May 2008
By Kathryn Alfisi
Honors and Appointments
Peter Zern, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, has been named to
Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal’s Forty
Under 40 Class of 2008… Jennifer Maree, an associate at
Patton Boggs LLP, will be sworn in as president of the Women’s
Bar Association of the District of Columbia… John Byerly,
deputy assistant secretary for transportation affairs at the U.S. State
Department, has received the Rockwell Anthony Schnabel Award for Advancing
U.S.–E.U. Relations… Christina G. Sarchio has been
selected to receive the 2008 Belva Lockwood Award by the Law Association
for Women and The George Washington Law Alumni Association and has been
chosen as one of Hispanic Business magazine’s 20 Elite
Women for 2008… Philip S. Gallas, principal of the Law
Office of Philip S. Gallas, has been selected to receive the Distinguished
Alumni Award from the International Trade Law Society of the American
University Washington College of Law.... W. Bruce Weinrod has
been appointed secretary of defense representative Europe and defense
advisor to the United States Mission NATO... Ellen Bass has been
appointed counsel to the inspector general and assistant inspector general
for investigations at the Office of Inspector General of the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority... Alice A. Kipel has been
appointed chair of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of International
Trade. … Barbara McDowell, director of Appellate Advocacy
at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, received the prestigious
Rex E. Lee Advocacy and Public Service Award.
On the Move
Charles W. Johnson IV, Thomas J. McCarthy, Fadi G. Samman, Joshua
B. Waxman, and Zachary N. Wittenberg have been elected partner
at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP... Erdal R. Dervis and
William J. Weber have been elected partner at Baker & Hostetler
LLP... Michael I. Sanders and Robert E. Madden have joined
Blank Rome LLP as partner. Martin Jacobs and Susan A. Cobb
have joined as senior counsel and of counsel, respectively... Olivier
Catherine has joined Bureau Veritas in Courbevoie, France, as senior
corporate counsel... Leonard A. Miller has joined Carter Ledyard
& Milburn LLP as partner. Lynn Monk Gallagher has joined
as counsel... Jon Sohn has joined Climate Change Capital as vice
president... Mary Jane DeWeese, Scott A. McIntosh, Rita Patel, Cristen
Sikes Rose, Nicole Smith, and Lynn Van Buren have been elevated
to partner at DLA Piper... Daniel Toomey and Tamara McNulty
have joined Duane Morris LLP as partner... Joshua Ian Rosenstein
has joined Dutko Worldwide as associate general counsel... Mark Denbo
has been named partner at Fleischman and Harding LLP... Stacy Weinberg
Diève has joined Hewlett-Packard as Americas compliance manager
in the Americas Customs Group... Emily Marlow Beck has been named
partner at Hudson Cook, LLP in the Hanover, Maryland, office... Rob
Harmala has joined Kilpatrick Stockton LLP as partner... John
D. Shakow, J. Michael Taylor, and Jeffrey M. Telep have been
made partner at King & Spalding LLP... Anthony Green and
Marc Mehrespand have been named partner at Kirkpatrick &
Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP... Tracy Thomas Stone has been
elected principal at KPMG LLP... Paul C. Hurdle III, Shari L. Klevens,
Adrian P. J. Mollo, and Lisa M. Norrett have been elected
partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP... Brian B. Darville and
Thomas L. Peterson have joined Merchant & Gould P.C. as partner...
Scott Hempling has been named executive director of the National
Regulatory Research Institute... Erik J. Blum has joined the
staff of New York City Council Member Helen Sears in Jackson Heights,
New York, as legislative counsel... Susan P. Reaman has joined
Nixon Peabody LLP as counsel... Robert C. Nissen has been elected
partner at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. Tia
D. Fenton has been named senior associate. V. Gerard “Jerry”
Comizio has joined Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP as
partner... Dr. Nancy J. Linck has joined Rothwell, Figg, Ernst
& Manbeck, P.C. as of counsel... Paul M. Miller has been
elected partner at Seward & Kissel LLP... Ronald S. Gart, Christa
L. Dommers, and Adam W. Walsh have joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP
as partner. Peter W. Segal has joined as of counsel... Richard
Klingler has rejoined Sidley Austin LLP as partner... Prufesh
Modhera has been named partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young,
LLP... Edmund Cooke Jr. and O’Kelly E. McWilliams III
have joined Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP as partner...
Robert A. Shapiro has been named vice chair of the transportation
and international commerce practice group at Thompson Coburn LLP. Daniel
Duff has joined as of counsel. Marjorie Krumholz has been
appointed partner in charge of the Washington, D.C., office... Barbara
E. Kittay has joined Wiley Rein LLP as of counsel... J. Barclay
Collins, Rachael D. Kent, Elizabeth Mitchell, Stephanie R. Nicolas,
Justin L. Ochs, Ethan G. Shenkman, Danielle Spinelli, David Weller,
and Todd Zubler have been promoted to partner at WilmerHale
LLP. Mark Bieter, James R. Burns, Kalea Seitz Clark, Katherine A.
Gillespie, Lisa Henriques, Alicia M. Hunt, Vivek K. Jain, Timothy R.
Jezek, Erin Kelly, Pamela Levinson, Patrick W. Lincoln, Juliana Mirabilio,
Elizabeth J. Mone, David Olsky, Lisa Pearlman, Ryan R. Phair, Sambhav
N. Sankar, Rachel A. Shachter, Julie J. Song, Nina S. Tallon, Theresa
Titolo, Ariel Waldman, and Heather Zachary have been promoted
to counsel... Andrew W. Cohen has been named partner at Koonz,
McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot, L.L.P.... James C. Beh
has joined Jones Day as partner.
Company Changes
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP has relocated to
1101 15th Street NW, suite 700… Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman
& Dicker LLP has established an affiliation with the law firm
of Rubio Villegas y Asociados, S.C. in Mexico City… Hiscock
& Barclay, LLP has opened its eighth office in Washington, D.C.
Author! Author!
Bruce Goldstein, executive director of Farmworker Justice, has
written an essay on immigration policy for a book by photographer Rick
Nahmias, The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers,
published by the University of New Mexico Press... Steven A. Solomon,
principal legal officer at the Office of Legal Counsel of the World
Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, has coauthored “The
International Law of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld” for The Yearbook of
International Humanitarian Law, published by the T.M.C. Asser Institute
and Cambridge University Press... Mary Claire Mahaney has written
a book, Osaka Heat, which is a finalist for ForeWord magazine’s
2007 Book of the Year Award in the Literary Fiction category.
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. Send submissions to Kathryn Alfisi at kalfisi@dcbar.org.
