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BRETTE TANNENBAUM PARTNER, PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON & GARRISON

PRACTICE PROFILE: A partner EDUCATION:
in the litigation department, Brette J.D., James Kent Scholar, Columbia Law School, 2012
Tannenbaum represents clients in a A.B., with honors, Princeton University, 2007
broad range of commercial litigation
matters, with particular focus on anti-
trust, unfair competition, and other
complex civil litigation. She has sig-
nificant experience litigating cases in
state and federal courts at both the
trial and appellate levels, as well as
before arbitration tribunals.

LEADERSHIP, PRO BONO AND CIVIC WORK: Member, N.Y.
State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and the Federal
Bar Council First Decades Committee; Board of Trustees of
the Randall’s Island Park Alliance. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUNG LAWYERS?
Use every assignment as an opportunity to invest in, and take own-
PRIOR EXPERIENCE: ership of, your matters. Show the partners and your clients that you
Clerk, Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Court, Southern can be trusted with their most sensitive work, and you will be reward-
District of New York, 2012-2013 ed with opportunities to stand on your feet and grow as a lawyer.

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LILIA TOSON SUPERVISING ATT ORNEY, THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY

PRACTICE PROFILE: Lilia Toson PRIOR EXPERIENCE:
represents the interests of low- Assistant Attorney General, Office of the New York State Attor-
income people in impact litigation ney General, 2018-2019
and governmental advocacy. She is Senior Counsel and Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York
lead counsel in a lawsuit challeng- City Law Department, Affirmative Litigation Division, 2014-2017
ing New York state’s administration Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, 2012-2014
of crucial rental assistance during the Law clerk, Hon. Duane Benton, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth
COVID-19 pandemic. She has also pre- Circuit, 2011-2012
pared testimony about the disparate
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on EDUCATION:
communities of color for both the New York state and New J.D., New York University School of Law, 2011
York City legislatures. Additionally, she serves as lead counsel B.A., William Jewell College, 2007
for The Legal Aid Society in its case challenging the former
administration’s policy of conducting warrantless arrests at
or near New York courts.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUNG LAWYERS?
LEADERSHIP, PRO BONO AND CIVIC WORK: Lilia is deeply Reach out to the lawyers you admire and ask them about their
involved in mentoring junior lawyers and staff. In part because career paths. Many will be honored and happy to talk to you.
of this leadership, she has been recognized as a 2021 Women
in Power Fellow by the 92nd Street Y.

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