Issue: Summer 2026
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Class Note Summer 2026
Robert S. Bick was included in the Legal 500 US Elite regional listing in its tier-one category for corporate mergers and acquisitions. He is a shareholder with Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett PC in Birmingham, Michigan. Bick’s practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and business transactions. He also is the co-chair of the firm’s corporate practice group.
Class Note Summer 2026
Richard N.W. Lambert joined Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers as of counsel in the firm’s personal injury and civil rights practice. Lambert served for more than 30 years as an assistant US attorney for the District of Utah, holding senior leadership roles including criminal chief and senior litigation counsel. He also has served in leadership roles with historical and community organizations, including the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.
Class Note Summer 2026
Valerie Jarrett is a 2026 recipient of the Order of Lincoln, the State of Illinois’s highest honor for professional achievement and public service. Jarrett is the CEO and a member of the board of directors of the Obama Foundation and oversaw the development of the Obama Presidential Center, which opened in June on Chicago’s South Side.
Class Note Summer 2026
Thomas Creel retired as a litigator from a large New York City firm and has since embarked on a career as an actor. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared on stage, in movies, on TV, and in commercials, including an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Creel also is an active neutral arbitrator and mediator at JAMS (formerly known as Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services Inc.), specializing in intellectual property matters.
Class Note Summer 2026
Michael Levey received the Milwaukee Bar Association 2025 Pro Bono Publico award. Levey is the national pro bono partner at Quarles & Brady LLP. He also is a business law attorney who advises on business and regulatory issues facing entities in the health care industry, particularly the practices of physicians and dentists. Levey has advanced pro bono partnerships with numerous organizations, including the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund, where he is a board member and past president.
Class Note Summer 2026
Elizabeth Morales, ’20: Humanizing the Law through Clinical Work
In 2023, as one of the few associates licensed to practice in both Michigan and Ohio in the Detroit office of Dykema Gossett PLLC, Elizabeth Morales, ’20, was uniquely positioned to work on a significant human trafficking case as a junior lawyer. She also had relevant experience from her time as a student-attorney in Michigan Law’s Human Trafficking and Immigration Clinic (HTC).
Class Note Summer 2026
John E. Mogk is the 2025 recipient of the John W. Reed Michigan Lawyer Legacy Award, named in honor of the late Michigan Law professor. Presented periodically by the State Bar of Michigan, the award honors a law school educator in Michigan whose influence has elevated the quality of legal practice in the state. Mogk is a distinguished service professor of law at Wayne State University; he first joined the faculty in 1968. He also serves as chair of the faculty committee at Wayne State’s Levin Center for Legislative Oversight and Democracy.
Class Note Summer 2026
Donald Dripps, the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, published Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time (Oxford University Press, 2026). The book argues that the US Supreme Court’s treatment of prosecutorial sentencing power is inconsistent with due process, as prosecutors effectively set sentences by choosing charges while judges must be neutral arbiters.
Class Note Summer 2026
The Hon. Donald E. Shelton, a former Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge, authored the lead article in the December 2025 Michigan Bar Journal, “New rules for better science in forensic science, and now AI comes along.” Judge Shelton retired in 2024 after 10 years as director of the criminology and criminal justice program at the University of Michigan Dearborn. He continues to teach online at Michigan State University and the University of Arizona. Also, Judge Shelton recently received the Exceptional Achievement Award from the University of Nevada, where he earned his PhD in judicial studies in 2010.
Impact Summer 2026
Ron, ’66, and Jane Olson: Democracy and Human Rights
No matter where Ron L., ’66, and Jane T. Olson have traveled, a deep investment in people, ideas, and institutions has defined their lives. Their commitment to strengthening democracy is a natural extension of this, and they recently made a $5,000,000 gift to the Law School to establish the Ron and Jane Olson Fund for Democracy, Human Rights, and Civic Dialogue.