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ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By John Murph
HONORS & APPOINTMENTS
Erin M. Dunston, partner at Panitch Schwarze
Belisario & Nadel LLP, was recognized as a 2024
IP STAR by Managing IP... Erin Larkin became
the first director of the D.C. Courts' new Access
to Justice Unit... Elaine L. Fitch, managing
partner of Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch, P.C.,
was elected as a fellow of the College of Labor
& Employment Lawyers.
Fitch and of
counsel Stephen
Pershing were recognized
in the seventh
edition of the
Lawdragon 500
Leading Civil Rights
& Plaintiff Employment
Lawyers
list... O'Kelly E.
McWilliams III,
partner in Holland
& Knight LLP's WashO'KELLY
MCWILLIAMS
ington, D.C., office, has been named the firm's
new diversity partner.
ON THE MOVE
Allison Starmann was appointed by the
American Beverage Association as general
counsel and executive vice president of legal
and regulatory affairs... Thomas Cryan joined
Saul Ewing LLP's employment benefits and executive
compensation practice as a partner...
Jamaica Potts Szeliga, an intellectual property
attorney, joined Potomac Law Group, PLLC as
a partner in its IP practice... Timothy Whittle,
a government contracts attorney, became an
associate at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.
The firm welcomed Robert J. McGahan as a
partner in its banking and financial services and
government enforcement and investigations
practice groups...
Louis Lopez was
named vice president
of litigation
by AARP Foundation...
Eric Angel
has been named executive
director of
DC Greens...
Eduardo Bruera,
who specializes in
complex litigation,
joined Baker, Donelson,
Bearman, CaldLOUIS
LOPEZ
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well & Berkowitz, PC as of counsel... Chad A.
Landmon, an IP attorney, became chair of Polsinelli
PC's Hatch-Waxman and biologics practice...
Matthew David, an IP attorney, joined
Spencer Fane LLP as a senior associate in its litigation
and dispute resolution practice group...
Steve Dixon, a tax attorney, joined DLA Piper
as a partner... Joel Schwartz, a white-collar
criminal defense and special investigations attorney,
joined Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
LLP as a partner... Seth Goldberg, an environmental
science attorney, became a shareholder
at Greenberg Traurig, LLP... Sean D. Damon,
focusing on IP litigation, joined Blank Rome
LLP as an associate... Casey J. Jennings, a
banking regulatory attorney, became a partner
at Seward & Kissel LLP... David B. Schwartz
joined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP as a
partner in its antitrust and competition practice.
AUTHOR!
AUTHOR!
Henry Ward Classen, vice president and general
counsel at Honeywell Connected Life Sciences,
wrote the Practical Guide to Software Licensing
and Cloud Computing (eighth edition,
ABA)... Marcos A. Mendoza is one of eight
contributing lawyer-editors of the 12th edition
of Black's Law Dictionary (Thomson Reuters)...
Retired D.C. Superior Court Judge Peter H.
Wolf has written numerous op-ed articles published
in 2024 in periodicals such as the Winston-Salem
Journal and the Greensboro News
& Record. Topics included global warming, Supreme
Court ethics, choosing judges, Colorado's
case for excluding Donald Trump from the
state's primary ballot, and more... Antitrust and
TUNE IN to the D.C. Bar's
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consumer protection attorney Thomas C.
Willcox wrote " Wall Street's Practice of Compelling
Confidentiality of Private Underwriting
Fees: An Antitrust Violation? " (The Antitrust
Bulletin, 2023). He also recently appeared on
RT.com's " The Whistleblowers, " hosted by former
CIA agent John Kiriakou, discussing Wall
Street tax fraud and blowing the whistle on
America's tax system.
COMPANY
NEWS
Frost Brown Todd
LLP received the
Hispanic National
Bar Foundation's
2024 Law Firm
Leadership
Award... Christine
Kurek, an employment
law attorney,
launched her own
mediation practice,
Kurek Dispute
Resolution, in Santa Monica, California...
Press, Dozier & Hamelburg, LLC changed its
name to Hamelburg Law, LLC to reflect the
leadership within the firm of managing member
Jamie Hamelburg.
CHRISTINE KUREK
D.C. Bar members in good standing are
welcome to submit announcements
for this column. Email submissions to
attorneybriefs@dcbar.org.
dcbar.org/for-lawyers/communities/podcasts
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Courtesy of Louis Lopez
Holland & Knight
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