Louise Sommers

Conflict, Mediation
488 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, New York 100225702


Conflict

Admitted

1977, New York

Law School

Brooklyn Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1976

Law School Graduation Year

1976

College

Douglass College, Rutgers University, B.A., with honors, 1969

Memberships

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Media and Communications Law Committee, 1992-1994); New York State (Chair, Committee on Magistrate Judges, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, 1993-1994) and American (Co-Chairman, Class Action and Derivative Suits Subcommittee, Federal Securities Litigation Commission, 1990-1991) Bar Associations; Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (Board Member); Copyright Society.

Biographical

Adjunct Professor, Communications Law, Brooklyn Law School, 1986-1991. Adjunct Professor, Entertainment and Mass Media Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 2001. Law Clerk to Hon. Kevin Thomas Duffy, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York, 1976-1978. Partner, 1984-1998 and Associate, 1978-1984, Rogers & Wells. Member, Mediation Panel, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Former Member and Co-Chair, 1995-1999, Committee on Communications and Entertainment Law, New York Women's Bar Association.

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