05/14/2009
Cooley Litigation Partner Matthew D. Brown Elected to The American Law Institute (ALI)
San Francisco, Calif. —May 14, 2009 — Cooley Godward Kronish LLP announced today that San Francisco-based Litigation Partner Matthew D. Brown has been elected as a member of The American Law Institute (ALI).
“The distinguished and forward-thinking founders of The American Law Institute knew well that law reform required the best of the Bar, the Bench, and the legal Academy. We are very proud to welcome this distinguished group into membership in the Institute,” said ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo. “The process of being selected into the ALl is rigorous. Membership is a significant honor, as well as a promise to contribute to the health of the legal system in the U.S. and, increasingly, that of legal systems around the world.”
The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute (made up of 4,000 lawyers, judges, and law professors of the highest qualifications) drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.
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