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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Jonathan Lewis joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as counsel in Washington, DC. He is an antitrust and consumer protection attorney who advises clients from the consumer products, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, chemicals, and health care industries. Lewis joins Hunton from Lowenstein Sandler LLP, where he was a partner and member of the firm’s antitrust group. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Ray Espinosa, LLM, joined the board of directors for EEI Corporation, a construction company in the Philippines. He is an attorney and the director of the Philippines-based telecommunications company PLDT, where he is a member of its technology strategy and data privacy committee and the information security committee. He also serves as a director, chairman, and/or trustee of several corporations, holding companies, foundations, and trust funds. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Michaune D. Tillman joined Corning Inc. as senior vice president and general counsel. Tillman previously was general counsel and corporate secretary for Worthington Steel Inc. and has extensive experience in corporate governance matters, litigation, commercial transactions, regulatory, antitrust, environmental health and safety, cyber security, data privacy, import/export, labor and employment, intellectual property, and compliance. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

David Calzone co-founded Calzone Hiser PLLC in January 2024 with Susan Hartmus Hiser, ’91. The firm, located in Metro Detroit, provides neutral mediation, arbitration, investigation, and Title IX hearing officer services. Throughout his career, Calzone has practiced on behalf of public and private sector employers in the areas of employment discrimination, labor litigation, labor arbitration, appellate litigation, mediation, and complex class action litigation. He is a former director and shareholder of Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC and is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Alec Rogers has joined Ford Motor Company’s Washington, DC, office as a government affairs executive and director of tax and finance policy. His appointment follows 18 years as senior director for Xerox Corporation and a decade on Capitol Hill, where he was senior counsel to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Before working on Capitol Hill, Rogers was in private practice in Birmingham, Michigan, and Washington, DC.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Benjamin Zainea was selected by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as a 2024 Go To Lawyer for business transactions. He is an attorney at the Grand Rapids-based law firm Mika Meyers PLC. Zainea specializes in transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business formation and succession planning, general business and real estate law, estate planning, commercial lending, and manufacturing. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Audrey Anderson was appointed interim general counsel at Dartmouth College. She is an attorney at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC and previously served as vice chancellor and general counsel and university secretary for Vanderbilt University. She remains an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Law School, teaching higher education law and a seminar on the Supreme Court. Earlier in her career, Anderson worked in the Department of Homeland Security and also served as a partner in the education and litigation practice groups at Hogan & Hartson LLP, where she represented and advised public school districts in litigation and other matters, as well as advised clients in a range of complex civil litigation and appellate litigation.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Pryce Tucker joined Schouest Bamdas Soshea BenMaier & Eastham PLLC as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas location. He defends clients against wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, and property damage claims and also specializes in product liability cases. Before joining Schouest Bamdas, Tucker worked for more than 20 years at Hartline Barger LLP.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Michael Kump, founding partner and trial attorney at Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP, was named a 2024 Legal Legend by the Hollywood Reporter. Kump represents plaintiffs and defendants across matters involving intellectual property, entertainment, media, contract, and business litigation and counseling. He represents a number of well-known media figures, including the Kardashians and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as well as media outlets like Blumhouse Television, Live Nation Entertainment, and HBO Latin America.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Ashby Jones has been named deputy economics editor at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). He first joined the WSJ in 2009 as an editor and went on to hold a number of positions at the organization, including most recently as deputy coverage chief for US news. Jones led the WSJ’s legal coverage from 2016 to 2019, which included working with a team of reporters and editors who received the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.