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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Peter Maassen was selected by his fellow justices to serve as chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. He served in private practice in Anchorage before his appointment to the court in 2012. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

John Cahill joined the New York-based law firm of Wilk Auslander LLP in February as an expert in litigating art cases and guiding clients through the whole range of art transactions. Previously, he was a lawyer in private law firms and was the chief operating officer of Sotheby’s when it was a public company, overseeing commercial transactions and financial services.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Robert A. Stein’s firm, The Stein Law Firm PLLC, received special acknowledgements in the 2023 rankings of Best Law Firms by U.S. News and World Report. The firm is recognized in the areas of family law, commercial litigation, trusts and estates litigation, and personal injury litigation–plaintiffs.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Walter Sutton was awarded the 2023 Cora T. Walker Award. The National Bar Association’s Commercial Law Section presents the award to those with a history of supporting the section and championing diversity. He also is a past president of the National Bar Association.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Michael M. Parham was appointed by President Biden in September to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. He is the senior vice president and general counsel of RealNetworks, the company that pioneered streaming media on the internet. He is active on many boards, including leadership roles on the boards of the Seattle Art Museum, the United States-Canada Fulbright Foundation, and the Seattle Public Library. He also co-founded the Black Boardroom Initiative to increase corporate board diversity. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Richard Leslie

Richard Leslie will be elected chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Senior Lawyers Division Council at the ABA annual meeting in August. He currently serves on the council as chair-elect and previously was vice chair. He has served in the ABA House of Delegates, currently on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Bar, for 20 years.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Nina Srejovic briefly returned to law firm practice through an OnRamp Fellowship after focusing her energies on the unpaid labor of child rearing for 18 years. She is now a visiting professor and acting director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Valerie Jarrett was elected as a new member of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. She currently serves as CEO of the Barack Obama Foundation and was the longest-serving senior adviser to the Obama administration. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jay Soled was promoted to the rank of distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He has directed the school's Master of Taxation Program for more than 25 years.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Frank Shaw is now deputy general counsel, Americas, at First Solar Inc., a US-based solar module manufacturer. Previously, he was corporate and energy counsel at Skadden, Arps.