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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Andrew Knauss joined the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, part of the US Department of Labor, as a general attorney. He is based in Washington, DC, and focuses on litigation in all areas of labor and employment law. Previously, he was an associate at the Virginia-based firm Potter & Murdock PC, where he specialized in employment litigation and investigations.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Michelle Silverthorn was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 250 Female Founders for 2024. She is the founder and CEO of Inclusion Nation, a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) service company. Silverthorn was recognized for delivering DEI training to 3,500 students online and delivering more than 75 speeches to clients worldwide. Before founding her company, Silverthorn was the diversity and education director for the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. She lives in Ann Arbor.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Altamush Saeed, LLM, received the Humane Society of the United States’ first-ever Diversity Equity and Inclusion Spark Award. Saeed is the founding managing partner of Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants, Pakistan’s first dedicated animal and environmental law practice. He also co-founded the nonprofit Charity Doings Foundation, which supports a variety of initiatives related to human and animal rights as well as environmental issues. Saeed serves on the boards and as an international animal rights expert for several organizations, including Pro-Veg, Northwest Animal Rights Network, World Animal Justice, Green Islam, and Asia for Animals.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Gautam Hans received the 2024 M. Shanara Gilbert Emerging Clinician Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education. Hans is an associate clinical professor of law and the founding director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic at Cornell University Law School. Hans, who joined the Cornell Law faculty in 2022 as the associate director of the First Amendment Clinic, is an expert on First Amendment law and technology policy.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

William P. Johnson has been named rector and vice president of Saint Louis University’s (SLU) Madrid Campus. Most recently, he served as the dean of SLU’s School of Law for more than seven years. He also served as director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and, concurrently, as director of the School of Law’s Summer Law Program in Madrid. Before becoming a law professor, Johnson was in private practice in the business law department of Foley & Lardner LLP. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Hinh D. Tran was a fellow for the 2024 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. He also was named a Carnegie Ethics Fellow for the 2023–2025 term. He is lead counsel at Ramp, a financial technology startup, and a lecturer at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Previously, Tran worked at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco and clerked for the Hon. Dale A. Drozd on the US District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Daniel Trump was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom as legal adviser to the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), where he has been a regional attorney since 2011. Before his role at the California PERB, Trump was a law clerk and field organizer for the National Treasury Employees Union.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Gabriel Lopez was appointed counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where he has been an associate in the Miami office since 2021. He represents clients in a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions throughout the United States and Latin America.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Elizabeth Crouse joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in the firm’s Portland, Oregon, office. As an energy and tax law attorney, she advises clients on a range of US federal income tax matters, including tax credits for the renewable energy industry. Before joining the firm, Crouse was a partner at Perkins Coie LLP. She is the co-director of the Seattle chapter of Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy and co-chairs the tax committee of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Anika Fischer joined DiamondRock Hospitality Company as senior vice president and general counsel. Previously, Fischer was deputy general counsel at Essex Property Trust Inc., where she led its legal department in capital markets transactions, securities and corporate governance, and other matters. Fischer began her career as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the firm’s real estate group.