Issue: Summer 2025
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Class Note Summer 2025
Valerie Stacey joined Honigman LLP as a partner in the firm’s business litigation practice group. She focuses her practice on high-stakes commercial litigation and complex tort disputes in state and federal courts. She also has an active pro bono practice counseling asylum seekers, including developing case assessments and preparing refugees for credible fear interviews, as well as first-chairing evidentiary hearings to secure restraining orders. Before joining Honigman, Stacey was an associate at Jones Day.
Class Note Summer 2025
Keith Ketola joined Allison MacKenzie as an associate. His practice focuses on administrative law, appellate litigation, corporate law, family law, land use, litigation, real property, trusts and estates, and water law.
Class Note Summer 2025
Joseph Kemp was named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 class in the games category. Kemp founded Games that Matter LLC. His debut game, DISBARRED: The Card Game, combines practical legal insights with gameplay. Kemp also is the founder and CEO of JMKemp & Co. LLC, a consultancy for graduate school applicants and startups.
Class Note Summer 2025
Reem S. Aburukba joined Bodman PLC as an associate in the firm’s litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice group. Before joining Bodman, Aburukba clerked for the Hon. Tracy Van den Bergh of the Washtenaw County Trial Court.
Class Note Summer 2025
Trenton Buhr-Roschewski joined Mika Meyers PLC as an associate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Buhr-Roschewski specializes in municipal litigation, zoning and land use planning law, commercial litigation, and real estate.
Class Note Summer 2025
Yasmine Choucair joined Bodman PLC as an associate in the real estate practice group. She represents businesses and financial institutions in commercial and industrial real estate transactions and finance matters.
Class Note Summer 2025
Esmeralda Suarez joined Sidley Austin LLP as an associate. Her practice focuses on financial institutions and the insurance industry. Previously, Suarez was a graduate public interest law initiative fellow at the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts.
Class Note Summer 2025
Elise Bean posthumously published her second book in April: Congress Investigates: George Washington to January 6 (Miniver Press, 2025), co-authored with Kyle Buler. Bean served more than 30 years on Capitol Hill, most of them as Sen. Carl Levin’s counsel on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). She was staff director and chief counsel of PSI from 2003 to 2014. She retired from the Senate in 2015 and helped establish the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy at Wayne State University, including serving as director of its Washington, DC, office. She died in January.
Class Note Summer 2025
Courtney Martin, a public defender in Seattle, was a contestant on Jeopardy! in April. Martin finished second but was the only contestant to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy question. The category was “Around the World”; the clue was, “An online article about this landmark said, ‘The stones themselves look like they are crying’ and mentioned ‘tears of…pain, hope, and joy.’” Answer: The Wailing Wall. Martin is pictured with Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings.