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2010
Jennifer Ligon was recognized in Virginia Business magazine as a “legal elite” in health law. Ligon practices with Williams Mullen in Richmond.
Kathryn M. Throo was promoted to partner with Foley & Lardner in New York. Throo represents companies and individuals in investigations and proceedings by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
2011
As chief of the Foreign Investment Review Section in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, Devin DeBacker was interviewed by Foreign Investment Watch. The article detailed the section’s work to assess, mitigate, and prevent risks to national security and law enforcement before they materialize. The group is also involved in policy and legal work at the intersection of technology, trade and business, and national security.
Charles C. Harris joined Bon Secours Mercy Health, the fifth-largest Catholic health system in the U.S., as associate general counsel. Harris was previously a partner with McGuireWoods in the firm’s health care private equity practice. In his new role, he advises BSMH’s newly formed subsidiary, Accrete Health Partners, regarding strategic investments in the digital health sector and on corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions activity related to the ministry’s core ambulatory and acute care service lines.
Mary Robinson Hervig was recognized in Best Lawyers in America for her work in trusts and estates with Roberts & Stevens in Asheville, N.C.
Kristin Russell was promoted to partner at Stoel Rives in Portland, Ore. Russell is a member of the corporate group, co-chair of its debt subgroup and co-chair of the Portland recruiting committee. Her practice includes supporting both borrower and lender clients of varying sizes as they navigate debt financing arrangements, whether in connection with acquisitions, expansions or restructurings. Russell maintains an active pro bono practice, including working with the Lewis & Clark Small Business Legal Clinic and the ACLU of Oregon, and serves on the Headwaters Council of The Freshwater Trust and the steering committee of the Reed Legal Network.
Caroline (Carrie) W. Stanton was recognized in Virginia Business magazine as a “legal elite” in business law. Stanton practices with Williams Mullen in Charlottesville. She is an adjunct business law instructor at the Law School (see p. 38).
2012
Ross E. Coe was elected to partner with Blank Rome. Coe has a real estate practice in Washington, D.C.
Allison Huebert joined Tesla as managing counsel in Austin, Texas. She previously practiced commercial litigation at Quinn Emanuel and Kirkland & Ellis. Huebert lives in Austin with her husband and two children.
Kristin Millay was promoted to counsel at Hughes Hubbard and Reed in Washington, D.C. Millay joined the firm’s antitrust practice and focuses on both civil and criminal matters. In 2020, she was also part of a team that represented the International Center for Law & Economics as an amicus curiae that contributed to a critical U.S. Supreme Court victory that allowed the Federal Communications Commission to relax restrictions on local media ownership. Millay is also very active in pro bono cases, having assisted a client in securing Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in the U.S. and, more recently, helping to obtain asylum for a woman who fled to the U.S. from gender- and family-based gang violence in El Salvador.
2013
Chet Campbell was promoted to principal with Fish & Richardson in Boston. Campbell practices patent litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission and in U.S. district courts. His experience encompasses a range of technologies, including mobile electronic devices, semiconductors, optical fibers and software, among others.
Melissa Fabian was elected to partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. A member of the banking practice and finance department, Fabian focuses on private equity finance, and represents sponsors and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions.
Jessica Lennon was promoted to counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. As a member of the capital markets practice and corporate department, Lennon advises clients on complex equity and debt transactions, including initial public offerings and high-yield and investment-grade offerings, and securities law compliance and corporate governance matters.
Temitope (Tope) Leyimu was promoted to firm membership with Motley Rice in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Leyimu focuses her practice on helping those injured or killed because of corporate wrongdoing, occupational hazards or environmental disease. She has represented local governments in litigation targeting the alleged misrepresentation and fraudulent distribution of harmful and addictive prescription opioids. She also represents women injured by defective medical products. Leyimu serves on the board of directors of the Charleston Legal Access nonprofit law firm.
Gloria Ring was promoted to counsel at Latham & Watkins in Boston. Ring is a member of the mergers and acquisitions practice and corporate department. She advises clients on complex transactions, including equity financings, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, recapitalizations, and other mergers and acquisitions, corporate and strategic matters.
David A. Seal was promoted to counsel in the corporate litigation group with Potter Anderson & Corroon in Wilmington, Del. Seal focuses his practice on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, including stockholder class and derivative actions, complex commercial disputes, corporate books and records actions, and stockholder appraisal actions. For the past two years, he has been recognized by Best Lawyers in the “Ones to Watch” category for commercial litigation and corporate law.
2014
Simon Cataldo won a contested Democratic primary for state representative for the 14th Middlesex District in Massachusetts, which encompasses four communities just outside of Boston, including his hometown of Concord.
Brent Beckert was promoted to partner with Haynes and Boone. Beckert is a Dallas-based member of the firm’s corporate and mergers and acquisitions practice groups. He focuses on corporate law, private and public M&As, venture capital raises, and other complex domestic and international transactions for clients in a variety of industries, including the health care, technology, education, manufacturing, defense, construction, insurance and professional services sectors.
Alexander B. Foster was promoted to partner with Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta. Foster is a member of the hospitals and health systems and health care real estate industry teams. He’s also a member of the firm’s diversity committee.
Chad Jennings was promoted to counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. A member of the health care and life sciences practice and corporate department, Jennings represents clients in regulatory matters involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and in transactional matters within the life sciences industry.
Nikhil Kumar was elected a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. Kumar is a member of the executive compensation, employment and benefits practice, and tax department. He advises private equity firms and public companies on benefits and compensation matters, including in connection with mergers and acquisitions, as well as other corporate transactions.
Samantha Leavitt was promoted to partner with Mayer Brown. Leavitt practices with the banking and finance group in New York.
Kate Barrington McGregor was promoted to partner in Bracewell’s corporate and securities practice in Houston. She represents clients on mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, including acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas pipelines and storage terminal facilities, as well as the negotiation and drafting of build transfer agreements, energy performance contracts, operation and maintenance agreements and construction management agreements, with a focus on power, renewable energy and energy storage. McGregor has been named in the “Ones to Watch” category for corporate law by Best Lawyers in America.
Mariclaire Petty was elected a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. A member of the mergers and acquisitions practice and corporate department, Petty advises on M&A, private equity transactions and general corporate matters across a variety of industries.
Jonathan S. Schulman was promoted to partner with Perkins Coie in Denver. A member of the corporate and securities practice, Schulman advises issuers and underwriters in connection with capital markets transactions as well as public companies in connection with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure obligations and related corporate governance matters.
Kenneth T. Stout was elected a principal with Miles & Stockbridge in Richmond. Stout combines general commercial litigation with a strategic focus on the construction industry.
2015
Colin M. Downes co-founded Barton & Downes in Washington, D.C. Downes focuses his practice on complex class-action and individual plaintiff-side employee benefits litigation on behalf of workers, retirees, service members and their families.
Alexandra French was elected to partner at Barnes & Thornburg. French is a member of the litigation department in Indianapolis.
Aaron T. Savella was elected to partner with Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Houston. Savella practices with the corporate and financial services department.
Chris Sevedge was elected to Stinson’s partnership in Kansas City, Mo. Sevedge is a commercial litigator and strategic adviser on matters pertaining to business insurance. He represents policyholder clients in connection with insurance coverage litigation and pre-lawsuit counseling for first-party and liability losses and exposures across all forms of commercial insurance products.
2016
Arianna Caldwell joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe in its corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital practice group in New York.
William Townshend joined Verrill Dana’s private clients and fiduciary services group in Portland, Maine. Townshend focuses his practice on all aspects of estate planning, probate administration and trust administration.
2018
As Jonathan Babcock and fellow University of Virginia alumna Katy Greiner were wed in July, the couple celebrated with “a whole UVA Law crew!” Babcock wrote. “It was great to get the band back together and it goes to show how special our time at UVA Law was for all of us. We made lifelong friends! I hope the current students enjoy their experience at UVA as much as I did.”