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Class Note Winter 2025

Jacob S. Sherkow was named the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, where he has been teaching since 2020. He also serves as a professor of medicine at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and as a professor at the European Union Center, and he is an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. Sherkow’s research focuses on intellectual property, regulation, and bioethics of advanced biotechnologies.

Class Note Winter 2025

Kathryn R.L. Rand, visiting professor at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and co-director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law & Policy, co-authored the third edition of Indian Gaming Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2025). Indian Gaming Law and Policy is the leading overview of the law and policy shaping the tribal gaming industry. The third edition features comprehensive revisions and updates, including recent case law and new federal regulations as well as new content on issues such as sports betting, mobile wagering, and trends in tribal-state compacting.

Class Note Winter 2025

Jill Abrams joined Crowell & Moring LLP in the firm’s health care group. Before joining Crowell, Abrams spent more than two decades at the US Department of Health and Human Services, most recently as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, where she advised on Medicare program integrity issues with a particular focus on Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D.

Class Note Winter 2025

Damion Frasier was appointed to the Michigan Wildlife Council for a four-year term by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. He is the owner and operator of Au Sable Riverview Resort and a managing partner at Shedd Frasier PLC.

Class Note Winter 2025

Michael R. Cavanaugh co-founded and serves as a managing partner of Atlas Resolution Partners, a specialized advisory and asset management firm. He also is the chief executive officer and director of Range Impact, a public impact investing company focused on acquiring, reclaiming, and repurposing former coal mines throughout Appalachia.

Class Note Winter 2025

Thomas B. Cochrane received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Albion College. The award recognized, among other accomplishments, his successful litigation to compel the State of Ohio to end sexual orientation discrimination in its civil service and his contributions to drafting a city ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in Westerville, Ohio. As an undergraduate at Albion College, Cochrane helped lead the student movement advocating for divestment from corporations operating under apartheid in South Africa. After graduation, he moved to South Africa to join the anti-apartheid liberation struggle, an experience that inspired him to pursue a legal career. Cochrane has practiced union-side labor relations law for 29 years and currently serves as senior labor relations counsel with the Air Line Pilots Association International, AFL-CIO.

Class Note Winter 2025

Michael J. Mueller, partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, was elected as a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers by its board of directors, in recognition of his sustained contributions to the field. In addition to his commercial litigation practice, Mueller has been litigating and trying labor and employment disputes since 1987. He has published and spoken extensively on labor and employment topics, particularly on the intersection of labor and employment law with antitrust and RICO claims, as well as litigation and trial of wage-hour claims.

Class Note Winter 2025

Steven Bressler joined Democracy Forward as a senior legal adviser. Previously, he was deputy general counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he led all appellate, amicus, and defensive litigation work, including a successful defense of the agency’s funding statute in the US Supreme Court, and supervised responses to congressional oversight. Bressler previously served at the US Department of Justice in a variety of roles, including senior trial counsel in the Federal Programs Branch and chief of staff in the Office of Legal Policy. He also was detailed to President Obama’s White House Counsel’s Office.

Class Note Winter 2025

Ann-Marie Anderson joined Klinedinst PC as senior counsel. She has served as lead counsel in complex transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters and represented a wide range of publicly-traded, privately-held, and government entities across industries in her 30 years of practice. She speaks annually at the State Bar of Arizona Convention and other legal, technology, and academic organizations.

Class Note Winter 2025

Joel Hassman Samuels was named executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Miami. He has more than 20 years of experience in higher education and served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina for the last five years.