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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.

Class Note Winter 2025

Jacob S. Sherkow was named the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, where he has been teaching since 2020. He also serves as a professor of medicine at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and as a professor at the European Union Center, and he is an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. Sherkow’s research focuses on intellectual property, regulation, and bioethics of advanced biotechnologies.

Class Note Winter 2025

Yuta Delarck joined Reed Smith LLP as a partner in the firm’s global corporate group. Delarck represents domestic and international clients, including real estate investment trusts, investment banks, and private equity and venture capital firms, in a range of corporate transactions. Her practice includes initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, private placements, strategic investments, de-SPAC transactions, and comprehensive corporate governance and compliance advisory work. Previously, Delarck worked at Greenberg Traurig LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s corporate practice.

Class Note Winter 2025

Christiana (Schmitz) Signs joined Reed Smith LLP in the firm’s Philadelphia-based global labor and employment group. She defends employers in national complex employment litigation and provides strategic counsel in wage and hour matters, employment class and collective actions, and arbitrations. Prior to joining Reed Smith, Signs was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Class Note Winter 2025

Israel Moya joined Western State College of Law as a visiting assistant professor. He is a diplomat, human rights advocate, and public servant who has two decades of international experience tackling global issues across South America, Africa, and Asia. 

Class Note Winter 2025

Christian Grostic argued on behalf of petitioners before the US Supreme Court in Esteras v. United States in February 2025. In June, the court ruled for petitioners, holding that district courts may not consider punitive factors when revoking supervised release. Grostic is an assistant federal public defender at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Cleveland.