Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Announces Three New Members of its Affordable Housing Advisory Council

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

ATLANTA, Jan. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) announced today that it has appointed three members to its Affordable Housing Advisory Council (Council).

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  • ATLANTA, Jan. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) announced today that it has appointed three members to its Affordable Housing Advisory Council (Council).
  • Mr. Grant’s banking career in Maryland spans over forty years, beginning in 1978 with First National Bank of Oakland, Maryland.
  • He served on the board of directors of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 2007 to 2013.
  • His initiatives as Mayor have included neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing among a number of other important initiatives.

KLINE COMMITS $50 MILLION TO DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TO NAME LAW SCHOOL

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomas R. Kline, one of the nation's most influential and highly regarded trial lawyers, has committed $50 million to provide transformational support to Duquesne's 111-year-old law school. Duquesne University President Ken Gormley announced that the Pittsburgh university will recognize the gift by naming its law school the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

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  • Duquesne University President Ken Gormley announced that the Pittsburgh university will recognize the gift by naming its law school the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
  • The Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University was named for him in 2014, along with the Thomas R. Kline Institute for Trial Advocacy.
  • In naming the law school at Duquesne, Kline is energizing his alma mater on new fronts: This is the first school to be named at Duquesne University in over three decades.
  • Linking Tom Kline and Duquesne permanently in the name of the law school will empower future lawyers forgenerationsto come."

AXA XL builds out cyber incident response team in North America

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Thursday, May 12, 2022

NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --To help businesses before, during and after actual or suspected cyber breaches, AXA XL continues to build out its cyber incident response team in North America with the addition of Jeanelle Dawes-Ghee, Yelizaveta (Liz) Veys and Bridget Mead as claims specialists, reporting to North America Cyber Incident Response Manager Gwenn Cujdik.

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  • NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --To help businesses before, during and after actual or suspected cyber breaches, AXA XL continues to build out its cyber incident response team in North America with the addition of Jeanelle Dawes-Ghee, Yelizaveta (Liz) Veys and Bridget Mead as claims specialists, reporting to North America Cyber Incident Response Manager Gwenn Cujdik.
  • If a company does have a cyber incident, our cyber clients will be in very skilled hands, working together with the Cyber Incident Response team to achieve an optimal outcome."
  • Access to the Cyber Incident Response team is part of AXA XL's cyber insurance offering .
  • Jeanelle joins the team with a strong background in cyber incident response having assisted in the incident response of hundreds of events large and small, in both the public and private sectors.

TELA Bio Appoints D. Taylor Ocasio as General Counsel

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Monday, April 18, 2022

MALVERN, Pa., April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TELA Bio, Inc. ("TELA"), a commercial-stage medical technology company focused on providing innovative soft-tissue reconstruction solutions that optimize clinical outcomes by prioritizing the preservation and restoration of the patient's own anatomy, today announced the hiring of D. Taylor Ocasio as the Company's new General Counsel (GC).

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  • MALVERN, Pa., April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TELA Bio, Inc. ("TELA"), a commercial-stage medical technology company focused on providing innovative soft-tissue reconstruction solutions that optimize clinical outcomes by prioritizing the preservation and restoration of the patient's own anatomy, today announced the hiring of D. Taylor Ocasio as the Company's new General Counsel (GC).
  • Mr. Ocasio joins TELA with nearly ten years of corporate legal operations and healthcare industry experience.
  • Most recently, Mr. Ocasio served as Deputy General Counsel of Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company, where he helped lead the legal functions and compliance programs.
  • "I am tremendously pleased to have Taylor on the TELA Bio team.