Pamela H. Woldow, a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, has been named a principal of the Pennsylvania-based Altman Weil legal management consultancy. Previously an adjunct consultant, she is a member of the Corporate Law Department Group.

A former partner and litigation services leader for Smart and Associates, Woldow has been chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance and chair of the International Association of Insurance Receivers education committee.

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Daniel L. Johnson has been named chief operating partner of Chapman and Cutler's operations in Chicago, San Francisco and Salt Lake City. He succeeds Steven Clark, who retired recently.

Johnson joined the 95-year-old firm in 1975 and became chair of its Public Finance Group in 1998. He has been bond counsel to several local government units in Illinois and has handled financings for hundreds of school districts.

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Cogan & McNabola, Chicago, has promoted John M. Power to partner in its personal injury practice. He joined the firm in 2001 after operating his own defense firm for eight years.

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Dykema has elected 14 lawyers as partners, including three in Illinois offices.

In Chicago, they are David T. Cellitti in the Corporate Finance Practice Group and Lisa V. Mueller in the Intellectual Property Practice Group; in Joliet, Paul J. Richards in the Real Estate Practice Group.

Richard E. Gottlieb, a member of the Chicago office management committee, has been appointed leader of Dykema's Financial Institutions Team and head of its Consumer Financial Services practice area.

Harry N. Arger of the Chicago office now heads the firm's General Litigation practice area.

Thomas R. Hill has been appointed office  managing member for Dykema's Chicago, Joliet and Lisle locations. Former leader of the Litigation Practice Group, he is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

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St. Louis-based Evans & Dixon has promoted five members of its Workers' Compensation Practice Group to senior associates. They are Justin K. Burroughs, Raymund Capelovitch, Scott J. Kelemetc, Sarah K. Kraft and Sabrina D. Merritt.

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Pieter N. Schmidt has been named managing partner of the Carbondale general practice firm, Feirich/Mager/Green/Ryan. He joined the firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1994.

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Harold L. Kaplan and Mark F. Hebbeln have joined Foley & Lardner in Chicago as partners in the Business Reorganizations Practice.

Kaplan also heads the Corporate Trust and Bondholders Rights Practice. Former chair of Gardner, Carton & Douglas, he was instrumental in its merger with Drinker, Biddle & Reath. Hebbeln also was with Drinker Biddle.

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Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, has appointed attorney Susan R. Sneider as director of marketing and business development. She created the first in-house legal department for Turtle Wax Inc.

A former management consultant for Hildebrandt Intl., Sneider is author of the American Bar Association publication, "A Lawyer's Guide to Networking."

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Steven N. Wayland has joined GoodSmith, Gregg & Unruh, Chicago, as senior counsel. He was an associate with a New York law firm. In addition to his law degree from Harvard, Wayland has a master's degree in politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gary Meadows and Gregg Kinney have been elected partners in the Edwardsville office of Hepler Broom MacDonald Hebrank True Noce.

Meadows practices in complex litigation, including defense of professional liability cases. Kinney is a trial lawyer with emphasis on defense of toxic tort benzene exposure lawsuits, general negligence, municipal liability and maritime cases.

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Neal L. Wolf has joined the Chicago office of Katten Muchin Rosenman as a partner in the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice, focusing on business reorganizations, workouts and commercial litigation.

Previously a partner in Dewey & LeBoeuf, he lectures on bankruptcy law topics for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the ABA American Law Institute.

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Rorry Kinnally Bonifas and Nicholas A. Bonifas have joined Kinnally, Flaherty, Krentz & Loran, Aurora, as associates. Both are 2006 honors graduates of the Marquette University Law School who interned in the Milwaukee County state's attorney's office.

Rorry Bonifas practices general litigation, land use, immigration, and trusts and estates. Nicholas Bonifas is in personal injury, wrongful death, and general and commercial litigation.

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Bridget Duignan has joined the Latherow Law Office, Chicago, as an associate in personal injury, medical malpractice and aviation law. She has been an assistant counsel to Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and an associate at Chilton, Yambert, Porter & Young.

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Robert S. Strauss has been named a partner in Levin Ginsburg, Chicago. He concentrates in corporate law and estate and business planning.

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Elizabeth L. Majers has joined the Chicago office of Loeb & Loeb as a partner in the Corporate Department, focusing on commercial finance, bankruptcy, workouts and creditors' rights. She is a Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel.

Majers was a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery and chair of its Global Corporate Finance Practice Group.

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Deanna R. Blair has been promoted to partner in Longwell Associates, Chicago, and the domestic relations law and litigation firm's name has been changed to Longwell & Blair Associates.

In addition to partners Blair and Marilyn F. Longwell, the associates in the firm are Alia Carvelli and Candace Meyers.

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Eric D. Hargan has joined the Health Law Department of McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago. He was acting deputy secretary and regulatory policy officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he began in 2003 as deputy general counsel.

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Three associates in the Chicago office of McGuireWoods were elected partners on Jan. 1.

They are John A. Leja in intellectual property litigation and patents; Derek A. Roach in information technology transactions, and Christopher J. Verstrate in international corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions.

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Retired Cook County judge James F. Henry has joined Meckler, Bulger & Tyson in Chicago as of counsel. He will mediate and arbitrate cases and expand the firm's mentoring program, particularly in trial and appellate litigation and procedure.

Before his 19-year judicial career, Henry was a partner in Gould & Ratner and an assistant Cook County state's attorney.

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The Muriel Law Offices have been relocated to the 50th Floor at Three First National Plaza, 70 W. Monroe, Chicago 60602. Michele D. Miladinov has joined the firm as an associate.

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Cynthia E. Garcia has been elected a shareholder in Querrey & Harrow, Chicago. A member of the firm's Diversity Committee, she concentrates in corporate law matters that include commercial transactions, banking, real estate, elder law and estate planning.

Philip J. Lading has joined Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, St. Louis and Carbondale, as a shareholder in municipal law, commercial litigation and insurance defense. He was a partner in Roth, Evans & Lading.

Lading represents two Illinois municipalities as city attorney for Staunton and village attorney for New Douglas.

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Seth Remy Yohalem has joined Scandaglia & Ryan, Chicago, in commercial litigation, contract and insurance coverage disputes. Previously an associate at Kirkland & Ellis, he serves on the board of Metropolitan Family Services.

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John T. Podbielski Jr. has joined the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal as national client services manager with responsibility for collecting accounts receivable in the firm's 13 offices.

Podbielski was a shareholder practicing in creditor's rights with the Milwaukee firm of Schelbe & Podbielski.

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Michael R. Stiff and Tricia M. Pellegrini have joined Spesia, Ayers & Ardaugh, Joliet, in civil and commercial litigation.

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Chicago attorney Madelon A. Kuchera has formed Sterling Group Services, a consulting firm for the communications and energy industries. Previously chief operating officer for Associated Network Partners in Springfield, she is a former advisor to a Federal Commerce Commission member.

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Michelle M. Huhnke, formerly counsel to Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, has been admitted as a partner in estate planning, estate and trust administration, and charitable gift planning.