September 2010
By Thai Phi Le
Honors and Appointments
Georgetown University Law Center professor Robert Pitofsky was
presented with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s
highest honor, the Sherman Award, by U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder
Jr.… Jones Day partner Steven A. Teitelbaum has been elected
a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers… Mark
L. Stember, a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, has been selected
to serve on the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Employer-Sponsored
Coverage Coordination Working Group. Barry Fleishman, a partner
at the firm, was reappointed to Law 360’s 2010 Insurance
Editorial Advisory Board… Daniel W. Hurson has been appointed
assistant attorney general, assigned to represent the Maryland Energy
Administration in Annapolis… Bruce J. Klores of Bruce J.
Klores & Associates has been inducted into the International Academy
of Trial Lawyers… Frank H. Wu has been named chancellor
and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law…
S. Micah Salb, a principal attorney at Lippman, Semsker &
Salb, LLC, has been elected to the Washington, D.C., Estate Planners
Council … Andrew J. Paul has been appointed director of
labor relations at Metro-North Railroad in New York… Drinker Biddle
& Reath LLP partner Michael J. Remington and associate Philip
J. Cardinale were selected as honorees of the 2010 Burton Award
for distinguished legal writing for their article, “User-Generated
Content, Online Fair Use, and the DMCA’s ‘Good Faith’
Requirement,” which was published in BNA’s Patent, Trademark
& Copyright Journal… Timothy J. Muris, of counsel
at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, has been honored with the Miles
W. Kirkpatrick Award for his significant and lasting contributions to
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, antitrust law, and the cause of consumer
protection… The Children’s Law Center’s garnered
a Bronze Telly Award for its video chronicling the organization’s
work to give at-risk children in Washington, D.C., a solid foundation
of education, family, and health… Ray V. Hartwell III,
a competition partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, has been appointed
to serve a three-year term on the American Bar Association’s antitrust
law council…Kilpatrick Stockton LLP partner Erica Dominitz has
been appointed to the board of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
On the Move
Paul J. Gitnik has joined Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch
LLC as counsel… Arthur B. Axelson has joined Dykema Gossett
PLLC’s financial services practice group, leading the firm’s
financial services regulatory and compliance practice… Philip
S. Goldberg has been promoted to partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon
LLP… Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase has been named deputy general
counsel for the U.S. Capitol Police… Eli Whitney Debevoise
II has rejoined Arnold & Porter LLP as partner. Former senior
U.S. State Department lawyer Samuel M. Witten has joined the
firm as counsel… Jerald S. Cohn has rejoined Holland &
Knight LLP as partner in the firm’s real estate transactions practice…
Francis M. Fryscak has been elected partner at Cooley Godward
Kronish LLP in the firm’s office in Palo Alto, California. Howard
Morse has joined the firm’s antitrust and trade regulation
practice… Teresa M. Polino has joined Thompson Coburn LLP
as partner in the firm’s transportation and international commerce
group… Heath P. Tarbert has joined Weil, Gotshal &
Manges LLP’s corporate department as counsel… Elizabeth
Ewert and Brian L. Gunn have been promoted to partner at
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Christen M. English and Mary
Pat Weyback have been promoted to counsel at the firm… Robert
Shapiro has joined Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as partner…
Ethan S. Burger has joined the University of Wollongong’s
Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention and its law faculty in Australia,
specializing in issues relating to corruption, international economic
crime, and Russian matters… Patrick Morrisey has joined
King & Spalding LLP as partner and cochair of its Food and Drug
Administration/life sciences practice, and as a member of the firm’s
health care and public policy practices… Stewart A. Baker,
a former Homeland Security and National Security Agency official, has
joined Covia Labs, Inc. as a key business advisor... Cynthia S. Giordano
has joined Saul Ewing LLP as special counsel in the firm’s real
estate and land use and eminent domain practice groups… Todd
R. Burns has joined DynGlobal, LLC as director of business development,
policy, and government relations… Stephen Heifetz has joined
Steptoe & Johnson LLP as partner in the firm’s homeland security
practice … Robert P. Jacobs has joined Perkins Coie LLP’s
insurance coverage practice as partner. Dennis L. James has joined
the practice as of counsel… David W. Woodward has joined
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC’s life
sciences division of its intellectual property practice group…
Mark D. Whitaker has joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in the firm’s
corporate and finance group… Rhian McGrath has been named partner
at Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chartered, joining the firm’s family
law group… Jerald S. Howe has been named general counsel of TASC,
Inc.
Company Changes
DLA Piper LLP has established an office in Istanbul, Turkey,
which will provide advice on international and foreign law… Brian
L. Lerner, formerly a partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan
Lovells) has opened Ward Kim Vaughan & Lerner LLP in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, focusing on arbitration (both domestic and international),
commercial litigation, and employment law. He also has been named Lawyer
of the Month by Lawyers to the Rescue in recognition of his commitment
to pro bono work.
Author! Author!
Theodore A. Gebhard and James F. Mongoven have written
the article “Prohibiting Fraud and Deception in Wholesale Petroleum
Markets: The New Federal Trade Commission Market Manipulation Rule,”
which appears in the spring 2010 issue of the Energy Law Journal.
The authors are both senior attorneys with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
and members of the rulemaking task force… Eric Kracov,
a partner on Kilpatrick Stockton LLP’s financial institutions
team, coauthored a new chapter on “Executive Compensation”
in the multivolume treatise Successful Partnering Between Inside
and Outside Counsel. The treatise is a joint project of West and
the Association of Corporate Counsel… David P. Fidler and
Sarah J. Hughes coauthored Responding to National Security
Letters: A Practitioner’s Guide, published by the American
Bar Association... Randall D. Eliason, professorial lecturer
in law at American University Washington College of Law and The George
Washington University Law School, has published “Surgery With
a Meat Axe: Using Honest Services Fraud to Prosecute Federal Corruption,”
which appears in the fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Criminal Law
& Criminology at Northwestern University Law School… Hale
E. Sheppard, who was promoted to full equity shareholder in the
Atlanta office of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin,
has published the following articles: “No Returns, No Problem:
Tax Court Rules in Case of First Impression That IRS Must Consider ‘Economic
Hardship’ in Pre-Levy Collection Due Process Cases” and
“Two More Blows to Foreign Account Holders: Tax Court Lacks FBAR
Jurisdiction and Bankruptcy Offers No Relief From FBAR Penalties,”
which appear in the Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure…
Clarence D. Long IV and Samuel Wolff have coauthored “Post-SOX
Trends in Delisting and Deregistration,” which was published in
the winter 2010 issue of the Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business...
Mark Vlasic, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s
Institute for Law, Science & Global Security and a partner at Ward
& Ward PLLC, has published “The Long Arm of Justice,”
an op-ed for The Huffington Post… Pieter M. O’Leary,
an associate attorney at Carlin Law Group, APC, has written “When
Clean Kids Take Dirty Pictures: The Sexting Phenomenon and Its Impact
on American Teenagers, the Criminal Justice System, and Parental Responsibility”
for the winter 2009 issue of the Children’s Legal Rights Journal,
published by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law… Roseann
B. Termini, a food and drug professor and attorney, has written
“Dining Out: Legal Issues for Restaurants and Their Customers’
Food Safety Issues” and “FDA Enforcement: It Is Not a Walk
in the Park: 16th Annual Health Law Institute,” both of which
were published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
D.C. Bar members in good standing are welcome to submit announcements for this column. When making a submission, please include name, position, organization, and address. Please e-mail submissions to D.C. Bar staff writer Thai Phi Le at tle@dcbar.org.
