Class notes

76

Philip Reese 66C 76B 76L was recently elected to the National Council of the White House Historical Association in Washington, DC, and re-elected to the board of Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution, where he was a founding director.

80

Glenn Taubman 80L is celebrating 40 years of working at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Springfield, Virginia.

Leah Ward Sears 80L was voted the best mediator/arbitrator by lawyers and law firm administrators who read the Daily Report. Also, her firm, Alterity ADR, an Atlanta-based alternative dispute resolution firm, was named “best of” in its category.

82

Lynn Greenky 82L’s book, When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right was published in May by Brandeis University Press.

84

Michael Kenny 84L, a retired partner at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, has published his debut novel, Life’s Illusions.

87

Richard Litwin 87L of Litwin Law in Atlanta was one of 13 attorneys elected to the American College of Tax Counsel by the College’s Board of Regents in 2022.

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Alan Clarke 89L 89T recently joined Greenspoon Marder’s Entertainment, Media, and Technology Group in Atlanta. He was recently “Top Rated” by Georgia Super Lawyers and was among Georgia Trend’s 2021 “Legal Elite” for entertainment and sports.

90

Cheryl Shaw 84C 90L is a new partner at Parker Poe, part of the expansion of its Atlanta office’s education practice.

91

Sarah H. Lamar 91L, a partner with HunterMaclean’s employment practice group in Savannah, was ranked in Chambers USA 2022 for labor and employment. She was also named a 2022 Georgia Super Lawyer for employment and labor law.

Diane Melnick 91L is a partner in Practus’s Intellectual Property Group. She is based in New York City.

92

Brian T. Casey 92L received the Innovator Award from Georgia State University’s Risk Management Foundation at the Eighth Annual Risk Science & Insurance Leadership Awards.

 95

Lisa Gruber 95L is vice president, tax, at Amgen, after serving as Hasbro’s senior vice president, corporate tax, for the past five years.

97

Laurent Badoux 97L, a shareholder at Buchalter in Scottsdale, was included on AZBigMedia’s list of most admired Arizona business leaders for 2022.

Shawn A. Kachmar 97L, a partner with HunterMaclean’s employment practice group in Savannah, was ranked in Chambers USA 2022 for litigation: general commercial. He was also named a 2022 Georgia Super Lawyer for employment litigation.

William Piercy 97L of Berman Fink Van Horn represented the Atlantabased Love Renaissance record label and its founders in a business divorce case covered by Rolling Stone and others. Read more about the five-day trial at the firm’s blog.

Kimberli C. Withrow 97L, a partner at Atlanta’s Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery, has been recognized as a 2022 Georgia Super Lawyer for family law for the seventh consecutive year.

99

Chad I. Michaelson 99L has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for business litigation.

00

Joel Nichols 00L 00T is interim dean at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis, where he has served as associate dean since 2013. 

05

Nova D. Harb 05L has joined Bass, Berry & Sims as counsel in its Nashville office, part of the firm’s launch of an Investment Funds Practice. 

Chad F. Slieper 05L, director of the Law, Science, and Technology program at Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public Policy received an Academic Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award.

07

As of July 1, Noah S. Robbins 07L is a new partner at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, where he focuses on intellectual property disputes and counseling.

08

Kevin J. Rubin 08L has formed Rubin Family Law, a boutique firm in the Cumberland (Atlanta) area that focuses on all aspects of family law. 

09

Ashley Edwards 09L, a partner with Parker Poe, is a member of the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2022 class of the top 40 business leaders under 40.

James Janaitis 09L, an aviation attorney, joined Baker Donelson’s Corporate Group as a shareholder in the firm’s Washington, DC, office.

Deborah B. Koslin 09L was promoted to partner at Levine Smith Snider & Wilson. She was named Atlanta’s 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for family law arbitration.

10

Rhani Lott Choi 10L has joined the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as education director, a newly created leadership position, effective June 1, 2022.

Ricardo Duarte 10L of The Duarte Firm in Tampa has been recognized as Rising Star in Business Litigation by Florida Super Lawyers Magazine each year since 2016.

Daniel Eric Shulak 04C 10L, an antitrust litigator, was promoted to counsel at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC, in January 2022.

11

Ryan M. Richards 11L has been named a shareholder in Baker Donelson’s Nashville office.

Katherine Silverman 11L of Berman Fink Van Horn represented the Atlantabased Love Renaissance record label and its founders in a business divorce case covered by Rolling Stone and others. Read more about the five-day trial at the firm’s blog.

Daniel Soleimani 11L has joined Butzel as a shareholder in the firm’s Troy, Michigan, office.

12

Michael “Mike” Baranovic Jr. 13L is one of 24 new partners at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He’s based in Washington, DC.

13

Bradley M. Strickland 13L, an associate with Kramon & Graham, has been selected as a member of Business Volunteers Maryland’s GIVE Fellowship Class of 2022.