Issue: Fall 2023
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Briefs Fall 2023
Celebrating Milestone Reunions
Hundreds of alumni and their guests returned to Ann Arbor over two weekends this fall to celebrate their Reunion.
Impact Fall 2023
John Hoyns, ’79: Helping Airlines Survive COVID
After decades of serving aviation clients, John Hoyns thought he had seen the worst of the airline industry’s ups and downs. That was until the coronavirus pandemic upended the industry and presented a slew of unexpected challenges.
Impact Fall 2023
Eric R. Lamison, ’95: Alumnus Establishes Fund for Law Quad Preservation
Eric Lamison describes his experience at Michigan Law as nothing short of an awakening. “Being in the Law Quad, the classrooms, Hutchins Hall, the Lawyers Club, the Reading Room, and the library below truly impacted me,” he says. “I always felt grateful to be there.”
Impact Fall 2023
Peter H. DeHaas, ’63: Boosting Financial Independence for Future Generations
Peter DeHaas spent his career working toward financial freedom—an aspirational goal that he was able to achieve with a little help along the way. With gratitude for the financial aid he received as a student, DeHaas recently established a $12 million trust to help the next generation of Michigan Law students achieve their career and financial goals.
Class Note Fall 2023
Heather L. Fesnak, a partner at Akerman LLP in Tampa, Florida, was appointed deputy chair of the firm’s consumer financial services, data, and technology (CFS+) practice. She began her work with Akerman in 2011 as an associate and was promoted to partner in 2015. She has led the CFS+ team since becoming partner and represents a range of financial services providers within the residential mortgage lending and service industry. She serves internally on Akerman’s professional development council.
Class Note Fall 2023
William Quinn was promoted to general counsel at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effective in August. He joined the USCCB in March 2022 as a solicitor in the Office of General Counsel, managing all conference litigation matters. Immediately before joining the USCCB, he worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice.
Class Note Fall 2023
Robert F. Harmon Jr. became general counsel at ICON in July. The Austin, Texas-based construction technologies company is developing large-scale 3D printing. He most recently served as associate general counsel and director at Amazon, where he led a global team supporting Amazon Fresh. In another role at Amazon, he led legal counsel for the site selection and negotiation of the company’s new corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia and the Nashville Center of Excellence.
Class Note Fall 2023
Stefan Richter, LLM, has joined Clifford Chance’s patent practice in Düsseldorf, Germany. The focus of his work is on national and multijurisdictional patent infringement litigation and parallel opposition and nullity proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Federal Patent Court. He further advises and represents clients in the fields of digital copyright and data protection law.
Class Note Fall 2023
Elizabeth Crouse joined Perkins Coie in Portland, Oregon, this spring. Before joining Perkins Coie, she co-led K&L Gates’s global renewables and power group. She has served as the co-director of the Seattle chapter of Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy and as chair of the Renewable Hydrogen Alliance’s Oregon Policy Subcommittee, and she is a member of the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association Board Advisory Committee.
Class Note Fall 2023
Justina “Tina” Sessions, who focuses on antitrust-related litigation and enforcement, joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP as a partner in the firm’s Redwood City, California, office. She has worked on business antitrust disputes, helped to defend a major tech platform in a monopolization case, and was a key trial and appellate team member in Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm.