19 May 2009
Welcome to the May 2009 edition of CU link.
In this edition we share with you some recent highlights from our events calendar, including the 2009 Lex Mundi Asia Pacific Regional Conference which we hosted in March and our firm-wide celebrations to mark the fifth anniversary of our Community Connect program.
In response to your feedback that you'd like to hear more about where your fellow Alumni are now, we profile two former CU colleagues who are shining examples of the different doors a law degree can open.
As well as our regular features on recent appointments and the international conferences where you can rub shoulders with our partners, we also have an interesting feature on Construction and Major Projects partner Colin Dodd, who has recently returned to our Sydney office after working remotely in Taiwan for5 years on a fascinating rail project.
Keeping pace with the rapid changes occurring in Australia's financial markets, we have further bolstered our restructuring and insolvency capability with the appointment of specialist corporate workouts lawyer Nick Poole as a partner in Melbourne.
Kirstie Howard was a lawyer in our Litigation team in Sydney before leaving in 2002 to pursue LLM studies at Columbia University in New York. She is now Assistant Counsel in the legal team at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York.
Jeremy King started his legal career at Clayton Utz in 1998 as a paralegal in the Workplace Relations team. Since 2004, he has worked for Man Investments – the world's largest hedge fund group – as the Director of Marketing, Branding & Communications. He was originally based in Switzerland but moved to New York in 2007.
We like celebrating milestones at Clayton Utz – and the fifth anniversary of our Community Connect program was certainly cause for celebration.
For over five years Construction and Major Projects partner Colin Dodd has led a team of CU lawyers in advising the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) on the construction and operation of the "bullet train" service between Taipei and Kaohsiung – proving that borders are no barrier to our involvement in major international projects.
Over the next few months Clayton Utz partners and lawyers will attend a range of conferences and professional networking events in various countries around the world.
From 26-28 March our Sydney office hosted the 2009 Lex Mundi Asia Pacific Regional Conference – with lawyers from 33 Lex Mundi member firms as well as corporate counsel from around the region coming together to discuss legal practice developments and current issues facing the profession.
2009 event dates for your diary.
