NEWS
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New Firm Joins State Capital Group
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Elected Chair; New Board Members Elected
CALIFORNIA
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
Los Angeles member firm Mitchell Silberberg
& Knupp LLP opened an office in New York City. The contact
information is as follows: 12 East 49th Street, 30th Floor New York,
New York 10017. The new office will focus initially in the practice
areas of litigation, intellectual property, entertainment and real
estate.
For more information visit Mitchell
Silberberg & Knupp LLP
COLORADO
IRELAND STAPLETON PRYOR & PASCOE, PC
Laura Hazen has become a Shareholder
with Colorado member firm Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe,
PC.
For more information, visit Ireland
Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC
FLORIDA
AUSLEY & MCMULLEN, P.A.
Shareholder Michael J. Glazer of Florida
member firm Ausley & McMullen, P.A. has become Board Certified
by the Florida Bar in State & Federal Government and Administrative
Practice. This is a new area of Board Certification in Florida. Only
56 Florida attorneys have achieved this designation.
For more information, visit Ausley
& McMullen, P.A.
GEORGIA
TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
The State Bar of Georgia has honored Georgia
member firm Troutman Sanders LLP with the William B. Spann
Jr. Award for the firm's ongoing pro bono work with Atlanta Legal
Aid and the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation.
Partner Bradfute W. Davenport was recently inducted into the
Litigation Counsel of America.
Stephen Jefferson Greenway, Brian C. Harms, Kevin G. Meeks, Thomas
J. Schramkowski, James E. Schutz, Wendelin Silliman, John W. Stephenson,
Jr. and Rebecca Lyn Williams have been elected Partners
in the Atlanta office. Tyler B. Dempsey has joined the Atlanta
office as a Partner in its Mergers, Acquisitions and Business Ventures
practice group.
Matthew J. Aaronson, Daniel N. Anziska, and Brett R. Baker,
have been elected Partners in the firm’s New York City office. Richard M. Lehrer and Robert A. Friedman have joined
the firm’s New York City office as Partners. Lehrer will join
the firm’s Intellectual Property Group and Friedman will join
its Tax practice group. Howard H. Jiang has also joined the
firm’s New York City office as Partner in its International practice
group
William H. Hurd, Brian J. Iwashyna and Joseph A. Tessari have been elected Partners in the firm’s Richmond office. Alfonso
J. Cisneros joins the firm’s Richmond office as an Associate
in its Multifamily Housing practice group. John M. Ramirez has been elected Partner in the firm’s Virginia Beach office. James A. Thomas and Sheldon R. Pontaoe have joined the
firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s
Raleigh office as Partner and Of Counsel, respectively.
R. Craig Fitzenreiter has joined the firm’s Tysons Corner
office as Of Counsel to its Real Estate Finance practice group. Robert
P. Beaman III, Clayton A. De Arment, Jonathan Downs, M. Nora Garcia,
Jessica Link Martyn, E. Kyle McNew, Erin O’Neil, Jackson W. Prentice,
Lisa A. Raines, S. Mohsin Reza and Lile T. Trice have joined
the firm as first-year Associates. Beaman joins the firm’s Zoning
& Land Use Practice Group; De Arment and Downs join the firm’s
Securities & Corporate Governance Practice Group; Garcia and O’Neil
join its Multi Family Housing Practice Group; McNew and Reza join
its Complex Litigation Practice Group; Martyn has joined its Transportation
Practice Group; Prentice joins the Real Estate Finance Practice Group;
Raines joins its Mergers Acquisitions & Business Ventures Practice
Group; and Trice joins its Retail Properties Practice Group.
For more information visit Troutman
Sanders LLP
INDIANA
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP
Indiana member firm Barnes & Thornburg
LLP, is giving $25,000 to the Bowen Center for Public Affairs
at Ball State University to help underwrite the operating costs of
the Bowen Institute for Political Participation for five years. The
Bowen Institute for Political Participation is a two-day seminar that
enables students and citizen leaders to hone their skills in political
participation and civic engagement. The institute has been held in
Indianapolis for the past 27 years and has been recognized by the
Indiana NAACP with the Earl T. Shinhoster Award for pioneering work
in civic education.
For more information, visit Barnes
& Thornburg
IOWA
NYEMASTER, GOODE, WEST, HANSELL & O'BRIEN,
P.C.
Matthew R. Eslick, Sarah J. Hastings and Andrew M. Graap
have joined Iowa member firm Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell &
O’Brien, P.C. as Associates. Eslick joins the firm’s
Litigation Department and Hastings and Graap join its Business, Finance
and Real Estate Department.
For more information, visit Nyemaster,
Goode, West, Hansell & O'Brien, P.C.
LOUISIANA
ADAMS AND REESE LLP
Louisiana member firm Adams and Reese LLP
recently sponsored a reception for the Foundation for the Advancement
of Maritime Education (FAME), which formally announced its efforts
to apply for a Type II charter to open a maritime charter high school.
Firm attorneys have donated countless hours of pro bono service to
FAME, and have been an integral part of its formation.
The Louisiana State Bar Association recently honored the firm as the
recipient of its 2008 “Friend of Pro Bono” Award.
Partner Donald C. Massey has been selected as a Fellow of the
Litigation Counsel of America (LCA).
David Toney and Arthur Fant have joined the firm's Houston
office. Toney joins as Special Counsel with the Litigation Practice
Group and Fant joins as Special Counsel and Member with the Real Estate
Practice Team in the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services
Practice Group. Derrick A. Reed and Ty C. Camp have
joined the firm's Houston office as Associates; Lauren L. Tafaro
and Benjamin Norwood have joined the firm's New Orleans office
as Associates.
Former eight-term Insurance Commissioner of Mississippi, George
Dale will join the firm as a Senior Governmental Affairs Advisor
(non-lawyer) and a member of the Governmental Relations team. Mark
J. Spansel, a Partner in the New Orleans office, was honored with
the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) “Words of
Wisdom Award” during its 27th Annual Construction Risk Conference
in Orlando,
Florida. Spansel serves on the firm’s Executive Committee, and
is the former Practice Team Leader of the Marine and Energy Practice
Team in the Litigation Practice Group.
Louis C. LaCour, Jr. and Martin A. Stern, also Partners
in the firm’s New Orleans office, have been named leaders of
the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Appellate Section. Christopher
J. Kane, an Associate in the firm’s New Orleans office, has
been selected to serveon the Board of Directors of the Trade Capacity
Building Institute (TBC). TBC is a non-profit organization focused
on building trade capacity through entrepreneurship and education
in countries entering into a trade agreement with the United States. Mark R. Beebe, a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group in
the New Orleans office, has been selected to serve on the Executive
Committee. Edwin C. Laizer, a Partner in the New Orleans office, will
serve as a Practice Group Leader for the Litigation Practice Group.
B. Troy Villa, a Partner in the Baton Rouge office, will serve
as a Practice Group Leader for the Transactions and Corporate Advisory
Services Practice Group.
After spending one year at the White House Office of Management and
Budget, attorney Bedouin Joseph recently returned to the firm
as a Partner with the Litigation Practice Group in the Houston office.
F. Lee Butler, a Partner in the firm’s Houston office,
has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. Lydia A. Jones, known throughout the country as a pioneer in
the area of Internet Law, has joined the firm’s Music Row, Nashville
office, as Special Counsel and will lead the firm’s Internet
and E-Commerce practice team. Kathleen T. Pearson has joined
the firm’s Nashville office as the Business Development Manager
(nonlawyer) for the Litigation Practice Group. Guilford F. Thornton,
Jr., a Partner in the Practice Group in the Special Business
Services Practice Group in Nashville, has also been elected to serve
on the Executive Committee. Paul A. Carrubba, Kolin B. Holladay,
Justin B. Schmidt and Bradley A. Waters have been named
Partners
with the firm’s Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services
Practice Group.
Powell G. “Gee” Ogletree, Jr., a Partner with the
firm’s Jackson office, has been invited to join the Mississippi
Bar Foundation as a Fellow. Stephen A. Walsh has been named
Partner in Charge of the firm’s Birmingham office. M. Ann
Huckstep, a Partner with the Special Business Services Practice
Group in the Birmingham office, has been unanimously re-elected to
serve as Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee. Two attorneys
have joined the firm as Associates in the firm’s Litigation Practice
Group. J. Bennett Fox, Jr. has joined the firm’s Memphis
office and Brian Casper has joined the firm’s Nashville
office.
The firm received first place in Community Relations at the recent
national Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Conference held in Los
Angeles, California.
For more information, visit Adams
and Reese LLP
MAINE
CURTIS THAXTER STEVENS BRODER & MICOLEAU
LLC
Based on his experiences in three years of extensive
regulatory hearings involving the state’s Dirigo Health Reform
law and determining the controversial “savings offset payment,”
D. Michael Frink, attorney with Maine member firm Curtis
Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau LLC, has published an article
in the Federation of Regulatory Counsel Journal entitled, “Health
Care Reform – Insurance Coverage Expansion: Maine’s Experience
in the National Context.”
For more infromation, visit Curtis
Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau LLC
MASSACHUSETTS
KEEGAN WERLIN LLP
Two attorneys have been elected to Partnership
of Massachusetts member firm Keegan Werlin LLP: John K.
Habib (Energy Group) and Cheryl A. Blaine (Environmental
Group). Maura A. Greene has joined the firm as a Partner in
the Litigation Group. Steven Frias, Adam C. Martin, Kevin F. Penders
and Sarah J. Schuler have joined the firm as Associates. Frias
and Penders join the firm’s Energy Group and Martin and Schuler
join its Litigation Group.
For more information, visit Keegan
Werlin LLP
MICHIGAN
FRASER TREBILCOCK DAVIS & DUNLAP, P.C.
Shareholder and former Ingham County Circuit
Court Chief Judge Peter D. Houk of Michigan member firm Fraser
Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C. recently addressed the annual
State Bar of Michigan’s Negligence Law Section Conference in
Law Vegas, Nevada. Judge Houk was one of three former judges asked
to participate in a panel discussion on Alternative Dispute Resolution
by Mediation and Arbitration.
Shareholder Mark A. Bush was selected by the Mid-Michigan Chapter
of the American Red Cross as the 2007 Volunteer of the Year for Services
to the Armed Forces.
Ryan M. Wilson recently spoke to the members and staff of the
DeWitt branch of NuUnion Credit Union on the rights of mortgage borrowers
and the strategies they should employ when facing the possibility
of a foreclosure.
Mark R. Fox has been re-elected President of the firm. Iris
K. Linder and Douglas J. Austin were re-elected as Vice-Presidents,
Michael P. Donnelly as Treasurer and Thaddeus E. Morgan as Secretary. These officers, elected at the Annual Shareholders Meeting,
will preside this year as the firm celebrates its quasquicentennial
– 125 years of providing legal services throughout Michigan and
the country.
David E. S. Marvin, Shareholder and Chair of the firm’s
Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Law Department, was awarded
the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Community Service
Award during the Chamber’s 96th Annual Awards Dinner at the Lansing
Center in downtown Lansing. Attorney Graham Crabtree recently addressed
the Ingham County Bar Association as the featured speaker for its
popular Luncheon Lecture Series on Wednesday, February 27.
For more information, visit Fraser
Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C.
MISSOURI
BRYDON, SWEARENGEN & ENGLAND P.C.
Diana C. Carter, Scott A. Hamblin and
L. Russell Mitten have become Shareholders with Missouri member
firm Brydon, Swearengen & England P.C. Erin L. Wiseman
has become associated with the firm and David V.G. Brydon has
recently retired from the firm.
For more information, visit Brydon,
Swearengen & England P.C.
NEBRASKA
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C., LLO
Randy R. Ewing and William C. Nelson
joined the Lincoln office of Nebraska member firm Erickson
| Sederstrom, P.C., LLO as Partners. Ewing will concentrate his
practice in the areas of real estate, business and corporate, insurance,
commercial, trade association and computer law and Nelson will concentrate
his practice in the areas of business and commercial litigation. Jason
L. Scott joins the firm’s Lincoln office as an Associate
and will focus his practice in real estate and business litigation,
condemnation, intellectual property, and employment law.
For more information, visit Erickson
| Sederstrom, P.C., LLO
NEVADA
LIONEL SAWYER & COLLINS
Two attorneys of Nevada member firm Lionel
Sawyer & Collins recently passed the 2008 Nevada State Bar:
Mark Gardberg and Brian Schusterman both join the firm’s
Business Law Department. Gardberg joins the Las Vegas office and Schusterman
joins the firm’s Reno office.
Laura J. Thalacker and Doreen Spears Hartwell have been
named Shareholders. Thalacker, a member of the Firm’s Labor and
Employment Practice Group, was previously Of Counsel with the Firm.
Hartwell practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, where
she focuses on civil litigation in state and federal courts. Ten attorneys
who sat for the Nevada Bar exam in July 2007 were notified that they
passed the exam. These attorneys include: Christopher Mathews,
Kevin Hejmanowski, Ketan Bhirud, Lauren Calvert-Arnold, Robert Hernquist,
Christian Hale, Timothy Mulliner, Kelly Kichline, Courtney Miller,
and Mohamed Iqbal.
For more information, visit Lionel
Sawyer & Collins
NEW MEXICO
MONTGOMERY & ANDREWS, P.A.
J. Scott Hall has recently joined New
Mexico member firm Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. as Of Counsel
in the Natural Resources Department.
The firm opened a new office in Albuquerque with the law firm of Sturges,
Houston & Sexton, P.C. The addition of the office expands and
enhances the firm’s practice in the areas of: Natural Resources
Law; Professional Liability; Insurance Defense, Coverage and Regulation;
Water Law; Legislative Services; Employment Law; Products Liability;
Real Estate Law; Medical Malpractice; Administrative and Regulatory
Practice; Environmental Law; and Health Care Law. Contact information
for the new Albuquerque office is: 6301 Indian School Road, NE, Suite
400; Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110; Tel: (505) 884-4200.
Jeffrey J. Wechsler, Paul E. Houston and Kevin M. Sexton
have joined the firm as Shareholders. Suzanne C. Odom has
joined the firm as Of Counsel. Jeff L. Martin, from the Santa
Fe office, will join the Albuquerque office, and will continue his
practice in the areas of Medical Malpractice and Insurance Defense.
Shannon A. Parden, Brian T. Judson, Susan R. Johnson, Sharon T.
Shaheen and Jamie R. Kennedy have joined the firm as Associates.
For more information, visit Montgomery
& Andrews, P.A.
OREGON
HARRANG LONG GARY RUDNICK P.C.
James Mountain, Shareholder of Oregon
member firm Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C., has been elected
a Fellow of the Academy of Appellate Lawyers, joining fellow attorney
Bill Gary as members of this exclusive group. Before joining
the firm, Mountain and Gary each served as Solicitor General for the
State of Oregon, handling all of the state's appeals. Gary and another
member of the firm's appellate group, Sharon Rudnick, recently
filed a petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court in Williams
v. Philip Morris, a case involving a $97 million punitive damages
award.
For more information, visit Harrang
Long Gary Rudnick P.C.
TENNESSEE
BASS, BERRY & SIMS PLC
Tennessee member firm Bass, Berry & Sims
PLCS received top honors for its holiday card from the Legal Marketing
Association (LMA) at its recent national conference in Los Angeles.
Attorney Russell Stair has moved to the firm's Knoxville office.
The firm, serving as lead counsel for Genesco, recently received
a favorable judgment in the high-stakes litigation case Genesco, Inc.
v. Finish Line, Inc. The case arose after Finish Line and its lender
attempted to back out of a merger agreement for Genesco to be acquired
by Finish Line, Inc. for $1.5 billion. The firm’s litigation
team, led by Overton Thompson, filed suit to enforce the agreement.
On December 27, 2007, Tennessee Chancery Court Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle
ruled in favor of Genesco and ordered that Finish Line must specifically
perform its obligations under the merger agreement and close the transaction.
The firm has acted as counsel to Bright Horizons Family Solutions,
Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Bain Capital Partners LLC,
a global private investment firm. Bright Horizons is the world’s
leading provider of employer-sponsored childcare, early education
and work/life solutions. The transaction, valued at approximately
$1.3 billion, is one of the largest transactions announced in 2008
and one of the largest leveraged buyout transactions announced since
the credit crunch occurred in late 2007. The team representing Bright
Horizons was led by Jim Cheek, Howard Lamar and Laura Brothers
and included Scott Bell, Curtis Fisher, Matt Thompson, Jamie Wade
and Price Wilson.
Todd Ervin has joined the Tax Practice in the Nashville office
as a Member. Ross Booher, Kevin H. Douglas and Ryan D. Thomas have been named Members of the firm’s Nashville office. Booher
practices in the firm’s Litigation Practice Area; Douglas and
Thomas practices in its Corporate and Securities Practice Area. Seven
new Associates have joined the firm’s Nashville office. They
include: Elisa Harris, David Killion, Jason Lewallen, Ashley McCall,
Taylor Phillips, Matt Thompson and Kendrick Vaughn. Harris
joins the firm’s Healthcare Practice Area; Killion and Phillips
join the its Litigation Practice Area; Lewallen joins its Commercial
Transactions and Real Estate Practice Area; and McCall, Thompson and
Vaughn join its Corporate and Securities Practice Area.
For more information, visit Bass,
Berry & Sims PLC.
UTAH
PARSONS BEHLE & LATIMER
Shareholder Sean D. Reyes of Utah member
firm Parsons Behle & Latimer, will receive an "Outstanding
50 Asian Americans in Business" award on May 28 in New York City.
The firm recently announced its newly elected board of directors.
Raymond J. Etcheverry will continue serving as Chairman of
the board and CEO. Also remaining on the board are Hal J. Pos,
Robert C. Delahunty and David M. Bennion. Newly elected
to the board is Rew R. Goodenow of the firm’s Reno office.
The firm has also named William J. Stilling to chair the firm’s
Health and Life Sciences Practice Group.
The Road Home gave its Hearts and Hands Award on November 1, 2007—National
Philanthropy Day—to firm attorney Lawrence R. Barusch.
He was honored for his volunteer work. The firm recently sponsored
its 20th Annual Employment Law Seminar, which highlighted recent developments
in employment law including immigration issues, employee benefits,
wage and hour laws, safe hiring practices, the Americans with Disabilities
Act, employment disputes and the impact of health care reform for
employers.
Mark W. Dykes, Michael R. McCarthy, Jason S. Nichols and Michael
P. Petrogeorge have been named Shareholders of the firm. Dykes
and McCarthy are Members of the firm’s Litigation and Environmental,
Energy and Natural Resources Departments; Nichols is a Member of its
Real Estate, Banking and Finance Department; and Petrogeorge is a
Member of its Litigation Department. Susan E. Baird has joined
the firm’s Salt Lake City office as a Member of the Litigation
Department.
For more information, visit Parsons
Behle & Latimer
VIRGINIA
MCGUIREWOODS
Martin C. Boyle has joined the Richmond
office of Virginia member firm McGuireWoods LLP as an Associate
in the firm's Product and Consumer Litigation Department.
The firm recently assisted Dominion Resources Inc. in the acquisition
of a 50% interest in the planned Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in Indiana
from BP PLC’s alternative energy business. Partner Joanne
Katsantonis, Chair of the Energy and Utilities department, led
the firm’s team, which included Andrea Chase, an Associate
in the Energy and Utilities department; Pat Horne and Walter
Dunn, Partners in the Energy and Utilities department; Bob
McElroy, a Partner in the Tax and Employee Benefits department;
Ed Pittman, a Partner in the Real Estate department; Matt
Gunlock, an Associate in the Real Estate department; Ashley
Harwell, an Associate in the Land Use and Environmental department;
and Brent Justus, an Associate in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation
department.
Joanne Katsantonis, Partner and Chair of the firm’s Energy
and Utilities Department, was named to the BTI Client Service All-Star
Team for Corporate Transactions. Dennis Belcher, a Partner
in the firm’s Richmond and McLean offices, has been elected President-elect
of the American College of Trust and Estate. Vishwa B. Link has joined the firm’s Richmond office as a Partner in its Energy
and Utilities Department. K. Lorraine Lord, Jacob H. Rooksby, Jessica
A. Brumberg and Virginia L.H. Nesbitt have joined the Richmond
office as Associates. Lord practices in the firm’s Complex Commercial
Litigation Department; Rooksby practices in its Intellectual Property
Litigation/Patents Department; and Brumberg and Nesbitt practice in
its Toxic Tort and Environmental Litigation Department. Zachary
D. Cohen has joined the firm’s Richmond office as an attorney
in the Technology and Business Department. Safet Metjahic has
joined the firm’s Tysons Corner office as an Associate in the
firm’s IP Litigation and Patents Department.
For more information, visit McGuireWoods
WASHINGTON
CARNEY BADLEY SPELLMAN, P.S.
Attorney Timothy J. Parker of Washington
member firm Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. has become a Fellow
of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
For more information, visit Carney
Badley Spellman, P.S.
WISCONSIN
QUARLES & BRADY LLP
Jeffrey B. Bartell, a Partner
who opened the Madison office of Wisconsin member firm Quarles
& Brady LLP was recently honored at the Wisconsin State Bar
Annual Convention with the Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service
Award.
The firm recently received the Law Firm Service Award from the Dane
County Bar Association (DCBA) for its participation and support of
the Family Court Assistance Project (FCAP).
Partner Valerie L. Bailey-Rihn has joined the Ice Age Park
& Trail Foundation Board of Directors. The nonprofit organization,
formed in 1985, supports, protects and maintains the natural beauty
of the state’s thousand-mile footpath that was created during
the Ice Age. Attorney Renae Waterman Aldana was recently elected
President of the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association. Matthew
J. Duchemin has been promoted to Partner in the firm’s Madison
office. Michelle MacGrath has joined the firm as its Director
of Marketing and Business Development.
For more information,
visit Quarles & Brady LLP
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
Washington, D.C. member firm Dickstein Shapiro
LLP continues the strategic growth of its Intellectual Property
Practice with the additions of John T. Gallagher, Gerard A. Haddad,
and Christopher K. Hu, as Partners in the firm's New York office,
and Michael S. Marcus as Partner in the firm's Washington,
DC office.
The firm formed a strategic alliance with Hisao Tatsumi, who
is highly regarded in the Japanese intellectual property community.
Tatsumi, who worked for more than three decades as an intellectual
property advisor to Ricoh Company, Ltd., will serve as a consultant
to the firm and its Intellectual Property Practice, providing advice
and counsel to clients on a full range of intellectual property
matters.
Divonne Smoyer, Salvatore P. Tamburo and Christopher H.
Wood have been elected to Partnership in the firm’s Washington,
D.C. office and Paul C. Sullivan has been elected to Partnership
in the firm’s New York office. Jay N. Fastow and Denise
Kosineski Plunkett have joined the firm’s New York office
as Partners in its national Antitrust and Financial Services Practices.
Fastow will serve as co-head of the firm’s national Antitrust
&
Consumer Protection Practice and as a Member of its Strategic Advisory
Group.
Stuart B. Nibley has joined the firm as a Partner in its Government
Contracts Practice.
Jeffrey Sherwood, Frank Cimino, Jr. and Charles D. Ossola
have joined the firm as Partners in its Intellectual Property
Practice. Gina A. Hough has joined the firm’s Intellectual
Property Practice as Of Counsel. Hough joins the firm from Fannie
Mae, where she served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.
For more information, visit Dickstein
Shapiro LLP
AUSTRALIA (SYDNEY)
HOLMAN WEBB
D’Arcy Kelly of Sydney, Australia
member firm Holman Webb, was named by Australasian Legal Business
as one of the 40 “Hottest Lawyers” of 2007.
For more information, visit Holman
Webb
BELGIUM
LYDIAN
Carl Dotremont has joined the Corporate,
Finance and Tax teams as Partner of Belgium member firm Lydian.
Lievin De Wulf joins the teams as Of Counsel.
For more information, visit Lydian
CANADA, ALBERTA
FIELD LLP
Christin Elawny and Bill O’Neill have joined the Calgary office of Alberta member firm Field
LLP as Associates in the firm’s Labor and Employment Group.
For more information, visit Field
LLP
CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
BULL, HOUSSER & TUPPER LLP
For the third consecutive year British Columbia member firm Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP was named by BC Business Magazine as one of British Columbia’s best employers. Proudly, the firm remains the only law firm to ever receive this designation.
Kristy Sim recently joined the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Group as an Associate.
For more information, visit Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP
CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA
WICKWIRE HOLM
Safet Sean Foreman, Partner of Nova Scotia
member firm Wickwire Holm has been named the Chair of the Canadian
Bar Association National Environmental Energy and Resource Law Section.
In 2005 he was one of three national recipients of the Junior Chamber
International’s “Outstanding Young Canadian (Vanier) Award”
and in 2007 he was the recipient of the Dalhousie University’s
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. Associate
Janet M. Stevenson was the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association,
Nova Scotia Branch’s 2007 Community Service Award.
For more information, visit Wickwire
Holm
ENGLAND (MANCHESTER)
COBBETTS LLP
Stephen Benson, of Manchester, England
member firm Cobbetts LLP has been appointed Senior Partner
& Chairman of the Board for a term of three years. Significant
fundraising is taking place across the firm at a wide variety of events
in support of McMillan Cancer Support, which the staff has chosen
as the firm’s national charity of the year. The firm has advised
Highland Gold Mining on the deal that saw Roman Abramovich acquire
a 40% holding in Russia’s fourth largest gold miner. The strength
and depth of the Public Markets practice and knowledge of the mining
and minerals sector has led to the firm being named as the UK’s
leading legal adviser on AIM for mining and minerals stocks by Hemscott,
the independent international provider of financial data.
During the 2008 INTA Meeting, Cobbetts LLP, will host a reception
for State Capital Group attendees and other clients and friends of
the firm. The reception will be held Monday, May 19, 2008 from 5:00
to 7:00 pm at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Unter Den Linden 77, in Berlin,
Germany. Please contact Cobbetts LLP at +44 161 833 3333 for more
information and to confirm with the firm if you plant to attend the
event.
For more information, visit Cobbetts
LLP
GERMANY
GRAF VON WESTPHALEN
State Capital Group Germany member firm Graf von Westphalen
will host several events during the INTA Conference in Berlin, Germany
in May. On Sunday, May 18, the firm will host a boat trip on the Spree
River at 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. On Monday, May 19, from 5:00-7:30 p.m.,
the firm will host a reception at its Berlin office, at Leipziger
Platz 1. The reception will feature food and drinks from Graf von
Westphalen German office locations in Freiburg (Black Forest),
Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresden, Cologne and Munich. In addition,
the firm’s Berlin office will be open Monday, May 19 and Tuesday,
May 20, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for discussions on EU and German trademark
law. A registration form for these events can be downloaded here.
Contact the firm at +49 4 03 59 220 for more information and to confirm
with the firm if you plant to attend the event.
LIECHTENSTEIN
WALCH & SCHURTI
Marina Haase-Saidani has been appointed
Partner with Liechtenstein member firm Walch & Schurti.
For more information, visit Walch
& Schurti
POLAND
DOMANSKI ZAKRZEWSKI PALINKA
Agata Demuth, Pawel Halwa, Krzysztof Kowalczyk,
Pawel Lewandowski, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Dr. Marcin Matczak and
Magdalena Skowronska have been appointed Partners of Poland
member firm Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka. Demuth specializes
in civil law, real estate law and commercial law; Halwa in advising
companies, particularly on M&A transactions, securities, banking
and insurance law; Kowalczyk in competition and antitrust law and
litigation; Lewandowski in litigation, corporate law, and take-overs;
Marcinkowski in commercial law, personal data protection law, advertising
and free competition law; Matczak in EU law, regulatory, advertising
law and unfair competition issues; and Skowronska banking law, regulatory
aspects of the functioning of finance sector institutions, capital
market law, and mergers and acquisitions. The new partners have all
worked at the firm for some time and form a team of 140 lawyers, including
19 partners at Poland's largest law firm.
The firm has offices located in Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Lodz and
Torun.
For more information, visit Domanski
Zakrzewski Palinka
THAILAND
TILLEKE AND GIBBINS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
On April 9, 2008, at Managing Intellectual Property's
3rd Global Awards ceremony held at Claridges Hotel in London, Thailand
member firm Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd. was announced
the winner of the "Firm of the Year 2008 - Thailand" award.
Following five months of research, Managing Intellectual Property
(MIP) revealed the results of Part 2 of its survey of the intellectual
property market in its March 2008 issue, listing the leading firms
in trade mark prosecution and contentious work in 65 jurisdictions.
For Thailand, the results this year mirror that of last year, with Tilleke &Gibbins retaining its Tier 1 position for both
trade mark prosecution and contentious work.
For more information, visit Tilleke
& Gibbins International Ltd.
