Dayton Law alumna helps connect professional women Pittsburgh
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON — Dayton Law alumna Brittany Holzer ’13 is a dedicated fan of everything Pittsburgh, but she knew she had to leave town in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a lawyer. Now Holzer works at Tucker Arensberg in downtown Pittsburgh and launched a networking group called PGH Women Connecting Women.
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UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON — Dayton Law alumna Addie J. King took her law school experience, her vivid imagination and her love for fiction and became a novelist. King went on to write several books, including a series that features a protagonist with new friends, difficult professors and disconcerting challenges – a law student, of course.…
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW — UConn Law alumna Karen DeMeola ’96, assistant dean for enrollment and students, was honored as the 2018 Attorney of the Year at the Connecticut Law Tribune’s annual awards dinner on May 24, 2018. In addition to serving as assistant dean at UConn School of Law, DeMeola is president of the…
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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL — Colorado Law alumnus and former Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett ‘82 is the latest inductee to the Bolivian Academy of Judicial Sciences, an exclusive group of distinguished lawyers and judges. Garnett was accepted Feb. 20 after orally presenting in Spanish his thesis comparing the justice systems in the U.S. and…
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Chicago Law alumnus Judge Frank H. Easterbrook ’73 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has been selected by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to receive this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Chicago Law alumna Jeanne Cohn-Connor ’84 addressed the annual Stout Luncheon on how women lawyers can drive change. As a partner at the Washington D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis, Cohn-Connor has distinguished herself as go-to counsel on the environmental aspects of massive transactional and Chapter 11 restructuring cases.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — University of Chicago Law alumnus Heath Dixon ’01 is senior corporate counsel for intellectual property operations at Amazon, in Seattle. Dixon’s current role is to help Amazon systematize and improve the way it secures and protects its intellectual property assets.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — University of Chicago Law alumna Asma Uddin ’05 was named one of the UCLA Initiative on Security and Religious Freedom’s first fellows. From 2009 to 2016, Uddin was a staff attorney at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — Chicago Law alumna Renee N. Knake ’99, the Law Center’s Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics and director of Outcomes and Assessments at the University of Houston Law Center, was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — University of Chicago Law alumnus Lyneir Richardson, ’90, is CEO of Chicago TREND, a company that spurs the development of retail businesses to strengthen city neighborhoods, and the executive director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School in Newark, N.J.
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