AFHU 2024 TOL

54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ
TORCH of
LEARNING AWARD
LUNCHEON
HONORING
SCOTT A. EDELMAN
CHAIRMAN, MILBANK
ANN M. KAPPLER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND
CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER, PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM
MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITY

54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ
TORCH of LEARNING AWARD
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54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ
TORCH of LEARNING AWARD
LUNCHEON
HONORING
SCOTT A. EDELMAN
CHAIRMAN, MILBANK
ANN M. KAPPLER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL
AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER,
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM
MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITY
Address will be provided upon RSVP.
Glatt Kosher. Business Attire.
Funds raised will support the Hebrew University Faculty of Law
and the mission of its American Friends
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PAST AWARD LAUREATES
(from inception 1970)
JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER
ROBERT B. MCKAY
HON. ROBERT M. MORGENTHAU
PROF. PAUL A. FREUND
HON. JOHN V. LINDSAY
RITA E. HAUSER
GEORGE A. KATZ
HON. STANLEY H. FULD
MILTON S. GOULD
BORIS KOSTELANETZ
HON. LOUIS J. LEFKOWITZ
ALBERT PARKER
HERBERT KRONISH
BARRY H. GARFINKEL
CHARLES A. STILLMAN
BERNARD W. NUSSBAUM
HON. ABRAHAM D. SOFAER
DONALD J. COHN
DEAN NORMAN REDLICH
STEPHEN E. KAUFMAN
STEPHEN L. HAMMERMAN
SHEILA L. BIRNBAUM
ELKAN ABRAMOWITZ
JULES RITHOLZ
KENNETH J. BIALKIN
ALAN LEVINE
IRA LEE SORKIN
ROBERT J. JOSSEN
RICHARD D. WEINBERG
JODI J. SCHWARTZ
MICHAEL A. CARDOZO
GEORGE A. SCHIEREN
DANIEL J. BELLER
FLOYD ABRAMS
ROBERT J. KATZ
BRAD S. KARP
BARRY F. SCHWARTZ
ADAM O. EMMERICH
GARY P. NAFTALIS
MARY JO WHITE
JAY B. KASNER
ANDREW J. LEVANDER
MICHAEL S. FELDBERG
JANE C. SHERBURNE
DAVID BOIES
H. RODGIN COHEN
ERIC S. GOLDSTEIN
STEPHEN D. SUSMAN
SUSAN E. BRUNE
EDWARD G. TURAN
JENNIFER M. DANIELS
MEREDITH E. KOTLER
MEYER G. KOPLOW
THEODORE N. MIRVIS
DAVID B. PITOFSKY
LAWRENCE J. ZWEIFACH
JOHN S. SIFFERT
MARK A. KIRSCH
MARTIN LIPTON
STACEY R. FRIEDMAN
STEPHEN M. CUTLER
ROBERT B. FISKE, JR.
STEPHANIE GOLDSTEIN
ROBERTA A. KAPLAN
AUDREY STRAUSS
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HONOREES
SCOTT A. EDELMAN
Scott A. Edelman is Chairman of Milbank LLP and
a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration
Group. Mr. Edelman specializes in high-stakes,
bet-the-company litigation and trials across several
substantive areas of the law, including securities,
commercial and white collar.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Edelman has
taken more than 18 cases to trial and argued dozens
of appeals. In 2017, Mr. Edelman was inducted
as a fellow into The American College of Trial
Lawyers (ACTL).
Mr. Edelman joined Milbank in 1994 and became
a partner in 1995. Prior to joining Milbank, he
served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York
from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Edelman started his career at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the
Harvard Law Review and a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and received his
B.A., summa cum laude, and M.A. degrees, both in Economics, from Yale University. Mr.
Edelman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society.
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HONOREES
ANN M. KAPPLER
As executive vice president, general counsel and
chief compliance officer at Prudential Financial,
Ann Kappler is the head of Law, Compliance,
Business Ethics and External Affairs, leading a
global team of over 1100 employees. She is a
member of the Executive Leadership Team, and
Operating and Enterprise Risk Committees. She
was appointed in September 2020, after serving
as the company’s deputy general counsel and
head of External Affairs for six years.
Prior to joining Prudential in 2009, Kappler
was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
and Dorr in Washington, D.C., where she
focused on emerging issues at the intersection of
regulation, legislation and litigation. Her previous roles included litigation partner at
Jenner & Block and general counsel at Fannie Mae.
Kappler serves on the boards of directors of the Pro Bono Partnership (Treasurer)
and the National Health Law Program (Chair), and is a member of the Board of
Visitors of the Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Kappler
has served on the boards of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
and Urban Affairs, Appleseed Foundation, and Global Rights; and was a longtime
member of the board of trustees of the Lowell School in Washington, D.C., where
she served as chair. She has earned numerous awards including 2018 Executive
Women of New Jersey Policymakers honoree, NJBIZ Law Power 50 2021–2023,
ranked fourth on Attorney Intel’s Top 25 General Counsels of 2023, 2023 NJ LEEP
Community Impact Award, and was the recipient of the Women, Influence & Power
in Law for In-House Thought Leadership by Corporate Counsel in 2023. She is a
frequent speaker on topics such as legal and compliance best practices, diversity and
inclusion, and is an advocate for workplace mental health issues.
Kappler graduated from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, and received her law
degree from New York University School of Law, where she received the Alumnae
Key Award and was a member of the Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the
Law Review. She clerked for Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Abner
Mikva and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun.
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