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Class Note Fall 2023

Ronald Wheeler was promoted to associate dean of law libraries at Boston University's Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries. He joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in 2016 as director of the law libraries and associate professor of law and legal research. In his 22-year career as an academic law librarian, he has taught and mentored law students and aspiring law librarians at law schools throughout the US, in Shanghai, and in study abroad programs in Germany and Brazil. He served as the first Black male president of the American Association of Law Libraries from 2016 to 2017, and he is a proud resident of Providence, Rhode Island. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Colin J. Zick received a Band 1 rating for health care law in Massachusetts from Chambers USA. He is a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in its Boston office. His practice focuses on compliance issues related to life sciences, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, laboratories, hospitals, health care providers, and provider organizations.

Class Note Fall 2023

Kevin Conroy has been named one of the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2023 by The Healthcare Technology Report. He is a director at Epizyme Inc. and Adaptive Biotechnologies. Previously, he was the chief executive officer and later the chairman of Exact Sciences, where he led a team of more than 6,500 experts through the development, clinical trial, regulatory approval, and commercialization of its noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test, Cologuard.

Class Note Fall 2023

Lisa Crooms-Robinson has been serving as interim dean of the Howard University School of Law since June. She earned her undergraduate degree at Howard University and has served as a faculty member since 1993. She also served as the School of Law’s associate dean of academic affairs from 2012 to 2019. Her expertise includes constitutional law and human rights, and she has been a consultant for human rights organizations such as the United Nations, the US Human Rights Network, the Urban Justice Center, Amnesty International USA, and the Paul Murray Center for History and Social Justice. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Phyllis Marcus has been recognized by Business News as one its 2023 top 10 transactional and regulatory lawyers. Marcus is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, where she leads the firm’s advertising compliance and counseling team.

Class Note Fall 2023

Julie Manning Magid has been named vice dean of the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Since fall 2022, she had served as the campus’s executive associate dean. She joined the school nearly nine years ago as a venture fellow and then a professor of business law. For the past seven years, she also has served as the executive and academic director of the Tobias Leadership Center. 

Class Note Fall 2023

Ann-Marie Anderson received a third Outstanding Leadership Award from her lawyer peers at the 2023 Arizona State Bar Convention. She was chairperson and keynote speaker at the convention’s Securities Law Symposium, along with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers. She also was reelected to a 12th year on the Securities Regulatory Council. She is the longtime general counsel to a national engineering and architectural corporation.

Class Note Fall 2023

Steve Baumer is now the global chief executive officer of the St. Louis office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP after the firm changed its leadership from co-chairs to a single CEO. He joined the firm in 1996 as a partner and became co-chair in 2020. Before becoming co-chair, he led the firm’s global transactions practice.

Class Note Fall 2023

Jane Marshall is the new vice president, co-general counsel of Graham Media Group. Since joining the group in 2006, she has served as the associate general counsel and deputy general counsel. Before joining Graham Media Group, she worked in employment litigation at Bodman LLP in Detroit.

Class Note Fall 2023

Michael Carrier was named a Board of Governors Professor of Law, the highest rank at Rutgers University. His areas of expertise include antitrust law and intellectual property, particularly in the pharmaceutical, high-tech, and music industries. He has co-authored a leading intellectual property and antitrust treatise and authored more than 120 articles and book chapters.