Spotlights
- Lily Arbab Camet '95
- Linda M. Correia '91
- Ronald L. Early '68
- Karen M. Lockwood '78
- Kenneth Lore '73
- Cheryl L. Williams '99
Alumni Spotlight
LINDA M. CORREIA '91
Linda M. Correia is a partner in the firm of Webster, Frederickson & Brackshaw where she focuses her practice in the fields of labor and employment discrimination as well as bankruptcy and commercial litigation. The firm is well known for its continued dedication to the class of women against the United States Information Agency in Hartman v. Powell. Ms. Correia shared with other members of the firm in the 2000 Lawyer of the Year Award presented by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, in recognition of the firm's work and settlement of the case for $565 million, the largest award in a sex discrimination case in the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Ms. Correia has achieved success in several employment discrimination cases, representing clients who were targets of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, age discrimination, and retaliation. Additionally, Ms. Correia has represented plaintiffs and creditors forced to protect their interests in litigation with defendants seeking refuge in bankruptcy laws, including the plaintiffs in Merriex v. Beale, 253 B.R. 644 (D. Md. 2000), in which the debtor was not permitted to discharge in bankruptcy judgments against him for sexual harassment.
As lead counsel to a Chapter 7 panel trustee appointed by the Office of the United States Trustee, Ms. Correia also has an active bankruptcy practice, involving the liquidation and distribution to creditors of assets in the Washington Metropolitan area.
Ms. Correia is President of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association and a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Ms. Correia also serves on the Board of Directors of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation. Ms. Correia is a 1991 graduate of the Washington College of Law of the American University and earned her undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1985.
"I cannot say strongly enough how proud I am to be a graduate of WCL. I would urge every student to hold fast to the career goals they set for themselves when they first applied to WCL and work to make a positive contribution to the development of the law and to our society. Professor Burt Wechsler and others at WCL reinforced in us the idea that the only true measure of the value of a legal education is what you ultimately do with it, and they were right."
