Issue: Summer 2024
159 results
Class Note Summer 2024
Howard Kramer joined SEDA Experts LLC, a financial witness firm, as a senior adviser. Kramer, who is retired from practice, was a financial regulatory attorney for more than 40 years. He has experience in securities and derivative products and markets, equity, options and debt market trading, broker-dealer compliance, US financial regulatory structure, and US securities law and regulations. He spent 14 years with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and later worked in private practice as a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and Murphy & McGonigle PC.
Class Note Summer 2024
Robin L. Harrison, a partner at Hicks Thomas LLP in Houston, was named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2024. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in trials and arbitrations in America and Europe for more than 35 years and is a member of the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Bar Association, and the Texas Bar Association. He served as a director of the litigation section of the Houston Bar Association from 1997 to 2001 and the Houston Trial Lawyers Association from 2002 to 2004; he remains a member of both organizations.
Class Note Summer 2024
Adele Rapport Seymour was added to the A. Felch Pendill Wall of Excellence at Marquette (Michigan) Senior High School, her alma mater. Honorees must distinguish themselves in a chosen profession, be involved in public or community service, and demonstrate philanthropy. She is the regional director for the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in Chicago and previously was the regional attorney for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Detroit District office.
Class Note Summer 2024
Monica Hargrove, a veteran aviation attorney, was reelected secretary to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. She previously served as general counsel for the North America region at Airports Council International and associate general counsel at US Airways. Before her work in the private sector, she was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice.
Class Note Summer 2024
William “Bill” R. Bay is president-elect of the American Bar Association (ABA). He will assume the position in August. He is a partner with the St. Louis office of Thompson Coburn LLP and is a longtime leader in the ABA, having served as chair or co-chair of several committees and as a fellow in the American Bar Foundation. He also is a past president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and a Missouri Bar Board of Governors member.
Class Note Summer 2024
Larry Thompson received the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award from Michigan State University. He is a former US deputy attorney general, US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and general counsel and executive vice president of PepsiCo Inc. Upon his retirement from PepsiCo, the company created the Larry Thompson Fellowship Program to honor his life’s commitment to adding diversity to the legal profession.
Class Note Summer 2024
Bruce Frederick Howell received a 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the Texas State Bar Health Law Section. He counsels clients on a broad range of health law issues, including reimbursement, fraud and abuse, managed care issues, physician practice management issues, and the Affordable Care Act. Previously, he served as a health care industry group leader and shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC. He is a co-founder of the Dallas Bar Association’s Health Law Section and a distinguished professor from practice at Willamette University College of Law.
Class Note Summer 2024
Alan Hoffman co-authored Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines (Missouri Historical Society Press, 2023). The book traces the origins of the airline from the 1920s to the 21st century and focuses on the involvement of Charles Lindbergh, Howard Hughes, and Carl Icahn. He is a historian and the author of a 2019 self-published book, Up There with the Biggest: The Story of Ozark Airlines.
Class Note Summer 2024
Jules Crystal, a labor and employment arbitrator and mediator, was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators. The not-for-profit honorary and professional organization seeks to advance the field of arbitration while enforcing the highest level of ethical conduct. He has participated in a variety of mediations involving alleged wrongful termination, employment discrimination and sexual harassment, alleged violations of labor and employment agreements, noncompete agreements, whistle-blowing statuses, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Class Note Summer 2024
George Elworth received a 2023 National Attorney General Career Staff Award from the National Association of Attorneys General, recognizing his 49 years of public service to the Michigan Department of Attorney General. He currently serves in the State Operations Division and is on the Attorney General’s Opinion Review Board. He previously held roles within the military affairs and finance divisions.