Class Notes Display

1970 - 1979

1979:

Beth Sprecher Brooks
was promoted to general counsel and continuing as vice president at Inland Real Estate Corporation in Oak Brook, IL. (8.9.06)

Andrew David
was hired as executive director of the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation in Chicago. (5.9.07)
Related Links: Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation

Richard H. Donohue
was among the top ten of Illinois’ “Top 100 Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Jeffrey Levin
joined Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. as a partner. (1.26.09)

Hon. Algenon Marbley
a U.S. District Judge in Ohio, was named to a nine-year term on the board of trustees of the Ohio State University. (7.25.07)

Catherine Meyer
counsel of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, will be speaking at the Knowledge Congress' upcoming teleconference, Identity Theft: Final Rules & the Impact on Financial Institutions and Creditors. (5.07.08)

Bess Schenkier
is a staff attorney at the Environmental Law Program of the Chicago Legal Clinic due funding provided by a recent foundation grant. (1.24.07)

Charles Winkler
joined Hudson Bay Capital Management LP. (1.23.08)

Charles Winkler
married Darlene Desiree Hansen on March 28, 2009 (4-1-09).

1978:

Craig Caesar
was inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America (6-5-09).

Craig Caesar
was named one of The Best Lawyers in America 2009. (12.18.08)

William Clayton
William R. Clayton, a Principal Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig , P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, FL was selected "Most Effective Lawyers 2008," Complex Business Litigation Finalist, South Florida Daily Business Review, 2008. In 2008, he was also named a "Top Attorney in Business Litigation" in the U.S., by Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers magazine and chosen as a "Super Lawyer" in Florida (top 5% of Florida lawyers) by Super Lawyers magazine. He resides in Plantation, Florida, and has four children. (12.29.08)

William R. Clayton
was certified as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum (8-12-09).

Dennis Daugaard
delivered the winter commencement address to the University of South Dakota students. (1.23.08)

Arthur Don
named a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig (10.15.09).

Jim Epstein
is the President of the Illinois Judges Association 2008-2009. (7.31.08)

R. Mark Halligan
was recognized by Chambers USA as one of America's leading lawyers for business as a leader in his field of intellectual property (7-13-09).

Mark Halligan
joined Nixon Peabody as a partner in their intellectual property department. (3.17.09)

Emmitt House
was named a director of Williams Pipeline Partners LP. (3.17.08)

Stephen Kaufmann
is managing the Springfield office of HeplerBroom. (12.17.08)

Andrea Kramer
was recently named among the 50 most influential women lawyers by National Law Journal. (7.24.07)

Frances Krasnow
joined the firm Fischel & Kahn, LTD. (2.04.09)

Ben Palen, Jr.
serves as the general manager of a Denver-based construction company, Pull Pans, LLC. (7.24.07)
Related Links: Pull Pans, LLC

Fred Pressley, Jr.
was recently selected by peers and through the independent research of the publishers of Law & Politics and Cincinnati Magazine for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers 2008. (1.24.08)

Audrey Rubin
was interviewed about her law career and how performing on stage in musicals translates to her career in litigation. (8.14.06)
Related Links: Chicago Tribune

Sander Schwartz
was named president of international production and head of the global production group of Sony Pictures Television International, headquartered in London. (7.24.07)

Steven Weinstein
the president of Altair Advisers, was named one of Chicago's top ten independent financial advisers by Chicago Magazine. (5.07.08)

1977:

Nicole Dillingham
was named board of directors of Otsego 2000, a nonprofit organization committed to preserving and protecting the Otsego Lake region. (5.07.08)

Amy Glittler
a partner with law firm Jackson Lewis, who will head its new Phoenix office. (12.05.07)

Michael B. Hyman
has been elected and installed as Treasurer of the Illinois Judges Association (6-10-09).

Paula Jacobi
joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner. (10.09.08)

David Lee
was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. (10.09.08)

Phil Oretsky
has retired after 26 years of service as an FBI Special Agent. Phil served in six locations during his career; Chicago, Seattle, Anchorage, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Miami. He had the opportunity to work on numerous high profile FBI cases to include the Green River homicides, the Unibomb investigation, the Atlanta/Olympics bombings, and the background investigations on numerous judicial and cabinet level appointments He was on the FBI's joint counter-terrorism task force at the time of the 9/11 tragedy, and completed his career assigned to a public corruption squad in Illinois. Phil recently opened his own private detective office in downtown Chicago. (7.31.08)

Carter Phillips
managing partner of Sidley Austin's Washington, D.C. office, was quoted in the ABA Journal about his involvement in Northwestern Law School's Supreme Court litigation clinic. (3.17.08)

Carter G. Phillips
was presented the first Lewis F. Powell Award for Business Advocacy at the National Chamber Litigation Center’s (NCLC) 30th anniversary gala. He was chosen for this honor because of his commitment to improving the litigation environment for the business community, and for his outstanding record of arguing a wide variety of business cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. (9.14.07)

Jeffrey Taylor
appeared on the Crain’s Chicago Business list of “Who’s Who in Chicago Business 2006” in the industry of banking. (10.6.06)

Walter C. Tuthill
was included on the 2007 Chambers List of attorneys. (7.25.07)

Walter C. Tuthill
was recognized for legal excellence in the 2007 Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities Law, a prestigious list published in Corporate Counsel Magazine. (9.14.07)

Walter C. Tuthill
was named a “Delaware Super Lawyer” by the publication Law and Business Media for Corporate/M&A, Alternative Entities. (7.25.07)

Lawrence Wojcik
is the chair of the Illinois CPA Society 2006-2007 and also chair’s DLA Piper’s Juvenile Justice pro bono project. (4.3.07)

1976:

Sandra Anderson
Appointed to the Ohio University Board.

Michael Cornicelli
was appointed executive vice president of The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago. (1.23.08)

Young Kim
has accepted an appointment as Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he will teach courses in Advanced Contracts, Business Transactions, Government Regulation of Business and International Business Transactions next academic year. Last year, he completed a year’s study at the London School of Economics and Political Science leading to a MSc in Political Theory with Merit degree. While studying at the LSE, he was awarded a five-year appointment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in two areas of expertise: corporate law, and jurisprudence and constitutional law theory. In turning to the academy, Young is pursuing certain academic and research interests which lie in the intersecting area of law, morality and politics. Works in progress include a booklength manuscript “Justice: Contemporary Disputes,” as well as six articles currently under review by various scholarly journals. (5.07.08)

Steve Morgan
was named an independent director on China Sunergy’s board of directors. (8.01.08)

Arthur Muir
was named a partner and member of McGuire Woods LLP’s capital markets practice. (5.9.07)

John Ongman
joined the Washington, D.C. office of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider as partner. (10.6.06)

Marlin Osthus
was appointed deputy director in the Minneapolis office of the National Labor Relations Board. (9.5.06)

Romeo R. Robiso
recently opened his new firm, Robiso & Associates Law Office which employs two junior associates and one U.S.-based partner. He teaches corporate law at MLQ University, Manila, Philippines since 1980, as well as shorter stints at the University of the East, Far Eastern University and Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Also, he is a lecturer in the annual bar review classes and mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) seminars in the Metropolitan Manila Area. (2.12.07)

Gary M. Ropski
was named as a 2007 “Illinois Super Lawyer” for Intellectual Property. (1.24.07) He was also among the top ten of Illinois’ “Top 100 Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Gary Ropski
was named an “Illinois Super Lawyer” for 2008. (1.24.08)

Gary Ropski
President of intellectual property law firm Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, was named to its board of directors for 2008. (1.24.08)

Gary Ropski
was recognized as a leading lawyer in his field. (7.31.08)

Gary Ropski
was named #6 among the Top Ten Business Litigators in Illinois and among the Top Ten Business Lawyers in Illinois for 2009, based on surveys conducted by Leading Lawyers Network and published in the January 2009 Business Edition of Leading Lawyers Network Magazine. (2.05.09)

David Williams Russell
was included in the 2008 edition of Who's Who in America. (3.19.08)

Cheryl Tritt
a partner with Washington, D.C. firm Morrison & Foerster, was profiled as one of the capitol’s top ten communications attorneys in Legal Times. (7.24.07)

1975:

Nancy Pacher
principal, president and chief operating officer of U.S. Equities Realty, interviewed about her career. (10.6.06)
Related Links: Chicago Tribune

Jill Berkeley
was named among the “Top 50 Women Illinois Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Hon. Robert Lorz
associate justice on the Illinois Supreme Court, was newly appointed to the Second Subcircuit seat with his term ending on December 1, 2008. (7.25.07)

Debra Joan Schnebel
was appointed senior vice president and head of the Anchorage, Alaska office of Scott Balice Strategies, a financial advisory firm. (10.6.06)

Thomas M. White
was hired by Chicago financial service law firm Chapman and Cutler as a partner. (12.5.06)

1974:

Charles Brodbeck
was named a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer" in 2008. (7.31.08)

Roger J. Dennis
was named the founding dean of Drexel University’s College of Law. (4.3.07)

Ed Duncan
is the author of "Ohio Insurance Coverage" published by Thomson West as part of its Ohio Handbook Series. (10.09.08)

Gail Durham Hasbrouck
was profiled in the February issue of Chicago Hospital News. (5.9.07)
Related Links: Chicago Hospital News

Steve Kowal
has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only to those lawyers recognized to have mastered the art of trial advocacy and who are considered to be the best of the trial bar. Steve is the head of the White Collar Criminal Defense and Corporate Investigations practice group in the law firm of Bell Boyd & Lloyd in Chicago. (10.24.07)

Peter R. Meyers
was named as an Illinois Super Lawyer for the second year in a row in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. (5.9.07)

Wrede H. Smith
was named a Super Lawyer in the third annual edition of Wisconsin Super Lawyers. (12.05.07)

Harvey Sorenson
has become chairman of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce. (1.24.08)

Mark Verwys
was named by BTI Consulting Group to its 2009 Client Service All-Star Team. (2.16.09)

1973:

Gerald Buchwald
was interviewed about his career and what motivated him to become a judge. (1.23.08)

Curtis DeClue
recently returned from 18 months in Cairo, Egypt, where he served as the Principal Court Management Consultant for a U.S. Agency for International Development project to reform the Egyptian court system. Prior to that engagement, he served on another USAID project in Serbia helping to organize its internal war crimes tribunal, the “Special Court for Organized Crime & War Crimes”. (2.12.07)

Robert Alan Garrett
an attorney at firm Arnold & Potter and go-to lawyer for Major League Baseball's copyright issues, was profiled in the Legal Times as part of an article about specialists in copyright and trademark laws. (5.07.08)

Jerry Grandey
was profiled in Globe and Mail about the challenges he faces as chief executive officer of Cameco Corp., the world's largest producer of uranium, headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada. (5.07.08)

Sidney Jones
will deliver a lecture titled "Wouldn't He Be Amazed?" as part of the John C. Pace Symposium Series Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the University of West Florida on January 17, 2009. (12.29.08)

J. Landis (Lanny) Martin
has been recognized through the naming of the Lanny and Sharon Martin Foundry Rehearsal Center at the Central City Opera. The naming of the rehearsal center is in honor of the couple’s contributions to the organization. (9.13.07)

Edward Mueller
serves on the Maine Township District 207 School Board and is the past President. He has four children, the two oldest are at the University of Illinois School of Engineering, the third will attend St. Norbert College in the fall and the forth is a freshman at Maine South in Park Ridge, Illinois. (4.3.07)

Jeanne Scott
was profiled in the State Journal-Register as the U.S. District judge in central Illinois in connection to a discrimination case she is ruling on. (2.12.07)
Related Links: Northwestern University News

Nina G. Stillman
was named among the “Top 50 Women Illinois Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Ann Tighe
was named among the “Top 50 Women Illinois Super Lawyers.” (3.2.07)

Robert Uram
was elected as a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (10-13-09).

Stephen Walter
is retiring November 1st as a Lake County, Illinois judge after 21 years on the bench. (10.27.06)

1972:

Daniel Bernstine
has been named president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, effective July 1. (5.9.07)

Michael Canter
was selected as a top business litigator in the April 2008 Super Lawyers-Corporate Counsel Edition. (5.07.08)

Barbara Caufield
executive VP and general counsel of Affymetrix Inc., was elected a director of CoreValve. (7.24.07)

Barbara Caulfield
was honored at the 77th annual Northwestern Alumni Association Alumni Awards presentation as one of 18 outstanding individuals (11.6.09)

Barbara A. Caulfield
received a 2009 Alumni Merit Award from The Northwestern Alumni Association (6-23-09).

Abishi Cunningham
was nominated to serve as Cook County’s next chief public defender. (3.04.09)

David Diener
named a St. Louis Fashion Original by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (12.29.08)

Diane Geraghty
was named the A. Kathleen Beazley Chair in ChildLaw by Loyola University School of Law. (12.18.08)

James Tuthill
is now teaching Broadcast, Telecommunications & Internet Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (9-16-09).

James Tuthill
retired from AT&T Corporation last June. He is spending part of his new found free time as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law teaching Broadcast Media and Telecommunications Law. He says it is a delightful change and exciting to be back in law school. (5.9.07)

1971:

Jerry Black
is currently serving a two-year term as Great Lakes Regional Chair for the Association for Psychological Type, a professional organization for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioners. (4.3.07)

Richard Brown
prevailed in the case of Files v. ExxonMobil Pension Plan, 428 F.3d 478 (3rd Cir. 2005); cert. denied 126 S. Ct. 2304, 164 L. Ed. 2d 834, 2006 U.S. LEXIS 4130 (U.S. 2006). (4.3.07)

Ty Fahner
hosted the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago’s 2007 Richard N. Rovner Awards Dinner on April 12, 2007. (5.9.07)
Related Links: Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago

Martin Galbut
was selected for the sixth year in a row by his peers to be included in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Securities Law. (10.6.06)

Allen Koranda
appeared on the Crain’s Chicago Business list of “Who’s Who in Chicago Business 2006” in the industry of banking. (10.6.06)

Allen Koranda
was Chairman and CEO of MAF Bancorp, the Chicago-based holding company of MidAmerica Bank, until it was acquired by National City Corp. on September 1st; he is now a member of the National City’s board of directors. (9.14.07)

Hon. Joan Humphrey Lefkow
received The Founder's Award from The Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women. (5.05.08)

Joan Lefkow
is speaking at the dedication of the U.S. Marshals Service's new Threat Management Center, which was established to protect federal judges. (3-25-09)

Marcea Lloyd
was appointed senior vice president, Legal and Corporate Affairs, and general counsel at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in San Diego. (4.3.07)

Harry Seigle
was interviewed in the Chicago Tribune about business-oriented ways to fix Cook County's budget problems.

Harry Seigle
a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, has named the Harry and Susan Seigle Hall on the university's campus. (10.09.08)

Nancy Whitten
an estate planning attorney in Issaquah, Washington, is running as an incumbent for the Sammamish City Council. (10.24.07)

1970:

Tom Bianchi
will have his 13th and 14th books published in the new year - photo essays - MEN IN THE BLUE WATER and FIRE ISLAND PINES REMEMBERED - he's also working on his forth film documentary on Fire Island - his third film won a GVAN award for Best Picture. In addition, he's now writing an autobiographical memoir describing how a lawyer became the most published artist on the subject of the nude figure in the world, with inclusion in over 24 anthologies in addition to his eighteen books chronicling the gay community's life over the last 35 years. (7.31.08)

Douglas M. Branson
recently published his new book, “No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom.” (1.25.07)
Related Links: NYU Press

Martin Denis
won a 2.3 million dollar federal court jury verdict on November 17, 2006 for two female sales representatives who were sexually harassed in the workplace. (12.13.06)

David Kallick
was named to the Board of Directors of Delaware Place Bank, Chicago. (3.17.09)

Julius Loeser
was appointed special counsel in the financial services department at the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. (3.16.09)

Andy Storjny
retired from the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration in 2006 after 35 years of Federal Service. Over 25 of those years were at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Almost three years were spent as the elder President Bush’s designee as Acting Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices. This developed an interest in immigration issues and discrimination against immigrants that I still pursue. (1.24.07)
Related Links: Immigration Form I-9

Howard Tullman
is the lead investor in a group that plans to establish a new college at Flashpoint Academy in Chicago. He has also been named the president and CEO of the Academy. (4.3.07)

Howard Tullman
was profiled in the Chicago Tribune as president and CEO of Flashpoint Academy and Experiencia, two schools in Chicago run on the for-profit model. (1.24.08)