Duke JD/MBA Society

Issue 1, August 2010 Duke University

In This Issue:

Find out who our current

Executive Board members
are and what we have
planned for the upcoming
academic year, 2010-2011.

Summer
2010:

Our JD/MBA’s are always

up to something exciting
during the summer. Find
out where we were this
summer.

Alumni
News: Welcome from the Duke JD/MBA
Greetings from the Duke JD/MBA Society and
After a long search, our welcome to our inaugural newsletter! As our network
expands with each and every talented graduate of Duke
alumni database is up &
Law School and the Fuqua School of Business, we
running. Please keep the envision this newsletter as a way to keep everyone
referrals coming! 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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Issue 1, August 2010
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)
Duke University
(Continued)
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
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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;
Upcoming Plans for the Society Goldman Sachs

• Co-sponsoring the Annual Duke Asia Business • Squire Servance, JD/MBA ’08;
Conference with Fuqua’s Asia Business Club Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

• 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.
• 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

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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!

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!

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.

We’d love to hear from you! Please send alumni

updates, questions, or comments to
DukeJDMBA@gmail.com