Issue: Spring/Summer 2023
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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Daniel H. Golub has joined Volpe Koenig in Philadelphia as a shareholder. Experienced in intellectual property law, he most recently served as counsel at Rembrandt IP Management.
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Forty Years of Protecting the Great Lakes Watershed and Training Environmental Lawyers
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The 2023 Black Alumni Reunion: "Celebrating Our Legacy, Empowering Our Future"
Michigan Law’s Black Alumni Reunion brought together more than 200 alumni and their guests to support, learn from, and celebrate the Law School’s Black community, and to promote the matriculation and success of Black students at Michigan Law. It was the fourth edition of the Black Alumni Reunion and the first to take place in person since 2017.
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Celebrating Senior Day, 2023
The Class of 2023 and their families and friends convened at Hill Auditorium on May 5 to celebrate Senior Day—a gathering far removed from the start of their 1L year, which began on Zoom at the outset of the pandemic.
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Christopher Perras, ’11: Hate on Trial
Christopher Perras, ’11, specializes in prosecuting hate crimes as a special litigation counsel in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
The Hon. Timothy P. Connors was assigned to serve as a business court judge in the 22nd Circuit Court in Washtenaw County, Michigan, for a term expiring in 2025. He has served several judicial appointments and currently is a lecturer on the Michigan Law faculty.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Alan Croll and his son, Bobby, recently won their sixth national father-son United States Tennis Association (USTA) Championship. They now have a “career slam,” with victories on hard, grass, and clay courts. They are currently the No. 1 father-son team in the country in the USTA’s Ultra Senior Division.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
The Hon. Mark Boonstra published In Their Own Words: Today's God-less America…What Would Our Founding Fathers Think? (Liberty Hill Publishing, 2021–2022). The three-volume series details the words and religious lives of all 118 signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. He is a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Ron Lopez has retired after 40 years at Thelen LLP and then Nixon Peabody LLP in San Francisco as a commercial and intellectual property litigator. He tried cases all over the US, as well as internationally, including the largest patent case ever tried in the Thailand IP Court, which involved disk drive patents and resulted in a complete victory for his client. He is now general counsel and chief licensing officer for OneD Battery Science, a company based in Palo Alto, California, that is developing next-generation silicon anode technology for electric vehicle batteries. He and his wife, Angela Karikas, split their time between Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Piedmont, California.