Summer 2010:

Find out who our current Executive Board members are and what we have planned for the upcoming academic year, 2010-2011.

Duke JD/MBA Society Issue 1, August 2010 Duke University

In This Issue:

After a long search, our alumni database is up & running. Please keep the referrals coming!

Alumni News:

Our JD/MBA’s are always up to something exciting during the summer. Find out where we were this summer.

Welcome from the Duke JD/MBA Greetings from the Duke JD/MBA Society and welcome to our inaugural newsletter! As our network expands with each and every talented graduate of Duke Law School and the Fuqua School of Business, we envision this newsletter as a way to keep everyone abreast of what our current and past JD/MBA’s are up to. It’s a unique experience to spend four years in Durham traversing between two such esteemed professional graduate schools. Going forth, our newsletter aims to will keep you in the loop and forever connected to Duke.

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Spring 2010: Annual Leadership Dinner

(From L to R): Thomas Thekkekandam ’10; Adam Zwecker ’10; Jennifer Ying Lan ’13;

Timothy Lee ’12; Melvin Hines ‘11

Current Executive Board: 2010-2011

Co-President: Jennifer Ying Lan (Jennifer.Lan@Duke.edu)

Co-President: Melvin Hines (Melvin.Hines@Duke.edu)

Treasurer: Sean Murray (Sean.Murray@Duke.edu)

Fuqua Liaison: Stephanie Lam (Stephanie.Lam@Duke.edu)

Webmaster: Timothy Lee (Timothy.P.Lee@Duke.edu)

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Summer 2010 for Current JD/MBA’s

• Rob Devine ’11: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, NY

• Sue Ely ’13: Brennan Center for Justice in New York, NY

• Melvin Hines ’11: Amonix Solar Power in Orange County, CA

• Stephanie Lam ’11: Teach for America, Office of General Counsel, in Washington, D.C.

• Jennifer Ying Lan ’13: White & Case in Houston, TX and Beijing, China

• Sean Murray ’13: Warner Brothers Entertainment, IP Division, in Burbank, CA

• Andrew Wilson ’12: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA

Issue 1, April 2010

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Alumni Database • Michael D. Lorton, JD ’79,

MBA, MD; Michael Lorton Inc.

• Branch Furtado, JD/MBA ’07; Paul, Weiss

• Todd Atlas, JD/MBA ’01; Sound Pure LLC

• Mike Pisetsky, JD/MBA ’08; Cooley, Godward, Kronish

• Hal Shaw, JD/MBA ’09; KSL Capital Partners

• Max Rakhlin, JD/MBA ’09; Goldman Sachs

• Squire Servance, JD/MBA ’08; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

• William Ching, JD/MBA ’96; Nelson Mullins

• John Duffy, JD/MBA ’09; Cravath, Swaine & Moore

• DongJu Song, JD/MBA ’04; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

• Sonam Makker, JD/MBA ’08; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

• Michael Hemmerich, JD/MBA ‘85/’94; Associate Dean at Duke, The Fuqua School of Business

• Cory Kampfer, JD/MBA ’05; Paul, Weiss

• Kevin Lawi, JD/MBA ’08; Goldman Sachs

• Jason Caiafa, JD/MBA ’08; Paul Hastings

• Rohith Parasuraman, JD/MBA ’08; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

• Co-sponsoring the Annual Duke Asia Business Conference with Fuqua’s Asia Business Club

• Co-sponsoring the Duke Business Law Society’s Esquire Conference

• Holding Admissions Q&A sessions at both schools to encourage more current students to apply for the JD/MBA degree

• Information session for both schools on cross-registered Business & Law Classes

• Further expanding the Duke JD/MBA alumni database

• Becoming the premiere JD/MBA website out there for JD/MBA career resources, Q&A, relevant podcasts/interviews

• Establishing a JD/MBA mentoring program

• Setting up on-campus JD/MBA recruiting information sessions with different firms and companies

• NYC career exploration trip to meet with various JD/MBA alums in different fields and different firms

Find us at twitter.com/DukeJDMBA for frequent updates during the semester.

Upcoming Plans for the Society

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We’d love to hear from you! Please send alumni updates, questions, or comments to

DukeJDMBA@gmail.com

JD/MBA Alumni Footprints

Jason Caiafa ’08 and Matthew Brooks ’09 with

the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship Trophy in

Indianapolis. What a great season! Go Duke Blue

Devils!

Welcome Our Incoming Class of 2014 JD/MBA’s!

Tony Wang ’14 studied philosophy and economics at Stanford. After graduation, Tony worked at the Hewlett Foundation for a year and a consulting firm for philanthropic

organizations for two years.

Keegan Drake ’14 graduated from the University of Oklahoma. After graduation, Keegan served on the Capitol Hill staffs of two US Representatives and then worked for a commercial

real estate firm in Dallas.

Jayesh Needham ’14 graduated from Brown University where he majored in International Relations. After graduation, Jay worked as a Page at NBC Universal at 30 Rock and then as a

Campus Coordinator at Oberlin College.

Hal Shaw ’09 and his wife, Glenn, are happy to announce the birth of their

daughter, Elle (December 18, 2009). The Shaws live in Denver, where Hal is

working for KSL Capital Partners. A future Duke JD/MBA in the making!