Washington Lawyer - April 2019 - 42

ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By Jeffery Leon

HONORS &
APPOINTMENTS

ON THE MOVE

Ashley L. Thomas of Baker, Donelson, Bearman,
Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has earned a Certified
Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) credential
from the International Association of Privacy
Professionals... DLA Piper partner Mary Gately has
been appointed legal director of the DC Affordable
Law Firm for 2019 on a pro bono basis... James
Gatto, partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &
Hampton LLP, was selected for the National Law
Review's 2018 Go-To Thought Leadership Award
in Finance for his work on blockchain and cryptocurrency... Ilya Shapiro has been named director
of the Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for
Constitutional Studies... Trevor Burrus has
been named editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme
Court Review.

COMPANY CHANGES
BrigliaMcLaughlin, PLLC has merged with Smith,
Currie & Hancock LLP.

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP has added
Charles (Chad) Curlett and Steven Levin as partners
in the firm's white collar/internal investigations
group focusing on criminal defense and government investigations... Jacquelynn Ruff, former vice
president of international government relations and
policy at Verizon Communications, has joined Wiley
Rein LLP as consulting counsel... Raziye (Raz)
Andican, Shannon J. Briglia, Lauren P. McLaughlin,
and Shoshana E. Rothman have joined Smith,
Currie & Hancock LLP... Potomac Law Group, PLLC
has added Chris Meazell as partner in the firm's
litigation, intellectual property, administrative law,
and regulatory practice and its communications,
media, and entertainment practice. Reed Sexter has
been added as partner in the firm's real estate and
finance practice group... Alexandra Marinzel has
been promoted from associate to officer in white
collar criminal litigation at Murphy & McGonigle.
Securities lawyer Meghan Carey has joined the
firm... Ugo Colella has joined Culhane Meadows
Haughian & Walsh PLLC as litigation partner in
Washington, D.C.... Steptoe & Johnson LLP has
elected Jason Abel, Molly Bruder Fox, Jared
Butcher, and Alan Cohn as new partners at the firm.
Andrew Golodny has been elected as of counsel...
David C. Smith has been promoted to counsel at
Vinson & Elkins LLP, working in complex commercial
litigation.

Olivia Seraphim has joined Bass, Berry &
Sims PLC as an associate in the firm's health
care practice.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
William P. Atkins, an intellectual property partner at
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, has written
the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Handbook,
Fourth Edition, published by Bloomberg BNA...
Evan R. Seamone of the Veterans Law and Disability
Benefits Clinic at Harvard Law School has published
Rescuing Soldiers of Misfortune: A Full-Spectrum
Approach to Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
From Arrest to Reentry, recently published by Charles
C Thomas Publisher... Kevin Fandl, a professor at
the Fox School of Business at Temple University,
recently published Law and Public Policy (through
Routledge), which examines government structure
and how laws evolve over time... Hale Sheppard
published 13 articles in major tax journals in 2018,
including the Journal of Taxation, Journal of
International Taxation, International Tax Journal,
Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure, and Journal of Real
Estate Taxation.

Amanda Wait has joined Norton Rose
Fulbright LLP as an antitrust partner.
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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APRIL 2019

Daniel Tishman has been promoted to
principal in the intellectual property
litigation group at Fish & Richardson.
Amanda Wait, courtesy of Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; Olivia Seraphim,
courtesy of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC; Daniel Tishman, courtesy of Fish &
Richardson P.C.

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