Issue: Summer 2025
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Class Note Summer 2025
Robert Manhas became a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe LLP in Washington, DC. He is an appellate litigator with a focus on patent law and administrative law and managing appeals across the technology and biotechnology sectors. Manhas also serves as vice chair of the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s administrative law committee and maintains an active pro bono practice.
Class Note Summer 2025
Ian Labitue was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Affordable Housing Trust (AHT) for Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio. He has been involved with AHT for six years, including serving as board vice chair and chair of the emerging developers accelerator program committee. Labitue is an attorney with Ice Miller LLP, where he specializes in public affairs and economic development.
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
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
Dennis Daniels was appointed partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. He is a litigator and trial lawyer who defends clients in high-profile and high-exposure cases in Texas, California, and throughout the US. Before joining Bradley, Daniels practiced at Fee, Smith, & Sharp LLP.
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
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.
Class Note Summer 2025
Kenneth Dintzer joined Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC, as a partner in the firm’s government contracts, antitrust and competition, and litigation groups. He spent more than 30 years at the US Department of Justice (DOJ), serving attorneys general during six presidential administrations; most recently, he was deputy branch director in the National Courts Section of the Civil Division and senior trial counsel in the Antitrust Division. He also taught for more than 20 years at the DOJ’s training center at the University of South Carolina.
Class Note Summer 2025
Jeffrey H. Smith, senior counsel for the national security and government contracts practice at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Law Journal. Smith has been influential in the field of national security law for more than 50 years. He served at the Pentagon and the US Department of State; he also was general counsel for the US Senate Committee on Armed Services and for the Central Intelligence Agency.