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ALUMNI Newsindustries on the full range of employmentand labor law matters. Walter’s traditionallabor law work includes arbitrations;collective bargaining; NLRB andcourt litigation; assisting employers inconnection with strikes, picketing, handbillingand other economic weapons;counseling on subcontracting, workrelocations, permanent and temporaryclosings, and other management decisions;and assisting employers withorganizing and decertification campaigns.Walters also regularly acts as leadcounsel in employment cases before federaland state courts and administrativeagencies and has tried cases before juriesand arbitrators.1995Catherine L. Annas married MatthewSelig on May 4, 2008, in Chatham,Mass. The couple resides in Boston.John W. DiNicola and his wife,Brigette, are the proud parents of RyanParke, born on April 18, 2006, and MarinFiona Grace, born on Nov. 1, 2007.Sheryl D. Hanleyhas been elevatedto counsel withthe global lawfirm Edwards AngellPalmer and Dodge.She is a member ofthe litigation departmentand practicesin the firm’s Providence, R.I., office.Hanley exclusively represents managementin labor and employment matters,including Department of Labor investigations,proceedings before the NationalLabor Relations Board, labor arbitrationsand collective bargaining. She also representsemployers before the EqualEmployment Opportunity Commissionand state human rights agencies todefend against discrimination claims.Joseph A. Hennessey was quoted byAbajournal.com for a story titled “D.C.Area Law Firm Sues Over OutsourcedLegal Work, Alleges Privilege Issue,”posted online May 23, 2008. Hennessey,a name partner in the Bethesda, Md.-based firm of Newman McIntosh &Hennessey, explained that his firm filed alawsuit against the federal governmentbecause the outsourcing legal work toIndia permits the U.S. government tointercept confidential documents, violateattorney-client privilege and theconstitutional rights of those accused ofwrongdoing. The government interceptionis possible because the NationalSecurity Agency is free to spy on foreigncompanies, due to a lack of constitutionalrestraints on the government’s overseasactivities. “We are really headingtoward a collision between globalizedeconomic interests and the limitedextension of constitutional rights,”Hennessey said.Gregory P. Hilton has opened a newlaw practice in Gardez, Afghanistan. Hewas recalled to active duty with the U.S.Navy in November 2007. Hilton mentorssenior officers in the AfghanNational Army. He expects to return tothe United States in November 2008.1996Laura R. Biddle joined the financialservices group in Alston & Bird’sWashington, D.C., office as of counsel.She was previously an associate atThacher Proffitt & Wood.Kevin I. Goldberg is president-elect ofthe Maryland Trial Lawyer’sAssociation. Goldberg practices withGoldberg, Finnegan & Mester, LLC, inSilver Spring, Md.Rita C. O’Brien was promoted toadministrative judge at the DefenseLegal Services Agency, Defense Officeof Hearings and Appeals. The office is apart of the Department of Defense. Herpromotion was effective March 3, 2008.1997Michael C. Dell’Angelo was named asa shareholder in the law firm of Berger& Montague, P.C., in Philadelphia,where his practice concentrates onantitrust, securities and complex commerciallitigation. Dell’Angelo was alsonamed by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazineas a “Rising Star,” an honor conferredon the top 2.5 percent of attorneysin the state who are age 40 or younger.Matthew E. Haggerty has been namedchief executive officer of Times-Shamrock Communications, a nationwidemedia organization based inScranton, Pa., which now owns 42 printproperties, 17 radio stations and a distributioncompany. Haggerty had been generalmanager of Times-ShamrockInteractive Media since December 2006.A former law clerk, private firm associateand assistant U.S. attorney for the MiddleDistrict of Pennsylvania, Haggerty leftthe practice of law five years ago to joinTimes-Shamrock Communications.Commander Sean P. Henseler (U.S.Navy JAG Corps) and Major Eugene Y.Kim (U.S. Army JAG Corps) are bothcurrently deployed in support ofOperation Iraqi Freedom. Henseler isassigned to Multi-National Forces Iraq,while Kim is assigned to Multi-NationalSecurity Transition Command-Iraq.Henseler and Kim are scheduled toredeploy from Iraq in the early summerof 2008. Henseler will be returning tohis home station at the Naval JusticeSchool in Newport, R.I., while Kim willbe assigned to the Office of the JudgeAdvocate for U.S. Forces Korea inSeoul, Korea.Mandinema ‘Mondi’ Kumbula-Fraserand her husband, Andre, welcomed a sonnamed Farai Anesu Fraser in July 2007.He joins his older brother, Sekayi AnesuFraser, born in July 2005.Spring–Summer 2008 / C UALAWYER 49