Issue: Summer 2025
134 results
Class Note Summer 2025
Trenton Buhr-Roschewski joined Mika Meyers PLC as an associate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Buhr-Roschewski specializes in municipal litigation, zoning and land use planning law, commercial litigation, and real estate.
Class Note Summer 2025
Yasmine Choucair joined Bodman PLC as an associate in the real estate practice group. She represents businesses and financial institutions in commercial and industrial real estate transactions and finance matters.
Class Note Summer 2025
Esmeralda Suarez joined Sidley Austin LLP as an associate. Her practice focuses on financial institutions and the insurance industry. Previously, Suarez was a graduate public interest law initiative fellow at the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts.
Class Note Summer 2025
Elise Bean posthumously published her second book in April: Congress Investigates: George Washington to January 6 (Miniver Press, 2025), co-authored with Kyle Buler. Bean served more than 30 years on Capitol Hill, most of them as Sen. Carl Levin’s counsel on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). She was staff director and chief counsel of PSI from 2003 to 2014. She retired from the Senate in 2015 and helped establish the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy at Wayne State University, including serving as director of its Washington, DC, office. She died in January.
Class Note Summer 2025
Courtney Martin, a public defender in Seattle, was a contestant on Jeopardy! in April. Martin finished second but was the only contestant to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy question. The category was “Around the World”; the clue was, “An online article about this landmark said, ‘The stones themselves look like they are crying’ and mentioned ‘tears of…pain, hope, and joy.’” Answer: The Wailing Wall. Martin is pictured with Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings.
Class Note Summer 2025
Keith Ketola joined Allison MacKenzie as an associate. His practice focuses on administrative law, appellate litigation, corporate law, family law, land use, litigation, real property, trusts and estates, and water law.
Class Note Summer 2025
Trevor Parkes joined the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) as the counsel and project director of its First Step Act Resource Center, which advocates for the full implementation of the 2018 First Step Act. Before joining NACDL, he clerked in two federal district courts and was a litigation associate at a large law firm in Minneapolis.
Class Note Summer 2025
Valerie Stacey joined Honigman LLP as a partner in the firm’s business litigation practice group. She focuses her practice on high-stakes commercial litigation and complex tort disputes in state and federal courts. She also has an active pro bono practice counseling asylum seekers, including developing case assessments and preparing refugees for credible fear interviews, as well as first-chairing evidentiary hearings to secure restraining orders. Before joining Honigman, Stacey was an associate at Jones Day.
Class Note Summer 2025
Anna Mouw Thompson was appointed partner at Perkins Coie LLP, where she previously served as counsel and is a member of the firm’s privacy and security practice. Thompson litigates and counsels clients on issues related to state and federal privacy and data protection laws, including laws addressing biometric data and the collection, use, disclosure, and security of personal information. She also has experience drafting at the appellate level and has assisted clients with appeals and amici curiae briefs in matters involving novel issues of state and federal privacy law.
Class Note Summer 2025
Lori Arakaki was promoted to partner at Hicks Johnson. Based in the firm’s Houston office, Arakaki litigates complex commercial disputes before federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in arbitration proceedings. Recent client matters have involved trade secrets and complex patent infringement and a contract dispute involving a prominent aerospace and defense company. Arakaki handles all stages of litigation, from drafting pre- and post-trial motions to deposing fact and expert witnesses, arguing motions in court, and trying cases.