Issue: Fall 2022
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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
Erin Dickinson was appointed to serve as a member-at-large on the Summit County Council in Akron, Ohio. She was formerly a business litigation associate at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.
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
The Hon. Marty Lentz was appointed a judge of the New York City Civil Court and is assigned to criminal court. Before her judicial appointment, she was a public defender with the Legal Aid Society—with a specialized practice in diversion and restorative justice at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Class Note Fall 2022
Demian Ahn joined the privacy and cybersecurity practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as of counsel in Washington, DC. He previously served as an assistant US attorney in the District of Columbia for nearly 12 years. Read more about his time at the DOJ in the In Practice section of this issue.
Class Note Fall 2022
Ilona Cohen recently was named chief legal officer and chief policy officer at HackerOne, a cybersecurity and bug bounty platform based in California. Before joining HackerOne, she worked as Aledade’s chief legal officer, chief compliance officer, and corporate secretary for five years.
Class Note Fall 2022
Melissa (Hinds) Root was named managing partner of the Chicago office of Jenner & Block. In this role, she oversees more than 330 lawyers and is co-chair of the firm’s restructuring and bankruptcy practice group. She has been with the firm since 2005.
Class Note Fall 2022
Aaron Cutler was named the practice area leader for the government relations and public affairs practice group at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. He has been a partner at the firm since 2014.