Peggy Peters has been named vice president and land trust officer of ATG Trust Co., a subsidiary of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund. The firm has acquired the land trust administration business of Northern Trust Co. in Lake Forest, where Peters was vice president and land trust officer.

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Carol Larcher has joined the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg as of counsel to the Intellectual Property Department and Life Sciences Practice Group. Formerly of counsel to the Gardner, Carton & Douglas Intellectual Property Department, she has a doctorate in biology.

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Marie C. Oldham has joined the Chicago office of Chapman and Cutler as a partner in the Corporate Finance Practice. Oldham, who also is a certified public accountant, was a finance and corporate lending partner at Winston & Strawn.

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Jody Meyer Yazici has joined Davis, Friedman, Zavett, Kane, MacRae, Marcus & Rubens as a partner. New associates are Jazmin I. De Olazabal and Kevin M. Rosner.

Mark G. Malven has joined the Corporate Finance Group of Dykema. He will practice in e-commerce and technology in the firm's Chicago and Bloomfield Hills offices. He was a partner in Raymond & Prokop and head of its Technology Industry Group.

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Kenneth C. Apicella has been elected to partnership in Ellison, Nielsen, Zehe & Antas, Chicago.

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Daniel P. Hiser has joined the Peoria office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen as an associate in civil litigation and workers' compensation.

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William D. Skuster has joined Kubiesa, Spiroff, Gosselar & Acker, Elmhurst, as a partner in commercial litigation, real estate and corporate law. He was with Daniel G. Lauer & Associates, Chicago.

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Levenfeld Pearlstein, Chicago, has added David W. Porteous as a partner in its Litigation Practice and Securities Service Group. Formerly with Gardner, Carton & Douglas, he also has been a staff attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement in New York.

Lindsay E. Greenwood has joined the Chicago office of McGuireWoods as an associate in its Health Care Department. She has been an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman and at a Washington, D.C., firm.

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The Milwaukee-based firm of Peterson, Johnson & Murray has opened an office in Suite 2900, 30 N. LaSalle, Chicago 60602, telephone (312) 782-7105. Other offices are in Madison and Kenosha.

The Chicago office is headed by Daniel P. Duffy, formerly of Duffy & Mondo, who has been affiliated with the Peterson firm since 1994.

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Cavid C. Christian II has joined Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago as a partner in the Bankruptcy Group. Formerly a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery, he focuses on corporate bankruptcy, workouts and distressed transactions.

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P. Randall Knowles has become a member of the Waukegan firm of Smith & LaLuzerne in municipal law, ordinance prosecution and civil litigation.

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Matthew P. Larvick has joined the corporate and tax practices at Vedder Price, Chicago, in structuring partnerships and limited liability companies, and corporate transactions. A former tax partner at McDermott, Will & Emery, he is also a certified public accountant.