Washington Lawyer - August 2017 - 38

ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By Tracy Schorn

HONORS &
APPOINTMENTS
McDermott Will & Emery LLP will receive Becket's
Legal Service Award for the firm's work promoting
religious freedom for Sikh Americans.

Courtesy of Blank Rome LLP

ON THE MOVE

Gary Wilcox has joined Mayer Brown LLP as
partner in the firm's tax controversy and
transfer pricing practice.
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JAMS is relocating its Washington, D.C., Resolution
Center to 1155 F Street NW, suite 1150... Carlos E.
Moore and Charles Tucker Jr. have merged their law
firms to form Tucker Moore Group, LLP, a plaintiff
law firm across the South and the East Coast.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
Maria Leonard Olsen has published the book Not
the Cleaver Family - The New Normal in Modern
American Families (Tate Publishing, 2016)... Andrew
S. Boutros of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and T. Markus
Funk of Perkins Coie LLP have published The ABA
Compliance Officer's Deskbook . . . Keith Townsend
has authored the article "Blockchain Technology
Impact on Energy Market Transformation: Secured
Distributed Energy Transactions in the Cloud,"
which was published in the Georgetown Law
Technology Review . . . Sidney Rocke has written
the article for Forbes, "Let Federal Managers Actually
Manage," on reforming the federal employee
discipline system.

Courtesy of Lawrence S. Ebner

Courtesy of Mayer Brown LLP

Blank Rome LLP partner Alan M. Freeman
was installed as chair of the board of
governors of Charles E. Smith Life
Communities, an organization whose
mission is to fulfill Jewish values by
providing quality services for older adults
and their families.

Bruce Kuhlik has joined Pathfinder International
as chief administrative officer and general
counsel... Maria Leonard Olsen has joined the
Pels Law Firm in Bethesda, Maryland, practicing
litigation, environmental, employment, and tax
law... Christopher T. Timura has joined Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher LLP as of counsel... Janis Millete
has rejoined the Honolulu District, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, in the Office of Counsel... Andy
Varcoe has joined Boyden Gray & Associates, PLLC
as partner... Candace Beck Smyth has joined
Tanenholz & Associates, PLLC as counsel and
director of client relationships... Gilbert W. Boyce
has been named chair of the D.C. Litigation
Department... Justin Shellaway has joined
Hankook Tire as its new general counsel...
William T. Lake has joined Wiley Rein LLP as consulting counsel in the firm's telecom, media and
technology practice. . . Joseph Hall has joined
Eversheds Sutherland (U.S.) LLP as partner in the
firm's energy and infrastructure practice group. . .
John Rah has joined DLA Piper as partner in the
firm's litigation practice... Sisera M. Daniel has
been named chair of the D.C. Public Finance
Department... Steven J. Durham has joined
the whistleblower representation practice at
Labaton Sucharow... Steven Adkins has joined
McGuireWoods LLP as partner in the firm's intellectual property and patent litigation department...
Marcus Luepke and David Starr have recently
joined Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PC as
counsel... Marian Fowler and Erica Williams have
joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP as partner... Peter C.
"Pete" Condron and Richard E. "Rick" Wallace Jr.
have joined Crowell & Moring LLP as partner in the
firm's mass tort, product, and consumer litigation
group... Hilary A. Jackler has been named chair
of the D.C. Corporate and Government Services
Department at Kutak Rock's Washington, D.C.,
office... Aitan Goelman has returned to Zuckerman
Spaeder LLP as partner... Nicolette Kost De Sevres
has joined Mayer Brown LLP as partner.

COMPANY CHANGES

Lawrence S. Ebner has been elected a fellow of
the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
and appointed as chair of the Amicus
Committee for DRI - The Voice of the Defense
Bar. He also launched his own appellate
litigation boutique, Capital Appellate
Advocacy PLLC.

D.C. Bar members in good standing are welcome to submit announcements for this
column. Email submissions to attorneybriefs@dcbar.org.

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