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Kerri Ann Law, Partner
Litigation
Law Clerk to Honorable Joanna Seybert, U.S. District Court, Eastern District
of New York, 1995-1996. Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1995);
College of the Holy Cross (B.A., 1992). Notes and Articles Editor, Fordham
Law Review and Member, Fordham Law Review.
After a year and a half clerkship, I accepted a position at one of New York City’s
largest law firms and quickly decided that I wanted a better balance between
my personal and professional lives. So, after a short nine months, I started
my search again (as if doing it once a year isn’t bad enough). This time I was
more focused and knew what I wanted — a firm where I would be able to get
hands-on experience quickly, have interesting work with intelligent people, be
able to work on pro bono cases without worrying about cutting into billable
hours, and be able to continue teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham
Law School (just a few simple requests). I have been at Kramer Levin Naftalis
& Frankel since 1997 and those expectations have been met. My work on
complex false advertising cases has been more challenging and interesting
than I ever could have expected and my docket has always contained a wide
variety of other diverse, complex commercial litigations, many of which make
front page news. In 2002, after the birth of my first daughter (I had my second
daughter while an associate and third after I made partner), I reduced my
hours to an 80% schedule, but never lost the interesting work and high level
of responsibility that I previously had on my cases. In 2005, I was one of two
part-time associates promoted to partner on a reduced schedule. I am very
pleased to work at a firm that provides me with an interesting and challenging
law practice while at the same time affording me the flexibility that I need to
balance my personal life.
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