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Partners: Helen GreddBorn in 1955, Ms. Gredd was graduated from New York University magna cum laude, Yale University, and Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Upon graduation from law school in 1984, Ms. Gredd served as a law clerk to the Hon. Leonard B. Sand, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, Ms. Gredd was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York from 1985 to 1993. Ms. Gredd served in various trial units at the U.S. Attorney's Office, including the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, before being appointed Chief Appellate Attorney and subsequently First Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. Since joining LS&W as a partner in 1993, Ms. Gredd has handled a wide range of civil commercial disputes, regulatory matters and criminal proceedings. Ms. Gredd also has served as a court-appointed receiver and trustee in SEC enforcement actions and a related bankruptcy proceeding and as a member of a court-appointed independent hearing committee in a labor racketeering action. Ms. Gredd has lectured on various aspects of criminal and civil law at programs sponsored by the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and various law schools. Ms. Gredd is the author of a chapter entitled "Banking Crimes" and the co-author of a chapter entitled "Money Laundering" in the multi-volume treatise White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses (Law Journal Seminars Press 1996). |
