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Irish America100is proud to present its inaugural Legal 100 feature. The following list is comprised of lawyers from all around the country who share a passion for the law and pride in their heritage.

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THE100 LEGAL Wylie Aitken Maureen Bateman Trial lawyer Wylie A. Aitken, founding partner Maureen Scannell Bateman is counsel for the Butzel Long firm in and CEO of the California law firm Aitken, New York City, executive vice president and general counsel of State Aitken and Cohn, was the youngest ever president Street Corporation and partner of Holland & Knight. She sits on sever- in the history of the State Trial Bar and served on al boards, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and serves as a the Federal Judicial Advisory Committee which director of the Catholic Schools’ Foundation of Boston and the Boston recommends the appointment of federal district Bar Foundation. judges. All four of Bateman’s grandparents were born in Ireland. On her Aitken graduated from law school at Marquette mother’s side they hailed from Dublin and Longford, University in 1965 and was recently appointed to the university’s and on her father’s side from Cork and Kerry. Her Law School Advisory Board. He was the recipient of Marquette’s grandfather served on the New York police force, retir- Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. His recent court victories ing as a lieutenant, and her father, David T. Scannell, include a wrongful-death action against Disneyland, after a dislodged graduated from Fordham University, served as a detec- metal cleat on a Disney sailing ship killed a man and disfigured his tive, attended Fordham Law School at night and ulti- wife. The case led California to strengthen theme park safety regula- mately became vice chairman of the Metropolitan tions. Aitken has also worked as a consumer advocate, developing Transit Authority. Bateman also graduated from bilingual consumer protection brochures. Fordham Law School, served on its board of trustees A second-generation Irish-American whose mother’s family hails for twelve years, was vice chairman and is presently trustee fellow. from County Cork, Aitken is married and has three children. He is a Her son, Dan, is a sophomore at Fordham. founding member and the current president of the Celtic Bar Scannell Bateman serves as vice president in the American Irish Association. Historical Society, and is a member of its board of directors.

Robert Bennett Aidan Browne Robert S. Bennett, a partner at Aidan F. Browne focuses on the Washington D.C. law firm foreign investment matters in the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher U.S., Europe and, most recently, and Flom, specializes in civil China. He and criminal enforcement brings over two matters and complex civil litiga- decades of tion. He has represented numer- experience as a ous high-profile corporations corporate and and individuals including commercial real President Clinton in the Paula estate attorney in Jones case and journalist Judith Europe, and a Miller in the CIA leak investiga- foreign legal tion. He also served on the consultant in the U.S., to his National Review Board of the position as Director of Business Catholic Church, which investi- Development for the gated sexual abuse claims. Massachusetts law firm of A member of the Friendly Sullivan & Worcestor. Sons of St. In addition to his work with Patrick, Bennett Sullivan & Worcestor, Browne traces his Irish is the U.S. representative partner heritage to his for Ireland’s largest law firm, maternal grand- A&L Goodbody, and has assist- father who ed Irish companies now located hailed from in the United States with corpo- Limerick. A rate partnerships and market graduate of a development. Susan Bryant Catholic high school in Born in Dublin, with degrees Susan Bryant is the Director of Clinical Programs and a professor of Brooklyn, he attended from Boston’s Suffolk law at the City University of New York School of Law. She designed Georgetown University, the University Law School, the the experiential learning component of the school’s curriculum in the University of Virginia Law Incorporated Law Society of 1980s and, prior to that, directed clinical programs at Hofstra School, and received his Master Ireland, Dublin, and University University’s Law School. of Laws from Harvard. College, Dublin, Browne now Bryant, whose ancestors on both sides emigrated from County Clare Bennett, who is the author of resides in Boston, where he is a in the mid-1850s, received her undergraduate degree from St. Xavier in the recently published book, In member of numerous Irish Chicago and her law degrees from Georgetown University, where she the Ring: Trials of a Washington organizations including the was a Prettyman Fellow. Married with two children, she has served on Lawyer, lives in Washington, Friends of Irish Progressive New York’s Board of Legal Services since 2004 and on the New York D.C., with his wife, Ellen Gilbert Democrats and the Friends of State Diversity Coalition of Legal Services since 2002, and received Bennett, who is also Irish- Irish Labour in North America. the Bill Pincus Award from the Association of American Law Schools American. They have three for her “significant contributions to clinical legal education.” grown daughters.

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THE100 LEGAL Anne Burke Edward D. Burke Edward M. Burke Anne M. Burke is a Justice of Edward D. Burke, Jr. was born Chicago alderman Edward M. Burke has worked the Supreme Court of Illinois. in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of in civic and community affairs for over 25 years. She graduated with a B.A. in Providence College and St. His law firm, Klafter & Burke, has provided legal education from DePaul John’s University Law School services to businesses such as American Airlines, University in 1976 and received (Juris Doctorate). After gradua- Ameritech, Bank One and Harris Bank. her J.D. degree from tion, Burke spent seven years as He is a lifelong resident of Chicago, where his IIT/Chicago-Kent College of a prosecutor with the Suffolk father, Joseph P. Burke, was a Cook County police- Law in 1983. County District Attorney’s man. After graduating in 1968 from DePaul She was elected office. He entered private law in University’s College of Law, Burke served with the Illinois Municipal in 1996 to the 1996 with his father Edward, Sr. Problems Commission, the Chicago Plan Commission and the Chicago First District, In 2005 he opened his own prac- Commission on Economic Development. Alderman Burke became a Appellate Court tice and has been involved in member of the Chicago City Council in 1969 and represents the 14th for a full term. several high-profile cases ward of Chicago. He is Chicago’s longest-serving alderman. Admitted to (Daniel Pelosi; Lizzie Grubman) He is a second generation Irish-American whose grandparents on his the Federal as well as several high-verdict father’s side came from Kerry while his mother’s family hails from Court, Northern negligence cases. Clare. A prominent figure in Chicago’s Irish-American political scene, District of Illinois in 1983, As an active member of the Burke is the chairman of the Irish-American partnership in Chicago Burke served in the United community, Burke was honored and a member of the Irish Fellowship Club. Burke and his wife, Justice States Court of Appeals for the in 2004 by the Independent Anne Burke, live in Chicago. They have three adult children, Jennifer, 7th Circuit in 1985, and in 1987 Group Housing League of Edward and Sarah. certified for the Federal District Suffolk County, which assists Court Trial Bar. Also in 1987, developmentally handicapped Governor James Thompson children. He is a member of the Patrick Burns Edward Buttimer appointed her Judge to the Court New York State Bar Association, Patrick Burns has served as Carrying on his family’s legal of Claims. In 1991, Burke was the Suffolk County Bar Mutual of America's general legacy, Edward “Toby” Buttimer again appointed to the Court of Association, the Suffolk County counsel for 22 years. His job started practicing law with his Claims, this time by Governor Criminal Bar Association, as consists of ensuring that invest- father and Jim Edgar. In August 1995, she well as various ments are handled according to younger brother was appointed to the Appellate community legal regulations and that corpo- at Buttimer Court, First District. organizations. rate laws are followed company- Law Firm in Best known for her work with He is also coun- wide. He is also on the firm’s Savannah children, Burke served as a spe- sel to both the board of directors. after receiving cial counsel to the governor for North Sea and Burns received his undergrad- his J.D. from Child Welfare Services in 1994. Sag Harbor vol- uate degree from Iona College, the University She was also instrumental in unteer fire where he has served on the of Georgia starting what are now called the departments. board of directors. He received Law School. Special Olympics. A third-gener- Burke is a third-generation his law degree from Fordham Buttimer, who received his ation Irish-American, Burke is a Irish-American whose great- Law School, and sits on the B.A. in history from Armstrong member of the Irish Fellowship grandparents came from County Irish-American Legal and Atlantic State University, is a Club of Chicago. She is married Mayo. He and his wife, Patricia, Educational Foundation organ- fifth-generation Irish-American to alderman and fellow honoree live in Sag Harbor, New York ized by with ancestors from County Edward M. Burke. with their three sons, Matthew, Fordham Law’s Cork. He has participated in the Edward and Brendan. former Dean Savannah St. Patrick’s Day cele- John Feerick. bration almost every year of his A proud Irish- life, the first time when he was Edmund Burns American, three months old. He has served Edmund Burns is a partner in Burns, Kennedy, Burns has trav- as both a member and president Schilling and Shea, a general practice firm with an eled to Ireland of the Ancient Order of emphasis on estate planning, real estate and closely on several occa- Hibernians, Monsignor Daniel J. held corporations. sions. His father’s parents were Bourke Division One. Burns, who received his undergraduate degree both born in County Kerry and Buttimer, who is the proud from the University of California at Los Angeles his mother’s grandparents hailed father of Conor Patrick (named and his law degree from Fordham Law School, has from Donegal. for the protagonist in Leon Uris’ been practicing law since 1967. A native of the Bronx, novel Trinity), says that being Burns, Kennedy, Schilling and Shea is also active in pro bono work Burns now lives in Bronxville in part of the larger Irish-American for non-profits including the Children’s Radio Foundation in South Westchester County with his community in Savannah is very Africa and Free Play Radio, which helps educate children through wife, Jane. “I couldn’t get the rewarding, and notes that, radio communication, and Burns himself has been involved in the Bronx out of my address,” he “Ireland’s music, art, literature, Public Interest Practice of the American Bar Association, which jokes. and the richness of its history encourages pro bono legal services, and has served as chairman of the has influenced the rest of the Young Lawyers Committee. world in an amazingly dispro- Irish on both his mother and his father’s side, Burns is married to portionate measure to its rela- Carole Burns and they have two children, Erin and Edmund Jr. tively small geographical size.”

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THE100 LEGAL Larry Byrne Anthony James Clerkin Larry Byrne is U.S. Co- Callaghan James C. Clerkin is a founding partner of Kral, Managing Partner and Head of Anthony P. Callaghan is an Clerkin, Redmond, Ryan, Perry & Girvan, one of the U.S. Litigation Practice of attorney for Gibbons P.C. With a New York’s leading civil-defense litigation firms. Linklaters LLP, a 2,600-lawyer background in federal court liti- Under his leadership, the firm has grown to 32 attor- global firm and the world’s gation, he primarily focuses on neys in three fully staffed offices in Manhattan, second largest law firm by gross class-action securities litigation, Nassau County and Suffolk County, New York. revenues. telecommunication matters and A native of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, Clerkin Named a New York Super contract disputes. In addition, earned both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Fordham Lawyer in 2006 and 2007, Callaghan deals in general prac- University. His admissions include the New York Bar, Federal Bar Byrne handles white-collar crim- tice litigation in the areas of (SDNY and EDNY) and the United States Supreme Court. Clerkin has inal defense banking and drug-product liabili- received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest (“AV”) “Peer Review Rating” for cases as well as ty defense. his legal ability and ethical standards. government reg- A cum laude graduate of Seton Clerkin, whose father is from Monaghan and whose mother is from ulatory and civil Hall University Law School, Donegal, resides in Mahwah, New Jersey. He has been married 26 years cases. He has Anthony received his B. Ed., to his wife, Virginia, and they have three children. successfully rep- with honors from the National resented University of Ireland, Carysfort Deutsche Bank College. In his law career he has in a number of served as lead counsel on cases notable cases, including the involving everything from cor- Enron securities litigation. porate dissolution proceedings to Byrne graduated magna cum auditor malpractice and contract laude from Hofstra University in disputes. 1981 and received his law A native of Donegal, Ireland, degree at the New York Callaghan is fluent in Gaelic. He University School of Law in is a member of The American 1984. Before entering private Ireland Fund practice, he was the Deputy and the Irish Chief of the RICO Section in the American Criminal Division of the Partnership, and Department of Justice in has served on Washington D.C. from 1992-94, the AIF New and prior to that served as an York dinner Assistant U.S. Attorney in the committee for Southern District of New York. several years He is married with three children and as chairman of the AIF and lives in Pelham, New York. New Jersey Golf Classic. A member of the New York City Callaghan is married with two Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, children. Byrne is a second-generation Irish-American whose parents’ families both hail from Wicklow town. Philip Corboy John Connorton Philip H. Corboy, co-founder of Corboy & Demetrio, one of the John Connorton specializes in the law of public nation’s top law firms based in Chicago, has been practicing personal finance and municipal bonds. He has participated in injury law for more than 50 years. The recipient of many honors and capital infrastructure project financings throughout awards during his remarkable career, Corboy has been named one of the United States, and his bond counsel clients the Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States, is a former include major power, energy, transportation, indus- president of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers trial development, environmental and housing public Association and is a former chairman of the American Bar authorities and agencies, as well as various states Association’s Section on litigation. He served as general counsel for and municipalities. the Illinois Democratic Party and is a member of such national and Connorton was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Fordham Law international associations as the Inner Circle of Advocates, the School. He has served as an Assistant Counsel to the Governor of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of State of New York, has clients in major investment banking firms and Trial Advocates, and has been described as “the premier personal served as a special counsel to universities and corporations, including injury lawyer in Chicago and a mentor to many of the other top per- those doing businesses to Northern Ireland. In 2003, the University of sonal injury lawyers in the city.” Ulster awarded Connorton an honorary Doctor of Laws, and in 2004, Born in Chicago, Corboy attended St. Ambrose College and Notre for his services to peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Queen Dame University and graduated from Loyola University College of Elizabeth II made him a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of Law. His parents’ families hail from County Limerick. A member of the British Empire. the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, Corboy enjoys dual Irish and All four of Connorton’s grandparents were Irish-born. They came American citizenship. He is married to Mary Dempsey, the from counties Roscommon, Mayo, Kerry and Cork. Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library.

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THE100 LEGAL Carol Corrigan Ellen Cosgrove Denis Cronin Justice Carol A. Corrigan was As the Associate Dean and Denis F. Cronin is a senior partner in New York appointed to the California Dean of Students at Harvard at the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, LLP, where he Supreme Court in 2006. Prior to Law School, Ellen Cosgrove is co-chair of the firm’s Restructuring and that she served on the California supervises a broad range of Reorganization practice group and a member of the Court of Appeal, Superior and extracurricular activities, from Management Committee. Municipal Courts, and was a trial moot court competitions to the Prior to joining Vinson & Elkins, Cronin was a lawyer in the Alameda County student-edited law journals. She founding partner of the New York-based bankruptcy District Attorney’s Office. oversees student organizations firm Cronin & Vris, and before that he was a partner Born in Stockton, California and residence life as well as a at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for 16 years, where he served as Justice Corrigan attended local variety of all-school activities Managing Partner for six years. Catholic schools including orientation, gradua- Cronin focuses his practice on Chapter 11 reorganizations, mergers and Holy Names tion, conferences, and co-curric- and acquisitions, corporate/commercial law and mediation. University. All ular programming which serve For over 20 years Cronin has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers eight of her to entertain, educate and culti- in America and New York Magazine has named him among the Best great-grand par- vate community. She is also Lawyers in New York since the inception of its survey. The New York ents immigrated involved in developing and Times Magazine named him as one of New York’s Super Lawyers and from Ireland, and enforcing academic policies and he is listed as a “Senior Statesman” in Chambers USA. she is fiercely practices. Prior to joining All four of Cronin’s grandparents were born in Ireland; his father’s proud of her Irish heritage. Harvard, Cosgrove served as parents were from County Cork, while his mother’s hailed from Justice Corrigan has served on Associate Dean and Dean of County Kerry. the President’s Commission on Students at the University of Organized Crime, California Chicago Law School. Judicial Council, Center for Cosgrove, whose grandparents Kathleen Cronin Judicial Education and Research, were all Irish immigrants, gradu- Kathleen M. Cronin has served as Managing Director, General and Commission on the Future of ated from Mount Holyoke Counsel & Corporate Secretary of CME Group since July 2007, when California Courts. She has lec- College, where she now serves CME and CBOT merged to become the world’s largest and most tured widely and served as an as a trustee. She then spent four diverse exchange. She is responsible for overseeing the company’s adjunct professor at serveral uni- years in corpo- Corporate Secretary, Shareholder Relations, Membership Services, versities including University of rate and invest- Legal and Market Regulation functions. Previously, she served as California at Berkeley. Her hon- ment banking in Managing Director, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of CME ors include the Thomas More New York Holdings and CME since 2004. Award, California Jurist of the before attending Cronin has advised CME on all legal matters since joining the Year, Teaching awards from The University of company in November 2002 as Acting General Counsel & Corporate National Institute of Trial Chicago Law Secretary. She was an integral part of CME’s efforts to complete its Advocacy and California Judge’s School. IPO in December 2002 and its secondary offering in June 2003. Association; and The Golden Pen Cosgrove Additionally, she has played a key role in further developing the Award. She serves on the boards worked for four years in private company’s corporate governance principles and corporate compliance of St. Vincent’s Day Home, Holy practice at LeBoeuf, Lamb, program. Names University, Goodwill Green & MacRae before return- A second-generation Irish-American, Cronin’s maternal grandparents Industries of East Bay and advi- ing to Chicago to serve as emigrated from Killarney, County Kerry as teenagers. She is in touch sory boards of St. Mary’s Associate Dean at the law with her Irish cousins and is a frequent visitor to Killarney. Community Center and school. Providence Hospital.

Michael Critchley Michael Critchley, Sr., a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and the American Bar Foundation, founded Critchley and Kinum in 1975. He is the former president and founding member of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, past president and founder of Seton Hall University School of Law Inn of Court, and member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Judicial & Prosecutorial Appointments Committee. He serves on the Board of Visitors of Seton Hall University School of Law, where he received his B.A. and J.D. Critchley, who received an AV rating in Martindale Hubbell and was awarded the Trial Bar Award by the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey, has successfully tried over 100 cases in federal and state courts and prac- tices in securities fraud, anti-trust violations, official misconduct, and tax fraud. He’s also been awarded the Lawrence A. Whipple Award by the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in New Jersey. Critchley traces his Irish roots to counties Carlow and Westmeath.

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THE100 LEGAL Sean Crowley James Cullen Sean E. Crowley is a partner at the New York James Cullen of the New York law firm Anderson, Kill and Olick, City law firm of Davidoff, Malito and Hutcher has practiced real estate and construction law for the past 38 years. He LLP where he focuses on government relations. has negotiated many construction projects including hospitals, schools After graduating from Fordham University, and water treatment plants, and also advises non-profit institutions and Crowley spent three years as an investigator for government entities. A retired brigadier general from the Army New York City. He went on to get his law degree Reserves, Cullen is part of a group of over 40 retired generals and from CUNY Law School. Along with Marty admirals who has spoken out publicly against the Bush administration’s Glennon, he co-founded the Joseph Doherty Civil policies on torture and interrogation. Rights Fellowship, which provides scholarships for City University A first-generation Irish-American, Cullen received of New York Law School. his bachelor’s degree from Iona College and his J.D. in As president of the Brehon (Irish) Law Society of New York, Law from St. John’s University. His father hailed from Crowley traveled to Ireland with New York City Council Speaker County Sligo and his mother from County Offaly, Christine Quinn to meet with Northern Irish leaders last March, and where he built a home for her in 1978. He expanded says the Brehons are working to “ensure that Northern Ireland will be the house so that his four children, Tara, Kerry, Erin part of the Celtic Tiger and not be left out in the cold.” and Sean, can visit with their families. A proud Irish- Crowley is a first-generation Irish-American; his mother was born American, Cullen is active in the Irish Parades in County Down, and his father's parents hailed from County Cavan. Emergency Committee, which monitors Orange parades in Northern Crowley and his wife, who is also first-generation Irish-American, Ireland. He was also the first president of the Brehon (Irish) Law have three sons. Society.

John Dearie Mary Dempsey Prior to establishing his pri- As Commissioner of the vate practice, which now Chicago Public Library, Mary includes five offices in New Dempsey is responsible for man- York and “mobile law offices” aging the library’s operations, that travel to meet clients unable more than 1,300 employees in to travel, John Dearie served as 79 locations, and an annual oper- an Assemblyman from the Bronx ating budget of $98 million. from 1973 to 2002. A third-generation Irish- During that time he helped American with roots in counties secure passage of the MacBride Wicklow and Clare, Dempsey Principles, through the New was born in Chicago. She earned York State Legislature and her B.A. and M.L.S. degrees organized Irish- from St. Mary’s University, and American her J.D. from DePaul University Presidential College of Law, and worked in Forums, includ- libraries in her hometown and at ing a 1992 a law firm before being appoint- forum where ed commissioner by Mayor candidate Bill Richard M. Daley in January Clinton first 1994. Upon her appointment committed to Dempsey quickly developed the finding a solution to the troubles library’s first-ever strategic plan in Northern Ireland. which focused on rebuilding the Dearie, who practices in a human and physical infrastruc- variety of areas, including med- ture and ical malpractice, personal injury, installing a pro- wills and estate, also worked at fessional devel- the United Nations for three opment and Mary Daly years. training program The Dean of St. John’s University School of Law, Mary Daly began Born and raised in the Bronx, for all 1,300 her legal career in private law and went on to serve as Assistant United he attended Notre Dame on a employees. States Attorney and Deputy Chief for the Southern District of New full basketball scholarship, and The recipient York. She joined the Fordham Law School Faculty in 1983 and subse- went on to receive his Masters of of four honorary quently worked as the Reporter to the New York Bar Association Task Business from the Kellogg degrees and numerous profes- Force. Before assuming her present position at St. John’s, she served as Graduate Business School at sional awards, Dempsey is mar- co-director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics and Professor Northwestern University. He ried to Legal 100 honoree Philip of Legal Ethics at Fordham. received his law degree from the H. Corboy. Daly graduated from Thomas More College and went on to earn a New York University School of J.D. from Fordham and an L.L.M. with a comparative law focus from Law. New York University. A third-generation Irish-American who traces her A Bronx native, Dearie lives Irish roots to Cork, Dean Daly says being Irish means “being passion- with his wife, Kitty, and sons, ate about life and steadfast in commitment.” She lives in New York John and Michael, in Harrison, City with her husband and three children. New York.

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THE100 LEGAL Bob Donnelly Larry Downes Bob Donnelly is an entertain- Larry Downes is a partner ment lawyer at the New York in the law firm of Gilroy, office of the law firm of Downes, Horowitz and Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King and Goldstein where he focuses on Stageberg. Donnelly, who has civil rights, commercial litiga- focused his practice on the music tion and tort cases. industry for 30 years, has repre- He is also the president and sented an eclectic group of a founding member of the artists, including Hasidic rapper Friends of Sinn Féin, and says Matisyahu and Bill Whelan, the the organization strives to play composer for Riverdance. A a significant role in the Irish recent lawsuit peace process. “We continue Donnelly pur- to work toward a united sued in New Ireland which, of course, is York netted $55 our ultimate goal,” he says. million in past Downes, who grew up in due royalties for Bayside, Queens, earned his thousands of undergraduate degree from music artists. He Queens College and his law also settled the degree from Hofstra. He largest case in world music on began his career at the law behalf of four Irish clients and firm of O’Dwyer and represents a large number of Bernstien and says that civil Celtic musical artists. rights lawyer Paul O'Dwyer, All four of Donnelly’s grand- who, along with Frank parents were born in Ireland. On Durkan, founded the Brehon his mother’s side they hailed Law Society, was an inspira- from Monaghan and Cavan, and tion to him. Sean Downes on his father’s from Fermanagh. A second- New York personal injury attorney Sean Downes represents a broad Donnelly received his under- generation range of clients. One standout case occurred in 1996 when Downes graduate degree from Providence Irish- won $3.25 million for a pregnant woman whose construction worker College, his law degree from St. American on husband was killed when he fell from a building. John’s University, and a master's both sides, A Bayside, Queens native, Downes earned his bachelor’s degree degree from Columbia Downes’ from Queens College (he spent his junior year in Dublin, where he University. A member of the grandparents became passionate about the political issues in Ireland), and his law Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, he hailed from degree from Hofstra University. His brothers, Larry (who is also on this is married to Marie Donnelly Cork, Mayo and Carlow. He list), Kevin and Chris are also lawyers. He is involved in the Brehon and they have three children, has visited Ireland a number (Irish) Law Society and credits his first big break to working to help Chris, Cindy and Alexis. of times and connected with Sean Mackin become the first Irish person to obtain political asylum in distant relatives who still live the U.S. He is one of the founders, along with his brother Larry, of the there. Friends of Sinn Féin. Downes is married to Marianne, his wife of 20 years, and they have two daughters, Mollie and Katie.

John Driscoll Jenny Durkan John Driscoll served in the New York City Police Jenny A. Durkan is a Washington State Attorney known for both Department for 34 years, taking a year’s leave of her successful trial practice and for her continued civic leadership. absence in 1981 to serve as Assistant District She has worked on a number of notable cases, including as trial Attorney in Queens County. Recently retired, he is counsel defending the election of Washington State Governor now a director for BlueCrest Capital Management, a Christine Gregoire. hedge fund. For the past 11 years, Driscoll has Durkan served on civic panels relating to police integrity and served as the president of the NYPD Captain's chaired the former Attorney General’s Task force on Consumer Endowment Association, the union that represents Privacy. She also taught Trial Advocacy at the University of captains through deputy chiefs. Washington Law School. Driscoll, who graduated from St. John’s University, School of Law A founding board member of the Center for in 1978, was honored by the New York State Bar Association in 1992 Women and Democracy, Durkan also completed for Outstanding Police Contribution to the Criminal Justice System. political training in Morocco. She received her law A first-generation Irish-American whose father, a native of degree from the University of Washington, and spent Skibereen in County Cork, spent 35 years in the police force, Driscoll her Junior year of college in Dublin. Her grandfather, has visited Ireland over 20 times. His mother is from Glenmaddy in who immigrated to the U.S. in 1898, served in the County Galway. His wife, Phylis Byrne-Driscoll, a captain in the Montana state legislature, as did her father, who NYPD, has served as the honorary Grand Marshal of the Queens St. became an Irish citizen. Patrick’s Day Parade. The couple lives with their three children in Rockville Centre, New York.

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THE100 LEGAL Joseph Fegan William Fenrich Joseph Fegan is a partner and William Fenrich is a member head of litigation at the Brooklyn of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s law firm of Cullen and Dykman. Litigation Department. He has more than 24 years of He joined Davis Polk in 1999 experience as a litigator with a and became a partner in 2005. primary focus on trial practice Over the years he has represent- and tort and insurance litigation, ed numerous broker-dealers and and has tried over 100 jury trials their employees in a number of to verdict as well as numerous matters relating to equity bench trials and arbitrations. In research practices, including addition to his experience as a Credit Suisse First Boston, trial lawyer, NASD and NYSE. Fegan has also Fenrich graduated from the briefed and University of Pennsylvania in argued numer- 1991 and in 1997 received his ous appeals in J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Appellate the Coif, from Fordham Courts of New University School of Law, where York State. A he was research editor of the law Bronx native, review. Fegan served as counsel to the He clerked for the Honorable New York Claims Association, a Thomas J. Meskill, U.S. Court group of insurance carriers and of Appeals, Second Circuit, from self-insureds in the New York 1998 to 1999, and for the area. He is a member of the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, John Feerick Brooklyn Bar Association and U.S. District Court, Southern John D. Feerick heads up Fordham Law School’s Center for Social has authored several articles and District of New York, from 1997 Justice and Dispute Resolution, which provides students with hands-on given lectures on trial practice. to 1998. A first- clinical programs devoted to issues of poverty. He is also the Fegan is a graduate of St. generation Irish- Chairman of the NYS Commission on Public Integrity. John's University, where he American whose Responding to a State Department invitation, Feerick was awarded a received both his undergraduate parents were government grant to gather 22 Northern Irish community leaders, 11 and law degrees, and is also a both from Mayo, Catholic and 11 Protestant, and teach them mediation skills, working member and past president of Fenrich is an on creating peace from the street level up. In 1999, he was awarded the the Long Island Emerald active member Gold Medal of the American Irish Historical Society for his work. Association. of the Friendly A graduate of the St. Angela Merici elementary school in the South A third-generation Irish- Sons of St. Bronx, Feerick received his undergraduate degree from Fordham American whose father’s family Patrick. He has been honored by University and graduated from Fordham Law School in 1961. He prac- hails from Dublin, and whose the American Irish Historical ticed at the New York law firm of Skadden Arps for 21 years, and went mother’s family is from County Society and the New York State on to serve as Dean of Fordham Law for 20 years. Galway, Fegan is married and Bar Association and holds hon- Feerick, whose parents were both natives of County Mayo but met in has three children, two sons and orary degrees from Fordham New York, is married with six children and eleven grandchildren. He is a daughter. University and the College of a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York. New Rochelle.

Patrick Fitzgerald Timothy Flanagan Patrick Fitzgerald is the U.S. Attorney in Northern Illinois who head- Timothy Flanagan is a partner at the law firm of ed the 2005 investigation into the leak of the name of CIA operative Cullen and Dykman in Brooklyn, New York. He han- Valerie Plame. It was his research that led to the indictment of Vice dles commercial, construction and insurance liability President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby. Fitzgerald’s con- claims and has extensive trial and appellate experience troversial decision to question New York Times journalist Judith Miller, in these areas. He has also handled numerous medical which ultimately led to her jailing, garnered a great deal of criticism, malpractice claims and served for three years on the but Fitzgerald maintains that her testimony played a pivotal role in lev- Malpractice Prevention Committee of the Church eling charges against Libby. This was not the first time Fitzgerald’s Charities Foundation, which owned and operated hospi- work made headlines. He was a major figure in the prosecution of the tals and nursing homes throughout the New York area. Flanagan is an active perpetrator of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. member of the Brooklyn and New York Bar Associations, as well as the Fitzgerald attended the Jesuit-run Regis High School in New York Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has served on and went on to attend Amherst College and Harvard various committees throughout the years. Law School, where he pursued a passion for rugby Flanagan is a fourth-generation Irish-American. His father’s family hailed as well as for law. On his summers off, Fitzgerald’s from Roscommon and his mother’s from Kilkenny. He received his bache- strong work ethic kept him busy and he worked as a lor’s degree from Cornell University and attended law school at Syracuse, doorman, following in his father’s footsteps. where he graduated cum laude and served on the Moot Court Board. Both of Fitzgerald’s parents immigrated to the He and his wife Nancy, a second-generation Irish-American whose maid- United States from County Clare. He was raised in en name was also Flanagan, have three children, Caroline, Claire and Fiona. Brooklyn, New York.

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THE100 LEGAL Michael Gallagher Peter Gleason Michael Gallagher, who practices in Houston at Peter J. Gleason is a private practice lawyer who serves as the Gallagher Law Firm, has been honored annually counsel to Levine & Gilbert, a New York law firm specializing in as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 1983 personal injury, accident and health, insurance, and has been a Texas Super Lawyer since 2003. wrongful death, civil law, and service law. He has been recognized as a leader in environ- A former New York City police officer and mental, pharmaceutical and product liability litiga- firefighter, Gleason earned his J.D. from City tion, is board certified in personal injury trial law, University of New York Law School. He was also and obtained the largest verdict in the U.S. in the a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve for case against Fen-Phen and the second largest in the Rezulin case. over 20 years before retiring as a lieutenant. A past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association and a fellow Aside from his work as a private practice of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of lawyer, Gleason is involved in public service as Barristers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the are his two brothers and his parents. He says that the family’s International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Gallagher did his preparatory dedication to the greater community is by way of giving thanks for education at the University of Houston and earned his LL.B. in 1965 the opportunities that America afforded his four grandparents who from the University of Texas. emigrated from Ireland. Gallagher, who traces his Irish roots to County Donegal, is a hit A single parent, Gleason lives with his seven-year-old son, Kole, both in court and out – he has the highest amateur batting average in in New York City. the history of baseball in Houston.

Kristen Glen James Gill Prior to her election to As a senior partner at Bryan Manhattan’s Surrogate Court, Cave, LLP, Judge Kristen Booth Glen spent James Gill prac- ten years as the Dean of the City tices in labor University of New York Law and regulatory School. affairs. Joining Glen, whose grandparents Robinson, hailed from County Leitrim, Silverman and received her B.A. from Stanford Pearce in 1964 University and her J.D. from before it merged Columbia University Law with Bryan Cave, Gill has School. The family claims rela- remained loyal to the firm for tionship to Irish politician and more than 43 years. nationalist Countess Markiewicz A graduate of Holy Cross (nee Gore-Booth), the first College and Fordham Law woman in Europe to hold a cabi- School, Gill served as an officer net position. in the U.S. Marine Corps The divorced Schools in Quantico, Virginia mother of a son where he prosecuted and defend- and daughter, ed general courts marshal. He Glen was a was then appointed assistant dis- friend of the trict attorney of New York late activist and County by District Attorney civil rights Frank S. Hogan and has worked Marty Glennon Marty Glennon is a partner in the Long Island, New York law firm of lawyer Paul in many areas of public life. Gill Archer, Byington, Glennon and Levine where he practices labor, O’Dwyer, who serves as chairman of the board employee benefits and employment law. He began his career as a third- was her son’s godfather. of trustees of the Doris Duke generation member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical She has received numerous Charitable Foundation and Workers, and remains a card-carrying union member. He attended the honors, including the Brehon Group Health Inc. As chairman City University of New York School of Law through a scholarship and (Irish) Law Society's 1999 of the Battery Park City assistance from the union’s Education and Cultural Fund. Distinguished Service Award and Authority, Gill was a participant While in law school, Glennon helped establish the Joe Doherty Civil was honored by the National in the effort to rebuild Lower Rights Fellowship with Sean Crowley, providing scholarships for Lawyers’ Guild in 2000. Glen Manhattan after the September CUNY law students interested in civil rights issues. (Doherty, a former remains supportive of the Joseph 11th attacks. member of the IRA, was a political prisoner in both Ireland and the Doherty Civil Rights Fellowship A well-known public speaker U.S.) Glennon is also a founding member and immediate past president for CUNY Law, a scholarship and author of two books, Gill of the Brehon Law Society for Nassau County and a member of the given to students in honor of the remains connected to his Irish Brehon Council. He has visited Ireland a number of times and has Irish activist's struggle. roots and gave a speech at the played the bagpipes in the Dublin Millennium Parade. opening of the Irish Hunger Glennon’s family maintains a farm in Shangarry, Gurtymadden, Memorial at Battery Park City in County Galway. He is married to Jennifer with two daughters, Caroline 2002. He has traveled to Ireland and Isabelle. and traces his roots on his father’s side to Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare.

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THE100 LEGAL John Goodrich Terence John P. Goodrich is a partner Hallinan and vice president at the law Terence Hallinan is an attorney firm of Goodrich and Goodrich, at law in his private practice in P.C. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. San Francisco. For eight years he Goodrich went into private prac- served as the District Attorney of tice following his graduation the City and County of San from law school and merged Francisco. During his time as practices with his brother, Bill, D.A., Hallinan was know for his in 1993. Goodrich was one of hands-on involvement in the the first criminal defense lawyers courtroom, his opposition to capi- in Allegheny tal punishment and for the signifi- County to try a cant progress the District case involving Attorney’s office made in the fight DNA evidence. against violent crime under his In recent years, leadership. Prior to his time as he has concen- D.A., Hallinan worked as a mem- trated his prac- ber of the San Francisco Board of tice in personal Supervisors. During his seven- injury and prod- year tenure he was chair of the uct liability cases. Government Efficiency and Labor Goodrich received his under- Committee, vice chair of the graduate degree from St. Francis Health, Public Safety and University and his law degree Environmental from Duquesne University Committee and a School of Law. He was named member of the Irishman of the Year in 2006 by Finance John Hanify Pittsburgh Iron City and was on Committee. John D. Hanify is the co-founder of Hanify & King, Professional the national Super Lawyer list in Hallinan grad- Corporation. For 25 years, he has tried cases and represented business 2006 and 2007. uated with a B.A. clients in state and federal courts, before federal and state agencies, and Married with one child, in History from in arbitration. Goodrich is a second-generation UC Berkeley, where he narrowly Hanify received his A.B. from Harvard Law and his J.D. from Irish-American whose father’s missed becoming a member of the Boston College Law School, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney family hails from Galway. His 1960 Olympic boxing team. He for the District of Massachusetts. mother's family is from Mayo went on to attend law school at A third-generation Irish-American whose family is from County and Galway. He is a member of Hastings College of Law. Galway, Hanify is a trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation, and an a number of Irish organizations, A second-generation Irishman, Overseer of Boston College Law School. including the A.O.H. Irish Hallinan traces his ancestry to He has been named, for consecutive years, to the Best Lawyers in Society for Education and County Cork on his mother’s side America list, while his litigation experience has earned him a Charity and the Irish American and County Limerick on his Massachusetts Super Lawyer distinction. He is a recipient of the Justice Unity Conference. father’s. He is a member of the Department’s Outstanding Performance Award, and in 2006 was named Irish American Democratic Club Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, Boston College Law School. and is married with five children.

Phillip Hanrahan Kevin Hanratty Phillip J. Hanrahan joined the Milwaukee law Kevin Hanratty was appointed by Governor George Pataki to serve firm of Foley & Lardner upon his graduation from as a counsel in the New York State Office of Homeland Security, where Harvard Law School in 1966. The firm has grown his responsibilities included drafting and reviewing legislation and reg- from 62 lawyers and one office when Hanrahan ulations and helping to shape New York’s homeland security policy. joined to almost 1,000 lawyers and 21 offices world- Previously he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the City of wide. He served as a partner at Foley & Lardner New York. He has served as a state committeeman and district leader from 1973 until his retirement in 2007. He had a for Queens’ Republican Party and ran for state sen- particularly active practice in corporate law, with an ate in 1996. Since April 2008 he has been working emphasis on securities and mergers and acquisitions, at Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Contract Services serving as legal counsel to large publicly held companies as well as as a counsel. closely held and family businesses. He is a member of the Milwaukee, Hanratty, a graduate of Fordham Law School, Wisconsin and American Bar Associations. received undergraduate degrees from both Queens Boston born, Hanrahan is involved in various charitable activities, College and Baruch College, part of the City including acting as an officer, director and legal counsel to two University of New York. He served as president of Milwaukee-based Irish charitable organizations. Every August for the the Irish-American Republicans group and is a past 25 years, he and wife Mary June (one of ten O’Neil sisters from member of the W.B. Yeats Society of New York. Boston) have hosted numerous Irish musicians and other performers at A first-generation Irish-American, Hanratty lived in Ireland with his their home during Milwaukee's Irish Fest, resulting in many strong family for several years when he was a child. His father hails from friendships. They have four sons, and have owned a home in County Louth and his mother from County Clare. Hanratty grew up in Ballyvaughan, County Clare since 1998. Jackson Heights, Queens, and currently resides in Woodside, Queens.

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THE100 LEGAL Mark Harty Joseph Hassett Kenneth Horoho Mark P. Harty is the Managing Partner of Joe Hassett serves as counsel Kenneth J. Horoho is a partner Morrison Mahoney LLP, where his expertise is to the Washington-based law in the Pittsburgh law firm of focused on handling employment cases in public firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP, Goldberg, Gruener, Gentile, agencies and the state and federal courts, civil litiga- where he was a partner from Horoho and Avalli PC. He for- tion, and malpractice claims. 1970 through 2007. He has tried merly worked as an associate at A graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., magna jury and non-jury cases involv- Raphael, Gruener & Raphael, cum laude) and Georgetown University Law School ing a wide variety of public and where he was made partner in (J.D.), Harty was admitted to the bar of the private issues, and has argued in 1987. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States District Court of appellate courts all over the He has a long history in the Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and country and in the United States area of child custody law and the United States Supreme Court. In 1999, he received the Dartmouth Supreme Court. served as presi- Alumni Award for distinguished service. A graduate of Canisius College dent of the Harty, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, traces his ancestors on his (B.A., summa cum laude), Pennsylvania father William’s side to County Limerick. He is on the board of the Harvard University (LL.B., cum Bar Association Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association, has served as a trustee of laude), and University College, in 2006-2007, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston as well as the board of the Dublin (M.A., Ph. D.), Hassett is where he was Greater Boston Legal Services, and is a member of the American Bar engaged in a trial and appellate chair of the Association, the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, and the practice focused on corporate and Young Lawyers Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel. He is also a life mem- securities matters. Division and the ber of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Foundations. A proud Irish-American whose vice-chair of the Children’s great-grandparents emigrated Rights Committee. from counties Clare and Cork, Horoho received his B.A. in Patrick Hobbs Hassett serves as counsel to the accounting from St. Francis Patrick Esmond Hobbs became the Dean of Seton Hall University's Embassy of University, from which he also School of Law in 1999, after teaching at the school for nine years and Ireland. He has received the Outstanding following a career in private practice. As dean, Hobbs has helped to published a book Pittsburgh Alumnus Award, and establish the law school as one that consistently ranks among the best on W.B. Yeats, his law degree the Duquesne nationwide. Under his leadership, the school launched the “Seton Hall and has lectured University School of Law. He Law Rising” campaign, which aims to enhance its scholarship pro- on Yeats and was named an adjunct professor grams and improve technology and educational facilities for an urban other Irish writ- at the University of Pittsburgh student population. ers at such ven- School of Law in 2005, where Hobbs received a B.S. in accounting from Seton Hall University, a ues as the Yeats he now teaches a course on J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master International Summer School in advanced family law trial advo- of Laws in taxation from New York University. Among the many hon- Sligo, the James Joyce Summer cacy. He also assisted in the ors Hobbs has received are the Seton Hall Faculty Excellence Award School in Dublin, the Princess development of an educational and the Student Bar Association Professor of the Year award. Grace Irish Library in Monaco, video that explains the custody A member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Hobbs is a first-gener- and Oxford University. process for families in the ation Irish-American. His father’s family hails from County Louth and Hassett and his wife Carol process of divorce. his mother's clan is from County Meath. He is married to JoAnne and live in Washington, D.C. A second-generation Irish- has three children: Patrick, John and Alexandra. Their two children, Matthew American whose father’s family and Meredith, are students at hails from Galway, Horoho lives Brown and Tufts Universities, in Pittsburgh, with his wife and respectively. son, Sean.

Colleen Hyland Colleen Ann Hyland is an Associate Judge of the Chicago Circuit Court. She received her B.A. from John Carroll University. A graduate of DePaul Law School, Colleen spent her early career as an assistant for the Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office, and made a name for herself as an assistant prosecutor in the sexual misconduct case against Congressman Mel Reynolds. She went on to serve as a judge in the Chicago criminal courts where she heard several high-profile gang cases. She was recently relocated to the District 5 Municipal Courts. Hyland grew up in Evergreen Park, a predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood in the south suburbs of Chicago. Her father, John Hyland, was the president of Evergreen Savings and Loan and the son of Irish immigrants from Castlebar, County Mayo. Her mother Mary’s grandparents came from Tipperary. Hyland is an Alumni Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago and teaches trial advocacy at Depaul Law School. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, John, and their daughter, Maggie.

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THE100 LEGAL Kevin Kearney Paul Kane Kevin M. Kearney is a partner Paul M. Kane, a partner in the in the Brooklyn law firm of Boston law firm of McGrath & Wingate, Kearney & Cullen, Kane, specializes in Family Law. which for over 100 years has He is a former Assistant Dean of represented religious and not- Boston College Law School and for-profit organizations. has been a Family Law lecturer A native of Brooklyn, New at Boston College since 1970. York, Kearney is a director of He has lectured on numerous Mutual of America Investment aspects of Family Law practice Corporation and serves as chair- for Massachusetts Continuing man of its Audit Committee. He Legal Education, the is also a director of Concern Massachusetts Worldwide U.S, and has traveled Bar Association, extensively with Concern to the the Flaschner neediest countries. Institute, the Kearney, who holds degrees in Massachusetts philosophy from Manhattan Inns of Court College, and a Doctor of Law and Suffolk from St. John’s University University School of Law, has lectured at Law School’s Fordham University Center for Advanced Legal Studies Non Public Education. He has program. served on the New York State Kane is a member of the Interfaith Commission on American Academy of Hugh Keefe Landmarking of Religious Matrimonial Lawyers and has Hugh Keefe, a Managing Partner at the Connecticut law firm Lynch, Properties and the New York been listed in The Best Lawyers Traub, Keefe & Errante PC, was the first U.S. lawyer to be board-certi- State Council of Catholic in America since 1989. He is fied in both civil and criminal trial advocacy. He has taught trial advo- Bishops Legal Advisory a graduate of Boston College cacy at the Yale Law School since 1978, is an Associate Fellow of Commission. and Boston College Law Saybrook College, and continues to try both civil and criminal cases in An avid runner who has School, and currently serves as federal and state courts. completed 12 a member of the Board of Keefe, who graduated from Quinnipiac University and the University marathons, Overseers at the school. of Connecticut Law School, has consistently been listed as one of the Kearney resides Kane, who served in the best lawyers in America in various publications. He has been honored in Belle Harbor, United States Navy from with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both the University of New York with 1964-1967, is also an adjunct Connecticut Law School and Quinnipiac University, and he and his his wife, Mary professor at Suffolk University three sons carry the Quinnipiac University banner at the New York City Beth, a Clinical Law School. He is first- St. Patrick’s Day Parade each year. Nurse Specialist generation Irish-American Both of Keefe's parents were born in County Kerry, his mother in in Pediatric whose mother is from County Kenmare and his father on Castleisland. He is a member of the Gaelic Cardiology at Schneider’s Cork and whose father is from Club in East Haven, Connecticut, and his firm sponsors “Sounds of Children’s Hospital, New Hyde the Aran Islands. Ireland,” a weekly radio show that airs in the New Haven area. Park, New York, and their chil- dren, Christine, Elisa and Sean.

Don Keenan At the age of 34, Don Keenan was the youngest lawyer ever induct- ed into the Inner Circle of Advocates, and has received numerous hon- ors, including the Chief Justice Award for Civility and Professionalism “Being Irish is being (the highest honor possible for a lawyer in Georgia). He was also named one of the best medical negligence lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal. part of a very large In 1993, Keenan formed the Keenan’s Kids Foundation to help chil- dren at risk in the legal system. He is also the driv- clan that tends to take ing force behind fundraising efforts to provide a new home for the Murphy family of Atlanta, who care of its members have adopted 23 children with special needs. Raised in Morehead City, North Carolina, Keenan knew from an early age that good things do not socially, spiritually and come easily to all. He was raised by his grandfather, who told him stories of his Irish ancestors and the in their essence.” “No Irish Need Apply” signs they encountered. – Justice Donald Molloy Today, Keenan is the driving force behind Irish America magazine’s annual “Stars of the South” gala in Atlanta, which honors Irish- Americans from the Southern U.S.

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THE100 LEGAL Anastasia Kelly Edmund Lynch James Lynn Anastasia D. Kelly is the American International Edmund Lynch serves as a Judge James Murray Lynn is a Group’s (AIG) executive vice president, general senior litigation attorney at the member of the Philadelphia counsel, and senior regulatory and compliance New Jersey law firm of Lynch Court of Common Pleas of officer. She supervises 550 and lawyers around and Lynch, where he has worked Pennsylvania. Previously, he was the world. Between 2003 and 2006, Kelly served since 1974. His professional a prosecutor and trial lawyer. as Executive Vice President and General Counsel activities are various, ranging He graduated from Loyola of MCI during its bankruptcy proceedings. She from serving as a judge in col- University Law School in New also worked for Sears, Roebuck and Co., and lege and high school mock trials Orleans, where he earned the Fannie Mae. to serving needy defendants as a highest average in constitutional Kelly received her B.A. from Trinity College, Washington, and her pro bono attorney. law and criminal law and proce- J.D. from George Washington University Law Center. She has been Lynch received his bachelor’s dure, and was a member of the involved with a significant amount of non-profit and committee work degree from St. Loyola Law Review. He throughout her career. She was born and raised in Boston, the daughter Francis College returned to New Orleans to help of an Irish Catholic policeman who “instilled in her the love of the law in 1963 and his in the aftermath of Hurricane and maybe a bit of the Blarney, too,” and was encouraged by both par- law degree from Katrina, and also assisted in the ents to get the highest level of education possible. Georgetown 9/11 rescue efforts, saying he Her family on her father’s side is from County Meath, where her University in was inspired by his mother, a cousins still live, and her mother’s side hails from County Cork. She 1968. Lynch nurse who served police and and her husband Tom are the very proud parents of twin boys, who just returned to firefighters in Philadelphia. graduated from high school and are off to college (UVA and Davidson). Georgetown in Lynn, whose ancestors hail 2005 to moderate a forum on the from various areas of Ireland Irish peace process. He also including Louth, Down, Donegal moderated Syracuse Law and Sligo, has served as presi- School’s forum of the same dent of Philadelphia’s St. name and has spoken elsewhere Patrick’s Day Parade and is its on human rights in Northern long-time announcer. He was Ireland. president and a founding mem- Lynch is a second-generation ber of the Irish-American whose mother's Brehon Law family hailed from Belfast and Society, and was his father's family from County invited by Cork. He is married and has President three children and a granddaugh- Clinton to serve ter. Lynch is active in the Irish as a delegate to community and has received the White House recognition from the Voice of the Conference for Innocent Human Rights Project Trade and Investment in in Belfast and the Peace and Northern Ireland and the Border Justice Award from Irish Counties. Judge Lynn is married Organizations United. to Barbara. His 19-year-old daughter, Grainne, is a student at The Catholic University of America.

Thomas Mahoney Thomas Mahoney, Jr., is a partner in the Savannah Anthony Kennedy law firm Ranitz, Mahoney & Mahoney PC, which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was born in focuses on criminal and trial law. Mahoney has been Sacramento, California, on July 23, 1936, the second of his parents’ involved with general law practice since 1962. He three children. His father was a well-established attorney and lobbyist previously served as a Special Agent for the FBI, and his mother, Gladys McLeod, was involved in civic activities. earned his B.A. from the University of South An honor student in high school, Kennedy went on to Stanford Carolina and received his J.D. from the University University. He also spent a year at the London School of Economics. of South Carolina School of Law. After Stanford, he enrolled in Harvard Law School and graduated cum In 1995, Mahoney was elected Grand Marshal of the St. Patrick’s laude.Kennedy returned to California after law school and practiced in Day Parade in Savannah, and has served as the past president of both San Francisco. When his father died in 1963, he returned to the Irish Heritage and the Sinn Féin Societies of Savannah, the latter of Sacramento to take over his practice. During this time he befriended Ed which has no affiliation with Northern Ireland. Meese. In 1973, Meese, who was working for California governor A fourth-generation Irish-American who traces his roots to County Ronald Reagan, recruited Kennedy to help draft a plan to limit the Cork, Mahoney has traveled to Ireland four times since 2004. He state’s spending. Reagan recommended Kennedy for the U.S. Court of enjoys the sounds of local Savannah musician Harry O’Donoghue, Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and in 1975 Kennedy became the as well as the writings of Frank McCourt, and lives with his wife, youngest federal judge of the day. He was appointed to the Supreme Judy, in Savannah. They are proud parents to four children and Court, the third Catholic to serve on the nation’s highest bench, by grandparents to three. President Reagan, and assumed that office on February 18, 1988. Kennedy is married to Mary Davis and the couple has three children.

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THE100 LEGAL Denis McInerney Rob McKenna Denis J. McInerney is a for- Rob McKenna is mer federal prosecutor who con- Washington’s 17th Attorney centrates in white collar criminal General. As the state’s chief defense work at Davis Polk & legal officer, he directs 500 Wardwell where he has been a attorneys and over 700 profes- partner since 1997. He was edu- sional staff providing legal serv- cated by the Irish Christian ices to state agencies, boards and Brothers at Iona Grammar commissions. School and Iona Prep and McKenna, whose great-grand- received his B.A. from father immigrated from Columbia College and his J.D. Buncrana, County Donegal in from Fordham Law School. He the late 1860s, currently serves on the Board of received his J.D. Sanctuary for Families and is a from the member of the New York City University of Bar Association’s Committee on Chicago Law Professional and Judicial Ethics. School in 1988, Denis’ maternal grandfather where he was a was Francis T. Murphy, a lawyer member of the and former President of the Law Review. He Ancient Order of Hibernians, earned a B.A. in economics and whose Irish ancestors came to a B.A. in international studies, this country in 1847 and fought both with honors, from the Seamus McCaffrey in the Civil War. University of Washington. A Denis’ paternal committed community leader, he Seamus McCaffrey is a Justice on the Supreme Court of grandparents has raised funds for Seattle’s Pennsylvania. McCaffrey became a municipal judge in 1993 and in were both born Eastside Domestic Violence 2001 was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as the in Clare and Program and the Bellevue Administrative Judge of the Municipal Court. He was elected to the came to this Schools Foundation. A former Supreme Court in 2003. country as Eagle Scout, he also serves as a Unlike most in his field, McCaffrey did not earn his law degree until teenagers. board member with the Chief he was almost forty, when he graduated with a J.D. from Temple Although they Seattle Council of the Boy University School of Law. Born in Belfast, he joined the Marine Corps had lived only a few miles apart Scouts of America, is on the after graduating Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia, and in Ireland, they first met each board of the Bellevue later transferred to the Marine Air Force Reserve, where he rose to the other in the Bronx at the Clare Community College Foundation rank of Colonel. Ball. Through several trips to and is a longtime member of the McCaffrey, who served on the Philadelphia Police Department Ireland, Denis’ father instilled in Bellevue Rotary, as well as serv- Homicide Unit for 20 years, has a reputation that is synonymous with all of his children a love for their ing as a fundraising chair of the his innovative National Football League Court (he created the ad hoc heritage which has resulted in Eastside Domestic Violence Nuisance Night Court program in 1998 to deal with rowdy fans at the their being in regular contact Program. Philadelphia Eagles home games). He was named “Philadelphia’s with their aunts, uncles and McKenna and his wife of Quality of Life Judge” by the city’s largest newspaper. He is married cousins from O’Callaghan’s 20 years, Marilyn, have four to Lise Rapaport, and they have three sons. Mills, Loch Graney and Dublin. children.

Joseph McLaughlin Paul McNamara Judge Joseph M. McLaughlin was appointed United States Circuit Paul J. McNamara, partner at Masterman, Culbert Judge on October 17, 1990 and entered on duty the next day. He and Tully LLP, is a member of the bar of the received his LL.B. from Fordham Law School, and his LLM from Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is a 1965 New York University Law School, and served in the United States graduate of Boston College Law School and Army from 1955-57. received its 1989 Alumnus of the Year Award. Judge McLaughlin served as dean of Fordham Law School from McNamara specializes in property and estate plan- 1971 to 1981, and was chairman of the New York State Law Revision ning. He also represents individuals in estate plan- Commission from 1975 to 1982. He was a United States District Judge ning, probate administration, and tax and succession from the Eastern District of New York from 1981 to planning. He serves on the Board of Overseers of Boston College Law 1990, and also an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s School and the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Charities of the Law School from 1982 to 1997. Archdiocese of Boston, and has served on the Board of Directors of the A first-generation Irish-American whose father’s Irish Immigration Center. and mother’s families both hail from County McNamara’s paternal grandmother, Mary Swift McNamara, came Longford, Judge McLaughlin is married to the for- from Williamstown, Co. Galway in the late 1800s and married Bernard mer Frances Lynch and has four children, Mary Jo, F. McNamara of Boston. His mother’s family, the Cassidys, immigrat- Joseph, Matthew and Andrew. ed in the 1800s from Dublin. McNamara is married to Mary Hallisey Only three people have given the address at the annual Friendly Sons who traces her roots to Tubercurry, Co. Sligo. They have two sons, of St. Patrick New York dinner more than once: William Hughes Paul Joseph McNamara, Jr. and Bernard Swift McNamara, and three Mulligan, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and Judge Joseph M. grandchildren, Nina, Alice, and Callum. McLaughlin.

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THE100 LEGAL John Meehan George Mitchell John McNicholas Former senator George J. John P. McNicholas III is a senior partner at the John J. Meehan is a retired Mitchell has a name that is Los Angeles law firm of McNicholas and District Attorney in California’s synonymous with the Northern McNicholas. Recent court victories included a Alameda County. Irish peace process, having $5.4 million settlement on behalf of the Isley He began working in the state chaired the talks which led to the Brothers against Sony Music and singer Michael District Attorney’s office in Good Friday Agreement. A part- Bolton. He also won a $1.67 million settlement 1960, having graduated from the ner in the New York City law for a single mother who sustained serious injury University of San Francisco, firm DLA Piper, Mitchell served from an over-the-counter dietary supplement. School of Law. He had been as a U.S. senator from Maine for McNicholas received his bachelor’s degree from the University of inspired by his father who was a fifteen years and was voted the California, Los Angeles and his law degree from Loyola Law School. police captain, active in the pre- “most respected member” for six He received Loyola’s Board of Governors Award in 2000 and has dominantly Irish community of consecutive years. He served as served on the advisory board to UCLA’s Catholic Center since 2000. Eureka Valley Senate Majority Leader and was McNicholas is a third-generation Irish-American whose father’s near San instrumental in the reauthoriza- family hails from County Mayo and whose mother, Rosemary’s, Francisco, to tion of the Clean Air Act and from Cork. He is a member of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. pursue a career Americans with Disabilities Act. Patrick’s Executive Board and the Irish American Bar Association, in prosecution. He served as Chairman of the which awarded him the Daniel O’Connell Award in 2005. Meehan, who International Commission on McNicholas is married and has seven children. was named the St. Thomas Disarmament in Northern More Lawyer of Ireland, for which he received the Year in 2003, also has a tal- the Nobel Peace Prize and ent for the written word, starting Presidential Medal of Freedom. Patrick Meehan Greg Milmoe a publication called Point Of Mitchell also served as View, which reviewed cases from Chairman of the International Patrick Meehan, who until As Partner Crisis Group, and has been recently served as United States and Co-head of the United States Supreme Court and the California courts. He appointed Chancellor of the Attorney for the Eastern District Corporate Queen’s University in Northern of Pennsylvania, first began his Restructuring at continues to write a column for a statewide legal publication called Ireland. He public service work in 1995 Skadden, Arps, recently headed when appointed District Slate, Meagher Did You Know. Meehan’s paternal grandpar- an investigation Attorney of Delaware County, and Flom, LLP, into past steroid Pennsylvania. As U.S. Attorney, Greg Milmoe ents hailed from County Leitrim and his mother’s family was use in major Patrick pioneered the Anti- plays a leadership role in the Los league baseball. Terrorism Task Force, which has Angeles firm’s numerous from County Cork. He and his wife, who is part Irish- A Maine since been touted as a national restructurings, acquisitions and native, Mitchell model for the prevention of financings. His career with American, had four children, three living, and spent their received his future terrorist attacks. His most Skadden began before he even bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin recent accomplishment, the graduated law school, as a mail- thirtieth wedding anniversary in Ireland. College and his law degree from “Route 222 Corridor Anti-Gang room assistant in 1971. the Georgetown University Law Initiative,” brings together faith- A graduate of Fordham Center. He is a second-genera- based and community efforts University Law School, Milmoe tion Irish-American. with local, state received his A.B. from Cornell and federal law University. As a corporate enforcement to lawyer, Milmoe has received establish safer accolades for his ability to fash- neighborhood ion pragmatic solutions to com- conditions plex problems from differing Donald Molloy Justice Donald Molloy worked in private practice, across five legal disciplines. In 2007, The where he focused on civil litigation, before he was cities and four American Lawyer awarded appointed U.S. District Judge for the District counties in Pennsylvania. Milmoe its Dealmaker of the of Montana, Missoula Division in 1996. With On July 21, 2008, Meehan Year award, and he has also been jurisdiction over a vast amount of federal land, joined Conrad O’Brien Gellman named to Turnarounds and including ten national forests, Molloy has been & Rohn, P.C. where his focus Workouts’s list of the top dozen colored as “one of the greenest judges in the West” will be on representing multi- restructuring lawyers in by High Country News, a magazine dedicated to national corporations and indi- America. reporting environmental news in the West. viduals and a wide range of cor- Milmoe’s achievements aren’t Judge Molloy graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the porate commercial litigation. limited to law: in 2006 he was University of Montana, and received his J.D. from the university’s Law Meehan graduated from honored by the Partnership for School after serving five years active duty in the U.S. Navy. His Irish Bowdoin College in Maine and Afterschool Education as its ancestors emigrated from Counties Offaly and Cork to Montana. Of his earned his J.D. from Temple Afterschool Champion, and in sense of Irish connection in America, Donald says, “Being Irish is University. A Philadelphia 2008 he helped win the being part of a very large clan that tends to take care of its members native, he is a third-generation Lawyer’s Cup for Skadden’s ice socially, spiritually and in their essence.” Judge Molloy instituted an Irish-American with roots in hockey team. internship program under which law students at University College County Mayo and enjoys the Milmoe’s father’s family hail Cork have the opportunity to attend the University of Montana. sounds of the contemporary Irish from Sligo, while his mother’s He has been married to Judith for 37 years and they have five band the Corrs. He is married come from Galway. He is mar- children. with three children. ried with two children.

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THE100 LEGAL Joseph Mulherin Kenneth Nolan A lawyer at Lewis, Owens and Mulherin, a firm Kenneth P. Nolan, managing partner of the New York office of concentrating on personal injury cases, Joseph Speiser, Krause, Nolan & Granito, specializes in aviation personal Mulherin previously practiced law at Bouhan, injury and wrongful death litigation and trials. He has successfully Williams and Levy for sixteen years, where he obtained million-dollar verdicts and settlements in the Avianca crash on focused on civil litigation. A member of the September 20, 1989 and the TWA Flight 800 explosion of July 17, Savannah and American Bar Associations and the 1996, as well as many others. American Association for Justice, Mulherin focus- Nolan has served as an editor for The New York Times and has writ- es on automobile collision, medical misconduct ten articles for The Times and other publications. He is a past member and workplace injury cases. of the Board of Editors of The New York State Bar Journal and has Mulherin graduated from the University of Georgia and went on to been president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild. earn his J.D. from the university’s Law School. A fourth-generation A past president of the Emerald Association of Long Island and a Irish-American with roots in County Mayo, he believes that being past member of the Board of Trustees of Bishop Irish means “sharing a sense of pride with others in the many accom- Ford Central Catholic High School, Nolan has been plishments of the Irish and enjoying a camaraderie with other Irish honored by the Holy Name Foundation, which rais- people resulting from the many hardships our people have over- es funds to support Nolan’s former grammar come.” school. An active participant in the Ancient Order of Hibernians’s annual Nolan’s family is from Tipperary and Limerick. Irish road bowling competition, Mulherin enjoys the tunes of both He and his wife Nancy have four children and live the Clancy Brothers and The Chieftains. He lives in Georgia and is in Brooklyn and Shelter Island, New York. married with a son and a daughter.

Thomas Nolan Donal O’Brien Thomas J. Nolan is a partner Donal O’Brien is a partner at in the Los Angeles law firm of the Chicago law firm of Bryan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Cave LLP, where he focuses his and Flom LLP and the co-chair practice on corporate law includ- of Skadden’s West Coast litiga- ing mergers and acquisitions, tion practice. He has extensive commercial finance and general experience rep- securities. He represented resenting corpo- American Tower in its $800 mil- rations and lion acquisition of ALLTELL individuals in cell phone towers, and other civil and crimi- recent clients include Barrilla nal litigation. A Foods, Irish Dairy Board and former federal United Shockwave. In the area prosecutor, he of finance, O’Brien has advised served as chief of fraud and financial institutions in numer- prosecutions in the Los Angeles ous secured and unsecured lend- U.S. Attorney’s office. ing transactions. He also repre- Nolan is consistently recog- sents foreign investments to and nized for his work by from Ireland. California’s Daily Journal and O’Brien graduated from Chambers USA: America's University College Dublin with Leading Lawyers for Business, honors in histo- and was selected by The Best ry and received Lawyers in America for its 2008 his law degree edition. In addition to his exten- from Chicago's Mary O’Connell sive white-collar defense prac- Loyola Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law tice, Nolan has represented University, at the Notre Dame Law School, where she teaches international law clients in complex civil litigation where he has courses. She began her teaching career at the Indiana University Law matters and has obtained ver- taught a course School, following a career in private practice in Washington, D.C. She dicts of over one billion dollars in Documenting has also taught at Ohio State University and for the U.S. Department of for his clients over the past six and Negotiating Finance Defense at the Center for Security Studies in Germany. She was years. Nolan is a fellow of the Transactions. He is a member of appointed by the International Law Association in 2005 to chair a four- American College of Trial the Chicago Bar Association’s year study on the meaning of war in international law. Lawyers and a fellow of the Judicial Evaluation Committee, a O’Connell received her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern International Academy of Trial director of the Illinois Chapter of University. She holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an MSc in Lawyers the American Liver Foundation International Relations from the London School of Economics and an Nolan received both his under- and the founder, director and LL.B. from Cambridge University. graduate and law degrees from president of the Ireland Network, She is a third-generation Irish-American; her father’s family hails Loyola University. His mother's North America’s largest Irish from County Kerry. She has written seven books and about 70 articles, family hails from County Mayo. professional network in North some appearing in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal He is married and lives in America. He emigrated from and USA Today. O’Connell is married. California. Dublin in the 1990s.

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THE100 LEGAL Brian O’Dwyer Michael O’Leary Brian O’Dwyer is a senior Michael O’Leary is a partner in partner in the New York litiga- the Houston law firm Andrews tion firm of O’Dwyer and Kurth LLP. His practice is Bernstien and has been cited as involved in all aspects of corpo- winning the highest personal rate transactions, including repre- injury award – $61 million – in sentation of public and private the United States. He has served companies and investment bank- as Counsel to the International ing firms. O’Leary also counsels Brotherhood of Teamsters, the on a wide range of strategic trans- New York District Council of actional matters, including interna- Carpenters and other unions. He tional joint ventures and alliances, is a regular com- publicly traded limited partner- mentator on ships, spin-offs, mergers, acquisi- legal issues for tions and dispositions (by tender James O’Malley Fox TV and offer, exchange offer and other- James A. O’Malley is a native of Limerick City and a graduate of the CNBC. His wise) of corporations, divisions of National University of Ireland, Galway and New York Law School. He is efforts on behalf corporations and other entities. He the senior partner in the law firm of O’Malley & Associates, a boutique of Puerto Rico has particular experience with law firm in New York City which handles all aspects of U.S. Immigration brought him the energy and oilfield service compa- law. The firm’s areas of specialization include executive and managerial honor of serving nies, pipeline transportation, staff transferee visas, investment visas, permanent residence and United States as Grand Marshal of the Puerto leasings, royalty trusts, and forest citizenship. He is also the co-editor of Everything Irish, a comprehensive Rican Day Parade in 1993. products companies. one volume popular reference book on Ireland published by Ballantine A recipient of the New York O’Leary graduated with a B.S. Books in the U.S. in 2003, and by Mercier Press in Ireland in 2005. City Council Spirit of New York in Finance from the University of O’Malley is pictured above with members of the U.S. Munster Rugby award for his work to bring Alabama and earned an honors Supporters Club of which he is a co-founder and the current president. together New York’s many cul- J.D. from the University of tures, O’Dwyer received papal Houston Law honors in 2000 when he was Center. He has named a Knight of the Holy been published in Patricia O’Neill John Phelan Sepulchre. O’Dwyer received his Financier A strong advocate for legal John Phelan has been practic- undergraduate degree from Worldwide and is justice for children, Patricia ing law in New York and George Washington University, a member of the O’Neill has practiced law for Connecticut for the last 15 years. his masters in Spanish in Madrid Houston Bar over fifteen years in A trial attorney by trade, he has and his Juris Doctor law degree Association and Pennsylvania and Delaware, and tried cases in all of the Supreme from Georgetown University. He the State Bar of Texas. In 2006 he has represented numerous cases Courts in New York. returned to George Washington was included as one of Chambers involving children with disabili- Phelan has been living his to receive his Masters in Law. USA Leading Business Lawyers ties under the Individuals with dream of having his own prac- He is the son of County Mayo and featured in Texas Monthly as a Disabilities Education Act. After tice and giving back to the Irish native Paul O'Dwyer, a famed Texas Super Lawyer in Securities graduating from Chestnut Hill community lawyer and politician who co- and Corporate Finance from 2003- College, Patricia taught for ten since 2001 founded the firm of O’Dwyer 2007. Married with three children, years before working as a visit- when he opened and Bernstien. he has roots in County Cork. ing nurse for nine years. She his office on attended Widener School of McLean Avenue Law in Wilmington, where she in Yonkers. The graduated cum laude. practice is pri- John O’Malley Patricia’s grandmother, who marily devoted John O’Malley is a shareholder in the law firm of emigrated from Ireland at the to real estate, Volpe and Koenig P.C. in Philadelphia where his age of three, spent the next particularly first time buyers. practice is focused on litigation and trademark mat- ninety years of her life in “Each time we help an Irish or ters. He is a member of the bar in Pennsylvania and America fostering a strong Irish-American couple close on was admitted to the United States District Court for sense of Irish appreciation in the their first house in the Bronx or the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Court of lives of her children. A second- in Yonkers or anywhere in New Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Supreme generation Irish-American, York City, we take pride in help- Court of the United States. Patricia says ing their dream come true,” says O’Malley graduated cum laude from George Washington University that “being Irish Phelan. and received his law degree from Villanova University. manifests itself Both of Phelan’s parents emi- He is first-generation Irish-American whose mother’s family hails through my grated from Waterford in the from Termon, County Donegal and his father’s from Louisburgh, efforts to fight early 1950s and he grew up sur- County Mayo. He has been vice president of the Brehon Law Society for justice. Not rounded by Irish culture. At age since 2006. He is also a board member of the Irish American Business only do I firmly five, he started playing Gaelic Chamber Network and a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. believe that football and eventually traveled He has served as a board member of Family and Community Services Ireland stood and cried for jus- to Ireland to play in the Minor of Delaware County since 2001. tice, but I learned it from my Championship. Phelan played O’Malley is married with two children. very Irish dad.” O’Neill lives in football for 30 years and now his Delaware with her husband and three children, Sean, Claire and four daughters. Leah, have embraced the sport.

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THE100 LEGAL Samantha Power William Quinlan Jack Quinn Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power was the William Quinlan is a managing Jack Quinn is founding executive director of the Care Center for partner at the Chicago law firm the co-founder Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Quinlan and Carroll. His practice and chairman of Government at Harvard University where she is is primarily focused on business Quinn Gillespie now a professor. law. Quinlan previously served as & Associates, a Straight out of college, Power spent three years a Justice of the Illinois Appellate strategic con- covering the war in Bosnia as a reporter and Court and is a former Circuit sulting company remains a working journalist, with her work appear- Court Judge in Cook County. he formed in ing in various publications including The Atlantic Monthly and The Quinlan, who received the Washington, D.C. in January New Yorker. She won the Pulitzer in 2003 for general nonfiction for her Distinguished Award for 2000 with Ed Gillespie. book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, and Excellence from the Illinois Bar Quinn served as counsel to spent a year working in the office of presidential hopeful Senator Foundation and was inducted as a President Clinton from Barack Obama. Power is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard laureate by the Illinois State Bar November 1995 to February Law School. Association Academy of Illinois 1997. Prior to that, he was Vice She was born in Dublin and moved to the United States when she Lawyers, graduat- President Gore’s Chief-of-Staff was nine. She married Cass Sunstein on July 4 of this year. ed from Loyola and Counselor. Before his gov- University and ernment service, Quinn was an received his J.D. Adjunct Professor of Law at his from Loyola and alma mater, Georgetown Paul Quinn Tom Reynolds his LLM from the University Law Center, where as Paul S. Tom Reynolds III is a former University of a student he edited the Quinn works Assistant Attorney General for Virginia. He is Georgetown Law Journal. He is for Buchanan the State of Illinois and a veter- married with six children. A sec- a member of the Council on Ingersoll and an of more than twenty jury tri- ond-generation Irish-American, Foreign Relations and has served Rooney PC in als. Along with another partner Quinlan’s father’s family hails on a number of boards, including Washington, at the Chicago law firm Winston from Cork and his mother’s from Fannie Mae, the Philadelphia D.C., where & Strawn, Reynolds holds the Galway. He is a member of the Stock Exchange, the Robert F. he specializes distinction of having secured the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, Kennedy Memorial and the in federal government relations. highest jury award ever collect- the Celtic Legal Society of Center City Consortium. Prior to joining Buchanan, ed in the Seventh Circuit of the Chicago and the Irish American Quinn’s great-grandfather Quinn provided policy and United States. Partnership for Excellence. came from County Clare. strategic advice to many sena- Reynolds’ clients have includ- tors, including Ted Kennedy, and ed American Appraisal served as a lieutenant in the Associates, Baxter International, United States Army from 1956- Carbon County Coal Company, Robert Reilly 1958. He was the 2005 recipient FMC, Jefferson Smurfit Robert J. Reilly is the Assistant Dean for the Feerick Center for of the Irish Peace and Culture Corporation, Gannet Co., Gould Social Justice at Fordham University School of Law. After a career in Award from The American Inc., Multimedia Co., Northern corporate law at Transamerica Corporation, he returned to Fordham, Ireland Fund, where he sits on Trust Company, Philip Morris, where he had received both his undergraduate and law degrees. He has the Board of Directors. He also Salomon Brothers, United been involved in the administration of the school for over 25 years. For founded the AIF’s annual gala Airlines, VMS Realty and Wirtz three seasons he served fundraiser in Washington. Corporation. Reynolds is a as the host of the cable Quinn chairs the American member of the Boards of television program Ask Advisory Board of the Smurfit Directors of Georgetown the Lawyer. Graduate School of Business at University and Smurfit Stone A former president of University College Dublin. A Container Corporation, and is a the Friendly Sons of St. Rhode Island native, he attended recent past president of the Patrick in New York, Providence College and received Better Reilly was a contributing his law degree from Georgetown Government author to The University. Association in Encyclopedia of the Irish All four of Quinn’s grandpar- Chicago. in America, Reilly is also ents hailed from Ireland, and he Reynolds is a member of the New enjoys dual citizenship. His president of the York Irish History paternal grandfather was from Brain Research Roundtable and the Coalisland in County Tyrone, Foundation. American Irish Historical and his maternal grandmother He received a Society. He was involved was from Belfast. On his moth- B.S. in business administration in organizing the er’s side his grandfather was from Georgetown University in Fordham Law School born in Waterford and his grand- 1974 and a J.D. from Emory Northern Ireland mother in Drumlish in County University in 1977. Mediation program. A Longford. Quinn has been mar- Reynolds is a third-generation fifth-generation Irish- ried to his wife, Denise, for 50 Irish-American. American, he is married years. They have two children to the former Mary Jane and two grandchildren. Conlon and has three sons, John, Benedict and Michael.

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THE100 LEGAL Sean Riordan Fred Rooney Sean Patrick Riordan is an associate at Brecher Fred Rooney is the director of the Community Legal Resource Fishman Pasternack Heller Walsh & Tinker, a firm Network at City University of New York Law School, which supports a committed to personal injury lawsuits. After gradu- network of solo and small-firm attorneys in community-based practices ating with a B.A. in political science from Molloy in their efforts to increase access to civil justice in the New York City College, Sean received his law degree in 2004 from area. He is also a partner in the small Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based St. John’s University School of Law. law firm of Rooney and Mannicci LLC, and is committed to practicing Riordan converges his Irish roots with his legal pro bono law that focuses on international child abductions and lifesav- career with memberships in the Nassau County ing healthcare for children of needy parents. Brehon Law Society and The American Ireland Fund Young Leaders A graduate of CUNY’s first law class in 1986, he group. Of how his Irish roots affect his current law practices, Riordan received his master’s in bicultural and bilingual says, “Being Irish provides me with the knowledge of what injustice studies from Marywood College and his bachelor’s looks like, and the strength to help fight against it today.” He serves in Latin American Studies from Moravian College, on the Board of Directors for the Feel Good Foundation, a non-profit both in Pennsylvania. He was awarded Moravian organization dedicated to education and relief of health and financial College’s Haupert Humanitarian Award in 2002. He burdens on the first responders to the 9/11 attacks. remains a supporter of CUNY’s Joseph Doherty He lives in New York with his wife, Elizabeth, and two young chil- Fellowship, which provides financial assistance to dren who, Sean hopes, will value their Irish heritage “when they are CUNY law students who have demonstrated a commitment to civil old enough to appreciate anything other than Mickey Mouse!” A sec- rights or activism on behalf of Irish causes. ond-generation Irish-American, Sean has roots in counties Armagh, Rooney has two children and traces his roots to County Cork. Roscommon, Cork and Mayo.

Kevin Ryan William Ryan Kevin Ryan is the Criminal A career prosecutor, Bill Ryan Justice Director for the City of serves as First Deputy Attorney San Francisco. He is also Deputy General to Pennsylvania Chief of Staff to Mayor Gavin Attorney General Tom Corbett. Newsom, and a senior advisor on In this role, Ryan supervises all criminal justice issues. Prior to administrative and legal issues joining the Mayors’ staff, Ryan within the Office of the Attorney was a partner in General, and also serves as the a major Ca. Law primary advisor to Corbett on all firm. Before that major issues. he was the 48th Prior to his appointment as U.S. Attorney First Deputy, Ryan served as for the Northern Director of the Attorney District of General’s Criminal Law California. Division, overseeing investiga- Ryan’s four and a half years as tions of all criminal matters Northern California’s top federal including insurance fraud, envi- prosecutor will be remembered ronmental crimes, narcotics and for his efforts to rid sports of per- Medicaid fraud. formance-enhancement drugs. Ryan earned his bachelor’s His handling of the BALCO degree from St. Joseph’s steroids case permeated all levels University and J.D. degree from of professional sports. Major Villanova University School of league baseball has twice Law. Upon graduation, he was John Roberts changed its testing policy for hired as a legal intern with the John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born in steroids and controlled sub- Delaware County District Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955. He received an A.B. from stances since the case. Ryan Attorney’s Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979. attended Saint Ignatius High Office, progress- Roberts began his career as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of School before earning his ing to Trial the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1979-1980, and Bachelor of Arts History from Assistant, First as a law clerk for Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court Dartmouth College and JD from Assistant District of the United States during the 1980 term. the University of San Francisco Attorney and Roberts went on to serve as a Special Assistant to the Attorney School of Law. He was named later District General of the United States. In 1982, he was appointed as Associate one of the Top 100 California Attorney. Counsel to President Reagan and served until 1986. From 1989-1993 Lawyers of 2006 by the San Ryan is proud he was the Principal Deputy Solicitor General, following which he Francisco Daily Journal, and of his Irish heritage and traces practiced law in Washington, D.C. He served as a Judge on the Court voted a N. California "Superlawyer" his roots back four generations of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2003-2005 until for 2006 and 2007. Ryan’s father on his mother’s side and even his nomination as Chief Justice of the United States by President was born in Dublin and his mother in further on his father’s. He lives George W. Bush. He assumed office on September 29, 2005. Longford. They immigrated first to with his wife, Debra, and their Roberts is Irish through marriage. His wife, Jane Sullivan has roots Canada where Ryan was born, and two sons in Bryn Mawr, in County Limerick where the couple maintain a home. They have two then to San Francisco. He is married Pennsylvania. children, Josephine and John. with two sons.

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THE100 LEGAL William Roger Sullivan Frank Sweeney Shearouse Roger Sullivan is a partner in Francis “Frank” Sweeney, who started out as William Ward Shearouse,Jr., the Los Angeles law firm of General Counsel at TDK Corporation, was named of the Savannah-based firm Sullivan, Workman and Dee, spe- Corporation President and CEO of TDK USA in Weiner, Shearouse, Weitz, cializing in eminent domain and 2004. He is responsible for strategic plans of sub- Greenberg and Shawe, special- land use. He is the past chair of sidiaries throughout the U.S. as well as domestic and izes in the area of real estate the eminent domain committees international mergers. transactions, general business of the American, California and After receiving his B.A. in English literature from and land development. He con- Los Angeles Bar Associations, Villanova University and his J.D. from Fordham currently serves as the Assistant and a fellow in the American University School of Law, Sweeney worked at Transamerica Interway, City Attorney for the City of College of Trial Lawyers. He is Inc., where he dealt with legalities in domestic and international leas- Savannah, and also a member of the American ing before serving as Senior Counsel at the Hertz Corporation. has received the College of Real Estate Lawyers. A second-generation Irish-American who often quotes Oscar Wilde, prestigious AV Sullivan served in the Navy as Sweeney traces his roots to Counties Cavan, Mayo and Cork. He was rating, the high- an aviator and a qualified carrier awarded the Villanova University Distinguished Arts and Science est mark award- pilot until 1947. He began his Alumni Award in 2005, and believes that being Irish means “working ed by the law career in 1952, having hard and maximizing our God-given talents to advance each genera- Martinsdale obtained his law degree from tion. Sometimes it is done with a joke or a laugh but that is just for fear Hubbell Law Loyola Law School, where he of revealing the depth of the heart that cares so much.” Directory. A helped found the St. Thomas Sweeney lives in Connecticut with his wife of 32 years and their member of the Hibernian More Law Society to encourage four children. Society of Savannah, Shearouse an emphasis on ethics and morali- says, “Irishmen are inclined by ty in legal education. nature to good fellowship and He has served as president of charity, and should not forget Loyola’s Board of Visitors and the duties they owe to them- received their selves, their national character Distinguished and their distressed country- Alumni Award in men.” 1989. Shearouse earned his political Sullivan, science degree from the whose father’s University of Georgia and his family hails from J.D. from the university’s Law the Beare School, where he was a member Peninsula in of the Prosecutorial Clinic. He is County Kerry, is married with six a second-generation Irish- children. He is active in the American whose family hails Catholic Church and is a Knight from County Cork. He lives in in the Papal Order of Saint Savannah with his wife, Ronda. Gregory.

David Tierney David C. Tierney is a partner in the Scottsdale, William Treanor Arizona law firm Sacks Tierney P.A., where he acts William Treanor is the Dean and Paul Fuller Chair of Law at as an arbitrator and mediator. Fordham Law School in New York City. He joined the faculty in 1991 Named in Woodward/White, Inc.’s The Best and has taught a range of subjects including property law and criminal Lawyers in America from 2003-04 through 2007-08, law. Prior to joining the Fordham faculty, Dean Treanor was a speech- Tierney was also listed by Southwest Super Lawyers writer for the United States Secretary of Education and served as magazine as one of the top attorneys for 2007. Associate Independent Counsel in the Office of the Iran-Contra Tierney received his undergraduate degree in psy- Independent Counsel. He successfully defended on appeal before the chology from Brandeis University and his law United States Court, the conviction of the only Iran-Contra figure to degree from Harvard in 1965. He served in the Peace Corps in serve jail time. Venezuela in the 1960s and continues to be active in public service, for Treanor is also a leading constitutional historian. He is active in which he received an award in Maricopa County. Fordham’s summer program in affiliation with University College A third-generation Irish-American, Tierney founded the Phoenix Dublin and Queen’s College in Belfast. His senior paper in college was chapter of the Irish American Cultural Institute and serves as its chair- on the Dublin Archdiocese and the Home Rule Movement. Dean man. His father’s family hails from Limerick. Treanor attended Yale College for his undergraduate degree, received Married with two children, Sean and Connor, Tierney is a member an A.M. in history from Harvard, where he began law school. He of the Arizona Coalition for Tomorrow, which operates programs to received his law degree from Yale Law School. Irish on both sides, benefit children in the state. with roots in County Donegal and Belfast. He and his wife, Allison, have two children, Liam and Katherine.

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THE100 LEGAL John Tully Neal Tully John F. Tully is a lawyer in the New York Neal C. Tully, partner at Masterman, Culbert and Tully LLP, is a Office of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, where he member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has defends clients in commercial, environmental and also been admitted to the Federal District Court for Massachusetts, the property damage lawsuits. Tully graduated from First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. St. Francis College in 1967 and named the new A 1973 graduate of Boston College Law School, he has a general civil college board chairman on July 1. He received his litigation and appellate practice with a concentration in eminent J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law domain, land valuation and land use and development. School. He began his legal career working in the Tully has tried approximately sixty jury trials and an equal number homicide bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s office. of bench trials and arbitrations. He is the former chairman of the He went on to work for ExxonMobil, where he first served as staff Eminent Domain Committee of the Boston Bar Association, and has counsel, focusing on environmental and employment law issues, and lectured and written articles on eminent domain and eventually rose to the position of Assistant General Counsel, where land valuation. He was selected by Super Lawyers he was responsible for worldwide litigation. magazine in 2004, 2006 and 2007, and has been chosen Tully is second-generation Irish-American. After emigrating to the by The American Lawyer as among the Best Lawyers United States from County Galway, his grandmother worked as a in America for eminent domain and condemnation law maid in a house on Remsen Street in Brooklyn, current home to St. for 2008. Francis College, where he earned his B.A. in history. His grandfather Tully’s father’s side is from the Connemara area of hailed from County Cavan, where Tully, his wife and two children County Galway and Cork, and his mother’s side is visited this past summer, fulfilling his desire to show the children from Tuam, County Galway and from Donegal. “exactly where their great-grandfather was born and raised.”

Mark Tuohey James Wade Mark Tuohey is a partner at New York native James Wade the Washington, D.C. branch of is a partner at the law firm of the law firm of Vinson-Elkins, Robinson and Cole LLP in where he is a litigator and repre- Hartford, Connecticut. sents companies in civil and He has been consistently white-collar criminal litigation. named in the directory of Best He served as president of the Lawyers in America in the District of categories of corporate and Columbia Bar negligence litigation and white- Association and collar criminal defense, and has is a fellow of been a Fellow of the American the American College of Trial Lawyers since College of Trial 1980. Lawyers. Appointed by Connecticut’s As chair of governor to serve as an arbitrator the D.C. Sports on the state’s behalf in a dispute and Entertainment Commission, with the state of New York over Tuohey brought major league Metro-North Railroad funding, baseball to Washington and was Wade served as counsel to the named Washingtonian of the Connecticut State Democratic Year in 2005. A former advisor Party for 20 years and as to the Independent Commission counsel to three of the state’s on Policing for Northern Ireland, governors. Tuohey has also served as a Wade received his undergrad- legal advisor to the office of uate degree from Yale University Joseph Walsh Ireland’s Attorney General. He in 1959 and Joseph A. Walsh is a partner and vice chairman of Winston & currently chairs Cooperation went on to law Straw’s corporate department. Since joining the firm in 1977, Walsh Ireland (U.S.), an organization school at the has practiced exclusively in the corporate area, concentrating in merg- involved in cross-border recon- University of ers, acquisitions, and divestitures, as well as joint ventures for public ciliation efforts. Virginia. He and privately held companies. He also practices in the area of securities Tuohey, who received his also served in law and has extensive experience in sports law and media law, han- bachelor’s degree from St. the U.S. Navy. dling the acquisitions of the San Francisco 49ers, Denver Nuggets, Bonaventure University and his Married with Chicago White Sox, and Montreal Canadians and numerous television law degree from Fordham two children, stations and newspapers. University Law School, is an Sarah and Michael, Wade is a Walsh serves as a panel member of the American Association of Irish citizen whose maternal third-generation Irish-American Arbitrators and as a director for the Ireland Chamber of Commerce in grandparents hail from Tipperary whose father’s family hails from the United States. He received his B.A., with honors, from Indiana and paternal grandfather from Waterford. His mother’s family University in 1971 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Indiana Galway. The grand marshal for is from Dingle, County Kerry University Law School in 1974. this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Walsh is a second-generation Irish-American whose father’s family Parade in Washington, he is hails from Kerry and whose mother’s is from Dublin. married with three children.

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