Brian Goodman, L’99, was featured in the May 2010 OC Metro Magazine’s 40 Under 40 issue, an annual list of over-achieving young professionals on their way up. Goodman is senior practice leader for legal and regulatory matters at Resources Global Professionals in Costa Mesa, Calif.
2000s Jeffrey M. Kuntz, L’00, is the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s 2010 recipient of the Thomas J. Conway Award. The award honors a younger trial lawyer who exemplifies two traits of the late Tom Conway: outstanding trial skills and the ability to be a fierce advocate and a good friend to opposing counsel at the same time. Kuntz is a Partner at Wagstaff & Cartmell. Michelle Morse, L’00, recently moved from practicing as a corporate attorney for various corporations in Kansas City to working in the nonprofit arena as the development director for Jackson County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). CASA provides volunteers to abused and neglected children in Jackson County, Mo. John Bryant, L’01, and Kristiane Gray, L’06, are pleased to announce their engagement. They plan to be married in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in August 2011. Bryant is currently the deputy county attorney at the Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office. Gray is an assistant district attorney at the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, Kan. Shawn Potter, L’01, is practicing with Powell, Potter & Poulsen, serving the legal needs of individuals in Summit, Wasatch and Northern Utah counties in Utah. The firm emphasizes its practice in the areas of real estate, construction law, business law, and tax and estate planning. A. Scott Waddell, L’02, has started his own firm, Waddell Law Firm LLC, in Kansas City, Mo. He specializes in plaintiff’s consumer protection litigation, plaintiff’s personal injury cases and general business (to business) litigation, as well as other types of cases. Carrie Wortman, L’02, and Steve Allton, L’04, were married in October 2009 in Lawrence.
Wortman is a research attorney with the Kansas Court of Appeals in Topeka. Allton is a staff attorney with Legal Services for Students at the University of Kansas. They reside in Lawrence. Jamie Huffman Jones, L’03, was named a Mid-South Rising Star for 2009. In 2010, she was named a partner in the Little Rock, Ark., law firm of Eldredge & Clark LLP. Jamie and her husband, David, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Arden Marisa, in late spring. Molly Schimmels Carella and Franklyn R. Carella, both L’04, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Olivia Rose, in June 2010. They make their home in Olathe. Jessica Donda Ledbetter, L’04, Keller, Texas, is a collegiate regional membership specialist for Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, Region 2. Molly Brown, L’05, has joined the Anchorage, Alaska, office of Patton Boggs LLP. She practices in the areas of Native American affairs, natural resources, and litigation and dispute resolution. Emily Haverkamp, L’05, left the Mdivani Law Firm in Overland Park to open her own practice. She will focus on immigration law but will also include other areas of law to serve the Spanish-speaking community. Tucker L. Poling, L’06, has joined the law firm of Holbrook & Osborn PA in Overland Park. Poling’s practice concentrates on general litigation and medical malpractice defense. David Vermooten, L’06, is working as a legal librarian at the New Mexico Supreme Court Library in Santa Fe, N.M. Elizabeth “Liz” Rogers, L’07, is pleased to announce her marriage to Dr. Benjamin Rebein in May 2010. They reside in Hackensack, N.J. Saraliene Smith, L’07, is pleased to announce her marriage to Christian Durrett in June 2010. They make their home in Las Vegas. Michael A. Breen, L’08, is practicing with Fisher Bren & Sheridan LLP in Minneapolis. He focuses his practice on construction, product
liability, environmental, employment, insurance coverage and personal injury defense. Megan L. Chapman, L’08, has joined the law firm of Holbrook & Osborn PA in Overland Park. Chapman’s practice concentrates on health care, employment and general litigation. Carol Toland Napp, L’08, accepted a research associate position with the Ohio Legislative Service Commission in August 2010. Her responsibilities include drafting bills and amendments, staffing committees and researching questions for members of the Ohio General Assembly. Burton Harding, L’09, who opened his law office in September 2009 in Girard, Kan., recently received the Pro Bono Award for volunteering his professional services on behalf of those in need. The award was presented to him by the Pittsburg Field Office of Kansas Legal Services. Harding married Casie Brammer of Springfield, Mo., in July 2010. Daniel “Danny” B. Moskowitz, L’09, has joined King & Barlow’s Nashville, Tenn., office as an associate in the firm’s litigation and entertainment departments. Moskowitz’s practice focuses on complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country and representation of record labels, artists and other parties to the music industry. Recently, he was appointed to a two-year term as co-chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section White Collar Crime Committee Young Lawyers Subcommittee, which begins in September 2010. Jake Baldwin, L’10, is practicing with the Chicago firm of Cinnamon Mueller, a small firm specializing in representing telecommunications companies. Anne Weltmer, L’10, and Jonathan Kealing were married in May 2010. They reside in Lawrence.
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