Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
Gregory Gulia has joined the international law firm Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in the trademarks, copyrights, and transactions practice group. Gulia is an intellectual property litigator and practitioner who has counseled major media companies, retailers, consumer product companies, entertainers, and luxury goods brands.
Class Note Summer 2024
Michelle Thurber Czapski was recognized by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as a leader in business litigation on its Michigan’s Go To Lawyers Power List. Czapski is a member at Bodman PLC, where she chairs the insurance practice group and co-chairs the litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice group. She has represented major corporate clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings for more than three decades.
Class Note Summer 2024
Peter Manning has been promoted to deputy attorney general of the Michigan Department of Attorney General, which he joined in 1994. Manning has worked in the department’s Environment, Natural Resources & Agriculture division for most of his career, including as a division chief for 17 years. Previously, he was bureau chief of the Environment and Government Operations Bureau. Manning also has served as the attorney general’s representative on the Great Lakes Commission and as the department’s emergency management coordinator for nearly two decades.
Class Note Summer 2024
Lauren Krasnow is the founder of Lauren Krasnow LLC and serves as an executive coach, consultant, and speaker to senior leaders and members of global law firms. She also writes “The Fully Human Lawyer” for the American Lawyer and Law.com, a column that shares real, anonymized stories about the legal profession. She holds a leadership position in the International Coaching Federation, the world’s largest professional coaching organization, and lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Class Note Summer 2024
Joseph Kowalsky, senior financial consultant at Upstream Investment Partners LLC, founded Organs for Life, a charitable organization dedicated to making organ transplants safer, less costly, and more widely available. The organization is an expansion of the Organ CryoPreservation Prize, which Kowalsky founded in 2013.
Class Note Summer 2024
Ronald E. Wheeler was promoted to associate dean of law libraries at Boston University’s Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries. He joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in 2016 as director of the law libraries and associate professor of law and legal research. In his 22-year career as an academic law librarian, he has taught and mentored law students and aspiring law librarians at law schools throughout the US, in Shanghai, and through study abroad programs in Germany and Brazil. He served as the first Black male president of the American Association of Law Libraries from 2016 to 2017. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Class Note Summer 2024
Carolin Chenoweth Shining was appointed as a trustee to the Los Angeles County Bar Association's board of trustees for the 2023–2024 term. She is a principal in Shining Law Firm and specializes in complex civil litigation, including consumer class actions and multiparty litigation with a focus on representation of plaintiffs. She has served on the board of governors for the Consumers Attorneys of California since 2022.
Class Note Summer 2024
Maureen Moran recently became the collection strategy and research librarian for the D'Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago. She previously spent two years as the collection development librarian for the E.B. Williams Library at Georgetown University Law Center. Moran worked as a practicing attorney for more than 10 years after graduating from Michigan Law. She began her career as a research librarian at university law libraries in 2010.
Class Note Summer 2024
Christopher Cahill joined Dykema Gossett LLP as senior counsel in the firm’s corporate and finance practice group. Cahill joins Dykema from Aegis Law and previously was a partner with L&G Law Group LLP for more than a decade. Cahill led the bankruptcy groups at his two previous firms and represented principal lenders, creditor manufacturers, and commodity suppliers.
Class Note Summer 2024
Tara McGrath, nominated by President Biden, was appointed as US attorney for the Southern District of California, making her the chief prosecutor and top federal law enforcement official in one of the busiest federal districts in the nation. McGrath previously served as an assistant US attorney in San Diego and Washington, DC, before spending the past four years working as a legal adviser for the Marine Corps, of which she is a veteran.