Issue: Fall 2023
133 results
Class Note Fall 2023
Kya Henley, with Calyssa (Lawyer) Zellars, ’17, has formed Saint Park LLP, a boutique firm with offices in Detroit and Washington, DC, that specializes in investigations, strategic counsel, and crisis management services. Before co-founding Saint Park, Henley regularly represented clients in white-collar criminal and civil enforcement matters before the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, other federal agencies, and state attorney general offices.
Class Note Fall 2023
Calyssa (Lawyer) Zellars, with Kya Henley, ’16, has formed Saint Park LLP, a boutique firm with offices in Detroit and Washington, DC, that specializes in investigations, strategic counsel, and crisis management services. Before co-founding Saint Park, Zellars crafted strategy and managed crisis communications for municipalities, businesses, law firms, and nonprofit organizations facing high-stakes publicity and reputational issues at a top-ranked, New York-based public relations and communications firm.
Class Note Fall 2023
Adam R. Uth has joined Mansour Gavin's litigation group, where he focuses on real estate matters. He has considerable experience representing businesses in various types of litigation and has secured favorable outcomes at both the trial and appellate levels. He also has experience providing compliance analysis, both in the private sector and for the City of Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Class Note Fall 2023
Matthew L. Worsham is now an associate in the litigation and dispute resolution and the private wealth, trusts, and estates practice groups at Jones Foster, a commercial and private client firm headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is a past co-chair of the Martin County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.
Class Note Fall 2023
William Quinn was promoted to general counsel at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effective in August. He joined the USCCB in March 2022 as a solicitor in the Office of General Counsel, managing all conference litigation matters. Immediately before joining the USCCB, he worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice.
Class Note Fall 2023
James Pierce is an associate in the Banking & Finance practice of Mayer Brown’s Chicago office. He is one of 25 suitors in The Bachelorette season 20 competing for the final rose given by Charity Lawson, who starred in The Bachelor season 27. Before assuming his current position at Mayer Brown, Pierce interned as a summer associate in 2020. In 2019, he also worked as a legal intern at Thompson Thrift Development/Construction after clerking at Burrus & Sease LLP in Indiana.
Class Note Fall 2023
Aviram Shahal, SJD, LLM ’15, is part of the inaugural class of fellows at Brandeis University’s Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Center of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His areas of interest include legal and constitutional history, comparative law, law and literature, history of Zionism, and the impact of demographic changes.
Impact Fall 2023
John Bulgozdy, ’84: From Poetry Class to the Courtroom
On the surface, litigation and poetry don’t have much in common. But John Bulgozdy says that the analytical skills he used throughout his legal career can be traced to an undergraduate poetry class at the University of Michigan.
Class Note Fall 2023
Samir Parikh testified before the US Senate’s Committee of the Judiciary on mass tort bankruptcies, including Purdue Pharma. His invitation was based in part on his essay, “Opaque Capital and Mass Tort Financing,” which is to be published in Yale Law Journal Forum. The essay explores how private equity is infiltrating litigation finance in mass tort cases and distorting resolution. Parikh is the Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics at Lewis & Clark Law School.
Class Note Fall 2023
Jennifer Saulino, former assistant chief of the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, joined Sidley Austin’s Washington, DC, office as a partner in its product liability and commercial litigation group. She specializes in product liability trials, representing pharmaceutical companies and financial institutions, and defending individuals and corporations in investigations and prosecutions.