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TransitionBeerman & Swerdlove of Chicago and Highland Park, now entering its 50th year, has added five partners and two associates. Promoted to partner from within the firm are Katherine A. Grosh and Stefania Pialis, in Commercial Litigation, and Katarinna McBride in Estate Planning, Business Consulting and Commercial Transactions. Joining the firm as partners are John D.Arco, formerly with Lake, Toback & D’Arco, in Family Law, and Rima D. Ports of the Ports Law Group, in Estate Planning, Business Consulting and Commercial Trans-actions. New associates are Jared B. Pinkus, in Family Law, and Jessica L. Winkler, in Family Law and Commercial Litigation. • • • Michael L. Gesas and David A. Golin have joined Arnstein & Lehr in the Chicago office as partners in the Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights and Restructuring Practice Group. They were partners in the bankruptcy boutique firm of Gesas, Pilati, Gesas & Golin. Gesas is a third-generation practitioner. His father, Leonard Gesas, handled bankruptcy matters that included restructuring the Milwaukee Railroad. His grandfather, Michael Gesas Sr., helped draft the 1938 Bankruptcy Act. • • • Thomas J. Donovan has been named co-chair of the Intellectual Property Department at Barnes & Thornburg, Chicago, where he is a partner. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. • • • Kelly A. Saindon has joined Belongia & Shapiro in Chicago as a partner in its litigation and corporate practices. Formerly with the Zagotta Saindon Law Offices, she has represented clients before federal, state and city departments and has taken pro bono assignments from U.S. District Court. • • • Ryan E. Mohr has joined Fox Galvin in St. Louis as an associate in environmental litigation in Illinois and Missouri. Todd M. Goebel has been named a partner in Gates, Wise & Schlosser, Springfield. His practice includes representing businesses and individuals in commercial transactions and litigation. • • • The St. Louis-based firm of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale has named four members as practice group officers. They are T. Christopher Bailey in Labor and Employment, Keith A. Herman in Trusts and Estates, Wendy S. Menghini in Litigation, and Phillip R. Stanton in Corporate. • • • Hinshaw & Culbertson has added 12 associates in offices around the country, including four in Illinois. New in Chicago are Albert L. Chollet III in transactional and litigation services, and Anne C. Couvoumjian and Nabil G. Foster in products liability defense. Added in Rockford is Keara K. Roethke in business transactions and commercial litigation. Robert W. Dean, a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, is new in the Appleton, Wis., office, and Rehana R. Adat has joined the Schererville, Ind., office. • • • John K. Kim, a member of the ISBA Committee on Judicial Evaluations Outside Cook County, and Mary A. Corrigan, who serves on the Committee on Law Office Management and Economics, have joined the Peoria office of Howard & Howard. Kim represents employers in labor and employment counseling and litigation of commercial claims and enforcing creditors’ rights. Corrigan is in corporate, not-for-profits, real estate, estate planning and commercial litigation. • • • Chicago attorney Kevin M. Hull has left The John Marshall Law School Office of Development to form the government affairs and strategic mission consulting firm of Hull Partners. The office is located in Suite 602, 560 W. Fulton, Chicago 60661; telephone (312) 925-6085; mailto:hullpartners@gmail.com. • • • Peter Zura has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman, Chicago, as a partner in its Intellectual Property Practice, concentrating in patent portfolio development and enforcement. He was a partner in Bell, Boyd & Lloyd. • • • Todd M. Glassman has joined Ladden & Allen, Chicago, as an associate in family law matters. He was an associate in a Flossmoor firm. • • • James V. Inendino has joined Loeb & Loeb, Chicago, as a partner with the Corporate Department in commercial finance, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights. He was a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery. • • • Chicago attorneys Jennifer T. Nijman and Susan M. Franzetti have formed the environmental law and litigation firm of Nijman Franzetti at 10 S. LaSalle St. Nijman, a past president of the Chicago Bar Association, was a partner in Winston & Strawn and chair of its Environmental Practice Group. Franzetti was a partner in Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. • • • Pircher, Nicols & Meeks, Chicago, has promoted Pablo L. Petrozzi from associate to partner in commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, joint ventures and leasing. Petrozzi joined the firm in 2003 after two years with Kirkland & Ellis. • • • David J. Vander Ploeg has joined Romanucci & Blandin, Chicago, as an associate in personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability trials. He previously practiced at two other Chicago firms. • • • Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, St. Louis, opened an office in the Mark Twain Building in downtown Edwardsville on Feb. 25. It is the firm’s second Illinois location, including Carbondale. Madison County attorneys in the new office are Anthony L. Martin, Teresa D. Bartosiak, Philip J. Lading, Tom E. Berry and Veronica L. Armouti. • • • William B. Berndt has been named a partner in Schopf & Weiss, Chicago. • • • Chicago attorney Mark L. Hellner has joined the Chicago office of True Partners Consulting as general counsel and a managing director. He was general counsel of the Illinois Departments of Revenue and Central Management Services. A former ISBA Assembly member, Hellner chaired the Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council and Committee on Supreme Court Rules. He received a Board of Governors Award for his leadership of the Committee on Judicial Evaluations. • • • Ethan E. Trull has joined Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, as a partner in the Litigation Department, with emphasis on securities, antitrust, products liability and intellectual property. He was vice president and associate general counsel of Cardinal Health Inc. for the past 11 years. Joining the Litigation Department as lateral associates are Amy M. Garner, from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in commercial litigation and intellectual property, and Abosede Odunsi, from Swanson, Martin & Bell, is civil discovery and trial practice. CORRECTION NOTICE The name of a law firm was misspelled in the February issue of the ISBA Bar News. Following is a corrected version of the new item. Retired Cook County judge James F. Henry has joined Meckler, Bulger & Tilson 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. Moving alongThe Illinois Equal Justice Foundation relocated Feb. 4 to Suite 820 at 180 N. Stetson Place, Chicago 60601; telephone (312) 938-2381. For more information, access http://www.iejf.org.
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