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News from George Birnbaum Law

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Shantay Bolton, currently Executive Vice President of Administration and Finance and Chief Business Officer at Georgia Tech, on her appointment as the eleventh President and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia College Chicago (including its west coast operation).

https://www.colum.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2025/columbia-names-shantay-bolton-as-its-11th-president-and-chief-executive-officer

We were privileged to represent Dr. Bolton in her Presidential contract negotiations.

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George Birnbaum

Since 1980, sophisticated business people have relied on George to apply the meticulous preparation, attention to detail, and devotion to his clients he learned from fabled trial lawyer Louis Nizer. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, George has over 35 years of distinguished deal-making, litigation, mediation and arbitration experience which he has used to negotiate high-stakes agreements for senior executives and select business clients throughout the United States.