October 2009
By Thai Phi Stone

Honors and Appointments
Jamie Conrad, founder of Conrad Law & Policy Counsel, has been named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Conrad has written two chapters, “Information Protection” and “Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards,” in the book Homeland Security: Legal & Policy Issues, published by the ABA… John A. Cutler, senior policy advisor at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, has been appointed by Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine to the state Board of Health Professions… The Children’s Law Center has elected Evan Farber, general counsel and corporate secretary at The Advisory Board Company, and Carmen McLean, attorney at Jones Day, to the organization’s board of directors for a three-year term… Keith Harper, a partner in the litigation department and head of the Native American Affairs practice group at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, was selected as general counsel for the recently created Indian Country Renewable Energy Consortium... Lorelie S. Masters, a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, has been appointed as member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession for a one-year term… Brian Kamoie, a senior fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, has been named senior director for preparedness policy on the White House National Security staff… Stephen E. Vance, a staff attorney for the District of Columbia Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission, has been selected as the 2009-2010 Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

On the Move
Richard C. Goodwin, an Administrative Law Judge in the Office of Hearings at the U.S. Department of Transportation, was elevated to vice chair of the American Bar Association Judicial Division during its Annual Meeting in August in Chicago... Brian D. Bichy was promoted to of counsel for the Condominium and Common Interest Development practice group at Linowes and Blocher LLP... James S. Green, former associate general counsel at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, has been appointed legal advisor to the president and chief executive officer of the Graduate School… William E. Davis has joined Jackson & Campbell, P.C. as director of its Washington, D.C., office. He has extensive experience in the areas of trust and estate planning, administration and fiduciary litigation, business succession planning, and civil litigation… Gary M. Hnath has joined Mayer Brown LLP as partner, focusing on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes… Perkins Coie LLP has expanded its national intellectual property and life sciences practice groups with the addition of seven intellectual property attorneys: Paul Booth, John Isacson, David Laub, and Colin Sandercock as partners, and Steven Allis, David Baltazar, and Joseph Ricigliano as associate... Mark Neyland has joined Ice Miller LLP as senior counsel in the collegiate sports practice…Suzanne Walker, counsel at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place… Elias Hinckley, a policy, tax and regulatory attorney focused on the alternative energy industry and green technologies, has joined Venable LLP as partner… Mickie Y. Baily has joined Polsinelli Shughart PC as associate.

Company Changes
Edward J. Rich, formerly of Arent Fox LLP, who recently was elected as a member of the D.C. Bar District of Columbia Affairs Section Steering Committee, has opened his own practice—the Law Office of Edward Rich, PC—at 11703 Hitching Post Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland, focusing on transactional real estate, land use and zoning, government contracts, and government relations... Gregory Poe, formerly a partner at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, has opened the Law Offices of Gregory L. Poe PLLC at 1025 Connecticut Avenue NW, suite 1000 in Washington, D.C.... Michigan-based Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski, a condemnation and eminent domain law firm, opened an office at 900 19th Street NW, suite 400, in Washington, D.C…. Churchill Hooff has formed Hooff Law PLLC, a commercial real estate law firm at 1707 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia…

Author! Author!
Larry E. Bergmann and coauthor Matthew B. Comstock of Willkie Farr & Gallagher have written “Issues in Secondary Market Trading,” which appears as chapter 48 in Securities Law Techniques, published by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.

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 Stone at tstone@dcbar.org.