1990s Class Notes
1990
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Then and now: Law School roomates Bernie Ellis, Andy Parker, and Brian Henebry each had baby daughters while in Law School. This year they proudly sent their "babies" off during UVA's Move-In Day..Greg Massing was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court by Governor Deval Patrick in September. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the late U.S. District Court Judge A. David Mazzone, followed by two years in the litigation department at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray. He joined the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office in 1993, where he worked in the Appellate Division of the Criminal Bureau. Massing continued working on appellate litigation for the next eight years, including six years at the Essex County District Attorney’s office and two years at the Boston firm of Laredo & Smith. He served as general counsel in the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security from 2007 to 2011. He has been executive director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School since 2012.
Todd McArthur is a principal in PwC’s National M&A practice group in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on transactional matters involving domestic and cross-border partnerships, strategic joint ventures, and other partnerships, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. In recent years he has also represented fund sponsors and institutional investors in the formation of, and investment in, a wide variety of alternative investment funds. Prior to joining PwC in 2012, he served as lead tax partner in the global private equity and tax group at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Todd and his wife, Chris, have two daughters, Meagan (18) and Maddie (14). Meagan is a freshman at James Madison University. Maddie is a 9th grader and is looking forward to following in her sister’s footsteps in high school and AAU volleyball.
Reed Smith partner Catharina Y. Min has been appointed vice chair of the firm’s global business and finance department. Min, who also leads the firm’s global Korea practice, will step out of her role as the Silicon Valley office managing partner to devote more time to her busy cross-border transactions work and to tackle her new responsibilities in the business and finance department, which comprises half of the firm’s more than 1,800 lawyers in 25 offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Min is also chairwoman and founding director of the Council of Korean Americans, and past overseas president and director of the International Association of Korean Lawyers, among numerous other involvements in regional and international Asian American business communities.
On May 19, 2014, the day Judge Michael McShane struck down Oregon’s ban on same sex marriage, and after nearly 17 years together, Jane Paulson and Helen White were able to legally marry in Oregon. Their son, Grady, was happy to be pulled out of school for the event.
Stan Perry joined Reed Smith in Houston in February 2013 as a founding partner. He practices toxic tort and environmental litigation. He and his wife, Stacy, live in Houston, where Stacy is an interior design consultant. Their daughter, Anna, is finishing a master’s of accounting program at Texas A&M University and will join PwC in 2015. Their son, John, entered Baylor University as a freshman this fall. Stan and Stacy will not be empty nesters, however, because they have two dogs—Fig, a dachshund, and Winston, “the greatest English Bulldog of all time.”
Chuck Rosenberg is chief of staff and senior counselor to FBI Director James Comey. He was previously a partner with a Washington, D.C. firm. He has served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, and in several senior positions at the Department of Justice, including chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Jim Comey, counselor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and counsel to FBI Director Robert Mueller ’73.
Christine A. Samsel was recently appointed to serve on the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center board, which strives to prevent child abuse and help at-risk children through legal advocacy, education, and public policy reform. She is a shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where she focuses her practice on advising companies on all aspects of labor and employment law nationwide, with emphasis on California and Colorado.
Richard E. Sarver LL.M. is listed in Chambers USA 2014 as a leading lawyer in Louisiana in litigation: general and commercial and in Best Lawyers 2015 in commercial litigation, environmental law, and product liability-defendants. He is a founding member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver in New Orleans, where he specializes in defending toxic tort, environmental, and product liability cases.
Russell S. Sayre has been recognized among Leaders in their Field in Chambers USA 2014 in litigation: general commercial practice area and was named Best Lawyers 2015 Cincinnati Lawyer of the Year in appellate practice. He was also selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in appellate practice, commercial litigation, and litigation-banking & finance. He is a partner with Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he co-chairs the litigation group. He focuses his practice on litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution.
Judge Thomas F. Shebell Jr. has retired from the New Jersey Appellate Division and resides with his wife, Pat, in West Palm Beach, Fla. He has a New Jersey company, The Mediation Expert, LLC, through which he personally handles the mediation and arbitration of litigated cases. He is of counsel to Shebell & Shebell of Shrewsbury, N.J., a partnership of his son and brother. His son is a trial attorney handling personal injury and medical malpractice litigation, while his brother handles workers’ compensation cases.
Mark Trank recently joined Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt in Fort Myers, Fla. in the workers’ compensation practice area where he represents insurance carriers, third party administrators, and employers in defense of workers’ compensation claims.
1991
Gayle Morrell Braley passed away from complications of cancer on August 23. She was 48. She moved to Concord, N.H., after graduating from the Law School, and clerked for the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Braley later focused her practice on trusts and estates with a private firm in Manchester. She was accomplished in the performing arts, especially theater, music, and dance, and met her husband in a church choir in Charlottesville.
Sarah Davies has returned to the Law School as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs after 23 years of private practice in Philadelphia, Pa.
Diane Pulley Flannery recently joined McGuireWoods as partner in Richmond, Va., where she practices in the product liability department. She was previously with Jones Day.
Vern Inge is practicing with LeClairRyan in its Richmond, Va. office in the areas of commercial litigation and bankruptcy. He leads the firm’s sports law practice and represents primarily professional athletes and agents in sports related matters. He is also the leader of the firm’s Commercial Litigation team, in which he represents lenders and other commercial enterprises in disputes. He is very happily married to Darcy and has three boys, ages 13, 15 and 17. Vern and Darcy are hoping that their oldest will be attending school in Charlottesville in a couple of years.
Kevin Martingayle was sworn in as president of the Virginia State Bar for 2014-15 in June with his wife, Elisabeth, and children Harrison, Doria, and Jackson by his side. Virginia Supreme Court Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn ’86 administered the oath. Martingayle was the subject of a feature article in the June/July issue of Virginia Lawyer (http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/vl0614-martingayle.pdf) His first column as president of the state bar appeared in the same issue (see http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/vl0614-pres-msg.pdf). He is owner and partner with Bischoff Martingayle in Virginia Beach.
Texas State Senator Ken Paxton was recently elected as the next Texas Attorney General garnering nearly 60% of the votes cast statewide during the 2014 general election. General-elect Paxton was first elected to the Texas Senate in 2012 after serving five terms in the Texas House of Representatives. Paxton owns and operates a private practice specializing in estate planning, probate, real estate, and general business matters. He and his wife, Angela, reside in McKinney, Tex., with two of their teenage daughters. Their son is a senior at Baylor University and their daughter is a sophomore at Baylor University.
Rodney A. Satterwhite is listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in employment and labor and intellectual property litigation. He has also been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in employment law, management information technology law, and labor law. He is a partner with McGuireWoods in Richmond.
Timothy K. Webster is president-elect of the D.C. Bar. He is a partner with Sidley Austin, where he concentrates his practice on civil and criminal environmental matters, including challenges to government actions and the defense of enforcement. He will serve as president-elect for one year before becoming president in June 2015.
Andrea Pierce Yalof has been promoted to associate general counsel in the legal operations section at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Conn.
David Alistair Yalof was recently appointed department head of political science at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His most recent book, Prosecution Among Friends: Presidents, Attorneys General, and Executive Branch Wrongdoing, was published by Texas A&M University Press (See In Print).
1992
William M. Bosch has joined Arnold & Porter as partner in the litigation practice in Washington, D.C. He concentrates on representation of real estate owners and developers, as well as high-end funds that invest in real estate projects. He has more than a decade of experience with matters involving the hospitality industry, including asset management, evaluation of hotel operations, and resolution of contract disputes through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation.
Kevin Grierson has joined the law firm of Culhane Meadows as a partner and serves as co-chair of the intellectual property group. He practices out of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, but is able, thanks to the wonders of cloud computing, to work from Jamestown, Va.
Vytas A. Petrulis is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in real estate law. He is a partner with Jackson Walker in Houston, Tex., where he focuses his practice on real estate development, investment, leasing, and finance.
Susan Eberle Stahlfeld is listed in Washington Super Lawyers 2014 in employment and labor. She is a partner with Miller Nash in Seattle, where she leads the employment law and labor relations practice group.
Amy Elizabeth Stewart was elected to the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel by unanimous vote of the ACCEC Board of Regents in January. She was also recently the subject of a profile article in Super Lawyers Texas 2014 for her prowess in the courtroom, and for being acknowledged as an “expert on insurance coverage issues who quite literally wrote the book, or at least a book, Texas Insurance Coverage Litigations, The Litigator’s Practice Guide, used as a reference by other attorneys.”
Stewart is founder and managing shareholder of Amy Stewart PC in Dallas, where she represents policyholders exclusively in disputes with their insurance companies.
Rhonda Taylor, general counsel of Dollar General, rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange October 6 in honor of its 75th Anniversary.
1993
Jeffrey F. Swiatek, a partner at Hodgson Russ in Buffalo, N.Y., co-leads the firm’s education law practice. He concentrates his practice on municipal law, education law, and labor & employment law.
1994
Jim Black recently joined Smith Gambrell & Russell as a partner in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on advising German, Austrian, and Swiss companies on their business activities in the United States. He spent the past ten years working in Germany, most recently as the partner in charge of the U.S. practice in Germany at White & Case. After 18 years at large, global law firms, he enjoys building his U.S.-based practice in his new, more entrepreneurial environment.
Patrick J. Johnson is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions law. He is a partner with Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C.
Ethan Shenkman started a new job in May as Deputy General Counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after four years as a political appointee in the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. He is excited to join forces with EPA general counsel Avi Garbow ’92.
Erik Swanson is still, to his continuing surprise, living in Frankfurt, Germany, where he manages the local office of the Chicago IP firm Leydig, Voit & Mayer. Shelley, his wife, manages everything else in his life, including the house, vegetable garden, fruit trees, chickens, dog, cat, etc. His three girls, Beatrix, Eleanor, and Isabel, attend German schools. The European vacations are still great, but they spend every fall break in Florida when it’s gray and rainy in Europe.
Robert Thomsen has moved his residential real estate practice from Weichert Realtors in McLean, Va., to Keller Williams in Falls Church, and he has established Team Thomsen with his wife, Sonia, to serve their clients throughout Northern Virginia.
1995
Jonathan T. Blank is listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in energy & resources, business litigation, and construction litigation. He is also listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in commercial litigation. He is the managing partner of the McGuireWoods Charlottesville office and co-chair of both the energy litigation group and the real estate and construction marketing team.
Charles H. Brower II is listed in the 2015 global edition of Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, to be published in November by Global Arbitration Review and Who’s Who Legal. Global Arbitration Review is a leading international arbitration news resource based in the United Kingdom. He was one of only ten U.S. academics to make the list. Brower is a full-time professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, contracts, and the law of armed conflict. He is of counsel and a member of the international dispute resolution section with Miller Canfield in Detroit, Mich.
Trey Cox is listed in the 2014 edition of Benchmark Litigation as a litigation star and is listed in Chambers USA 2014 in litigation: general commercial. He is also listed among the Top 100 in Texas Super Lawyers and named in Best Lawyers 2015 in commercial litigation. He is a founding partner with Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox in Dallas, Tex., where he focuses his practice on business litigation, intellectual property litigation, and appellate law.
Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox celebrated several notable accomplishments this year, including a $319 million verdict—the largest in North Texas history. The firm also earned a Tier 1 ranking in the 21st edition of Best Lawyers and was named a Top Commercial Litigation Firm in Texas by Chambers.
Jim Gibson recently became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law. “I decided not to let Erik Lillquist and Liz Magill hog all the jobs in law school administration,” he says. He will also continue to teach intellectual property courses at the Law School.
Steve Mahle and Professor Charles J. Goetz were faculty presenters for the Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies CJE course “Interpreting and Applying Daubert Standards to Expert Testimony in Florida” in June. They taught the principles and application of Florida’s new Daubert law for admission of expert testimony to a standing-room-only group of about 50 Florida judges. Steve was counsel to the primary private group that advocated for Florida passing the Daubert expert testimony standard. He litigates scientific expert testimony matters throughout the U.S. for a client base that is mostly law firms and commercial entities.
1996
Ken Bartholomew is a shareholder and chair of the health care law group at Rath, Young and Pignatelli in Concord, N.H. Ken celebrated his marriage to Wendy Savlen, originally of Plymouth, Mass., on August 2, and they had a honeymoon in Key West and the Dominican Republic.
Gavin E. Hill is listed in Texas Super Lawyers 2014 in civil litigation: defense and business litigation. He is a shareholder with Godwin Lewis in Dallas, where he represents clients in business disputes and complex commercial litigation in a range of issues, including breach of contract and business-related torts.
Leezie Kim is recognized in Chambers USA 2014 in corporate/M&A. She is a partner and of counsel with Quarles & Brady in Phoenix, Ariz., where she assists clients in navigating the laws of national security and international business transactions, as well as health care and restaurant business transactions.
Mark A. Knueve is listed in Chambers USA 2014 in labor & employment and Best Lawyers 2015 in employment law-management and litigation-labor and employment. He is a partner with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease in Columbus, Ohio, where he is a member of the labor and employment practice group.
Scott Orchard joined the law department of Johnson & Johnson in April 2013 and practices in the J&J Boston Innovation Center in Cambridge, focusing on early stage health care innovations across all three sectors of J&J (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health care). His practice consists of venture capital transactions, intellectual property licensing, research & development collaborations, option deals, and sponsored research agreements in connection with J&J’s partnerships with biotech companies and academic institutions. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Tracey, and three children, the oldest of whom was born during his 3L year at UVA and is off to college this year!
Jennifer Parham practiced real estate and corporate law with Florance Gordon Brown and Williams Mullen following Law School. She then served as the director of women’s ministry at a non-profit for nearly 12 years, which she describes as a “dream job.” This spring she decided that it was time to return to law, so she accepted a position as company counsel at Capital Center, a non-bank mortgage lender, where she has discovered “the joys of complying with all things CFPB.” Five years ago she moved to the inner city of Richmond, where she serves on the boards of an affordable housing non-profit and several other organizations.
Russell S. Post has been designated Best Lawyers 2015 Houston Lawyer of the Year in appellate practice. He is a partner with Beck Redden in Houston, Tex., where he focuses his practice on civil appeals.
Scott A. Surovell was elected caucus chairman for the House Democratic Caucus of the Virginia House of Delegates. He continues to represent the 80,000 people of the 44th District, which covers the Mt. Vernon area of Fairfax County.
1997
Jeff Bartos received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Philadelphia Award for 2014 in the clean tech category. The award goes to entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence in innovation, success in financial performance, and personal commitment to their business and community. Bartos is CEO of Mark Group, a company that assists home and business owners in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and New York in reducing energy costs and improving the comfort of their property. Since he joined the company as the first U.S. employee in August 2010, Mark Group has opened seven offices and served thousands of home and business owners.
Simon H. Bloom has been named the new chair of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs board. He was previously the board’s vice chair. Bloom is a trial attorney and founding partner at Bloom Sugarman Everett in Atlanta, where he specializes in real estate law.
Patrick D. Cornelius is listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in corporate law. He is a partner with Squire Patton Boggs in Columbus, Ohio.
Jennifer Morgan Delmonico has been elected managing partner of Murtha Cullina in New Haven, Conn. Her term will begin in January 1. She is a trial lawyer who primarily represents clients in the manufacturing, technology, and health care industries.
Barry M. Golden is listed in Texas Super Lawyers 2014 in antitrust litigation. He is a partner in the trial section of Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas, Tex., where his litigation practice focuses on complex disputes relating to breach of contract and business torts, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.
Darla Stockton Roden has joined Borden Dairy Company in Dallas, Tex., as associate general counsel.
1998
William R. Borchers was included among the 2014 Best San Antonio Lawyers in S.A. Scene Magazine in the area of intellectual property. He is a partner with Jackson Walker in San Antonio, Tex.
In April Stanford K. McCoy joined the Motion Picture Association for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as senior vice president and regional policy director, headquartered in Belgium. He will provide strategic policy advice on issues involving copyright, with a focus on the opportunities and challenges of the digital world. He was previously Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for intellectual property and innovation.
James F. Neale is listed in Virginia Super Lawyers 2014 in personal injury defense: general, civil litigation defense, and personal injury plaintiff: general. He has also been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers 2015 in product liability litigation. He is a partner and trial lawyer with McGuireWoods in Charlottesville. He was elected a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation this year.
After more than four years at the Office of the Solicitor General, where he argued ten cases in the Supreme Court on behalf of the United States, Joseph R. Palmore has joined Morrison and Foerster as a partner and co-chair of the firm’s appellate and Supreme Court practice group in Washington, D.C.
Gregory J. Phillips has been named in Best Lawyers 2015 in commercial litigation and a state litigation star in Ohio for 2015 by Benchmark Litigation. He is a partner in the litigation group and chairs the ethics committee with Ulmer & Berne in Cleveland, Ohio.
Helen Wan’s novel, The Partner Track, published by Macmillan, was released in a new paperback edition by St. Martin’s Griffin in September. The book chronicles a young woman of color’s ascent at a prestigious corporate law firm. It became the subject of a Washington Post Magazine cover story and has been optioned for television. Wan is a frequent speaker on women in the workplace, diversity, and inclusion in the law, and is now at work full-time on a second book. Her author Web site is www.helenwan.com.
1999
Guerino “Jody” Calemine is general counsel of the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Prior to his return to labor law practice, Jody spent more than a decade working in the U.S. House of Representatives on labor and education policy, where he was most recently Democratic staff director for the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Stephanie Chandler was included among the 2014 Best San Antonio Lawyers in S.A. Scene Magazine in the area of securities & corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and business & corporate law. She is a partner with Jackson Walker in San Antonio, Tex.
David E. Finkelson is listed in Chambers USA 2014 in intellectual property-Virginia. He has been named Best Lawyers 2015 Richmond Lawyer of the Year in patent law and listed in Best Lawyers 2015 in copyright law, litigation-intellectual property, litigation-patent, and patent law. He is a partner with McGuireWoods in Richmond, Virginia, where he concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation.
Christopher M. Michalik has been named a rising star in employment and labor for 2014 in Virginia Super Lawyers. He is a partner with McGuireWoods in Richmond.
