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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Drew Clary was promoted to partner at Ropes & Gray in New York. He advises insurance companies, hospitals, health systems, and other providers on a broad range of regulatory, transactional, and compliance issues. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Alexis (Grant) Guinan was named a partner in the international trade group of the Washington, DC, office of Akin Gump. Her practice centers on sanctions and other international trade laws and corporate and special situations transactions and restructurings. 

Class Note Spring/Summer 2023

Joseph T. Neely was a 2022 Missouri Lawyers Media Up & Coming Awards honoree. The award recognizes early career legal professionals who demonstrate professional accomplishment, skill, and leadership beyond their years, and an extraordinary commitment to the community. He is a partner at Behr McCarter in St. Louis.

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. 

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

William Krauss, who practices out of Ann Arbor, joined virtual law firm FisherBroyles LLP in January after practicing at Butzel Long, where he founded the firm's digital asset practice. He focuses his practice on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding digital assets and blockchain.