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Class Note Summer 2025

Roger H. Stetson has become the sole managing partner of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP in Chicago, where he has served as a co-managing partner since 2022. Stetson’s clients include real estate investment trusts, manufacturers, financial institutions, distributors, developers, and the fiduciaries who work in these industries. He acts as primary counsel on disputes concerning capital markets transactions, the creation of joint ventures with institutional investors, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and partnership issues.

Class Note Summer 2025

Ellen Gish joined Stites & Harbison PLLC as counsel in the construction service group in the firm’s Lexington, Kentucky, office. Gish represents owners, contractors, and subcontractors in all aspects of the construction process. Before joining Stites & Harbison, she served as associate general counsel for the University of Kentucky (UK), where she focused on capital projects, real estate, procurement, data privacy, economic development, and charitable gifts. Gish also has served in development, gift planning, and fundraising roles for UK Philanthropy and the Lexington Philharmonic.

Class Note Summer 2025

Alexis L. Cirel, founding partner of the fertility law group at Warshaw Burstein LLP in New York and a partner in the firm’s matrimonial and family law group, was recently admitted to practice in Michigan. The firm’s fertility law group was formed in response to a surrogacy law in New York that went into effect in 2021. Cirel will expand the scope of the practice and consult on cases related to Michigan’s new surrogacy law, the Family Protection Act, which went into effect in April.

Class Note Summer 2025

Demian Ahn was elected partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Based in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, he has 20 years of experience in investigations and litigation with a focus on cybersecurity and privacy matters, including 12 years as a federal prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. Ahn represents and advises companies confronting cybersecurity incidents, litigation risks related to data privacy regulations and data breaches, and other legal and compliance risks related to cybersecurity and data collection programs.

Class Note Summer 2025

Matthew Meyer was elected governor of Delaware. Meyer entered politics in 2017 when he was elected executive of New Castle County, the largest local government in Delaware. Earlier in his career, Meyer taught math in the Washington, DC, public schools, was a Skadden Fellow with the Delaware Community Legal Aid Society, worked in private practice as a mergers and acquisitions specialist, and served as a senior economic adviser for the US Department of State while based in Mosul, Iraq.

Class Note Summer 2025

Shermin Kruse has published Stoic Empathy: The Road Map to a Life of Influence, Self-Leadership, and Integrity (Penguin Random House, 2025). Her approach to balancing resilience and compassion draws from lessons she learned surviving missile attacks and political oppression in Iran and leading high-stakes legal teams and negotiations in corporate America. Kruse is the founder and executive producer of TEDxWrigleyville and has taught at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Class Note Summer 2025

Ann Marie Byers joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property litigation group. Previously, Byers was an alternative dispute resolutions specialist at AB-Conflict Resolution Services and founding attorney at Byers Law LLC. Her practice covers a range of US and global matters involving intellectual property, regulatory compliance, data privacy and security, and complex civil and commercial disputes. Byers is based in Denver.

Class Note Summer 2025

Nicholas Bronni was appointed to the Arkansas Supreme Court by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Previously, Bronni was the solicitor general of Arkansas; he also has served as a senior litigation counsel at the US Securities and Exchange Commission and as an associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, DC.

Class Note Summer 2025

Elizabeth A.N. Haas was appointed senior vice president and general counsel for the Milwaukee Brewers, a Major League Baseball team. Haas’s oversight includes the Brewers and their minor league affiliate, the Carolina Mudcats, as well as the club’s operations in Arizona and the Dominican Republic. Previously, she was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP and national chair of the firm’s antitrust and competition practice group.

Class Note Summer 2025

Luke Meier was appointed co-leader of the government contracts group at Blank Rome LLP. He is a litigator and counselor with experience in government procurement law and has represented contractors in contract disputes and claims, bid protests, and False Claims Act litigation. Meier serves on Blank Rome’s partner board and as a vice chair of the American Bar Association’s bid protest committee and procurement fraud and false claims committee.