Carrie Simon was an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C., for 19 yearsfirst at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, then at Rogers & Wells, and later at Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells following a 2000 merger. During her law firm years she specialized in international regulatory matters and represented multinational, foreign, and U.S. organizations before the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, Commerce, and Treasury. But Simon, who grew up in a small town in California and received her J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, decided in 2001 that she wanted to move to New York City and do something different. While trying to figure out what that might be, she learned that the International Rescue Committee was looking for a lawyer to take on some pro bono work. Simon volunteered at the international relief organization, which was founded in 1933 at the urging of Albert Einsteinand she’s been there ever since. Not long after she began working there pro bono, the IRC realized that it needed a full-time in-house counsel. Simon was offered the job; she has now been the IRC’s general counsel for 11 years.
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