Issue: Summer 2025
134 results
Class Note Summer 2025
Lucy Dougherty is now named general counsel of Eaton Corporation PLC. She joined the company from Polaris Inc., where she was senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary. Before that, she held several leadership roles with General Motors Corp. Earlier in her career, she served as counsel at the US Department of Justice and as associate general counsel and, later, as chief legal officer and counsel to the secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security.
Class Note Summer 2025
Timothy Stubbs co-authored his second book, Emerging Markets Debt Restructuring: Effectively Navigating Local Institutional Frameworks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He is a banking and finance partner at Dentons Europe LLP in the firm’s London office, focusing on cross-border origination and restructuring-stage emerging-market transactions. He has worked on transactions in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and other emerging markets.
Class Note Summer 2025
Kevin O’Gorman was appointed global co-chair of international arbitration at Norton Rose Fulbright. He is based in Houston and Washington, DC, and acts as counsel and arbitrator in international and domestic cases.
Class Note Summer 2025
Daniel J. Bergeson was named one of the leading commercial litigators of 2025 by The Daily Journal. The list recognizes the top litigators nationwide who handle bet-the-company cases. Bergeson founded Bergeson LLP, a California-based law firm with offices in San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles, in 1990 after helping establish the litigation practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He also has co-founded two venture capital firms, Ascolta Ventures LLC and Al Shugart International.
Class Note Summer 2025
Asim Rehman recently published “The NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings: Forty-Five Years of Delivering Impartial Adjudications and Providing Access to Justice” in the Cardozo Law Review. Rehman is the commissioner and chief administrative law judge at the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.
Class Note Summer 2025
Daniel Brubaker was named chief operating officer of the Michigan Supreme Court. Brubaker served as chief commissioner of the court for 13 years, coordinating the flow of cases through the court from filing to disposition. Before that, he served for a decade as a commissioner, reviewing applications for leave to appeal and preparing summary reports for the justices.
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
Matthew Miner was named vice chair and general counsel of KPMG LLP. He also serves on the firm’s US management committee, oversees legal and compliance for the Americas region, is secretary to the KPMG US board of directors and a member of the Americas management committee, and oversees the firm’s governance matters. Miner joined KPMG from Walmart Inc., where he was executive vice president, global chief ethics and compliance officer, and special counsel.
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
Phillip Wilson published his seventh book, The Leader-Shift Playbook: 4 Simple Changes to Score Big and Unleash Your Team’s Potential (Fast Company Press, 2025). Wilson is a national expert on leadership, labor relations, and creating positive workplaces. He is the founder of Approachable Leadership and serves as CEO and general counsel of LRI Consulting Services.