Issue: Fall 2023
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Class Note Fall 2023
John Vryhof, partner at Snell & Wilmer, was among the top 50 pro bono attorney awardees at the Arizona Bar Foundation 2023 Awards Luncheon. In his practice, he oversees estate planning, trust and estate litigation, charitable planning, foundation and nonprofit organizations, business succession planning, and international estate planning. He previously worked at Streich Lang (now Quarles & Brady) in Phoenix and Sidley & Austin in Chicago.
Class Note Fall 2023
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz has published four articles in the American Bar Association's Voice of Experience newsletter in 2023. The titles include “Thanks For Noticing - Finding Joy Amid the Shadows of Life,” “Simple Twists of Fate,” “Ancient Wisdom for the Human Condition in 2023: Living with Death,” and “Doctor! Doctor! Can’t You See I’m Burning, Burning?” He is a member of the Philadelphia-based law firm Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci PC.
Class Note Fall 2023
Julie Arvo MacKenzie has rejoined Squire Patton Boggs as of counsel in the public and infrastructure finance practice, particularly for the benefit of nonprofit charter schools and health care facilities. Previously, she was a shareholder at Engelman Berger PC, where she co-founded the firm’s public finance group.
Class Note Fall 2023
Warren von Schleicher joined the Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner. He represents insurers and employers in matters related to life, health, pension, disability claims, and bad-faith litigation. Before joining Hinshaw, he was the managing partner of Smith|von Schleicher+Associates.
Class Note Fall 2023
Sondra Soderborg has published her debut novel, Sky Ropes (Chronicle Books, 2023), a middle-grade fiction story in which the protagonist tries to hide her fear of the high-ropes course at a team-building camp. She has worked as an attorney and as a teacher at a high school and prison. Reflecting on her career, she says, “All of it has been useful. None of it compares to the sheer joy and wonder of writing for kids.”
Class Note Fall 2023
Mark Lezotte, attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long PC, is now chair of SourceAmerica’s board of directors, on which he has served since 2013. SourceAmerica is a nonprofit that focuses on creating employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Lezotte is based in Butzel Long's Detroit office, where he is co-chair of the firm's health care industry team.
Class Note Fall 2023
Ron Heller recently earned a master of fine arts in theater with a concentration in directing from the University of Hawaii. In recent years, he received Po’okela Awards as director of a play from the Hawaii State Theatre Council for two separate productions. Memorial Day, the latest production Heller directed, centers on the early years of the AIDS crisis. He still actively works as an attorney in Honolulu, concentrating on tax and business law.
In Memoriam Fall 2023
The Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler, ’65
Rosemary S. Pooler, a senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, died at her home in Syracuse, New York, on August 10, 2023. She was 85.
Class Note Fall 2023
Joseph Kimble is the 2023 recipient of the State Bar of Michigan’s Roberts P. Hudson Award, recognizing his dedication to the legal profession and outstanding service to and on behalf of the State Bar of Michigan. He has been the editor of the “Plain Language” column in the Michigan Bar Journal for 36 years. He served as the drafting consultant for the redrafting of the Michigan Rules of Evidence to conform to the restyled Federal Rules of Evidence; he also led the redrafting work on those federal evidence rules as well as for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He is a distinguished professor emeritus at the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the senior director of the school's Kimble Center for Legal Drafting.
Class Note Fall 2023
John B. Pinney was honored by Pro Seniors, an anti-ageism nonprofit organization, as one of three 2024 Seniors Who Rock for his work as a mentor, litigator, and adviser in the Cincinnati area. He serves on the board of the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation and is the secretary and treasurer of Ohio Legal Help, both of which are legal aid organizations. He was recently appointed vice chair for training for the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and teaches international commercial arbitration at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.