HLS Alumni in Residence Program - Harvard Law School

The Alumni in Residence (AIR) program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring. In an office hours model, students can sign up for a 20-minute appointment with visiting alumni to ask specific career questions or to simply solicit general advice from someone who has been through similar experiences as a law school student. Find a match with your career interests or take advantage of this chance to explore a new practice area or job sector.

Students must reserve appointments in advance, and space is limited. For details on upcoming AIR events and information on visiting alumni, check the Upcoming Events section below.

To sign up for an appointment, follow the “Click to register” links.

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Upcoming Events

Alumni in Residence with Darius Naraghi J.D. ’02 of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

March 25, 2025
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Darius Naraghi is a Managing Director at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in the Equity Capital Markets Group based in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of investment banking and legal experience leading complex and innovative equity capital markets transactions for clients. Click to register

Alumni in Residence with Gwendolyn Renigar J.D. ’96 of Steptoe LLP

March 26, 2025
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Gwendolyn Prothro Renigar, a litigation partner in the Washington, DC, office of Steptoe LLP, serves as the Chair of her firm. In her client practice, Gwen defends law firms, professionals, fiduciaries, financial services providers, and healthcare industry clients in complex litigation raising breach of fiduciary duty, contract, and professional liability claims. In her management role, Gwen leads the firm’s corporate governance and client initiatives, sets and implements the strategic plan, oversees the business affairs of the firm, and manages the legal and business professional talent. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Mark Wehrly J.D. ’94 of Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C.

March 27, 2025
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Mark Wehrly joined Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. in 1996, and is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Special Counsel of the firm. Prior to joining Farallon, Mark worked as a corporate law associate in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practice groups. Mark graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. and with Distinction from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and in English Literature. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Ken Richman J.D. ’93 of Hansen Jacobson et al.

April 8, 2025
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Ken Richman is the managing partner of entertainment law firm Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox LLP in Beverly Hills, California, where he has spent the past 30 years. His practice focuses on film and television writers, actors, directors and showrunners. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Alexandra McCormack J.D. ’03 of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

April 9, 2025
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Alexandra McCormack is a partner in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and other securities and corporate law matters. She advises public and private companies, financial sponsors, family offices and hedge funds in U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers of equals, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Tony Feuerstein J.D./M.P.A. ’01 of Sidley Austin LLP

April 10, 2025
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Tony Feuerstein focuses his practice on representing both financial sponsors and healthcare, hospitality, chemicals, and manufacturing clients in a broad range of public and private merger and acquisition transactions. This includes negotiated and unsolicited transactions, tender and exchange offers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, stock and asset purchases, divestitures and cross-border transactions. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Salvo Arena LL.M. ’00 of Chiomenti-Studio Legale

April 15, 2025
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Salvo Arena is one of the leading members of Chiomenti’s M&A practice and Head of the New York office. Salvo is a trusted adviser for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on their most critical transactions with experience spanning the entire range of M&A activity, including many significant leveraged buyouts, minority investments, complex carve-out transactions, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Stephen Lam J.D. ’13 of SoftBank Group International

April 16, 2025
8:00 am – 10:00 am

Stephen Lam is General Counsel of SoftBank Group International. Stephen leads a global legal team comprised of over forty professionals based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe and works closely with SoftBank’s senior leadership, investment and functional teams to structure, negotiate and execute strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic initiatives across SoftBank Group, including through SoftBank’s Vision Funds.Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Steve Boom J.D. ’94 of Amazon.com Inc

April 16, 2025
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Steve Boom is the Vice President of Audio, Twitch and Games for Amazon.com Inc, with global responsibility for Amazon Music, Audible, Wondery, Twitch, and Amazon Games. He also leads Digital Acceleration, the company’s digital commerce technology organization. Having joined Amazon in 2012, Steve launched and developed Amazon Music into one of the world’s leading audio entertainment services, and is widely recognized in the industry as an innovation leader. Click to register.

Alumni in Residence with Allan Merrill J.D./M.B.A. ’03, Former Senior Hedge Fund Executive

April 17, 2025
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Allan Merrill is a former senior hedge fund executive who specialized in merger arbitrage and event-driven investing. For the last five years of his career Allan was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Citadel, where he led three investment businesses. Prior to that he spent ten years at Eton Park Capital Management, where he was a Partner and Senior Managing Director. Click to register

Questions

For any questions or accessibility needs, contact Jeff Newton: alumnicenter@law.harvard.edu.

Spring 2025

Andrew LeBlanc J.D. ’98

Partner, Milbank

Natalie Vernon J.D. ’17

M&A Associate, Cooley LLP

Brandon Baer J.D. ’97

Founding Partner and CIO, Contingency Capital

Jade Newburn J.D. ’04

Managing Director & Partner, The Carlyle Group

James Tarter J.D. ’09

Senior Special Counsel, Cybersecurity Program Office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Fall 2024

David Lee J.D. ’98

Founder, WealthRyse Holdings Limited

Peter Yu J.D. ’90

Managing Partner, Cartesian Capital Group, LLC

John Carlin J.D. ’99

Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Soo-Yeon Choi LL.M. ’18

CEO, NAVER Corporation

Ivan Farman J.D. ’94

Co-Head of Global M&A, Bank of America

Jeremy Feigenbaum J.D. ’14

Solicitor General, Attorney General’s Office of New Jersey

Mathias Strasser LL.M. ’99

CEO, Wall Street Docs; Founder, Casperaki

Sheel Tyle J.D. ’17

Founder & Co-CEO, Collective Global Management; Founding & Managing Partner, Amplo

Tona Boyd J.D. ’09

Associate Director-Counsel, Legal Defense Fund

ReNika Moore J.D. ’03

Racial Justice Program Director, American Civil Liberties Union

Taz Shahabuddin J.D. ’12

Polly Klane J.D. ’95

Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Citizens Bank

Chris Lehane J.D. ’94

VP of Global Affairs, OpenAI

Kyoko Takahashi Lin J.D. ’96

Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Arturo Gonzalez J.D. ’85

Partner, Morrison Foerster

Spring 2024

Jeff Taylor J.D. ’91

Fox Corporation

Terri Chase J.D. ’94

Jones Day

Steve Laub J.D. ’83

IPV Capital

James Doak J.D./M.B.A. ’99

Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC

Stephen Glover J.D. ’80

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Eric Castelblanco J.D. ’91

Castelblanco Law Group, APLC

Terry Fancher J.D. ’83

Stockbridge Capital Group

Karl Austen J.D. ’89

Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris & Klein

Sally Thurston J.D. ’86

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (retired)

Enu Mainigi J.D. ’94

Williams & Connolly LLP

Jahan Sagafi J.D. ’01

Outten & Golden LLP

Todd Builione J.D. ’99

Marshall Wace North America L.P.

Natalie Leh J.D. ’89

Colorado Attorney General’s Office

John Walke J.D. ’93

Natural Resources Defense Council

Fall 2023

Brent Landau J.D. ’01

Global Managing Partner, Hausfeld

Richard Genow J.D. ’89

Founding Partner, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP

Samuel Levine J.D. ’12

Director, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection

Danny David J.D. ’00

Managing Partner, Baker Botts

Hani N. Elias J.D. ’08

Founding Partner, Anchor

Linda Dakin-Grimm J.D. ’85

Senior Consulting Partner, Milbank LLP

Melanca Clark J.D. ’02

President and CEO, Hudson-Webber Foundation

Peter Marta J.D. ’03

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Andrew Lindsay J.D. ’05

CVP Industry, Data, Applications, Business Development, Microsoft

Spring 2023

Masahisa Ikeda J.D. ’93

Managing Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Cari Dawson J.D. ’93

Partner, Alston & Bird

Amit Nitin Doshi J.D. ’08

Managing Partner, Harbor Spring Capital, LLC

Roland Ewubare LL.M. ’98

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (retired)

Jennifer Weddle J.D. ’00

Co-chair, American Indian Law Practice at Greenberg Traurig

Margaret Stock J.D. ’92

Attorney, Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC

Anand Swaminathan J.D. ’06

Partner, Loevy & Loevy

Tammy Albarrán J.D. ’99

Chief Legal Officer, Peloton Interactive, Inc.

Caleb J. A. Pitters, Jr. J.D. ’02

Managing Director, PIMCO

Tara Kole J.D. ’03

Partner, Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole

David Singleton J.D. ’91

Executive Director, The Ohio Justice & Policy Center

Fall 2022

Kevin S. Buehler J.D. ’90

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Stanley Young J.D. ’85

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Ann Cathcart Chaplin J.D. ’98

General Counsel, Qualcomm

Don Lacey J.D. ’03

Chief Operating Officer, Global Voyager Fund, Ping An Insurance (Group) Co Of China Ltd

Aparna Bawa J.D. ’02

COO, Zoom

Amanda Goad J.D. ’05

Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project, ACLU of Southern California

Sarah Harrington J.D. ’99

Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Appellate, United States Department of Justice

Edward Joonho Lee J.D. ’06

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jeremiah Gordon J.D. ’03

General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer, CapitalG

Derek T. Ho J.D. ’01

Partner, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC

Steven Choi J.D. ’04

Executive Director, One for Democracy

Tina Perry J.D. ’99

President, OWN TV Network & OTT Streaming

Lindsay Breedlove J.D. ’09

Senior Director, North American Brand Counsel & APAC Legal Counsel at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical

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