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2001
Dan Mullin was the honored guest in he New York Times in September 2nd Judicial District, in Nebraska
at the New York Law School Law 2013. He was elected executive in December 2013. he news was 

Review’s Year-End Reception in director of the Board of Elections in featured in the Journal Democrat
March 2013 celebrating the 2012- August 2013. (he New York Times)
and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Lavanya Pisupati was named
13 academic year. He is the Senior a 2013 Rising Star by he New
Vice President of Investigations for kevin Ward was named Jonathan R. Miko writes that he
York Law Journal in April 2013.
Major League Baseball.
commanding oicer of Patrol was named Chief Executive Oicer She is deputy bureau chief in the
Borough Queens South in July of Alacrity Renovation Services
New York City Law Department’s
19942013, promoted from New York LLC in Eugene, Oregon, in June Bronx oice. (he New York Law
Police Department Assistant Chief. 2013. He previously held the title
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Journal)
(Queens Chronicle)
of Chief Operations Oicer and
General Counsel.
homas H. Prol was elected to

Steven A. Llorens was featured
1997serve as Second Vice President
of the New Jersey State Bar
in “How to Compete Against a 
1999
Corporate Giant—and Win” in Association in July 2013. (New 

CNN Money and “Skiing Accident Jersey State Bar Association)
Kicks Entrepreneur into New nancy L. Berkowitz was featured
in “Simplifying the Ultimate Preethi Sekharan joined the elura nanos and Michelle Sileo
Career” in NJ Biz in September
2013. He is the co-founder of Wish List” in the Bergen Record in Florida irm Gunster’s business were featured in “Law School
May 2013. She is the president of litigation team as of counsel in Friends Score a Reality TV Show”
Strutz, which manufactures
orthotic supports.
MyRegistry.com. (Bergen Record)
September 2013. She is based in in the ABA Journal in May 2013
the irm’s Stuart, Florida, oice.
discussing their show Staten Island
Dakota Ramseur was elected as
Carolyn Richmond was quoted in Law. hey co-founded Lawyer Up,
“Leaving a Tip: A Custom in Need a judge on the New York City an educational company for law
Civil Court, New York County, in 2003
of Changing?” in he New York 
students. (ABA Journal)
Times in September 2013. She is a November 2013.

partner in the New York oice of 2000
Fox Rothschild, where she co-chairs John R. Vreeland was named
Douglas Henderson Jr.’s book,
a partner at Genova Burns 
the irm’s Hospitality Practice Endeavor to Persevere: A Memoir
Group. (he New York Times)
Giantomasi Webster in Newark, on Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe,
New Jersey, in July 2013. He is
Tennis and Life, came out in Marc A. Bender was honored at
director of the Wage & Hour paperback in April 2013. He is he Young Jewish Professionals
1995Compliance Practice Group and
 an employment specialist at a Finance and Hedge Fund Summit
member of the Labor Law Practice nonproit agency.
in New York as a Rising Star
Group. (Genova Burns Giantomasi
in May 2013. He is the Senior
John e. estes was one of the
Webster)
Harris kaufman was promoted Managing Director and Global

lawyers who represented Amgen from staf attorney to associate
Head of Acceleration and Seeding
Inc. in successfully closing its 1998in the transactional real estate at Cantor Fitzgerald.

$10.4 billion acquisition of Onyx 
group at Kasowitz Benson Torres
& Friedman LLP in Manhattan in Mark A. konkel joined Kelley
Pharmaceuticals Inc. in October
2013. He is a member of the October 2013.
Drye’s New York oice as a partner
Michael R. Dal Lago has joined in the Labor and Employment
NYLS Board of Trustees and a the Naples, Florida, oice of Virginia Markovich
partner at Sullivan & Cromwell group in October 2013.
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP as a joined Cozen
LLP in New York.
partner in its Creditors’ Rights, O’Connor’s
Gabriel G. Matus writes that he

Timothy McIlwain in September Reorganization & Bankruptcy Subrogation became Senior Vice President
Area practice in March 2013. & Recovery and General Counsel of eMagin
2013 helped negotiate a historic
settlement, along with he Lanier (Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP)
Department as
Corporation, based in Bellvue,
partner in the Washington, in May 2013 and
Law Firm, for thousands of current
and former NCAA student-athletes Jean-Claude Lanza was named New York oice in
was designated Chief Ethics
counsel to Patterson Belknap
November 2013.
Oicer in September 2013.
who sued video game giant EA
Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Web & Tyler LLP in New York in
December 2013. He practices in John D. Rutenberg writes that homas P. McDaid writes
Company alleging the unauthorized
use of their names and likenesses. the irm’s Corporate department, he was named a Senior Market that he became the Assistant
focusing on cross-border corporate Manager of Commercial Banking Superintendent for Business Afairs
He is a trial lawyer in New Jersey.
inance.
for TD Bank, N.A. for northern and Human Resources for the Locus
coastal South Carolina in Valley Central School District in
Michael Ryan was quoted in Stefanie Martinez was appointed
“Elections Board Rings in the Old, as November 2013.
New York in August 2013.
to the Papillion County Court,
Lever Machines Replace Scanners”

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