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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Chaila Fraundorfer was a fellow for the 2024 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. She is an associate at Linklaters London, where she works in capital markets.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Elizabeth Bock is a Law360 2024 Rising Star. Bock is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles who represents health care organizations in a variety of complex regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters. She represents clients in matters involving Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, including compliance with regulatory requirements, payment models and underlying data, and related topics such as medical loss ratio, payment integrity, and quality metrics.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Maria Kaplan joined the National Labor Relations Board as director of its Office of Equal Employment Opportunity. Kaplan most recently served as director of the Investigations and Compliance Division in the Office for Civil Rights, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). During her almost 10 years with the EEOC, she also served in senior-level positions across multiple offices, including the office of general counsel, federal operations, and equal opportunity.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Dale A. Bellitto joined the San Francisco office of Ogletree Deakins as an associate. Her practice focuses on defending employers against wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and wage and hour causes of action in both state and federal courts. Bellitto also counsels employers on various personnel matters and employment practices, including matters related to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the California Family Rights Act.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Andrey Spektor joined Norton Rose Fulbright’s regulatory, investigations, securities, and compliance practice in the firm’s New York office. He represents companies, boards of directors, and individuals in criminal actions, government inquiries, civil enforcement proceedings, complex commercial litigation, and appeals and helps clients navigate criminal and civil investigations as well as to design, enhance, and implement risk-based compliance programs. Before joining Norton, Spektor was a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP and previously was an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Luis Gomez was promoted to global class action counsel at Ford Motor Company, managing high-profile class actions involving allegations of product defects, breach of warranty, false advertising, and Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations. He also advises business stakeholders and executives on litigation risk and mitigation strategies. Previously, he was in-house counsel at Ford and managed complex consumer litigation nationwide. Gomez is a trustee and chairs the in-house counsel section of the Detroit Bar Association and serves as secretary for the Hispanic Bar Association of Michigan.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

John Lyons joined Boies Schiller Flexner LLP as a partner in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on protecting companies against class actions and individual claims in state and federal court, along with complex litigation outside the US. Before joining Boies, Lyons was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP. He is active in pro bono matters through the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and the New York Legal Aid Society.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Chase Johnson joined Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew PC as an associate attorney in the firm’s business department. Prior to joining the firm, Johnson worked as an attorney with Goulston & Storrs, where he represented clients in complex commercial transactions and land use matters. His practice areas include corporate transactions and governance, renewable energy transactions, and nonprofits.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Sharon Brett joined the University of Kansas School of Law (KU Law) faculty as an associate professor. Her scholarship focuses on structural, procedural, and doctoral impediments to systemic reform of government institutions, with a particular focus on the criminal legal system and policing. Before joining KU Law, Brett was the legal director at the ACLU of Kansas, where she led complex civil rights litigation in Kansas state courts as well as federal courts. She has first-chaired numerous trials and argued several appeals on cases regarding voting rights and redistricting, the Fourth Amendment, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Jeffrey Talbert joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP as a partner in its Boston and Newark, New Jersey, offices. As a member of the environmental practice, he advises clients on environmental litigation, permitting, due diligence, and risk management. Before joining the firm, he worked as a trial attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the US Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.