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ALUMNI Newsin May 2007, where she focused in theareas of intellectual property/entertainmentlaw. While at NYU, she was alsoawarded the Jack J. Katz MemorialAward, given to the student who demonstratedthe highest excellence in entertainmentlaw. In June, Krueger accepteda legal analyst position with BloombergLP in the area of intellectual property.Danielle M. Papa has left the NassauCounty District Attorney’s Office and isnow in private practice with the law firmof DerGarabedian and Dillon inRockville Center, New York.Keeshea Turner Roberts has joined theWashington, D.C., office of McKinney& Associates as an associate attorney.The law firm specializes in employmentdiscrimination and other personnelissues. She also serves as the Providencedistrict representative to the FairfaxCounty Commission for Women.Marie R. Sylla was named VerizonInc.’s vice president for federal governmentrelations.2003Brian R. Della Rocca has joinedRockville, Md.’s Stein, Sperling,Bennett, De Jong, Driscoll & Greenfeigas an associate. Della Rocca focuses onprobate and estate planning, includingfamily limited liabilities.Lona J. Depew and her husband, MattBoucher, have relocated to Austin,Texas, where he is legal counsel for St.Jude Medical and she is an associatewith a health care firm. The couple arethe parents of a 2-year-old daughternamed Elke.Kimberly Menashe Glassman recentlyjoined the firm of James E. Brown &Associates, representing specialeducation students in the D.C. publicschools.Jessica Egler Pannett married PatrickLeon Farquhar Pannett on Aug. 18,2007. The ceremony was conducted byMonsignor Szupper, assisted byKimberly Zitner. The ceremony tookplace at St. Joseph on the Brandywine inGreenville, Del., and the reception wasat the Deerfield Golf Club in Newark,Del. The couple honeymooned on theBig Island of Hawaii.Matthew N. Strawn has been namedIowa campaign manager for U.S. Sen.John McCain’s 2008 presidentialcampaign.Emily K. Penney has accepted a newposition as an associate in the SecuritiesEnforcement Department at Wilmer,Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr. She isrecently engaged to Christopher R.O'Neill, a securities attorney at FINRAenforcement. The couple is planning aSeptember 2008 wedding in Bristol, R.I.Robert J. Witmeyer married SaraGrace Machi, in Shorewood, Wis., onMay 25, 2007. The couple will reside inTallahassee, Fla. Witmeyer is a newassociate at the law firm of Broad& Cassel. Before joining Broad &Cassel, he served as a law clerk forFlorida Supreme Court Justice HarryLee Anstead.2004Birchard B. Allen III was recentlyappointed contracting officer for theLibrary of Congress, Office ofContracts & Grants Management. Priorto his appointment, Allen served as asenior contracting specialist supportingthe library’s new national audio-visualconservation center’s digital preservationprogram.Rebecca Seboria Greiner was marriedon April 28, 2007, in New Jersey. Sherecently accepted a new position as anassociate attorney at the law firm ofPertierra and Toro, LLC, specializing inemployment-related immigration.Steven E. Kaplan and his wife, Maria,are the parents of two children,Benjamin, age 2, and Zachary, 3 monthsold. The family resides in Bethesda, Md.Michael C. Kneisley was mentioned inthe Oct. 19, 2007, edition of theBaltimore Sun in a story about formerUniversity of Maryland basketball starTerence Morris, whom Kniesley representsas a sport agent for theWashington-based Neustadt Group.Carolyn M. Maro, an associate in thelitigation section of Curtin & HeefnerLLP in Bucks County, Pa., was selectedas a 2007 “Lawyer on the Fast Track” byAmerican Lawyer Media. She is one of 35lawyers across Pennsylvania to receivethe statewide honor, which recognizesPennsylvania lawyers under 40 who haveshown outstanding promise and commitmentin the legal profession and havemade a significant contribution to thecommunity at large. In addition to herpractice, Maro is currently the chairpersonof the young lawyers division of theBucks County Bar Association.Jakki Mathis-Hull joined K12 Inc., apremiere online educational curriculumand services provider for students inkindergarten through 12 th grade, asassistant general counsel in June 2006.She and her husband, Jim, are the proudparents of a second son, James Cameron,born in May 2007.Kelly T. Murphyhas joined MillerCanfield in its intellectualproperty andlife sciences andbiotechnology groupsin the firm’sKalamazoo, Mich.,office. As an associate,he specializes in patent, licensingand agreement matters, and representslarge and small pharmaceutical,biotechnology companies and nonprofits.Murphy was previously with theNational Institute of Allergy andInfectious Disease, NIH, U.S.Department of Health and HumanServices in Bethesda, Md., where he wasa technology development associate.AnnaLisa Schmidt Nash marriedMurray Nash on Oct. 6, 2007, inWashington, D.C. She continues to46CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007
ALUMNI Newswork as an associate in the corporateand finance group of Vorys, Sater,Seymour and Pease LLP, located inD.C. Her husband is a diplomat withthe Office of the Naval Attaché at theEmbassy of Australia. The couplebought a home in Takoma, D.C., andwill reside in both the United States andAustralia.Armstrong “Army” Robinson wasnamed chief of staff to Rep. Geoff Davis(R-Ky.), it was announced in August. Hewas promoted from the position of legislativedirector and counsel in the congressman’sWashington office. Armstrongwas a volunteer during Davis’ 2004 congressionalcampaign.Diego J. Rojas has joined Stein,Sperling, Bennett, DeJong, Driscoll &Greenfeig of Rockville, Md., where hefocuses on personal injury, criminal lawand traffic issues. Before joining thefirm, he was an associate with Bierman,Geesing & Ward in Bethesda, Md.Philip A. Ross has been appointedassistant United States attorney in theeastern district of Michigan. Based inDetroit, he represents the United Statesin criminal and civil asset forfeiturematters. Previously, he served as a contractattorney with the Department ofJustice’s asset forfeiture and moneylaundering section, where he co-editeda treatise, Asset Forfeiture Law in theUnited States.Kathyrn ‘Kate’ Tarallo is a new associatein the Washington, D.C., office ofEpstein Becker and Green. She practicesin health care and life sciencesgroup. Tarallo was previously with theFDA, where she was an attorney in theCenter for Biologics Evaluation andResearch.Neil W. Tyra proudly announces theformation of the Tyra Law Firm, LLClocated in downtown Rockville, Md.The firm specializes in personal injury,worker’s compensation, family law,elderly law and sports representation.Prior to forming the firm, Tyra was anassociate at the firm of Simeone &Miller, LLP of Washington, D.C.,where his practice focused on personalinjury and premises liability litigation.Jacob Royal Zissu married AimeeElizabeth Bartol, of Syosset, N.Y., onMay 28, 2007. He is an associate in theNew York office of Clausen Miller, aChicago law firm. The bride is the seniorcopy editor at Esquire magazine inNew York. She graduated from BostonUniversity.2005Christopher J. Armstrong is currentlyinvestigative counsel to the SenateFinance Committee, serving under Sen.Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) Before comingto Grassley’s staff, he worked for theU.S Office of Special Counsel inWashington, D.C., investigating andprosecuting retaliation cases againstgovernment whistleblowers.Alexander W. Major and his wife areexpecting their third child early in 2008.In August 2007, Major began as a judicialclerk for the Hon. Paul W. Grimm,chief magistrate judge, U.S. DistrictCourt of Maryland.Wesley A. Nicolas has accepted a positionas intellectual property counsel atNovo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc., ofPrinceton, N.J. Nicholas was previouslywith Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C., inReston, Va.Stephen J. O'Connor has been servingas a trial attorney for the ICE PhoenixDistrict Office of Chief Counsel ofDHS since Oct. 1, 2007. He lives withhis wife, Yingying, in Mesa, Ariz.Marisa DeFazio Polito marriedChristopher Polito on Sept. 28, 2007.The couple resides in Washington, D.C.Virginia Koenig Scattergood has beennamed director of government relationsand legislative counsel for theAlexandria, Va.-based AeronauticalRepair Station Association. The newswas announced in May 2007.Scattergood was formerly the organization’sassociate counsel. The associationadvocates on behalf of the aviationmaintenance industry.Maureen Curtin Sullivan andBrendan F. Sullivan, 2005, were marriedon March 24, 2007. Classmates inattendance included Brian Porter,Kurtis Acker, Sarah O’Donnell, EileenHopkins and Julie Gauther Marino.The couple currently resides in Boston.Brendan is working as an assistant districtattorney in Middlesex County.Maureen has joined the public financedepartment of Edwards Angell Palmer& Dodge.Stephen M. Waguespack has beenappointed deputy chief of staff for policyto Louisiana governor-elect BobbyJindal. Waguespack is a Washingtonlobbyist and former legislative aide toU.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX). Heworked as policy director on Jindal’sgubernatorial campaign, and is a nativeof the state.2006Rebecca L. Byrd recently started as adeputy attorney general for theDelaware Department of Justice. Byrdworks in the administrative division,primarily on legislation but also onother kinds of legal work.Kelly Loud Cleary has completed aclerkship with Hon. Claude M. Hilton,EDVA. She began as an associate in theWashington, D.C., office of Akin,Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld inOctober 2007. She married AndrewCleary on Sept. 22, 2007, inWashington, D.C.Candice Dee Cleere, a first lieutenantJAG officer in the U.S. Air Force, waspromoted to the rank of captain in July2007. She is currently stationed atAviano AFB in Italy.Lori A. Grazio and her husband, JasonDeRoche, welcomed twins, CatherineRose and Nathaniel Robert, on Nov.10, 2006.Fall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 47
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