People on the Move - October 2023
Alumni in the news recently for promotions and awards
Taylor Bartholomew ’15 has been promoted to partner at Troutman Pepper, effective January. 1. Taylor is based in the Wilmington office, where he focuses his practice on private equity clients in a wide variety of public and private transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, and carve-outs.
Ellen Goodrich ’23 is working for one year as a legal fellow at the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C. Goodrich and Lily Talerman ’23 were the inaugural recipients of Duke Law School’s Farrin Fellowship, established by James Farrin ’90 and Robin Farrin in 2021 to fund a year of public interest work. Talerman is working on the voting rights team at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham.
Maurice (Mo) Green ’91 announced he is running for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction in next year’s election. Green retired in March as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, where he spent seven years. Prior to that, Mo served as superintendent of Guilford County Schools and held executive positions at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Tae Hong JD/LLM ’23 has joined Fish & Richardson’s litigation practice group in the Atlanta office. Tae was staff editor for Duke Law & Technology Review and won first place in the Law School’s Transactional Law Competition. He earned a degree in computer science and engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul and was a co-founder and patent holder of a renewable energy startup.
Brett Ries ’22 won the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s 2023 Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition for his paper “Don’t Be A Drag: How Drag Bans Can Violate the First Amendment.”
Shrayan Shetty ’22 is serving as a Leslie J. Winner Public Interest and Civil Rights Fellow at the North Carolina Justice Center in Raleigh. Previously Shrayan was an Ervin Fellow at the Morganton office of Legal Aid of North Carolina.
Andrew Thurmond ’11 has been promoted to partner at Troutman Pepper, effective Jan. 1. Andrew is in the Capital Projects + Infrastructure Practice Group in Washington, D.C., where his practice includes renewable natural gas, residential solar, utility-scale solar, wind, renewable energy, energy, power, natural resources and other infrastructure, and other commodities, financial, and corporate transactions.