Issue: Winter 2025
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Class Note Winter 2025
John Bringewatt was appointed as a judge to the New York State Court of Claims by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Previously, he was the Monroe County attorney and oversaw a team of attorneys responsible for the county’s civil legal work. Earlier in his career, Bringewatt maintained a wide-ranging litigation practice at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP and was a law clerk to the Hon. Susan L. Carney of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Class Note Winter 2025
Robert Harmon Jr. joined The Nuclear Company as chief legal officer. His previous legal experience includes leading energy, real estate, and construction initiatives at Amazon and serving as deputy general counsel and director of real estate at Tesla.
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.