Moving In-House
As you might have heard, I’m leaving Stoel Rives LLP this month, my professional home for almost 14 years (and parts of three decades). I am honored and humbled to have been asked by The Kellogg Company to join them as their in-house food safety and quality lawyer.
My departure from Stoel Rives is bittersweet. I will miss greatly my colleagues, clients and friends. Without doubt, Stoel’s food practice is the strongest in the region. This blog is among the most read in the industry. In my absence, you can look forward to continued discussion of the relevant issues in the industry from these and other Stoel attorneys:
- Rick Goldfarb, one the nation’s foremost commercial lawyers, who has decades of involvement with the food industry;
- Lee Smith, who is focused on the Food Safety Modernization Act, California Proposition 65 and other regulatory compliance issues; and
- Anne Glazer, who is focused on counseling her clients on food labeling and marketing issues.
You can reach me at kmodza@gmail.com or through LinkedIn. If you find yourself in southwest Michigan, please look me up.
Product Liability - Protect Yourself and Your Business
This is the title of a presentation I'll be giving at the American Cheese Society's (ACS) annual meeting in Seattle. I'll be speaking along with Marc Baker and Jill Perucca from the Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker insurance agency at 3:30 p.m. on August 27. The slide deck I intend to use can be found here.
Michael Pollan and Laurie Demeritt keynote the ACS event that unites the nation's cheese makers in the Emerald City for four days (August 25-28).
Equally as compelling as the keynotes (and our presentation on product liability avoidance) will be presentations by other Stoel Rives lawyers:
Anne Glazer on Trademarks: The Legal Perspective on the Care and Feeding of Your Brand (1:30 p.m. on August 27); and
Peter Serrurier and Ryan Steen on Water, Water, Waste Water Everywhere (10 a.m. on August 27)
If you are at the ACS conference and can pull yourself away from the concurrent presentations on various cheese making topics, stop by and meet the best food business lawyers in the Pacific Northwest.
