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Awards Mark Milestone For Women In White Collar Defense

Portfolio Media, Inc.
December 12, 2019

A group for women in the white collar defense bar that began as a lunch gathering two decades ago held its first annual gala on Tuesday, recognizing several attorneys' achievements and celebrating the professional progress women have made in the practice area.

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Women in Investigations Conference - In Pictures

Global Investigations Review
June 13, 2019

Pictures from GIR’s 2nd annual Women in Investigations conference held in London on 12 June in association with the Women in White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA).

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Women Making a Difference in the White Collar Defense Bar

The Harvard Law Record
July 27, 2018

In 1999, both of the co-founders of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (“WWCDA”), Karen Popp and Beth Wilkinson, had recently left government service. Popp had been Associate White House Counsel to President Clinton and before that she was in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and also had served as Assistant U.S. 

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The Rise of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association

Global Investigations Review
June 6, 2018

Karen Popp at Sidley Austin in Washington, DC, a co-founder of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association set up some 20 years ago, spoke to GIR about the association’s raison d’être. In 1999, Popp and Beth Wilkinson, then a newly minted partner at Latham & Watkins, founded the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA).  

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Press Releases

Awards Press Release
October 9, 2019

Annual Meeting Press Release
March 14, 2019

Award Program Announcement
November 28, 2018