companies, management teams, private equity funds, and high net worth individuals. His experience includes advising clients in a variety of industries with respect to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, internal restructurings, compliance with securities law, securities offerings, venture capital investments, and other general corporate governance matters. He has been selected for inclusion in Texas Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters (2012-2015). Stephanie N. Mitchell was elected judge of the 291st Judicial District Court in Dallas. Mitchell was a felony assistant district attorney in Dallas County prior to her judicial election in 2014. She previously served as chief juvenile prosecutor in Navarro County. Mitchell is also an adjunct professor of criminal law, contracts law, and criminal procedure at Kaplan College. Jillian Smith Symes and husband Philip Symes welcomed a daughter, Aurelia Ruby Olive Symes (Ruby), on October 23, 2014. Symes is a senior manager on the U.S. tax desk at Ernst & Young LLP in London. Derek T. Teeter has been promoted to partner in Husch Blackwell’s Kansas City, Missouri, office. Teeter is a member of the firm’s health care, life sciences and pharmaceuticals industry team, and his practice focuses on litigation involving federal and state regulatory statutes, governmental immunities, constitutional rights, consumer class action litigation and the False Claims Act. Leita Walker was admitted to partnership in the Minneapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels. Walker is an intellectual property lawyer who resolves disputes and counsels clients on media, advertising and privacy law. She handles copyright and false advertising claims, defends libel and invasion of privacy lawsuits, and obtains access to government records. Jabari B. Wamble and his wife, Marissa, welcomed Braxton Amos Wamble into their family on January 27, 2015. Wamble is an Assistant United States Attorney for the
District of Kansas. The family resides in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. 2007 M. Katie Gates Calderon has been named a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in the firm’s Kansas City office. Gates Calderon is a member of the firm’s Global Product Liability team. She defends corporations in individual and complex tort, product liability and consumer protection matters. She has experience litigating cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, including those involving asbestos products, pharmaceuticals and tobacco. Richard A. Cook has been promoted to partner in Stinson Leonard Street LLP’s Kansas City, Missouri, office. Cook is in the firm’s real estate division. His practice focuses on economic development, government relations, real estate transactions, special district formation, financial services, and tax incentives such as tax increment financing and tax abatement. Bobby W. Pineda was appointed as city prosecutor for the City of Green River, Wyoming, in February 2015. Pineda operates a private practice that he established in 2008 and has acted as the alternate municipal court judge in Rock Springs, Wyoming, since September 2013. Dillon L. Strohm was elected to the board of directors of the MidAmerica Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Strohm is associate counsel for Adknowledge in Kansas City, Missouri. 2008 Katie J. (Cheney) Schroeder was married on Jan. 2, 2015, and is now Katie Schroeder. She continues to practice law in Beloit, Kansas, and her new law office is Schroeder Law Office LLC. Thomas P. Maltese has been chosen by the Milwaukee Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 winner for 2015. The class represents the future of community leadership in southeastern Wisconsin. Maltese is a client services director/senior manager at Deloitte Tax LLP.
2009 Danielle N. Davey has been promoted to member at Sloan, Eisenbarth, Glassman, McEntire & Jarboe LLC in Topeka. Davey’s practice consists of a wide array of civil litigation, including employment discrimination, real estate and contract disputes, and domestic violence and family law issues. Mariza E. McKee has been promoted to partner in Kutak Rock LLP’s Chicago office. McKee was instrumental in the foundation and growth of the firm’s EB-5 finance practice. Her practice focuses on structuring, negotiating and documenting complex structured EB-5 financings. 2010 Rury L. Grisham accepted a patent attorney position with Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole in the Washington, D.C., area. Prior to joining the firm, Grisham served for four years as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications regarding facsimile and static presentation processing/ printers, scanners, networking devices, and fax machines. Anne Weltmer Kealing and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed a son, William Roderick Kealing, on January 25, 2015. The Kealings reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Anne is an attorney with Morris Law Group PA. She practices in both state and federal court in the areas of real estate, business services, civil litigation, consumer and business bankruptcy, consumer debt settlement, and mortgage-related issues. 2011 Brandon J. Smith was appointed policy director for Gov. Sam Brownback. Since 2011, Smith has worked for the Federalist Society of Law
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