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Alumni News Archive
[July 2010] Victoria K. Hall gave a presentation at the D.C. bar regarding an appellate decision upholding the enforceability of open source software licenses.
[June 2010] Inez Markovich was recognized as one of the Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 for her accomplishments as a champion of the interests of the Russian immigrant community. She is a founding organizer and board member of a bank being developed that would be the first community bank in the United States created to serve the Russian-speaking community.
[June 2010] Brian Gallini, Assistant Professor Law at the University of Arkansas where he is also Co-Head Coach for the University of Arkansas Men's Ice Hockey Team. He recently published Police "Science" in the Interrogation Room: The Use of Pseudo-Psychological Interrogation Methods to Obtain Seventy Years of Inadmissible Confessions, 61 Hastings L.J. 529 (2010) (lead article).
[May 2010] Michael Ruggio was quoted in a Seattle Times article regarding bank regulators' perspectives in a bank insolvency. Ruggio is a former senior counsel at the FDIC.
[May 2010] Judge Phyllis W. Beck was named president of the Independence Foundation, a not-for-profit philanthropic organization serving Philadelphia and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties. Previously, Judge Beck was general counsel of The Barnes Foundation, home to one of the finest collections of nineteenth and twentieth-century French paintings in the world. Judge Beck was the first woman to serve as a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
[May 2010] Beth Noveck is the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer responsible for Open Government and head of the White House Open Government Initiative. She blogs at www.whitehouse.gov/open.
[May 2010] David Skeel co-authored an article on bankruptcy reform in The Wall Street Journal. Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School.
[April 2010] David Spitko is the artistic director of The Choristers, an ecumenical choir in Ambler, PA. The choir will perform Bach's Mass in B Minor on May 1.
[April 2010] Tina M. Talarchyk will give a Chapter 11 overview at the Lorman Education Services seminar on Bankruptcy in Florida.
[April 2010] Former U.S. Attorney Carl Schnee is this year's recipient of the 21st Century Fund for Delaware's Children Muriel E. Gilman Award, which recognizes the contributions benefitting children in Delaware.
[March 2010] Wayne Martorelli is presenting on the New Jersey False Claims Act for an Advocacy Institute conference. Martorelli is an assistant attorney general for the state of New Jersey.
[March 2010] John T. Midgett is a speaker at the 31st Annual Duke University Estate Planning Conference. His talk provides an examination of various rights a surviving spouse may have in a decedent's estate.
[February 2010] Ewalde M. Waldrop serves on the foundation board of Northhampton Community College.
[February 2010] Rabiya Nagi is now senior counsel at General Motors UK Ltd.
[February 2010] Lori Novak Donatelli was sworn in as a district magisterial judge in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[February 2010] Pennsylvania State University has named Cynthia Baldwin to the position of vice president and general counsel.
[January 2010] Darius C. Gambino presented in an ALI-ABA online CLE course on the FTC's newly-revised guides on endorsements and testimonials.
[January 2010] Francis J. Devlin published an article in the Houston Journal of International Law on global competition law. Devlin is currently an adjunct professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center.
[January 2010] Barry Klickstein is serving as treasurer and is on the executive board of the Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies.
[January 2010] Andrew Kerber, Esq., deputy attorney general and counsel to the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission, spoke at a seminar at Delaware Park on the rule promulgation process, appeals and Superior Court cases of interest.
[December 2009] Mark Ledenbach, now with Provide Commerce, Inc., was part of the human resources team that helped Provide Commerce win a San Diego SHRM Workplace Excellence Award.
[December 2009] Adrienne J. Arkontaky was featured in a recent piece in The Journal News of Westchester, New York. The piece centered around her experiences as a mother of a child with special needs and how that led the way to her work advocating on behalf of families with children and adults with disabilities.
[December 2009] James Kossuth recently was honored with the St. John's Prep Outstanding Volunteer Alumni Award.
[December 2009] W. Andrew Miller is serving as the regional legal advisor to the National Ski Patrol.
[December 2009] Enrico Pagnanelli has been volunteering as a Big Brother for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
[December 2009] Laura Stegossi is serving on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council (term expires in 2010).
[December 2009] Geoffrey Weber is serving on the United Way of Burlington County (New Jersey) Community Impact Council. He also is chairman of The Drenk Foundation, which supports the activities of the Lester A. Drenk Behavioral Health Center.
[November 2009] Lina M. Brenner has joined McKesson Corporation as Senior Counsel.
[November 2009] Richard Keck was quoted in an Intellectual Property Watch article titled, "ITU Panels: Innovation Makes ICTs A Moving Landscape; IP Dispute Resolution Rising."
[November 2009] Aimee M. Czachorowski was named to Delaware Volunteer Legal Services' 2009 Pro Bono Honor Roll.
[October 2009] Claus Melarti was recently named Director – IP Counsel at Sony Corp.
[October 2009] Michael Yaki, a commissioner to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, recently testified before the House Indian Affairs Subcommittee on the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009.
[October 2009] Glenna Hazeltine will present at the Eastern Pennsylvania Special Education Administrator's Conference on "Gifted Education: New Regulations and Best Practices." Hazeltine practices in the areas of general and special education law. She was formerly Assistant General Counsel and Administrator for the School District of Philadelphia.
[September 2009] Charles Davidson, now director of the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute at New York Law School, was recently quoted in a Network World article about the importance of training and tech support for elderly people.
[August 2009] Chuck Whitney was named senior vice president and general counsel of Oglethorpe Power Corp., a major Georgia electric utility and the nation's largest power-supply cooperative.
[August 2009] Bruce Hanson, a former Duane Morris partner in the Trial Practice Group, has joined ARAMARK as its Director of Government Affairs Compliance.
[July 2009] The Honorable Neil Olack (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Mississippi), formerly a Duane Morris partner, recently spoke at AIRA's 25th Annual Bankruptcy and Restructuring Conference on the methodology and tools needed for forensic accounting in the bankruptcy area.
[June 2009] Savannah Sellman, a former Duane Morris partner, presented on claims, risk management and underwriting at the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA) Leadership Camp prior to the PIAA Annual Meeting.
[June 2009] Candace Schiffman, formerly a special counsel in the Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group in Duane Morris' Houston office, is now with ConocoPhillips Company.
[May 2009] Lisa Hargadon, formerly a Duane Morris associate, is presenting this month at a Lorman CLE seminar titled "The Elements of an Effective and Lawful Human Resource Infrastructure."
[May 2009] Marissa Boyers Bluestine, a former Duane Morris attorney and currently assistant defender, Defender Association of Philadelphia, recently spoke on a panel during the 2009 Widener Law Review 2009 Symposium: The Child Witness.
[April 2009] Former Duane Morris attorney David Skeel co-wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal regarding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's regulatory reform proposals. Skeel is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.
[April 2009] Curtis Pew, formerly a Duane Morris attorney, is quoted in The National Law Journal on the large number of arbitration claims stemming from recent financial frauds. Pew is the director of Hofstra University School of Law's securities arbitration clinic.
[April 2009] Former firm chairman Thomas Hyndman has been elected treasurer of Visiting Nurse Association Community Services, a nonprofit agency serving Montgomery County, Pa., and surrounding communities.
[April 2009] Portfolio.com named former Duane Morris attorney Beth Noveck in its "Top Tech Policy People to Watch" list.
[March 2009] Kristina Caggiano, a former Duane Morris intellectual property associate now serving as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, recently published a description and analysis of the gene sequencing patent case In re Kubin in her article "Coping with Kubin," published in Pharmaceutical Executive.
[March 2009] David Weiss, formerly a Duane Morris partner, was profiled in The News Journal regarding his position as the acting U.S. Attorney for Delaware in the Obama Administration.
[March 2009] Brian Crowner, formerly an attorney in the Employment and Immigration Practice Group at Duane Morris, is now an in-house counsel at QVC, Inc.
[February] Timothy Kozlowski, a former associate in the Trial Practice Group of Duane Morris' Wilmington office, is now an in-house counsel at Maximus Federal Services, Inc.
[February] Beth Noveck, formerly an attorney at Duane Morris, will publish Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful, Brookings Press (forthcoming 2009)..
[February] Susan L. Swatski-Lebson, a former Duane Morris associate in the Trial Practice Group, is the co-author of "Finding a Needle in an Electronic Haystack: The Science of Search and Retrieval," which was recently published in American Bar Association Section of Litigation: Mass Torts Committee.
[February] Joseph P. Monteleone, former partner at Duane Morris, was recently quoted in National Underwriter on claims related to the investigation of Bernard Madoff.
[February] Former Duane Morris attorney Liane Komagome recently co-presented a webcast titled "Calculating Your Return on Investment from Email Archiving."
[February] Robin Locke Nagele, a former Duane Morris health law partner, will speak at The Governance Institute Leadership Conference for Trustees, Physicians, Executives and Nurse Executives on "Fiduciary Oversight: Identifying Areas of Risk."
[January 2009] Adrienne J. Arkontaky, a former Duane Morris law clerk, has been named to the Board of Trustees of The John A. Coleman School in New York. The school serves children with disabilities in Westchester and Putnam counties and New York City. Arkontaky has also been named to the Board of Directors of Family Ties. Family Ties serves families of children with emotional and behavioral challenges in Westchester county.
[January 2009] Kristina A. Caggiano, a former associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, accepted a clerkship with the Honorable Sharon Post at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
[December 2008] Marlene Castillo, a former corporate associate at Duane Morris, has joined Coca-Cola Bottlers in Mexico as an in house attorney.
[December 2008] Former Duane Morris attorney Susan Swatski-Lebson co-authored an article for Law Journal Newsletters discussing potential litigation regarding social networking sites.
[November 2008] Brett Popolow, a former associate in the Newark office, recently became Senior Litigation Counsel at AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc., a non-assessable mutual insurer that insures mostly gas and electric companies and other businesses in related energy industries.
[November 2008] Former Duane Morris associate Brian Gallini became an Assistant Professor of Law at University of Arkansas School of Law. He recently finished an article titled "Equal Sentences for Unequal Participation: Should the Eighth Amendment Allow All Juvenile Murder Accomplices to Receive Life Without Parole?"
[November 2008] Former attorney Debra Bromson, now Chief Privacy Officer, AstraZeneca, will participate on a Center for Business Intelligence Life Sciences' Forum on E-Discovery and Records Management titled "Develop a Proactive Strategy to Overcome Challenges in ESI Management and Growing Privacy Concerns."
[November 2008] Applied Discovery, Inc., a division of LexisNexis, has named former Duane Morris attorney Virginia P. Henschel as Vice President of Industry Relations and head of the company's newly formed E-Discovery Financial Crisis Response Team.
[November 2008] Catherine E. Beideman and Sean K. Burke, formerly associates in the Trial Practice Group, are serving as law clerks for The Honorable Joel H. Slomsky in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
[October 2008] Maria Cilenti, formerly an attorney in the Trial Practice Group, moved from Lawyers Alliance, where she was a Senior Staff Attorney, to the New York City Bar Association, where she is Director of Legislative Affairs.
[October 2008] Richard Smith, formerly a partner in the Corporate Practice Group, has joined American Refining Group, Inc. as its General Counsel.
[October 2008] Veronica J. Finkelstein, a Clerk of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and former Duane Morris associate, was named a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly.
[October 2008] Jordan Anger, a former associate in the New York office of Duane Morris, is now an Assistant United States Attorney - District of New Jersey.
[October 2008] Liane Komagome, a former special counsel in the Houston office of Duane Morris, was recently a member of the faculty of the American Conference Institute's 6th Annual Advanced Forum on Document Management and E-Discovery.
[September 2008] Former Duane Morris associate Christopher J. Pippett has been named president of the board for Habitat for Humanity of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[September 2008] Former Duane Morris associate Danielle Kaminski recently presented a seminar titled "Complying with Rules and Regulations of the New York Board of Professional Engineering and Land Surveying."
[September 2008] Adam Schwartz, formerly an associate at Duane Morris, was appointed by the Florida Bar Board of Governors to the Florida Supreme Court's bar admissions committee. He also serves on the Florida Bar's advertising committee.
[September 2008] Alan C. Perkins, a former associate in the firm's San Francisco office, was selected by the American Immigration Lawyers Association to serve on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service California Service Center Liaison Committee.
[September 2008] Marissa Boyers Bluestine, an assistant defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, published an Op-Ed in the Philadelphia Daily News on human trafficking in the city.
[August 2008] Former Duane Morris San Francisco partner Michael Yaki has been appointed National Platform Director for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
[August 2008] Veronica J. Finkelstein, formerly an associate at Duane Morris, recently became a Law Clerk to the Honorable Jane Cutler Greenspan, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
[August 2008] Former Duane Morris Wilmington partner Adam Landis participated on a panel on non-bankruptcy solutions at the fourth annual Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop, sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute. The panel included Duane Morris partner Walter Greenhalgh.
[August 2008] Former Duane Morris attorney William Malarkey has been named Managing Director, Investment Banking, of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc.
[August 2008] Craig Turet, a former partner in the Trial Practice Group, has been named to the board of directors of the Southeastern Pennsylvania division of the March of Dimes.
[July 2008] Alisa M. Shin of The Vanguard Group, Inc., will be on the faculty at the Fundamentals of Estate Planning Seminar of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in July. She is formerly an attorney in Duane Morris' Estates and Asset Planning Group.
[July 2008] David A. Degnan, formerly an associate in the Trial Practice Group, recently joined the United States Attorneys' Office - Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
[July 2008] Charles J. Hill, formerly an attorney in the Corporate Practice Group, joined Verizon as Assistant General Counsel - IT.
[July 2008] Daniel F. Lindley, formerly a partner in the Wilmington office and currently President of The Northern Trust Company of Delaware, was recently elected Vice Chair of the Blood Bank of Delmarva.
[June 2008] Robert E. Grossman, formerly a partner at Duane Morris, is now a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.
[May 2008] Beth Noveck, formerly an attorney at Duane Morris, teaches a seminar titled "The First Amendment in the Digital Age." Noveck is a law professor and director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School.
[April 2008] Barbara J. Busharis, formerly an attorney at Duane Morris, will teach Family Law this spring at Florida State University College of Law. Busharis is also an assistant public defender.
[March 2008] Amy E. Slater, formerly a Duane Morris associate, received the 2008 Special Volunteer Recognition Award from the Legal Clinic for the Disabled. Slater is currently Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Wachovia Corporation.
[February 2008] Ruben Gutierrez, formerly an associate in the San Diego office, joined Invitrogen Corporation, a provider of products and services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
[February 2008] John S. Schwartz, formerly a partner in the Miami office, joined Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc. as Corporate Counsel.
[January 2008] James W. Hess, formerly a partner in the Philadelphia office, joined CarMax as Counsel.
[November 2007] Charlene Keller Fullmer, formerly an associate in the Philadelphia office, joined the United States Attorney's Office - Eastern District of Pennsylvania as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
[September 2007] Bahar Shariati, formerly an associate in the Philadelphia office, joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan.
[September 2007] Peter P. Vander Velde, formerly an associate in the Pittsburgh office, joined Sapa Extrusions, Inc. as Chief Legal Officer - North America.
[August 2007] Jean L. Batman, formerly a partner in the San Francisco office, recently published Advising the Small Business: Forms and Advice for the Legal Practitioner (American Bar Association, August 2007), a guide for lawyers serving small businesses.
[August 2007] Special-needs lawyer Adrienne Arkontaky, a former Duane Morris law clerk, was featured in an article in the Deseret News, urging families with disabled children to create an estate plan.
[August 2007] D. Troy Blair, formerly an associate in the Pittsburgh office, joined Aker Kværner, a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions, as Director, EPC Contracts.
[August 2007] Brett Popolow, formerly an associate in the Newark office, joined Crum & Forster Insurance Company.
