins the Company, Rosemary Spano, vice president, law, and deputy general counsel, will head the legal department, reporting to Mr. Kann. Mr. Stern, a partner with Fried Frank in New York, Dow Jones' primary outside corporate law firm, has worked on a variety of the Company's legal issues. Most recently, he was the lead outside lawyer supporting Dow Jones in its agreement to acquire MarketWatch. "Joe brings broad legal expertise and experience on corporate acquisitions and other transactions, as well as issues on corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. ," Mr. Kann said. "With this background, Joe will be a strong successor to Peter Skinner, whom we thank for 20 years of dedicated and distinguished service to Dow Jones." Mr. Stern holds both a bachelor's degree, Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. , and a doctor of laws Noun 1. Doctor of Laws - an honorary law degree LLD honorary degree, honoris causa - a degree conferred to honor the recipient degree from Yale University. He started his career in 1976 as an associate with the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in New York before joining Fried Frank as an associate in 1979. He became a partner there in 1984. In 2002, Mr. Stern was elected board chair of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF MALDEF Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ). From 1996 to 2002, he served as trustee and chair of fiscal and fundraising of MALDEF, and was trustee and vice chair there from 1991 to 1995. About Dow Jones & Company In addition to The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; www.dowjones.com) publishes Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S. |
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