Oracle Corporation President Charles Phillips to Be Honored by New York Law School's Black Law Students Association.NEW YORK -- Charles Phillips, president of Oracle Corporation, will be honored by New York Law School's chapter of the Black Law Students Association at its annual alumni banquet on Friday, April 29, 2005. Phillips will also be the keynote speaker at the dinner, which will take place at New York Law School History New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. The Law School was founded in 1891 by a group of faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore William Dwight, a prominent figure in the . Media coverage is invited. Phillips earned his law degree from New York Law School in 1993 and currently serves as a trustee of the school. At Oracle, where he also sits on the Board of Directors, he is responsible for global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. He has been instrumental in guiding Oracle's highly publicized takeover of PeopleSoft. Prior to joining Oracle, Phillips was a managing director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. Phillips joined Morgan Stanley in 1994; he started his career on Wall Street in 1986 with The Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. . He is a Chartered Financial Analyst Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) An experienced financial analyst who has passed examinations in economics, financial accounting, portfolio management, security analysis, and standards of conduct given by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. (CFA) and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Washington, D.C. Bar, and the Georgia State Bar. He is a member of the 100 Black Men organization and of Technet, a technology industry lobby. He is also a board member of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies ("Joint Center"), headquartered in Washington, DC, is a national, nonprofit research and public policy institution or think tank. , as well as the Rhythm and Blues Foundation The Rhythm and Blues Foundation is an independent American nonprofit organization dedicated to the historical and cultural preservation of rhythm and blues music. The idea for the Foundation came in 1987 during discussions about royalties with entertainer Ruth Brown, . Phillips has worked on several local, state, and national political campaigns, from city council to presidential races. Phillips earned his undergraduate degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy United States Air Force Academy, at Colorado Springs, Colo.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. air force; authorized in 1954 by Congress. in 1981 and his M.B.A. from Hampton University in 1986, prior to attending law school. He served in the United States Marine Corps United States Marine Corps (USMC) Separate military service within the U.S. Department of the Navy (see U.S. Navy), charged with providing marine troops for seizure and defense of advanced bases and with conducting operations on land and in the air in connection with from 1981 to 1986, achieving the rank of captain.
Event Details:
DATE: Friday, April 29, 2005
TIME: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Silent Auction
7 p.m. Cocktail Hour
8 p.m. Dinner
ADDRESS/LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center, New York Law
School, 47 Worth Street, New York, New York
10013
NAME OF ORGANIZATION: New York Law School's Black Law Students
Association
ATTIRE: Business
About New York Law School: Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law. A law student must hold an undergraduate degree in any field. In most cases the degree awarded by U.S. law schools is the Juris Doctor, or J.D., degree. . Drawing on its location near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school's curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program. It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Tax Law. |
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