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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. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

The Hon. Roger L. Gregory is the 2024 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, which is presented annually by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the University of Virginia. The law medal, along with its counterparts in three other disciplines, is the university’s highest external honor. Judge Gregory is the first Black judge to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has served as the chief judge and a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Dan Kim has become the vice president for marketing and communications at Quinnipiac University. Before joining Quinnipiac, Kim was senior vice president for communications, marketing, and external relations at Brandeis University. Earlier, he served as vice president for marketing and communications at the College of the Holy Cross.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Andrew Feller joined Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto as senior special counsel, specializing in securities and commodities laws. Feller most recently was the associate general counsel and executive principal for The Options Clearing Corporation. Before that, he spent 12 years as senior counsel in the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement, including three years as senior counsel and policy adviser to the SEC commissioner. Earlier, he was in private practice, representing clients in capital markets matters and securities fraud litigation.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz recently published “Life Lessons from Boy Scout Camp (For Those Returning to the Office)” in the American Bar Association’s April 2024 Voice of Experience e-newsletter. The Boy Scouts of America (now Scouting America) republished Jaskiewicz's article in its popular Aaron on Scouting blog. Jaskiewicz also published “The Train Ride of a Lifetime” in the July 2024 issue of Voice of Experience. He is a member of the Philadelphia-based law firm Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci PC.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Thomas Trujillo joined McGuireWoods LLP as chief innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) officer in the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina, office. He manages the development and deployment of business solutions, including the use of AI-enhanced tools, to better serve clients and improve firm operations. He also joined the firm’s technology committee. Trujillo served as director of MWAccel before joining McGuireWoods and continues to hold this position alongside his new role.