2021 Champion of Justice Awards

Honoring
Loretta E. Lynch, Former U.S. Attorney General and Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Natalie Lamarque, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, New York Life Insurance Company
Fifth Avenue Committee

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Our Honorees

Loretta E. Lynch is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Ms. Lynch has a long and storied career in public service. She served as the U.S. Attorney General from 2015-2017, where she was appointed by President Barack Obama. As Attorney General, Ms. Lynch oversaw more than 100,000 employees across numerous agencies and offices.

Ms. Lynch began her career in public service In 1990, when she became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where she rose through the ranks before being named U.S. Attorney of that office in 1999 by President Bill Clinton.

Ms. Lynch returned to private practice in 2002, where she specialized in commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and corporate compliance issues. During this period, Ms. Lynch also served on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was Special Counsel to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

In 2010, President Obama appointed Ms. Lynch once again as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where her office would go on to prosecute major terrorism, fraud and corruption cases. In the wake of the global financial crisis, she supervised the investigations of and subsequent high-value settlements with a number of global banks stemming from the banks’ involvement in the mortgage securities market, as well as in a settlement with a global bank related to the Bank Secrecy Act.

Ms. Lynch has been named one of Benchmark Litigation’s “Top 250 Women in Litigation.”  Additionally Ms. Lynch has been recognized by Chambers in the Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York) category.

Ms. Lynch received her J.D. and her B.A. in American Literature from Harvard University.

Natalie Lamarque is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of New York Life Insurance Company with day-to-day oversight of the Office of the General Counsel. She is also a member of the company’s Executive Management Committee and serves on New York Life’s Social Justice and ESG Steering Committees.

Prior to joining New York Life, Natalie was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted an array of federal crimes as a member of the Organized Crime Unit. Earlier in her career, she was an Associate in the Litigation Department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

Natalie began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Ann Claire Williams, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and to the Honorable Malcolm Howard, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Natalie was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Life Insurance Council of New York in April 2021. She was also appointed to the New York State Insurance Advisory Board in February 2021, and Committee for the Advancement of Women in Leadership in Financial Services in May 2021. She serves as a Trustee for City Year, Inc. as well as the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for City Year New York. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for New York University’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE).

Her husband is a public-school history teacher in Brooklyn, where they live with their two sons. Natalie is a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated from Haiti. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law and her B.A. cum laude from Duke University. She also holds her Series 7 and 24 securities licenses.

Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) is a 43-year-old comprehensive community development corporation and chartered NeighborWorks member based in South Brooklyn that advances economic and social justice by building vibrant, diverse communities where residents have genuine opportunities to achieve their goals, as well as the power to shape the community’s future.

FAC works to transform the lives of over 5,500 low- and moderate-income New Yorkers annually so that all can all live and work with dignity and respect while making our community more equitable, sustainable, inclusive, and just. Learn more at www.fifthave.org.

OUR SPONSORS

CHAMPION

LEADER

DEFENDER

Guardian Life Insurance Company
Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
New York Life Insurance
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
WilmerHale

ADVOCATE

d’Arcambal, Ousley & Cuyler Burk LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FRIEND

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP
Deborah Howard
MorrisAllsop Public Affairs
Steven J. Slutzky
Kamali Willett
Michael R. Young and Debra L. Raskin