Issue: Summer 2025
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Class Note Summer 2025
John M. Barr Sr. retired in January. Most recently, he was the principal of Barr Anhut & Associates PC, where he focused on municipal law, estate planning and probate, real estate, and corporate law. He also served as city attorney for Ypsilanti, Michigan, for 43 years. An avid traveler throughout his career, Barr and his wife, Marlene, have boated on the Great Lakes; biked the US, New Zealand, and Europe; downhill skied in the US and Europe; and visited all seven continents and 51 countries.
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
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.
Class Note Summer 2025
Robert Hirshon was elected president of the board of the Maine Jewish Museum and to the board of directors of Pine Tree Legal Aid. Hirshon, who recently retired as the Frank G. Millard Professor from Practice at Michigan Law, spent 30 years in private practice and served as president of the American Bar Association before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 2009. He is the CEO of the Arthur B. Wein Charitable Foundation and counsel at Verrill Dana LLP.
Class Note Summer 2025
Richard Epling recently published “Where Do We Go After Purdue Pharma?” in the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Practice. Epling was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP for more than two decades before his retirement from the firm in 2016. He continues to practice as a mediator for bankruptcy and complex commercial disputes, with a focus on domestic and cross-border bankruptcies and out-of-court financial restructurings.
Class Note Summer 2025
Julian Izbiky retired from the active practice of law on August 1, 2024. After spending eight years in downtown Denver law firms doing commercial litigation, he started a law firm in Denver to focus on representing small businesses. That firm eventually grew to four attorneys and two paralegals. He spent the last three years of his career as a partner at Fortis Law Partners. For the last thirty years of his career, his practice was focused on the purchase and sale of small and medium-sized businesses.
Class Note Summer 2025
John I. Tsiros retired in December 2024 after practicing plaintiff’s personal injury law for more than 40 years at Hurlburt, Tsiros & Allweil PC in Saginaw, Michigan. Over the course of his career, Tsiros secured tens of millions of dollars in jury verdicts in personal injury cases, settlements in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases, and awards in social security cases.
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
Nancy King retired from Vanderbilt Law School after serving as the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor of Law from 2003 to 2024. She joined the faculty in 1991 and was the associate dean of research and faculty development from 1999 to 2001. During her time at Vanderbilt, she received awards for teaching, research, and service. King has authored or co-authored two leading multivolume treatises on criminal procedure, a leading criminal procedure casebook, dozens of articles and book chapters, and several books. She is an associate reporter for, and former member of, the advisory committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and a member of the American Law Institute.
Class Note Summer 2025
Deborah “Debbie” Levy has published three new books for children and young adults: A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight Over Science in Schools (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2025); Photo Ark 1-2-3: An Animal Counting Book in Poetry and Pictures (National Geographic Kids, 2025); and The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing After World War II (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2025). Levy’s previous books have made the New York Times bestseller list and earned numerous awards, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award.