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Daniela Brito (LL.M. ‘96) accepted an offer from Nike, Inc. be senior legal counsel in the Global Franchising Department.
Adolfo Cespedes Zavaleta (LL.M. ‘01) hosted Prof. Ronald A. Brand for lectures on the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement, and accompanied Professor Brand on a four-day hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Pichuu.
Leonardo J. Cortes (LL.M. ‘05) founded Consultores Corporativos as a private law firm. He and his wife Claudia welcomed baby Isabella into the world on July 5, 2008.
Lieu Dang (LL.M. ‘08) joined Baker & McKenzie in Vietnam as a mergers & acquisitions lawyer.
Eva Col Debella (LL.M. ‘03) and her husband David gave birth to their second child, a baby girl named Anna on January 15, 2008.
Daniela Ernlund (LL.M. ‘97) published her article “Working with Precedents to Develop the Rule of the Brazilian Commercial Law in a Worldwide Scenario” for the 2007 LL.M. Roundtable held by CILE in the Journal for the Lawyers of Paranà State in 2008.
Jaime Favela (LL.M. ‘99) accepted a position as Vice President and General Counsel of Flow Business in Mexico, a division of GE Capital Solutions in the fall of 2007.
Daniil Fedorchuk (LL.M. ‘01) has joined the firm of Beiten Burkhardt in Kyiv, Ukraine. While he is leaving his faculty position at Donetsk National University, he will begin teaching in spring 2009 at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy School of Law.
Marco Gardini (LL.M. ‘97) and his wife Francesca brought Giovanni, into the world on May 16, 2008. This is their firstborn child.
Claudia Garman (J.D. ‘08) accepted a position as a Consultant (in the role of Junior Program Assistant) at German Technical Cooperation in Brussels, Belgium following the completion of her LL.M. with honors from Leiden University in The Netherlands.
Jeanette Hahn (J.D. ‘06) accepted a position at Booz Allen Hamilton in the Diplomacy and International Development Market group as a Procurement Specialist. Her current assignment has her working in Abu Dhabi.
Anita Kant (LL.M. ‘06, J.D. ‘08) and her husband Tapin welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Simran, into the world on May 14, 2008.
Krista Krahn (J.D. ‘07) accepted a position with Fish & Richardson law firm in patent law in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Felix Mehler (LL.M. ‘02) and his wife Cathy had their second child, a baby boy named Nicholas, on June 16, 2008.
Athanasios Mihalakas (J.D. ‘01) acepted a position at the U.S. - China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington, D.C.
Maryam Nihayath (LL.M. ‘08) was appointed as the Head of the Investigation & Prosecution Section of the Customs Department in the Maldives.
Alehandro Osuna (LL.M. ‘98) became head of the JD Program (Licenciatura en Derecho) at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana, Mexico in June of 2007. In the summer of 2007, Alehandro taught international sales law at the Universidad de Barcelona Law School. He and his wife Olga are expecting their second son, Juan Pablo, this fall.
David Pawlak (J.D. ‘96) and his wife Biljana gave birth to their second son, Luke Daniel, on July 21, 2008.
Luljeta Plakolli-Kasumi (LL.M. ‘06) joined the faculty at the University of Pristina as an Assistant Professor of Civil Procedure Law in October of 2007. She joined the BearingPoint team as an Intellectual Property Law Trainer in 2008. Her first book on Trademark Protection and Enforcement was published in April of 2008. Luljetta and her husband Ahmet had a little girl named Andi on May 29, 2008. This is their firstborn child.
Georgia Post (LL.M. ‘99) has moved to the Compliance Department of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
Jennifer Rellis (J.D. ‘06) finished her clerkship with the Honorable Lawrence F. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and accepted a position as a litigation associate in the Philadelphia office of Dechert LLP.
Tatiana Selezneva (LL.M. ‘04) accepted a position as international legal consultant for Polimaster, Inc. in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Arif A. Mamedov welcomed their first child, Ariana Maria, into the world on July 10, 2008.
Elizabeth Shackelford (J.D. ‘06) left Covington & Burling to take on an associate role as part of the Foreign Affairs Business team at Booz Allen Hamilton.
I-Wen Shyur (LL.M. ‘06) accepted a position as an associate at Price Waterhouse Cooper Taiwan.
Justine Stefanelli (J.D. ‘05) has been co-Director for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on the "Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship" project, which has been led by former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and forms part of a wider review of Governance in Britain conducted by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice.
Jurgen Strobach (LL.M. ‘03) has joined the Fernandez-Davila & Bueno Law Firm in Lima, Peru as a corporate attorney. He and his wife Paula Lovon gave birth to Jurgen on May 18, 2008.
Monica A. Stump (J.D. ‘02) moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and accepted a position as a career law clerk to the Honorable Wallace Capel, Jr., United States Magistrate Judge in the Middle District of Alabama. She now serves as an adjunct professor in criminal procedure at Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.
Bujar Taho (LL.M. ‘07) accepted a position as the National Capacity Development Officer for the United Nations Development Program on the Empowering the Vulnerable Minorities Project in Tirana, Albania.
Neil Boyden Tanner (J.D. ‘97) serves on the Extended Bureau of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, is president of the British American Business Council, and secretary of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.
Lyubomir P. Zabov (LL.M. ‘07) accepted a position as senior tax consultant at Deloitte Tax LLP. He is currently working in Brussels, Belgium and is scheduled to transfer back to the New York City office later in 2008.
Marko Zivanav (LL.M. ‘08) and wife Natasa brought their second child, a baby boy named Matei, into the world on February 24, 2008.
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