Washington Lawyer - March/April 2020 - 45

AT TORNEY BRIEFS
By Jeffery Leon

HONORS & APPOINTMENTS
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP attorneys
Stephen Spivack and John Parker Sweeney
have been listed in the 2020 edition of
Benchmark Litigation as Local Litigation Stars...
Harrity & Harrity, LLP has received the
Washington Business Journal's Corporate
Citizenship Award in recognition of its partnership with the American Heart Association of
the Greater Washington Region... Kilpatrick
Townsend & Stockton LLP received the 2019
AT&T Legal Department Diversity and Inclusion
Progress Award... The Human Trafficking Legal
Center has named Fish & Richardson the 2019
Litigation Firm of the Year... Cynthia Lee has
been named the Edward F. Howrey Professor
of Law at the George Washington University
Law School where she teaches criminal law,
criminal procedure, adjudicatory criminal procedure, and professional responsibility... Brian
Kamoie has been appointed the Department
of Homeland Security Distinguished Chair
of Leadership at the United States Naval
Academy... Liam Montgomery, a partner at
Williams & Connolly LLP, has been elected
chair of the board of the Network for Victim
Recovery of DC (NVRDC)... Bridgette Stumpf,
executive director of NVRDC, was selected by
the Center for Nonprofit Advancement as a
2019 Excellence in Chief Executive Leadership
(EXCEL) Award winner... Eshel Bar-Adon, chief
legal officer of Axos Bank, has been named
Public Company General Counsel of the Year
by the San Diego Business Journal... Williams
& Connolly LLP senior counsel John J. Buckley
Jr. has been elected as a member of the
American Law Institute... The Bar Association
of the District of Columbia has selected
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Ellen Jakovic
as Lawyer of the Year, Senior Judge Herbert
B. Dixon Jr. as Judicial Honoree of the Year,
Robert L. Weinberg as recipient of its
President's Distinguished Career Award, and
Judge Vanessa Ruiz for its Honorable Annice
M. Wagner Pioneer Award.

COMPANY CHANGES
Goodwin Procter LLP has moved to its new
location at 1900 N Street in Dupont Circle...
Conti Fenn & Lawrence LLC became Conti Fenn
LLC on November 1, 2019... Renée J. Gentry has
launched the Law Office of Renée J. Gentry,
focusing exclusively on vaccine injury litigation...

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP has announced
the formation of its sports and entertainment
practice... Shannon Mullins & Wright LLP has
launched in Alexandria, Virginia.

ON THE MOVE
Urvi Doshi Sood has been promoted to vice
president of taxes and general tax counsel for
Lockheed Martin Corporation in Bethesda,
Maryland... Adam J. Siegel has been
promoted to general counsel of the National
Parks Conservation Association... Venable
LLP has announced that Lisa A. Tavares will
cochair the firm's business division... Zachary
Williams and Craig Gilley have joined the firm,
with Williams in the zoning and land use
practice and Gilley as partner leading the firm's
communications practice... Benjamin M. Lee
has been appointed special counsel at Stroock
& Stroock & Lavan LLP... Geoffrey M. Goodale
has joined Duane Morris LLP as partner in the
firm's corporate practice group... George D.
Medlock Jr., based in Birmingham, Alabama,
has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
LLP as partner and the firm's first director
of inclusion and diversity. Bradley has also
added Andrea Kotrosits as part of its litigation
practice group. Carol R. Van Cleef has joined
the Washington, D.C., practice as a virtual
currencies and blockchain technology leader.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
Conn Maciel Carey LLP attorney Mark M. Trapp
has published A Destiny of Undying Greatness:
Kiffin Rockwell and the Boys Who Remembered
Lafayette, published by System D Publishing...
George Franklin has published So You Think
You Want to Run for Congress, released by FPA
Books... Jelena Madir, chief counsel at the
European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development's financial law unit, has edited
and coauthored FinTech: Law and Regulation,
published by Edward Elgar Publishing...
T. Markus Funk of Perkins Coie LLP and Andrew
S. Boutros of Dechert LLP have authored the
book From Baksheesh to Bribery: Understanding
the Global Fight Against Corruption and Graft, published by Oxford University Press... Richard C.
Dieter has published Reflections on a Surprising
Universe through John Hunt Publishing... Joel
Miller has completed the third edition of The
Patent Trial and Appeal Board: Advocacy and
Practice, which has been self-published.

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