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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Ava Jill Morgenstern joined Meltzer Hellrung LLC as an associate attorney in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. She advises clients on employment-based immigration matters, including immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions, and has extensive experience in naturalization matters. Morgenstern represents clients across all industries, with an emphasis on the IT consulting industry. Before joining the firm, she was an associate at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

John Parsi joined the faculty at Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he teaches criminal law, administration of criminal justice, family law, and health law, as well as remedies and science and technology law. His research and scholarship focuses on bodily autonomy at the intersection of health, science, and technology law. Previously, he taught at the University of Nebraska College of Law and Arizona State University. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Steven Feenstra joined Nixon Peabody LLP as counsel in the firm’s community development finance practice in Washington, DC. His practice focuses on negotiating business arrangements between a large low-income housing tax credit syndicator, investors, and developers in order to build affordable housing projects. Feenstra also reviews proposed projects to confirm compliance with tax code requirements and addresses essential development matters on behalf of the syndicator and its investors.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Gerald Laderman has been elected chairman of Kemper Corporation’s board of directors. He joined the board in 2020 and has since served on its audit and investment committees. Laderman is the executive vice president of finance for United Airlines. He has nearly 35 years of experience in the airline industry, serving in various leadership roles for both United Airlines and Continental Airlines.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Stephen Kuperberg joined Feldesman Leifer LLP in Washington, DC, as a partner in the firm’s health care and litigation and government investigations practice groups. His practice encompasses a broad spectrum of litigation, regulatory, and advisory matters, with a particular focus on issues related to the 340B drug discount program, health care fraud, contract disputes, and the False Claims Act.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

George Pond received a Band 1 rating from Chambers USA for his work in energy law in New York. Pond is a partner at Barclay Damon LLP, where he represents electric and gas utilities, pipeline companies, generators, and marketers in administrative proceedings and commercial matters. He is a former trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice and a former federal regulatory affairs attorney.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Susan Hartmus Hiser co-founded Calzone Hiser PLLC in January 2024 with David Calzone, ’81. The firm, located in Metro Detroit, provides neutral mediation, arbitration, investigation, and Title IX hearing officer services. Throughout her career, Hiser has focused her practice on employment litigation, workplace investigations, and counseling employers on matters including discrimination and harassment, FMLA compliance, ADA accommodations, and disciplinary matters. Before co-founding Calzone Hiser, she was a partner at Fisher Phillips LLP. She also is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Brian Steinhardt was appointed co-head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s banking and credit practice. He is based in the firm’s New York City office, where he currently serves on the opinion committee and has previously served on the compensation and business development committees. Steinhardt represents private equity and infrastructure sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a broad range of corporate finance transactions. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Myint Zan, LLM, has edited a book written by his late mother and professor of medicine, Myint Myint Khin. The book, Burmese Women Through the Ages: The Heritage (Dr. Myint Zan, 2024), includes an introduction written by James Boyd White, the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law Emeritus at Michigan Law. Zan's most recent academic journal publication is "The Dudley & Stephens and Palmer Cases Juxtaposed: A Few Legal and Moral Considerations," which was published in the Commonwealth Lawyer (33, No. 3, 2023). He also published a collection of articles on 28 Burmese personages born between the mid-18th and mid-20th centuries in his book Glimpses of Myanmar Personages II (Dr. Myint Zan, 2023). In August  2023, the Hon. Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice delivered the inaugural Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture at the Australian National University, another of Zan's alma maters, on the topic of "Assessing International Adjudication: The World Court at 100."

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Nathaniel Marrs has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office and is a member of Willkie’s asset management department. Marrs has more than 25 years of fund formation experience and focuses on private funds investing in the real estate, infrastructure, and energy industries. He previously was a partner at DLA Piper LLP.