Background
Lawton, Bettina M. was born on October 10, 1954 in Albany, New York, United States. Daughter of John Jay and Elizabeth M. (Hammond) Lawton.
Lawton, Bettina M. was born on October 10, 1954 in Albany, New York, United States. Daughter of John Jay and Elizabeth M. (Hammond) Lawton.
Associate of Arts, Hudson Valley Community College, 1974. Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Comparative Laws, Siena College, 1976. Juris Doctor, Georgetown University, 1980.
Worked at Dechert Price & Rhoads (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in General Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1980, District of Columbia. 1981, New New York
Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement, 1982-1984.
President, 1986-1987 and Director, 1989-1992, The Women"s Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
Director, The Women"s Bar Association Foundation, 1987-1990. American Bar Association: Law Practice Management Section, 1990 (Vice Chair, Women Rainmakers, 1994).
Business Law Section, 1980 (Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, Subcommittee on Civil Litigation and Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Matters, 1984). Litigation Section, 1987.
Author: "Special Obligations and Problems of Financial Institutions and Other Regulated Industries," Destruction of Evidence, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated., January 1989.
Company-authored with C. Botticelli, "New Weapon in the Securities and Exchange Commission"s Arsenal: Secondary Liability After Central Bank," Business Law Today, The Magazine of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law, July/August 1995. Company-authored with T. MacIssac, "Have Lawyers and Other Professionals Lost Their Safe Harbor in the Sea of Section 10(b) Litigation?" Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law. Company-authored with T. Sonde, "The Securities and Exchange Commission"s 21A Report on the Cooper Companies: The Message to Directors," Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, February/March 1995.
Company-authored with T. MacIsaac, "Kaye, Scholar! OTS Sticks A Long Nose Into Lawyers" Business," Business Law Today, The Magazine of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law, July/August 1992.
Dechert Price & Rhoads, together with Titmuss Sainer Dechert in London, for a fully integrated international legal practice with close to 500 lawyers in ten offices throughout the United States., United Kingdom and Europe. The combined practices provide a full range of legal services to major industrial, financial and individual clients throughout the world.
Member American Bar Association (women's caucus, business law, law practice management and litigation section), District of Columbia Bar (business law, litigation sections), Women's Bar Association District of Columbia (treasurer 1983-1985, president 1985-1987, board directors 1989-1992).
Children: Joshua J., David J.