Chicago attorneys Chicago attorneys Jill B. Berkeley, David H. Anderson and Seth David Lamden have joined Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White to head its Insurance Recovery Practice. All three were with Schiff Hardin.

Berkeley, who will be co-chair of the national group, is a past chair and longtime newsletter editor of the ISBA Insurance Law Section Council, and former chancellor of the Board of Regents of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers.

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Dykema Gossett has named Chicago partner Allan J. Sternstein leader of its nationwide Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Former division patent counsel for Abbott Laboratories, Sternstein has practiced with several law firms and corporations since 1973. He teaches patent litigation as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois College of Law.

James R. Dougherty has joined the Lisle office of Dykema Gossett as an associate in product and professional liability and commercial litigation. He was with a New York-based international firm.

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Keri-Lyn J. Krafthefer has become a partner in the 75-year-old local government practice of Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Krafthefer, Chicago.

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Craig S. Burkhardt has joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in its Governmental Services and Finance Department. He will work out of the Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices.

Burkhart has been chief counsel for technology with the U.S. Department of Commerce and head of the chief counsel office for industry and security in export administration and enforcement. He practiced in Illinois with Sorling, Northrup, Hanna, Cullen & Cochran from 1984 to 2003.

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Three new associates at the Clifford Law Offices, Chicago, are Colin H. Dunn, a former assistant Cook County state's attorney; Mary C. Sweeney, and Sean P. Driscoll, a clerk at the firm for the past two years.

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The Park Ridge firm of DiMonte & Lizak has expended to 20 attorneys by adding the three members of Nudo, Poteracki & Associates, DesPlaines. They are Dennis S. Nudo, a past president of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association; Lee T. Poteracki, and Christopher S. Nudo.

Former New York attorney Olga Stambler has joined Griffith & Jacobson, Chicago, as an associate in bank financing and corporate practice.

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Feng Xue has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in Chicago as a partner in its Corporate and Securities Practice Group. He was with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd and head of its practice in China.

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William Floriano has joined Ellison, Nielsen, Zehe & Antas, Chicago, as an associate in insurance litigation. He was with Clausen Miller.

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The national trial practice firm of Holland, Groves & Schneller has opened an office at 10 S. Riverside Plaza, Chicago 60606, telephone (312) 474-6407. It also has offices in St. Louis and Detroit. The firm handles railroad, maritime, transportation and commercial litigation.

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Retired Cook County judge Julia M. Nowicki has joined JAMS, The Resolution Experts, in Chicago as a member of the panel that provides alternative dispute resolution services. She left the bench in April after 20 years.

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The Chicago firm of Kubasiak, Fylstra, Reizen & Rotunno has elected for attorneys as partners: Noel P. Goudreau in corporate, and Clarke “Mac” Gillespie III, Robert C. Kimmeth Jr. and Manuel J. Placencia Jr. in litigation.

The new partners are David Blum, from Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, in taxation; Stacey Tobin Kern, from Kirkland & Ellis, in corporate, and Richard Lauter, from Seyfarth Shaw, as head of the Creditors' Rights and Insolvency Service Group.

Joining of counsel are Gabriel Minc in ERISA and Gregg Szilagyi in creditors' rights and insolvency. New associates are Deepa Rajkarne in employment, and Christine Bautista and Steven Welhouse in litigation.

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Thomas J. Rubin has joined Levin Ginsburg, Chicago, as an associate.

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The Muriel Law Offices, a Hispanic-owned commercial litigation boutique, have been relocated to suite 2300, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago 60601, telephone (312) 602-1066.

Managing partner is attorney and certified public accountant Robert H. Muriel, a past president of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and board member of the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago.

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Joshua J. Beyer has become associated with Rinella & Rinella, Chicago.

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Richard B. Lapp has rejoined the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in labor and employment litigation. He had been with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

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Michael W. Forster has rejoined the Business Practice Group of Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, Belleville and St. Louis. He concentrates in representing financial institutions, real estate, contract, general corporate and commercial law.

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has promoted 32 attorneys to counsel status, including two in the Chicago office: Jeffrey A. Greenblatt in taxation and Stephen D. Williamson in corporate restructuring.

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ISBA Assembly member Rory T. Weiler, formerly with Weiler & Noble in Geneva, has joined the partnership of Weiler & Lengle in South Elgin, with an additional office in Geneva.

Weiler is a member of the ISBA Family Law Section Council and chair of the Kane County Bar Association Family Law Committee.