US REGULATORY LAWYER OF THE YEAR, BROOKE D. RODGERS, STEINMAN & RODGERS LLP
Brooke D. Rodgers Steinman & Rodgers LLP 5630 Connecticut Avenue, NW Second Floor Washington, DC 20015 (202) 558-9360 (office) (202) 297-5930 (mobile) (202) 525-2906 (fax) brodgers@steinmanrodgers.com www.steinmanrodgers.com Brooke Rodgers is a founding member, majority owner, and Managing Partner of Steinman & Rodgers. With nearly a decade of experience, Ms. Rodgers is recognized as a leading expert on the FCPA and anti-corruption matters in the defense and aerospace industry. Clients seek her guidance to develop and implement effective compliance strategies in challenging jurisdictions and circumstances. Ms. Rodgers guides her clients through the delicate balance of legal requirements and business needs. She offers comprehensive, customized solutions to address risks by coordinating directly with clients’ legal teams, audit committees, boards of directors, executives, and other business stakeholders. She has extensive experience designing, implementing, and testing compliance programs in organizations of all sizes. Ms. Rodgers regularly assists with the establishment, maintenance, and upgrade of clients’ due diligence policies and procedures. She works extensively with our local counsel network on foreign
legal issues and developing strategies to overcome the cultural challenges inherent in transnational operations. Ms. Rodgers regularly conducts anti-corruption training for marketing personnel and overseas intermediaries. She has worked on secondment in several multinational corporations. This, as well as regular contact with both in-house counsel and business personnel, provides her with a unique perspective on compliance matters. She has eased clients through cumbersome adjustments in established procedures, developed staged implementation plans for resource sensitive compliance programs, and performed expedited reviews of relationships inherited in public acquisitions. In addition to her anti-corruption work, Ms. Rodgers writes contracts with intermediaries that account for foreign legal issues, designs lawful compensation structures in restrictive jurisdictions, settles disputes with intermediaries, and negotiates settlements with former contracting partners. Ms. Rodgers also has experience conducting internal reviews and investigations and settling voluntary disclosures.
USA LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR (SMALL AND MIDSIZED), SEVERSON & WERSON INSURANCE DEFENSE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, SEVERSON & WERSON FINANCIAL SERVICES LITIGATION LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, SEVERSON & WERSON INSURANCE LAWYER OF THE YEAR, MICHAEL B. MURPHY, SEVERSON & WERSON
Michael B. Murphy, Member mbm@severson.com (415) 398-3344 Tel (415) 956-0439 Fax Severson & Werson One Embarcadero Center Suite 2600 San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
Michael B. Murphy and each of the attorneys at Severson & Werson are pleased and honored to have received this award. Everything we do in our global insurance practice –from the hand’s-on personal service and the results we achieve, to the recognition our clients and indeed the industry give us, is the result of a team-oriented & collaborative effort. Our Insurance Practice Group handles matters throughout the United States for our international and domestic insurer clients arising from situations occurring domestically and throughout the world. The Severson & Werson attorneys with whom our clients interface are the same professionals who do the actual work. This has proven to enhance the close relationship we have with our insurer clients and indeed their policyholders, who we routinely defend. Our approach has always been one of efficiency without sacrificing quality, hard work, round-the-clock availability and the highest of
ethics. Whether it be an insurer from the U.S., Lloyds of London, the greater London Market, the European Market, Bermuda/Offshore Markets, the PRC or the greater Asia-Pacific Insurance Market, we strive to present each client with the same quality and responsiveness, regardless of location or time zone. Our defense attorneys are seasoned trial attorneys who litigate in all state and Federal Courts in California. They represent not only insurers in coverage – related matters but also their insureds in straight forward as well as extremely complex claims, ranging from professional liability, environmental, construction, product liability to energy, employment and broad-based casualty. Again, this award reflects the hard work of the entire Insurance Practice Group and is greatly appreciated.