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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Tony Shin was appointed general counsel of STIIIZY, a Los Angeles-based cannabis company. He has spent his career advising publicly traded and multinational companies and emerging high-growth organizations across a number of industries. Most recently, Shin was the associate general counsel at Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. Before his role at Aerojet, he was a partner at Los Angeles-based TroyGould PC, where he represented and advised emerging growth, middle market, and public company clients in corporate and securities matters.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Sean J. Brennan was a fellow for the 2024 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. He is an assistant US attorney in Washington, DC, where he prosecutes crimes arising from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Previously, Brennan worked as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Alec Rogers has joined Ford Motor Company’s Washington, DC, office as a government affairs executive and director of tax and finance policy. His appointment follows 18 years as senior director for Xerox Corporation and a decade on Capitol Hill, where he was senior counsel to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Before working on Capitol Hill, Rogers was in private practice in Birmingham, Michigan, and Washington, DC.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Benjamin Zainea was selected by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as a 2024 Go To Lawyer for business transactions. He is an attorney at the Grand Rapids-based law firm Mika Meyers PLC. Zainea specializes in transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business formation and succession planning, general business and real estate law, estate planning, commercial lending, and manufacturing. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Audrey Anderson was appointed interim general counsel at Dartmouth College. She is an attorney at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC and previously served as vice chancellor and general counsel and university secretary for Vanderbilt University. She remains an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Law School, teaching higher education law and a seminar on the Supreme Court. Earlier in her career, Anderson worked in the Department of Homeland Security and also served as a partner in the education and litigation practice groups at Hogan & Hartson LLP, where she represented and advised public school districts in litigation and other matters, as well as advised clients in a range of complex civil litigation and appellate litigation.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Pryce Tucker joined Schouest Bamdas Soshea BenMaier & Eastham PLLC as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas location. He defends clients against wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, and property damage claims and also specializes in product liability cases. Before joining Schouest Bamdas, Tucker worked for more than 20 years at Hartline Barger LLP.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Michael Kump, founding partner and trial attorney at Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP, was named a 2024 Legal Legend by the Hollywood Reporter. Kump represents plaintiffs and defendants across matters involving intellectual property, entertainment, media, contract, and business litigation and counseling. He represents a number of well-known media figures, including the Kardashians and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as well as media outlets like Blumhouse Television, Live Nation Entertainment, and HBO Latin America.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Ashby Jones has been named deputy economics editor at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). He first joined the WSJ in 2009 as an editor and went on to hold a number of positions at the organization, including most recently as deputy coverage chief for US news. Jones led the WSJ’s legal coverage from 2016 to 2019, which included working with a team of reporters and editors who received the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Colin Zick received a Band 1 rating for health care law in Massachusetts from Chambers USA. He is a partner at the Boston office of Foley Hoag LLP, where he serves as chair of the health care compliance practice and co-chair of the privacy and data security practice. His work often involves the intersection of health care and compliance issues in investigations, administrative proceedings, or litigation.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Steven Feenstra joined Nixon Peabody LLP as counsel in the firm’s community development finance practice in Washington, DC. His practice focuses on negotiating business arrangements between a large low-income housing tax credit syndicator, investors, and developers in order to build affordable housing projects. Feenstra also reviews proposed projects to confirm compliance with tax code requirements and addresses essential development matters on behalf of the syndicator and its investors.