Milbank Tweed
Providing a range of pro bono legal services to the Women’s Bioethics Project will be the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, a premier global law firm headquartered in New York, with offices in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Palo Alto, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Their services will include legal research, analysis, and counsel on a wide range of bioethics issues, including women’s health, reproductive technologies, and the emerging field of neuroethics.

 

Women’s Bioethics Project founder, Kathryn Hinsch, is pleased to have the immense talent of Milbank on these issues. “We approached Milbank because we wanted to have access to some of the most creative and forward-thinking legal minds in the world as we tackle the legal and ethical implications of these emerging bioethical issues. Milbank brings a global perspective that is critical when considering bioethical issues and their impact on women.” Hinsch stresses that women have a special stake in bioethical issues because in addition to being the traditional caregivers of all generations, they represent more than half the global population and a disproportionate number of the world’s vulnerable people.

 

A number of Milbank partners have volunteered their time on this new collaboration, and the effort will be lead by Richard Wight and Elizabeth Hardin of the New York office, and Sally Agel of the Los Angeles office. Richard Wight says, “I am happy that Milbank is on board because this is an opportunity to focus on the kinds of health and medicine related legal issues that confront vulnerable populations.”

Stoel Rives
The Women’s Bioethics Project secured the pro bono services of Stoel Rives, LLC, a well-known Seattle law firm specializing in sophisticated business services and litigation advice. Vanessa Soriano Power, JD, MPA, is the designated lead counsel. Prior to joining Stoel Rives in 2003, she was an associate at Dorsey & Whitney. Her past experience includes serving as an analyst to the Washington State Senate Committee Services and as research assistant at the University of Washington Human Services Policy Center. She is the vice president for public affairs of Washington Women Lawyers’ Board of Directors; past president of the Northwest Women’s Law Center Board of Directors; a cooperating attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; and a member of the Gender & Equality Task Force, King County Bar Association. A Seattle native, Ms. Power earned her bachelor’s degree, MPA, and JD at the University of Washington.