Washington Lawyer - September 2016 - 32

ATTORNEY BRIEFS HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS Jill A. Kotvis, an environmental lawyer in Dallas, Texas, was the only private practicing environmental attorney from the United States to participate in the first World Environmental Law Congress in Rio de Janeiro in April... Holland & Knight LLP partner Alban Salaman was elected as president of the Washington, D.C. Estate Planning Council... The Children's Law Center has appointed new members to its board of directors, including Jill Caiazzo, senior counsel for government and regulatory affairs at IBM Corporation; Ona Alston Dosunmu, vice president and general counsel at The Brookings Institution; and Joanne L. Zimolzak, office managing partner at Dentons US LLP... Deborah P. Kelly, a partner at Blank Rome LLP, has been elected as a fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Class of 2016... Zuckerman Spaeder LLP has been honored with the 2016 Vincent Reed Education Award by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs for helping the Committee's Education Project establish and expand a pilot program designed to increase parent engagement and academic enrichment opportunities for students at Title I schools... C. Philip Nichols Jr. recently became the 19th chief judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland. He also received the Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award from the Maryland State Bar Association at its annual meeting. ON THE MOVE Leslie Pujo has joined Plave Koch PLC in Reston, Virginia, adding vehicle rental law to the firm's existing franchise law services... Hilary S. Cairnie and Kelley P. Doran have By Fleur Harris joined the government contracts group at Pepper Hamilton LLP as partner... Elizabeth Dougherty and Douglas Hall have joined the labor and employment practice at Jones Day as partner. Michael Hazzard joined as partner in the firm's government regulation practice... Tax controversy lawyer Chuck Hurley has joined Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP as partner. Michael Edney joined as partner, focusing his practice on government investigations, white collar defense, and civil litigation matters. The firm also added Peter Canzano and Eric Hebert as partner and senior counsel, respectively, in its public finance practice... Michael G. Adams has joined Chalmers Pak Burch & Adams LLC as member in the firm's political law group... Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has named Roger P. Furey as its new chair... Scott DeMartino has joined Dentons US LLP as partner in its real estate practice and as member of its tax-advantaged investment sector... Brandes S.G. Ash has joined the Burr Law Firm as associate attorney... Bradley M. Seltzer has joined the tax practice group at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP as partner... Norm Leventhal has become principal at the Leventhal Law Group, LLP and counsel at AvaLerroux, LLP... Vahe Tazian has joined Delphi Automotive, PLC in Troy, Michigan, as associate general counsel... H. Vincent McKnight Jr. has assumed the role of managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office of Sanford Heisler, LLP. Cleveland Lawrence III joined as of counsel in the firm's qui tam practice... Former U.S. Department of Labor attorney Tammy Daub has joined Paul Hastings LLP as of counsel in the firm's employment law practice... Sean C. Griffin has joined the commercial litigation practice group at Dykema Gossett PLLC as member... Valarie Ney has joined Holland & Knight LLP as senior counsel in its corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities practice group, practicing out of the firm's Tysons Corner, Virginia, office. COMPANY CHANGES Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP has changed its name to Sanford Heisler, LLP. AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Paul Mogin, a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP, has written "Fundamental Since Our Country's Founding: United States v. Auernheimer and the Sixth Amendment Right to Be Tried in the District in Which the Alleged Crime Was Committed," published by the University of Denver Criminal Law Review... William P. Atkins, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, has authored The PTAB Handbook and served as co-editor in chief of the Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook, both published by Bloomberg BNA... J. Scott Colesanti, professor of legal writing at Hofstra University School of Law, has authored "Legal Writing, All Business," published by the Carolina Academic Press... David Fischer, senior director for operations and policy at the American Chemistry Council, has written the "Proposition 65 Warnings at 30 - Time for a Different Approach," published by the Journal of Business & Technology Law of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law... Priscilla J. "Sally" Mattison, of counsel at Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C., coauthored "Modern Methods of Monetization for Record Producers," which appeared in The Monetization of the Global Music Business - From Creators to Major Industry, published by the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers. She discussed the article on a panel at the 50th annual Midem convention in Cannes, France. ADRIENNE E. CLAIR NATHAN P. VIEBROCK TOYJA E. KELLEY has joined the utilities practice at Thompson Coburn LLP as partner. has joined Bradley as associate in the firm's financial services litigation and compliance and government enforcement and investigations teams. has joined Saul Ewing LLP's commercial litigation practice as partner in the firm's Baltimore, Maryland, office. 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. 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