Issue: Summer 2025
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Class Note Summer 2025
John C. Muhs was appointed partner at Warner Norcross+Judd LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s impact investing group. Muhs specializes in securities and investment matters and works with community development financial institutions, church extension funds, charitable loan funds, and other organizations to finance community development activities. He serves as board secretary of Detroit Phoenix Center and is a member of Opportunity Finance Network, Denominational Investors and Loan Administrators, and the Michigan Venture Capital Association.
Class Note Summer 2025
Melanie Neary became a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in San Francisco. She practices in the firm’s corporate transactions group, where she represents life sciences companies and investors and advises clients on a wide range of complex transactions and other matters, with a focus on capital markets, private company financings, securities regulation, and corporate governance. She joined Gibson Dunn after graduation.
Class Note Summer 2025
Divya Taneja was promoted to partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, where she is a member of the firm’s technology transactions and privacy law practice. Taneja advises clients on structuring and negotiating complex transactions related to developing, licensing, and distributing technology and media content. She also provides counseling throughout the product development lifecycle, from business strategy and product launch to commercialization and contract negotiations.
Class Note Summer 2025
Sam DeBaltzo was elevated to partner at Tonkon Torp LLP, where he focuses on real estate transactions. He represents clients on purchases and sales, leases, easements, and secured and unsecured financing. He also negotiates construction and architect agreements and frequently advises on real estate aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions.
Class Note Summer 2025
Serena Rabie was named partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP, where she represents clients in complex business disputes involving banking and financial services, antitrust, commercial, and constitutional law. Rabie also has significant appellate experience and has successfully handled state, federal, and administrative appeals. She joined the firm in 2023.
Class Note Summer 2025
Rebecca Seguin-Skrabucha, a member of Bodman PLC’s workplace law practice group, recently became the group’s co-chair. She advises employers, including municipal governments and businesses of all sizes, on compliance with state and federal employment and labor laws.
Class Note Summer 2025
Kyle Fraser, ’21, recently added the title “sole survivor” to his resume after becoming the latest champion on CBS’s long-running reality-television competition Survivor, which finished airing its 48th season in May. Fraser, an associate at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC in New York, married Maggie Turner, ’20, just weeks after the filming wrapped. He first watched Survivor while quarantining with Turner and her family during the pandemic. He is currently filming Survivor 50, which will air in 2026. Read more about Fraser's experience on Survivor on the Law School website.
Class Note Summer 2025
Michael Melzer joined Nixon Peabody LLP as a partner in the firm’s project finance and public finance practice. His practice focuses on helping clients navigate complex and novel financial structures for public finance matters. In addition to his financing practice, Melzer helps clients with regulatory enforcement actions, interest rate swaps, and other transactions.
Class Note Summer 2025
Azadeh Shahshahani was the spring 2025 Daynard Public Interest Law Fellow at Northeastern Law School. Twice a year, the fellowship program brings nationally recognized public interest leaders to campus, serving as role models for students.
Class Note Summer 2025
Ryan D. Walters was appointed deputy attorney general for legal strategy by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Before assuming this new role, Walters was associate deputy attorney general for civil litigation and previously served in the special litigation division, including as chief. He also has served as an attorney with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an assistant attorney general in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, and a commercial litigator at two international law firms.