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Name: William A. Ciszewski III
Class Year: 2011
Class Note: William A. Ciszewski III has been admitted to the New York State Bar. An associate in Hodgson Russ LLP’s Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group, he focuses his practice on insurance coverage issues relating to directors and officers liability, errors and omissions liability, comprehensive general liability, and other types of insurance contracts.
Name: Elizabeth Fehder
Class Year: 2011
Class Note: Elizabeth Fehder married Patrick Dillon on June 4, 2011 in Boston. In attendance were fellow law school classmates Erica Doerhoff, Tyler Tigges, Mary Durbin, and bridesmaid Kyrsten Skogstad (all JD ’11).
Name: Heather M. Mehta
Class Year: 2011
Class Note: Heather M. Mehta has joined Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC as an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Mehta will represent clients in general civil and commercial litigation matters.
Name: Dayna M. Frenkel
Class Year: 2010
Class Note: Dayna M. Frenkel is a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in Milwaukee. She previously served as the supervising attorney for volunteer lawyers, law students, and undergraduates staffing self-help and legal advice clinics at the Milwaukee Justice Center.
Name: Jeremy Rogoff
Class Year: 2010
Class Note: Jeremy Rogoff has joined Teach for America’s 2011 teaching corps. After spending one year as a Coro Fellow in public affairs in New York City, he is now teaching high school algebra and Spanish at Clarendon High School in Clarendon, Arkansas.
Name: Loren S. Wells
Class Year: 2010
Class Note: Loren S. Wells has joined Husch Blackwell LLP’s Chicago office as of counsel. As part of the Intellectual Property Team, Wells focuses his practice on entertainment-based intellectual property law. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a sole practitioner, advising creative professionals on legal matters including business law, contracts, media law, and intellectual property.
Name: Margaret L Wichmann
Class Year: 2010
Class Note: Margaret L. Wichmann (JD ’10, IP/TL LLM ’11) is an associate with Danna McKitrick PC in St. Louis. Wichmann represents business clients in matters related to business transactions, intellectual property, employment law, and real estate.
Name: Mario A. Gianino
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Mario A. Gianino has joined the St. Louis office of Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a member of the Litigation Practice Group. He will be involved in all litigation matters pertaining to the defense of healthcare providers.
Name: B. Ronan Johnson
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: B. Ronan Johnson, an associate in Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP’s Indianapolis Business & Finance Practice Group, was elected to the executive board of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Johnson also joined the board of directors for Meals on Wheels of Central Indiana for 2012 and is participating in the United Way of Central Indiana’s Leadership United-Generation Now Leadership Series for 2011–12.
Name: Zhenfeng Liu
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Zhenfeng Liu is working as an associate in the New York and New Jersey offices of Anslow & Jaclin LLP, where he practices international corporate finance with a primary emphasis on China-related securities offerings.
Name: Katherine M. Schon
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Katherine M. Schon has been selected one of 10 individuals to receive a 2012 Impact Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women. Schon, an associate at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, was selected specifically for her work to secure asylum for a young Congolese woman who had been the victim of sex trafficking, as well as her work on Human Rights Watch’s investigation regarding rape kit testing in the state of Illinois.
Name: Brett M. Winterstein
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Brett M. Winterstein has joined Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd. as an associate in the Chicago firm’s Corporate Practice Group. Winterstein represents corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and individuals in a variety of commercial matters.
Name: Tiffany N. Cruz
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Tiffany N. Cruz and her husband, Justin, welcomed their first child, Julian Nicholas Cruz, on September 5, 2011.
Name: Jessica R. Feinberg
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Jessica R. Feinberg is currently an assistant professor at Mercer Law School. Her teaching and scholarship interests include contracts, family law, sexual orientation law, and immigration law.
Name: Christina Juris Bennett
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Christina Juris Bennett has accepted a position with the University of Oklahoma College of Law as a visiting assistant professor.
Name: Robert B. Mueller
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Matthew T. Nagel and Robert B. Mueller’s law firm, Wuestling & James LC, has been named one of the Best Law Firms in the St. Louis metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report. Wuestling & James was one of four area firms ranked in Tier I for Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, and received a Tier II ranking in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.
Name: Matthew T. Nagel
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Matthew T. Nagel and Robert B. Mueller’s law firm, Wuestling & James LC, has been named one of the Best Law Firms in the St. Louis metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report. Wuestling & James was one of four area firms ranked in Tier I for Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, and received a Tier II ranking in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.
Name: John Reeves
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: John Reeves and his wife, Natalie, welcomed their first child, Peter Matthew Reeves, on June 2, 2011. The couple married in September 2010 and resides in Jefferson City, Missouri, where Reeves is an Assistant Attorney General.
Name: Jenny Walters
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jenny Walters and her husband, Michael, recently became proud parents to Emma Kate Walters. The family resides in Dallas, where Jenny Walters is a litigation associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Name: Daniel J. Burke
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Daniel J. Burke, a member of Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s Real Estate, Public Finance, and Future Energy Practice Groups, has become a member of the Clayton Century Foundation Major Gifts Committee. The foundation is a nonprofit organization serving the City of Clayton in support of the restoration and enhancement of Clayton’s cultural, recreational, and environmental assets.
Name: Matthew Gartner
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Matthew Gartner has joined Husch Blackwell LLP in St. Louis. His practice will focus on corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law.
Name: Winston Calvert
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Winston Calvert, an Armstrong Teasdale LLP litigator and former professional clarinetist, has been named to the board of Prison Performing Arts. The program involves incarcerated youth and adults in the performing arts to inspire intellectual curiosity and personal development.
Name: Patrick Cloud
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Patrick Cloud became a partner at Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen PC. Cloud was a summer associate during law school and joined the firm in its Edwardsville, Illinois, office upon graduation. He concentrates his practice on toxic tort matters, insurance coverage litigation, complex civil litigation, and governmental law.
Name: Paul Eisner
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Paul Eisner’s (IP/TL LLM) article, “Delayed Discovery and Accrual: For Whom the Statute of Limitations Does Not Toll,” was published in San Francisco Attorney magazine.
Name: Ryan Eppenberger
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Ryan Eppenberger married his childhood sweetheart, Heather Hartman, on December 30, 2010. The couple welcomed a daughter, Lucy Rose Eppenberger, on December 9, 2011. Lucy joins her older brother, Nicholas, 6.
Name: Lauren M. Exnicios
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Lauren M. Exnicios and Andrew Exnicios welcomed daughter, Lila Claire, born on February 6, 2011. Exnicios is the director of regulatory guidance at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Name: Christopher T. Feldmeir
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Christopher T. Feldmeir (JD ’04, LLM ’05) and his wife, Elizabeth (Pernoud) Feldmeir (JD ’04, LLM ’05), welcomed daughter, Adelaide, on March 28, 2011. She joins her big sister, Else, who was born on August 5, 2009.
Name: Michael McKeon
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Michael McKeon and his wife, Jennifer, were married on March 3, 2012 in Merion, Pennsylvania. Other members of the class of 2004 in attendance were: Gary Shapiro, Scott Ginsburg, Clarence Lee, Stavros Papadopoulos, Brian Emeson, Mike Mano, Rick Gelboim, Kelly Lee, Kyle Reeb, and Justin Mills. To view photos, visit: law.wustl.edu/alumni/pages.aspx?id=9123. McKeon is an associate at the Philadelphia product liability firm of Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio.
Name: Jeffrey Schultz
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jeffrey Schultz is a business and commercial litigator and chair of Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s Social Media Practice Group. Much of his practice focuses on counseling individuals and organizations through complex disputes involving the misappropriation of trade secrets, computer tampering, non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, commercial contracts, and social networking law. In 2011 he was named a “Rising Star” by Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers. Schultz is a member of The Missouri Bar and Illinois State Bar Association, and he serves as vice chair of the Missouri Bar Technology and Computer Law Committee.
Name: Michelle G. Torline
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Michelle Gruber Torline and her husband, Steve Torline, welcomed Danica Kathryn on May 18, 2011. Michelle Torline is a senior associate with Husch Blackwell LLP in Kansas City. She specializes in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional law.
Name: Marc Alifanz
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Marc Alifanz has joined the legal team at the Knowledge® Universe at the U.S. National Support Center in Portland, Oregon. Alifanz will manage employment litigation and provide legal advice to other departments and managers on a variety of employment law issues.
Name: Heather Counts
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Heather Counts has been elected partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis. She practices in the firm’s Consumer Products Litigation Group and has worked on the defense trial teams of cases such as United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., a civil RICO case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the tobacco industry, and City of St. Louis v. American Tobacco Co.
Name: Stephanie Grise
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Stephanie Grise, a member of Armstrong Teasdale’s Public Finance Practice Group in St. Louis, received the Outstanding Achievement in Public Service Award from the Washington University Black Law Student Association. President of the Cornell Club of St. Louis, she previously served on the boards of the Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and of Kids in the Middle, the development committee of Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club, and the strategic planning committee for Marian Middle School.
Name: Christopher C. Javillonar
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Christopher C. Javillonar has been elected to partnership at the Kansas City office of Bryan Cave LLP. Javillonar practices with the Commercial Litigation and White Collar Defense Client Service Groups.
Name: Todd M. Kaye
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Todd M. Kaye has been elected to partnership at the Kansas City office of Bryan Cave LLP. Kaye practices with the Corporate Finance, Transactions and Technology, Entrepreneurial & Commercial Practice Client Service Groups.
Name: Meg McNaul
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Meg McNaul has been elected partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in Washington, D.C. She represents municipal utilities before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and in the federal appellate courts. Her regulatory practice primarily involves electric transmission policy, rates, and compliance with national standards for electric reliability.
Name: Jonathan Musch
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Jonathan Musch has been elected partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis. He practices in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group, focusing on several aspects of intellectual property litigation, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, and unfair competition law. He has both prosecuted and defended patent, trademark, trade dress, and copyright infringement actions in federal court.
Name: Richard A. Stieglitz, Jr.
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Richard A. Stieglitz, Jr. has been named a partner in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group. Steiglitz is based in the firm’s New York office.
Name: Stephen W. Tountas
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Stephen W. Tountas was elected to the partnership of the New York firm Labaton Sucharow LLP. He focuses his practice on prosecuting securities class actions on behalf of institutional investors.
Name: Nick Garzia
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Nick Garzia was selected a member of the inaugural class of the Latino Leadership Institute. The institute is a skills-based leadership program created to train young Hispanic professionals on for-profit and non-profit management skills and network development within the St. Louis business community. Garzia is a lawyer at Armstrong Teasdale LLP.
Name: James G. Martignon
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: James G. Martignon, an associate with Ulmer & Berner LLP in Chicago, has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer for 2012.
Name: David Orwick
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: David Orwick has been elected partner at Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis. He represents clients in a variety of real estate transactions, including financing; workouts; commercial and residential development; purchase and sale; and condominium formation and leasing. He also has experience in federal and state new markets and historic tax credits.
Name: Troy M. Sphar
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Troy M. Sphar has joined the Chicago office of Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP. Sphar concentrates his practice on commercial litigation, business disputes, and employment litigation and counseling.
Name: Gary Zhao
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Gary Zhao has been named one of Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch for 2011. Zhao is a partner at SmithAmundsen in the Litigation Practice Group in Chicago.
Name: Melissa Fallah
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Melissa Fallah, a shareholder with Segal McCambridge Segal & Mahoney Ltd., recently attended the 97th Annual Women’s Bar Association’s Installation Dinner in honor of President-Elect Deane B. Brown. The event was held at the Chicago Hilton. Fallah is a trial attorney who represents corporate clients in all aspects of product liability litigation. Click here to view a photo from the event. Http://law.wustl.edu/alumni/images/classnotes/2001/fallah.jpg
Name: Christopher Melton
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Christopher Melton has joined the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP. He will focus on Medicaid and Medicare claims litigation, governmental investigations, long-term care investigations and defense, and white collar criminal defense. Previously, Melton served as an Assistant Attorney General for Kentucky in the Medicaid Fraud Abuse and Control Division.
Name: Jovita M. Foster
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Jovita M. Foster has been elected an equity partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP. Licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois, Foster is an accomplished litigator and trial lawyer working with small- to medium-sized businesses, public utilities, and Fortune 100 and 500 companies in all facets of employment and labor law.
Name: Jon Harris
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Jon Harris, JD ’00, and Michael Blaes, JD ’00, organized a ski trip benefit in memory of their classmate Shana Greatman Swers, JD ’00, who passed away on October 31, 2010, following complications related to childbirth. The group has created a college fund for her son, Isaac. Participants from the class of 2000 also included: Troy Burk, Andrew Hansell, Chris Hite, Thomas Kim, Dan Robillard, Eric Schultenover, and Francois Steichen. For more information, visit the in memoriam listing at law.wustl.edu/alumni/pages.aspx?id=9096.
Name: John C. Crossley
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: John C. Crossley of Husch Blackwell LLP is one of the 2011 Missouri Lawyers Weekly Up & Coming award winners.
Name: Michael P. Downey
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Michael P. Downey has joined the St. Louis office of Armstrong Teasdale LLP as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group.
Name: Jeffrey P. Dunning
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Jeffrey P. Dunning has been named of counsel in the Intellectual Property & Technology Department of Greenberg Traurig LLP in Chicago. He focuses his practice on the prosecution and litigation of patent, trademark, unfair competition, domain name, and copyright matters.
Name: Raylene DeWitte Grischow
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Raylene DeWitte Grischow is a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Springfield, Illinois. Grischow has recently been elected to serve a one-year term as president of the Sangamon County Bar Association (SCBA). Grischow joined the SCBA in 2002. She was appointed the director of communications in 2006 and later became president of the Young Lawyers Division. She has held multiple roles in the organization including treasurer, secretary, second vice-president, and first vice-president. As president, Grischow will be involved in planning and holding a Law Day luncheon and a judicial roundtable with the judges on a legal issue of wide interest. She will also lead efforts to determine the winner of the SCBA’s annual scholarship. Grischow maintains an active trial practice, which includes commercial litigation, employment litigation, municipal law, and the defense of matters involving general liability, personal injury, automobile liability, premises liability, and property damage claims. She is also the attorney for the city of Auburn, Illinois.
Name: Raylene DeWitte Grischow
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Raylene DeWitte Grischow, a partner in the Springfield, Illinois, office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, was appointed to the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility. Her term became effective on January 1, 2012, and runs until December 31, 2014. Grischow is also the attorney for the city of Auburn, Illinois.
Name: James W Mathis
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: James Mathis (Law 1998) and Kimberley (Smith) Mathis (Law 1997) announce the birth of their daughter, Jane Marie, on January 24, 2011. Jane Marie is constantly entertained by older siblings Joseph (age 11), Margaret (age 8), Michael (age 6) and Charlie (age 4). James recently joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell LLP as a partner in the area of corporate law. He has extensive experience leading complex commercial transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, James has advised corporate clients on entertainment and advertising law, telecommunications, securities and executive compensation, and risk management/insurance matters. Kimberley is of counsel in the area of labor and employment law at Husch Blackwell LLP.
Name: Nimrod Chapel, Jr.
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Nimrod Chapel, Jr. (LLM) was recently recognized at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Boy Scout Troop 479 in Edmond, Oklahoma, as having previously obtained the rank of Eagle while a member of the troop. Since then, he has been an assistant scoutmaster and a scoutmaster, worked at the district level with Urban Scouting, and served as keynote speaker at the Boy Scouts of America’s Patron Breakfast in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Name: John Crossley
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: John Crossley was named a 2011 Up & Coming Missouri Attorney by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. He was among 48 selected to this category out of 130 nominees. Those chosen were cited for their positive influence in the legal industry and in their communities. Nominees had to be under 40 years old or have less than 10 years experience in the field of law. Crossley is a Partner in the Kansas City office of Husch Blackwell LLP.
Name: Jonathan Williams
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Jonathan Williams has been named the chief sustainability officer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Williams is presently a visiting professor in the College of Business. He plans to develop educational programming to prepare Southern Miss students for opportunities in emerging “green industries.” Williams says he welcomes the opportunities to assist Southern Miss in moving beyond “thinking green” to helping graduates develop skills to open and operate “green business” ventures, become employees in existing industries, and attract new technology businesses to the Pine Belt. He is planning to develop a curriculum that mixes the bio-sciences with businesses courses so that graduates will be able to contribute to the state’s bio-diesel industry, as well as to create new partnerships with business and industry.
Name: Joe Yeckel
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Joe Yeckel, of Joseph F. Yeckel, LLC, was one of four attorneys named a 2011 Lawyer of the Year by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. The awardees were recognized for successfully representing 16 plaintiffs who suffered serious injuries due to exposure to high levels of lead in Herculaneum, Missouri. At the conclusion of the three-month trial, the jury returned verdicts in favor of each plaintiff and against the former owners of the Doe Run lead smelter for a total award of more than $358 million.
Name: Calvin Butler
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Calvin Butler was named Chicago United’s Business Leader of Color for 2011. Chicago United is an advocacy organization made up of racially diverse CEOs and executive level management who increase economic opportunity for all races by promoting multiracial leadership development in corporate governance, the leadership pipeline, and business partnerships.
Name: Christopher L. Perry
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Christopher L. Perry has been named executive director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York. He is an accomplished nonprofit executive with broad experience in legal services and all aspects of management for mission-driven nonprofit organizations.
Name: Heidi L. Talmage
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Heidi L. Talmage married Christopher Nagorka on October 15, 2011.
Name: Lisa L. Livingston-Martin
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Lisa L. Livingston-Martin’s first book, Civil War Ghosts of Southwest Missouri, was published by The History Press. It may be purchased in local bookstores and online at all major book dealer websites.
Name: Lisa Preddy
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Lisa Preddy won the 2011 Defender of Distinction award. Preddy is a 21-year veteran of the Missouri Public Defender System. For the past 16 years, she has served as the district public defender in Union, Missouri, overseeing a six-lawyer office providing defense representation to the indigent accused of Franklin and Gasconade Counties.
Name: Scott Malin
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Scott Malin has been named partner of Lathrop & Gage LLP in Clayton, Missouri. Malin practices in the areas of estate planning, business succession planning, probate, taxation, charitable planning, and general business law.
Name: Sharis Pozen
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Sharis Pozen was appointed Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
Name: Douglas P. Swill
Class Year: 1989
Class Note: Douglas B. Swill, chair of the Health Care Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Chicago, has been elected to the firm’s management committee. He concentrates his corporate and regulatory practice on the representation of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups throughout the United States.
Name: Mitch Katten
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Mitch Katten started his own small boutique litigation firm, Katten & Temple LLP, in 2008. He works and lives in Chicago.
Name: Beth A. Bauer
Class Year: 1987
Class Note: Beth A. Bauer of HeplerBroom LLC was named among the 2011 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, which publishes the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer.
Name: Robert Bassett
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Robert Bassett was named by Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers as one of the top attorneys in the area for 2011. Bassett is president of the St. Clair County Bar Association and a partner at Williams Venker & Sanders LLC.
Name: Robert Bassett
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Robert Bassett, a partner with Williams Venker & Sanders LLC in St. Louis, was recently elected to the firm’s Management Committee. Bassett is a trial lawyer, focusing his practice on defense litigation of claims involving transportation, products liability, professional liability, premises liability, insurance coverage, and class action litigation throughout eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Bassett is also president of the St. Clair County Bar Association.
Name: Richard Hunsaker
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Richard Hunsaker was selected to be featured in the 2012 issue of Illinois Super Lawyers.
Name: Melinda Pendergraph
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Melinda Pendergraph has been selected by the Missouri State Public Defender to be the new director of training for the Public Defender System.
Name: Melinda Pendergraph
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Melinda Pendergraph has been selected by the Missouri State Public Defender to be the new director of training for the Public Defender System.
Name: Jeffrey H. Wolf
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Jeffrey H. Wolf has been named to The International Who’s Who of Franchise Lawyers 2011 by Who’s Who Legal. Who’s Who Legal identifies the leading legal practitioners in several areas of business law around the world. Nominees are selected based on comprehensive, independent surveys with both general counsel and private practice lawyers. Wolf is an attorney at the Quarles & Brady LLP Phoenix office and is a member of the Franchise and Distribution Group.
Name: Jeffrey H. Wolf
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Jeffrey H. Wolf has been named to The International Who's Who of Franchise Lawyers 2011 by Who's Who Legal. Who's Who Legal identifies the leading practitioners in several areas of business law around the world. Nominees are selected based on comprehensive, independent surveys with both general counsel and private practice lawyers. Wolf is an attorney at the Quarles & Brady LLP Phoenix office and is a member of the Franchise and Distribution Group.
Name: Jeffrey H. Wolf
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Jeffrey H. Wolf has been elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors for the American Liver Foundation's Desert Southwest Division. Wolf is a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, Phoenix, Arizona office.
Name: Cary J. Mogerman
Class Year: 1985
Class Note: Cary J. Mogerman is now the treasurer for the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Name: Stacy West Clark
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Stacy West Clark, a law firm marketing consultant, was one of the featured speakers at the Chester County Bar Association’s Spring Bench Bar Conference in Devon, Pennsylvania. Her topic was “How Lawyers Can Deliver Outstanding Service to Clients and Referral Services.” President of Stacy Clark Marketing LLC, Clark has been assisting small to mid-sized law firms in the Delaware Valley with growing their practices for more than 25 years. In addition to being a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, she is on the Steering Committee of the Delaware Valley Law Firm Marketing Group and is a member of the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section and past vice-chair of its Marketing Administrators Committee. She is also a member of the national Legal Marketing Association and the Chester County Bar Association.
Name: Susan F. Grammer
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Susan F. Grammer was recently admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in a Washington, D.C., ceremony.
Name: Susan F. Grammer
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Susan F. Grammer was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 6, 2011 in a ceremony held at the Supreme Court courtroom in Washington, D.C.
Name: Vuong Vu-Duc
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: Vuong Vu-Duc directs a study abroad program for high school students called School Year Abroad in San Francisco, California. The students spend a year in Ha Noi, Vietnam, studying Vietnamese language, history, and culture. Each student lives with a Vietnamese family, has opportunities to travel the country, and does community service in Ha Noi.
Name: Robert Baumol
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Robert Baumol is currently teaching Introduction to Political Science & American Government at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Name: Steven A. Miller
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: Steven A. Miller is a partner at Reed Smith, PC in Chicago. He practices in the Global Regulatory Enforcement Group and has compiled a string of successes in white collar criminal law defense.
Name: Shel Silver
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: Shel Silver recently published his second book, Criminal Justice in the United States of America: An Introduction to Criminal Justice. Silver is the chair of the ITT Technological Institute School of Criminal Justice in Westminster, Colorado.
Name: Stephen Grossmark
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Stephen Grossmark, a LEED Accredited Professional (AP), acted as a moderator for the Green Codes Landscape in a World of Standards and Rating Systems program. The program was sponsored by the United States Green Building Council-Illinois Chapter, the International Code Council, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers-Illinois, and it addressed how a combination of green construction codes, standards, and rating systems can drive sustainable outcomes.
Name: James Robertson
Class Year: 1975
Class Note: James Robertson, who has written over 80 scholarly articles, essays, and reviews, recently published an article titled “The ‘Turning-out’ of Boys in a Man’s Prison: Why and How We Need to Amend the Prison Litigation Reform Act,” which appeared in the Indiana Law Review. He serves on the editorial boards of three journals and is an authority on prisoners’ rights, the study of which is the focus of his postgraduate law diploma from Oxford University.
Name: James Robertson
Class Year: 1975
Class Note: James Robertson, who has written more than 80 scholarly articles, essays, and reviews, recently published an article titled “The ‘Turning-out’ of Boys in a Man’s Prison: Why and How We Need to Amend the Prison Litigation Reform Act” in the Indiana Law Review. He serves on the editorial boards of three journals and is an authority on prisoners’ rights, the study of which is the focus of his postgraduate law diploma from Oxford University.
Name: William P. Grant
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: William P. Grant received the St. Louis County Bar Association’s Dudley C. Dunlop Distinguished Service Award. He has served as a St. Louis County court-appointed guardian ad litem since 1978 and received the St. Louis Family Court Guardian Ad Litem of the Year Award in 2001. Grant is a member of the Board of Directors for One World Family, a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance and services for children in South Africa with or affected by AIDS.
Name: Russell K. Scott
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Russell K. Scott has been elected secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association. Scott is currently a senior litigation officer with Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC and co-manager of the firm’s Southern Illinois Practice Group.
Name: Russell K. Scott
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Russell K. Scott has been elected secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association. Scott is currently a senior litigation officer with Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC and co-manager of the firm’s Southern Illinois Practice Group.
Name: Alan K. Frost
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Alan K. Frost has been named president of Carr Lane Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis. Frost has 37 years of experience at Carr Lane, having managed virtually all areas of the company.
Name: Steve Stone
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Steve Stone is a partner at Stone, Leyton & Gershma in St. Louis. He focuses his practice on corporate, general business, real estate, and tax law.
Name: Leonard D. Vines
Class Year: 1972
Class Note: Leonard D. Vines was named the 2012 St. Louis Franchise Law Lawyer of the Year by the peer-reviewed publication Best Lawyers.
Name: Harvey M. Tettlebaum
Class Year: 1968
Class Note: Harvey M. Tettlebaum has been named to the American Health Lawyers Association’s 2010–11 Inaugural Class of Pro Bono Champions. Tettlebaum is managing partner of Husch Blackwell LLP’s Jefferson City, Missouri, office. He was recognized for working more than 450 pro bono hours providing counsel and advice to Legal Services of Missouri and its clients.
Name: Leonard J. Frankel
Class Year: 1965
Class Note: Leonard J. Frankel was recently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in two categories, mediation and family law mediation. Frankel was also named Family Law Mediator of the year for 2012. He is at Frankel, Rubin, Bond, Dubin, Siegel & Klein, P.C., in St. Louis.
Name: Leonard J. Frankel
Class Year: 1965
Class Note: Leonard J. Frankel was recently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in two categories, mediation and family law mediation. Frankel was also named Family Law Mediator of the year for 2012. He is at Frankel, Rubin, Bond, Dubin, Siegel & Klein, P.C., in St. Louis.
Name: Phillip F. Fishman
Class Year: 1964
Class Note: Phillip F. Fishman served as co-class counsel to victims of police misconduct connected to the Metro Gang Strike Force in Minnesota. The case was instituted in U.S. District Court. The plaintiffs received $3 million in a settlement.