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Class Note Summer 2025

Kurtis T. Wilder, a shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit and former Michigan Supreme Court justice, was appointed to the board of directors of Hastings Insurance. He also serves as a mediator and arbitrator with New Era ADR, a digital advanced dispute resolution platform. In addition, he is chair-elect of the board of directors of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan and will become chair in September.

Class Note Summer 2025

Nicole Snyder was appointed chief operating officer at Holland & Hart LLP, where she oversees the leadership and strategic oversight of the firm’s operational and administrative functions, including financial management, enterprise risk, and department operational teams. Snyder is based in Boise, Idaho.

Class Note Summer 2025

Rocco Testani was named US general counsel at Eversheds Sutherland, where he is a partner in the firm’s litigation practice group and most recently served as the firm’s co-head of global litigation. Testani focuses his practice on class actions, commercial litigation, dispute management, and real estate disputes. Testani also has served as outside general counsel to two large public school districts and as a special assistant attorney general. Additionally, he works on civil justice reform in Georgia, was a leader in establishing the statewide business court, and chairs the amicus curiae committee of Georgians for Lawsuit Reform.

Class Note Summer 2025

Eric Gressman joined Fowler White Burnett PA as a shareholder. His litigation practice focuses on medical malpractice, property and casualty insurance defense, wrongful death, products liability, and civil rights. Before joining Fowler White, Gressman held leadership positions at several law firms; he also dedicated more than 35 years to the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office, where he served as chief of the Torts Section. Gressman has been an adjunct law professor at the University of Miami for more than a decade, teaching courses in legal writing, appellate practice, pretrial civil litigation, and oral advocacy. 

Class Note Summer 2025

Jacob Mendoza joined Rimon Law as a partner in the firm’s global private credit practice. Mendoza focuses on corporate finance and the representation of clients in a range of financing transactions. Mendoza previously was of counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Faegre, Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP and was an associate at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC.

Class Note Summer 2025

Barron F. Wallace, a partner at Bracewell LLP in Houston, was selected to serve a three-year term on the firm’s management committee. Wallace focuses his practice on project finance conduit transactions involving state agencies, cities, school districts and higher education, airports, housing, industrial development, and other authorities and organizations. In June 2024, he completed a five-year term as chairman of the Houston Parks Board; he is a member of the board of directors of the Discovery Green-Downtown Park Corporation and the Houston Social Justice Fund.

Class Note Summer 2025

Stephen Hrones recently published his first novel, Hypnosis on Trial: The Anatomy of a Murder Case (Small Batch Books, 2024). Hrones, who spent his career as a criminal defense attorney, previously published a number of nonfiction books on criminal law. 

Class Note Summer 2025

Scott Delacourt was appointed chief of staff for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He joins the FCC from Wiley Rein LLP, where he was a partner and chair of the wireless practice group. Earlier, Delacourt served in leadership positions at the FCC, including deputy bureau chief and chief of staff of the wireless bureau, senior counsel in the office of general counsel, and legal adviser to the wireless bureau chief.

Class Note Summer 2025

Samuel Dimon received the annual Community Service Award from the YMCA in Rye, New York. He was the founding board chair of the International Justice Mission in Washington, DC, an anti-trafficking, anti-oppression organization; founded and serves on the board of Grove Park Renewal, an affordable housing organization in Atlanta; and was on the board of A House on Beekman, an early childhood education and afterschool program in the South Bronx. Dimon also served on the board of Sanctuary for Families, a New York City organization that fights domestic violence and human trafficking, and was an active member of Rye Presbyterian Church. He is the current board chair of Meals on Main Street in Port Chester, New York.

Class Note Summer 2025

Rhonda Stowers was appointed partner at Plunkett Cooney in Flint, Michigan, where she maintains a litigation practice that includes general and commercial liability claims, governmental law, transportation law, and real estate. She also advises and defends municipalities on issues such as the Freedom of Information Act, the Open Meetings Act, federal and state constitutions, civil rights, cannabis, zoning, charter amendments, ordinance drafting, and employment-related matters.