Issue: Winter 2025
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Class Note Winter 2025
Laurie Carafone has been named executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice. She most recently served as vice president of US Legal Services for Kids in Need of Defense.
Class Note Winter 2025
Larry R. Seegull has been recognized in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA for his labor and employment practice. Seegull is a principal in the Baltimore office of Jackson Lewis PC, where he represents private and public sector employers in all areas of labor and employment law.
Class Note Winter 2025
The Hon. Asim Rehman, the commissioner and chief administrative law judge at the NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, published “The NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings: Forty-Five Years of Delivering Impartial Adjudications and Providing Access to Justice” in the Cardozo Law Review. Earlier this year, he received the Trailblazer Award at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, ’95, presented him with the award.
Class Note Winter 2025
Bethany A. Breetz, a member at Stites & Harbison PLLC, was included on the Forbes 2025 list of Best-In-State Lawyers for her appellate law practice in Kentucky. Her practice focuses on federal and state appellate advocacy as well as complex commercial litigation, including matters involving financial institutions, real estate, and trusts and estate litigation. Breetz currently serves as co-chair of the firm’s appellate advocacy group.
Class Note Winter 2025
Dina Kallay, LLM, SJD, was appointed deputy assistant attorney general for International, Policy, and Appellate at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Washington, DC. Previously, she spent 12 years at the telecommunications company Ericsson, most recently as head of antitrust and competition. Kallay also has served as counsel for intellectual property and international antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission. She is grateful to longtime Michigan Law Professor Thomas Kauper, ’60, who passed away in 2025, for sparking her passion for antitrust law.
Class Note Winter 2025
Ross Petty recently published From Marking Products to Marketing Brands: A Legal Perspective on the History of Brand Marketing (Springer Nature, 2025). The book examines the historical evolution from marking or branding products for ownership purposes to branding products in order to promote the brand itself. He is the author of two other books on the law, advertising, and marketing. Petty is an emeritus professor of marketing law at Babson College, where he served on the faculty for 31 years.
Class Note Winter 2025
Duncan McMillan was reappointed to the Workers’ Disability Compensation Appeals Commission for a four-year term by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. McMillan also served on the board’s predecessor body, the Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission. Previously, he worked at Kluczynski, Girtz & Vogelzang for more than 30 years, where he represented clients in workers’ disability and civil rights cases.
Class Note Winter 2025
William D. Ellis, a real estate partner at Akerman LLP in Los Angeles, was named one of the 2025 top 100 Lawyers in Southern California by the Los Angeles Business Journal. He also was shortlisted for the California Real Estate Lawyer of the Year award by American Lawyer Media, the parent company of Law.com and The Recorder. Ellis began his career at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP before becoming a senior partner at Sidley Austin LLP. He also has served as general counsel at NASDAQ-listed Reading International Inc.
Class Note Winter 2025
George Vincent joined The Kroger Co. as secretary and general counsel. He previously served as managing partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP from 2007 to 2022. Vincent also has served as board chair for various civic and business organizations, including the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, The Christ Hospital, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Class Note Winter 2025
Myint Zan, LLM, published “Reminiscences about Michigan Law School Classes of 1981–82” in the Seoul Times. The article highlights how lessons from Zan’s time in Ann Arbor have remained salient throughout his legal career. He is a retired professor of law who taught at universities in Malaysia, Australia, the South Pacific, and the US.