ARE YOU JOB$MART
Rewarding Careers for Liberal Art Students
Date: Feb.24, 2009
Time: 1-2pm
Room: VC 14-245
Speakers:
Shawntee Reed, Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
Shawntee Reed is a Recruiting Program Director for entry-level Corporate Programs. Prior to this roles she was an Executive Diversity Recruiting Manager, where she consulted and sourced diverse talent for VP and senior executive roles, provided project management for diversity initiatives of women and minorites, program development for BA and MBA rotational programs for the Treasury & Securities Services division.
In conjunction to her recruiting efforts, she serves as the global chair of the African American Employee Network Group. In this role, she has the opportunity to lead, influence and inspire employees in the areas of professional development, networking opportunities, community outreach initiatives, and exposure to senior leadership. As the global chair she supports 21 chapters globally.
Shawntee has a passion for professional development, thus she is active on several college/university campuses NYU, Chicago State University and Univ of Illinois Champaign-Urbana where she has been a keynote for their Women’s Week, served as a panelist for freshmen/sophomore orientation, and/or facilitated professional development workshops. Such workshops include: How to Work a Job Fair, Time Management Skills, How to Succeed in the Corporate Jungle, and Effective Communication Skills to name a few.
Shawntee received her BA in Organizational Communications with a minor in Business, from University of Texas at Arlington. Her motto is: “To Do The Right Thing, The First Time.” Her future goals include, entrepreneurship in a Career Coaching Firm, consultant to college/universities on career preparation where she can continue to empower more people to reach their full potential.
Ed Labaton
Ed Labaton is a partner in the law firm of Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP. For more than 40 years he has been engaged in litigating class and shareholder derivative actions, mostly on behalf of plaintiffs. He is a 1952 graduate of Baruch College and a 1955 graduate of Yale Law School.
While a student at Baruch, Ed enjoyed working on the Ticker, serving as features editor. He also ran for the student council on a ticket with Larry Field.
An accomplished trial lawyer and Senior Partner with the Firm, Edward Labaton has devoted his 50 years of practice to representing a full range of clients in class action and complex litigation matters in state and federal court. Mr. Labaton has played a lead role as plaintiffs' class counsel in a number of successfully prosecuted high profile cases, involving companies such as PepsiCo, Dun & Bradstreet, Financial Corporation of America, ZZZZ Best, Revlon, GAF Co., American Brands, Petro Lewis and Jim Walter, as well as several Big Eight (now Four) accounting firms. He has also argued appeals in state and federal courts, achieving results with important precedential value.
Mr. Labaton has been President of the Institute for Law and Economic Policy since its founding in 1996. The Institute co-sponsors at least one annual symposium with a major law school dealing with issues relating to the civil justice system. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance of the University of Delaware, a Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a life member of the ABA Foundation. In addition, Mr. Labaton has served on the Executive Committee and has been an officer of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund since its inception in 1996.
Mr. Labaton is the past Chairman of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association, and was a member of the Board of Directors of that organization. He is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was Chair of the Senior Lawyers' Committee and served on its Task Force on the Role of Lawyers in Corporate Governance. He has also served on its Federal Courts, Federal Legislation, Securities Regulation, International Human Rights and Corporation Law Committees. He also served as Chair of the Legal Referral Service Committee, a joint committee of the New York County Lawyers' Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the New York State Bar Association, where he has served as a member of the House of Delegates.
For more than 30 years, he has lectured in the areas of federal civil litigation, securities litigation and corporate governance. Mr. Labaton graduated cum laude with a B.B.A. from Baruch College, City College of New York in 1952 and earned his LL.B. from Yale University in 1955. He is admitted to practice in New York and the United States Supreme Court.
