COMMUNITY Jessica Marlow was named to Variety magazine’s list of “Hollywood’s New Leaders” as an entertainment attorney with the Beverly Hills office of Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin. Ehsan Zaffar will be releasing a textbook on homeland security policy in 2015 entitled Homeland Security: Foundations of Security. The textbook is for upper-level undergraduates and law and policy graduate students interested in current homeland security topics ranging from cybersecurity to immigration enforcement.
2007 Elizabeth A. Mitchell, a deputy city attorney in Los Angeles’ Police Liability Unit, successfully defended the LAPD against allegations of a property owner who claimed that LAPD caused significant damage to her property while executing a search warrant.
2008 Bryan K. Lang has joined the subdivisions services group at Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh. He concentrates his practice on the representation of homebuilders, contractors, developers, and owners in common-interest subdivision matters.
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Monica A. Adjemian has been promoted to senior associate at Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Philpott, where she has been practicing as an intellectual property attorney since graduating from law school.
Melissa M. Barcena has joined Northrup Schlueter APLC, a full-service law firm based in the California cities of Westlake Village and Santa Barbara, as an associate. She practices in the areas of complex business litigation and construction defect. She also practices in the firm’s appellate division.
2010 Joseph Lewis became a partner at Wooten Mischel & Lewis, managing the estate planning and taxation division. His family also welcomed their fifth child, Annalisa, on March 1, 2013. Robert O’Conner has published his first novel, Unholy Ground - A Max Steele Thriller.
2011 Nate Knapper is currently running for state representative in Michigan’s 43rd House District. He has been serving in the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
2012 Emily A. Jung has joined the Real Estate Development and Investments Practice Group, as an associate at Winstead PC in Dallas, Texas.
Jason G. Bulbuk joined Plunkett Cooney’s Tort and Litigation Practice Group in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Grace D. Greenhall has joined the Litigation Section of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ryan Waggoner has joined the Trusts and Estates Group of Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis, Indiana.
2014 Selina J. Shultz joined Duquesne University School of Law to teach the course Judgment and Decision Making for Lawyers. She is also the managing partner of The Alternative Group (“TAG”), where she regularly mediates all types of civil, business, and family matters.
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In Memoriam
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Professor W. Noel Keyes, former long-time member of the Pepperdine University School of School faculty, passed away at age 92 on Tuesday, March 11. He joined the faculty in 1972, when the school was located in Santa Ana, California, in a two-story frame building. After the School of Law moved to nearby Anaheim, he began the school’s clinical law program while carrying a regular teaching load. He wrote extensively on government contracts, among other topics. He was a sailor of some note. He taught at the law school until 1987, when he retired to Laguna Beach, where he and wife Jeannine had lived when the school was located in Orange County. He is survived by wife Jeannine and sons Philippe and Chris (‘78), the latter of whom is a graduate of Seaver College. Jill Meredith Curtiss (JD ’95), died on November 9, 2012. Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she graduated from University Liggett High School in 1988. She received her bachelor’s degree in sculpture from Miami University (Ohio), her juris doctor from Pepperdine University, and her master of laws from John Marshall in Chicago, Illinois. She practiced law in Los Angeles and moved to Denver, Colorado, in 2012 in order to be closer to family. She was 42 years old.
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