O'Melveny &Myers LLP is an American multinational law firm founded in Los Angeles,California in 1885. The firm employs approximately 740 lawyers and has offices in California,Washington,D.C.,New York City,Beijing,Brussels,Hong Kong,London,Seoul,Shanghai,Singapore,and Tokyo.
Rosemary Isabel Forbes was an American nurse and social activist.
William Floyd Weld is an American attorney,businessman,author,and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. A Harvard and Oxford graduate,Weld began his career as legal counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later,the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He worked on a series of high-profile public corruption cases and later resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and associated investigations into Attorney General Edwin Meese.
Ken Novack,a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School,is an American lawyer who currently sits on the board of BBN Technologies and is a special advisor to General Catalyst Partners. From 1998 until 2003,he served as Vice Chairman for America Online and then Time-Warner after the two companies merged. Early in his career,from 1966 to 1998,Novack served as an attorney with the firm of Mintz,Levin,Cohn,Ferris,Glovsky,and Popeo,PC ("Mintz"). Recently,however,Novack rejoined Mintz as Senior Counsel.
John Forbes Kerry is an American attorney,politician and diplomat currently serving as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama and represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013. Kerry was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2004 election,losing to president George W. Bush.
Mintz is a surname. Its etymology may be connected to the German city of Mainz. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Daniel Ferris was an American lawyer and government official. A longtime staffer for Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee,he played a key role in the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,Voting Rights Act of 1965,and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation.
Francis Xavier Bellotti is an American lawyer and politician who served as both the 39th attorney general and the 61st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Mintz,Levin,Cohn,Ferris,Glovsky and Popeo,P.C. is a general practice,full service law firm employing approximately 600 attorneys worldwide. Its headquarters are located at One Financial Center in the Financial District of Boston. The firm also has offices in London,Los Angeles,New York City,Palo Alto,San Diego,San Francisco,and Washington D.C.,and a liaison office in Israel. It was founded in 1933 by Haskell Cohn and Benjamin Levin. The firm's current managing member is Robert I. Bodian.
Penny Sue Pritzker is an American billionaire heiress,businesswoman and civic leader who served as the 38th United States secretary of commerce in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. She was confirmed by a Senate vote of 97–1. Since September 2023,she has been working in the position of U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery.
Richard John Kerry was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer. He was the father of politicians John Kerry and Cameron Kerry.
Leocadia Irine Zak serves as the ninth president of Agnes Scott College in Decatur,Georgia. Prior to that,Zak served as director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA),where she led an agency dedicated to encouraging economic growth in emerging markets and the export of U.S. goods and services to those markets. After being nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2009,Zak was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 10,2010.
J. Edward Fox is an American political advisor who served in the United States Department of State and the United States Department of Homeland Security.
William Maurice “Mo”Cowan is an American lawyer who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from February 1,2013,to July 15,2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as legal counsel and chief of staff to Governor Deval Patrick. Patrick appointed him on an interim basis to fill the vacancy left by fellow Democrat John Kerry,who resigned to become U.S. Secretary of State.
David Jeremiah Barron is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.
Leo Theodore Sorokin is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Josh Zakim is a Boston politician,attorney,and community activist. He formerly served on the Boston City Council representing District 8,which includes Boston's Back Bay,Beacon Hill,Fenway–Kenmore,Mission Hill,and West End neighborhoods.
David H. Long is an American and British businessman who was the CEO and chairman of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group until his retirement at the end of 2022. In September 2014 the Obama administration announced its intention to appoint Long to be a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Mark E. Robinson is an American attorney and former Massachusetts government official who served as Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts from 1992 to 1994.
Enoh Titilayo Ebong is a Nigerian-American attorney and trade official currently serving as the director of the United States Trade and Development Agency. She was made to be the permanent director of the agency,having been confirmed on March 31,2022.
