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reception was held on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall at Rob’s firm, Cardagin Networks, Inc., a mobile relationship management company. Scott and Rob were joined by Del. David Toscano ’86 and three other ’96 graduates—Don Long, Jonathan Wren, and Jamie Baskerville Martin.
ERIC MCCLAFFERTY has been named head of the Kelley Drye Warren international trade practice group. His wife, Bonnie, was just named head of the Washington, D.C., office of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Their son, Ryan, is a second-year at UVA Law, and their son, Brendan, recently graduated from Wake Forest and works at the university’s hospital in Winston-Salem.
companies on employment and workers’ compensation matters, and the defense of tort claims. After serving six years in the Virginia House of Delegates, SCOTT SUROVELL was elected to represent the 36th District in the Senate of Virginia. Scott continues to live in Mt. Vernon with his wife, Erinn Madden, and their four children, Eva, Leia, Mara, and Colin. Surovell still practices law with Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy PLC, where he focuses on civil and criminal litigation including personal injury, family law, criminal, and consumer litigation.
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ERIC S. EASLEY, his wife, Hilal, and their twoyear-old daughter, Berin, moved to Bucharest, Romania, in September for a diplomatic assignment to the U.S. Embassy, Bucharest. “As hard-working American taxpayers supporting our diplomats abroad,” Eric and his family expect a visit “any time from UVA lawyers with an inkling to visit Romania,” he writes. “We look forward to hosting you. And this is serious. We mean it!”
WALLACE C. “CHUCK” HOLLOWELL III has been named general counsel for Cardinal Innovations Healthcare in Kannapolis, N.C. He previously served as deputy general counsel.
ANDREW BROWN was DILIP PALIATH has been appointed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to the Baltimore County Judicial Nominating Commission, which is tasked with making judicial appointment recommendations to the governor for the district and circuit courts of Baltimore County. His term will end in 2019. Paliath has been selected as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in Maryland by the National Trial Lawyers Association.
elected chairman of the management committee of Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby (“LB3”) in Washington, D.C., where he represents large corporate clients in their strategic sourcing of global telecommunications and IT services and in regulatory matters affecting corporate customers of information technologies. Brown also serves on the board of directors of LB3’s consulting firm, TechCaliber Consulting (“TC2”).
IAN ROSENTHAL co-founded Rosenthal Parks in Mobile, Ala., which has a general litigation practice with a particular focus on commercial litigation, providing guidance to
YOST CONNER married Sam Taylor on January 2 in Washington, D.C. They live in Arlington, Va.
MARK R.A. HORN has been elected president of the Charlotte, N.C. Estate Planning Council. He has served on the board since 2011 and was elected vice president in 2014. He is a member with Moore & Van Allen, where he is a North Carolina State Bar certified specialist in estate planning and probate law and a frequent speaker on tax and estate planning topics. He is listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers 2015 in estate planning and probate law.
YUJI IWASAWA S.J.D. was elected as an associate of the Institut de Droit International, a prestigious academic society of international law, at its Tallinn session in August. Iwasawa is on the law faculty at the University of Tokyo. NEIL RICHARDS is a national trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation and was appointed as an affiliate scholar of the information law centers at Yale and Stanford. He teaches privacy, free speech, and constitutional law at Washington University Law School. He published his first book, Intellectual Privacy, with Oxford University Press (see In Print) this year.
JUSTIN A. SAVAGE joined Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., as a partner in the litigation group. He previously served nearly a decade in the environment and natural resources division at the U.S. Department of Justice. His practice focuses on complex litigation and investigations concerning environmental and safety matters. “I’m happy to be in a firm with so many alumni,” he writes. JASON M. SNEED was named Charlotte trademark lawyer of the year in Best Lawyers 2016. He founded the trademark, trade dress, and copyright boutique firm SNEED PLLC in 2011. This year the firm hired its fifth and sixth lawyers, including Neal Hayes ’10, who practices in Davidson,
N.C. SNEED PLLC also has an office in Sullivan’s Island, S.C.
LORI D. THOMPSON is a shareholder and office leader with LeClairRyan in Roanoke, Va. She was named Roanoke lawyer of the year in bankruptcy litigation in Best Lawyers 2015. She concluded her term as president of the Virginia Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization that represents the interests of low-income Virginians and provides statewide training to legal aid program staff on poverty law issues, and has been appointed by the chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court to the pro bono committee of the Virginia Access to Justice Commission. She has also been elected to serve on the Virginia Bar Association’s board of governors. She lives in Roanoke with her husband, Mark, and their two children.
1998 ADRIENNE PRUDEN ASHBY is in her fourth year of homeschooling her children. In addition, she works as a staff attorney for the Georgia Senior Legal Hotline of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
WILLIAM R. BORCHERS was included in the S.A. Scene best San Antonio lawyers list for 2015 in intellectual property and information technology. He is a partner with Jackson Walker.
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