Washington Lawyer - November/December 2022 - 33

ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By John Murph
HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS
Yosefi Seltzer, a legal assistance attorney at
Maryland's Fort Meade, won the American Bar
Association's LAMP Distinguished Service
Award... Aron Beezley, a partner at Bradley
Arant Boult Cummings LLP, was named to
Benchmark Litigation's 40 & Under Hot List for
2022... Mark Chenoweth was appointed
president of New Civil Liberties Alliance...
Andrew Greenfield, managing partner at
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP's
Washington, D.C., office, was chosen by the
U.S. federal government's SelectUSA business
development program to write an article on
staff immigration options for foreign firms and
investors... Wayne Marcus Scriven of Scriven
Law Office was elected president of the South
Hampton Roads Bar Association... Joanne
Zimolzak, a commercial litigation attorney at
Dykema Gossett PLLC, joined the International
Association of Defense Counsel, an invitationonly
organization for attorneys who represent
corporate and insurance interests... Scott W.
Stucky, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Armed Forces, was awarded
the Judge Advocates Association's highest
honor, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished
Life Service Award.
ON THE MOVE
Hilary Jackler was promoted to vice chair of
Kutak Rock LLP... IP and technology attorney
Hussein Akhavannik became a partner at
Blank Rome
LLP... Tyrone
Thomas, employment
and
executive compensation
attorney,
became
a partner at
Holland & Knight
LLP... Angela
Grant became
a partner at
Haynes and
Boone, LLP
in its IP practice
group... Donald
TYRONE THOMAS
R. McPhail, an IP attorney, joined Oblon,
McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. as of
counsel in its litigation and post-grant patent
proceedings practice groups... Rachel Fiorill,
former Office of Foreign Assets Control enforcement
section chief, joined Morrison & Foerster
LLP as of counsel in its security group...
Benjamin Stoll joined Carlton Fields, P.A.
as of counsel in its business litigation
practice...
Dwight
Draughon, a
former assistant
U.S. attorney for
the District of
Maryland, rejoined
Steptoe &
Johnson LLP as a
partner focusing
on white-collar
defense and government
investigations.
Brian
Fleming, a former
attorney in
the U.S. Department of Justice's National
Security Division, joined the firm's international
trade and regulatory compliance group as a
partner. Tyler Evans, an IP attorney, became
a partner in Steptoe's government contracts
group... Ernesto A. Lanza, a securities regulatory
and public finance attorney, rejoined
Ballard Spahr LLP's finance practice group as
of counsel. Andrew I. Almand, a real estate
finance attorney, became a partner at the
firm... Robin Rathmell, an international litigator,
became a partner at Kasowitz Benson
Torres LLP... Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has
promoted litigators Christopher J. Dufek
and Latosha M. Ellis to counsel... Brittany
McCants, specializing in executive compensation
matters, joined Bass, Berry & Sims PLC as of
counsel... Erika Harmon Arner, a patent litigator,
became managing partner at Finnegan,
Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP...
Neel Maitra, a fintech and financial services
attorney, joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
Rosati... Noam Ayali, a partner at Norton Rose
Fulbright, became global cohead of the firm's
energy, infrastructure, and resources practice
group... Alexis Sáinz became a partner at
Hogan Lovells, serving as global coleader of its
space and satellite practice and a member of
the firm's infrastructure, energy, resources, and
projects group. Andrea Bruce, a food and
beverage industry expert, joined the firm's
global regulatory practice group as senior
counsel... Jason Dexter, a tax attorney,
became a partner at Eversheds Sutherland (US)
LLP... M. Ramana Rameswaran, a health care
attorney, and Nicholas E. McGuire, a commercial
and real estate litigation attorney, became
NATHAN BROWNBACK
partners at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP...
Vedia Biton Eidelman joined Fenwick and
West LLP as counsel in its trade and national
security practice... Jones Day welcomed financial
markets attorney Nathan Brownback as
of counsel... Charles R. Kassouf, a business
and corporate finance attorney, joined Baker,
Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
as of counsel in the firm's Baltimore office.
COMPANY CHANGES
Through a grant from Venable LLP, the MidAtlantic
Innocence Project established the
Venable-Burner Exoneree Support Fund, an
endowment that will help exonerees from
the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
get back on their feet after their release from
prison... national employment, whistleblower,
and civil rights law firm Katz, Marshall & Banks
LLP changed its name to Katz Banks Kumin
LLP with the elevation of Avi Kumin to name
partner; the firm also named its partner Alexis
Ronickher to its executive committee.
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
Leonard W. Wang wrote a portfolio, Avoiding
Material Omissions Under the Federal Securities
Laws, published by Bloomberg Tax... John T.
Aquino, solo practitioner and retired journalist,
editor, and publisher, has published the second
and updated edition of his book Truth and
Lives on Film: The Legal Problems of Depicting
Real Persons and Events in a Fictional Medium
(McFarland)... Paul Rothstein, Georgetown
University law professor, recently published
Federal Rules of Evidence, 2022 (Thomson
Reuters West), Federal Testimonial Privileges,
2021-22 edition (Thomson Reuters West),
and Evidence in a Nutshell, 7th Edition (West
Academic)... William Josephson published
" States May Statutorily Bind Presidential Electors,
the Myth of National Popular Vote, the
Reality of Elector Unit Rule Voting and Old
Light on Three-Fifths of Other Persons " in the
University of Miami Law Review (volume 76,
number 3).
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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