Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
Rabbi Dan Horwitz recently began his tenure as the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, Tennessee, where he focuses on serving the needs of the local Jewish community through philanthropy. He has experience as a pulpit rabbi in a congregation of more than 900 people. Rabbi Horwitz is a member of OHALAH (the Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal) and the State Bar of Michigan. He also recently released his first book, Just Jewish: How to Engage Millennials and Build a Vibrant Jewish Future (Ben Yehuda Press, 2023).
Class Note Summer 2024
Steven Beigelmacher was promoted to partner at Perkins Coie LLP, based in the firm’s Seattle office. He is a member of the patent prosecution and portfolio counseling practice, where he advises clients on patent analytics, provides strategic portfolio counseling, and supports inter partes reviews and litigation. He leads efforts involving patent due diligence, valuations for sales and acquisitions, and comparative analyses. He joined the firm in 2014 as an associate and was elevated to counsel in 2021.
Class Note Summer 2024
Michael Malenfant was elected counsel at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston. His practice focuses on assisting energy clients in a range of regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. He has advised clients in the midstream and power industries on issues related to certificate and rate proceedings, state and federal appellate proceedings, transactional matters, and jurisdictional and regulatory matters related to emerging energy technologies.
Class Note Summer 2024
Brianna Oller was elevated to partner at Latham & Watkins LLP in New York. She is a member of the banking practice and finance department, representing clients in acquisition financing, direct lending, cross-border matters, and other leveraged finance transactions.
Class Note Summer 2024
Allyson Terpsma, a partner in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, office of Warner Norcross+Judd LLP, was chosen to serve a three-year term on the firm’s management committee. She provides skilled labor and employment counsel for employers in higher education and health care, among other industries, and has handled disputes over disciplinary actions, contract interpretation, and compensation through arbitration and litigation.
Class Note Summer 2024
Heba Aref, a member in the Detroit office of Bodman PLC, was appointed as co-chair of the firm’s banking practice group. She represents financial institutions in the structuring, negotiating, and documenting of loan transactions, including syndicated loans, bilateral loans, subordinated loans, and participations. Before joining Bodman, she practiced in the New York, Minneapolis, and Palo Alto offices of Dorsey & Whitney.
Class Note Summer 2024
Aaron O’Donnell, a real estate attorney, was recently elevated to partner in Holland & Knight LLP’s Chicago office. In his practice, he represents institutional, private equity, developer, and corporate clients in all aspects of real estate transactions. The primary transaction types he oversees include the acquisition, financing, joint venture structuring, development, and disposition of real estate.
Class Note Summer 2024
Joshua Lee joined Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He is co-head of the litigation and disputes department, focusing on product liability, consumer disputes, and environmental and mass tort litigation. Lee joins NRF from Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, a Chicago-based litigation firm he helped form. He has defended clients across a range of areas, including pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering, and chemical exposure.
Class Note Summer 2024
Tina Samanta was recently elected partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She joined the firm in 2007 as an of counsel attorney in its New York office. Samanta has represented financial institutions, corporations, and individuals in sensitive and high-stakes securities-related investigations and litigation. She is a frequent public speaker and author on matters relating to the enforcement of securities laws.
Class Note Summer 2024
The Hon. Kyle Seedorf was appointed chief judge in the 17th Judicial District of Colorado. He worked in private practice, and as general counsel and director of legal affairs for the Colorado Department of Higher Education, before being appointed as a district court judge in 2019.