Issue: Summer 2025
134 results
Class Note Summer 2025
Devon Holstad was elevated to shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine PA. Holstad represents clients in complex commercial litigation in a wide range of industries, including media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, technology, and energy. He serves on the board of directors of the American Mock Trial Association and the board of trustees of the Moran Olsson Michigan Innocence Clinic Trust.
Class Note Summer 2025
Poonam Kumar was promoted to partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles. She is a member of the firm’s white collar defense and investigations, litigation, and trial practice groups. Kumar, a former federal prosecutor, focuses her practice on internal, regulatory, and criminal investigations, as well as complex commercial litigation across a wide range of industries.
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
Ray Mangum joined Redgrave LLP in Washington, DC, as a partner and member of the firm’s management committee. He serves as counsel in large-scale litigation, government investigations, and regulatory reviews. Before joining Redgrave, Mangum was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
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
Elizabeth A.N. Haas was appointed senior vice president and general counsel for the Milwaukee Brewers, a Major League Baseball team. Haas’s oversight includes the Brewers and their minor league affiliate, the Carolina Mudcats, as well as the club’s operations in Arizona and the Dominican Republic. Previously, she was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP and national chair of the firm’s antitrust and competition practice group.
Class Note Summer 2025
Sean O’Neill was elected to partner at Cooley LLP. O’Neill is a member of the firm’s emerging companies and venture capital group and represents emerging growth companies at all stages, as well as venture capital firms and strategic investors that finance and acquire these companies. O’Neill’s practice also involves venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate matters.
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
Joseph Kemp was named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 class in the games category. Kemp founded Games that Matter LLC. His debut game, DISBARRED: The Card Game, combines practical legal insights with gameplay. Kemp also is the founder and CEO of JMKemp & Co. LLC, a consultancy for graduate school applicants and startups.
Class Note Summer 2025
Alexis L. Cirel, founding partner of the fertility law group at Warshaw Burstein LLP in New York and a partner in the firm’s matrimonial and family law group, was recently admitted to practice in Michigan. The firm’s fertility law group was formed in response to a surrogacy law in New York that went into effect in 2021. Cirel will expand the scope of the practice and consult on cases related to Michigan’s new surrogacy law, the Family Protection Act, which went into effect in April.