Issue: Summer 2025
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Class Note Summer 2025
Kevin O’Gorman was appointed global co-chair of international arbitration at Norton Rose Fulbright. He is based in Houston and Washington, DC, and acts as counsel and arbitrator in international and domestic cases.
Class Note Summer 2025
Phillip Wilson published his seventh book, The Leader-Shift Playbook: 4 Simple Changes to Score Big and Unleash Your Team’s Potential (Fast Company Press, 2025). Wilson is a national expert on leadership, labor relations, and creating positive workplaces. He is the founder of Approachable Leadership and serves as CEO and general counsel of LRI Consulting Services.
Class Note Summer 2025
Peter Hardy joined Holland & Knight LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation practice in Philadelphia. Hardy advises corporations and individuals across a range of industries against allegations of financial fraud. He also counsels financial institutions and businesses on their anti-money-laundering obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act and other compliance requirements. Hardy previously served as an assistant US attorney in Philadelphia, where he focused on fraud and financial crime cases. He also was a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice’s Tax Division.
Class Note Summer 2025
Hillary J. Moonay, a partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and co-chair of the firm’s family law group, is serving a six-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s domestic relations procedural rules committee. In this role, she advises the court in developing and revising procedural rules for matters including divorce, custody, support, paternity, and protection from abuse. She is active in numerous professional organizations and currently serves as the immediate past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association family law section and co-chair of the Bucks County Bar Association family law section.
Class Note Summer 2025
Scott Delacourt was appointed chief of staff for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He joins the FCC from Wiley Rein LLP, where he was a partner and chair of the wireless practice group. Earlier, Delacourt served in leadership positions at the FCC, including deputy bureau chief and chief of staff of the wireless bureau, senior counsel in the office of general counsel, and legal adviser to the wireless bureau chief.
Class Note Summer 2025
Danielle Bass, ’15, Honored By Peers as Influential Woman of the Year
Danielle Bass, ’15, a partner in the technology transactions and data, privacy, and cybersecurity practice groups at Honigman LLP in Detroit, was recently named Influential Woman of the Year by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.
Class Note Summer 2025
Samantha Shipp Warrick, ’07: A Lifelong Creative Breaks New Ground at LVMH
Samantha Shipp Warrick, ’07, has a creative bent that has served her well as an entertainment lawyer, entrepreneur, and branding strategist. Now she’s bringing blank-slate energy to LVMH Inc. as its first chief strategy and operations counsel.
@UMICHLAW Summer 2025
Neel U. Sukhatme Begins Service as the Law School’s 19th Dean
On July 1, Neel U. Sukhatme joined the Michigan Law community as the David A. Breach Dean of Law and professor of law. The appointment, which the U-M Board of Regents approved on March 20, runs for a five-year renewable term. He succeeds Professor Kyle Logue, who served as interim dean from January 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.
Impact Summer 2025
Roy Proffitt, Longtime Faculty Member and Administrator, Continues to Inspire Gifts to Michigan Law
The Law Quad has had no shortage of influential professors and administrators who have shaped generations of Michigan Law students. But even among that esteemed group, Roy Proffitt, JD ’46, LLM ’48, made an outsized contribution to the Law School community that continues to reverberate today.