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Class Note Fall 2023

Cameron G. Smith became deputy general counsel of Golden State Foods in September. The Irvine, California-based company is one of the largest diversified suppliers to the food service and retail industries. Cameron previously served as assistant general counsel for Western Digital Corp., also based in Irvine.

Class Note Fall 2023

Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan, was a winner of the American Constitution Society’s 2023 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition. She was recognized for co-authoring the article “The New Major Questions Doctrine.”

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.

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

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

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

Jeetander Dulani joined Stinson LLP as a financial services and class action partner in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. As an antitrust and False Claims Act attorney, he specializes in competition law, class actions, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, and complex litigation.

Class Note Fall 2023

Samir Parikh testified before the US Senate’s Committee of the Judiciary on mass tort bankruptcies, including Purdue Pharma. His invitation was based in part on his essay, “Opaque Capital and Mass Tort Financing,” which is to be published in Yale Law Journal Forum. The essay explores how private equity is infiltrating litigation finance in mass tort cases and distorting resolution. Parikh is the Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics at Lewis & Clark Law School.

Class Note Fall 2023

Jennifer Saulino, former assistant chief of the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice’s  Criminal Division, joined Sidley Austin’s Washington, DC, office as a partner in its product liability and commercial litigation group. She specializes in product liability trials, representing pharmaceutical companies and financial institutions, and defending individuals and corporations in investigations and prosecutions.

Class Note Fall 2023

Linda Clark joined Morrison Foerster in September as a partner in the global privacy and data security group. She is based in Miami. Before joining the firm, she served as the chief data security counsel for RELX, where she led the data security legal compliance efforts in more than 40 countries and across operations in four different market segments worldwide. She previously was a litigator at a large New York law firm.