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Transition Former Gurnee attorney Gretchen E. Fisher has returned to Lake County and opened the Law Office of Gretchen E. Fisher at 712 Florsheim Drive, Libertyville 60048-5270, telephone (847) 281-0130.An attorney with Prairie State Legal Services in Waukegan early in her career, Fisher received pro bono awards from the Lake County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Program while in private practice. She was in Ohio for the past two years. • • • Clifford J. Shapiro has been named a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg and co-chair of its Construction Law Practice Group. He is an active member of the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry and several related committees.Shapiro was a partner in Sachnoff & Weaver and chair of its Construction Law Group. • • • Donald W. Devitt has become a shareholder in the Chicago office of Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson. Of counsel to the firm since 2003, he practices in highway accident litigation and is a member of the Truck Insurance Defense Association.• • • Peter J. Schmidt, a former associate, has been elected to membership in the Chicago office of Dykema. His practice includes representing lenders, secured and unsecured creditors and trustees in bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganization.• • • Kimberly J. Anderson and Janice L. Boback have relocated the office of Anderson & Boback to suite 300, 218 N. Jefferson, Chicago 60661. The new telephone number is (312) 715-0870.Anderson is a member of the Family Law Section Council and the Committee on Law Related Education for the Public, and is secretary of the Committee on Bar Services and Activities. Boback serves on the Committee on Continuing Legal Education and the Committee on Military Affairs. • • • Four associates have been elected partners have by Chapman and Cutler in its Chicago office. They are Lisa M. Anagnostopoulos in the Banking Department, and H. Richard Hagen, David J. LaSota and Amy L. Oshansky in the Corporate Finance and Securities Department.• • • Anwar M. Johnson has joined Fox Galvin in St. Louis as an associate in commercial and environmental litigation.• • • Joseph P. Giamanco and Juan P.R.A. Ooink held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 27 for the law offices of Giamanco & Oink in Suite A, 340 Quadrangle Drive, Bolingbrook 60440, telephone (630) 679-0930.Giamanco was with Stride, Craddock & Stride, Chicago, and Ooink with the Law Office of Steven M. Goldman, Wheeling. Their practice includes civil litigation, personal injury, criminal defense and traffic matters. • • • Pennsylvania attorney Nathaniel S. Shapo, who was director of the Illinois Department of Insurance for four years, has joined the Chicago office of Katten Muchin Rosenman as a partner in its Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice.Shapo has served on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners executive committee and chaired its Functional Regulation Working Group and International Holocaust Committee Task Force. He helped implement the Illinois Managed Care Reform and Patients Rights Act of 1999. • • • The new firm of Lebow, Malecki & Tasch was formed March 1 by the merger of Lebow & Malecki and the Law Offices of Martin D. Tasch. Other partners are Joan M. Lebow and Melinda S. Malecki.A member of the National Association of Minority Owned Law Firms, it has offices at 230 W. Superior, Chicago, and 1200 W. Jorie Blvd., Oak Brook. Visit www.lmtlaw.com. • • • Margot Gordon has become a partner in Levin & Schreder, Chicago. She has practiced in sophisticated estate planning for the firm's individual and closely held business clientele since 1999.• • • Karl R. Anderson has joined the Chicago office of McGuireWoods as an associate in the Tax and Employee Benefits Department. He was an associate with Hoogendoorn & Talbot.• • • The New York-based national law firm of Nixon Peabody has opened a Chicago intellectual property practice by adding 16 lawyers who previously practiced with Jenkens & Gilchrist. Joining as partners are Daniel J. Burnham, Janet M. Garetto, John C. Gatz, Russell J. Genet, Paul R. Kitch, Edward F. McCormack, Justin D. Swindells and Jodi Rosen Wine.Stephen G. Rudisill is senior counsel and managing partner, and Wayne Tang is counsel. Associates are Mark R. Anderson, Sorinel Cimpoes, William D. Pegg, Peter J. Prommer, Josh Reed and Elizabeth Wiszowaty.The Chicago office of Nixon Peabody, which has locations in 16 other cities, will be the former quarters of Jenkens & Gilchrist at 225 W. Washington St. • • • Jeff A. Saltzman has opened a practice in personal injury and workers' compensation matters at Suite 400, 1821 Walden Office Square, Schaumburg 60173, telephone (847) 397-6030.• • • Segal, McCambridge, Singer & Mahoney, Chicago, has added three associates: Anastasios T. Foukas in general litigation; Christopher M. Henning and Jennifer M. Scarlett in toxic tort and hazardous substances litigation.• • • Stellato & Schwartz has added two associates: Adam C. Hawkins, formerly with Radogno, Cameli & Hoag, in the Chicago office, and James C. Elder, formerly with Chilton, Yambert, Porter & Young, in the Oak Brook office.• • • Matthew R. Eildermuth has joined Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, as a partner in commercial, insurance coverage and civil litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. He was with Meckler, Bulger & Tilson. |