Transition
Patent attorneys
James H. Hill and Thomas E. Hill will become partners in Wildman Harrold, Chicago, on Jan. 1. Former intellectual property partners with Emrich & Dithmar, they have a combined 75 years of legal and technical experience.James Hill has a master's degree in computers and control in addition to his law degree, and he started his legal career as a patent attorney with the U.S. atomic Energy Commission in Chicago.
Thomas Hill has a master's degree in physics in addition to his law degree, and his career began as an engineer with the Computer Sciences Corp. and Naval Air Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
Thomas M. Burke,
a member of the Illinois bar and vice president of The Missouri Bar, has become a member of the St. Louis-based Hullverson Law Firm in its workers' compensation and personal injury practice.A past president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts Program, Burke serves on the St. Louis-region disciplinary committee.
Jarrett T. Bostwick
has become a member of Handler, Thayer & Duggan, Chicago, in its advance planning, wealth transfer, philanthropy and income tax planning, and trusts and estates practices. He was with the Gardner, Carton & Douglas Wealth Planning and Philanthropy Group.
Kristine M. Tuttle
has joined Campbell, Black, Carnine, Hedin, Ballard & McDonald, Mt. Vernon, as an associate in mineral law. She was in insurance defense litigation with Thomas J. Noonan.Michael J. Cucco
has been named managing partner of Cassiday Schade, Chicago, and remains as chair of the executive committee. Cucco succeeds Bradford D. Roth, managing partner since 2000.
Thomas M. White,
a senior employee benefits and ERISA attorney, has joined Chapman and Cutler, Chicago, as a partner. He was a principal in the Labor and Employment Group at Schwartz Cooper, counseling corporations, labor unions and government employees on pension and benefits issues.
Beth K. Flowers
and Joy E. Krohne have joined the Coffey Law Firm in Edwardsville.
Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smyth, Chicago, has added four associates in product and professional liability trial practice. They are
Edward E. Fu, Matthew J. Healy, Michael P. Kelly and John P. Seaman.
Gregory M. Zinkl,
a registered patent agent, has joined Dykema in Chicago in patent prosecution and biotechnology matters. He has a doctorate from Harvard in addition to his law degree.Raymond S. McGaugh
has joined the Dykema Corporate Finance Practice in Chicago. Formerly with Greenberg Traurig, McGaugh is a co-founder and director of First Personal Bank and a director of The Edgar Lomax Co. He is a past president of the Chicago Mortgage Attorneys Association.
Paul Aaron Basilius
and Gretchen E. Heinze have joined McGuireWoods, Chicago, as associates in its Health Care Department. Basilius was with Wildman Harrold, and Heinze was a law clerk in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Firm is renamed Hepler Broom'
A St. Louis-area firm that traces its roots back to 1894 has changed its name and its Web site, and henceforth will be known by the shorthand version: Hepler Broom.
The full name is Hepler, Broom, McDonald, Hebrank, True & Noce replacing the former Burroughs, Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank & True. The redesigned Web site is www.heplerbroom.com.
With offices in Edwardsville and St. Louis, the firm has dramatically evolved over the past few years, said managing partner Gordon R. Broom, a past president of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel.
With the recent addition of a new partner (Gerard T. Noce), we felt this was the right time to re-evaluate the firm's name, logo and overall brand, he added.
We believe the new name and logo better reflect the firm's image and its people while preserving the firm's history and tradition of providing the highest quality legal services, Broom said.
An increase in recent years to almost 200 professionals and 300 total employees also led to relocation of its St. Louis office to larger quarters in the Bank of America Plaza.