Issue: Summer 2025
134 results
Class Note Summer 2025
Divya Taneja was promoted to partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, where she is a member of the firm’s technology transactions and privacy law practice. Taneja advises clients on structuring and negotiating complex transactions related to developing, licensing, and distributing technology and media content. She also provides counseling throughout the product development lifecycle, from business strategy and product launch to commercialization and contract negotiations.
Class Note Summer 2025
Melanie Neary became a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in San Francisco. She practices in the firm’s corporate transactions group, where she represents life sciences companies and investors and advises clients on a wide range of complex transactions and other matters, with a focus on capital markets, private company financings, securities regulation, and corporate governance. She joined Gibson Dunn after graduation.
Class Note Summer 2025
John C. Muhs was appointed partner at Warner Norcross+Judd LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s impact investing group. Muhs specializes in securities and investment matters and works with community development financial institutions, church extension funds, charitable loan funds, and other organizations to finance community development activities. He serves as board secretary of Detroit Phoenix Center and is a member of Opportunity Finance Network, Denominational Investors and Loan Administrators, and the Michigan Venture Capital Association.
Class Note Summer 2025
Brandon Fetzer was appointed counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York, where he is a member of the commercial litigation group. His practice focuses on securities and shareholder disputes, consumer class actions, and complex commercial disputes.
Class Note Summer 2025
Stefanie Garibyan was appointed counsel at Leason Ellis LLP in White Plains, New York. She joined the firm in 2021 and has focused her practice on complex intellectual property litigation, often involving patents and trademarks, as well as on disputes over trade secrets, contracts, and licenses.
Class Note Summer 2025
Devon Holstad was elevated to shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine PA. Holstad represents clients in complex commercial litigation in a wide range of industries, including media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, technology, and energy. He serves on the board of directors of the American Mock Trial Association and the board of trustees of the Moran Olsson Michigan Innocence Clinic Trust.
Class Note Summer 2025
Matthew Kennison joined Kelley Drye & Warren LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation practice group, based in Chicago. He has experience representing clients in high-stakes litigation and investigations, with a focus on antitrust, white collar investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Before joining Kelley Drye, Kennison was a partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP.
Class Note Summer 2025
Robert Manhas became a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP in Washington, DC. He is an appellate litigator with a focus on patent law and administrative law and managing appeals across the technology and biotechnology sectors. Manhas also serves as vice chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s administrative law committee and maintains an active pro bono practice.
Class Note Summer 2025
Katy McNeil joined A&O Shearman as a partner in the firm’s energy, natural resources, and infrastructure practice, where she represents clients across the renewable energy sector. McNeil previously was a partner at Mayer Brown. Additionally, she received the Hope Through Caring Award from the Les Turner ALS Foundation, which also was given posthumously to her husband, Brian Davis, ’14, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and died in January 2025. The award honors their commitment to raising awareness and supporting ALS care and research.
Class Note Summer 2025
Elise H. Yu was appointed partner at ArentFox Schiff in Ann Arbor. Yu counsels and represents individuals and businesses across industries, including automotive, retail, and consumer products, leading up to and through litigation involving issues ranging from state and local taxation to business disputes to antitrust matters. Before joining ArentFox, Yu was an associate at Schiff Hardin LLP.