McGuireWoods has elected two associates to partners in the Chicago office. They are Donald A. Ensing, in the Capital Markets Department, and Rachel Williams Mantz, in the Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Services Department.

New associates at McGuireWoods are Kathryn L. Androunie, in the Health Care Department, and Zachariah B. Miller in Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Services.

ISBA member Jay C. Lory is one of three newly elected members of Evans & Dixon, St. Louis. A graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he handles workers' compensation cases.

Other new members of the firm are Mary Anne Lindsey and Elizabeth S. Shocklee.

Robert M. Bennett, Peoria, in complex commercial litigation, tort and medical malpractice defense; Matthew R. Booker, Springfield, in medical malpractice defense, and Scott G. Salemi, Rockford, in defense of complex civil litigation and medical malpractice.

Drew M. Schilling, a former Texas attorney who joined Heyl Royster's Edwardsville office last year, has relocated to the Rockford office as of counsel in toxic tort and medical malpractice defense.

Six associates have joined Heyl Royster: Stacie K. Linder and Nathaniel E. Strickler in Peoria; Dana M. Johnson in Rockford, and Charles S. Anderson, Sara A. Ingram and Shana T. Vinson in Edwardsville.

Barnes & Thornburg has elected two partners and added two associates in its Chicago office. The partners are Ellen Luepke Layton, in the Healthcare and Business, Tax and Real Estate Departments, and Mark A. Hagedorn, in the Intellectual Property Department.

New associates are Jeffrey A. Ruppel in intellectual property, and Jennifer A. Kimball, in commercial litigation.

Jason S. Dubner has been elected a partner in Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd, Chicago. At Jones Day in Washington, D.C., before joining Butler Rubin I 1999, he concentrates in commercial litigation and arbitration in antitrust and reinsurance disputes.

Elaine Emch has joined Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler as national director of marketing and business development. She was director of pursuit strategy and proposals for the global accounting firm of KPMG.

Laurence Schorsch, also formerly with KPMG, has been named manager of client development at the law firm.

Jeffrery M. Dalebroux, assistant leader of the Corporate Finance Practice Group at Dykema in Chicago, has been appointed to the law firm's executive board. He replaces James H. Ihrke, who plans to retire.

New associates at Dykema are Andrew D. LeMar, in the Litigation Department, and Jean Soh, in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group.

Lisa Von Bargen Mueller, formerly with Wood, Phillips, Katz, C;ark & Mortimer, is now of counsel to the Dykema's Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Paul T. Lively has joined Graycor in Homewood as vice president, general counsel, chief legal officer and counsel to executive management of the construction and facilities service company.

Tyler D. Petersen has been named a member of Husch & Eppenberger in the Peoria office of the St. Louis-based firm. He is one of 13 new members who were mistakenly identified as “associates” in the January issue of the ISBA Bar News.

Retired attorney Julia M. Gentile has joined the Springfield staff of the Illinois State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Department in compilation of MCLE hours and applications for professionalism credits.

Two attorneys at Johnson & Bell, Chicago, have been elevated to equity shareholders. They are Matthew L. Johnson, in hospital law and medical liability, and Edward W. Hearn, who oversees the firm's office in Highland, Ind.

Three associates who have become shareholders are Michael C. Holy, Meiko L. Ogura and Sammi L. Renken in various areas of civil litigation in hospital law, product and medical liability.

Trent Murch has been promoted from associate to counsel in the corporate and finance practice of the Chicago office of Kaye Scholer. He concentrates in securitization transactions.

Stuart J. Kohn has joined Levenfeld Pearlstein, Chicago, as a partner in the Asset Planning and Preservation Services Group. Formerly with Levin & Schreder, he is president of the Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council.

Four attorneys have been promoted to partners in Levenfeld Pearlstein. They are Marc E. Fineman in the Intellectual Property Service Group, and Michele L. Krause, Jeffrey C. Friedman and Nick S. Legatos in the Real Estate and Finance Practice Group.

R. Mark Halligan and William K. Kane have joined Lovells, a London-based firm that opened an office in Chicago in 1995. Halligan had been a partner in Welsh & Katz since 1989. Kane, a former assistant Illinois attorney general, was a founder of Kane & Carbonara.

Three attorneys at Querrey & Harrow, Chicago, have been elected shareholders: Omar Fayez, in healthcare liability; Jennifer Medenwald, in appellate, insurance coverage and employment, and Paul O'Grady, in civil rights defense for law enforcement and municipalities.