Silda Palerm Named as Legal Director of Legal Momentum

November 16, 2011 -

Legal Momentum, the women’s legal defense and education fund, is pleased to announce the appointment of Silda Palerm as Legal Director.

Ms. Palerm is an attorney with a distinguished history in litigation and not-for-profit activities.  For the last ten years, Ms. Palerm was the global head of litigation at Warner Music Group ("WMG"), 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.

"We are thrilled to have Silda Palerm on board,” said Elizabeth Grayer, President of Legal Momentum.  “Silda’s legal expertise and passion for women’s rights will ensure that we continue to build upon the organization’s remarkable legacy in advocating for women’s economic and personal security."