September 2005
By Julie Reynolds
Honors and Appointments
Darryl W. Jackson, a partner with Arnold & Porter
LLP, has been nominated to the position of assistant secretary for export
enforcement at the U.S. Department of Commerce... Carolyn Doppelt
Gray, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, has been appointed
to the White House Conference on Aging Advisory Committee... Loretta
Collins Argrett, a mediator and ethics consultant, and Judith
L. Lichtman, senior adviser to the National Partnership for
Women and Families, have received the 2005 Margaret Brent Achievement
Award, presented by American Bar Association Commission on Women in
the Profession… Alan Robert Swendiman has been
appointed associate administrator for the Office of General Counsel
of the U.S. General Services Administration... Janis B. Schiff,
a partner at Holland & Knight LLP, has been named the firmwide marketing
partner... Thomas Penfield Jackson, a partner with
Jackson & Campbell, P.C., has been appointed to the American Arbitration
Association’s Panel of Neutrals... Charles R. Mills
and Dylan P. Carp, a Washington partner and San Francisco
associate, respectively, of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham
LLP, have been named Lawyers of the Year by Compliance Reporter’s
Achievement in Regulatory Compliance Awards program... Carlos
M. Nalda, of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo,
P.C., has been elected to the board of directors of the National Spectrum
Managers Association... The legal department of the United States Postal
Service, led by Mary Anne Gibbons, has received a Special
Achievement Award from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).
Adorno & Yoss LLP and Sonnenschein Nath
& Rosenthal LLP have received MCCA’s Thomas L. Sager
Award for the South/Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, respectively...
Martha P. “Marty” Rogers, a principal with
Ober|Kaler, has received the Robert A. Shuker Award from the Assistant
U.S. Attorneys Association of the District of Columbia. John
N. Rodock, also a principal, has been appointed to a four-year
term on the board of directors of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame...
Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C. has received
the Constance Belfiore Quality of Life Award from the Bar Association
of the District of Columbia. Jack H. Olender has received
the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington
Bar Association... Jeffrey Kindler, vice chairman and
general counsel of Pfizer Inc., has received the National Legal Aid
& Defender Association’s 2005 Exemplar Award... Larry
Ray has been elected president of the North Columbia Heights
Civic Association... Areta L. Kupchyk, a partner at
Reed Smith LLP, has been honored by Health and Human Services Department
director Michael Leavitt for distinguished service as part of the Tissue
Action Plan Team... Keith Styles has been appointed
to a one-year term on the executive board of Robins, Kaplan, Miller
& Ciresi L.L.P.... Bruce Merlin Fried, a partner
with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, has been named to the national
board of trustees of United Cerebral Palsy... Roger E. Warin,
chair of the executive committee of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, has received
the 2005 Wiley Branton Award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Stewart A. Baker,
a partner, has been nominated to the position of assistant secretary
for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. J. A.
“Lon” Bouknight Jr., a partner, has been selected
as executive vice president and general counsel of Edison International...
Tracy-Gene G. Durkin, a director at Sterne, Kessler,
Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C., has shared the First Place Gold Award
in the category of scholarly journals, feature article, in the 2005
Society of National Association Publications contest... Mark
J. Andrews, partner-in-charge of the D.C. office of Strasburger
& Price, LLP, has received the Transportation Lawyers Association’s
Lifetime Achievement Award... Keith R. Fisher, a professor
at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, has won the 2005 Peterson
Prize National Writing Competition... Layli Miller-Muro,
executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center in Falls Church, Virginia,
has received the Making a Difference for Women Award from Soroptimist
International of Arlington, Virginia... Dennis M. Barry,
a partner with Vinson & Elkins LLP, has been elected to the board
of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association... William
P. Atkins, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP,
has been installed as president of the Bar Association of the District
of Columbia... Elizabeth J. Frey, of Jack H. Olender
& Associates, P.C., has been installed as president-elect of the
Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.
On the Move
Dimitri J. Nionakis and Peggy A. Whitmore
have joined Alston & Bird LLP... Sara E. Emley
and Frederic T. Spindel have joined Buckley Kolar LLP
as partners. T. Lane Macalester has joined as counsel
and Kirk D. Jensen has joined as associate... Ralph
V. De Martino, Jeffrey S. Rosen, and F. Alec Orudjev
have joined Cozen O’Connor as member, of counsel, and associate,
respectively... John W. Ryan has joined Crowell &
Moring as partner... Susan J. Irion has joined the
Chicago office of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP as national director
of professional development... William E. Sekyi has
joined Fish & Richardson P.C. as an associate... Jerry Stouck
and Robert L. Shapiro have joined Greenberg Traurig,
LLP as shareholders... Robert L. McGeorge has joined
the International Air Transport Association in Montreal as general counsel...
H. Russell Frisby Jr. has joined Kirkpatrick &
Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP as partner... Bruce G. Forrest
has become interim chief copyright royalty judge at the Library of Congress...
R. Bruce Dickson has been named director of the litigation
unit at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP... William S. Foster
Jr. has joined McGuire Woods LLP as an associate at the Tysons
Corner, Virginia, office... Robert D. Clark, Mark A. Kass,
and Carlos M. Nalda have joined Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.... Virginia Theis Daly
has joined the Charlotte office of Nelson Mullins as an associate...
Grace H. Kraemer has joined Ober|Kaler in Baltimore...
Samuel A. Ozeck has joined the Enforcement and Compliance
Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency... William
S. Mailander has been appointed general counsel of Paralyzed
Veterans of America... Jennifer L. Richter has joined
Patton Boggs LLP as partner... Gerald George has joined
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as of counsel. Harry H.
Glasspiegel has rejoined as partner... Shannon H. Bates
has joined Saul Ewing LLP as an associate... Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz
has joined Schiff Hardin LLP as partner... Ryan Breitenbach
has joined the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety
and Insurance as staff director and counsel... Jeremy W. Schulman
has joined Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. as shareholder...
Caryl A. Potter III has been named vice chairman of
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP... Lucinda A. Low
has joined Steptoe & Johnson LLP as partner... Andrew G.
Beshear has joined the Louisville office of Stites & Harbison
PLLC... Tom Horton has joined Thelen Reid & Priest
LLP as partner... G. Brent Connor has joined Troutman
Sanders LLP as of counsel. Charles A. Hunnicutt has
joined as partner. James W. C. Canup has joined the
Richmond office as partner... Emilio W. Cividanes has
joined Venable LLP as partner. Henry F. Brandenstein Jr.
has joined the Tysons Corner, Virginia, office as partner... Michael
E. Burke IV has joined Williams Mullen as an associate... Stephen
M. Cutler has joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
LLP as partner... Robert B. Seriono has joined Buckley
Kolar LLP as counsel... Douglas N. Jacobson has joined
Strasburger & Price, LLP as of counsel... Amy L. Bess
has been named managing partner of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
LLP.
Company Changes
Frederick A. Douglas, Curtis A. Boykin, and Kiyo D. Oden have formed
Douglas Boykin & Oden, PLLC, with offices at 1401 I Street NW...
The Law Offices of James J. Gorney have moved to 101 Charles Street,
La Plata, Maryland... Greenberg Traurig, LLP has formed a strategic
alliance with the London-based firm Olswang... Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP has opened an office in Palo Alto, California...
Merchant & Gould has opened an office at 901 15th Street NW... Pillsbury
Winthrop LLP and Shaw Pittman LLP have merged to become Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman LLP... Thelen Reid & Priest LLP has moved to 701 8th
Street NW... Venable LLP has combined with the New York City firm Heard
& O’Toole LLP.
Author! Author!
John T. Aquino has authored Truth and Lives on
Film: The Legal Problems of Depicting Real Persons and Events in a Fictional
Medium, published by McFarland... David A. Gantz
has coauthored the second edition of NAFTA and Free Trade in the
Americas: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, published by West... Enid
Hinkes has written Police Cat, published by Albert
Whitman... Stuart Streichler has written Justice
Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism,
published by the University of Virginia Press... Julie C. Van
Camp has written the second edition of Ethical Issues in
the Courts: A Companion to Philosophical Ethics, published by Wadsworth/Thompson.
Julie Reynolds can be reached by e-mail at jreynolds@dcbar.org.
