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Reem Sadik focuses her practice on white-collar criminal litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations, and compliance counseling. She has deep experience in both private practice and in government service.

Her clients include senior executives and Fortune 100 companies, and span across a broad array of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, media, and technology. Reem has experience in matters involving: life sciences criminal investigations; Congressional investigations; the False Claims Act; the Anti-Kickback Statute; financial crimes, and whistleblower cases. Her experience also includes fact development, witness preparation, motions practice, and document management issues.

Reem has worked in all three branches of the federal government. She worked in the Visits division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol in the US Department of State and in the Office of Majority Whip James Clyburn in the US House of Representatives. She also is a former law clerk to Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge James R. Spencer of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Reem has been recognized repeatedly in different publications, including Super Lawyers: “Rising Stars” in the area of Criminal Defense: White Collar; Best Lawyers: “Ones to Watch;” and in Washington Life Magazine as one of Washington's most influential people under 40. Reem believes in the importance of pro bono work. She was awarded the John Nolan Award, Steptoe's highest internal honor for pro bono excellence, for successfully exonerating a client on death row in a case involving prosecutorial misconduct.

Stephanie Adams is the Senior Coroproate Counsel at Sherwin Williams. She also serves as chair of the Women in the Profession Section at the Ohio Bar. She has litigation experience with bodily injury, insurance coverage disputes, wrongful death and punitive damages. She also has experience in employment and labor law, legal malpractice and workers’ compensation among other specialties. Adams earned her undergraduate degree from Ohio University, her master’s degree at Youngstown State University and her law degree from the University of Akron School of Law.

Patricia Astorga is Chief Legal Officer and is based in the New York office. Patricia manages the legal, compliance and risk management functions and oversees our legal team. Patricia also plays a critical role in the firm’s growth strategy.

Patricia joined Mintz Group from the U.S. Department of Justice, where she most recently served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. As a federal prosecutor, Patricia led several jury trials to conviction and conducted investigations and prosecutions of the Anti-Kickback Statute; health care fraud; misconduct by drug manufacturers, pharmacies, physicians and medical practitioners; organized crime; narcotics conspiracies and distribution; domestic and international money laundering; federal firearms offenses; human trafficking; and child sex exploitation crimes.

Patricia was a litigator at two international law firms, Milbank, and Weil, where she represented corporate clients in all aspects of litigation and across jurisdictions and industries, including financial services, banking, transportation, insurance, private equity, manufacturing, real estate, and media & entertainment.

Patricia is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable George B. Daniels in the Southern District of New York.

Patricia earned her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School, and her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from New York University. Patricia is a member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and has served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation.

Executive coach and consultant Lauren Krasnow helps law firm senior leaders and leadership teams hone the many skills and mindsets needed for peak effectiveness. Lawdragon honored Lauren as a 2023 Global 100 Leader for Legal Strategy & Consulting for her expertise in Leadership Development.

Lauren is quoted regularly in the media and writes a popular leadership column for The American Lawyer called the Fully Human LawyerTM (FHLTM). Vetted first by former big firm managing partners and other leaders who advise her, each FHLTM column says things that many leaders wish (or assume) their firm’s people understood. Examples include “Do Associates Know What They’re Really Being Paid For?,” “Why Too Many Partners Misread Their Value to Law Firms,” and “Failure to Give Feedback Can Cost You Dearly.”

A magna cum laude Wharton graduate, and a cum laude University of Michigan Law School one, Lauren clerked for a federal judge and then practiced law in NYC for many years with highly-ranked practices (Latham & Watkins, Morgan Lewis, Torys, Hogan) before leaving law practice to become a top-producing legal recruiter. Then, following a few years as a stay-at-home parent, she became a certified professional coach and worked for a respected consultancy before opening her own successful leadership coaching business in 2021.

Lauren proudly serves on the Board of Directors of her chapter of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She has been honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her leadership after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, in fighting both antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias/Islamophobia. Born and bred in Warwick, Rhode Island, Lauren now lives in West Hartford, CT, with her husband, their two teenagers and Ozzie, their family Labradoodle. Lauren learns a ton of leadership lessons from all of them (especially Ozzie) and enjoys sharing those lessons in her column, with clients, and on LinkedIn.

Member of senior executive team formulating and implementing corporate strategy with $5M P&L ownership of eight -person Legal Department. Responsible for all aspects of corporate governance, M&A, commercial, litigation, regulatory, technology/IP and labor/employment/benefits practice areas as well as ethics & compliance program.

Shea earned her Bachelors of Arts in English and Education and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.