Washington Lawyer - September/October 2024 - 45

ATTORNEY BRIEFS
By John Murph
HONORS & APPOINTMENTS
John David Folds and John McJunkin of
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz,
PC were named Client Service All-Stars by
BTI Consulting Group... Bradley Arant Boult
Cummings LLP partners Aron C. Beezley,
Gregory G. Marshall, and Douglas L. Patin
were recognized as 2024 Super Lawyers in
Washington, D.C., while associates Lee-Ann
C. Brown and Anna M. Lashley and senior
attorneys Kevin B. Mattingly and Jessica L.
Zurlo were named Rising Stars. Seven of the
firm's attorneys - Beezley, Brown, Marshall,
Patin, Haydn J. Richards Jr., Stephanie D.
Scruggs, and Robert J. (Bob) Symon - were
ranked in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA...
S. Jenell Trigg, member of Lerman Senter
PLLC and chair emeritus of its privacy, data protection,
and cybersecurity practice group, was
honored as a " dean " of the Federal Communications
Bar Association; Trigg was also recognized
in Best Lawyers in America 2024 for communications
law and privacy/data security law
and by The National Black Lawyers Top 100...
Ariel Levinson-Waldman, founding president
and director-counsel of Tzedek DC, received a
2024 Kutak-Dodds Prize from the National Legal
Aid & Defender Association for his contributions
to advancing access to justice and racial
equity in civil legal aid and public defense...
Florida Gulf Coast University presented adjunct
professor and former SCG Legal CEO David E.
Poisson with its 2024 Excellence in Teaching
Award... Allan M. Siegel, a partner at Chaikin,
Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel P.C. Personal Injury
Lawyers, was honored as Trial Lawyer of
the Year by the Trial Lawyers Association of
Metropolitan Washington, D.C.... The Metropolitan
Washington Employment Lawyers Association
recognized Philip Zipin as its 2024
Lawyer of the Year... Davis Wright Tremaine
LLP partner Chris Ford became a member
of the firm's executive committee and cochair
of its environmental, social, and governance
group. Partner Andy Lorentz was appointed
cochair of the firm's financial services group...
National employment law firm Jackson Lewis
P.C. was selected by the National Legal Aid &
Defender Association as a 2024 Beacon of Justice
Award recipient.
ON THE MOVE
Kathleen R. Salsbury, a health law attorney
at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
Berkowitz, PC, was promoted from of counsel
to shareholder. Michael J. Halaiko, a health
law attorney, joined the firm as a shareholder...
Zachary Chapman, a real estate and business
litigation attorney, became an associate at
Shannon & Wright LLP... Brian D. Koosed,
a transactional dispute and commercial litigation
attorney, joined Venable LLP as a partner
in its commercial litigation practice...
Denise M. Barnes joined Bass, Berry & Sims
PLC as a member of
its compliance and
government investigations
practice,
and Sylvia Yi rejoined
the firm as
counsel in the government
contracts
practice... Sheppard,
Mullin, Richter
& Hampton LLP
welcomed KwanHo
" Alex " Chung
as a partner in its
intellectual property
practice group and life sciences industry
team... Retired Judge Hiram E. Puig-Lugo
joined alternative dispute resolution services
company The McCammon
Group,
Ltd. to serve the
mediation and arbitration
needs of
lawyers and litigants...
Fang Liu,
a patent procurement
attorney,
joined Panitch
Schwarze Belisario
& Nadel LLP as a
partner... Electronics
and IP attorneys
Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte became partners
at Foley & Lardner LLP... Andrew G.
Martin joined Blank Rome LLP as an associate
in the firm's insurance recovery practice
group... Francisco E. Mundaca, a labor and
employment law attorney, was promoted to
managing partner at the Spiggle Law Firm...
Regulatory counsel Kristi Wolff joined Davis
Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the firm's
advertising practice... Chris Marando joined
Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in the firm's IP and
patent litigation practices... Julia Taylor, a
mergers and acquisition attorney, joined Saul
Ewing LLP as a partner.
KWAN-HO CHUNG
FANG LIU
THE DC BAR
FOUNDATION
SALUTES:
City First Bank of DC
Forbright Bank
Hingham Institution for
Savings
Old Dominion
National Bank
Unit d Stat s S nat
F d ral Cr dit Union
For providing xc ptional
int r st rat s on IOLTA
accounts, r sulting in th ir
d signation as IOLTA Prim
Partn rs, nsuring d posits arn
mor for l gal s rvic s for thos
in n d.
W ncourag you to look to
th s banks for your IOLTA and
oth r banking n ds, or talk to
your bank about b coming an
IOLTA Prim Partn r.
Oth r banks authoriz d to hold
DC IOLTA accounts ar list d
on th DC Bar Foundation
w bsit .
www.dcbarfoundation.org
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024 * WASHINGTON LAWYER 45
Sheppard Mullin
Panitch Schwarze
http://www.dcbarfoundation.org
Washington Lawyer - September/October 2024

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Washington Lawyer - September/October 2024
