Issue: Fall 2023
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Class Note Fall 2023
Patricia “Trish” Lee Refo, partner at Snell & Wilmer, received the 2023 Walter E. Craig Award from the Arizona Bar Foundation. She concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation and internal investigations, and she chairs Snell & Wilmer’s professional liability litigation group. She is a past president of the American Bar Association (ABA) and has served as chair of the ABA House of Delegates and the ABA Section of Litigation. She also served on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence and is a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence of the US Judicial Conference.
Class Note Fall 2023
John Vryhof, partner at Snell & Wilmer, was among the top 50 pro bono attorney awardees at the Arizona Bar Foundation 2023 Awards Luncheon. In his practice, he oversees estate planning, trust and estate litigation, charitable planning, foundation and nonprofit organizations, business succession planning, and international estate planning. He previously worked at Streich Lang (now Quarles & Brady) in Phoenix and Sidley & Austin in Chicago.
Class Note Fall 2023
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz has published four articles in the American Bar Association's Voice of Experience newsletter in 2023. The titles include “Thanks For Noticing - Finding Joy Amid the Shadows of Life,” “Simple Twists of Fate,” “Ancient Wisdom for the Human Condition in 2023: Living with Death,” and “Doctor! Doctor! Can’t You See I’m Burning, Burning?” He is a member of the Philadelphia-based law firm Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci PC.
Class Note Fall 2023
Julie Arvo MacKenzie has rejoined Squire Patton Boggs as of counsel in the public and infrastructure finance practice, particularly for the benefit of nonprofit charter schools and health care facilities. Previously, she was a shareholder at Engelman Berger PC, where she co-founded the firm’s public finance group.
Class Note Fall 2023
Warren von Schleicher joined the Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner. He represents insurers and employers in matters related to life, health, pension, disability claims, and bad-faith litigation. Before joining Hinshaw, he was the managing partner of Smith|von Schleicher+Associates.
Class Note Fall 2023
Ron Heller recently earned a master of fine arts in theater with a concentration in directing from the University of Hawaii. In recent years, he received Po’okela Awards as director of a play from the Hawaii State Theatre Council for two separate productions. Memorial Day, the latest production Heller directed, centers on the early years of the AIDS crisis. He still actively works as an attorney in Honolulu, concentrating on tax and business law.
Class Note Fall 2023
Charles Lowery Jr. joined the National Housing Conference as the new senior policy director. He most recently served as director of legislative policy and external affairs for New American Funding. Lowery also was sworn in as the president of the DC Bar at the 2023 Celebration of Leadership: DC Bar Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner in June.
In Memoriam Fall 2023
The Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler, ’65
Rosemary S. Pooler, a senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, died at her home in Syracuse, New York, on August 10, 2023. She was 85.
Class Note Fall 2023
Lisa Crooms-Robinson has been serving as interim dean of the Howard University School of Law since June. She earned her undergraduate degree at Howard University and has served as a faculty member since 1993. She also served as the School of Law’s associate dean of academic affairs from 2012 to 2019. Her expertise includes constitutional law and human rights, and she has been a consultant for human rights organizations such as the United Nations, the US Human Rights Network, the Urban Justice Center, Amnesty International USA, and the Paul Murray Center for History and Social Justice.
Class Note Fall 2023
Joseph Kimble is the 2023 recipient of the State Bar of Michigan’s Roberts P. Hudson Award, recognizing his dedication to the legal profession and outstanding service to and on behalf of the State Bar of Michigan. He has been the editor of the “Plain Language” column in the Michigan Bar Journal for 36 years. He served as the drafting consultant for the redrafting of the Michigan Rules of Evidence to conform to the restyled Federal Rules of Evidence; he also led the redrafting work on those federal evidence rules as well as for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He is a distinguished professor emeritus at the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the senior director of the school's Kimble Center for Legal Drafting.