Class Notes updated September 29, 2011
Drew Amoroso is currently an associate at Reed Smith LLP in San Francisco.
Craig Baumgartner is currently an associate at Reed Smith LLP in San Francisco.
Christopher Camp founded the nonprofit organization Restart Democracy. Christopher currently resides in Woodside, CA. His little girl will be turning 2 this year.
Ho-Young Chung is currently an associate at the Seattle office of Perkins Coie.
Stephanie Court is an associate at Downey Brand LLP.
Eve Epstein moved to Washington, DC after graduation and passed the Maryland Bar. Since August 2010, Eve has been working as a trial attorney at the Department of Labor in the Solicitor's Office litigating cases against coal companies for health and safety violations.
Monica Feltz has spent the last year in the Netherlands where she completed her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law & Criminal Justice at Utrecht University. While there, she also externed for the defense at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague and completed an independent writing project for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Monica will likely start a job with the victims unit at the ICC in October and return to take the NY bar in February, where she hopes to practice before beginning an international law career.
Gabriela Flowers is currently practicing education law at Kinglsey Bogard LLP in Folsom.
Mary Gaber recently moved to New Orleans, LA.
Victoria Hassid is the Deputy Appointments Secretary for Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown.
Rebecca Hayes is currently an associate at Foley & Lardner LLP in New York City.
Allison Kephart is an associate at the Sacramento office of Meyers Nave.
Lorin Kline is currently at associate at the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
Bryce Newell moved to Utah shortly after the July 2010 bar exam to teach as an adjunct instructor at Utah Valley University. Bryce taught university classes in the Department of Digital Media and began producing and directing a documentary film about humanitarian responses to migrant deaths near the U.S.-Mexico border (more info, including a trailer, is at www.humanitarianfilm.org.) The film currently features Professor Bill Hing, and will also include an interview with Dean Kevin Johnson, who has agreed to take part in the project. Bryce then practiced law briefly at Horan, Lloyd, Karahale, Dyer, Schwartz, Law & Cook in Monterey, CA prior to starting a Ph.D. program in Information Science at the University of Washington in Seattle this month. As part of his Ph.D. studies, Bryce is currently employed at the University of Washington as a Pre-Doctoral Teaching Associate, helping teach an upper level undergraduate course called Research Methods in Informatics. And because he just couldn’t get enough, Bryce is also taking additional electives at the UW School of Law. Bryce and his wife welcomed their third child shortly after the bar exam in 2010.
Roey Rahmil is an associate at Shartsis Friese LLP.
Kelly Van Aken is an associate at the San Francisco office of Sedgwick LLP.
Janet Wallace works at the San Luis Obispo law firm Duggan Smith & Health LLP. She serves on the boards of the San Luis Obispo County Arts Council and Ms. JD, a nonprofit organization representing women in the legal profession. Janet and her husband, Will, recently celebrated their 8 th wedding anniversary and are enjoying a SLO life on the Central Coast.
Kelley Way is currently an intern with the Pacific Justice Institute in Oakland. Kelley is also performing independent legal work and, at the moment, is working on a copyright infringement case, which has the potential of going to trial in the near future.