November 2007
By Julie Reynolds
Honors and Appointments
Stacy Shore of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP in McLean, Virginia,
and Brenda Oliver of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. have been
elected chair-elect and treasurer, respectively, of the Washington,
D.C., chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association... Cary
Martin Clennon has been designated a board-certified specialist
in criminal trial law by the Florida Bar... John D. Echeverria,
executive director of the Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute,
has received the 10th annual Jefferson Fordham Advocacy Award from the
Section of State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association...
John C. “Jack” Keeney Jr., a partner at Hogan &
Hartson LLP, has been appointed chair of the Standing Committee on Election
Law of the American Bar Association... Sandra H. Robinson of
Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C. has been installed as president
of the Public Justice Foundation and has received the annual award for
leadership and mentoring from the American Association for Justice Women’s
Caucus... Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has awarded its Pro Bono Service
Award to associate Sandra Z. Paik... Steven P. Koebele of the
Law Office of Steve Koebele in Austin, Texas, has been appointed chairman
of the Public Affairs Committee of the State Bar of Texas... Jay
Levin of the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith LLP, has been appointed
chair of the TTIPS Property Insurance Law Committee of the Tort Trial
and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association... Neil
Thomas Proto, a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP,
has been appointed to the board of directors of the Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York... Lynda C. Shely
of the Shely Firm, PC in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been selected as Member
of the Year by the State Bar of Arizona... Carter Phillips of
Sidley Austin LLP has received the inaugural Lewis F. Powell Award for
Business Advocacy from the National Chamber Litigation Center... S.
Jnatel Simmons, senior counsel in the Office of Counsel to the Inspector
General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
has received the Inspector General’s Exceptional Achievement Award...
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
has awarded the 2007 Wiley Branton Award to Anastasia D. Kelly,
executive vice president and general counsel at AIG, and to Thomas
S. Williamson Jr., a partner at Covington & Burling LLP. Congresswoman
Eleanor Holmes Norton received the Alfred McKenzie Award... William
J. Wilkins, a partner at WilmerHale, has been named chair-elect
of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association… Michael
A. Fitzpatrick, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
LLP, and the firm itself, have received the 2007 Discover the Heart
of Washington Award from Cultural Tourism DC… Michael Byowitz,
a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, has been
elected an honorary member of the Association Internationale des Jeunes
Avocats (AIJA), an international young lawyers’ association.
On the Move
Matthew A. Stevens has joined Alston & Bird LLP as partner...
Vonda Marshall Harris has joined ARAMARK as labor relations director...
Robert M. Clark has joined Arnold & Porter LLP as counsel...
Donna K. Thiel has joined Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell
& Berkowitz, PC as shareholder... Eric S. Purple has joined
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP as partner... Sylvia A. Cates has
been appointed deputy legal affairs secretary in the office of California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger... Julia Gordon has joined the
Center for Responsible Lending as policy counsel... Joseph Cammarata
and Allan M. Siegel have joined Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata and
Siegel, P.C. as named partners... Jewell Lim Esposito and Rebecca
Jordan Manners have joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka as shareholder and
associate, respectively... Steven T. Cottreau, Juan P. Morillo,
Stephen M. Nickelsburg, and Wendy L. Wysong have joined Clifford
Chance US LLP as partner... H. Bryan Brewer III has joined Crowell
& Moring LLP as partner... Jeffrey Ira Frey has joined Dewey
Ballantine LLP as counsel. Evan Koster has joined as partner
in the New York office... Peter Zeidenberg and William P.
Cook have joined DLA Piper US LLP as partner. Sydney White
and Adrian Copiz have joined as associate... Naomi Travers
has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as counsel... Gregory W.
Fortsch has been named a senior attorney in the Division of Advertising
Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission...
John M. Lynham Jr. has joined Foley & Lardner LLP as of counsel.
Jay W. Freedman has been named managing partner of the Washington,
D.C., office... Sarah “Sally” McCarthy has been appointed
assistant dean for J.D. academic services at the Georgetown University
Law Center. Jane Aiken, Michael J. Golden, Jonathan Molot, and
Rima Sirota have been named professor... Monroe Freedman,
a professor at Hofstra University Law School, will be a visiting professor
during the fall semester at the Georgetown University Law Center...
Michael N. Druckman has joined Hogan & Hartson LLP as partner...
Sheldon Bradshaw has joined Hunton & Williams LLP as partner...
Roxanne Rosado has joined Leach Travell Britt PC as associate...
Marc S. Raspanti will join Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon, LLP
in Philadelphia... Retired judge Gregory Mize has been named
executive director of the Sedona Conference in Phoenix... Kim F.
Hassan has joined Sempra Energy in San Diego as counsel... Anthony
Tu-Sekine has been named counsel at Seward & Kissel LLP... Megan
M. Wallace has joined Stark, Eisler & Leatham, LLC in Rockville,
Maryland, as counsel... Carolyn Lindsey has joined TRACE International…
Johnny A. Kumar has joined Winston & Strawn LLP as partner.
Mark Clodfelter has joined as of counsel… Daniel J.
Metcalfe has joined the American University Washington College of
Law as a faculty fellow in law and government and executive director
of the Center on Government Secrecy… Amos N. Jonas has
joined Bryan Cave LLP as associate… Jeff E. Schwartz and
Jeffrey Ira Frey have joined Dewey Ballantine LLP as partner
and counsel, respectively… Pierre Erville has been appointed
chief of the Bureau of Environmental Hazards and Injury Prevention of
the District of Columbia Department of Health… Matthew C. Hoyer
has joined Garvey Schubert Barer as associate... Judith B. Kassel
has joined ICF International as executive vice president and general
counsel... Laura Effel has joined Jackson Lewis LLP in Richmond,
Virginia... James P. Sheesley has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman
LLP as partner… Eric W. Hagen has joined McDermott Will
& Emery LLP as partner in the Los Angeles office…Eric D.
Reicin and Andy Wachtel have been promoted to vice president
and deputy general counsel, respectively, at Sallie Mae. Dana Albertini
has been promoted to vice president and associate general counsel.
Poorvi Parkhie and David Reichman have been promoted to
associate general counsel... Alan N. Belkin has joined Saltman
& Stevens P.C. as of counsel.
Company Changes
Alston & Bird LLP has opened an office in Dallas... James
W. Conrad has opened Conrad Law & Policy Counsel at 1615
L Street NW... David T. Deal has opened Deal Consulting & Dispute
Resolution, LLC in Falls Church, Virginia... Dewey Ballantine LLP
has merged with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & McRae LLP to form Dewey
& LeBoeuf LLP... Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP has opened
an office at 1875 Eye Street NW... Fleischman and Walsh LLP has
changed its name to Fleischman and Harding LLP, at 1255 23rd Street
NW... Haramol S. Sandhu has opened HireTrade LLC... The Law Firm
of Chaikin and Sherman, P.C. has changed its name to Chaikin, Sherman,
Cammarata and Siegel, P.C.... Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has
changed its name to Mayer Brown.
Author! Author!
Barry E. Carter, a professor at the Georgetown University Law
Center, and Allen S. Weiner, a professor at Stanford University
Law School, have coauthored the fifth edition of International Law,
published by Aspen Publishers... David Cole, a professor at the
Georgetown University Law Center, has coauthored Less Safe, Less
Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published by New
Press... Eugene R. Fidell of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
and Colonel Dwight H. Sullivan of the Office of Military Commissions
have coauthored Military Justice: Cases and Materials, published
by LexisNexis... Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, has written “The
Growth of a Movement for a Human Right to Housing in the United States,”
published in the Spring 2007 issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal...
D. Reed Freeman, a partner at Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, has
coauthored Privacy Law in Marketing, published by CCH... Jack
H. Olender of Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C. has written
What a Difference, published by Pitt Law... Judith O’Sullivan
has written “Suicide in Sea Isle City,” published in Deadly
Ink 2006 Short Story Collection, and “Death and the Jersey
Devil,” published in Deadly Ink 2007 Short Story Collection,
both published by Deadly Ink Press... Jeannine R. Reardon
has written “Selecting Supreme Court Justices: Preserving the
System, Protecting With Professionalism,” published in volume
40 of the Suffolk University Law Review... Louis Michael Seidman,
a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, has written Silence
and Freedom, published by Stanford University Press... Alexandra
Wrage of Trace International, Inc. in Annapolis, Maryland, has written
Bribery and Corruption: Undermining Business, Governments and Security,
published by Praeger Security International.
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. Julie Reynolds can be reached by e-mail at
jreynolds@dcbar.org.
