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ALUMNI Newsacquisition and related professionalassociations. Before joining NorthropGrumman, Waldman served as nationalsecurity advisor to former Sen. TrentLott (R-Miss.). Waldman has wonthe U.S. Navy Distinguished CivilianService Award, the Secretary ofDefense General Counsel OutstandingPerformance Award and the D.C. CityCouncil of Engineering SocietiesArchitect of the Year award.1991Jennifer M. Blunt advanced to the positionof counsel with the Washington,D.C., office of Kutak Rock. She had previouslyworked as an associate.Adam M. Mycyk left Chadbourne &Parke in August 2007 to join CMSCameron McKenna, a large British firm,as a partner in its new Kyiv, Ukraine office.1992Craig V. Burnett was named vice presidentof Acacia Research Corporation inJanuary 2008. Burnett joins the technologylicensing firm from DiscovisionAssociates, a patent licensing companywholly owned by Pioneer Corporation.Having been with Discovision since 1993,Burnett was involved in licensing its opticaldisc technology to companies locatedin Japan and Korea. Prior to PioneerCorporation, he was an attorney withArnold, White & Durkee and held engineeringand marketing positions withHewlett-Packard, Silvar-Lisco, TexasInstruments and Harris Corporation.A.B. Cruz III, executive vice presidentand general counsel for The E.W.Scripps Co, was the subject of a March26, 2008, profile in In-House Counsel, anonline magazine from Law.com. TheScripps Company today employsapproximately 9,000 people and mostrecently reported $353.2 million in netincome.Alice S. Fisher resigned on May 23,2008 as assistant attorney general of thecriminal division for the U.S.Department of Justice. Fisher has servedin the position for nearly three years,making her one of the longest-servingassistant attorney generals in criminalhistory, according to the JusticeDepartment. Fisher focused the criminaldivision on fraud, public corruption andinternational organized crime. Shedeveloped the National ProcurementFraud Task Force, which brought actionsin more than 300 cases in procurementfraud related to the war on terror. Duringher tenure, the division also led the wideranginginvestigation against JackAbramoff and brought several enforcementactions against companies underthe Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Themother of two young children, Fisher hasnot announced her next step.William J. Gildea III has been hired asvice president of business developmentfor Interactive Intelligence, anIndianapolis-based global provider ofunified IP business communicationssolutions. He is responsible for evaluatingacquisition opportunities and fordeveloping new partnerships designed toincrease the company's revenue andgrowth. Gildea has 15 years of combinedexperience as a financial analyst andattorney specializing in the communicationsindustry.1993Michael C. DiLorenzo has joined theU.S. Attorney’s Office for the District ofColumbia, where he practices in thenational security section of the criminaldivision. DiLorenzo joins the officefrom the narcotic and dangerous drugsection of the criminal division of theJustice Department.Jennifer H. Pincus has been named as ashareholder and director of PerkinsThompson, P.A. in Portland, Maine, asof Jan. 1, 2008. Pincus and her husband,Josh Silver, are also happy to announcethe birth of their daughter, Emma.1994John T. Aquino is the author of“Filmmakers as Jesting Pilate?: TheIssue of Truth in Fact-Based Films,”published in Entertainment, Arts and SportsLaw Journal Fall/Winter 2007, Vol. 18,No. 3, pp. 31–33.Christopher R. Concannon has beenelected as a new director to the board ofthe NASDAQ Exchange. He is currentlythe executive vice president of transactionservices for the NASDAQ stockmarket, where he is responsible forthe management and operation ofNASDAQ’s transaction services business.Kathy L. Cooper has joined Sullivan &Worcester to start the firm’s newtelecommunications practice inWashington, D.C. She was previously apartner at Swindler Berlin ShereffFriedman.Charles W. Johnson IV has been promotedto partner in Akin Gump Hauer& Feld’s Washington office, wherehe practices in the firm’s public law andpolicy group.Jonathan B. Kramer was approved onApril 8 by President Bush for appointmentas a veteran’s law judge at theBoard of Veterans’ Appeals. The boardholds hearings and renders decisions onbehalf of the secretary of the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs inappeals concerning claims for benefits.Veteran’s law judges are roughly equivalentto administrative law judges. JudgeKramer lives in Derwood, Md., with hiswife, Terri, and two daughters, Simoneand Risa.Eileen Lynch O’Hara has joinedMalverne Realty Company as an associatebroker after taking a sabbatical fromthe practice of law as deputy boroughchief in the family court division of theNew York Law Department, where shewas a prosecutor for more thanseven years. O’Hara resides in Malverne,N.Y., with her husband, Tom, and children,Patrick (8), Brendan (6), Aidan (4)and Keely Rose (2).Charles F. Walters was named a partnerin the Washington, D.C., office ofSeyfarth Shaw. He represents and counselsemployers from many different48CUALAWYER /Spring–Summer 2008