Issue: Fall 2022
176 results
Class Note Fall 2022
Laura L. Romeo joined Plunkett Cooney in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as a senior attorney and co-leader of the firm’s environment, energy, and resources law practice group. She has extensive expertise in environmental and sustainability issues and previously served as assistant division counsel for the US Army Regional Environmental and Energy Office.
Class Note Fall 2022
Kent Matsumoto and his wife, Constance, will publish their debut novel, Of White Ashes, in early 2023. Inspired by the true stories of the authors’ family, the story follows two Japanese Americans during World War II as they endure internment camps and other hardships. After spending 36 years as legal counsel for several publicly held companies, Matsumoto was recently appointed director of Peoplesbank, an independent community bank that operates financial centers in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Class Note Fall 2022
Benedicte Bayi-Mathijsen took on a new role as senior director of privacy and compliance with Christian Dior Couture in New York. She previously held privacy counsel positions in the San Francisco area, including with Facebook, Twitter, and PayPal.
Class Note Fall 2022
Kurtis T. Wilder was named to the executive committee of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Formerly a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, Wilder is a shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit.
Class Note Fall 2022
Anthony M. Spaniola, a Southeast Michigan attorney and co-chair of the Great Lakes PFAS Action Network, received the Equity and the Environment Leadership Award from the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. He is a leading national advocate for communities affected by toxic PFAS contamination and testified before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in December 2021, calling for heightened scrutiny of the Department of Defense as the largest known PFAS polluter in the nation. He also served as a consultant to Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim on her critically acclaimed documentary, No Defense: The US Military’s War On Water.
Class Note Fall 2022
Anita (Raby) Fox was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business in its annual 50 Names to Know in State Government list. She has served as the director of the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services since January 2019.
Class Note Fall 2022
Meg Waite Clayton published her eighth novel, The Postmistress of Paris (Harper, 2021), a work of historical fiction set during the German occupation of France during World War II. She resides in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Class Note Fall 2022
Cheryl Bush, founding member of Bush Seyferth PLLC, was sworn in for a four-year term as a regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Class Note Fall 2022
The Hon. Manuel I. Arrieta of the Third Judicial District of the State of New Mexico published “Solving the Puzzle: The Water Court Structure and Process of Water Administration in New Mexico” in the University of Denver Water Law Review. The article is an analysis of the legal regime for water administration in New Mexico. Judge Arrieta also recently walked the Camino Frances and the Camino Portugal, a 740-mile trek that ended in Santiago de Compestela in northern Spain.
Class Note Fall 2022
Eric Acker, a patent litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster, was the lead trial lawyer in a case involving one of Japan’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies, for which he recently helped secure a $775 million patent litigation settlement. He has been with the firm since 1999 and is based in San Diego.