Qualifications Bachelor of Arts in International Relations - University of Pennsylvania Juris Doctor - Columbia University School of Law Certificate in Foreign and Comparative Law - Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law (Columbia Law School) After receiving her JD from Columbia Law School in New York City, where she was Head Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law,and passing the New York Bar, Tory spent 9 years working as an associate at a large Wall Street law firm. Tory started her career working on various securities offerings. She later switched to commercial litigation, where she represented a number of large banks, insurance companies, and venture capital funds in litigations and arbitrations in a number of arenas including the New York, California, and Texas state and federal courts. Tory's most interesting matter probably was her representation of two well known banks in the French Banks Holocaust Litigation. Among her other matters, Tory also spent over 130 days in trial on two high profile reinsurance arbitrations, with successful outcomes in both. In addition to the foregoing, while Tory was in law school, she served as a summer associate for another large law firm in New York City. Tory also worked as a summer intern for a federal judge in the District of New Jersey and for a midsized Swiss law firm in Geneva, Switzerland. Tory also served as an advocate and later on the board of the Unemployment Action Center, which provides legal representation to individuals appealing the denial of unemployment benefits. Prior to starting law school, Tory served as an intern in the United States Congress, Washington, DC, in the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Corporate class actions - A primer, Corporate governance ejournal (2009)
A class action, also known in Australia as `representative proceedings' or a `representative action', `provides...