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Notable Alumni
W. Burlette Carter
A litigation associate in both the New York and Washington, D.C. offices from 1985 to 1992, Burlette Carter moved from private practice to academia out of her desire to influence a broader audience. Currently working on a political history of academic and practicing lawyers, Carter developed a passion for teaching law at the George Washington University Law School. Asked about the biggest change she has witnessed since her own days as a law student, Carter noted that far fewer law professors have actually practiced law themselves. This is a gap she helps to fill, teaching evidence, sports and the law, trusts and estates, and civil procedure. Carter offers her view of law as both a fertile ground for scholarly study and a powerful agent for change, noting that "you can do a lot with a law degree," and encourages students to use law school for a "broad-based experience." Happy where she is, Carter admits that she made life-long friends while at Hughes Hubbard and that "the brightest people [she's] ever worked with were at Hughes Hubbard."
Carol A. Chase
Carol Chase exemplifies the well-rounded lawyer. After leaving her position as a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard's Los Angeles office in 1983, Chase worked for several years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (criminal division) in Los Angeles. An active member of the California bar, she has written articles on a wide range of legal topics, including child abuse, privacy, and police accountability, and has appeared on various television networks. Chase now teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence and trial practice at Pepperdine University School of Law, where she has been honored as a Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow.
Renée Y. Chenault-Fattah
Best known as an evening news anchor for NBC's Philadelphia affiliate, WCAU, Renée Chenault began her legal career in New York at Hughes Hubbard in 1981. Chenault graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and later received a masters' degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Highly popular among her viewers, Chenault has shown objectivity in her coverage of national political conventions and countless issues of national and local importance. Chenault is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the NAACP, and continues to be a member of the New York State bar.
Calvin Collier
A partner in Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C. office from 1978 to 1988, Duke Law graduate Cal Collier began his career with the federal government. He held positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Commerce and, in 1973, became General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 1975, Collier left the FTC to become General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, but returned in 1976 to serve as the FTC's Chairman.
Since leaving the Firm, Collier has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, for Kraft Foods. He is also a member of Kraft's Management Committee.
Peter C. Flory
Peter Flory practiced law at Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C. office from 1993 to 1997, leaving to become Chief Investigative Counsel and Special Counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard, he served as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Paul D. Wolfowitz, from 1989 to 1992, and as an Associate Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of State from 1992 to 1993. In July 2001, Peter left the Senate to become Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
John C. Fontaine
John C. Fontaine, a former managing partner of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Board consists of nine trustees, five elected and four ex officio, including the Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretaries of State, Treasury and the Smithsonian Institution. In commenting on his election, Mr. Fontaine credited the work he did as a young associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed where he first worked on corporate matters for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Through his work, Mr. Fontaine came to know Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, at that time the Chancellor of UCLA and later Chief Executive Officer of The Times Mirror Corporation. Dr. Murphy was Chairman of both the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the National Gallery of Art, and in 1975, he asked Mr. Fontaine to serve on the Kress Board. Upon Dr. Murphy's death in 1994, Mr. Fontaine succeeded him as Chairman of the Foundation. There is a close connection between the Kress Foundation and the National Gallery of Art. When the National Gallery first opened, The Kress Foundation, which had assembled a collection of more than 3,000 works of art, donated more than half of them to the National Gallery and the Foundation has continued to fund many of the National Gallery's acquisitions and initiatives in conservation as well as in fellowships. In 1984, Mr. Fontaine was asked to become a member of the National Gallery's Trustee's Council, which is a national advisory body to the Board of Trustees. He served until 2000 and from 2002 to the present. In expressing his pleasure and appreciation for this latest honor, Mr. Fontaine said, "It's a good example of how practicing law at Hughes Hubbard can enrich your life well beyond the practice of law itself."
Terry D. Garcia
Before embarking on a career dedicated to the environment, Terry Garcia served as a partner in Hughes Hubbard's Los Angeles office from 1991 to 1994, as well as chairman of the Firm's West Coast Financial Services Group. Prior to joining the partnership, Garcia held numerous political positions, including Legislative Consultant for the International Development Cooperative Agency, Legislative Representative for New Directions, Research Director of the United Nations Associations, and Counsel to the California Democratic Party.
Garcia's strong background in finance, law and politics led then-President Clinton to appoint him in 1997 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for the Department of Commerce. Garcia currently serves as Executive Vice President for Mission Programs for the National Geographic Society, a position he has held since 1999.
Robert J. Gerrard Jr.
After graduation in 1977 from Harvard Law School, Bob Gerrard practiced for six years at Hughes Hubbard in New York before embarking on a career in the media industry. Beginning as senior counsel at HBO and moving to the position of general counsel at Sega Channel, Gerrard has since 1997 served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Scripps Networks, which operates HGTV, the Food Network and others. Gerrard is the recipient of the American Bar Association's "Pioneers of the Profession" award, the Andrew J. Heiskell Award from Time Warner for community and humanitarian achievement, and the Harlem YMCA Black Achiever Award.
Charles E. Hughes
In "National Symbol," Charles Evans Hughes declared, "The flag is the symbol of our national unity, our national endeavor, our national aspiration." In many ways, Hughes himself embodied the flag's inspiration. During the late 19th and 20th centuries, Hughes dedicated himself to the public service and law reform, serving as Governor of New York State from 1910-1916, the Republican presidential candidate in 1916 (narrowly defeated by Woodrow Wilson), Secretary of State under Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921-1925 and finally Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 until his retirement in 1941.
Charles E. Hughes, Jr.
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. carried the family tradition of public service. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed him United States Solicitor General. Although Hughes, Jr. had to resign not long thereafter - when Hoover appointed Hughes' father as Chief Justice - he went on to serve for many years as the Firm's senior partner. Senator Patrick Leahy recently grouped him with William Howard Taft, Thurgood Marshall and others as "extraordinary people [that] serve[d] this country as our Solicitors General."
In the Firm's offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Paris, that integrity and commitment live on in our practice of law. The living legacy of Charles Evans Hughes, father and son, Hughes Hubbard is dedicated to providing high-quality legal representation and defending the laws and freedoms for which they stood.
Gordon R. Kanofsky
Gordon Kanofsky typifies the combination of legal skills, business judgment and common sense that has led many Hughes Hubbard partners to increasing levels of professional development and responsibility. In 1985, Gordy joined Hughes Hubbard’s Los Angeles office, where he became a partner in 1989. In September 1999, Gordy joined the management team of Ameristar Casinos, Inc. after having served as that company’s outside general counsel since 1998 and its securities counsel since 1993. Gordy is currently Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Vice President of Ameristar, overseeing critically important areas of corporate development, as well as governmental and legal affairs and regulatory compliance. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Ameristar has gaming facilities located in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Kansas City and St. Charles, Missouri; Jackpot, Nevada; and Black Hawk, Colorado.
Gordy earned his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and received one of the school’s highest honors, the Ethan Shepley Award for Scholarship, Leadership and Service to the Campus Community. He received his law degree with distinction from Duke University, where he was also a member of the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal. Gordy also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and as a Co-Trustee and member of the Board of Directors of The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, which is primarily dedicated to spinal cord injury research and treatment.
Amalya L. Kearse
A highly distinguished jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the last twenty-two years, Amalya Kearse began her professional career at Hughes Hubbard as a New York litigation associate in 1962. Invited to become a partner in 1969, the University of Michigan School of Law graduate holds the distinction of being both the first female and the first African-American in the partnership. A 1970 New York Times article profiling female partners in Wall Street firms quoted Orville Schell, then the Firm's managing partner, as follows: "She became a partner here not because she is a woman, not because she is black, but because she is so damned good-no question about it." In 1979, President Jimmy Carter agreed and appointed Kearse to a position on the Second Circuit. Judge Kearse became the first woman and the second African-American to occupy a seat on the federal appeals court in Manhattan. (The first was Thurgood Marshall.)
In addition to her countless awards, published works, committee appointments and other accomplishments within the legal world, Judge Kearse is a championship bridge player who has won national and world titles and authored books on the subject.
Elizabeth Keefer
Libby Keefer joined Hughes Hubbard's partnership in 1992 from the government, where she held a senior position in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State and was later Deputy Undersecretary of the United States Air Force, International Affairs. Her achievements in government posts include the reorganization for the Air Force of its international functions and offices, and many negotiations on behalf of the United States relating to U.S. interests overseas, including water rights in the Middle East, military base negotiations in Asia and Europe and the claims of amercian citizens against foreign governments. While with Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C. office, Keefer represented individuals seeking restitution for property taken by the Nazi regime. She served as the General Counsel of Teledyne, Inc, a technology company based in Los Angeles, Ca., and since 1997, she has been the General Counsel to Columbia University
Peter M. Kreindler
Graduating at the top of his class from Harvard Law School in 1971 was just the first of Peter Kreindler's many professional feats. Kreindler went on to clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court before joining the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office in 1973. In 1975, Kreindler came to Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C. office, where he joined the partnership in 1977 and remained for over a decade. Kreindler became Senior Vice President and General Counsel of AlliedSignal in 1992, and retained that title when AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell Inc. in 1999 to form Honeywell International Inc.
Gerald Laderman
Gerry Laderman joined Hughes Hubbard's New York office following his 1982 graduation from Michigan Law School. In 1988, Laderman left the Firm to become Vice President of Corporate Finance for Continental Airlines. On November 30, 1999 Laderman became Continental's Senior Vice President of Finance. At the time of that promotion, Gordon Bethune, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental, publicly acknowledged Laderman's "expertise and knowledge of aircraft financing."
A. Howard Matz
After nearly four decades of experience in the law, Howard Matz found himself embroiled in international controversy over the treatment of Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray. Judge Matz presided over the first legal challenge to the United States Government's treatment of those prisoners, in a petition brought by a civil rights group seeking habeas corpus for 158 "detainees." Judge Matz dismissed the petition on the grounds that United States courts do not have jurisdiction over the Cuban base where detainees are held and that the petitioners lacked standing since they had no "significant relationship" with the prisoners. In his ruling, Judge Matz emphasized that "nothing in this ruling suggests that the captives are entitled to no legal protection whatsoever."
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Matz taught police science and clerked for a United States District Judge before joining Hughes Hubbard's Los Angeles office in 1970. From 1974 to 1978, Matz served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, and in 1978 returned to Hughes Hubbard to join the Firm's partnership. On June 26, 1998, the Senate unanimously confirmed Judge Matz to be a United States District Judge for the Central District of California.
Walter Ricciardi
A 1978 graduate of New York University School of Law, Ricciardi began his legal career as a law clerk to D.C. District Court Judge Charles Richey before joining Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C. office in 1980. Ricciardi left the Firm in 1984 to work in the general counsel's office at accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, and became the litigation practice group leader in the general counsel's office when Coopers & Lybrand merged with Pricewaterhouse in 1998. In 2004, the SEC named Walter the head of its Boston office, which has jurisdiction over six states and has been involved in many of the investigations and cases brought against mutual fund companies. A barrister in the American Inns of Court since 1984 and a member of the Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, Ricciardi has taught law courses at various institutions and published several works addressing the professional responsibility of lawyers.
Dorothy K. Robinson
Following her graduation from Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, Dorothy Robinson spent three years at Hughes Hubbard in New York before being handpicked in 1978 by Jose Cabranes (now a federal appeals court judge) to assist him following his appointment to the newly-created position of Yale's General Counsel. Robinson rose through the ranks of Yale's legal department to herself gain the top position in 1987. During her tenure at Yale, she has handled numerous nationally-reported disputes, including a federal investigation into universities' ability to standardize financial aid evaluations, the 2000 "Yale Four" case brought by orthodox Jewish students challenging Yale's on-campus living policy, and a 2001 dispute concerning the gift to Yale of art purportedly looted by the Nazis during World War II. Robinson serves as an active liaison between Yale and Washington, D.C. in an ongoing quest to explain and explore appropriate limits on governmental regulation of education.
In 1987, Yale elevated its general counsel to one of six officer positions, making Robinson only the second female officer in Yale's history. In 1996, Yale President Richard Levin named Robinson a Vice President of the University as well.
Orville H. Schell, Jr.
Former Hughes Hubbard managing partner Orville Schell devoted his life to linking the legal profession to a struggle for the "greater good." From his retirement from the active practice of law until his death in 1987, Schell served as vice chairman of Helsinki Watch and chairman of Americas Watch, two world-renowned organizations devoted to reporting, condemning and curbing crimes against humanity. His legacy continues through the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, established by the Firm and the Merck family in Orv's honor in 1989. A place where lawyers convene to discuss international human rights issues and examine options to effect change, the Schell Center also sponsors workshops and programs allowing students to apply the Center's goals in locales around the world. In conjunction with the Schell Center, Hughes Hubbard offers fellowships whereby Yale Law students spend half their summers as associates at the Firm and the other half working on international human rights projects.
John S. Shiely
Beginning his career in 1979 at Hughes Hubbard's Milwaukee office, John Shiely recently took over the leadership of Briggs & Stratton Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of engines for lawn mowers and other gardening equipment. The move fulfilled a legacy: having joined Briggs & Stratton in 1986 as its general counsel, Shiely took over the C.E.O. title from Frederick P. Stratton, Jr., whose grandfather had helped start that company. Stratton had himself acquired the title in 1977 from Vincent Shiely, John's father.
Abraham D. Sofaer
A 1965 graduate of New York University Law School, Abe Sofaer served in the United States Air Force, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, as a professor of law at Columbia University, as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and as Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State. While with the State Department, he mediated the dispute between Egypt and Israel over Taba, dealt with Iraq regarding its attack on the USS Stark, and worked with Chile regarding the assassination of diplomat Orlando Letelier. For his efforts, Sofaer received the Distinguished Service Award in 1989, the highest State Department honor bestowed on a civilian.
In 1990, Sofaer left the government to enter the Firm's partnership in our Washington, D.C. office. Since 1994, Sofaer has served as the first George P. Schultz Distinguished Scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Brennan van Dyke
Brennan van Dyke's commitment to the environment distinguished her at an early age in the field of environmental law. A 1991 graduate of Yale Law School, a Schell summer associate at Hughes Hubbard, and a litigation associate in the Firm's Washington, D.C. office until 1994, van Dyke served as Director of the Trade and Investment Program of the Center for International Environmental Law and as a legislative assistant in the office of United States Senator Carl Levin, advising on a range of issues related to the environment. On May 1, 2000, van Dyke assumed the title of Director of the United Nations Environmental Program's (UNEP) Regional Office for North America. In addition to her role at UNEP, van Dyke serves as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College School of Law, where she educates future lawyers in her field of expertise.
Peter C. Walsh
Peter joined Hughes Hubbard’s Los Angeles office in 1986, and served a key role in developing the Firm’s gaming and finance practice. In 1992, Firm client Mirage Resorts hired Peter as Assistant General Counsel. After ten years with Mirage, Peter was reunited with Gordy Kanofsky, another successful Hughes Hubbard alumnus, as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Ameristar Casinos, Inc., headquartered in Las Vegas, with gaming facilities located in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Kansas City and St. Charles, Missouri; Jackpot, Nevada; and Black Hawk, Colorado. Peter’s responsibilities include supervising legal compliance and regulatory affairs for Ameristar, a rapidly growing and successful gaming company.
Peter has a distinguished academic background, having earned an undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, where he also received summa cum laude honors and served on the UCLA Law Review. In October 1998, the Nevada Business Journal named Peter the “Smartest Lawyer in Nevada.”
Tim Zagat
Their name is synonymous with dining out, dining well, and dining often. Tim and his wife, Nina Zagat, both Yale Law School graduates, are co-founders of the Zagat Survey, the best-selling guides to restaurants, hotels, resorts, spas and nightlife worldwide. This billion-dollar, pocket-sized industry was born out of a tip sheet on dining when Tim Zagat was an associate at Hughes Hubbard's Paris office from March 1968 until August 1969. He returned to New York as a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard (until 1976), and continued the practice he and Nina conceived in Paris of informally surveying friends and acquaintances on their dining preferences and distributing photocopies of the results. The idea spread like wildfire and, by 1987, the Zagats' guides earned them half a million dollars monthly. As a result, Zagat left the practice of law for what he had originally thought was just a gastronomically-rewarding hobby.
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