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Class Note Summer 2026

Barbara Russell returned to Littler Mendelson PC as a shareholder in its San Francisco office. She most recently served as the global director of employee relations at a global technology company and previously held senior in-house roles in the aviation and environmental services sectors.

Class Note Summer 2026

Jennifer Scheller Neumann joined Holland & Hart LLP as counsel in the firm’s energy, environment, and natural resources group. She previously served in the US Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division for 20 years. Read more about Neumann’s practice.

Class Note Summer 2026

Christopher L. Wendt was appointed as inaugural chair of the new Minnesota State Board of Civil Legal Aid by Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. Read more about his work.

Class Note Summer 2026

Todd Young is now chief financial officer (CFO) at Acadia Healthcare. He previously was CFO at Elanco Animal Health Inc., which he joined in 2018 as the company separated from Eli Lilly and Company. Before Elanco, Young served as CFO of Acadia Pharmaceuticals, where he worked on the company’s financial processes and commercial pricing strategy.

Class Note Summer 2026

Christina Dixon, founder of Aecus Law, a third-party neutral employment investigation firm, received the Sacramento Business Journal’s 2025 Fastest Growing Company award and received recognition in the Journal’s Women Who Mean Business category. In addition, she was included in the $1-2 million revenue category for Enterprising Women’s 2025 Enterprising Women of the Year event.

Class Note Summer 2026

Jay Harrington has joined Latitude Legal, a legal talent company, as the leader and founding partner of a new regional corporate office in Detroit. In this role, Harrington will connect former Big Law attorneys and experienced in-house counsel to corporate legal departments and law firms for contract and interim engagements.

Class Note Summer 2026

Brian C. Bernhardt is a member of the 2026 class of Leadership Greensboro, a nine-month program developed by the Chamber of Commerce in Greensboro, North Carolina, that works toward positive change in the region. Bernhardt is a partner in the taxation and wealth planning department of Fox Rothschild LLP.

Class Note Summer 2026

Thomas Hughes joined Venable LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice group in Chicago. He has spent his legal career advising public and private companies, private equity firms, sovereign funds, family offices, and independent sponsors on complex US and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and strategic investments.

Class Note Summer 2026

Michael Serafini was promoted to partner at Mayer Brown. He represents clients in a variety of industries in complex corporate transactions, with a focus on mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, and divestitures and equity investments. Serafini also has experience structuring joint ventures, including for private equity real estate clients.

Class Note Summer 2026

Richard A. Bierschbach has become the 14th president of Wayne State University after serving as the university’s interim president since September 2025. Prior to his appointment, he was dean of the Wayne State Law School for eight years. Bierschbach is a scholar and educator with expertise in criminal law and procedure, administrative law and regulation, and corporate governance.