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COLORADO
IRELAND STAPLETON PRYOR & PASCOE, PC
Colorado member firm Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, P.C. has named attorneys Michelle B. Ferguson and Laura Hazen as Shareholders/Directors. Ferguson will continue to focus her practice on employment law. Hazen’s practice will focus on commercial litigation and employment disputes involving discrimination, non-competition agreements, trade secrets and contractual and partnership disputes.
Thomas J. Wolf and Allan B. Adams are merging their practices into the firm. Wolf’s practice will continue to focus on helping businesses and individuals in complex transactions, succession planning, real estate and litigation. Adams will be Of Counsel and brings extensive investment company experience. He will continue his corporate law practice and will continue to assist businesses and individuals with transactions including real estate.
For more information, visit Ireland
Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC
CONNECTICUT
ROBINSON & COLE LLP
Firm attorneys Caryn L. Daum, Kristen J. Fallon, and Mathew J. Lawlor of Connecticut member firm Robinson & Cole LLP firm’s Boston office and Melissa F. Savage of the firm’s New York City office, have been promoted to Counsel. Daum is a member of the Insurance Practice Group, Fallon is a member of the Finance Practice Group, Lawlor is a member of the firm’s Land and Use Group and Savage is a member of the Business Litigation section.
Business Litigation Partner James A. Wade has been named to the inaugural “Irish Legal 100,” the first-ever listing of the most distinguished and accomplished lawyers of Irish descent in America. Intellectual Property and Technology Law Partner Jacqueline Scheib was recently elected to the Board of Trustees for The Children’s Museum. Dana L. Foster, Business Development & Marketing Specialist, was elected to the Board of Directors for the Shelter for Women. Attorneys Brian W. Blaesser and Thomas P. Cody recently coedited Redevelopment: Planning, Law, and Project Implementation through the American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government Law. Labor and Employment attorney Nicole A. Bernabo was a part of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Women Future’s Task Force. The task force developed the “Best Practices” program for gender equity in the legal profession (www.ctbar.org/filemanager/download/1183). Bernabo was also recently elected to the Connecticut Bar Association’s House of Delegates from District 12. Attorney Jonathan E. Blaine has been selected to receive one of the Connecticut Bar Association’s pro bono awards for his work in 2007.
For more information visit Robinson & Cole LLP
FLORIDA
AUSLEY & MCMULLEN, P.A.
Florida member firm Ausley & McMullen, P.A. Shareholder Mike Glazer has been appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to serve a four-year term on the First District Court of Appeal Judicial Nomination Commission.
For more information, visit Ausley
& McMullen, P.A.
GEORGIA
TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
Georgia member firm Troutman Sanders LLP recently merged with national firm Ross, Dixon & Bell LLP, creating a 750-attorney/1,700 employee firm. The newly merged firm will operate in 15 cities and on three continents. The merged firm will be named Troutman Sanders LLP and headquartered in Atlanta. The firm launched a new Credit Crisis & Government Intervention Task Force, comprising lawyers from the firm’s Bankruptcy, Financial, Real Estate, Litigation and White Collar Practice Groups.
Ira Genberg has been named Partner to the firm’s Construction Practice Group in Atlanta. Howard H. Jiang and Stephen G. Gorell joined the firm as Partners in the New York City office. Jiang joins the International Practice Group and Gorell joins the Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice Group. Patricia I. Elliott has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as Of Counsel in its Health Care Practice Group. Leigh Hudgins Schreher has joined the firm as Of Counsel in its Multifamily Housing Practice Group in Richmond. Alonso J. Cisneros and Jeanne E. Floyd joins the firm’s Richmond office as Associates. Cisneros joins the Multifamily Housing Practice Group and Floyd will work in the Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice Group. Jeffrey H. Gray has joined the firm’s Complex Litigation Group in its Virginia Beach office. David H. Sump has joined the firm’s Transportation Practice Group in the Norfolk office.
The State Bar of Georgia has honored the firm with the William B. Spann Jr. Award for its ongoing pro bono work with Atlanta Legal Aid and the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. Firm Partner Jack Dalton has taken over as the 58th President of The American College of Trial Lawyers for the 2008-2009 year. Dalton is only the third Georgian to lead the group. He has been with the firm since 1969, where he practices in the firm’s Complex Litigation, White Collar and Government Investigations, and Media and Entertainment Practice Groups. Partner Bradfute W. Davenport was recently inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America.
For more information visit Troutman
Sanders LLP
INDIANA
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP
Rick Carpenter has been appointed as the new Chief Marketing Officer of Indiana member firm Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Solomon Wisenberg and Adrienne Urrutia Wisenberg have joined the White Collar Crime Defense Group in the Washington, D.C. office.
The firm has established a Nanotechnology Practice Group to continue its current work in the area and to assist businesses involved in seeking new applications of nanotechnology. The practice group, co-chaired by Partners Phillip J. Faccenda, Jr. and Todd Vare, includes attorneys from a variety of disciplines, including intellectual property, business, environmental, biotech, governmental services, entrepreneurial services and litigation. Vare represented pro bono client Efrain Santos in a case pending before the Supreme Court relating to Santo’s convictions for illegal gambling and money laundering. In a split decision in U.S. v. Santos, the Supreme Court held that money laundering requires proof of the use of “profits,” not merely “gross receipts.” Associate Paul Jefferson assisted Vare with the case.
For more information, visit Barnes
& Thornburg
IOWA
NYEMASTER, GOODE, WEST, HANSELL & O'BRIEN,
P.C.
Richard (Dick) Sapp, Shareholder and Chairman of Iowa member firm Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell & O’Brien, P.C., has been elected into membership of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Membership in the College is extended by invitation only and cannot exceed 1% of the total lawyer population of any state.
For more information, visit Nyemaster,
Goode, West, Hansell & O'Brien, P.C.
LOUISIANA
ADAMS AND REESE LLP
Former Assistant Attorney General Rand Dennis has joined the Litigation Practice Group of Louisiana member firm Adams and Reese LLP as Special Counsel in the Baton Rouge office. Anthony “Andy” J. Correro, III has joined the firm as Special Counsel with the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services Practice Group in the New Orleans office. Jason Mueller rejoins the firm’s New Orleans office as a member of the Intellectual Property Team in the Special Business Services Practice Group after spending three years in New York and Germany practicing United States patent law. Lauren L. Tafaro and Benjamin Norwood have joined the firm’s New Orleans office as Associates. Jaimme Collins joins the New Orleans Office as a member of the Litigation Practice Group focusing on commercial litigation matters. Casey Del Casino has joined the firm as Special Counsel. David Toney and Arthur Fant have joined the firm’s Houston office. Toney joins as Special Counsel with the Litigation Practice Group and Fant joins as Special Counsel and Member with the Real Estate Practice Team in the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services Practice Group. Derrick A. Reed and Ty C. Camp have joined the Houston office as Associates. Reginald “Reggie” Jones joins the Special Business Services Practice Group in the firm’s Jackson office.
James R. Austin, a Partner in charge of the Baton Rouge office, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce (BRAC). Stephen Walsh, a Partner in charge of the firm’s Birmingham office, has been selected by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of the year’s “Top 40 Under 40,” one of the most prestigious honors for the city’s young professionals. William “Will” Lawler, Jr. joins the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services Practice Group in the firm’s Birmingham office. Four Partners in the firm’s New Orleans office recently received honors. Ron Sholes has been elected to serve a one-year term as First Vice-President of the Board of the Louisiana Association for Defense Counsel. Ray Ward has been chosen to receive the Order of St. Louis IX Medallion for service to his church. Frank Liantonio was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Governor Bobby Jindal has appointed Sharon Rodi to the Crime Victims Reparations Board. Cannon Allen, a Partner in the firm’s Memphis office, has been selected to serve on the 2008 Board of Directors of the Memphis World Trade Club. Lucian T. Pera, also a Partner in Memphis, has been invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Miller-Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility. Partner Donald C. Massey has been selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA).
The firm recently sponsored a reception for the Foundation for the Advancement of Maritime Education (FAME), which formally announced its efforts to apply for a Type II charter to open a maritime charter high school. Firm attorneys have donated countless hours of pro bono service to FAME and have been an integral part of its formation. The Louisiana State Bar Association recently honored the firm with its 2008 “Friend of Pro Bono” Award. The firm also received first place in Community Relations at the Legal Marketing Association “Your Honor Awards” ceremony for the firm’s “Partnering for Pro Bono” project.
For more information, visit Adams
and Reese LLP
MASSACHUSETTS
KEEGAN WERLIN LLP
Nancy Kaplan, a Partner in the Environmental Group of Massachusetts member firm Keegan Werlin LLP, presided for 5 months as Hearing Officer in one of the largest potential landfill expansion site assignments in Massachusetts. The hearings focused on the potential reallocation of both Municipal Solid Waste and Construction & Debris materials, as well as the acceptance of solid waste materials, regardless of geographic origin. Approximately 33 parties were involved in the proceeding. A Partner in the firm’s Litigation Group, Susan Jackson was on a national panel of plaintiff and defense lawyers who participated in a mock asbestos trial put on by Harris Martin in June 2008. Jackson’s role was to cross-examine plaintiff’s medical expert in front of trial lawyers and clients involved in asbestos litigation.
For more information, visit Keegan
Werlin LLP
MICHIGAN
FRASER TREBILCOCK DAVIS & DUNLAP, P.C.
Shareholder Mark A. Bush, of Michigan member firm Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C., was selected by the Mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross as the 2007 Volunteer of the Year for Services to the Armed Forces. Ryan M. Wilson recently spoke to the members and staff of the DeWitt branch of NuUnion Credit Union on the rights of mortgage borrowers and the strategies they should employ when facing the possibility of a foreclosure. Shareholder and former Ingham County Circuit Court Chief Judge Peter D. Houk addressed the annual State Bar of Michigan’s Negligence Law Section Conference in Law Vegas, Nevada. Judge Houk was one of three former judges asked to participate in a panel discussion on Alternative Dispute Resolution by Mediation and Arbitration.
The firm’s Marketing Department has earned four awards, including three first-place awards and one second-place honor, announced at the 2008 Legal Marketing Association Southeastern Chapter’s Annual Conference. The firm was recognized in the following categories: 1st Place Public/Media Relations -”Partnering for Pro Bono Campaign – Update,” 1st Place Direct Mail Invitation - “Houston Rodeo Invitation,” 1st Place Promotional Item - “Endless Summer Retreat Swag Bag,” and 2nd Place Business Development Initiative.
For more information, visit Fraser
Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C.
MINNESOTA
LARKIN HOFFMAN DALY & LINDGREN LTD.
Peder A. Larson has joined Minnesota member firm Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd. as a Shareholder. Larson is a member of the Government Relations Department and works closely with the Land Use and Real Estate Practice Group, advising clients on environmental, land use and regulatory issues. His practice is focused on enforcement, permitting and other regulatory activities involving the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice.
Attorney Michael Fleming has been named Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law’s Committee on Cyberspace Law, which seeks to identify and address how businesses relate through the law of technologies they may create, use or sell.
For more information visit Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd.
MISSOURI
BRYDON, SWEARENGEN & ENGLAND P.C.
Diana C. Carter, Scott A. Hamblin and L. Russell Mitten have been named Shareholders of Missouri member firm Brydon, Swearengen & England P.C. Erin L. Wiseman has joined the firm as an Associate.
For more information, visit Brydon,
Swearengen & England P.C.
NEBRASKA
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C., LLO
Three Associates have joined the Nebraska member firm Erickson | Sederstrom, P.C. Heather B. Veik and Brian P. O’Laughlin have joined the firm’s Litigation Department. Andrew M. Collins joined the Corporate Law Department.
For more information, visit Erickson
| Sederstrom, P.C., LLO
NEVADA
LIONEL SAWYER & COLLINS
James “Brin” Gibson, Greg Carlson, Abigayle Dang and Mark Gardberg have joined the Las Vegas office of Nevada member firm Lionel Sawyer & Collins. Gibson joins the firm’s Gaming and Regulatory Law Department; Carlson, Dang, and Gardberg join the firm’s Business Law Department. Brian Schusterman joins the firm’s Business Law Department and Elizabeth High joins the Gaming and Regulatory Law Department in the firm’s Reno office.
Shareholder Linda M. Bullen is the first Nevada attorney invited to join the American College of Environmental Lawyers, a professional association of distinguished private sector lawyers of environmental law.
For more information, visit Lionel
Sawyer & Collins
NEW JERSEY
CARELLA, BYRNE, BAIN, GILFILLAN, CECCHI, STEWART & OLSTEIN
Lindsey H. Taylor of New Jersey member firm Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein recently argued an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit relating to whether a Southern District of New York bankruptcy trustee’s professional malpractice complaint should have been dismissed because the trustee failed to comply with New Jersey’s statute requiring service of an affidavit of merit in professional malpractice cases applying New Jersey law. The firm, through Taylor and James E. Cecchi, argued in the Bankruptcy Court that the trustee’s complaint should be dismissed. The Bankruptcy Court ruled that the complaint should not be dismissed, but the District Court found that the affidavit of merit statute applied and dismissed the trustee’s complaint. The Second Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court.
The County of Essex (Newark, NJ) honored the Honorable Brendan T. Byrne by naming and dedicating the State Court Plaza in his name. Governor Byrne served as the Prosecutor of and a State Court Judge in Essex County, as well as the President of the Board of Public Utilities before his election to two terms as Governor of New Jersey.
For more information visit Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein
NEW MEXICO
MONTGOMERY & ANDREWS, P.A.
J. Scott Hall has joined New Mexico member firm Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. as Of Counsel in the Natural Resources Department.
For more information, visit Montgomery
& Andrews, P.A.
NORTH CAROLINA
POYNER SPRUILL LLP
The North Carolina member firm has changed its name to Poyner Spruill LLP. The firm’s new address is 301 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1900, Raleigh, NC 27601. The mailing address is P.O. Box 1801, Raleigh, NC 27602-1801. The phone and fax numbers remain the same. George K. Freeman, Jr. has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Raleigh office. Gerald “Jerry” Meek joined the firm to practice in the area of litigation and will divide his time between the Raleigh and Charlotte offices.
For more information visit Poyner Spruill LLP
OREGON
HARRANG LONG GARY RUDNICK P.C.
Jonathan D. Mishkin joins Oregon member firm Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C., as Of Counsel with the business department. Aaron T. Bals joins the firm as an Associate.
James Mountain, Partner, has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Appellate Lawyers, joining attorney Bill Gary as a member of this exclusive group. Before joining the firm, Mountain and Gary each served as Solicitor General for the State of Oregon, handling all of the state’s appeals. Gary and another member of the firm’s appellate group, Sharon Rudnick, recently filed a petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court in Williams v. Philip Morris, a case involving a $97 million punitive damages award.
For more information, visit Harrang
Long Gary Rudnick P.C.
PENNSYLVANIA
ECKERT SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOTT, LLC
Keith E. Smith has joined the Philadelphia office of member firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC as a Member. Janet B. Linn has joined the White Plains office as a Member in its growing Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property practice.
For more information visit Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
RHODE ISLAND
ADLER POLLOCK & SHEEHAN P.C.
Rhode Island member firm Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. continues to expand with the addition of six attorneys, bringing the firm total to 70 and boosting its capabilities in a number of practices including Governmental Relations, Real Estate, Healthcare, Labor and Employment, and Estate Planning. The new attorneys are former Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Richard A. Licht; former majority leader and speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Joseph DeAngelis; Alison L. Albanese, Susan Leach DeBlasio, David T. Riedel and Lori Silveira.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the firm’s client, Johnson & Wales University, in a case of first impression addressing the issue of a university’s responsibilities and rights under the Clery Act, a federal statute that requires colleges and universities that receive federal aid to keep crime statistics and to post timely notifications of crimes that occur on or about the university’s campus. Firm attorney Paul Curcio successfully represented Johnson & Wales University in the case, Havlik v. Johnson & Wales University. In deciding in favor of the University, the Court afforded significant protections to university officials tasked with Clery Act compliance.
For more information visit Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.
TENNESSEE
BASS, BERRY & SIMS PLC
Erin M. Everitt, John R. Kirk and John-David H. Thomas have joined Tennessee member firm Bass, Berry & Sims PLC’s Nashville office as Associates. Joining the Nashville office in the Corporate and Securities Practice are: Michael E. Carr, Jr., John L. Fuller, Rishab P. Jaju, Eric J. Knox, Michael R. Kuffner, Frank M. Pellegrino, Ryann M. Schneider and Shelly R. Thomas. Schneider and Thomas will also work in the Intellectual Property Group. Kevin L. Alonso, Nesrin Garan and Douglas M. Wolford join the Healthcare Section of the Nashville office. Attorney Russell Stair has moved to the Knoxville office. Annie T. Christoff and Nolan M. Johnson join the Litigation Practice of the Memphis office.
Partner Mark Mamantov, was named vice chair for the Tax and Securities Law Institute Meeting. The meeting, presented by the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL), will be held March 5 - 6, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The institute is the most technical seminar presented by NABL and is intended for the most advanced practitioners in the area of tax and securities law for public finance. Mamantov has previously chaired NABL’s two other seminars - Fundamentals of Municipal Bond Law and the Bond Attorneys’ Workshop. Partner J. Andrew Goddard has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, a professional organization of distinguished private sector attorneys who practice environmental law. Goddard is the first attorney in Tennessee to be invited to join the organization and one of only 50 attorneys nationwide so honored this year.
The firm has been named the best corporate law firm in Nashville by Corporate Board Member Magazine for the seventh consecutive year. The magazine determines the top firms according to directors serving on boards publicly traded companies listed with the NASDAQ Stock Market, New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange. Working Mother Magazine recently named Bass, Berry & Sims PLC as one of the 50 Best Law Firms for Women in the United States in terms of firms that are the most progressive in encouraging and retaining women, promoting women into leadership roles, and making it possible for women in the profession to balance the competing demands on their time.
For more information, visit Bass,
Berry & Sims PLC.
TEXAS
McGINNIS, LOCHRIDGE & KILGORE L.L.P.
Royce Poinsett, former General Counsel and Policy Advisor to Texas House of Representatives Speaker Tom Craddick, has joined the Austin office of Texas member firm McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. in its Legislative and Governmental Relations Practice Group.
For more information visit McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P.
UTAH
PARSONS BEHLE & LATIMER
Keli J. Beard, Joe M. Stultz and Zack L. Winzeler have joined the Salt Lake City office of Utah member firm Parsons Behle & Latimer. Beard is a member of the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Department and concentrates her practice on natural resources and energy law. Stultz is a member of the Litigation Department concentrating his practice on general commercial litigation. Winzeler concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation.
Rew R. Goodenow has been newly elected to the Board of Directors of the firm’s Reno office. He is a member of the Litigation Department and concentrates his practice on business, banking, bankruptcy, real estate, construction, and municipal and political law. Raymond J. Etcheverry will continue serving as Chairman of the Board and CEO. Hal J. Pos, Robert C. Delahunty and David M. Bennion will also remain on the board.
Shareholder Sean D. Reyes received an “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” award (as highlighted in the New York Times). Attorneys Lorna Rogers Burgess and Roger Tsai will speak at “Immigration Law and Employer Compliance: A New Era for Employer Liability in Utah,” a one-day seminar on November 14 in Salt Lake City. The seminar is designed for human resource professionals, attorneys, accountants, business owners and executives. Speakers will discuss I-9 forms, conducting internal audits, e-verify and employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visas.
For more information, visit Parsons
Behle & Latimer
VIRGINIA
McGUIREWOODS
Eva Teig Hardey, retired Executive Vice President of Dominion Resources, joins Virginia member firm McGuireWoods as a Senior Policy Advisor and Consultant in the firm’s Richmond office. Jim Kerr has joined the firm as Partner and leader of the firm’s national Energy Policy Practice. He will also serve as senior advisor for McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. Charles J. Brown, III has joined the Charlottesville office as a Partner in the firm’s Energy & Utilities Department. Brown most recently served as president of CRW Energy in Charlottesville. Martin C. Boyle has joined the Richmond office as an Associate in the firm’s Product and Consumer Litigation Department. Zachary D. Cohen has joined the Richmond office as an Attorney in the firm’s Technology and Business Department.
The Bond Buyer has ranked the firm as the number one bond counsel firm in Virginia for 2007, based on the dollar amount of the bond transactions handled by the firm. The firm was also listed as one of the Top Ten Bond Counsel firms in the Southeast Region of the United States for 2007 by The Bond Buyer. In Virginia last year, the firm’s public finance lawyers served as bond counsel on $2.75 billion of public finance transactions. For the Southeast Region, the firm advised on $3.25 billion of bonds.
For more information, visit McGuireWoods
WASHINGTON
CARNEY BADLEY SPELLMAN, P.S.
Michael B. King and Gregory M. Miller have joined Washington member firm Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. as Principals. They have united with Jim Lobsenz and Ken Kagan to form a uniquely-experienced Appellate Practice Group. Elizabeth “Betsy” K. Maurer recently joined the firm and devotes her practice to employment law matters for private and public sector employers. Shareholder Timothy J. Parker has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
For more information, visit Carney
Badley Spellman, P.S.
WISCONSIN
QUARLES & BRADY LLP
Kathryn Kronquist, former Vice President and General Counsel of Maritime Savings Bank and President, CEO and Director of the Legend Title Corporation, has joined Wisconsin member firm Quarles & Brady LLP as Of Counsel with the Corporate Services Group, focusing her practice in the areas of commercial lending and financial institutions. C. Ann Martin has recently joined the firm as an Associate on the Labor & Employment team.
John W. Daniels Jr., Chairman of the firm, will be honored by the National Bar Association for his leadership roles in law and the community. Katherine Maloney Perhach, a Partner who focuses her practice on Commercial Litigation, was honored by the Association for Women Lawyers, Milwaukee, at the organization’s annual meeting. Perhach was the recipient of the association’s Pro Bono Award for her work as the Firm Coordinator for the Quarles & Brady Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic at the Spanish Center and at the Task Force on Family Violence Restraining Order Clinic. Jeffrey B. Bartell, a Partner who opened the Madison office, was recently honored at the Wisconsin State Bar Annual Convention with the Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award. The firm has also received the Law Firm Service Award from the Dane County Bar Association for its participation and support of the Family Court Assistance Project.
For more information,
visit Quarles & Brady LLP
LOS ANGELOSE, CALIFORNIA
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
Los Angeles member firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has formed an Interdisciplinary Practice Group to counsel clients on the various transactional and regulatory challenges created by recent homeland security legislation. The practice group is co-chaired by corporate department head Les Gold, international trade counsel Susan Ross and immigration practice leader Frida Glucoft, and taps into the expertise of more than twenty firm lawyers in the firm’s Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. offices. The firm has also formed a dedicated practice group to assist clients facing the wide range of business and legal challenges sparked by the subprime mortgage lending crisis. The new practice group, headed by Partners Jean Nogues and Andrew Katz, consists of a special team of litigation, bankruptcy, and corporate lawyers.
The firm has opened a New York City office located at 12 East 49th Street, 30th Floor; 212.509.3900. The new office will focus initially in the practice areas of Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment and Real Estate.
For more information visit Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
MIAMI, FLORIDA
ADORNO & YOSS LLP
Miami member firm Adorno & Yoss LLP, the nation’s largest minority-owned law firm, has launched a global immigration practice. The co-chairs of the Global Immigration Practice Group are Partners and leading immigration attorneys Jacob Monty and Fernando M. Socol. The group, headquartered in Miami and Houston, with significant additional resources in Los Angeles and Seattle, includes approximately 40 attorneys and support staff.
For more information visit Adorno & Yoss LLP
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
Washington, D.C. member firm Dickstein Shapiro LLP continues the strategic growth of its Intellectual Property Practice with the additions of Michael S. Marcus as a Partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and John T. Gallagher, Gerard A. Haddad, and Christopher K. Hu as Partners in the firm’s New York office. Jay Fastow and Denise Kosineski Plunkett have been added as Partners to the Antitrust & Consumer Protection Practice in the firm’s New York office.
For more information, visit Dickstein
Shapiro LLP
BELGIUM
LYDIAN
Carl Dotremont has joined the Corporate, Finance and Tax teams as Partner of Belgium member firm Lydian. Lievin De Wulf joins the teams as Of Counsel.
For more information, visit Lydian
CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
BULL, HOUSSER & TUPPER LLP
Ann Behennah, Kristy Sim and Michael Kleisinger join British Columbia member firm Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP as Associates. Behennah joins the Local Government Group, Sim joins the Labor & Employment Law Group and Kleisinger will work in the Engineering and Construction Group.
Alex Shorten, Associate Counsel with the firm, has been awarded The Robert V.A. Jones Canadian Corporate Counsel Award. This award recognizes an exceptional contribution to the development or the promotion of the Canadian Corporate counsel bar or community, including significant research or writing on related issues. For the third consecutive year the firm has been named by BC Business Magazine as one of British Columbia’s best employers. The firm remains the only law firm to ever receive this designation.
For more information, visit Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP
CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRATORIES
FIELD LLP
Canada member firm Field LLP welcomes Associate Christin Elawny to its Labor and Development Group.
For more information visit Field LLP
ENGLAND (CAMBRIDGE)
MILLS & REEVE LLP
England member firm Mills & Reeve LLP has advised West Midlands-based The Mercia Technology Seed Fund (Mercia), on four recent portfolio investment deals, as well as its admission of a new investor into the fund: Keele University. This brings the total number of the region’s universities participating in the fund to eight, including those of Birmingham, Warwick and Aston.
For more information visit Mills & Reeve LLP
ENGLAND (MANCHESTER)
COBBETTS LLP
Jonathan Branton has joined Manchester, England member firm Cobbetts LLP as a Partner to head the firm’s EU and UK Competition Law Practice. Charles Bond, a corporate Partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been appointed as Honorary Consul for Norway for the Midlands region of the UK. The firm’s Birmingham office is now operating as the Consulate for the region. The partners and staff of the firm raised £64,000 for national charity McMillan Cancer Support over the last year from a wide range of fundraising events. This year the firm is fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Society.
For more information, visit Cobbetts
LLP
LIECHTENSTEIN
WALCH & SCHURTI
Marina Haase-Saidani of Liechtenstein member firm Walch & Shurti, has been appointed Partner. Admitted in Germany and registered as a European lawyer in Liechtenstein, she practices in the areas of International Company and Trust Law, Banking and Insurance.
For more information, visit Walch
& Schurti
MEXICO CITY
SANCHES-DeVANNY ESEVERRI S.C.
Mexico City member firm Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri S.C. has relocated its Monterrey office to Torre Novo, José Clemente Orozco 335, Despacho 401, Colonia Valle Oriente, Garzza García, N.L., México 66269; (t) +52 (55) 8153-3900; (f) +52 (55) 8153-3901.
For more information visit Sánchez-DeVanny Eseverri S.C.
POLAND
DOMANSKI ZAKRZEWSKI PALINKA
Poland member firm Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka announces the appointment of two new Partners: Robert Niczyporuk and Akinkayode Robert Phillips. The new Partners have worked at the firm for some time and help form a team of over 140 lawyers, including 21 Partners, at Poland’s largest law firm. Niczyporuk specializes in mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring (both tax and legal aspects), securities trading and capital market operations. Phillips advises on business law, specializing in corporate advisory in the form of complex legal due diligence of business entities for merger and takeover purposes.
The firm has been named “Best National Law Firm in Poland” by the London publisher Chambers and Partners. In addition, the firm has for the sixth time consecutively taken first place in the leading ranking law firms published in Rzeczpospolita newspaper on April 16. The criterion differentiating the law firms in this ranking was the number of advocates and attorneys-at-law working for the firm. The firm is also highly recommended in the Rzeczpospolita ranking in the following categories: litigation (civil, criminal, commercial, administrative) and arbitration; mergers and acquisitions; company law and commercial law; and capital/securities market entry preparation.
For more information, visit Domanski
Zakrzewski Palinka
SWITZERLAND (GENEVA)
SECRETAN TROYANOV AVOCATS
Partner André Gruber of Geneva, Switzerland member firm Secretan Troyanov has been nominated by his peers and clients as one of Switzerland’s leading practitioners in the field of Corporate Immigration Lawyers in the International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2008.
THAILAND
TILLEKE AND GIBBINS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Managing Intellectual Property magazine named Thailand member firm Tilleke and Gibbins International Ltd. the “Firm of the Year 2008 – Thailand,” for the firm’s trademark prosecution and contentious work.
The firm and four of its attorneys were ranked by PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook 2008. John E. King was ranked as a “Highly recommended individual” in Dispute Resolution. Darani Vachanavuttivong was ranked as a “Recommended individual” in Intellectual Property; also nominated as a preeminent practitioner in the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Practitioners, 7th edition. Edward J. Kelly was ranked as a “Recommended individual” in Intellectual Property and Life Sciences: Intellectual Property; also nominated as a preeminent practitioner in the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Practitioners, 7th edition. Sriwan Puapondh was ranked as a “Recommended individual” in Tax. The firm was ranked as a “Recommended firm” in Corporate/M&A; “Highly Recommended firm” in Dispute Resolution; “Leading firm” in Intellectual Property; “Recommended firm” in Life Sciences: Regulatory; “Leading firm” in Life Sciences: Intellectual Property; and “Recommended firm” in Tax.
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