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Sheldon Silver Sheldon "Shelly" Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a former lawyer and Democratic Party politician from New York City, who rose to become the powerful Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1994 until his arrest on federal corruption charges in 2015. He was initially convicted, but his conviction was overturned.
Steven Thiru Steven Thiru is the Immediate Past President of the Malaysian Bar. He is a senior litigation partner of Messrs Shook Lin & Bok in Kuala Lumpur. He has been in practice for 25 years. His main areas of practice are administrative law, employment law, electricity supply law, native title law and a variety of areas of civil litigation.