Climbing Above the Culture Clash

services for survivors of domestic violence and
their children.
William Rogers joined Day Pitney LLP as
partner.
Eric Werner joined Schnader Harrison Segal &
Lewis LLP.
1987
Thomas Gunning, vice president and general
counsel of EMD Serono, was chosen as one of
PharmaVOICE Magazine’s 100 most inspiring
leaders of 2009.
Kenneth Parsigian, a partner in Goodwin
Procter’s litigation department and chair of
its pro bono committee, was honored by the
American Bar Association with the John Minor
Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism
Award.
1988
Douglas S. Brown, senior vice president
and general counsel of UMass Memorial
Healthcare, received the Outstanding In-House
Counsel Award for distinguished service as an
attorney employed in a legal role at a nonprofit
organization from the Nonprofit Organizations
Committee of the American Bar Association
Section of Business Law.
Risa (Kane) Gold wrote New York Civil Appellate
Practice, 2d, a guide on taking and perfecting
an appeal in New York state. She has served
as a principal court attorney at the Appellate
Division, First Judicial Department since 1990.
Ilan S. Nissan was named O’Melveny & Myers
LLP’s M&A practice group co-chair.
Jeffrey Skerry practices in a small Boston office
representing small businesses, lenders, trusts
and individuals.
Steven Slutsky has spent more than a decade
advising boards of directors and C-suite
executives on executive and directors’
compensation.
Susan Stenger is a partner at Burns & Levinson
LLP in Boston, which covers appellate practice,
probate litigation and entertainment litigation.
1989
Michael Conley was named the deputy solicitor in
the appellate group of the Securities and Exchange
Commission’s Office of the General Counsel.
Steven Meyer became board-certified in
business litigation by the Florida Bar. He is also
board-certified as a civil trial advocate by the
National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a sole
practitioner in Boca Raton.
1990
Richard Fabian was promoted to senior vice
president, general counsel and director of
litigation at RiverStone Resources.
1989
Dan Offner was selected to lead Nixon Peabody
LLP’s newly launched intellectual property
transactions group.
1991
Edward J. Kelly joined the firm of United
Trademark & Patent Services as its chief
international operations officer.
Anu Mullikin (’96 Tax, ’91 J.D.), of Devine,
Millimet & Branch PA in Manchester, N.H.,
was elected by The New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation to its statewide board of directors.
Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck has joined Battery
Ventures, a venture capital and private equity
firm focused on investing in technology and
innovation worldwide, as general counsel in the
firm’s Waltham office.
1992
Michael Dana Rosen joined Boston firm
Ruberto, Israel & Weiner as a shareholder.
1993
Sarah (Clark) Baskin practices employment and
employee benefits litigation with the law firm
Jackson Lewis LLP.
Patricia Dilley received the Rockefeller
Innovation Award for her proposals on Social
Security.
Chance Patterson was appointed vice president
of International Communications of Discovery
Networks International.
David P. Spada married Claudia DiNitto in
Positano, Italy; they live in Auburndale, and are
expecting their first child.
Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, partner at Quarles
& Brady LLP in Chicago, was named in The Best
Lawyers in America 2010.
1994
Jay Heimbach joined President Obama’s
Legislative Affairs Team.
Melanie Jacobs was awarded tenure at MSU
College of Law. She also spent three weeks in
Shanghai and Beijing and lectured at Fudan
University in Shanghai. While in China, her
boyfriend, Shane Broyles, proposed to her while
they were at the Great Wall. They will marry
March 14 in New York City.
Ted Lustig was named partner at Seyfarth Shaw
LLP.
1995
Alka Bahal, partner and co-chair of the
corporate immigration practice group at Fox
Rothschild LLP in Roseland, N.J., was named in
the 2009 “40 Under 40” list by New Jersey Law
Journal.
Greg Ewing published “Court Awards
$400,000 to Patient for Physician’s Refusal
to Provide Sign Language Interpreter” in the
May 2009 Healthcare Litigation and Liability, a
publication of the American Health Lawyers
Association.
Annapoorni Sankaran, a shareholder in the
Boston office of the international law firm
Greenberg Traurig LLP, was honored with the
AD Club of Boston’s Rosoff Mentor Award
for her promotion of diversity within the law
community at large.
1996
Grant Buerstetta joined Blank Rome LLP as
partner.
David Runck was named partner at Fafinski
Mark & Johnson PA, a Minnesota-based law
firm.
Joe Salama runs his own mediation practice,
specializing in facilitative mediation. He was
recently featured on Comcast community
television in San Jose, and does speaking
engagements on mediation and conflict
management throughout Northern California.
1997
Christopher Joralemon joined Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher LLP as partner.
Liana Moore was named in the 2009 “40 Under
40” list by the Worcester Business Journal Online.
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