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Transition Jochner moves court clerkship
Michele M. Jochner, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors who was administrative assistant to retired Supreme Court Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow, is now a law clerk for Justice Charles E. Freeman. Her telephone number, (312) 793-5563, has not changed.• • • Anita M. DeCarlo, a member of the ISBA Board of Governors, has joined Cullen, Haskins, Nicholson & Menchetti, Chicago, in workers' compensation. She was with DeCarlo, Greenfield & DeCarlo.• • • Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum, Perl-man & Nagelberg has signed a 15-year lease as anchor tenant on the top six floors at 200 W. Madison, Chicago.• • • Alex Belotserkovsky has joined Bur-roughs, Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Heb-rank & True, Edwardsville and St. Louis, as an associate in toxic tort defense litigation.• • • Thomas Pasternak has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in Chicago as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Previously vice president and chief patent counsel for R.R. Donnelly & Sons, he is a former partner in Kirkland & Ellis.• • • Hal Stratton, who chaired the U.S. Con-sumer Product Safety Commission and was New Mexico attorney general, has joined Dykema's Government Policy Group. Based in Washington, D.C., he also will advise Chi-cago manufacturers on product safety compliance, legislative and regulatory matters.Vernon A. Kowal and Kevin E. Slaughter have joined Dykema's Corporate Finance Practice in Chicago. Kowal was with Apostol & Kowal, and Slaughter with Burris, Wright, Slaughter & Tom.Michelle Bacher Fisher has joined the Dykema Litigation Department in Chicago as an associate. She is co-chair of the Women's Bar Association Civil Litigation Committee.Lisa M. Zollner has joined the Dykema Liti---gation Department in Joliet as an associate.Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, has promoted Michele L. Foster and Brian A. Smith from associate to partner. Foster is in the Litigation Practice Group, and Smith is in the Business Law Services Practice Group.New associates in the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Practice Group are Rebecca M. Girsch, Matthew E. McClintock and Sven T. Nylen. The Business Law Services Practice Group has added Michelle B. Baxter as an associate.• • • William H. Farley Jr. has joined Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan as a partner in the Chicago office Litigation Practice Group. He was a partner in Burris, Wright, Slaughter & Tom and is a former general counsel to the Chicago Transit Authority.• • • Stephanie J. Synol has joined GoodSmith, Gregg & Unruh, Chicago, as an associate in commercial litigation. She was with Drinker, Biddle & Reath.• • • Jonathan Furr, former general counsel to the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is now a partner in the Land Use and Government Group of Holland & Knight in Chicago, and the firm's Education Practice Group in Washington, D.C.• • • Suzanne Goldstein Baker has rejoined Investment Property Exchange Services in Chicago as vice president and general counsel. The firm provides IRC 1031 tax-deferred exchange services.• • • Robert C. Davis III has joined the Chicago office of Kaye Scholer as of counsel in the Corporate and Finance Department. He was a partner in Kirkland & Ellis in private equity leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and minority equity investments.• • • Lord, Bissell & Brook has elected four partners in its Chicago office: Matthew T. Furton in business litigation, Jay A. Kallas in business and corporate law, Kevin D. Kelly in labor and employment matters, and P. Russell Perdew in trade secret litigation and product liability defense.The firm has expanded its national presence and health care law practice by adding 16 attorneys from the K&R Law Group and establishing an office in Sacramento, Calif. • • • Heather Lynn Fesko has joined the Health Care Department in Chicago office of McGuireWoods as a partner in joint ventures, regulatory compliance and transactional issues. She was a partner in Epstein, Becker & Green.Scott A. Sissel is a new associate in the McGuireWoods Taxation and Employee Benefits Department, focusing on private wealth services, trusts and estates. He was with Shaheen, Novoselsky, Staat, Filipowski & Eccleston.• • • James D. Weier , an attorney and licensed architect, has joined Much, Shelist, Freed, Deneberg, Ament & Rubenstein, Chicago, as of counsel to the Real Estate Practice Group. He was with Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen.Much Shelist has added four associates: Adam M. Hecht and Jonathan M. Ruby in real estate, and Laura A. LeeLun and Tzivia A. Masliansky in litigation.Hecht is from The Inland Real Estate Group; Ruby from a New York firm; LeeLun from Lord, Bissell & Brook, and Masliansky from Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg. • • • Jennifer Lynn Hardester, a member of the Illinois bar, has joined Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, St. Louis, as a senior associate in health law, claims and risk management.• • • Rebecca J. Whitcombe has been named senior family law associate at Schwartz, Wolf & Bernstein, Buffalo Grove. Jill Rappin, formerly with Susan Rifken & Associates, has joined the family law section.Former assistant Lake County state's attorney Judith Bethge has joined the firm's criminal defense practice. |