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Name: Dan Binisan
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Dan Binisan (LLM) participated in the law school’s Summer Institute for Global Justice in Utrecht.

Name: Ying Ju Chen
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Ying Ju Chen (LLM) is interning with alumnus Rommel S. Manuel (LLM ’07) at the Herbert Tan Law Office in New York.

Name: Phillip J Geheb
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Phillip J.F. Geheb has joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Real Estate Development Department.

Name: Anthony G Grice
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Anthony G. Grice has joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy Department.

Name: Jennifer Heydemann
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Jennifer Heydemann has joined the Chicago office of HeplerBroom LLC as an associate.

Name: Christopher L Hines
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Christopher L.E. Hines has joined the St. Louis office of Polsinelli Shughart PC. He concentrates his practice on a variety of intellectual property matters, including patents, copyrights, and trademarks, as well as patent applications for computer-related technologies.

Name: Christian B Hines
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Christian B.E. Hines has joined the intellectual property law firm of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Chicago.

Name: Young Seok Koo
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Young Seok Koo (LLM) is working at Stereotaxis with Kim Rosenfield, general counsel.

Name: Qing Nian
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Qing Nian (LLM ’07, JD ’09) has joined Goodwin Procter LLP. He previously worked for the public interest organization, Medical-Legal Partnership Boston, for one year.

Name: Brooke E Robertson
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Brooke E. Robertson has joined the Springfield, Illinois, office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Corporate Department.

Name: Benjamin J Siders
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Benjamin J. Siders has joined the St. Louis Office of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh LC as an associate in the Litigation Department.

Name: Elizabeth A Siemer
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Elizabeth A. Siemer has joined the St. Louis Office of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh LC as an associate in the Litigation Department.

Name: Kelly Snyder
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Kelly Snyder has joined HeplerBroom LLC as a litigation associate in the firm’s Edwardsville, Illinois, office.

Name: Scott Talkov
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Scott Talkov is an attorney at Reid & Hellyer APC in Riverside, California. He recently passed the California bar exam.

Name: Michael J Tolles
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Michael J. Tolles has joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Litigation Department.

Name: Elizabeth K Tomasovic
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Elizabeth K. Tomasovic has joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Litigation Department.

Name: Shen Wang
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Shen Wang (LLM ’09) and Zhen Li (LLM ’09) have accepted positions at the Wan Hui Da law firm in Beijing. The firm has a large trademark practice and works mainly for foreign investment companies in China.

Name: Shen Wang
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Shen Wang (LLM) received the “Intellectual Property & Technology Law Award,” which is awarded to the IP LLM graduating student who has the highest GPA.

Name: Mark R Wylie
Class Year: 2009
Class Note: Mark R. Wylie has joined the St. Louis office of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP as an associate in the Corporate Department.

Name: Young Sun Bang
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Young Sun Bang (LLM) is the Transnational Development Editor for the Innovation & Commerce Law Review.

Name: Sophia Coloma
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Sophia Coloma (LLM) recently passed the New York Bar and is working on her JSD at Washington University.

Name: Ashwini Durve
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Ashwini Durve (LLM) lives in Columbia, Maryland, and works with a legal process outsourcing firm based in Orlando, Florida. She hopes to take the Patent Bar in the near future.

Name: Natalia Evdokimova
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Natalia Evdokimova (LLM) works for the Federal Antitrust Commission as a lawyer in IP protection.

Name: Gleyse Gulin
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Gleyse Gulin (LLM) married her husband, Eric Albanese, on December 20, 2008.

Name: Sangwoo Han
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Sangwoo Han (LLM) worked as in-house legal counsel for UMI Corporation in Missouri during his OPT. He is now the CEO for Designed Concrete Pole Business Group in Samwha Remicon, which is one of the top three companies in its field in Korea. His company makes and sells street light poles, telephone poles, electricity poles, and traffic light poles for government or public owned companies. Sangwoon and his wife also celebrated the birth of their daughter, Katherine, who was born in September 2008.

Name: Eleonora Melato
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Eleonora Melato (LLM) works in Milan as an associate with Dewey & LeBoeuf. She is an assistant for one of the partners on the M&A team.

Name: Andrew Nash
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Andrew Nash recently interned with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of the High Court of Bombay in Mombai.

Name: Heather B Navarro
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Heather B. Navarro recently started in a new position with the Law Offices of Thomas E. Kennedy III LC, a public interest firm with offices in St. Louis, Missouri and Alton, Illinois.

Name: Shripriya Sri Padmanabhan
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Shripriya Sri Padmanabhan (LLM) announces the birth of her son, Sriram, on June 4, 2009.

Name: Zheng Tang
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Zheng Tang (LLM) works at Grandall Legal Group, a domestic law firm in Beijing. Zheng focuses on insurance law and anti-monopoly law.

Name: Mi Tian
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Mi Tian (LLM ’08) is a doctoral student in the Law and Economics of Money and Finance program at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Name: Frederic Tissot-Favre
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Frederic Tissot-Favre (LLM) and his wife Delphine announce the birth of their son, Benjamin, on March 26, 2009.

Name: Lina Yu
Class Year: 2008
Class Note: Lina Yu (LLM) works for the New York office of Deheng Law Firm, one of the largest Chinese law firms.

Name: Michael C Delman
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Michael C. Delman completed a two-year staff attorney position with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in August 2009. He now works as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C.

Name: Jianbin Hu
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jianbin (Jacky) Hu (LLM) is now Senior Legal Counsel, Legal, Tax & IP Division BASF (China) Co., Ltd. Last year, Jacky married her husband and lives in Shanghai.

Name: Irina Krivaya
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Irina Krivaya (LLM) works in corporate law, including compliance and joint ventures for Emerson’s legal department in Moscow. Along with several other Washington University alumni, she met in Moscow with Professor James Wertsch, who directs the McDonnell Academy and was meeting with potential partner universities.

Name: Rommel Manuel
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Rommel Manuel (LLM ’07) recently celebrated the birth of his daughter, Divine. Rommel offers Optional Practical Training (OPT) for LLM students at his law firm in New Jersey.

Name: John R Remington
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: John R. Remington was named a Rising Star in Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2009 Edition in the area of Business Litigation. He is an attorney at Quarles & Brady LLP.

Name: Shekhar Wig
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Shekhar Wig (LLM) works in India as a legal associate at QuisLex Legal Solutions Private Limited, a company which works with various American and British law firm.

Name: Jing Zhao
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Jing Zhao (LLM ’07, JD ’09) and Ben Zou (JD ’09) announce the birth of their daughter, Jocelyn, on April 19, 2009.

Name: Ran Zhao
Class Year: 2007
Class Note: Ran Zhao (LLM ’07) recently got married in China. She returned to Washington University this fall to finish her Master of Social Work. After she completes her MSW, she plans to return to China and find a job in a public organization or institution.

Name: Liqin Chen
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Liqin Chen (LLM ’06, JD ’08) is now an associate with King and Wood in Shanghai.

Name: Ali Adnan Ibrahim
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Ali Adnan Ibrahim (LLM) earned his SJD with distinction in May 2008. Dr. Ibrahim is now counsel with Baker & McKenzie Limited in Bahrain. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Name: Guangxi Jia
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Guangxi Jia (LLM ’06, JD ’08) is the foreign legal consultant for Viasystems in St. Louis.

Name: Munenori Kaku
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Munenori Kaku (LLM ’06, JD ’08) passed the New York Bar and is an associate with Ohashi & Horn LLP in New York.

Name: Steven T Kazmierski
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Steven T. Kazmierski has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as an associate and member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. In addition to his law degree, he holds a PhD in biological sciences. Kazmierski’s primary focus is on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, as well as the counseling of clients in the biological, chemical, and life sciences fields on a variety of intellectual property issues. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in such scientific publications as the Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Cell Biology, Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine and European Journal of Cell Biology.

Name: Steven Kazmierski
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Steven Kazmierski has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in St. Louis. His primary focus is on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, as well as the counseling of clients in the biological, chemical, and life sciences fields on a variety of intellectual property issues. Kazmierski, who holds a PhD in biological sciences, has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Name: Iliana Kirova
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Iliana Kirova (LLM ’06, JD ’08) is an associate at Ropes and Gray in New York City.

Name: Christallyn McCloud
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Christallyn McCloud, an associate at Bryan Cave LLP in the corporate practice area, was selected among the “2009 30 Under 30” outstanding St. Louis area business leaders by the St. Louis Business Journal.

Name: Jin Meng
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Jin Meng (LLM ’06, JD ’08) works for the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation during her OPT.

Name: Daniel T O'Connor
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Daniel T. O'Connor married Emily Schmelzle on October 3, 2009. The ceremony was held at Washington University’s Graham Chapel. A number of law school classmates returned to St. Louis to attend.

Name: Iling Ouyang
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Iling Ouyang (LLM ’06) passed the New York Bar and earned a Master of Information Management from the School of Engineering at Washington University.

Name: Yanhua Peng
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Yanhua Peng (LLM ’06, JD ’08) passed the New York Bar exam in July 2008 and the Chinese Bar in September 2008. She works as an associate with the Chia Partners in Singapore.

Name: Sasha E Polonsky
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Sasha E. Polonsky was honored at the Sanctuary for Families Above & Beyond Pro Bono Awards and Benefit. She was recognized for providing outstanding pro bono representation and advocacy on behalf of victims of domestic violence. Polonsky is an associate in the Litigation Department at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.

Name: Eulsoo Seo
Class Year: 2006
Class Note: Eulsoo Seo (LLM ’06, JSD ’07) was recently promoted to Director, Convergence Technology Examination Division I, Korean Intellectual Property Office.

Name: Jia Gu
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Jia Gu (LLM ’05, JD ’08) is an associate with Robert Wang and Woo LLC in Singapore. He handles international commercial litigation and arbitration cases in Asia.

Name: Karen Jones
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Karen Jones has been promoted to a senior associate at Evans & Dixon LLC in St. Louis. She is a member of the firm’s Civil Litigation and Medical Malpractice Groups.

Name: Ying Luo
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Ying Luo (JD) works for the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon, a firm specializing in patents and trademarks.

Name: Dena B Mendelsohn
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Dena B. Mendelsohn announced the birth of her son, Jack Bernard Mendelsohn, on December 7, 2009.

Name: Chalermkwan Rianvichit
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Chalermkwan Rianvichit (LLM) passed the judge’s exam last year in Thailand.

Name: Jung Whan Im
Class Year: 2005
Class Note: Jung Whan Im (LLM ’05, LLM ’06) was promoted to director of the legal affairs department at KT Corporation in South Korea.

Name: Jason Conway
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jason Conway has joined Armstrong Teasdale LLP as an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in St. Louis. His patent practice focuses on inventions in the mechanical and electrical arts during all phases of new product design and development. Conway prepares and prosecutes patent applications, counsels clients on patent infringement issues, and prepares non-infringement and invalidity opinions.

Name: Eugenia Cortez
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Eugenia Cortez (LLM ’04) married Christopher Parris on May 30, 2009.

Name: Sameer Desai
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Sameer Desai (LLM ’04, JD ’06) and Sejal Parikh (LLM ’04) announced the birth of their daughter, Hanaa. Desai and Parikh, along with Hanaa and their 5-year-old son, Paurav, recently moved from Chicago to San Francisco.

Name: Monica Hsiu-Yuan Yang
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Monica Hsiu-Yuan Yang (LLM ’04, JD ’06) was married in France on August 08, 2008.

Name: Hui-Feng (Tim) Hsu
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Hui-Feng (Tim) Hsu (JSD ’04) has established a new law firm with Ruey Chen (JSD ’03) and Wei-Lin (David) Wang (JSD ’04). The firm is named “Washington Group and Associates” in honor of their alma mater. In addition, Hsu was appointed an associate professor at the Chinese Culture University School of Law.

Name: Clarence Lee
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Clarence Lee and Kelly (Morrison) Lee announced the birth of their first child, Harrison Hall Lee, on November 18, 2009.

Name: Elizabeth Pernoud Feldmeir
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Elizabeth Pernoud Feldmeir (JD ’04, LLM Tax ’05) and Chrisopher Feldmeir (JD ’04, LLM Tax ’05) welcomed their second child, daughter Elsa, on August 5, 2009.

Name: Jacob Smiles
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jacob Smiles and his wife, Kate, welcomed their son, Zachary Benjamin, on October 25, 2009. Zachary joins his brother, Caleb Atticus, who was born in summer 2008. The family is living and working in Denver.

Name: Lynda Tabuya
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Lynda Tabuya (LLM) is a lecturer in the Professional Diploma in Legal Practice program at the School of Law, University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Law graduates must take this program before they are admitted to the Bar. She teaches Trial Advocacy, Legal Ethics, and Criminal Litigation.

Name: Jennifer  A Tyus
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Jennifer A. Tyus was selected as a 2009 Rising Star by Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers Magazine. Tyus is a family law associate at Lashly & Baer PC.

Name: Wei-Lin Wang
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Wei-Lin Wang (JSD ’04) is an assistant professor at National Chenchi University in Taiwan.

Name: Aya Yamane
Class Year: 2004
Class Note: Aya Yamane (LLM ’04) and her husband, Hiroyuki Hagiwara, announced the birth of their son, Shogo, on July 18, 2009. Yamane, who is currently on maternity leave, plans to return to work at Daiwa SMBC in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department next year.

Name: Celine Bondard
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Celine Bondard (LLM ’03) is working at the Paris office of Mayer Brown, focusing on intellectual property and international arbitration. A member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, she is working with Human Rights Watch in conjunction with the prosecution of the former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré.

Name: Min-chi Huang
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Min-chi Huang (LLM ’03, LLM ’04, JD ’06) and Jian Li (LLM ’03, JD ’05) announce the birth of their daughter, Iris, on June 13, 2009.

Name: Lijiao Li
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Lijiao Li (LLM ’03) is working for the Shu Jin Law Firm in Shenzhen, where he is focusing on securities, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions. Rachel Lin (LLM ’04) is his colleague at the firm.

Name: Ryan D McConnell
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Ryan D. McConnell has joined the faculty at the University of Houston Law Center and is teaching Criminal Procedure. McConnell’s full-time job remains prosecuting federal criminal cases ranging from fraud to counter-terrorism as an Assistant United States Attorney in Houston, Texas.

Name: Chayanan Suvanamas
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Chayanan Suvanamas (JSD) works for the Royal Thai Government, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Name: Yuan Zheng
Class Year: 2003
Class Note: Yuan Zheng (LLM ’03) is working at Yuan Zheng & Associates LLC. Her firm focuses on debt collections and consumer defense, including identification theft, credit card debts, and nonpayment of loan. Her daughter Ginkgo Chen was born in November 2008.

Name: Mayra Cerdan
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Mayra Cerdan (LLM ’02) is working at Bond Pearce LLP in London.

Name: Thomas Chih-hsiung Chen
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Thomas Chih-hsiung Chen (LLM ’02, JSD ’07) and his wife, Carol, hosted this year’s annual Wash U Law alumni reunion party. Ten Taiwanese Wash U alumni attended the lunch. The guests included Professor Bruce La Pierre and his wife, former Grand Justice Herbert Han-Pao Ma and his wife, and Kazuhiro Koide (LLM ’03).

Name: Melanie Schoenfeld
Class Year: 2002
Class Note: Melanie Schoenfeld married Daniel James Paul of Clayton, Missouri on May 16, 2009. They live in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently practicing labor and employment law with the United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor.

Name: Osama Alobaidy
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Osama Alobaidy (JSD) was appointed associate professor of law at the Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Name: Joonseok Lee
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Joonseok Lee (JSD ’01) was appointed by the Korean Government to Chief Trademark Administrative Judge, Intellectual Property Tribunal, Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). He previously served as director general of KIPO’s Policy Making, Management, and Public Relations Bureau.

Name: Nathan S Merrill
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: In April 2009, Nathan S. Merrill was selected for recognition in the publication, Colorado Superlawyers as a 2009 Rising Star. In September 2009, he was named to the 2009 Five Star Wealth Managers List in the September issue of 5280 and ColoradoBiz Magazines. Merrill practices at the law firm of Messner & Reeves LLC in Denver, Colorado in the areas of tax, estate planning, and general corporate.

Name: Gonzalo Pereyra de Olazabal
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Gonzalo Pereyra de Olazabal (LLM) is working for Pereyra de Olazábal & Bustillo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Name: Ying Ying Tam
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Ying Ying Tam (LLM) is a compliance advisor at the Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai.

Name: Ingrid F VanBiber
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Ingrid F. VanBiber was promoted to counsel at the Kansas City, Missouri, office of Polsinelli Shughart PC. She concentrates her practice on financial services with a focus in commercial real estate financing and tax credit financing.

Name: Alex Zgardan
Class Year: 2001
Class Note: Alex Zgardan (LLM) is the CEO of the first private pension fund in Moldova. He tries to education people about the importance of planned retirement. In addition, he has taught in Singapore, France, the UK, and Russia.

Name: Greg Jones
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Greg Jones has been appointed to the board of the City of Columbia New Century Fund Inc. Jones is a partner with Jones & Watkins LLC in Columbia, Missouri, where he specializes in wills, trusts, and business law. The New Century Fund is composed of tax deductible gifts, grants, and property designed to help improve the city of Columbia.

Name: Chenglin Liu
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Chenglin Liu (LLM ’00, JSD ’05) published a paper entitled “The Chinese Takings Law from a Comparative Perspective” in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (vol. 26, pp. 301-52). He is now an assistant professor of law at St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Name: Maximilien Yaouanc
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Maximilien Yaouanc (LLM ’00) is serving as senior counsel at Philip Morris International Management SA in Switzerland

Name: Chenbo Zhang
Class Year: 2000
Class Note: Chenbo Zhang (LLM ’00, JD ’06) and his wife, Li Ji, announce the birth of their son, Louis (Zhang Zimu) Zhang, on April 9, 2009.

Name: Alessandro Sartirana
Class Year: 1999
Class Note: Alessandro Sartirana (LLM ’99) is working for Crédit Agricole, an international bank based in Paris. Alessandro has been focusing on legal matters for a financial institution that has been under pressure due to the global financial crisis.

Name: Jeff Dunning
Class Year: 1998
Class Note: Jeff Dunning and his wife, Erika, welcomed their third child, Katherine Louise, on August 29, 2009. She joins sister Ella, 6, and brother Joey, 4. Dunning is an associate at Greenberg Traurig in Chicago, specializing in intellectual property law.

Name: Amy (Tucker) Ryan
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Amy (Tucker) Ryan and her husband, Andy, announce the birth of their son, Joseph Delaney Ryan, on June 5, 2009. The Ryans live in St. Louis. She is an attorney with Martin, Leigh, Laws and Fritzlen PC, where she practices bankruptcy law. Ryan can be reached via e-mail at atr@mllfpc.com.

Name: Mark Levine
Class Year: 1997
Class Note: Mark Levine and his wife, Amanda, announce the birth of their first child, Isabella Rose, on September 8, 2009. Levine is associate general counsel of Clinical Data Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Name: Connie McFarland
Class Year: 1996
Class Note: Connie McFarland was honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with a 2009 Women’s Award in the category of Rising Star. She is a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis.

Name: Christopher D Man
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Christopher D. Man was promoted to partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, Man is a member of the firm’s Trial Department.

Name: Tim Schranck
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Tim Schranck has relocated to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and has joined Apatoff |Peters LLC in Rockville, Maryland, as a partner. Schranck continues to represent management in labor and employment matters and also practices commercial litigation. In addition to working for the firm in Maryland, he also maintains a law office in Miami Beach, Florida, where he has practiced since 2003.

Name: Ravi Sundara
Class Year: 1995
Class Note: Ravi Sundara has been named to the new position of firm manager at the Stolar Partnership LLP in St. Louis. He joined the firm in 2004 after practicing with the Pranschke & Holderle firm for nine years prior to its merger with Stolar. Sundara focuses on business and tax law and represents nonprofit organizations in matters involving taxation and regulatory compliance.

Name: Richard Dreitzer
Class Year: 1994
Class Note: Richard Dreitzer has been elected a shareholder at Bullivant Houser Bailey PC. An attorney in the Las Vegas office, Dreitzer practices employment law with an emphasis on defending corporate entities and maintains a construction law practice. He also serves as a justice of the peace pro tempore for the Las Vegas Township Justice Court.

Name: Andrew Last
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Andrew Last is finishing his fourth year of medical school at the University of California, Davis. In March 2010, he and his wife are looking forward to both (a) the birth of their second child, and (b) “Match Day,” when they will be told where Last will serve his residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology and live for the next four years. In other news, his three-year-old daughter Flora is proud to announce she can jump in the swimming pool “without any help at all” and can sing the whole “Family Guy” theme song.

Name: Luisa F Trujillo
Class Year: 1993
Class Note: Luisa F. Trujillo has joined Cassiday Schade LLP in Chicago as of counsel. Her practice concentrates in general tort litigation with extensive experience in medical and professional liability cases. Trujillo previously worked for more than 16 years at Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, where she was a partner.

Name: Geri L Dreiling
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Geri L. Dreiling has been named to the Board of Directors for the Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma. The St. Louis-based nonprofit organization provides mental health and youth program services to immigrants and refugees. Dreiling is an attorney and president of Legal Media Matters, a St. Louis-based public relations and Web content writing firm for attorneys.

Name: Jonathan Rolbin
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Jonathan Rolbin received a special commendation from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tony West for his work representing the Department of State. Rolbin is a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and can be reached at jonathan.rolbin@usdoj.gov.

Name: Jonathan Rolbin
Class Year: 1992
Class Note: Jonathan Rolbin recently joined the United States Department of State as the director of legal affairs and as the law enforcement liaison in the Bureau of Consular Affairs/Office of Passport Services.

Name: Beth A Dickhaus
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Beth A. Dickhaus has been appointed chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Insurance Regulation Committee. Dickhaus is a special counsel with the Denver, Colorado, law firm of Hall & Evans LLC, where she is a member of the firm’s Administrative, Regulatory, and Legislative Practice Group.

Name: Donna Frazier Schmitt
Class Year: 1991
Class Note: Donna Frazier Schmitt was elected chair the Board of Directors for the 2010 term for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC). The coalition is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization devoted to combating product counterfeiting and piracy. Formed in 1979, the IACC is comprised of a cross section of business and industry from autos, apparel, luxury goods, and pharmaceuticals to food, software, and entertainment. The IACC develops and conducts training for domestic and foreign law enforcement officials, submits comments on intellectual property enforcement laws and regulations in the United States and abroad, and participates in regional and international programs aimed at improving intellectual property enforcement standards.

Name: Barry Blankfield
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Barry Blankfield was recently promoted to the rank of captain in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Name: Donald L Erftmier
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Donald L. Erftmier, Jr. announced the opening of Erftmier Law LLC in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm’s practice focuses on business counseling and wealth succession planning, including traditional estate planning, business succession planning, and fiduciary representation in connection with trust and estate administration. He was listed in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and was recognized in Omaha Magazine’s Best Lawyers edition for 2009.

Name: Jack H Su
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Jack H. Su is the head of Energy, Asia for Mayer Brown JSM. Having spent 18 years based in Hong Kong and Singapore, he has represented companies engaged in investment and finance on energy, oil and gas, power, and water projects. Su also has taken a lead role in numerous mergers and acquisitions, private equity, manufacturing, and infrastructure transactions involving multi-jurisdictions across Asia.

Name: Nick H Varsam
Class Year: 1990
Class Note: Nick H. Varsam joined Thermadyne Holdings Corporation(Nasdaq: THMD) as vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary in July 2009.

Name: Kimberly A Lynch
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Kimberly A. Lynch was appointed general counsel at ShoreBank Corporation in Chicago. She previously was senior vice president and associate general counsel for LaSalle Bank Corporation, where she also headed regulatory and corporate affairs for the North American Legal Department.

Name: Catherine Werner
Class Year: 1988
Class Note: Catherine Werner has been named the City of St. Louis's first Sustainability Director. Working in the Mayor's Office, she will concentrate on energy and sustainability projects for the City. Werner previously practiced environmental law in Washington, D.C., and served as an environmental and sustainability consultant for a number of cities and organizations. She has been a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited professional since 2007.

Name: Linda Hermann
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Linda Hermann has joined Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP as of counsel in the firm’s Financial Services Practice Group in St. Louis. She concentrates her practice in the area of commercial lending and financial services. Hermann previously was assistant general counsel for a publicly traded bank.

Name: Jeffrey H Wolf
Class Year: 1986
Class Note: Jeffrey H. Wolf, a shareholder in the Phoenix office of Greenberg Traurig LLP, was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of franchise law. It is the fourth consecutive year he has received this recognition.

Name: Kevin J Luther
Class Year: 1984
Class Note: Kevin J. Luther and Bruce L. Bonds (JD ’82) are co-authors of the book, Illinois Workers’ Compensation Law, 2009-2010 Edition. The book is the 27th volume of the Illinois Practice Series published by West. Luther is a partner in the Rockford, Illinois, office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen PC. He chairs the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group and concentrates his practice in the areas of workers’ compensation, employment law, and employer liability. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel and a contributing editor of the “Workers’ Compensation Report” for that organization's Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly.

Name: Hal J Pos
Class Year: 1984
Class Note: Hal J. Pos, who was recently elected to the TerraLex board of trustees, was inducted into the board at the international organization’s annual meeting in Hong Kong. TerraLex’s membership is composed of 15,000 attorneys in more than 155 leading independent law firms in 100 countries. Pos is vice-president, treasurer, and director of Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City. He is a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Department, where he concentrates on environmental and mining matters.

Name: Susan Amato
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Susan Amato was honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with a 2009 Women’s Justice Award in the category of Citizenship. She is the founding partner of the Law Offices of Susan Amato in St. Louis.

Name: Kathi  Chestnut
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Kathi Chestnut was honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with a 2009 Women’s Justice Award in the category of Trial Practitioner. She is an officer in the Litigation and Labor & Employment Practice Groups and is a former member of the Board of Directors at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC in St. Louis.

Name: Susan Rowe
Class Year: 1983
Class Note: Susan Rowe has been elected to the new Leadership Committee at the Stolar Partnership LLP in St. Louis. Rowe, who joined the firm in 1987, is a trial attorney with expertise in employment and labor law.

Name: Bruce L Bonds
Class Year: 1982
Class Note: Bruce L. Bonds and Kevin J. Luther (JD ’84) are co-authors of the book, Illinois Workers’ Compensation Law, 2009-2010 Edition. The book is the 27th volume of the Illinois Practice Series published by West. Bonds is a partner in the Urbana, Illinois, office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen PC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of workers’ compensation, third-party defense of employers, and employment law. He recently was appointed to a committee of attorneys who will recommend revisions to the rules governing practice before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission.

Name: George Harris
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: George Harris was inducted into the Burnsville High School Hall of Fame in Burnsville, Minnesota. He currently resides in Highland, Utah and practices law in the Salt Lake City metro area.

Name: Sara Siegel
Class Year: 1981
Class Note: Sara Siegel was honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with a 2009 Women’s Justice Award in the category of Enterprise. She serves as general counsel for Dierbergs Markets.

Name: Thomas Mug
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Thomas Mug has been named to The Best Lawyers in America. A partner at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman LC in St. Louis, he was recognized in the category of Tax Law.

Name: Judge Catherine Perry
Class Year: 1980
Class Note: Judge Catherine Perry was honored by Missouri Lawyers Media with a 2009 Women’s Justice Award in the category of Public Official. She is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Name: Steven Miller
Class Year: 1979
Class Note: Steven Miller reports is co-head of the white collar criminal law practice for Reed Smith LLP. Before entering private practice, he served with the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago, where he was chief of the Special Prosecutions Division. After 30 years, he reports that he “still finds his practice exciting and challenging.”

Name: Kenneth W Bean
Class Year: 1977
Class Note: Kenneth W. Bean has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, which is composed of lawyers throughout the state who concentrate in the defense of civil litigation. Bean is a shareholder and founding member of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC in St. Louis. He focuses his practice in health law and litigation, including the defense of high-risk medical malpractice litigation and medical products liability. During the last 10 years, he has tried to completion more than 50 cases.

Name: Jay Levitch
Class Year: 1976
Class Note: Jay Levitch has been elected to the new Leadership Committee at the Stolar Partnership LLP in St. Louis. Levitch, who joined the firm in 1980, has served as co-chair of Stolar’s Litigation Practice for the past several years. He is a trial attorney in complex business disputes with expertise in the areas of real-estate and land-use disputes and condemnation law.

Name: James E Robertson
Class Year: 1975
Class Note: James E. Robertson recently published the article, “One of the Dirty Secrets of American Corrections: Retaliation, Surplus Power, and Whistleblowing Inmates,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, vol. 42:611-649 (2009).

Name: Mark Davis
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Mark Davis, founding partner of Davis Levin Livingston in Honolulu, Hawaii, was selected as the Lawyer of Year by Honolulu Magazine and Best Lawyers in America. This year, he began a two-year term as president of The Inner Circle of Advocates, a peer selected trial lawyers organization limited to 100 plaintiffs lawyers nationwide.

Name: Andrea J Grant
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Andrea J. Grant has been elected to Washington University’s Board of Trustees. Grant is a partner at DLA Piper in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. She has extensive experience representing independent marketers and refiners of petroleum products. Grant concentrates in import and export petroleum transactions involving regulations of the U.S. Customs Service and the Department of Commerce, as well as restrictions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Name: Andrew Hoyne
Class Year: 1974
Class Note: Andrew Hoyne (JD ’74, LLM ’82) has joined Polsinelli Shughart PC in St. Louis as vice chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Group. He represents emerging and established life sciences companies spawned by regional universities. Hoyne has helped launch and develop companies involved in cancer and cardiovascular research, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products, as well as agricultural products.

Name: James A Christman
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: James A. Christman has been named a Fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers. Inductees into the prestigious organization must possess an impressive record of trial success with recommendations from both judges and opposing counsel. Christman has had approximately 45 jury verdicts in multiple jurisdictions. He is a partner at Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP in Chicago and a member of the firm’s Litigation and Health Care practices.

Name: Bill von Glahn
Class Year: 1973
Class Note: Bill von Glahn was recognized by the Journal Record with a Leadership in Law Award, which honors legal professionals for their community efforts. Von Glahn is of counsel at Conner & Winters LLP in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He practices in the area of general corporate matters, corporate legal practice, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and dispute resolution.

Name: Lenny Vines
Class Year: 1972
Class Note: Lenny Vines was recognized by Franchise Times as a Legal Eagle for his work in franchising. He is the only Missouri attorney to be named to the list. Vines is an officer in the Corporate Practice Group at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale PC in St. Louis.

Name: Derek I Meier
Class Year: 1970
Class Note: Derek I. Meier was named to Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America guide in the area of Immigration Law. Meier is an immigration attorney at Dykema Gossett PLLC in Detroit. He represents major multinational corporations, as well as smaller companies and individuals on business immigration issues.

Name: Joan Dillon
Class Year: 1966
Class Note: Joan Dillon was named for the 16th year in a row to appear in The Best Lawyers in America, and is one of only six attorneys in Georgia to be listed in The International Who’s Who of Trademark Lawyers.

Name: William H Webster
Class Year: 1949
Class Note: William H. Webster was honored with a 2009 Life Time Achiever Award from The American Lawyer Magazine at a dinner in New York City on October 28, 2009.