Michael Firestone

Associate

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Current

Current

Enron Power Marketing Inc. Enron Power Marketing, Inc. (EPMI) Obtained a significant victory in favor of the Enron bankruptcy estate involving a constitutional challenge to Congressional legislation aimed at stripping the Bankruptcy Court of jurisdiction over disputes concerning Enron's power contracts with various trading counterparties.

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Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch - Amicus Brief WGM represented Human Rights Watch (HRW), a leading international human rights organization, as an amicus curiae before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. We argued that the activities of human rights workers are so vital to the ravaged communities that they serve and the public interest generally that their relationships with their informants must be subject to an absolute privilege as long as the worker is not testifying to the guilt or innocence of the particular defendant. more

New York University

J.D.

2003

Queens College NY

B.A.

1999

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