Transition
Foley & Lardner has named Chicago partner
Sharon R. Barner chair of its 160-member Intellectual Property Department. She previously chaired the firm's IP Litigation Practice Group.• • •
Mark Novak
has been elected president of the Chicago plaintiff personal injury firm of Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohen.Novak joined the firm in 1975, while a law student, and became an associate in 1977. He was named an equity partner in 1983 and vice president in 1987.
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Eilzabeth Bedore
has joined the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg as an associate in the Healthcare and Business, Tax and Real Estate Departments.• • •
The Chicago trial practice firm of Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smyth has elected
Stetson F. Atwood a partner in medical malpractice defense and insurance coverage cases.The firm has added three associates:
Ryan T. Brown in professional liability insurance and coverage litigation, Sheila A. Loop in commercial litigation and defense of professional liability claims, and Karen Byank Mathura in defense of physicians and hospitals against negligence claims.• • •
David S. Warner
has joined Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, as a partner in the Business Law Services Group, concentrating in land use and zoning. He was with Holland & Knight's real estate practice.• • •
Katten Muchin Rosenman has elected 13 attorneys as partners in its Chicago office, and 14 in other offices. The new Chicago partners are:
William J. Dorsey, Jenny Louise Johnson, David Jeffrey Stagman, Michael J. Summerhill
and Michael S. Weisman in litigation; David P. Cohen and Victoria Shusterman in real estate; Michael J. Diver and Kimberly Thompson Smith in corporate; Michael A. Dorfman in intellectual property; Scott E. Lyons in commercial finance; Bradley S. Rochlen in environmental law, and Lance A. Zinman in financial services.• • •
James P. Madigan
has joined the Midwest regional office of Lambda Legal as staff attorney. He was an associate at Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz.• • •
Adrian Mendoza
has joined Lillig & Thorsness, Oak Brook, as a partner in its Litigation Group. He was a founding partner in Kane, Carbonara & Mendoza, Chicago.• • •
Thomas V. Skinner,
formerly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, as a partner in issues relating to environmental regulatory initiatives and enforcement.Skinner previously headed the EPA's national compliance program and served as director of Region 5. He is based in Chicago and also works out of the firm's offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
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Sage Fattahian
and Angela M. Miller have joined the Chicago office of McGuireWoods as associates in the Taxation and Employee Benefits Department. Miller was a summer associate in the firm's Pittsburgh office, and Fattahian was with Lewis, Overbeck & Furman.• • •
The Schaumburg firm of
Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle has opened a second office in suite 3500, 300 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago 60606. Seven of its 21 lawyers and two paralegals have relocated to the new location.Founded in 1996 by Brian Meltzer, John F. Purtill, Roger T. Stelle and William J. Mitchell, the firm serves financial institutions, real estate developers, homebuilders, condominium converters, the corporate middle market and entrepreneurs.
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J. Michael Monahan II
has joined Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, Chicago, as an associate in establishment, development and protection of intellectual property assets. The former New Orleans lawyer relocated to Chicago after Hurricane Katrina.• • •
Sang-yul Lee
has joined Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago as a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group. He was a senior associate at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.• • •
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has named 30 new partners, four of them in the Chicago office.
They are
Eric J. Gorman (litigation), Shilpi Gupta (corporate), Mark A. McDermott (corporate restructuring) and Nancy M. Olson (real estate).• • •
Thomas J. Smedinghoff
has joined Wildman Harrold, Chicago, as a partner in its expanded privacy and data security practices. He was with Baker & McKenzie.Smedinghoff is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. He has written several books and articles about e-commerce, data security and information technology law, and serves on many editorial boards.