Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
George Elworth received a 2023 National Attorney General Career Staff Award from the National Association of Attorneys General, recognizing his 49 years of public service to the Michigan Department of Attorney General. He currently serves in the State Operations Division and is on the Attorney General’s Opinion Review Board. He previously held roles within the military affairs and finance divisions.
Class Note Summer 2024
Jules Crystal, a labor and employment arbitrator and mediator, was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators. The not-for-profit honorary and professional organization seeks to advance the field of arbitration while enforcing the highest level of ethical conduct. He has participated in a variety of mediations involving alleged wrongful termination, employment discrimination and sexual harassment, alleged violations of labor and employment agreements, noncompete agreements, whistle-blowing statuses, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Class Note Summer 2024
W. Gregory Voss, associate professor at Toulouse Business School, was cited in two foreign courts recently. His co-authored work The Right to Be Forgotten in the European Union: Enforcement in the Court of Justice and Amendment to the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation (Aspen Publishers Inc., 2015) was discussed in the High Court of the Indian State of Kerala judgment in K.G. Vysakh vs. Union of India and connected cases. His co-authored work on EU general data protection regulation sanctions was cited in a Court of Justice of the European Union opinion in a case related to the Lithuanian National Public Health Center.
Class Note Summer 2024
Kurtis T. Wilder was honored during a special session of the Michigan Supreme Court in November 2023. The special session, which was hosted by the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society and featured his portrait dedication, recognized Wilder for his service as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and for the 25 years he served as a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Washtenaw County Trial Court. He is an attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit and currently is serving a one-year term as chair of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
Class Note Summer 2024
Andreas Fabritius, LLM, joined ADS-TEC Energy’s board of directors. For more than 30 years, he has served as a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he specializes in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law. His clients include German and international companies, banks, financial investors, and government agencies. He also serves as British honorary consul in Frankfurt.
Class Note Summer 2024
Melodie Rose was appointed president of Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapolis, the first woman to serve in the role in the firm’s 75-year history. She is the co-chair of the public companies and capital markets group and the corporate governance group. She also has served on the firm’s board of directors and elected compensation committee, as president of the executive committee, and as chair of the business division.
Class Note Summer 2024
Randall E. Kay was recognized by The Legal 500 as a member of its hall of fame for work in the area of intellectual property and trade secrets for litigation and noncontentious matters. He practices intellectual property litigation as a partner with Jones Day, where he leads the firm’s global trade secret practice. He is based in San Diego.
Class Note Summer 2024
Peter Jaffe joined Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Washington, DC, as vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. He joins MCC from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he provided legal advice and strategic guidance on complex international matters and served as deputy chair of the firm’s anti-corruption practice group. He began his career at the US Department of Justice, where he served as a trial attorney, special assistant US attorney, and counsel to the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
Class Note Summer 2024
Kenneth M. Dintzer, a 30-year US Department of Justice veteran, is the lead counsel on United States v. Google LLC. The trial is ongoing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. He is a senior trial counsel at the US Department of Justice Washington DC-Baltimore Area Antitrust Division and was assigned to the Google case during the Trump administration.
Class Note Summer 2024
David Guenther published his first book, The Art Dealer’s Apprentice: Behind the Scenes of the New York Art World (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024). The book is a nonfiction account of the New York art business and was inspired by his time as gallery director for art dealer Carla Panicali. He is a clinical professor of law and director of the International Transactions Clinic at Michigan Law.