Issue: Fall 2022
176 results
Class Note
Steven Hanton, ’12: Using a Big Law Platform to Give Back
Marathon runner by morning, structured finance attorney by day, and community organizer by night, Steven Hanton, ’12, has time for it all—and then some.
Class Note
Dana Schmitt, ’95: Building a League of Her Own
Dana Schmitt, ’95, has had a passion for baseball ever since she and her father were invited to a Detroit Tigers game by a family friend. Thirty years later, she’s still wearing her baseball cap—but now she wears it as the president of the United Shore Professional Baseball League, the first professional developmental baseball league in Metro Detroit.
Class Note Fall 2022
Khalilah Spencer, ’01: Fighting for Voting Rights
As president of Promote the Vote 2022, Khalilah Spencer, ’01, is leading the campaign for an amendment to Michigan’s state constitution that would expand voting rights.
Class Note Fall 2022
Jesse Medlong, ’13: Addressing Climate Change across Borders and Sectors
It was only as he sat in Paris at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties that Jesse Medlong realized he might be an environmental lawyer.
In Memoriam Fall 2022
Rep. John E. Porter, ’61
Rep. John E. Porter, ’61, a Republican who served for more than two decades in the US House of Representatives as the representative for Illinois’s 10th congressional district, died on June 3, 2022. He was 87.
Class Note Fall 2022
Brian Mulcahy joined BakerHostetler as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions with a particular emphasis on private equity. Before this position, he was a partner with Jones Day for 20 years.
Class Note Fall 2022
Samir Parikh, a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, was invited to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights regarding mass tort bankruptcies. In addition, he has published several recent articles, including “Financial Disequilibrium” in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and “Scarlet-Lettered Bankruptcy: A Public Benefit Proposal for Mass Tort Villains” in the Northwestern University Law Review.
Class Note Fall 2022
Daniel J. Doron joined national employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC as a principal in New York. He was previously a partner with McDermott Will & Emery, where he led the firm’s transactional employment and executive contracts practice. He focuses his practice on representing private equity firms and strategic acquirers in connection with the labor and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Class Note Fall 2022
Shermin Kruse was featured in Formidable Women Magazine for her recent TEDx talk on negotiating through cognitive empathy. She is a professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, where she teaches courses on empathy, negotiation, leadership, and global transactions.
Class Note Fall 2022
Monalisa Dimalanta, LLM, was hired as chief legal and compliance officer at AboitizPower, a leading energy corporation in the Philippines. She previously served as the chairperson for the country’s National Renewable Energy Board.