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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 18, 2011

From Associate to War Crimes Prosecutor

Kasowitz associate Jacob Foster temporarily left his corporate law practice for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help prosecute war crimes in the Hague.


By Sara Randazzo


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - In January, Jacob N. Foster found himself in a situation he never anticipated just four months prior. Sitting in a courtroom in The Hague, the Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP associate watched as citizens from the Central African Republic confronted former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, on trial on charges of allowing the pillage, rape and murder of their fellow c...

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