Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
Timothy J. Lane, a staff attorney, legislative liaison, and policy analyst at the Colorado District Attorney’s Council, was appointed to the Gilpin County Court in the First Judicial District by Gov. Jared Polis. Previously, he was deputy district attorney in the same district.
Class Note Summer 2024
Tara McGrath, nominated by President Biden, was appointed as US attorney for the Southern District of California, making her the chief prosecutor and top federal law enforcement official in one of the busiest federal districts in the nation. McGrath previously served as an assistant US attorney in San Diego and Washington, DC, before spending the past four years working as a legal adviser for the Marine Corps, of which she is a veteran.
Class Note Summer 2024
Samir Parikh joined Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina as a professor of law. Previously, he was the Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Also, the Yale Law Journal recently published his new essay, “Opaque Capital and Mass-Tort Financing.”
Class Note Summer 2024
Vivek Sankaran was named one of the Leaders in the Law for 2023 by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. He is a clinical professor of law at Michigan Law and is the director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic. His work is centered on advocating for children’s and parents’ rights during child welfare proceedings. In 2009, he founded the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, the first organization in the country to provide multidisciplinary legal assistance to families with the goal of preventing children from unnecessarily entering the foster care system.
Class Note Summer 2024
Brian Gallini was appointed dean and tenured professor of law at Quinnipiac University School of Law, effective June 30. Previously, he served as dean and professor of law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. He is a leading scholar in criminal law and focuses his work on law enforcement discretion issues in the context of interrogation methods, consent searches, and profiling.
In Practice Summer 2024
Faizah Malik, ’11: Fight for Housing Justice
Faizah Malik, ’11, managing attorney of housing justice at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, is working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles.
Class Note Summer 2024
Greg in den Berken recently became an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was previously an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, DC, where he focused on appellate and complex commercial litigation.
@UMICHLAW Summer 2024
Human Trafficking Clinic Finds Multidisciplinary Solutions
The Law School’s Human Trafficking Clinic had been representing victims of labor and sex trafficking for more than a decade when its director, Bridgette Carr, ’02, began to envision a broader mandate for the clinic—one that would help combat trafficking before people become clients.
Class Note Summer 2024
Brian Davis, ’14, and Katy McNeil, ’14: Persevering, Together
Anyone who met Brian Davis and Katy McNeil in 2021 would have assumed they led a charmed life. Both had graduated from Michigan Law in 2014 and were climbing their respective career ladders. But behind the scenes, Davis was beginning to experience unsettling health problems.
