Transition

Camille B. Conway has joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in the Chicago office Litigation Department. He was a shareholder in Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner.

Conway is an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the Northwestern University School of Law and an instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Brett H. Pyrdek has Barnes & Thornburg in Chicago as an associate in commercial litigation.

Alice O. Martin of Chicago, a Barnes & Thornburg partner in the Intellectual Property and Life Sciences Practice, has been designated legal counsel for the Mexican government on matters in the four-state region served by the Indianapolis Consulate.

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Former Mt. Vernon attorney Rhonda K. Blades has established a law office in Carmi, where Mark Stanley was appointed a 2nd Circuit associate judge and closed his practice on Aug. 1. She also has acquired the former McLeansboro law office of Wayne Morris.

A native of Harrisburg, Blades participated for several years in motorcycle and drag races and demolition derbies. She was known as the “Wheelie Queen” at the I-57 Raceway in Benton.

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Shannon R. Summers has joined Burroughs, Hepler, Brook, MacDonald, Hebrank & True, Edwardsville, in toxic tort defense litigation.

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The offices of Daley, Debofsky & Bryant have relocated to Suite 2440, 55 W. Monroe St., Chicago 60603. The telephone number remains (312) 372-5200.

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Adam Meek has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary as a partner in the Chicago office Real Estate Practice Group. He was with Katten Muchin Rosenman.

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John N. Maher has joined Epstein, Becker & Green, Chicago, as a member of the National Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Contract Practices. Formerly with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, he also was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

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Amy M. Miller has joined the Garry Law Firm in Crystal Lake as an associate in business law. She was a law clerk to Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney of U.S. District Court for the Northern District.

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Elliott M. Regenstein has rejoined the Chicago office of Holland & Knight as senior counsel after serving for more than two years as the governor's director of education reform.

Regenstein practices with the firm's Illinois Real Estate and Local Government Group and the firm's national Education Team. He is co-chair of the governor's Early Learning Council.

Francis L. “Frank” Keldermans also has rejoined Holland & Knight's Chicago office as a partner, and Janet Wagner Jelen has rejoined as an associate.

Both were with Sinar, Keldermans, Miller & Friedman, where Keldermans headed the Financial Services Group. They were at McBride, Baker & Coles when it merged with Holland & Knight in 2002.

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James C. Lukas has become a shareholder in Holmstrom & Kennedy, Rockford, concentrating in business transactions. Amanda J. Adams and Joseph F. Arias have become associated with the firm.

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Gary W. Howell has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman, Chicago, as a partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. He was a partner in Gardner, Carton & Douglas.

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Catherine M. Katilius has joined McGuireWoods in Chicago as an associate in the Health Care Department, representing hospital systems, physician groups and ambulatory surgery centers. She is a lawyer and certified acute care nurse practitioner.

Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund and two of its subsidiaries moved to a new home in Chicago's One South Wacker Drive Building on Aug. 7.

ATG occupies the 24th floor of the 1.2 million square foot complex, a comfortable change from its former offices scattered on four floors at 33 N. Dearborn.

The subsidiaries in house are ATG Trust Co. and Judicial Sales Corp., a real estate auction concern. A subsidiary mortgage bank, Capital Funding Corp., will remain at its Lombard location.

“The move to One South Wacker will give ATG and subsidiaries the opportunity to consolidate to one floor, thereby offering operational efficiencies that we lacked on Dearborn,” said President Peter J. Birnbaum, and a convenient location for real estate closing and other business.

Through its statewide network of 3,700 attorney members, ATG keeps lawyers involved in real estate transactions for the benefit of the client, said Birnbaum, who serves on the ISBA Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law.

In addition to title insurance for home buyers and lenders, the combined company offers investment opportunities and other services. Branch offices are located in Champaign, Mt. Prospect, Homewood, Libertyville, Lombard, North Riverside, Oak Lawn, Wheaton, Belleville and Madison, Wis.

ATG's address is 24th Floor, One South Wacker Drive, Chicago 60606-4654. The telephone number, (312) 372-8361, is unchanged. For information, access www.atgf.com.