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Former Colleagues and Friends,

We are excited to bring you the summer edition of our Buchanan Bond alumni newsletter. I trust that each of you are enjoying the start of summer and will be able to carve time out to spend with your family and friends. To those of you who are new to our Buchanan Bond alumni network, we are excited to have you join us! This program has become a fun way for us all to stay connected and apprised of what our peers are up to, both personally and professionally.

The past few months have been busy at Buchanan! A few weeks ago, we welcomed our 2023 class of Summer Associates. We are now in the third year of our Diversity Corporate Share Program, where our summer associates get to spend time both at Buchanan and learning from in-house counsel at participating partner organizations. We have a terrific class of summer associates again this year and it has been fun to watch them progress, even in just a few short weeks. 

Spring has been busy, with a full slate of client facing events, as we remain mindful of building and strengthening true and deep relationships with our clients, ensuring that we keep them informed of events that might impact their industries and businesses. In addition, we remain focused on our people here inside Buchanan as well, nurturing our internal relationships, through robust professional development programs, wellness activities and diversity and inclusion discussions. In short, we have found plenty of ways to stay engaged.

We hope that you enjoy reading through the latest issue. There continue to be a lot of exciting things happening here at Buchanan! As always, thank you for being an engaged member of our alumni network and please know that we value your continued connection.

Until next time,
Joe Dougherty

Connections ContinuedBuchanan Bond Video Interview Series

Connections Continued is a virtual conversation between current and former Buchanan colleagues. In the latest episode, Buchanan’s Steven Smith, Shareholder in the firm’s Corporate section, sits down with Stan Milavec, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Tandigm Health. 

Beyond BuchananAlumni Updates

Below are personal and professional updates from former Buchanan colleagues sharing everything from where they work and reside now – to updates on children grandchildren and more.

I am Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Pierce Condo Association. The Pierce is a new 27-story, 104-unit condominium development in Arlington, VA that opened in 2021.

Melissa Croteau

I retired at the end of 2022 after practicing law for over 42 years, the last 16 with Buchanan. While I enjoyed being a lawyer, I love being retired. In addition to golf, I picked up a new hobby - bowling. I participate in two senior leagues (my average is 138). I also take classes through Pitt’s OSHER Lifelong Institute. Despite not having a job, I am surprisingly busy every day.

David Laurent


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