<p>Widener University Delaware Law School is pleased to announce <a href="https://www.law.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/veritywinship">Professor Verity Winship</a> of the University of Illinois College of Law will serve as the school&rsquo;s 2015 annual visiting scholar in residence in corporate and business law.<br /> <br /> Winship will give the lecture, &ldquo;Shareholder Litigation by Contract,&rdquo; on Monday, Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. at The Wilmington Club, 1103 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del. Attorneys from Delaware and Pennsylvania who attend will be eligible for one substantive continuing legal education credit. New Jersey attorneys may self-report for credit with a Delaware Law certificate of attendance. There is no cost to register and business attire is required for attendance.</p>
<p>Winship&rsquo;s talk is presented by <a href="{staticroot}">Delaware Law School</a>, the Ruby R. Vale Foundation and <a href="http://www.delawarecounselgroup.com/">The Delaware Counsel Group LLP</a>, Attorneys at Law, a Wilmington-based law firm that advises nationally and internationally on Delaware corporate and alternative-entity transactions. She is expected to examine current issues in the use of litigation bylaws and charter provisions to limit shareholder litigation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information, or to register, contact Carol Perrupato at 302.477.2178 or <a href="mailto:caperrupato@widener.edu">caperrupato@widener.edu</a>.</p>
<p>Winship will also speak to faculty and students at Delaware Law on Sept. 22. The school&rsquo;s <a href="ipl://103//W10=">Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law</a> strives to serve as a forum for interaction between business law scholarship and practice. The institute maintains that the law profits from actively engaging lawyers, judges, legislators and scholars who practice, study and define it. Institute Director and Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law Lawrence A. Hamermesh said the school is looking forward to the events.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Our scholar in residence program was designed to introduce young, promising scholars in corporate and business law to the Delaware bench and bar,&rdquo; Hamermesh said. &ldquo;This program has created strong bonds between that community and our speakers. We look forward to hearing Professor Winship&rsquo;s scholarly insights, and hope to enrich her work with feedback.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Delaware Law is grateful to Delaware Counsel Group, LLP and Ellisa Habbart, founding partner, for its support of this event. The firm has supported the program since its inception.</p>
<p>Winship&rsquo;s research interests focus on corporate and securities litigation and disputes that cross legal systems. Her work has appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. She clerked with Judge Marjorie O. Rendell in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She practiced in New York City in the areas of securities enforcement and litigation before entering academia.</p>
<p>The Delaware Counsel Group LLP is a Wilmington-based law firm that advises nationally and internationally on the Delaware aspects of corporate and alternative-entity transactions.</p>
<p>Widener University is a metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, applied leadership, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience.&nbsp; Its Delaware Law School is the First State&rsquo;s only law school, providing juris doctor, legal graduate and paralegal degree programs with an emphasis on developing legal professionals who reflect the Delaware Way and its traditions of civility, integrity and mutual respect. The school offers signature programs in corporate and business law, environmental law, family health law and policy, and trial advocacy. Widener University is proud to be tobacco free. Visit delawarelaw.widener.edu for more information.</p>
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