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of the Office of Administrative Adjudication at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C. She previously worked as an attorney advisor for the Federal Communications Commission. 2010 Blake Hardwick joined the national commercial services division of First American Title Insurance Company in July 2016 as senior underwriting counsel and Colorado counsel. Hardwick was previously a commercial finance and real estate lawyer at Snell & Wilmer LLP. 2011 Ryan McAteer, a corporate health care law attorney at Polsinelli PC in Los Angeles, is participating in the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Southern California program. He is one of 40 mid- to senior-level executives from a variety of industries selected through a competitive process for the eight-month leadership development program. Gregory Trum and his wife, Katherine, welcomed a daughter, Lily Marie, on Oct. 24, 2015, in Overland Park. Trum is legal counsel at Cross-Midwest Tire Company. Sean Douglas Walsh relocated to the downtown office of Hinkle Law Firm in Wichita. 2012 Christian Corrigan joined the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia, as a constitutional litigation fellow. Corrigan will focus on economic liberty, property rights, free speech and school choice at the national public interest firm. Will Manly joined the office of Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt as an assistant attorney general in criminal litigation. He will handle domestic violence cases statewide. Manly had served as an assistant district attorney in Shawnee County since 2012. Michael A. Mulloy is approaching the one-year anniversary of opening Stebbins
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Mulloy Attorneys at Law in Bismarck, North Dakota, with his law partner, Jackie M. Stebbins. Mulloy practices in the areas of real estate, estate planning, probate and family law. Jeff Spahr joined the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in the litigation division in St. Louis, Missouri. 2013 Matthew A. Gorney joined Monnat & Spurrier, Chartered, in Wichita as an associate focusing on trial and appellate practice, criminal and DUI defense and municipal defense. Eric A. Sader was elected to the board of directors of the Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition. 2014 Jesús Güereca became lead attorney at Immigration Professionals, a nonprofit immigration legal services law firm in Kansas City, Missouri. Patrick Newsum joined Wiggin & Dana in New York as an associate attorney. 2015 Paul Budd joined Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman LLP in Dallas as an associate attorney practicing tax law. He recently earned an LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law. M. Johnathan Koonce completed a fellowship program with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and began a term clerkship with the Hon. Judge Wiley Y. Daniel, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Robert A. Langer joined Langer & Langer in Valparaiso, Indiana. He focuses
his practice on personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death. Cooper Mach joined the Popham Law Firm as an associate. He will focus his practice on personal injury and employment law. He joins his father, Scott Mach, L’81, who is a partner at the firm, practicing civil litigation. 2016 Melanie Brewer joined the asset management team at Travois, a Kansas City, Missouri, consulting firm focused on promoting housing and economic development in Indian Country. Brewer will help clients meet investor and state reporting requirements for the life of Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects. Abby Hall was named a 2016-2017 KU Woman of Distinction by the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity at the University of Kansas. Hall is a research attorney for Kansas Supreme Court Justice Eric Rosen. Lauren G. Hughes joined Wise & Reber LC in McPherson as an associate in the firm’s estate planning and transactional practice groups. Nicole Lawson accepted a position at the Johnson County Public Defender’s Office. Trent Rogers joined the housing development department at Travois as a project manager. Rogers will help clients navigate affordable housing projects at the consulting firm in Kansas City, Missouri.