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@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023

Forty Years of Protecting the Great Lakes Watershed and Training Environmental Lawyers

@UMICHLAW Spring/Summer 2023

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. 

@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.

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Jessica Silbey joined the tenured faculty of Boston University School of Law in 2021 as the Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar, teaching constitutional law and intellectual property law. Her most recent book, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values (Stanford Press, 2022), was published with support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 

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

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. 

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

Michael Huston joined Perkins Coie in Washington, DC, as a partner and co-chair of the appeals, issues, and strategy practice group. Previously, he served as assistant to the solicitor general at the US Department of Justice.

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

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