Judy Scolnick is a graduate of New York University (B.A., cum laude 1972), Brandeis University (M.A. 1973) and Boston College Law School (J.D., summa cum laude 1976), where she served on the Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review.  She began her career as a law clerk to the late Honorable Anthony Julian of the United States District Court in Massachusetts, and then served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1977 until 1981.  As a trial attorney, Ms. Scolnick was the lead counsel in several high-profile employment discrimination lawsuits against various U.S. agencies around the country.  She also drafted the policy position followed by all U.S. Attorneys’ offices concerning employment discrimination cases that ensured coordination between the positions of the Civil Rights Division as prosecutor of discrimination cases against private employer and the Civil Division as the defender of employment cases against U.S. agencies.  Since joining the Firm in July 2007, Ms. Scolnick has principally practiced complex litigation in the fields of shareholder derivative law, consumer rights and employment law.  She has contributed substantially to recent jurisprudence expanding shareholders’ rights to examine books and records of the corporations in which they hold stock.  In Cain v. Merck & Co., Inc., 415 N.J. Super. 319 (N.J. Super. A.D. 2010), the New Jersey Appellate Division agreed with Ms. Scolnick and held in a precedential decision that the New Jersey Business Corporation Act allows shareholders to inspect the minutes of board of directors and executive committee meetings upon a showing of a proper purpose.  In King v. VeriFone Holdings, Inc., 12 A.3d 1140 (Del. Supr. 2011), the Delaware Supreme Court ruled in a ground-breaking decision that Plaintiff may, in certain circumstances, inspect a corporation’s books and records to bolster a shareholder derivative complaint even after they have filed a lawsuit.  Ms. Scolnick is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.