corporate law, employment law, estate planning, and personal injury law. Jason C.M. “Jace” McClasky, L’02, is pleased
to announce his marriage to Kristin Patton in May 2011 in Kansas City, Mo. McClasky is a partner in the law firm of Short, Borth & Thilges in Overland Park. Jennifer Knapp Riggs, L’02, recently moved to
Sprint in Overland Park, where she serves as litigation counsel in the company’s legal department.
Molly Aspan, L’03, received
the 2012 Oklahoma Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award because of her professionalism, skills and commitment to the profession and her community. Aspan is a shareholder with the law firm of Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson PC in its Tulsa office. Her primary practice area is employment and labor defense litigation and counseling. Aspan is also admitted to practice in Kansas. Her nomination for the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award states that she has inspired and challenged others to be more effective leaders in the bar and in their communities. Matthew Corbin, L’03, has been elected
partner in the Overland Park office of Lathrop & Gage LLP, where he practices in the area of business litigation. Tony Corporon, L’03, became assistant
counsel in the real estate investments division in the Overland Park office of Metlife in December 2011. He advises clients in matters relating to agricultural lending. Jeff Schwartz, L’03, has been inducted into
his high school’s hall of fame. Schwartz attended East High School in Pueblo, Colo., where he was an all-state choir selection and performed in a number of school plays. He also was a member of the Eagles’ tennis team. He currently practices law in Fort Collins. Terelle A. Mock, L’04, is a partner at Fisher,
Patterson, Sayler & Smith, practicing in the firm’s Topeka office. Mock’s practice focuses on defense of government entities
– including counties, cities and school districts – against claims involving employment law, civil rights and general torts. Jonathan W. Davis, L’05, has been named
a shareholder and director of the firm Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Enochs, Chtd., in Overland Park. He has been with the firm since 2005 and is a member of its litigation and business law practice groups. His practice focuses on litigation, general business, estate planning and professional negligence defense, including architecture, engineering, medical and real estate. Kelli Lieurance, L’05, was recently elected
to the partnership at Baird Holm LLP in Omaha, Neb.
Raymundo Eli Rojas, L’05,
is president of the El Paso Immigrant Defense Bar. In 2010, he founded the El Paso Chicano(a) History & Preservation Project. In private practice, Rojas finds time to do community and low-income worker organizing. He serves on the alumni board of the National Latino(a) Law Student Association and teaches Chicano Legal History in the Chicano Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he also serves as faculty adviser to the UTEP Chicano(a) Pre-Law Society. In 2011, Rojas founded the Border Jayhawks, the recognized KU alumni club in El Paso. F. Simon Tolbert, L’05, is an associate in the
Denver office of Burleson LLP. His practice focuses on oil and gas title work. Tolbert also advises clients in international oil and gas law, trade agreements, and trade policies, in developing markets in the western Pacific. Beth Wegner, L’05, and Buck Wendel,
Lenexa, were married in September 2011 in Lawrence. Wegner is the community outreach and crime prevention specialist with the Olathe Police Department. Kara Bemboom, L’06,
has been appointed assistant vice president in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s
legal department and will serve as assistant ethics officer. Bemboom joined the bank’s human resources department in 2002 and left in 2003 to attend law school. She returned to the bank is 2010 as a staff attorney. Bemboom also serves as assistant secretary to the bank’s board of directors and secretary to the bank’s management committee. Maria Fogliasso, L’06, is the new director
of social media in the Overland Park office of Intouch Solutions, a digital marketing agency exclusively dedicated to serving pharmaceutical brands. She was previously a social media manager at CenturyLink. Kara Gerwin, L’06, welcomed her son,
Benjamin William, in February 2011. She practices at Sprint in Overland Park. David R. Lloyd, L’07,
is practicing with Finch & Campbell LLP in Kansas City, Mo., where he does corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities work. Lloyd continues to teach Business Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and he and two other attorneys own and operate Method Clothing Boutique in Kansas City, Mo. Lloyd delivered the keynote address at the law school’s 2012 Diversity in Law Banquet. Elizabeth “Liz” Rogers Rebein, L’07, is an
assistant prosecutor in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in Hackensack, N.J. Rebein practices in the appellate section. John P. Smolen, L’07, is practicing with
Nossaman LLP in Washington, D.C. He previously practiced with a firm in Baltimore, Md.
Tadd Blair, L’08, recently
accepted a commission as a member of the JAG Corps with the U.S. Navy. His first tour will be in the Jacksonville, Fla., area. Dennis L. Kuhnel, L’08, was recently
selected as the Nebraska National Forests & Grasslands first director of the HudsonMeng Educational & Research Center and has also been named as the volunteer
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