QULAW•ALUMNI Connecticut chapter of InfraGard, a national program created by the FBI, dedicated to information sharing and analysis. InfraGard CT focuses on communications between Connecticut-based organizations and local, state and federal government concerning critical infrastructure, homeland security and cyber security issues. He is an associate with Pullman & Comley in Bridgeport, CT. CHRISTOPHER DESOCIO is an associate at the firm of Ricci Fava, with offices in Woodland Park and Newark, NJ. He focuses on criminal defense and civil litigation, representing individuals in municipal, superior and federal court. He lives in North Bergen, NJ.
medical science fields. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship, which focused on the molecular and physiological origins of cystic fibrosis. He is also an inventor of several patents relating to biological therapeutics. He lives in Cheshire, CT.
2008 KATHRYN FRANKEL married Aaron Shafer on Sept. 25, 2011, in Bedford, NY. She is a project manager in Middletown, CT, at the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development, an organization based in Boston that develops housing for individuals and families with low incomes. The couple lives in West Hartford, CT.
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MARK BILAK recently entered into partnership with Michael Murphy and Dan Homiller to form Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, an intellectual property law firm located in Cary, NC, with a focus on patent law. He lives in Fuquay-Varina, NC.
KEVIN CASINI joined the New Haven firm of Palumbo & DeLaura. The firm specializes in commercial litigation and is located in Wooster Square, where he lives.
MICHELLE A. MALONE, JD/MBA ’05, is an associate at Cacace, Tusch & Santagata in Stamford, CT. Her concentration is family law. Before joining the firm, she practiced family law in Fairfield County and served as an assistant district attorney within the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, NY. She lives in Trumbull, CT. BRYAN D. ZERHUSEN is a partner at McCarter & English in Hartford. He works in the intellectual property/ information technology group, and has experience in all aspects of patent preparation, strategic portfolio management, due diligence investigations, licensing, litigation support and counseling in several 30
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KEVIN DAKEN is a divorce attorney with the law firm of Siegel, Reilly & Conlon, a boutique matrimonial firm based in Stamford, CT. While at Quinnipiac he earned the James R. DeFonce Memorial Scholarship Award for his advocacy on behalf of the disabled and the Award for Excellence in Clinical Work for his work at the School of Law Legal Clinic. He lives in Cheshire, CT, with his wife, Marcie. EMILY (RIORDAN) LUCIBELLO of West Haven, CT, opened her own law practice with LISAMARIA PROSCINO QU ’06 in Orange, CT. Lisamaria is a graduate of Western New England Law School. JOSEPH R. ROSSETTI has joined the law firm of Moore, O’Brien, Jacques & Yelenak, a plaintiff ’s personal injury firm
in Cheshire, CT. Joe also coaches the QUSL mock trial team.
2010 ALYSSA V. SHERRIFF joined the Southbury law firm of Brody Wilkinson as an associate. She will be practicing in the areas of estate planning and trust and estate administration. She lives in Weston, CT.
2011 DANIEL ERWIN of Hamden took third place in the American Judges Association’s annual law student essay competition. His essay was titled “Hear My Words That I Might Teach You: The Rights to Silence and Counsel Down at the Schoolyard.” The essay advocated that children should receive a Miranda warning and have a parent present before being questioned by police on school grounds—a position adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case from North Carolina, Daniel’s home state. SILVIA KNOX-DELAMAR was promoted to director of compliance/chief of staff at Atlanta University Center Consortium in Atlanta. It is the largest and oldest consortium of historically black colleges and universities in the nation. She lives in Conyers, GA.
In Memoriam Mark Carron ’86 Diana (McShea) Kleefeld ’04 Richard Michaud ’95
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