Issue: Winter 2025
114 results
Class Note Winter 2025
Avi Kupfer was named a Law360 Rising Star for his environmental law practice at Mayer Brown LLP, where he is a partner. He focuses his practice on briefing appeals and dispositive motions in federal and state courts and developing legal strategy for proceedings before courts and administrative agencies. Kupfer is a former trial attorney at the US Department of Justice and former manager of the Office of Regional Counsel Land Law Branch of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Class Note Winter 2025
Ryan Samii was a guest on the American Arbitration Association’s The AAAi Podcast in conversation with Bridget Mary McCormack—the association’s president and CEO, former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice, and member of the Michigan Law faculty. Samii is the head of product innovation at Harvey; previously, he was head of legal vertical at Hebbia AI and worked in private practice at Paul Hastings LLP.
Class Note Winter 2025
Michael Waldman was named a Law360 Rising Star. He is a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he represents financial institutions in leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, debt restructurings, cross-border transactions, asset-based financings, recurring revenue-based financings, and margin loan financings.
Class Note Winter 2025
Maria Jhai was appointed to serve as a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Most recently, she was an assistant US attorney for the Central District of California.
Class Note Winter 2025
Kristin Klanow was appointed senior vice president and general counsel at Constellation Brands Inc., an international producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits. Klanow oversees the company’s beer division, including the Corona Extra and Modelo Especial brands. Before joining Constellation, she was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
Class Note Winter 2025
Tracey Thomas-Gronniger, managing director of economic security and housing at Justice in Aging, testified before the US House Committee on Ways and Means in September. Gronniger discussed helping people with disabilities find work if they choose, and the particular challenge of doing so without risking access to benefit programs such as Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income.
Class Note Winter 2025
Gwendolyn A. Stamper joined Vogel, Slade & Goldstein LLP as a partner. She previously was a federal prosecutor in the Fraud, Public Integrity, and Appellate Sections of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division. At the DOJ, Stamper also served in several leadership positions, including as the highest-ranking career official in the Criminal Division and as a key adviser to the deputy attorney general.
Class Note Winter 2025
Osman Abbasi is now a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Previously, he was a deputy attorney general at the California Attorney General’s Office. He also has served as an inspector at the Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General, deputy district attorney at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, and assistant district attorney in the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office.
Class Note Winter 2025
M. Ryan Calo recently published Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach (Oxford University Press, 2025). Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor of Law at the University of Washington’s School of Law and a professor at its Information School. He co-founded two interdisciplinary research institutions at the university that focus on technology policy and the study of misinformation, and he has chaired a university-wide task force on technology and society. Calo also co-founded the leading North American conference on robotics and artificial intelligence law and has testified before the US Senate about technology four times.
Class Note Winter 2025
Jonathan E. Algor joined Lowenstein Sandler LLP as a partner in the firm’s white collar defense and corporate investigations and integrity practice groups. He formerly served as a prosecutor for the National Security and Cybercrime Section of the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. In his practice, Algor represents individuals and companies in high-stakes criminal and regulatory matters as well as complex commercial and international disputes.