April 2009
By Steven J. Stauffer
Honors and Appointments
Hudson Cook, LLP partner Michael Benoit was elected as Fellow
of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers…
David J. Burge, a partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
in Atlanta, has been appointed as public member of the Georgia Real
Estate Commission by Governor Sonny Perdue… John Hagan,
an American Bar Foundation research professor, has won the 2009 Stockholm
Prize in Criminology for his groundbreaking research on genocide in
the Balkans and Darfur… Abbot Kominers was elected national
president of the Society of Federal Labor & Employee Relations Professionals…
Duane Morris LLP partner Sheila Slocum Hollis has been selected
dean of the Oil and Gas Bar… Alabama House Rep. Earl Hilliard
Jr. (D–Birmingham) recently was chosen “Freshman Legislator
of the Year” by the Alabama House Democratic Caucus… Jeremy
R. Moss, an associate at MercerTrigiani in Alexandria, Virginia,
was presented the 2008 Rising Star Award by the Washington Metropolitan
Chapter Community Associations Institute… Charles J. Ogletree
Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and founding and executive
director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
at Harvard Law School, was honored with a 2009 Spirit of Excellence
Award, which is presented annually by the American Bar Association’s
Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession… Earl
L. Segal, a principal at Newmark Knight Frank, has been elected
to the board of trustees of Trinity Washington University… Van
Ness Feldman received the Champions of Youth Award from the National
Network for Youth, honoring the firm’s pro bono work… Sidney
J. “Jerr” Rosenbaum, former chief of staff for U.S.
Rep. Virgil Goode Jr. (R–Va.), has been appointed to serve in
the same position for Rep. Jack Kingston (R–Ga.)… Vicki
C. Jackson, a Georgetown University Law Center professor, has been
appointed to the newly created position of associate dean for transnational
legal studies this semester… Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Steven P. Goldberg was installed as James and Catherine
Denny Endowed Chair, a newly established endowment…Charles
H. Kuck, managing partner at Kuck Casablanca LLC, was named president
of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for the 2008–09
term.
On the Move
Former Democratic congressman Michael A. Andrews and former Virginia
attorney general Andrew Pickens Miller have joined the government
relations practice at Hunton & Williams LLP as senior attorney advisor
and senior attorney consultant, respectively. Thomas S. “Tom”
Kimbrell joined the firm’s litigation practice as associate.
Patricia M. Sulzbach was promoted to counsel… Robert
S. Babayi, Ashley W. Craig, and David M. Farnum have
been elected partner at Venable LLP… Matthew K. Blackburn,
William S. Feiler, James W. Gould, James Hwa, and John F.
Sweeney have joined Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP as partner…
Keith Calhoun-Senghor, former U.S. Department of Commerce senior
policy advisor who participated in international space and satellite
negotiations and consultations with countries such as Australia, Germany,
Israel, Japan, Korea, and Russia, has joined Fulbright & Jaworski
L.L.P.’s corporate practice in Munich as senior counsel. Andrea
Lachenmayr joined the firm’s global project and energy finance
practice as partner… Patricia M. “Patty” Chuh
has been promoted to partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP…
Lauren R. Dana and Keith W. Diener have joined Ackerman
Legal PLLC as senior associate… Paul F. Danello has joined
Polsinelli Shughart PC, leading the firm’s health care practice
in Washington, D.C.… Ernst & Young LLP senior manager Paul
Clinton Harris Sr. has joined the board of the Washington Legal
Foundation… Wayne J. King has joined Tully Rinckey PLLC
as associate, focusing on federal contract acquisition, taxation, and
employment law… Bret M. Koplow has joined Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal LLP as partner, leading its food and drug administration
practice… Michael J. Lockerby, a partner at Foley &
Lardner LLP, has been named chair of the firm’s litigation department
in Washington, D.C.... Carmen Guzmán Lowrey, formerly
of Fannie Mae, has joined Steptoe & Johnson LLP as policy advisor,
working under its government affairs and public policy practice. Brian
Winterfeldt has joined as partner, bringing with him a trademark
group composed of Stacey J. Johnson, of counsel; Geoffrey
M. McNutt, special counsel; and Bryce D. Coughlin, Ahsen
M. Khan, James J. Mercurio, and Megan K. Whitney,
associate… Thomas J. Lyden, a former Internal Revenue Service
Financial Institutions and Products Division branch chief, has joined
K&L Gates LLP as of counsel… Douglas M. Marrano has
been elected partner at Donovan Hatem LLP and will take over as resident
partner in New York… Paul McHale, former assistant secretary
of defense for homeland defense, has joined the government contracts
practice at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP as of counsel... Steven
M. Niedelman, former deputy associate commissioner for regulatory
operations at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has joined Crowell
& Moring LLP as senior consultant, focusing on food and drug matters
in the health care group… Amy R. Novick has been named
of counsel at The Haynes Immigration Law Firm… Bill Pedersen
has joined Perkins Coie LLP’s environment and natural resources
practice as of counsel… Benjamin B. Reed has joined Plave
Koch PLC in Reston, Virginia, as partner… Steven P. Benson
and Jerome C. Schaefer have joined Whiteford, Taylor & Preston,
L.L.P. as partner. Stephen M. Schaefer joined as counsel… Alan
J. Schaeffer and Andrew J. Sherman have joined Jones Day
as partner. Alejandro Badillo has joined as associate…
Claudius Sokenu has joined the securities enforcement and litigation
and white collar criminal defense practice at Arnold & Porter LLP
as partner… Joseph R. Guerra, former partner at Sidley
Austin LLP, has been named principal deputy associate attorney general
at the U.S. Department of Justice… Canadian lawyer Ian A. Laird
has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as special legal consultant to the
firm’s international dispute resolution group… Paul S.
Lewis has joined Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Skok, P.A.
of Gaithersburg, Maryland, as principal and shareholder… H.
Richard Sindelar has joined Jackson Walker L.L.P. as partner in
the firm’s Houston office… David M. Verhey, former
principal deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks at
the U.S. Department of the Interior, has joined Holland and Knight LLP’s
public policy and regulation practice as partner… Former Superior
Court of the District of Columbia Chief Judge Rufus G. King III has
joined The McCammon Group as an alternative dispute resolution professional
serving the mediation, arbitration, and special master needs of lawyers
and litigants throughout the country. He also will serve as the firm’s
director of professional development in Washington, D.C.... Retired
U.S. congressman James T. Walsh, who represented New York’s
25th and 27th districts for 20 years, has joined K&L Gates LLP
as government affairs counselor. Recent Democratic California congressional
candidate Nick Leibham joined as of counsel…Marjorie
B. Manne has joined the Tysons Corner, Virginia, office of McGuireWoods
LLP as associate in its complex commercial litigation practice…
Roy S. Mitchell has joined JAMS, The Resolution Experts as mediator
and arbitrator in its global engineering and construction group.
Author! Author!
Ian C. Ballon, a shareholder in the intellectual property and
technology litigation group at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has released
an updated second edition of his four-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce
and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms, first published by Thomson
West eight years ago… David A. Gantz, a professor at the University
of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, has written the book Regional
Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice, published by the Carolina
Academic Press… Julie Elizabeth McGuire, founder of Hull
McGuire PC, has written the Pennsylvania chapter of Legal Aspects
of Doing Business in North America, published by Yorkhill Law Publishing…
Roseann B. Termini, an adjunct professor at Widener University
School of Law, cowrote “The Influence of Culture, Government and
the Law on the Use of Antidepressants for Children in the United States
and Pakistan,” which appeared in the November 2008 issue of the
Food and Drug Law Journal... Tully Rinckey PLLC founding partner
Mathew B. Tully wrote the article “National Guard Plays
Vital Role” for the fall 2008 edition of the Army Space Journal…
Mayer Brown LLP recently published the second edition of Capitol
Insight, a magazine exclusively focused on emerging legislative
and regulatory trends and developed by the firm’s Washington,
D.C., partners.
Company Changes
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC merged with Shughart Thomson
& Kilroy, P.C. to form Polsinelli Shughart PC … Gary
N. Horlick has established the Law Offices of Gary N. Horlick,
an independent practice specializing in international trade and investment,
at 1330 Connecticut Avenue NW… Burke O’Neil LLC has
relocated to 1000 Potomac Street NW, Suite 150, Washington, DC 20007.
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. Steven J. Stauffer can be reached by e-mail
at sstauffer@dcbar.org.
