PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP: WHITE & CASE ATTORNEY NICOLE ERB SUPPORTS WOMEN, YOUNG AND OLD, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

NICOLE ERB

Long time NAWJ member Nicole Erb is a partner with White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C. where she represents clients in international commercial litigation and government investigations on a wide range of matters, including United States economic sanc­tions and financial regulations. She provides counsel to large multinational com­panies and financial institutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Attorney Erb is chair of the White & Case Global Women’s Initiative Committee. In 2012, White & Case received Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Europe Women in Business Law Award for Best International Firm for Talent Management for its program for White & Case’s women lawyers. Euromoney Legal Media Group also honored White & Case with consecutive Women in Business Law Awards in both 2013 and 2014 for Best International Firm Mentoring Program in Europe and Best International Firm for Talent Management in the Americas. White & Case recently had the honor of being named the most diverse firm in America according to the 2014 American Lawyer’s Diversity Scorecard.

Ms. Erb became a member of NAWJ’s Resource Board in 2007. In 2013, she co-chaired the Host Committee for NAWJ’s Midyear Meeting and Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. She also has co-chaired NAWJ meetings with the Congres­sional Caucus for Women’s Issues. In 2010, Ms. Erb was instru­mental in forming a collaborative relationship between NAWJ, White & Case, and the Washington School for Girls that connects middle school students with legal and judicial leaders as mentors. Ms. Erb has generously opened White & Case’s Wash­ington, D.C. office to the seventh and eighth grader students from Washington School every other year since its beginning.

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