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HEATH
Arbor as well and attends
NEXTGen and The Well
events.
To manage the disease,
Wettenstein stays active
and makes exercising a
priority. This helps her
relieve stress, an important
lifestyle habit for people
with IBD (since stress is a
major trigger for flares).
“I just want people to
be more aware that this
is a physical illness,” she
says. “We may look healthy
on the outside, but we’re
feeling awful on the inside.”
Wettenstein hopes
that more resources will
become available to teach
people about the condition.
“It’s a difficult disease, and
not a lot of people know
about IBD,” she explains.
She also hopes
living with IBD will
be normalized in the
workplace. Wettenstein
calls herself lucky at
the moment because
her coworkers are
understanding of her
need to sometimes leave
work early to manage her
condition, but that wasn’t
always the case.
Previous jobs weren’t
as understanding, and
she struggled to get the
time off she needed for
important appointments.
“If someone is
experiencing a flare, be
kind to them,” she advises.
“I want people to realize
we’re not faking it. It’s a
tough disease and there’s
no cure. I want there to be
a cure.”
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evening-of-hope-4.
BUSINESS
I
n an innovative move to
continue deepening its
bench of sophisticated
transactional attorneys,
Honigman LLP has launched
an Israeli subsidiary, Honigman
Law Israel (HLI), to tap into the
best Wall Street legal talent.
Through HLI, Honigman
provides a unique path for
U.S.-educated, licensed and
experienced attorneys who wish
to relocate their homes to Israel
while maintaining their U.S.
M&A, Capital Markets, Venture
Capital, Real Estate and Life
Science practices.
For prospective candidates,
HLI offers an opportunity
to continue practicing on
complex U.S. legal matters at
compensation levels based on
Honigman’s U.S. scale. Setting
it apart from other U.S. law
firms that may have one or
two attorneys in Israel working
from their home offices, HLI
is structured to enable its
attorneys to work on the Israeli
schedule, where the workweek
is Sunday through Thursday,
and based on the local time
zone.
HLI is creating a community
of attorneys, giving these new
residents of Israel a built-in
professional and personal
support group.
HLI has announced
the hiring of its first five
attorneys: Sam Katz, Corporate
& Capital Markets, who joined
from Ellenoff Grossman &
Schole LLP (New York); Inbar
Rauchwerger, Mergers &
Acquisitions, who joined
from Goodwin Procter LLP
(New York); Aviv Avnon,
Finance, who joined from
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
(New York); David Snyder, Tax,
who will be joining upon his
relocation to Israel, whose U.S.
experience includes Roberts &
Holland LLP and Paul Weiss;
and Rachel Rhodes, Corporate
& Capital Markets, who will
be joining in September,
whose U.S. experience includes
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP and Fried Frank.
More hires are anticipated in
the near future.
“We’re honored to bring
on these five top-notch
attorneys from some of the
most prominent law firms in
the U.S. and expect to bring in
many more highly qualified
individuals through this
initiative,
” said Honigman CEO
and Chair David Foltyn. “We
have continued to see incredible
demand for our transactional
counsel, which, in turn, requires
that we continue to grow with
the most talented lawyers. With
HLI, we have created a win-win
opportunity for A+ attorneys
who want to reside in Israel for
personal reasons but did not
have a path to do so, and for
Honigman, which can deepen
and expand the great talent we
can devote to our clients.
”
The development of this
concept is an outgrowth of
Honigman’s years of intimate
familiarity with Israel-United
State business dealings and
the reduced significance of
geography realized through the
pandemic. The implementation
of this strategy, including
working through myriad tax,
ethical and legal challenges,
required the better part of a
year of investment. As shown
by the first five hires, the value
of the investment already has
been proven.
Submitted by Honigman LLP.
Move will help lawyers maintain their U.S.
practices while living in the Jewish State.
Honigman LLP Adds
Israel Subsidiary
David
Foltyn
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