Howard & Howard has added Michael D. Gifford and William A. Shay as of counsel in its Peoria office. Gifford, formerly of Brady & Gifford, Peoria, concentrates in labor and employment law matters including discharge, discrimination and collective bargaining.

John F. Kuenstler has joined Barnes & Thornburg, Chicago, as a partner in labor and employment law. He was a partner in Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon.

Michael E. Donelson has joined Fox Galvin, St. Louis, as a senior attorney in civil litigation of health law, personal injury, professional and product liability matters.

New shareholder litigators are James R. Nuttall (complex intellectual property), Robert A. Surrette (patent, trademark and trade-dress), and Gerald C. Willis (patent, trademark, copyright and antitrust).

New partners are John L. Abramic, Sara J. Bartos, Michael T. Crux, Michael F. Fitzpatrick and David Z. Petty.

Liisa M. Thomas has joined the Media and Entertainment transactional practice at Winston & Strawn, Chicago, as a partner in trademark and advertising law. She comes from Gardner, Carton & Douglas, where she founded the Privacy Practice and Youth Marketing Law Practice Groups.

Tobin J. Taylor and Brent A. Swanson have become partners in Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen. Taylor will practice asbestos and toxic tort claims defense in the Peoria office.

They are Nicholas G. de la Torre, Margaret A. Dobrowitzky, Christopher M. Dolan, Sanders N. Hills, Charles M. McMahon, Amir N. Penn and Scott J. Slavik.

Newly elected board members at Brinks Hofer are President Gary M. Ropski, Glen P. Belvis, Jeffery M. Duncan, Ralph J. Gabric, John T. Gabrielides, Steven P. Schurtz and Jason C. White.

Cassiday Schade LLP is the new name of the Chicago law firm formerly known as Cassiday, Schade & Gloor, with offices in Libertyville, Naperville and Rockford. Partner D. Patterson Gloor has left to pursue special interests.

Todd R. Plotner has joined Chapman and Cutler, Chicago, as a partner in the Asset Securitization Group. He was with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood.

Other new partners are Lynne A. Gochanour, from Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, in aircraft leasing, and Farhad K. Patel, from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in corporate finance.

ISBA member James E. Godfrey Jr. has been named head of the civil litigation practice at Evans & Dixon, St. Louis. He joined the firm in 2004 after 20 years in private practice.

Shane Moskop and Carson Menges have joined the Belleville civil litigation firm of Freeark, Harvey, Mendillo, Dennis, Wuller, Cain & Murphy, as associates.

Foley & Lardner has promoted four Chicago attorneys as partners: LaDale K. George of the Regulated Industries Department, Gary S. Rovner of the Business Law Department, and Miki Vucic Tesija and Ellen M. Wheeler of the Litigation Department.

Shannon Skinner Anglin has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman, Chicago, as a partner in employee benefits and executive compensation. She was an associate with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal.

Michael C. Rupe, an associate at Katten Muchin from 1999 to 2002, has returned to the firm as a partner in its bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors' rights practice. He was a partner in Jenner & Block.

Kaye Scholar LLP has promoted David H. Lee to partner in the corporate and finance practice of its Chicago office. He focuses on complex transactions that include mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, venture capital and minority equity investments.

Levenfeld Pearlstein, Chicago, has promoted two associates to partners. They are Christopher S. Griesmeyer, in litigation practice, and Jason P. Neumark, in real estate.

Mitchell J. Weinstein has joined the firm as a partner in intellectual property service. He was with Welsh & Katz.

The Chicago office of Lord, Bissell & Brook was relocated Jan. 16 to a new building at 111 S. Wacker Drive. The firm will occupy 175,000 square feet on seven floors. A welcoming reception is being planned.

Michael E. Bieniek, an information technology and outsourcing attorney, and trial lawyer Patrick S. Coffey have joined the firm as partners. Bieniek was with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, and Coffey was with Gardner, Carton & Douglas.

The law office of Frederick A. Lurie has relocated to Suite 1030, 120 N. LaSalle St., Chicago 60602, with the telephone number unchanged as (312) 553-0550. Lurie's practice focuses on commercial litigation, mechanics liens and real estate law.

Jeffrey L. Wigfield and Kristin Henrichs Sculli have joined McGuireWoods in Chicago as associates. Both were summer associates with the firm.

Jeffrey A. Schulkin has been promoted to partner in Munday & Nathan, Chicago. He represents individuals in medical malpractice, personal injury and product liability cases.

Kimberly M. Reed has joined Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, Chicago, as an associate in the real estate department. She was with Winston & Strawn and is a former law clerk for Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund.

Robin Potter &Associates, Chicago, has added Timothy J. Coffey as a senior associate in labor and employment litigation, and Lindsey Daggett as a junior associate in pharmaceutical fraud and qui tam cases. Coffey comes from a private practice in Glen Ellyn.

Brett N. Cagan has been made a partner in Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, concentrating in estate planning, trust and probate administration.

Melissa C. Brown has joined Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal as a partner in commercial and securities litigation, including federal equity receivership matters. She was senior counsel at Foley & Lardner.

Jeffrey Mark Alperin, Basileios “Bill” Katris, John M. O'Driscoll, Craig G. Penrose and Kathleen A. Sweitzer have been named partners in Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago.

James B. Raden has joined Welsh & Katz, Chicago, as a partner in intellectual property client counseling, patent prosecution, right-to-use, infringement and validity investigations. Previously with Jones Day, Raden is former patent counsel of ITT Corp.

Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chi-cago, has elected eight partners and named John S. Letchinger as chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

New partners are Jonathan Bohlen, Michael Castellino, Mark Kromkowski, Marcia Owens and Philip Strzalka in corporate; Jeffrey Kosc in intellectual property, and Denise Lazar and Melissa Skilken in litigation.