Issue: Summer 2024
159 results
Class Note Summer 2024
Damali Sahu was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business as a 2023 Notable Leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Sahu is an attorney at Bodman PLC and represents financial institutions in general commercial loan and real estate transactions. She has been co-chair of the firm’s DEI committee for more than a decade. Sahu also serves as chair of the board of directors for Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan, vice president and treasurer of the board of directors for the New Paradigm College Prep School, and on the board of directors for the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion.
Class Note Summer 2024
Jeffrey C. Gifford was selected to serve a three-year term on the executive board at Dykema Gossett LLP. Gifford, who has been with the firm since 2004 and is based in San Antonio, works with clients in negotiating and closing complex public and private transactions. Gifford previously led Dykema’s corporate and finance practice group.
Class Note Summer 2024
Russell Abrutyn was recognized by the American Immigration Lawyers Association with the Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law. He currently serves as the chair of the Michigan chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He began his career as an attorney with Marshal E. Hyman & Associates PC before founding his firm, Abrutyn Law PLLC, in 2016.
Class Note Summer 2024
Adam Epstein was appointed co-chief executive officer and president of adMarketplace, an online search advertising company. He works alongside founder and chairman Jamie Hill in the new role. Epstein joined the company in 2003 as a part-time general counsel and was appointed chief operating officer and president in 2006.
Class Note Summer 2024
Todd A. Schoenhaus, a personal injury attorney, has been promoted to shareholder at the Philadelphia law firm Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck PC. His practice concentrates on product liability, premises liability, construction accidents, and industrial machinery defects. Schoenhaus also has experience litigating cases involving vehicle accidents, professional malpractice, nursing home negligence, and civil rights.
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
James Rowader was appointed executive director of the Cannabis Expungement Board by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The board reviews eligible felony and misdemeanor-level convictions related to cannabis and determines eligibility for expungement or resentencing. He is the director of people and culture for the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and previously served as the city attorney for the City of Minneapolis. Before public service, Rowader worked with Target Corporation as vice president and general counsel for employee and labor relations.
Class Note Summer 2024
Stuart Streichler authored Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (University of Michigan Press, 2023). He has taught constitutional law and human rights at the University of Washington and as a Fulbright scholar at Tohoku University in Japan. He also is the author of Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2005).
Class Note Summer 2024
Ross Crown joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as of counsel in the firm’s Albuquerque, New Mexico, office. His focus is on government contracts and commercial litigation at the federal, state, and local levels in New Mexico, Colorado, and the broader Western region. Before joining Brownstein, Crown was a government contracts lawyer at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie.
Class Note Summer 2024
Clarence Armbrister was elected chair of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health’s National Board of Trustees, of which he has been a member since 2013. He was president of Johnson C. Smith University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023, and he previously served in leadership positions at Temple University, Johns Hopkins University, and Girard College. Before that, he held various roles in the Philadelphia city government and was a partner at Saul, Ewing Remick & Saul.