Greenberg Traurig LLC issued the following announcement on Nov. 26.
Tiffany S. Fordyce and Lorraine M. Tyson, shareholders in the Chicago office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, have been recognized on Crain’s Chicago Business’s 2018 Notable Minority Lawyers list. The list spotlights minority lawyers in Chicago who have made significant impact within the legal community, as well as contributions to the business community as a whole.
According to the publication, the 58 lawyers who were chosen this year “are leading the legal profession, in Illinois and beyond. Through their practices and pro bono work, they are advancing the causes of justice and equality. Their stories also reveal that they are mentoring a diverse generation of lawyers to join them on this path.”
Fordyce is co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Workforce Compliance & Regulatory Enforcement Group. She concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on labor and employment. Her employment litigation practice includes virtually all types of discrimination and retaliation claims, wage and hour claims, trade secret misappropriation claims, whistleblower claims, restrictive covenants, Fair Credit Reporting Act claims, and WARN Act claims. She defends both single plaintiff and class action employment cases, and represents employers in federal, state and administrative courts, as well as before administrative agencies. She is a board member of the Women’s Bar Foundation, a member of the Black Women Lawyers’ Association, and sits on the board of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.
Tyson focuses her practice on corporate finance, privatization, and public finance transactions. She represents insurance companies, pension funds, banks, finance companies, and other institutional investors on corporate finance transactions. She has acted as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, remarketing agent counsel, issuer's counsel, or letter of credit counsel in connection with financings by the City of Chicago; the State of Illinois; the Regional Transportation Authority; the Illinois Finance Authority; the Illinois Housing Development Authority; Cook County, Illinois; and the Board of Education of the City of Chicago. She has also advised clients on various types of tax-exempt and taxable bonds. She is the vice chair of Governors State University Board of Trustees, a past director of the boards of directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) and Women in Public Finance, chair of NABL’s diversity committee and co-chair of the Women’s Resource Group of the firm’s Chicago office.
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