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2011
Alexander F. Spilberg joined Zetlin & De Chiara LLP as
an associate in July 2014. He focuses on the representation of corporations in complex litigation, including contract and commercial disputes, real estate transaction and construction disputes, and employment discrimination and wage claims in state court.
Claire r. Thomas has a conducted a series of training sessions on immigration law for law firms
and nonprofit organizations in connection with her work as
2013
Gloria M. Chacon has been selected as an Immigrant Justice Corps fellow beginning as of September 2014. The news appeared in the New York Law Journal in May 2014.
Chaitanya (Shaq) Katikala was named the first fellow of the Network Advertising Initiative in February 2014. The news was covered by Bloomberg Law.
Somya Kaushik writes that her company, Esq.Me, has launched a live product and hosted a launch party in May 2014. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the company.
Jacob Sirotkin and Douglas Varacalli founded a law firm, Sirotkin/Varacalli LLP, in July. Their Manhattan-based firm focuses on intellectual property law, litigation, and corporate law. It features a 99 percent paperless office and a case management system allowing clients to see the progress of their case.
Brandon H. Weinstein joined Rawle & Henderson, LLP as an associate in the firm’s Manhattan office in July 2014. He focuses his practice in the areas of
civil litigation and workers’ compensation. •
staff attorney at the Safe Passage Project. She was a presenter at the Safe Passage Project CLE course, “Best Practices Before the Asylum Office,” in February and several subsequent CLE courses.
Trevor Timm was featured in “Inside Edward Snowden’s Life
as a Robot” in Wired magazine
in June 2014. He was also quoted in “Snowden Joins Board of Press Group Funded by Daniel Ellsberg,” in The New York Times in January 2014. He is Executive Director at Freedom of the Press Foundation and an activist and writer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, California.
Ian M. Turetsky writes that
he published “‘Daimler’ and
US Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations,” in Corporate Counsel with Jennifer L. Achilles in March 2014. He is an associate at Reed Smith LLP in Manhattan.
2012
Christopher G. Binns was named an assistant district attorney in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office in January 2014. The news was featured in the New York Law Journal.
Melissa K. Flores writes that she joined the Somerville,
Massachusetts, office of ActBlue as in-house counsel in February 2014.
Seena J. Ghaznavi was mentioned in The New Yorker article, “Man and Machine,” in February
2014. He is a freelance producer at Bernstein Global Wealth Management in Manhattan.
elliot S. Solop writes that he was named the “2014 Young Lawyer of the Year” by the Middlesex County Bar Association in New Jersey. He is an associate at Ansell, Grimm & Aaron, P.C. in Ocean, New Jersey, where he devotes his practice to matrimonial and family law.
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IN MEMORIAM
Class of 1950 Seymour Ira Feig February 3, 2014
Class of 1951 Harold S. Braun June 13, 2014
Class of 1951 Royden A. Letsen May 26, 2014
Class of 1952 Myles J. Ambrose June 3, 2014
Class of 1954 Arthur G. Cohen August 9, 2014
Class of 1954 Irving Doynow May 12, 2014
Class of 1954 Arthur Isaac Soybel September 6, 2014
Class of 1955 William P. Kennedy March 28, 2013
Class of 1955 Bruce Coleman Lederer April 2013
Class of 1956 Peter J. Hayes May 21, 2013
Class of 1958 Harold N. Lederman July 1, 2014
Class of 1959 Herbert E. Berman July 6, 2014
Class of 1960 Louis L. Padula March 24, 2014
Class of 1960
Eileen White March 13, 2012
Class of 1965 Mario A. Monaco February 24, 2013
Class of 1965 Vincent F. Nicolosi July 11, 2014
Class of 1965 Marvin H. Stempel March 27, 2013
Class of 1967 Cornelius O’Brien September 7, 2014
Class of 1973 Reverend Mark A. O’Connell August 22, 2014
Class of 1984 Brian M. McGorry February 27, 2014
Class of 1984 Rudolf L. Raines October 13, 2013
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