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@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023

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.

• Race and the Law

Features Spring/Summer 2023

The Business of College Sports

Name, image, likeness (NIL)—three words that have created enormous changes for student-athletes and collegiate sports. We spoke with two Michigan Law alumni—one historically in favor and one against compensation for athletes—who have engaged on this topic over the past several years in friendly debate with each other.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Emily Haigh was elevated to shareholder in the New York office of Littler. She represents and counsels employers facing a wide variety of labor and employment law issues and has conducted hundreds of sessions on #MeToo training laws. She also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s veterans initiative affinity group. Before joining Littler, she supervised and reviewed administrative investigations for the US Army as a judge advocate and magistrate judge.  

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jonathan E. Algor, a former assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has joined Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP as a partner specializing in white-collar defense and investigations, commercial litigation, and international litigation. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Melanie Plowman was promoted to partner at the Texas appellate firm Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP. A former Texas assistant solicitor general, she has handled appeals in Texas state appellate courts, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the US Supreme Court. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Ryan Ferris was promoted to partner at Mayer Brown. He works with the firm’s corporate and securities practice group in Chicago. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Stephen Gilson appeared on MSNBC to discuss possible Department of Justice charges stemming from the November 2022 mass shooting at a Colorado Springs nightclub. Formerly an assistant US attorney, he is now counsel at KaiserDillon PLLC in Washington, DC.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Siyu Jiang was appointed vice president of legal affairs at Amprius Technologies, which has developed ultra-high energy density lithium-ion batteries. Based in Fremont, California, she previously advised Amprius for several years on corporate governance and transactional matters as senior corporate associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Nathan J. Moore, who practices transactional and corporate law in the Denver office of WilmerHale, was promoted to partner. He has a broad range of experience representing private equity funds, financial institutions, and public and private companies across industries ranging from life sciences to retail to real estate. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Charlotta Chung was elected partner in the corporate and financial services department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and is a member of the firm’s finance department. She focuses her practice on representing private equity sponsors, lenders, and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions. She is based in New York.