About Us

Silda Palerm

Executive Vice President and Legal Director

Silda Palerm is Executive Vice President and Legal Director of Legal Momentum.  Before joining Legal Momentum in November 2011, Ms. Palerm was the global head of litigation at Warner Music Group, one of the world's major music companies.  Prior to working in the music industry, she was an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and later an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Palerm was a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Women's Foundation, a foundation that gives more than one million dollars a year in grants to grassroots organizations that help and provide services to low-income women and girls in New York City.  In December 2010, Ms. Palerm joined the board of directors of the John Jay College Foundation.

Ms. Palerm was born and raised in Puerto Rico.  She received her B.A. from Princeton University and studied law at the University of Puerto Rico (J.D.) and at Harvard Law School (LL.M).  Ms. Palerm clerked in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico for the Honorable Federico Hernandez Denton, now Chief Judge of that court, and in the First Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stephen Breyer, now Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.