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Jackie McMurtrie received the Washington ACLU’s William O. Douglas Award, a lifetime achievement award given for outstanding, consistent, and sustained contributions to the cause of civil liberties. She is being recognized for her pursuit of justice on behalf of individuals wrongly convicted and imprisoned in Washington. She is an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Law and founder of the Innocence Project Northwest.
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Justin H. Perl has been appointed to Lawyers Without Borders’ (LWOB) executive board of directors. LWOB is an international not-for-profit focused on promoting rule of law through global sustainable programming. In addition to financial contributions, executive board members donate their time and expertise to support the organization’s mission. He currently serves as a partner with the litigation group of Minneapolis-based Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand LLP, where he chairs the firm’s intellectual property litigation group and serves on the firm’s governance committee.
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1984 THE CLASS OF 1984 REUNION WILL BE HELD sEPtEMBEr 12–14, 2014.
Michael J. Hernandez, a partner at Franczek Radelet, is one of 45 business executives—and one of only a few private practice attorneys—to be honored as a Business Leader of Color by Chicago United. Chicago United established this honor to highlight exceptional corporate and civic leaders of color. He serves as Franczek Radelet’s diversity officer, and practices in the areas of education, labor, and employment law.
His experience involves litigation at all levels of state and federal courts and administrative agencies, and internal investigations, and he also has a broad background in constitutional and civil rights law, including working with emerging minority businesses and educational institutions in these and other areas. Kirk A. Hoopingarner, a partner in Quarles & Brady LLP’s Chicago office, has been appointed to the editorial advisory board of Planned Giving Today. He practices in Quarles & Brady’s trusts and estates and tax-exempt organizations practice groups, and has concentrated his practice on all facets of wealth planning and philanthropy for highnet-worth families and individuals. He also has extensive experience in sophisticated charitable planning, both for individual donors and for substantial charitable organizations.
1985 Susan T. Bart, a partner in the private clients, trusts and estates group in Sidley’s Chicago office, received the 2013 Austin Fleming Award from the Chicago Estate Planning Council. The Austin Fleming Award is presented annually to a person highly regarded by practicing estate planners for his or her expertise in the field, and for making a significant contribution to the improvement of estate planning practices. She is the 40th estate planner to receive the award since its inception in 1974, and only the fifth woman recipient. At the luncheon given in her honor, she spoke on the subject of “Decanting: Refining a Vintage Trust.” Recently, she also was appointed reporter to the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on trust decanting.
Jeri Rouse Looney is now assistant general counsel for UTC Aerospace Systems–Electric Systems based in Rockford, Illinois. She is rediscovering the Midwest with her three children: Caitlin, Hannah, and Michael. She previously resigned from the partnership at Locke Lord LLP after 28 years in private practice as a litigator, with 23 years in the Los Angeles office.
1986 Steven A. Roach, principal at Miller Canfield, has been appointed a trustee of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation. The foundation supports a mix of programming and advocacy, such as the Detroit Legal Services Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to people in need. He has more than 20 years of commercial transaction and litigation experience in restructuring lending relationships and enforcing loan transactions, and has been an active participant in the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association and the Commercial Advisory Council for the American Arbitration.
1987 Brian Leiter’s third book, Why Tolerate Religion?, was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. He is the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught since 2008. Before that, he spent 13 years at the University of Texas at Austin. Teri McMahon, partner in Alston & Bird’s mergers and acquisitions group, has been named chair of the firm’s partners’ committee. Based in the Atlanta office, she emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, private equity representation, corporate finance, leveraged buyouts, roll-up transactions, and general corporate law in her practice.