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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Joseph T. Neely was a 2022 Missouri Lawyers Media Up & Coming Awards honoree. The award recognizes early career legal professionals who demonstrate professional accomplishment, skill, and leadership beyond their years, and an extraordinary commitment to the community. He is a partner at Behr McCarter in St. Louis.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Joel Bryant has been promoted to partner at Miller Canfield. He is a member of the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group and is based in the Ann Arbor office.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Charlotta Chung was elected partner in the corporate and financial services department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and is a member of the firm’s finance department. She focuses her practice on representing private equity sponsors, lenders, and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions. She is based in New York. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Emily Haigh was elevated to shareholder in the New York office of Littler. She represents and counsels employers facing a wide variety of labor and employment law issues and has conducted hundreds of sessions on #MeToo training laws. She also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s veterans initiative affinity group. Before joining Littler, she supervised and reviewed administrative investigations for the US Army as a judge advocate and magistrate judge.  

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jonathan E. Algor, a former assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has joined Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP as a partner specializing in white-collar defense and investigations, commercial litigation, and international litigation. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Ryan Ferris was promoted to partner at Mayer Brown. He works with the firm’s corporate and securities practice group in Chicago. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Stephen Gilson appeared on MSNBC to discuss possible Department of Justice charges stemming from the November 2022 mass shooting at a Colorado Springs nightclub. Formerly an assistant US attorney, he is now counsel at KaiserDillon PLLC in Washington, DC.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Siyu Jiang was appointed vice president of legal affairs at Amprius Technologies, which has developed ultra-high energy density lithium-ion batteries. Based in Fremont, California, she previously advised Amprius for several years on corporate governance and transactional matters as senior corporate associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Nathan J. Moore, who practices transactional and corporate law in the Denver office of WilmerHale, was promoted to partner. He has a broad range of experience representing private equity funds, financial institutions, and public and private companies across industries ranging from life sciences to retail to real estate. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

The Hon. Ariana Heath was appointed to the Genesee County Probate Court in January by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. She is a fourth-generation county resident and most recently served as a circuit court referee for the Genesee County Family Court. Before that, she was an assistant prosecutor for Lapeer County and Tuscola County and a domestic relations referee for Tuscola County.