class action 92 Tom McInerney is a founding shareholder in the San Francisco office of Ogletree Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart. The firm is a labor and employment specialty firm. Previously he was a partner at Thelen Reid in San Francisco.
93 Allan Manzagol is a director in the law department at Applied Materials in Santa Clara, supporting the company’s solar equipment division. Previously he was the director of commercial law at Spansion, a flash memory manufacturer in Sunnyvale.
94 Patrick Black B.S. ’91 is a shareholder in the law firm Fennemore Craig in Phoenix, Ariz. He practices utilities law and government relations, focusing on energy, water, wastewater, and telecommunications regulation. Brenda Buonaiuto heads King & Spalding’s product liability and toxic tort practice in San Francisco. She previously was a partner at Drinker Biddle. She represents pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in product liability and personal injury litigation. Philip J. Dion III is vice president of legal and environmental services for UniSource Energy Corporation in Tucson, Ariz.
Previously, he served as chief of staff and chief legal advisor to Commissioner Marc Spitzer of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He also worked for five years as a Deputy Maricopa County Attorney, and at the Arizona Corporation Commission as an administrative law judge and advisor. John Eyrich has started a law practice in Bainbridge Island, Wash., emphasizing trust, estate and fiduciary abuse litigation in both Calif. and Wash..
95 Jason Brady is senior vice president and general counsel for Solera Holdings in San Diego. He is responsible for the company’s global legal organization, including corporate compliance and governance and mergers and acquisitions. The company provides software and services for the automobile insurance claims processing industry. He previously served as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Xenogen Corporation. He also has held senior legal positions with Abbott Diabetes Care, TheraSense, Ensera and AllAdvantage. Kyle Ostergard is a partner at Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava and MacCuish in Los Angeles. He practices in the areas of construction, suretyship,
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business, and real estate law. He also represents clients in real estate and business disputes. Carol Stratford is general counsel and head of intellectual propCarol Stratford ’95 erty for KaloBios Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto. Previously she worked for Pfizer as Site Head of the Rinat Laboratories facility. She has also held senior management positions at Elan Pharmaceuticals and Galileo Pharmaceuticals.
96 Helene Courard completed her first marathon, running the October 2007 Marine Corps Marathon in 5:31:14. She works as the senior manager of new business operations for the Air, Missile and National Defense business unit of Computer Sciences Corp. She lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband, Chris Durso, and two daughters, Isabella Ambrose and Evelyn Marie. Beth Mitchell joined the litigation practice group of Mitchell & Strawn. She previously was a partner at Nixon Peabody. Gretchen Nady Jacobs was recognized as a 2007 Leader of the Year by the Arizona Capitol Times for her work as a lobbyist at the Arizona capitol.
97 Shawn Hartung is vice president and relationship manager in the commercial lending group of Focus Business Bank in San Jose. She has been a commercial banker for many years. Previously she was a vice president and relationship manager with Wells Fargo Bank in Santa Clara. She also has worked for Comerica Bank and Wachovia Bank and was on the political science faculty at San Jose State University. Shawn lives in Santa Clara