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About​ Arnold + Porter

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About Vance Dispute Resolution, PC

www.vanceadr.com

With over 25 years of legal, professional, and business expertise, VADR provides mediation and arbitration services to resolve complex issues and disputes. VADR takes pride in helping parties manage and resolve conflict to avoid time-consuming and expensive litigation.  VADR handles all types of mediations, and arbitrations with a specific focus on commercial disputes, construction, employment/labor, intellectual property, legal malpractice matters, and product liability.

VADR has specific experience in the following areas: Employment-related matters including but not limited to consent decrees, constructive dismissal, bullying, discrimination (Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender, religion (Seventh-day Adventist), religious accommodations), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), evaluating employment practices for mergers and acquisitions, Equal Pay Act (EPA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), harassment, Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act or 1964, §1981, retaliation, wage and hour, workplace investigations, and wrongful termination. Contract matters related to breach of contract (supplier and subcontractor disputes, warranty, limitations of liability, bid awards and disputes), non-compete agreements, nondisclosure agreements, severance payment, and severance agreements. Employee safety-related matters including but not limited to compliance, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), worker’s compensation, and workplace injuries. Human resources (HR) related matters dealing with background employment screening, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), diversity initiatives, drug tests, handbooks, hiring, job evaluations, HR training, leadership training, manager and supervisor training, outplacement services, policies and procedures, performance reviews, progressive discipline, recruiting, remote work, succession planning, and termination. Personal injury-related matters including, but not limited to auto accidents, trucking cases, and product liability (aerial devices, bucket trucks, electrocution, and heavy machinery).

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About King & Spalding

www.kslaw.com

King & Spalding helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,300 lawyers in 23 offices globally, we deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service.

From railroads to banking, energy projects to life sciences, King & Spalding has served leading commercial industries in each decade since the late 1800s. A Global 50 law firm today, we have grown in close relationship with our clients’ interests and market dynamics, coordinating now across global hubs to best serve our clients’ complex, often cross-border, objectives.

Our high-performing culture is founded on a drive for uncompromising quality, a dedication to service and genuine respect for others. Clients tell us that our culture sets us apart, leads to beneficial outcomes and is a consistent experience across our offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

We are guided on a daily basis by a set of client service principles that express our straightforward, outward-oriented and personal approach to delivering solutions.

Diversity & Inclusion allows King & Spalding to provide the highest quality legal service to our clients. We have a better culture and working environment because of the different talents, backgrounds and perspectives of our lawyers.

We aim to contribute to the greater good of our communities. Rolling up our sleeves to make a difference, we volunteer with local nonprofits on impactful community service projects.  Leveraging our legal expertise, we provide pro bono representation in support of fundamental legal needs and important social justice and equality issues. We extend our impact by also giving to important causes.

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About Kilpatrick

https://ktslaw.com/

Kilpatrick is trusted counsel to the world’s most innovative companies.

As one of a handful of law firms focused on serving the world’s most groundbreaking companies, we always strive to be at the forefront, from creating a best-in-class client experience to proactively addressing challenges and seizing opportunities on the cutting edge of law and technology. With recognized strength in the technology sector and a full range of service offerings, we do things differently from our peers because we put people first. Our highly skilled and intellectually curious team delivers practical, business-centric solutions built upon unusually strong and enduring connections with our clients and collaboration with each other.

With a foundation of over 160 years of success, we are steadfastly future-focused, driving innovation while cultivating genuine relationships. We’re optimistic about the future and invest in the success of our clients, our people, our firm, and our communities.

Why did they decide to become an NBA-CLS sponsor? (50 – 100-word count)

The NBA-CLS is a unique opportunity to interact with in-house counsel and General Counsel. Kilpatrick is proud to support the NBA-CLS and support the pipeline of African-Americans entering the legal profession.

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At our firm, we believe that a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enables our lawyers and professional staff to work together towards common goals, strengthens our workplace, and enhances our ability to serve clients. We are proud that our team reflects the rich variety found in the communities and industries we serve.

We foster a culture where people from all walks of life feel valued, respected, and able to thrive. Creating an environment of genuine belonging is essential—not only to who we are as colleagues, but to the way we approach our work.

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About Axinn

www.axinn.com/

Axinn combines the skills, experience and dedication of the world’s largest firms with the focus, responsiveness, efficiency and attention to client needs of the best boutiques. The firm was established in the late 1990s by lawyers from premier Wall Street firms with a common vision: provide the highest level of service and strategic acumen in antitrust, intellectual property and high-stakes litigation. Axinn’s lawyers have served as lead or co-lead counsel on nearly half a trillion dollars in transactions and, in the last 10 years alone, have handled more than 300 litigations.

• Global Competition Review named Axinn the “Firm of the Year – Americas” for acting as global lead counsel in its representation of Ball Corp. in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Rexam, creating the largest aluminum can beverage company in the world. It also acted as global lead counsel for Dell in its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, the largest technology deal in history. The firm was nominated by Global Competition Review for Litigator of the Year, Litigation of the Year (SawStop v Black & Decker), Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defense (Auto Parts MDL), Deal of the Year (Dell’s acquisition of EMC) and Dealmaker of the Year.

• Axinn has numerous seasoned IP trial lawyers and is a go-to firm for IP matters of strategic importance. The IP group typically has several dozen pending patent and trade secret cases, and tries multiple cases annually. Axinn has served as lead trial counsel in some of the most significant recent patent cases for the world’s leading pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, biologics and consumer products companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Unilever. On numerous occasions, the firm has been asked to take over cases during or after discovery and serve as lead counsel at trial, including the defense of a multi-billion dollar jury trial.

• Axinn litigators try cases and win. They have tried cases before juries, judges and arbitrators alleging breach of contract, business torts, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, antitrust violations, employment discriminations, fraud and theft of intellectual property. Axinn litigators also understand their clients, their businesses and products, their goals and governance issues, and what keeps their GCs up at night. Axinn has particular expertise in serving financial institutions with dozens of insurer hedge funds, mutual funds, and other financial industry clients. Axinn litigators are frequently involved in litigation on behalf of international clients and have successfully represented clients in forums from the Cayman Islands and Jersey to ICC arbitrations.

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About Littler

www.littler.com

At Littler, our unparalleled commitment to labor and employment law helps our clients navigate a complex business world with nuanced legal issues – building better solutions for their toughest challenges.

How do we do it? By harnessing our deep experience and expansive resources that are local everywhere. By recruiting a diverse team of the brightest minds and fostering a culture that celebrates original thinking. By disrupting the status quo with bold, groundbreaking innovation – all in service to our clients. Because at Littler, we’re fueled by ingenuity and inspired by you.

With a singular focus on labor and employment law, our team is better equipped to serve your business. Why? Because our experience is vast and our knowledge is deep. For more than 75 years, we’ve focused exclusively on labor and employment law. But we realize it’s not enough to know just the law – we have to know your business, too. By understanding your challenges and opportunities, we can tackle everything from simple questions to complex litigation needs with the same rigor and nuanced approach. And, we can respond to each of your questions – not just with an answer, but with your answer.

At Littler, unconventional thinking is our norm. We listen to our clients’ issues and respond with bold answers that not only address their needs but help shape the industry. So whether you’re a CLO facing compliance challenges in the financial services field or a higher education Human Resources leader with employee benefits questions; whether you’re a GC dealing with wage and hour issues in the retail space or a business leader of an energy company who needs help navigating international employment law – you’ve come to the right place.

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