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Class Note Summer 2024

Emily Cross was admitted as a member of Bodman PLC. She practices in the firm’s Troy, Michigan, office as part of the litigation and alternative dispute resolution and the automotive and industrial practice groups. Her practice spans securities litigation, contract disputes, constitutional litigation, and administrative law matters. She also is active in pro bono matters, such as immigration appeals to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and representing asylum and U-visa applicants in immigration applications and proceedings.

Class Note Summer 2024

Sarah Johnson joined the Washington Innocence Project, formerly Innocence Project Northwest, as a staff attorney. The volunteer organization works to free innocent prisoners in Washington State. Previously, she worked for seven years as a public defender.

Class Note Summer 2024

Leah Mintz was reappointed co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Appellate Courts Committee, after serving in the same role in 2022 and 2023. She has been an associate at Duane Morris LLP since 2017, where she practices in the firm’s trial practice group. She focuses on appellate litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and complex commercial litigation. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Bibeane Metsch-Garcia joined the Minneapolis-based law firm Ciresi Conlin LLP as an associate. Previously, she was an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Her time there included serving as the office’s lead attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  

Class Note Summer 2024

Joshua La Vigne was elevated to partner in the corporate and securities department at Mayer Brown, focusing his practice on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and general corporate governance matters. He is based in the firm’s Chicago office. He first joined Mayer Brown as a summer associate and joined the firm full time after graduation.

Class Note Summer 2024

Avi Kupfer was elevated to litigation and dispute resolution partner at Mayer Brown. He is based in the firm's Chicago office, where he is a member of the Supreme Court and appellate practice. Kupfer joined Mayer Brown in 2021; before that, he was an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Matthew Evans joined the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota in the Criminal Division’s Fraud and Public Corruption Unit. Previously, he was a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section in Washington, DC, from 2017 to 2023.

Class Note Summer 2024

Jeffrey M. Smith was promoted to partner at Robison Curphey, & O’Connell LLC in Toledo, Ohio. He represents businesses, health care institutions, and financial institutions in commercial litigation matters. He joined the firm in 2021, bringing experience as a business and tort litigation attorney. Earlier in his career, he clerked for the Hon. Sara Lioi on the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Class Note Summer 2024

Adam Uth joined Mansour Gavin’s litigation group, where his work focuses on real estate matters. He has considerable experience representing businesses in various types of litigation and has secured favorable outcomes at both the trial and appellate levels. Uth also has experience providing compliance analysis, both in the private sector and for the City of Shaker Heights, Ohio. 

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.