ACLU’s First Amendment Award in 2012.
1995
Tracy Lee Dayton was appointed Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Connecticut. She joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2007, and has served as chief of the Violent Crimes and Narcotics Unit and as senior litigation counsel. Since 2012, Tracy has been a member of the Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Crimes. She previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, and as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County.
deals, debt and equity financings, and asset sales. He has coordinated deals in Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Macedonia, Croatia, and the United Arab Emirates. Previously, Mark spent five years in Geneva overseeing a mass-claims compensation program for World War II-era property losses. John Pearce has been appointed to serve as a justice on the Utah Supreme Court by Governor Gary Herbert. A Utah Court of Appeals judge since 2013, John also chairs the state judiciary’s Standing Committee on Technology and is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. He was general counsel for Utah’s Office of the Governor from 2009 to 2013.
1998
1996
Mark Gardberg joined the Las Vegas office of Howard & Howard Attorneys in September. His practice focuses on corporate and transactional business matters, mainly in mergers and acquisitions, real estate
Steve Goorvitch was appointed to the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, by Governor Jerry Brown on November 17, 2015. He had worked as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice for eight years and at O’Melveny & Myers for four years.
1999
Niloofar (Nejat-Bina) Shepherd has joined Creative Artists Agency (CAA) as an executive in the office of the general coun-
sel. CAA is the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency representing some of the most iconic talent, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nashville, London, Beijing, Stockholm, and Mumbai. Niloofar’s in-house practice encompasses general litigation, employment advice and counsel, and transactional matters.
user interface design, secure messaging, medical devices, and turbocharger manufacturing. John Therien has been named a North Carolina “Rising Star” for the seventh straight year by Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers in North Carolina who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The Rising Star category honors lawyers 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. A partner at Smith Anderson, John advises a broad range of clients in commercial transactions involving intellectual property matters.
2001
Katherine Prescott joined the San Mateo-based law firm Miclean Gleason as of counsel. She previously worked at WilmerHale, and as senior patent counsel for Apple Inc. At Apple, Katherine set litigation, trial, and settlement strategy for patent and consumer classaction litigation, U.S. International Trade Commission investigations, and post-grant U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings. She litigates patent and trade-secret cases involving a wide range of technologies, including computer and network security,
2002
Sonal Mehta was elected unanimously to the board of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California’s Federal Practice Program. The program is the continuing legal education wing of the court, and seeks to promote dialogue between the bench and the bar. Sonal TRANSCRIPT SPRING 2016 67