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Ivan Abrams (J.D. ‘75) accepted a position as Senior Legal Consultant and Acting Chief of Party for the USAID-Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs Support Project in 2009.
Noora Al-Shamlan (LL.M. ‘08) was honored for her completion of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law LL.M. program by Bahraini Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa on February 17, 2009 at the 40th Education Day ceremony.
Jason Altschul (J.D. ‘07) received an LL.M. degree in Transnational Law from Temple University School of Law in 2008. He accepted a position as clerk for the Honorable Judge Linda Wallach Miller in Monroe Country, Pennsylvania in 2009.
Lauren Becker (J.D. ‘08) has accepted a position as an Associate with DTB Associates LLP in Washington, D.C.
Claudia Garman (J.D. ‘07) was promoted to Program Manager at GTZ Representation Brussels in Brussels, Belgium.
Joseph Gulino (J.D. ‘04) served as a panelist at the seminar “Global Fight Against Terrorism” sponsored by the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats in Madrid, Spain in October 2008.
Amy Inlander (J.D. ‘07) is Assistant Counsel for the Washington Nationals Baseball Club in Washington, D.C.
Anna C. Konuche (LL.M. ‘08) joined the Moi University School of Law as an Assistant Lecturer in June 2009. She is the fourth Pitt Law LL.M. graduate to join the Moi teaching faculty as part of the Pitt Law-Moi University partnership.
Santy Kouwagam (LL.M. ‘08) attended the Hague Academy of International Law’s course on Private International Law in July 2009.
Athanasios Mihalakas (J.D. ‘01) accepted a position as a Policy Analyst for economics and trade at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington, D.C. in 2008.
Maryam Nihayath (LL.M. ‘08) was appointed to a judicial position in her home country of the Maldives in 2009. She is only the third female judge in the country’s history.
Irina Nurzad (LL.M. ‘02) and her husband Toktomushev welcomed their first son, Teimur, into the world on March 7, 2009.
Katerina V. Ossenova (J.D. ‘08) accepted a position as Attorney-Advisor International and Program Manager for Eastern Europe/Eurasia at the Commercial Legal Development Program in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She and Aman Singh were married on May 23, 2009.
Robert Paulson (J.D. ‘02) and his wife Katie welcomed their firstborn daughter into the world on June 11, 2009.
Ravi Reddy (J.D. ‘06) accepted a full-time position with the U.N. Mission in Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Panel as an Associate Legal Officer in Prishtina, Kosovo.
Jennifer Rellis (J.D. ‘06) completed a 2009 summer position as clerk to Justice Yoram Danzinger of the Supreme Court of Israel, and has accepted a position as an Asylum Adjudicator at the Department of Homeland Security in New York City.
Emily Ruger (J.D. ‘08) has accepted a position as a Contracts Officer in the Finance Department of Management & Consular Services at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Abigail Salisbury (J.D. ‘07) was confirmed as Executive Director by JURIST’s Board of Directors. Her article “Skills without Stigma: Using the JURIST Method to Teach Legal Research and Writing” is scheduled to be published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Legal Education.
Joseph J. Smallhoover (J.D. ‘80) joined Bryan Cave LLP as the Office Managing Partner of their new Paris office in 2008.
Monica Stump (J.D. ‘02) accepted a position as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama in 2008.
Jose Luis (Joel) C. Syquia (LL.M. ‘98) and his wife Tess welcomed a second baby girl, Gerardine Marie, to join their first daughter, Reese, on October 28, 2008. Joel was accepted a position as a Procurement Specialist at the Asian Development Bank in January 2009.
Lucas Tassara (LL.M. '06) is now Public Defender in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2009, he published "Trial in Absentia: Rescuing the 'Public Necessity' Requirement to Proceed With a Trial in the Defendant's Absence" in the Barry Law REview. He teaches criminal procedure at the Universidad de Belgrano.
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