Farrar Named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP is proud to announce that Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Farrar, a partner in the firm’s Columbus office, has been named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). 

According the ABF, membership in The Fellows is limited to one third of one percent of the lawyers in each state. Fellows include lawyers, judges, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.  

Farrar is a member of the Vorys corporate and finance group.  Her practice focuses primarily on the representation of public companies and financial institutions, which she regularly counsels on a broad range of matters involving corporate governance, securities law compliance and reporting issues, federal banking law compliance, public offerings of debt and equity securities and merger and acquisition transactions involving both stock and assets.  She works regularly with clients who are subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex, The NASDAQ Stock Market, various federal banking regulators and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Farrar received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her B.A. magna cum laude from Smith College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa.

About Vorys: Vorys was established in 1909 and has grown to be one of the largest Ohio-based law firms with nearly 375 attorneys in six offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and Houston, Texas. Vorys currently ranks as one of the 200 largest law firms in the United States according to American Lawyer magazine.