Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein Announces Nashville Attorney
Sharmila Murthy Named 2009 Pegasus Scholar by American Inns of Court
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) December 22, 2008 --
Kathryn E. Barnett, a partner at the national plaintiff’s law firm of
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced today that the
American Inns of Court (AIC) has named Lieff Cabraser attorney Sharmila
L. Murthy of Nashville a 2009 Pegasus Scholar. Each year, the AIC
selects only two gifted young American attorneys for participation in
the Pegasus Trust Exchange Program for Young Scholars. As a 2009
American Pegasus Scholar, Murthy will participate in a rigorous six-week
program beginning on February 23, 2009, in London, England.
Murthy, a member of the Henry Phillips Chapter AIC stated, “I am honored
to be chosen as a Pegasus Scholar and to serve as an ambassador of the
American Inns of Court in London. This is a tremendous opportunity to
learn not only about English law, but also about the foundation and
history of the U.S. legal system.”
“We are extremely proud of Sharmila’s accomplishments in the courtroom
and the legal community. Her recent selection as a Pegasus Scholar is
well deserved,” commented Barnett, the managing partner of the Nashville
branch of Lieff Cabraser.
The Pegasus Trust Scholarships is an international exchange program for
talented young attorneys — the future leaders of their profession — to
learn about the practical working of the common law system in other
countries and to form enduring relationships with lawyers in those
countries. While American Pegasus Scholars receive an intensive
introduction to the English legal system, young English barristers are
placed with an American host Inn of Court to provide a broad but
thorough exposure to the American legal system.
Past American Pegasus Scholars in London were immersed within
barristers' chambers to observe trials or arguments in action and also
observed proceedings of the House of Lords, the Privy Counsel, the Old
Bailey, the Royal Courts of Justice, and Magistrate’s Courts and then
discussed the proceedings with the Law Lord, Judge or Magistrate.
Murthy focuses her practice on representing victims of predatory lending
in complex and class action litigation. From 2004-2007, she was a
Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at Legal Aid Society of Middle
Tennessee and the Cumberlands, where she created the Refugee Immigrant
Partnership Project for Legal Empowerment. She graduated from Harvard
Law School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2003 and
was a law clerk to the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2003-2004. She graduated
from Cornell University in 1997 and was a Fulbright Scholar in India
from 1998-1999.
She currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, volunteers with the
Nashville Pro Bono Program, helped found the Nashville Chapter of the
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, and was an associate
member of the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court from 2006-2008. She
received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS) New Advocate
of the Year award in 2006 and the Nashville Bar Journal Article of the
Year award in 2006. In 2008, she was a Finalist for the Nashville
Emerging Leader Award in the legal services category.
About the American Inns of Court
American Inns of Court is a legal mentoring association designed to
improve the skills, professionals, and ethics of the bench and bar.
American Inns of Court actively involve more than 26,000 state, federal
and administrative law judges, attorneys, legal scholars and law
students. Learn more at: www.innsofcourt.org
About Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus attorney law
firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide since 1972. We have
offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. We represent
plaintiffs in class and group actions and in individual lawsuits in
cases involving substantial losses. For the last six years, the National
Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top
plaintiffs' law firms in the nation. Learn more at: www.lieffcabraser.com
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