General Electric Senior Vice President, Ben W. Heineman, Jr., to Become Senior Counsel to WilmerHale.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 -- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, which also goes by the shorter market name WilmerHale, is a leading American law firm with major offices in Washington, Boston and New York and smaller offices in Palo Alto, Baltimore, London, Brussels, Beijing, Berlin, Los LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol today announced that Ben W. Heineman, Jr., Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs at General Electric Company (GE), will become Senior Counsel to the firm, effective February 1, 2006. Heineman, who was GE's Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003, will work on a wide range of issues: globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , public policy, corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while and governance, mediation and arbitration. He will retire from GE at the end of this year. On February 1, 2006, Heineman will also become a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government, colloquially known as the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) or simply the Kennedy School, is a public policy school and one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. , Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Program on the Legal Profession at the Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1964 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and historian David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University. . He will research and write on a variety of topics, including globalization, anticorruption, corporate citizenship, dispute resolution and the legal profession. "We are thrilled to welcome a legend to the firm. Ben's wealth of experience and keen insight into complex legal issues will serve as an invaluable resource to our clients around the world," said Jamie Gorelick, Partner and Co-chair of both the Public Policy and Strategy Practice and the Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice at WilmerHale. As GE's General Counsel, Heineman was responsible for managing a team of more than 1,000 in-house lawyers in over 100 countries around the world. As the premier corporate general counsel in the world, Heinemen helped create a culture of integrity and compliance where lawyers also play a key role in business and management. Under Heineman's leadership, the GE law department has become world-renowned for its excellence. A number of former GE corporate counsels now head law departments at other Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining GE, Heineman was Managing Partner at Sidley & Austin's Washington office focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . Prior to that, Heineman served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Carter. "It's a pleasure to join such a deep team of accomplished lawyers. I look forward to this new opportunity and new chapter in my legal career," noted Mr. Heineman. Heineman is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University and Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. . A Rhodes scholar, Editor in Chief of the Yale Law Journal, and Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Heineman started his career as a Staff Attorney for the Center for Law & Social Policy in Washington, D.C. and then as a litigator lit·i·gate v. lit·i·gat·ed, lit·i·gat·ing, lit·i·gates v.tr. To contest in legal proceedings. v.intr. To engage in legal proceedings. at Williams & Connolly. Mr. Heineman serves on the boards of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Transparency International-USA and The National Constitution Center. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. He received The American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. About Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP WilmerHale is nationally and internationally recognized for its premier practices in antitrust and competition; aviation; bankruptcy; civil and criminal trial and appellate litigation (including white collar defense); communications; corporate (including public offerings, public company counseling, start-up companies, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing); defense and national security; financial institutions; intellectual property counseling and litigation; international arbitration; life sciences; securities regulation, enforcement and litigation; tax; and trade. WilmerHale was formed in May 2004 through the merger of two of the nation's leading law firms, Hale and Dorr LLP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP. With a staunch commitment to public service, the firm is renowned as a national leader in pro bono representation. The firm has more than 1,000 lawyers and offices in Baltimore, Beijing, Berlin, Boston, Brussels, London, Munich, New York, Northern Virginia, Oxford, Palo Alto, Waltham and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit http://www.wilmerhale.com/. |
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