Focus on Fellows
We invite all fellows to submit information about awards , news , and / or recent publications . Member highlights will be published on a bi-monthly basis to all fellows through email or the College Columns as appropriate . If you have news about yourself or a colleague , please send announcements to Michelle Foster , ACB Communications Director , at focus @ amercol . org .
Professor Ralph Brubaker will be the recipient for the Commercial Law Leage of America 2024 Lawrence P . King Award . Read more here .
Kelley Cornish joined Selendy Gay as a partner .
Douglas M . Foley became a certified mediator and member of the National Association of Certified Mediators ( NACM ).
Karen Gross co-authored a forthcoming book titled Mending Education ( Teachers College Press Sept . 2024 ) that completes a trilogy that includes Breakaway Learners ( 2017 ) and Trauma Doesn ’ t Stop at the School Door ( 2020 ). The new book focuses on what we call Pandemic Positives , things we learned during the Pandemic that can improve education . Learn more here .
Melissa Jacoby ’ s book , Unjust Debts , will be published on June 11 , 2024 by The New Press . A list of in-person and virtual events can be found here . She will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in Fall 2024 .
Henry Kevane was recently appointed the Chair of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association for a three-year term from 2023 – 2026 .
Lawrence J . Kotler , Esq . is the recipient of the 2024 David T . Sykes Award . The Sykes award is presented to a member of the bankruptcy bar who embodies the qualities which David T . Sykes exemplified , including excellence and integrity as a bankruptcy attorney , unsurpassed professionalism , mentoring younger professionals , courtesy to and respect for all , upholding the reputation of the local bankruptcy bar , and his unwavering dedication to the bankruptcy community and the less fortunate in Philadelphia .
David Kuney was an editor and commentator for the recently published Purdue Papers . This is a searchable digital file of virtually every pleading filed at the Supreme Court in connection with the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy .
Douglas L . Lutz has been appointed as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky .
Samir Parikh has agreed to join Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina as a professor of law . The Yale Law Journal Forum recently published his new essay , Opaque Capital and Mass-Tort Financing . Further , Cornell Law Review has selected Samir to be the lead organizer for its 2024 symposium on mass torts , which will take place on September , 20 , 2024 .
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