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Class Note Summer 2025

Katy McNeil joined A&O Shearman as a partner in the firm’s energy, natural resources, and infrastructure practice, where she represents clients across the renewable energy sector. McNeil previously was a partner at Mayer Brown. Additionally, she received the Hope Through Caring Award from the Les Turner ALS Foundation, which also was given posthumously to her husband, Brian Davis, ’14, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and died in January 2025. The award honors their commitment to raising awareness and supporting ALS care and research.

Class Note Summer 2025

Elise H. Yu was appointed partner at ArentFox Schiff in Ann Arbor. Yu counsels and represents individuals and businesses across industries, including automotive, retail, and consumer products, leading up to and through litigation involving issues ranging from state and local taxation to business disputes to antitrust matters. Before joining ArentFox, Yu was an associate at Schiff Hardin LLP.

Class Note Summer 2025

Claire Madill joined the appellate division of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland. She previously was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, an appellate public defender at the Palm Beach County Public Defender’s Office in Florida, and a staff attorney in the special litigation division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Madill also clerked at all three levels of the federal judiciary: for US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Hon. William A. Fletcher on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Hon. Alison J. Nathan, who at the time was serving on the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Note Summer 2025

Phillip Zeeck was appointed assistant general counsel of the Big Ten Conference, where he manages contracts, policy development, legal analysis, intellectual property, and outside counsel coordination. He also serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Previously, Zeeck was of counsel at Polsinelli PC.

Class Note Summer 2025

Chad Ray joined Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC as a shareholder with the firm’s intellectual property team in Dallas. Ray is a patent litigation attorney and focuses on trademark and copyright matters in the energy, automotive, life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, technology, and telecommunications industries. Before joining Munsch Hardt, he was a partner at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP.

Class Note Summer 2025

Matthew Raymer was appointed senior vice president and general counsel at Dartmouth College, his undergraduate alma mater. Before his current role, Raymer served as chief counsel at the Republican National Committee (RNC), where he oversaw a large team of in-house attorneys and outside counsel while managing the RNC’s legal affairs.

Class Note Summer 2025

Megan Chan joined Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose Ltd. as a partner in the firm’s education practice group, where she advises clients on higher education law, policy, and government and regulatory compliance. She previously served as the associate dean of financial aid, compliance, and training at the University of Southern California (USC). Before her work at USC, she clerked for the Hon. Audrey B. Collins on the US District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Note Summer 2025

Samantha Funk joined the permanent legal writing faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. Before teaching, Funk practiced commercial litigation, where she represented clients at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal court and conducted civil rights and Title IX investigations at the University of Washington. She has maintained an active pro bono portfolio throughout her career and has represented clients seeking asylum, argued for protective orders in criminal cases, and researched state statutes for a reproductive justice organization.

Class Note Summer 2025

William Andrichik joined Michael Best & Fredrich LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation group in Chicago. His practice includes real estate litigation, indemnification claims, shareholder disputes, breach of contract, trade secret issues, business dissolution litigation, and mass and class actions. Before joining Michael Best, he was a partner at Steptoe LLP.

Class Note Summer 2025

Margia Corner joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a health care partner in San Francisco. Previously, she worked in various roles for the University of California, most recently as acting co-interim deputy general counsel, where she was a principal legal adviser for the Board of Regents Health Services Committee and oversaw legal matters across the university system’s health care network.