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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

Brad Keywell was appointed to the board of directors of the sports and entertainment company TKO Group Holdings Inc. Keywell has co-founded and led several companies, including Groupon, Echo Global Logistics, Lightbank, and MediaOcean. He is the founder and executive chairman of UpTake Technologies Inc., an artificial intelligence software company, and the founder of SkillHero, a workforce technology company. 

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

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

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

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

Melissa Malkin-Weber is a founding co-director of the North Carolina Clean Energy Fund, an independent nonprofit financial institution focused on accelerating decarbonization, particularly for underserved sectors and low-wealth communities. The fund is part of the capital deployment network under the federal Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Malkin-Weber has experience working as an environmental scientist at RTI International, where she led the company’s Hazardous Materials Committee. She also has worked as the research director of Advanced Energy Corp. and sustainability director at Self-Help Credit Union.

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

James Caserio joined Jones Day as a partner and member of the firm’s real estate practice in its Chicago office. He advises clients on complex commercial real estate transactions, real estate finance, joint ventures, development projects, and loan restructurings. Caserio represents institutional investors, public and private real estate companies, real estate investment trusts, developers, retailers, hedge funds, and other investment funds and financial institutions.