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enthralling work of history told with intelligence and urgency.” Lawton, who served as part of Artt’s legal team in California, is currently a shareholder with Klinedinst in San Diego.
1987 Norman Schneider served as co-counsel for the plaintiff in a construction industry hostile work environment case that led to a seven-count judgment for $2.25 million, one of the largest compensatory damage judgments for a sexual harassment victim in Washington, D.C.
1989 Kevin Kelly has joined the global strategy firm Actum as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. He previously led the Government & Regulatory Affairs practice at Clark Hill and worked on Capitol Hill for the Senate Appropriations Committee. Jim Moore is a full-time legal aid lawyer for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Bangor, Maine, following his retirement after more than 30 years as an assistant U.S. Attorney. He represents low-income tenants in eviction defense and housing discrimination cases. After holding senior positions in both Democratic and Republican administrations at the state and federal levels, Mark Schlakman is now of counsel at Rambana & Ricci in Tallahassee, Florida. His prior service includes working as special advisor to the director of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service.
1992 Meghan DiPasquale, C’88, is among 10 attorneys from the boutique firm Ward Greenberg to join Hodgson Russ in Rochester, New York. She focuses her litigation practice on labor and employment law and commercial matters.
come as a surprise to some, taught corporate taxation for 10 years at Washington University in St. Louis.”
Gregory Lisi, a partner at Forchelli Deegan Terrana in Uniondale, New York, was appointed chair of the Nassau County, New York, Bar Association’s Lawyer Referral and Nominating Committees.
John Woodward Jr., a professor of the practice of international relations at Boston University and a former CIA intelligence officer, has authored Spying: From the Fall of Jericho to the Fall of the Wall. The book draws on the pioneering scholarship of his colleague, the late professor Arthur Hulnick.
1994 Tim Hruby (J.D./MSFS) has joined Blank Rome’s Washington, D.C., office as of counsel in the International Trade Group. He most recently served as chief of staff to the Assistant Secretary of Enforcement and Compliance at the International Trade Administration. Carol Leutner (LL.M.) has published a memoir, Race Consciousness: A Personal and Political Journey, which includes accounts of her work for the Navajo Nation and on Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign.
1995 Michael Burwick (LL.M.’11,’12) has joined Becker as a shareholder in the New York office. A member of the firm’s Corporate Practice, he specializes in tax deferral, mitigation and minimization. DirectWomen, whose mission is to increase the representation of women lawyers on corporate boards, selected Jen Fitchen as one of 17 candidates for its Board Institute Class of 2023. Prior to her retirement from Sidley Austin last year, she was co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice group.
1996 Blane Workie was named a 2023 finalist in the Management Excellence category of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Awards for her leadership of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Aviation Consumer Protection Team, which secured more than $1 billion in passenger refunds in 2022. The “Sammies” are considered the Oscars of government service.
The University of Maryland recognized T. Leigh Anenson (LL.M.), a professor of business law at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Anenson is a leading scholar of equity and government pension law, and author of the forthcoming book The National Pension Crisis and the Constitution.
1997 Matthew Blackburn has joined Lewis Roca as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation and intellectual property, including copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret disputes.
1999 Grant Dawson has published a new book with Oxford University Press, International Law and Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons, which offers legal solutions and practical recommendations to remedy the environmental impact of chemical weapons dumped in the world’s oceans. Currently lead legal specialist at the University of Groningen, where he received his Ph.D., Dawson previously served as the principal legal officer of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at the Hague.
Kenzo Kawanabe is among a group of five leading trial attorneys to launch a new law firm based in Denver, Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray. In addition to his legal practice, Kawanabe teaches at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
1998 Daniel White sent in the following update: “My wife (Jennifer Haro) and I are living in Chicago. I’m currently at EY, running the US-Central M&A tax practice. … We moved up from St. Louis, where I’d been a partner in the tax practice at Bryan Cave Leighton & Paisner. I co-authored a tax treatise for CCHWolters-Kluwer on Taxation of Corporations and their shareholders and, as may
Matthew Umhofer, a partner at Umhofer, Mitchell and King and a winner of the California Lawyer of the Year Award, recently litigated a novel case involving homelessness in Los Angeles that secured $4 billion for shelter, housing and mental health substance use services. “My experience at GULC prepared me for this fight,” Umfoher said.
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