Class Notes: Fall 2020
News and Updates from BU Law Alumni
News and Updates from BU Law Alumni
Fall 2020
Class notes for the fall 2020 issue of The Record reflect submissions received between December 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020.
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Juris Doctor
1969
Ernest D. Buff was recognized for excellence in law by Marquis Who’s Who and named a Top Attorney of the Year for 2020 by the International Association of Top Professionals for his outstanding leadership abilities and commitment to the legal profession.
1977
Maria C. Green, retired senior vice president and general counsel of Ingersoll-Rand, was appointed to the board of directors of Littelfuse Inc.
1982
Donna Thiel joined the litigation and regulatory practice and healthcare sector of DLA Piper as a partner in Washington, DC.
1983
Lori Caron Silveira was named executive director of the board of directors of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority.
1984
William M. Joseph was recognized among Georgia Trend magazine’s 2019 Legal Elite.
Michael Kaplowitz has been named a deputy commissioner of the Department of Environmental Facilities of Westchester County, New York.
1986
William R. Moorman Jr. joined Murphy & King as a shareholder.
Hon. Curtis J. Farber was reappointed to the New York Criminal Court by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
1987
Susan Davis was named partner at Nelson Mullins. She practices in the area of commercial real estate law.
Kenneth Lench joined the Public Company Accounting oversight board as general counsel.
1988
Karen L. Ling has been appointed to the board of directors of TherapeuticsMD.
1989
Gary Domoracki joined Oppenheimer & Co. as the Boston office branch manager and managing director of investments.
Debbie Horwitz, a director and former cochair of the real estate group at Goulston & Storrs, has been named a Real Estate/Construction Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. Horwitz is known nationally for her deep experience developing high-profile mixed-use, multifamily and retail projects—often solving what are first-of-their-kind challenges for both buyers and sellers.
Peter S. Lawrence was named president and chief executive officer of Cardurion Pharmaceuticals.
Kenneth Mendelson is a senior managing director at Guidepost Solutions.
1991
Faith K. Bruins joined Buchalter as a real estate shareholder.
Nathaniel Dalton was named to the board of directors of iCAD, a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions.
Susie Glick Gilfix joined software crowd-testing firm Applause as general counsel.
Hon. John T. Hecht has been reappointed to the New York Criminal Court by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Glenn Pollner joined WilmerHale as partner in the firm’s New York office.
1992
Gerald A. Reynolds was named chief counsel for the United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration.
1993
Heather Benedict Terrell, writing as Marie Benedict, published her latest novel, Lady Clementine, about the life of Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill’s wife.
Michael W. McTigue Jr. joined Cozen O’Connor to cochair its national class actions practice group.
1994
Caryn McDowell has been appointed chief legal, administrative officer, and corporate secretary at Cortexyme, a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative diseases.
Peter Stewart joined Squire Patton’s London office after spending more than two years at Clyde & Co. Stewart represents oil companies, governments and related entities in upstream oil and gas development matters, including advising on exploration and production agreements and long-term gas supply arrangements.
1995
Marc Kenny joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in the Los Angeles, California office.
Sona Pancholy has been named president of Meritas, a global alliance of independent law firms.
1996
Patrick Downes joined Schiff Hardin as a partner.
Shirin Philipp, general counsel at Lesley University, was named a 2020 In-House Leader in the Law by Mass Lawyers Weekly.
1997
Joy M. Napier-Joyce was recently featured as a Band 1 attorney in the Chambers USA 2020 guide, a publication ranking the leading lawyers and law firms across the US. Napier-Joyce is a principal in the Baltimore office of Jackson Lewis PC. She also leads the firm’s employee benefits practice group and counsels clients in a broad range of benefit matters, including general compliance and administration of qualified retirement plans under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.
Dana Goldsmith Needleman has been appointed to Tribune Publishing’s board of directors.
Silvio Tavares joined the board of directors of CSG Systems International.
2000
Itai Nevo has been named chair of DLA Piper’s corporate & securities practice group.
2001
Lisa Geller is head of intellectual property of Frequency Therapeutics.
2005
Kate Fulton joined the Federal Housing Finance Agency as chief operating officer.
Hon. Rantideva Singh has been appointed to the New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court.
Judge Advocate Lt. Col. Hanna Yang was named JAG of the Year in the Air Reserve Component category.
2008
Donald Waack, a financial services lawyer who counsels global banks and other financial services clients on regulatory, transactional, and enforcement matters, has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner in Washington, DC.
2009
Eric P. Carnevale has been elevated to partner at Lando & Anastasi.
Albert J. Carroll was made a partner at Morris James LLP.
Matthew S. Cote became a partner at Sherin and Lodgen.
Aaron Johnson joined the Downey Brand estate planning and taxation practices in Sacramento, California.
Maggie Schroedter was named a partner at Higgs Fletcher & Mack.
2010
Ling Kong joined the New York office of Goulston & Storrs as a director in the firm’s corporate group.
Daniel H. Park was promoted to principal at Berman Fink Van Horn in Atlanta, Georgia.
2011
Jameson Rice, a transportation lawyer practicing primarily in the areas of road, rail and intermodal transportation, and unmanned aircraft systems (drones), was named a partner at Holland & Knight.
2012
Timothy Hatfield, who has particular expertise in health fraud and abuse, insurance regulation, and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, was promoted to partner at Stoel Rives.
Meredith Paige Shih was named to the Boston Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel, a five-member panel that reviews appeals made with the Boston Police over internal investigations cases, by Mayor Marty Walsh.
Aleksey Shtivelman was promoted to partner at Shutts & Bowen.
2013
Christine Han has been sworn in to the board of governors of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
2016
Liz Nagle joined Hinckley Allen from Nixon Peabody, where she was a litigation associate in the complex commercial disputes group.
Cecilia Curiel Piña was promoted to partner at Solcargo.
2017
Bianca Eddy has joined Faegre Baker Daniels as an associate.
2018
Ryan D. Class joined Carlton Fields as an associate in Hartford, Connecticut. He is a member of the firm’s mass tort and product liability practice.
Kuhu Parasrampuria joined the business litigation practice of Morris James.
2019
Benjamin P. Nimphie joined Warner Norcross + Judd LLP.
LLM in American Law
2010
Elaine Call was promoted to associate general counsel for privacy at Facebook.
Maria Jose Uribe Saieg started a new position at KREDITO in Santiago, Chile.
2012
Maria Slobodchikova (JD’16) started a new position as a dispute resolution associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
2014
Ambar Maceo-Rossi was appointed chair of the Young Lawyers Sub-Committee of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
2015
Lucie Loncle-Duda was elected the deputy mayor of Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt in France.
Yan Tu started a new position as senior patent counsel at Merck Holdings Co. in China.
2016
Diana Mazloum was promoted to associate at Dentons in Montreal.
2018
Khalid B. Bin Moammar started a new position as legal consultant at the Center of Legal Studies & Research in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
LLM in Banking & Financial Law
1999
Michael P. Reed joined WSFS Bank, the primary subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corp., as executive vice president and chief risk officer.
2009
Richard Magrann-Wells, a veteran of the banking and financial services technology industries, has joined Certificial as chief operating officer.
2013
Alžbeta Kálnová started a new position as assistant vice president of market risk at Commerzbank AG.
2019
Bruce Mwauluka is an attorney with the Nature Conservancy, the world’s biggest conservation NGO. The role involves managing risk and providing legal support to the Europe and Africa teams.
2020
Sina Kokot is working in capital markets as a law firm associate in Frankfort.
LLM in Taxation
2002
Felice Gray-Kemp was appointed the global general counsel of Cyient, a leading provider of technology services and solutions.
Todd McGee was reelected as president of the Holyoke, Massachusetts City Council.
2006
John D. Russell has been named chair of the AP&S corporate department.
2011
Rebecca MacGregor joined Bowditch & Dewey LLP as a partner.
