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p(image-right). !/assets/155120/75x/emery.jpg(emery)! Mark Emery has been promoted to partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in its Washington, D.C. office. Emery focuses his practice on appellate and dispute resolution matters. He has...

p(image-right). !/assets/155118/75x/repstokesbary2015_018cropped.jpg(repstokesbary2015_018cropped)! Drew Stokesbary was recently elected to his first term in the Washington State House of Representatives where he will represent a district in a suburban area located 30...

The Honorable Rudy Gerber, having retired from the Arizona Court of Appeals after 22 years as a judge, has been teaching law at Thomas Jefferson Law School in San Diego....

p(image-right). !/assets/155119/75x/perry_louis.jpg(perry_louis)! Lou Perry was recently named partner at Faegre Baker Daniels in its Indianapolis office. Perry practices intellectual property law, focusing on trademark, copyright, advertising and media matters. A...

Jack Vales recently joined the law firm of Dentons US LLP as a partner in its New Jersey office. Vales focuses his practice on the litigation of business disputes for...

Geoffrey Spiess recently became Corporate Counsel and Director of Human Resources for the City of Mishawaka in Indiana.

p(image-right). !/assets/155121/75x/kathleentinnerello.jpg(kathleentinnerello)! Kathleen Tinnerello has joined the law firm of Jackson Lewis, P.C. as an associate in its Cleveland office. Tinnerello represents employers in state and federal courts, as well...

Robert Numbers was recently appointed as a Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Prior to his appointment, Judge Numbers practiced at...

It is with sadness that the law school announces the passing of Maurice Nelson on January 12, 2015 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was 88 years old. Maurice came to the...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/154076/200x/rick_garnett.jpg(Richard W. Garnett)! The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday (Jan. 20) that an Arkansas prison’s beard ban violated a prisoner’s religious liberty. According to "Richard W. Garnett":http://news.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/rick-garnett/,...

Richard Garnett, NDLS Professor and Director of the Program on Church, State & Society, has been appointed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as one of 18 Indiana citizens...

Andrea Pin (PhD, University of Turin, Italy) was a fall 2014 Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies visiting fellow. He is senior lecturer at the University of Padua, where he...

Professor A.J. Bellia joined Justice Antonin Scalia on a panel discussing the role of history in the field of Federal Courts at the annual meeting of the American Association of...

NDLS Professors Patricia L. Bellia and Nicole Stelle Garnett have been awarded endowed professorships in recognition of their outstanding scholarship, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced January 12.

p(image-right). !/assets/153349/75x/jimcarr.jpg(jimcarr)! Kelley Drye & Warren LLP announced as part of the Firm’s strategic plan that James S. Carr has been elected Chair of the Firm. Carr joined Kelley Drye’s...

p(image-right). !/assets/153260/75x/dugan_conor.jpg(dugan_conor)! Conor Duggan has joined the firm of Warner Norcross & Judd, LLP in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dugan joins Warner Norcross as a senior counsel in its Appellate &...

Shaun Kelly has joined Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP as an associate with the firm’s Corporate & Business Litigation group in its Wilmington, Delaware office.

Courtney Lee Tawresey, has joined Husch Blackwell as an associate in its Denver office as a member of the Financial Services industry team where she will focus on banking and...

p(image-right). !/assets/153265/75x/timothy_malloy.jpeg.jpg(timothy_malloy)! Timothy Malloy, founding partner of McAndrews, Held & Malloy, has been named one of the Top 10 Intellectual Property Lawyers in Illinois in the September 2014 business edition...

p(image-right). !/assets/153259/75x/caroline_mcintyre_1_.jpg(caroline_mcintyre_1_)! Caroline McIntyre, Managing Partner of Bergeson, LLP in San Jose, California, has been elected President of the William A. Ingram Inn of Court. On behalf of the Inn,...

John Bales joined Kutak Rock, LLP as an associate in the public finance group. He serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel on transactions in the firm’s charter...

p(image-right). !/assets/153264/75x/johnson_angela_copy.jpg(johnson_angela_copy)! Angela Johnson has joined Faegre Baker Daniels in its South Bend office and will practice in the areas of labor and employment.

Jeffrey Vercauteren has joined the firm of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. as a member of its Commercial Real Estate Team in its Madison, Wisconsin office. Vercauteren represents clients in all...

p(image-right). !/assets/153263/75x/jennings_thomas_1_.jpg(jennings_thomas_1_)! Thomas Jennings has joined the law firm of Curtin & Heefner, LLP as a partner in the Business & Municipal Finance and Environmental and Public Sector Departments in...

p(image-right). !/assets/153297/75x/jamesmurray_125x125.jpg(jamesmurray)! James Murray is the Director of the John Gardner postgraduate program at Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service. Murray was recently selected to be a part of...

Robert Helm passed away on December 11, 2014 in Port Huron, Michigan. Robert spent his legal career practicing law in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw, Michigan. Please view a tribute...

p(image-right). !/assets/153261/75x/escoffery_erin_hires.jpg(escoffery_erin_hires)! Erin Escoffery has joined the firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP as an associate in its Indianapolis office. Escoffery will practice in Taft’s Labor and Employment group.

p(image-right). !/assets/153262/75x/gumbiner_krysta_hires.jpg(gumbiner_krysta_hires)! Krysta Gumbiner has joined the firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP as an associate in its Indianapolis office. Gumbiner will practice in Taft’s Environmental group.

Shelley Bacastow has been appointed Vice President and General Counsel at PCTEL, Inc., a leader in performance critical telecom solutions, in Bloomingdale, Illinois. Prior to this promotion, Bacastow served as...

Philip Kalamaros has been chosen by the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana to serve on the board of directors for the Defense Bar for 2015. Kalamaros is a partner in...