Clarine Nardi Riddle Featured Speaker for National Association of Attorneys General’s 2024 Spring Symposium

The Hon. Clarine Nardi Riddle, Counsel at Kasowitz Benson Torres, was a featured speaker on a panel discussion titled “Attorneys General Engaging in the Community,” as part of the National Association of Attorneys General’s (NAAG) 2024 Spring Symposium.  Ms. Riddle, along with panelists Dave Yost, the Ohio Attorney General, Carrie Bartunek, Director of External Affairs at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Tyriek J. Knight, Community Outreach Specialist at the District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office, a Student Ambassador from Eberhart Elementary School, and moderator Brian Schwalb, the District of Columbia Attorney General, discussed the Do the Write Thing (DtWT) challenge, part of the National Campaign to Stop Violence, and the impact that it has had on the community.  As Co-Vice Chair of the National Campaign to Stop Violence, Ms. Riddle also provided the history of the DtWT challenge, a writing program that gives middle school students the chance to speak out about how violence impacts their lives and their ideas about what must be done to stop it.

In addition, Ms. Riddle participated on a second panel titled “S.A.G.E. (Society of Attorneys General Emeritus) Panel.”  Ms. Riddle, along with other SAGE members and moderator Ellen F. Rosenblum, Oregon Attorney General and NAAG President, discussed life before, during and after serving as state Attorney General.

The panel discussions took place on April 25, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Hon. Clarine Nardi Riddle, Counsel and chair of the Government Affairs and Strategic Counsel Practice Group in Kasowitz’s Washington, D.C. office, provides legal, strategic and policy advice to clients on matters at the intersection of law, business and public policy.  Formerly Attorney General of Connecticut, she also worked on virtually every major area of public policy as Senator Joseph Lieberman’s Chief of Staff.  She was also the first female Attorney General to argue before the United States Supreme Court (and win).  She was also a Superior Court trial judge in Connecticut and is currently the Chair of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Indiana University Mauer School of Law.