Issue: Winter 2022
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Class Note Winter 2022
Christopher D. Porter was named co-managing partner of the Houston office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. As a trial lawyer, he focuses his practice on business disputes, including breach of contract, trade secret claims, business torts, and antitrust disputes.
Class Note Winter 2022
Larry R. Seegull has been recognized in the 2021 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is a principal in the Baltimore office of Jackson Lewis PC, where he represents both private and public sector employers in all areas of labor and employment law.
Class Note Winter 2022
Elizabeth Yntema, ’84: The Disruptor Using Data to Shake Up the Dance World
Elizabeth Yntema, ’84, did not originally intend to start a nonprofit organization, but when the lifelong dance enthusiast realized how rare it is for women to assume positions of power in ballet, there was no stopping her from trying to shift the imbalance.
Class Note Winter 2022
Kenneth Salazar was confirmed as the latest U.S. ambassador to Mexico. He previously served as the Secretary of the Interior from 2009 to 2013.
Class Note Winter 2022
Pamela Grewal was promoted to special trial attorney in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel’s National Strategic Litigation Program. She has 15 years of experience in federal tax controversy matters with the Department of Justice and the IRS Office of Chief Counsel.
Class Note Winter 2022
Jerry Gidner, who has Tourette syndrome, was elected to the board of directors of the Tourette Association of America, the only national nonprofit in the United States assisting those with Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. He is the director of the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration at the Department of the Interior, which manages and invests funds generated from lands held in trust from Native American tribes.
Class Note Winter 2022
Michael Farrel joined the Houston office of Chamberlain Hrdlicka as an associate in the firm’s tax planning and business transactions practice, where he advises corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies on the federal income tax aspects of business transactions.
Class Note Winter 2022
Joanna Malaczynski-Moore published Silent Winter: Our Chemical World & Chronic Illness (Algora Publishing, 2021). Using her prior experience as a sustainability entrepreneur, environmental consultant, conservation advocate, and consumer protection and antitrust attorney, she explores the relationship between the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products and our rising rates of chronic illness.
Class Note Winter 2022
Thomas R. Morris, and his son, David (pictured), have established Morris & Morris Attorneys PLLC in Dexter, Michigan. His practice, which was previously located in the Detroit area for 35 years, concentrates on bankruptcy, litigation, insolvency matters, and commercial law.
Class Note Winter 2022
Michael Allers joined Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian as a corporate partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. A transactional lawyer, he was most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.