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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. 38 | Boston University School of Law | www.bu.edu/law
1998 Kimberly Atkins received her Master’s Degree in journalism from Columbia University, and is a journalist in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Lawyers USA, where she covers the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress and federal agencies. Benjamin Bejar and Mary (Osterbauer) Bejar recently celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary. Benjamin is assistant county attorney with the Rice County Attorney’s Office in Faribault, Minn. Mary continues her legal consulting work from home while caring for their three boys: Jacob, Samuel and their newest addition, Maxwell Eliot. Gregory Iskander is with Littler Mendelson in California, where in addition to employment discrimination and wage and hour litigation, Greg continues to focus on privacy and information security, as well as corporate and government investigations. Erica McCregor was named counsel at Tucker Ellis & West LLP in the firm’s Cleveland office. Jung H. Park was promoted to partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley, a Redwood City, Calif., firm. William L. Ryan was named in New Jersey Monthly’s 2008 “Super Lawyers and Rising Stars” list. Ryan, a partner in the Haddonfield, N.J., office of Archer & Greiner PC, was recognized in the practice area of construction litigation. 1999 Joshua Bish was named partner at Reed Smith LLP. Eric Hurwitz was named partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP. Douglas Marrano was named partner at Donovan Hatem LLP in Boston and New York City, and is relocating to New York to become resident partner. New England Super Lawyers & Rising Stars Magazine named him to its 2008 “New England Rising Stars” list. David Morris is group corporate counsel at TripAdvisor LLC in Newton. Courtney Worcester was elected of counsel at Pepper Hamilton. 2000 Aaron Adams was named partner at Barnes & Thornburg. Oral Katz was named partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP. Ethan Kominsky was elected to the board of directors of the Palm Beach County Justice Association, of which he has been a member for more than three years. 2002 Kathryn Colson joined TitleVest as managing director of business development. Taruna Garg, an associate at Murtha Cullina LLP, was named 2009 “Unsung Heroine for Brookline” by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Ruth Miller is with the Drug Enforcement Administration, USDOJ, in Arlington, Va., as attorney in the Diversion and Regulatory Policy Section, Office of Chief Counsel. She married Stephen Clermont last year in a celebration joined by Ruth’s classmates Laura Maechtlen and Kathleen Romanow. 2003 John J. Quick, an associate of the law firm of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske P.L. in Miami, was selected for the second consecutive year as a “Top Up and Comer” in Florida Trend’s annual “Legal Elite” publication. He was also appointed chair of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida’s young professional group, the Tropical Pioneers (Tropees). 2004 Brandy Karl and Tom O’Grady welcomed Allegra Faye O’Grady in Santa Clara, Calif. 2005 Dana R. Bucin was named in the “Hartford 40 Under 40” list by the Hartford Business Journal. 2006 Dena D. Fazio, an associate at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) professional accreditation. 2007 Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) is in Ernst & Young’s transaction advisory services in Boston. 2008 Tal Dibner was named business group associate at Bowditch Dewey LLP. American Law Program 1999 Pascal Marmier has been appointed director and consul of Swissnex in Boston. 2000 Ping Chiang is with NVIDIA Corporation in Taipei. 2001 Stephanie Chalberg and her husband, Tom, welcomed Annika. Chen Chi Huang is in Taipei with L&P Attorneysat-Law. Cynthia Kalathas is head of the New York representative office of Arendt & Medernach LLC. Tobias Wintermantel and his wife, Aila, welcomed Julias Gerhard. Tobias is an associate with Allen & Overy in Frankfurt. 2002 Vera Caimo is an associate with Claeys & Engels in Brussels. Juliana Calil was promoted to attorney in the Internet group at Disney, where she will work with the U.S. technology and international teams. Divya George is with the legal department at AT&T. Julio Quiroga is president of his own sports business company in Buenos Aires, TMC (Talent Management Co. S.A.). He and his wife, Magdalena, welcomed Belisario. 2003 David Quinke is an associate with Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart. Veronica Rojas is litigation coordinator with Knoblock & Coxhead in Miami and has begun her M.B.A. studies in international business. Daniela Stagel is living in Duesseldorf and is Fall 2009 | The Record | 39
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