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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. 

Class Note Summer 2026

Douglas Park published Starting Startups: Integrate People, Product, and Position for Success (Advantage Media, 2026). The book provides insight for startup founders related to team performance, market dynamics, and competitive strategy.

Class Note Summer 2026

Andrea P. Clark recently joined River Partners, a nonprofit restoring riverways and floodplains, as its senior director of strategy and risk management. Previously, Clark was a partner in the water practice group at Downey Brand LLP in Sacramento, California, where she served as general counsel to a variety of public agencies and advised clients on water rights, floodplain management, and public agency law.

Class Note Summer 2026

William “Bill” Quick opened a boutique practice, Outside Inside Counsel LLC, to serve family offices with growing portfolios. He has nearly 30 years of experience managing the corporate portfolios of family offices and business enterprises that have an array of corporate, finance, transactional, and related legal needs, including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, asset and equity purchases and sales, security law and corporate transparency act compliance, strategic alliances and joint ventures, and operational exigencies.

Class Note Summer 2026

Azadeh N. Shahshahani served as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School in fall 2025. The fellowship program brings outstanding public interest attorneys to Harvard Law School to counsel students about careers in public service.