Washington Lawyer - May 2017 - 48

ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By Tracy Schorn

Courtesy of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

HONORS &
APPOINTMENTS
At the 2017 American Bar Association Midyear
Meeting, former D.C. Bar president and law professor Myles V. Lynk received the Robert F. Drinan
Award from the ABA Section of Civil Rights and
Social Justice and was elected to the ABA Board
of Governors.

Courtesy of The National Women's Law Center

Brendan Wilson has joined Faegre Baker
Daniels LLP as partner in the firm's
corporate and nonprofit organizations
practices.

COMPANY CHANGES
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has signed
a lease at the new Robert S. Strauss Tower of the
Alexander Court development at 2001 K Street NW.
The firm is expected to relocate in 2019... Norton
Rose Fulbright LLP and Chadbourne & Parke LLP will
combine practices in the second quarter of 2017.
The new firm will be known as Norton Rose
Fulbright.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
Chris Tanner has published the book Software
Inventions and the Patent System: A User's Guide...
Gisela M. Munoz, a shareholder in the real estate
department of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler
Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. in Miami, has coauthored
the article "Mindfulness: Tapping Into Its Power
to Achieve Professional and Personal Success and
Wellness," which was published in the American
College of Mortgage Attorneys' The Abstract...
Edward Toby Terrar has written "Why the
Intellectually Disabled in the Evans Case Continue
to Hold the D.C. Government Neglectful After Forty
Years: A History of Differing Views About Disability
Rights," which appears in the International Journal
on Disability and Human Development (October
2016)... Donald Craig Mitchell has published the
book Wampum: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an
Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and
Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire with Overlook
Press... Judge Gregory E. Mize has published the
article "Rebuild Our Courts: State Chief Justices Call
for Action to Achieve Justice for All," which appears
in the journal Judicature.

Courtesy of Sidley Austin LLP

The National Women's Law Center, an
advocate for advancing equality and
opportunity for women and girls, has
named Fatima Goss Graves as its next
CEO and president.

Mark Herzog has joined Sidley Austin LLP
as pro bono counsel. He also serves on the
D.C. Access to Justice Commission and on
the D.C. Commission on Human Rights.
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MAY 2017

ON THE MOVE
Martha E. Marrapese has joined Wiley Rein LLP as
partner in the firm's environment and safety and
consumer product regulation practices. Keith A.
Matthews has joined as of counsel in the same
practice areas... Keith Harper has rejoined
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP... Jasper
Howard has joined Hogan Lovells as partner in the
firm's tax practice... H. Holden Brooks has been
elected partner at Foley & Lardner LLP... Jamaica P.
Szeliga has joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP as partner...
John T. Farnum has made partner at Linowes
and Blocher LLP... Amy Wolverton has joined
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. as associate vice president for U.S. government affairs... Betty Dunkum
has become the chief executive officer of Victory
Trial Consulting, LLC, a national trial consulting
company... Barry J. Hart has joined K&L Gates LLP
as of counsel in the firm's tax-exempt organizations
and nonprofit institutions practice. Molly Suda has
been elected partner at the firm... Laura M. Kidd
Cordova has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as
partner... Leon Rodriguez has joined Seyfarth
Shaw LLP's labor and employment department...
Nathan Muyskens has joined Greenberg Traurig
LLP as shareholder in the firm's white collar defense
and special investigations practice... Stephen L.
Cohen has joined Sidley Austin LLP as partner in
the firm's securities and derivatives enforcement
and regulatory practice... Steve Witmer has
rejoined Ivins, Phillips & Barker, Chartered as
partner... June L. Marshall has joined Holland &
Knight LLP as senior counsel in the firm's real estate
practice group... Maryelena Zaccardelli has joined
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP as the firm's senior
director of affirmative action plans and contractor
compliance... Leiv Blad has joined Lowenstein
Sandler LLP as partner and cochair of the firm's
antitrust practice. Zarema Jaramillo has joined
the firm as senior counsel... Deborah P. Kelly
has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP as partner
in the firm's employment and labor practice...
Edward "Smitty" Smith has joined DLA Piper as
partner in the firm's global intellectual property
and technology practice... Eve Hill has joined
Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP as partner.

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

http://www.dcbar.org

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