Issue: Spring/Summer 2023
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Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Aghogho Edevbie became Michigan’s deputy secretary of state in March. For the last three years, he served as the Michigan state director for All Voting is Local, a nonpartisan voting rights organization. As deputy secretary of state, he leads the development and implementation of the state’s election policy, which includes outreach and education through engagement with state and local elected officials.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Michelle Gomez was selected as a co-chair of Littler’s Career Advocacy Program, a firmwide mentoring program that helps diverse associates advance to shareholder. She is a shareholder in Littler’s Denver office and senior director of onboarding and integration.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Christal Phillips was appointed as the executive director of the City of Detroit Board of Ethics. She previously served on the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission in Honolulu and the Detroit Public Schools Community District as an assistant director of employee relations.
Class Note Spring/Summer 2023
Michelle (Sharpe) Silverthorn was part of the delegation representing the United States at the G20 Summit's Women20 (W20) in India earlier this year. W20 ensures that gender considerations are mainstreamed into G20 discussions. She is the founder of Inclusion Nation, which offers interactive, educational programs to build diverse, inclusive, and equitable cultures in workplaces.
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
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.
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.