William Brown, Omaha, Nebraska, has joined Bridges Trust as vice president and trust officer. Prior to joining Bridges Trust, he practiced in private practice for 33 years.
Victoria Webb, Chicago, Illinois, has been elected as a Principal Shareholder at Banner & Witcoff. She works with clients to strategically and creatively obtain, enforce, and leverage a broad range of intellectual property rights. Her practice focuses on the litigation and resolution of patent...
Michelle Thompson, New York, New York, has been writing academic articles based on her 2012 dissertation from New York University on the descendants of Maroons in NW Jamaica. She teaches in the Black Studies Program at City College of New York. In addition to that, she coaches women in law and...
Jeremy Glenn, Chicago, Illinois, has been appointed to serve as the Office Managing Partner for the Chicago office of Cozen O’Connor, one of the top 100 largest law firms in the country. He is a member of the firm’s national Labor and Employment Practice. In his new role, he will lead the downtown...
Cedric Evans, Austin, Texas, has joined Butler Snow's pharmaceutical, medical device, and health care litigation group. He has devoted the majority of his practice to the defense of pharmaceutical manufacturers. He has taken the lead or prominent pre-trial and trial discovery roles in mass tort...
Phillip Goter, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been promoted to principal in Fish & Richardson's Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He has extensive experience working with global, high-tech clients in the computer software and hardware space and has litigated across a diverse technology...
Brock Jordan, Indianapolis, Indiana, has joined Katz Korin Cunningham as a shareholder and commercial litigator. He represents financial institutions and other business enterprises in both state and federal courts across the country. Additionally, he was recently elected outside counsel to the...
Brandon Pakkebier, Wilmington, Delaware, has joined Fish & Richardson as an associate. His practice focuses on patent litigation, including Hatch-Waxman proceedings, in the life sciences industry and commercial litigation, as well as chancery and corporate governance, in the financial and...
Micaela Schuneman, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a guest on the podcast, Immigration Nation (November 8, 2018). She discussed recent changes to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
Jason Weiland, Las Vegas, Nevada, has become a shareholder at Howard & Howard. He concentrates his practices in the areas of commercial litigation and business and corporate law.
Kristina Kaluza, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was recently elected a member of Dykema Gossett. She is now a partner in Dykema's Business Litigation practice. She represents companies and individuals in state and federal courts and focuses her practice on general commercial litigation, employment law,...
Craig M. Regens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been promoted to Shareholder at GableGotwals. His practice focuses on bankruptcy and business litigation with particular emphasis in commercial energy and environmental disputes. Before joining the firm, he served as a term and a career federal judicial...
Michelle Ramirez, Chicago, Illinois, has been elected to partnership at Sidley Austin LLP. She practices in Products Liability. Read more at: https://www.sidley.com/en/newslanding/newpressreleases/2018/12/sidley-el...
John McCormally, Des Moines, Iowa, has joined the State Auditor's office as its chief of staff. Complete article at: https://decorahnewspapers.com/Content/Home/Home/Article/Decorah-native-R...
Tyler Leavengood, Wilmington, Delaware, has been elected to partnership at Potter, Anderson, & Corroon LLP. He is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Litigation Group and focuses his practice primarily on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, including litigating...
Joseph Herriges, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was part of the Fish & Richardson team that received a "2018 Attorney of the Year" group award from Minnesota Lawyer . Fish’s ace Arctic Cat team won the group Attorney of the Year award along with two other local law firms for their combined work on...
Mark Fisher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been appointed by the Linn County Magistrate Appointing Commission as a Linn County Magistrate on December 21. Fisher currently practices with the law firm of Nidey Erdahl Fisher Pilkington and Meier in Cedar Rapids. His practice includes the areas of family law...
Angelica Hernandez, Houston, Texas, was featured in the November 2018 issue of the Texas Bar Journal. The complete article is available at: https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=articles&Template=/CM/H... .
Samuel A. Evig, Colorado Springs, Colorado, was appointed by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper as a judge on the El Paso County Court in the 4th Judicial District. According to the Governor’s Office, Evig has been a partner with the law firm of Dahl, Fischer, & Wilks, LLC since 2017. His...
John Pietila, Des Moines, Iowa, has been elected president of Davis Brown Law Firm. He is currently the chair of the Telecommunications Department and had previously served on the firm’s Board of Directors from 2012-2017 including terms as Secretary and Vice-President.
James Hemmings, Cleveland, Ohio, has been elected to partnership at Tucker Ellis LLP. He represents clients including pharmaceutical and medical device companies, consumer and industrial product manufacturers, industrial chemical suppliers, and national universities at all levels of state and...
Nathan Sondgeroth, Le Claire, Iowa, has joined the Vera French Foundation and Vera French Community Mental Health Center as its executive director. Prior to joining Vera French, he was vice president of gift planning services at Trinity Health Foundation (part of UnityPoint Health) in Rock Island...
Tonja De Sloover, Houston, Texas, was featured in the Houston Chronicle's "‘Litigation Warrior’ wins some of the most complex corporate lawsuits in the U.S. court system" on December 7, 2018. She is the assistant general counsel and head of litigation at Energy Transfer Partners, one of the largest...
Robert Bowman, Denver, has been elected to partnership at Husch Blackwell. He practices in the Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation departments, assisting clients in obtaining and securing United States and international intellectual property rights through patent prosecution, trademark...