Ulmer & Berne LLP Attorney Gregory J. Phillips Appointed to the Board of Directors of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio.CLEVELAND -- Gregory J. Phillips, an attorney with Ulmer & Berne LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , has joined the Board of Directors for Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio (YANEO). YANEO is an affiliated professional chapter of Young Audiences, Inc., the country's oldest and largest nonprofit arts-in-education organization dedicated to making the arts essential to the education of all school-aged children. YANEO is the only multi-arts resource for Northeast Ohio schools--pre-school through high school--committed to making learning through the arts a fundamental component of young people's development. Nationally, Young Audiences' programs reach over 8 million youth each year. As an attorney with Ulmer & Berne, Greg's practice focuses on complex commercial and product liability 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. . With experience in state and federal jurisdictions across the United States, he has litigated a diverse range of complex cases, including class actions and multidistrict litigation A procedure provided by federal statute (28 U.S.C.A. § 1407) that permits civil lawsuits with at least one common (and often intricate) Question of Fact that have been pending in different federal district courts to be transferred and consolidated for pretrial proceedings , 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. , business torts, antitrust, real estate, and breach of contract cases. His background also includes white collar criminal defense and internal investigations of public corporations. Greg received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law The University of Virginia School of Law was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. . Ulmer & Berne LLP, established in 1908 and celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year, is one of Ohio's largest law firms. In a survey of Fortune 500 companies by Corporate Counsel magazine, Ulmer & Berne has been chosen as a Go-To Law Firm[R] for both 2007 and 2008. Less than one-half of one percent of all the law firms in the US and abroad received this distinction. Also, in 2007, the Firm was recognized in The BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information Consulting Group's survey of corporate counsel as one of only 85 firms nationally that "delivers the best value for the dollar." A full-service Firm with 180 attorneys in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Chicago, Ulmer & Berne represents publicly traded and privately held companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, family businesses, international joint ventures and affiliations, investor groups, start-ups and emerging businesses, public bodies and nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.ulmer.com. |
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