Issue: Winter 2025
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Class Note Winter 2025
Kristen (Brink) Rosati received the David J. Greenburg Founders Award, the American Health Law Association’s (AHLA) highest distinction. Rosati is a partner at Coppersmith Brockelman in Phoenix and is the chair of the firm’s governance committee. She is a former AHLA president and has been a frequent speaker and author of many AHLA publications.
Class Note Winter 2025
Jennifer Scheller Neumann was appointed of counsel in the Washington, DC, office of Holland & Hart LLP. She joins the firm after two decades at the US Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, where she most recently served as chief of the Appellate Section. In that role, Neumann directed litigation and appeals on issues that involved every major environmental and natural resources statute and represented a broad range of federal agencies.
Class Note Winter 2025
Richard Bierschbach, dean and the John W. Reed Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School, became the university’s interim president in September, appointed by the university’s board of governors. Bierschbach joined Wayne State Law School in 2017; previously, he taught at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he also served as vice dean.
Class Note Winter 2025
Ron Yolles has been named a Notable Leader in Finance for 2025 by Crain’s Detroit Business. Yolles is co-founder, partner, and chief visionary officer of Diversified Portfolios Inc. and co-founder of the Council of Independent Financial Advisors. He also is active with a number of charities and nonprofits in Southeast Michigan, including University of Michigan Hillel.
Class Note Winter 2025
Tara McGrath joined Perkins Coie as a white collar and investigations partner in the firm’s litigation practice. She previously was the US attorney for the Southern District of California, where she supervised investigations and prosecutions that involved white-collar and financial crime; cyber, environmental, and national security matters; and civil fraud.
Class Note Winter 2025
Heather Gerken was appointed as the 11th president of the Ford Foundation. She previously served as the dean at Yale Law School, where she also was the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law. Gerken is a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and democracy. Prior to her time at Yale, she was a professor at Harvard Law School and an associate at Jenner & Block.
Class Note Winter 2025
Rachel Hong was appointed to the Okanogan County [Washington] Superior Court by Gov. Bob Ferguson. She is a litigation attorney and longtime federal judicial law clerk, including more than 10 years at the US District Court for the Western District of Washington. Hong has represented and guided individuals, corporations, and public entities through criminal and civil cases in state and federal courts. She was a litigation attorney at Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC and Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP. Hong also volunteered as an attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and recently spent several years as an organic farmer in Shelton, Washington, where she founded a small-scale organic vegetable farm.
Class Note Winter 2025
Johanna R. Ginsberg joined Sussan Greenwald & Wesler as an associate attorney after a 30-year hiatus from the practice of law. Her practice focuses exclusively on parent-side special education law. Previously, she worked briefly in criminal law and public relations before settling into a career as a journalist. Ginsberg’s articles have been published in outlets including Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York Jewish Week, New Jersey Jewish News, and others.
Class Note Winter 2025
Skanthan Vivekananda joined O’Melveny & Meyers LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate finance practice group. His practice focuses on structured finance and derivatives, representing banks and securitization sponsors in connection with the formation and structuring of cash and synthetic CLOs, CDOs, and other types of securitization vehicles, as well as other types of credit-focused investment funds. Vivekananda previously worked as a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in the firm’s structured finance group.
Class Note Winter 2025
Enoh T. Ebong is the new president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ global development department. From 2022 to earlier in 2025, she was the director of the US Trade and Development Agency. There, she led the agency’s global infrastructure development efforts in the energy, transportation, digital, and health care sectors and represented the US in high-level engagements with foreign governments, multilateral institutions, and the private sector.