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Class Note Summer 2024

Sarah Johnson joined the Washington Innocence Project, formerly Innocence Project Northwest, as a staff attorney. The volunteer organization works to free innocent prisoners in Washington State. Previously, she worked for seven years as a public defender.

Class Note Summer 2024

Leah Mintz was reappointed co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Appellate Courts Committee, after serving in the same role in 2022 and 2023. She has been an associate at Duane Morris LLP since 2017, where she practices in the firm’s trial practice group. She focuses on appellate litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and complex commercial litigation. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Bibeane Metsch-Garcia joined the Minneapolis-based law firm Ciresi Conlin LLP as an associate. Previously, she was an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Her time there included serving as the office’s lead attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  

Class Note Summer 2024

Joshua La Vigne was elevated to partner in the corporate and securities department at Mayer Brown, focusing his practice on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and general corporate governance matters. He is based in the firm’s Chicago office. He first joined Mayer Brown as a summer associate and joined the firm full time after graduation.

Class Note Summer 2024

Avi Kupfer was elevated to litigation and dispute resolution partner at Mayer Brown. He is based in the firm's Chicago office, where he is a member of the Supreme Court and appellate practice. Kupfer joined Mayer Brown in 2021; before that, he was an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Matthew Evans joined the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota in the Criminal Division’s Fraud and Public Corruption Unit. Previously, he was a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section in Washington, DC, from 2017 to 2023.

Class Note Summer 2024

Jeffrey M. Smith was promoted to partner at Robison Curphey, & O’Connell LLC in Toledo, Ohio. He represents businesses, health care institutions, and financial institutions in commercial litigation matters. He joined the firm in 2021, bringing experience as a business and tort litigation attorney. Earlier in his career, he clerked for the Hon. Sara Lioi on the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Class Note Summer 2024

Adam Uth joined Mansour Gavin’s litigation group, where his work focuses on real estate matters. He has considerable experience representing businesses in various types of litigation and has secured favorable outcomes at both the trial and appellate levels. Uth also has experience providing compliance analysis, both in the private sector and for the City of Shaker Heights, Ohio. 

Class Note Summer 2024

Matthew Worsham has been appointed chair of the Martin County Bar Association’s Wills, Trusts & Estates/Probate Committee for the 2023–2024 term. He is a trusts and estates litigation attorney with Jones Foster, a private and commercial law firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida. His practice focuses on probate, guardianship, trust litigation, and trust and estate administration. (may have submitted a photo that I can’t access - in the email)

Class Note Summer 2024

Ronald S. Betman joined Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP as a partner in the firm’s Chicago-based litigation group. He focuses his practice on complex litigation and class action matters, and he has extensive experience in securities, commodities, class action and derivative litigation, antitrust, fraud, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation. He also has experience handling regulatory investigations from federal agencies and state attorneys general.