Background
Block, Kevin P. was born in 1961 in Napa, California, United States.
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Kevin P. Block
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Oberlin College (Bachelor of Arts, 1981). New York University (Juris Doctor, 1985). Columbia University (Master of Arts, 1991).
Spoken languages: English and Russian.
Career
Worked at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (Denver, Colorado) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Corporations, Real Estate, Securities, Intellectual Property, Natural Resources, Health Care, Tax and Estate Planning, Bankruptcy, Municipal and Finance, Environmental and Hazardous Waste Litigation, Labor and Employment, Banking, Water Rights, Telecommunications, International Business and International Tax. Admitted to the bar, 1985, California.
Author: "Russian Law: Does It Matter in the Wild East?" Guide to the Russian Far East, 1994, 1995. "Structuring Your Company's Relationship with Its Russian Partner," Russian Far East Update, 1993. "A Russian Business Law Troika," International Merger Law, WRRA, 1992.
"The Legal Status of Strikes in the USSR," Comparative Labor Law Journal, Wharton Business School, 1991. "Depoliticizing Ownership: The New Law on Property in the USSR," Duke-Berkeley Occasional Papers, Wharton Econometrics, 1991. "The Disciplining and Dismissal of Employees by Joint Ventures in the USSR," Journal of International Law and Economics, George Washington University, 1990.
"Let Them Find Cake," Columbia Magazine, Columbia University, 1990. (Managing Partner, Kiev Office). Overview: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP was founded in 1898, only 40 years after Denver's birth, by two experienced litigators whose primary clients were railroad and mining companies.
Today the firm still represents such interests, among them Southern Pacific Railroad and Newmont Gold Company, but now its lawyers number 180 or more and its clients also include local and national leaders in such industries as telecommunications, banking, corporate finance, health care, electronics and oil and gas.
