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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Michael M. Parham was appointed by President Biden in September to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. He is the senior vice president and general counsel of RealNetworks, the company that pioneered streaming media on the internet. He is active on many boards, including leadership roles on the boards of the Seattle Art Museum, the United States-Canada Fulbright Foundation, and the Seattle Public Library. He also co-founded the Black Boardroom Initiative to increase corporate board diversity. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Richard Leslie

Richard Leslie will be elected chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Senior Lawyers Division Council at the ABA annual meeting in August. He currently serves on the council as chair-elect and previously was vice chair. He has served in the ABA House of Delegates, currently on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Bar, for 20 years.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Nina Srejovic briefly returned to law firm practice through an OnRamp Fellowship after focusing her energies on the unpaid labor of child rearing for 18 years. She is now a visiting professor and acting director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Paula Plaza, LLM, received the 2023 ABA Dispute Resolution Fellowship and is serving as a fellow to the Technology in Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. She is an associate in the Buffalo office of Phillips Lytle LLP and is experienced in international arbitration proceedings and arbitral award enforcement. Before joining Phillips Lytle, she was a senior associate in the litigation group of the largest law firm in the Philippines.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jay Soled was promoted to the rank of distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He has directed the school's Master of Taxation Program for more than 25 years.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Ofilio Mayorga, LLM, was promoted to partner at Foley Hoag LLP in New York. His practice focuses on public international law litigation, investment treaty arbitration, and international commercial arbitration. He has represented sovereign states and state-owned entities in legal proceedings before the world’s principal dispute resolution bodies. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Chris D. Slater was reappointed to a four-year term as a magistrate on the State of Michigan’s Workers’ Compensation Board of Magistrates by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. He lives in Grand Rapids.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Chris Ware was promoted to senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Itron, a technology provider for energy and water utility services. He is based in Austin, Texas. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jamie Jorgensen was named vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at the University of Iowa in fall 2022. Previously, he served as senior counsel at Husch Blackwell LLP in Denver and was chief of staff and chief legal counsel at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Susanne Baer, LLM, has stepped down from the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest court, after her 12-year term as justice in the First Senate. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier subsequently awarded her the Grand Cross of Merit for services to the Federal Republic of Germany. She returns to Humboldt University Berlin and is the L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at Michigan.