Issue: Fall 2022
176 results
Class Note Fall 2022
Angela Onwuachi-Willig co-edited Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten US Court Opinions on Race and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which reimagines some of the most influential legal cases in US history using a racial justice lens. She is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University.
Class Note Fall 2022
Jason Mendelson published How to Be a Lawyer: The Path from Law School to Success (Wiley, 2022), which includes contributions from guest authors Lynne Davis, ’98, and Greg Mann, ’98. Outside of writing, Mendelson is a full-time musician performing under the stage name Jace Allen. In 2020, he retired as a co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado.
Class Note Fall 2022
Tiffany Pollard has joined Davis+Gilbert as a partner in the firm’s corporate and transactions practice. Most recently, she was head of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions at Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS), where she helped lead Paramount Global’s acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Miramax and its joint venture with Tyler Perry to launch its first direct-to-consumer offering (BET+ streaming). Her practice will focus on representing public and private companies in M&A, joint ventures, minority investments, and general corporate matters.
Class Note Fall 2022
Andrew Tavi was promoted to senior vice president of legal, external affairs, and sustainability for Nissan Americas. In addition to serving in his current roles as chief legal officer and head of government affairs, as head of sustainability he will have overall responsibility for leading the strategy and implementation of the company’s goals to achieve zero fatalities and carbon neutral status in North and South America.
Class Note Fall 2022
Michael T. Cahill was appointed to serve on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. He is president and Joseph Crea Dean of Brooklyn Law School, where he also is a tenured professor of law.
Class Note Fall 2022
Brian Horne has been named partner in charge of the Los Angeles office of Knobbe Martens. He has been with the firm since graduating from law school and is a litigator who handles patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, and breach of contract cases.
Class Note Fall 2022
Elliot Regenstein published Education Restated: Getting Policy Right on Accountability, Teacher Pay, and School Choice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), which offers a pragmatic approach to education improvement at the local and state level. He is a partner at Foresight Law+Policy in Chicago.
Class Note Fall 2022
Peter S. Borock, associate in the real estate practice group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, received a Cornerstone Award from the Lawyers Alliance for New York. The award is one of the city’s highest business law pro bono honors, and he was recognized for assisting a major nonprofit developer of low-income housing.
Class Note Fall 2022
Terrill Wilkins was promoted to named partner at the Chicago-based employment firm Abrahamson Rdzanek & Wilkins LLC, which previously was named Abrahamson Vorachek & Rdzanek. He has been with the firm since 2015. His practice focuses on the representation and counseling of individual employees in the private sector across a number of employment matters.
Class Note Fall 2022
Allyson Terpsma was promoted to partner at Warner Norcross + Judd LLP in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She focuses her practice on labor and employment law and has been with the firm since 2014.