“A Milwaukee criminal defense lawyer found himself being handcuffed in a courtroom Thursday for the second time in less than a year,” reports Bruce Vielmetti in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Last fall, police arrested Matthew Meyer, 35, in the Criminal Justice Facility on a host of charges related to a bitter, drawn-out exit from a volatile relationship with a former girlfriend.”

“On Thursday, a sheriff’s deputy put cuffs on Meyer again after he was sentenced to a year in jail for crimes the judge said were made worse by Meyer’s ‘energized evil’ against the woman, a 30-year-old medical professional he dated off and on for about three years starting in 2016.”

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Buchalter is pleased to announce that Mary-Christine “M.C.” Sungaila has joined the Firm as Chair of its Appellate practice. She will work out of the Orange County office. Sungaila was previously a Partner at Haynes & Boone.

As a widely regarded appellate attorney who has briefed and argued appeals raising cutting-edge and fundamental business issues nationally and internationally, Sungaila has helped shape undeveloped areas of the law including, employment, franchisor liability, product liability, class actions and probate to immigration, Holocaust art recovery, and human rights.

Among her numerous accolades, Chambers USA has repeatedly named her a “Notable Appellate Practitioner” (2013-2020). She has also continually been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of California’s 100 Leading Women Lawyers (2005, 2010-2019), and in 2015 as one of the state’s Top Labor & Employment Lawyers. She is a recipient of two back-to-back California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) awards, including one in 2015 from California Lawyer magazine, Daily Journal Corporation, for the precedent-setting franchisor vicarious liability case she argued before the California Supreme Court, Patterson v. Domino’s Pizza.

Sungaila is also frequently recognized for her sustained commitment to community service and pro bono work. In 2017, she was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, whose recipients include seven U.S. Presidents, Nobel Prize winners, athletes, leaders of industry, artists and others whose work has made a lasting impact on humanity, for her combined professional achievements and humanitarian and pro bono work. She has also been recognized by the California Women Lawyers, Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Orange County Women Lawyers, the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, and Coastline Community College Foundation.

Sungaila earned her J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, in 1991, and earned her B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University in 1988, with distinction, Honors in Humanities.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that Michael Chen has joined Parker Poe’s Charlotte office as counsel. Michael is a leader in the Charlotte region on Asian American issues, including through his service as president of the Charlotte Taiwanese American Association.

Chen concentrates his practice on immigration and international business. He represents U.S. and foreign-owned companies, including clients in the biomedical, manufacturing and distribution, commercial sales, information technology, hospitality, and sports and entertainment industries.

Chen has developed corporate immigration policy guidelines for his clients, as well as onboarding and termination procedures. He has counseled companies on compliance with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, federal and state labor departments, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and other government agencies.

International clients have also turned to Chen for help expanding in the United States. He has assisted companies in integrating top management and other teams into new facilities in multiple states. The projects he has advised on include corporate headquarters and research and development centers. He is also a frequent speaker and presenter on Asian business issues.

In addition to Chen’s leadership of the Charlotte Taiwanese American Association, he serves on the board of directors or the North Carolina Chapter of the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of North America. He is also on the board of the Charlotte Chinese School, where he serves as vice principal. He is fluent in conversational Chinese (Mandarin and Taiwanese).

Chen is an adjunct instructor in Central Piedmont Community College’s certified paralegal program.

Prior to joining Parker Poe, Chen led the immigration team at Winstead, a large national law firm. He is also a former assistant district attorney for Mecklenburg County, serving as the county’s first Asian American prosecutor.

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Stephen C. Ferruolo, a leading life sciences lawyer, has joined the firm’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) practice as a partner in the San Diego office.

Ferruolo will focus his practice on the life sciences sector, representing private and publicly held biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and digital health companies, as well as technology companies, investors, and venture capitalists.

His focus will also include guiding clients through private and public financings as well as mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, licensing, collaboration and commercial agreements, and compliance matters. Ferruolo has worked on hundreds of private financings during his legal career, with a broad range of venture capitalists and other investors and handled IPOs ranging from $6 million to $1.1 billion.

Ferruolo most recently served as the dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, where he was also a professor of law in business and corporate law, contracts, and securities regulation. Prior to that, he held a variety of senior law firm positions in Southern California, including with Goodwin Proctor LLP and Heller Ehrman LLP, and he currently serves on the board of directors of BIOCOM, the largest regional life sciences association in the world.

Ferruolo earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Stanford University Law School. He also earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned an M.Phil. in Medieval European History.

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Stephen Meli has joined the firm’s Boston office as a partner in its Business Law Department and Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice Group. Meli comes to Foley from Proskauer Rose LLP, where he was a partner in the Private Investment Funds Group. His arrival follows directly on the heels of partner Katharine Beattie, who joined Foley’s Boston office last month.

Meli focuses his practice on private fund formation, emerging and spin-out private fund sponsors, and institutional investor representation. He establishes and structures emerging- and middle-market buyout, venture capital, growth equity, credit and similar funds, including funds-of-funds and secondary funds. Meli advises private fund sponsors on every aspect of their funds business with a particular focus on new and emerging private fund sponsors. He also counsels institutional investors on private investment fund matters, including the negotiation and structuring of primary investments and separate account arrangements, secondary transactions and portfolio company co-investments.

Meli’s fund formation practice involves representing sponsors on the structuring, marketing, operating and compliance of their private funds, including fund reorganizations and restructurings. His focus on emerging, spin-out, “first time” and fund-less sponsors establishing their initial private funds includes advising on separation matters, placement-agent arrangements, commercial terms and conditions, internal governance/employee and management company arrangements, SEC registration and compliance, carried-interest structuring and co-investment arrangements. Meli has also advised several established fund sponsors on the sale of their management company to third parties.

Meli’s institutional investor practice includes working with endowments, charities, sovereign and private pension funds, insurance companies, funds-of-funds and secondary funds. His secondary transaction experience includes advising both U.S. and non-U.S. sellers and buyers in the structuring and negotiation of both individual and bulk sales of private fund interests.

Meli’s recent representative sponsor-side transactions include:

• Raising an oversubscribed growth equity fund for a Kansas City-based sponsor with approximately $300 million in capital commitments.
• Raising an oversubscribed middle-market buyout fund with approximately $350 million in capital commitments for a new Boston-based sponsor spun out from one of the largest Boston-based private equity firms.
• Raising oversubscribed life sciences funds for separate venture capital managers located in Cambridge and Seattle with approximately $880 million and $400 million in respective capital commitments.

The automotive industry is a critical component of the U.S. economy connecting a wide range of industries, from part and raw material suppliers to providers needed for the day-to-day sale and operation of vehicles. In July 2020, Dykema, MICHauto and The Right Place canvassed automotive executives, professionals and service providers to gauge their perspectives on the U.S. economy and the automotive industry and, particularly, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, announces today that Complex Commercial Litigation Partner Grasford Smith has been elected as chair of the National Bar Association’s (NBA) Minority Partners in Majority Law Firms Division. In that capacity, he will also serve as an NBA board member.

The NBA is the nation’s oldest and largest national network of predominantly African American attorneys and judges, representing the interests of approximately 65,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students. Founded in 1925, the NBA is organized around 23 substantive law sections, nine divisions, 12 regions and 80 affiliate chapters throughout the U.S. and around the world. The NBA Minority Partners in Majority Law Firms Division facilitates educational, resource, and networking opportunities for minority partners at the top law firms across the U.S.

Smith, whose one-year term as chair is effective July 29, previously served as Minority Partners in Majority Law Firms Division vice chair and NBA parliamentarian.

Smith focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters. He has experience representing a diverse range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, athletic leagues, technology companies, and a U.S. Congressman, in addition to a variety of small and medium-sized businesses. He handles local and nationally disputed matters concerning corporate governance, government enforcement actions, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, trade secrets, real estate matters, construction defects, franchises, products liability, eminent domain, and disciplinary/admission matters before the Florida Bar. Smith, ranked by The Best Lawyers in America, was named a Corporate Executive of the Year by Legacy South Florida Magazine in 2019.

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, announces the launch of the Littler NOM-035 Survey, a resource for employers in Mexico. The technology-driven tool helps in-house counsel and human resources managers efficiently comply with new survey requirements under the Mexican Official Standard NOM-035-STPS-2018 (or “NOM-035”).

NOM-035 requires employers to implement several measures to identify, analyze and prevent work-related psychosocial risks that could harm the physical and mental health of their employees. As part of the regulations, by October 2020 companies with operations in Mexico will be required to conduct surveys of their workforces every two years on a variety of mental health-related issues. This deadline has not been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Littler NOM-035 Survey tool, employers can quickly and securely complete the required surveys, receive easy-to-read visual reports, and leverage data analytics to track and guide targeted compliance efforts.

The results uncovered through Littler’s NOM-035 Survey offer a blueprint for Littler attorneys to provide counsel on potential modifications to ensure compliance and enhance employee well-being. The visual reports provided through the tool highlight areas in most need of review, while aiding in maintaining records and meeting the requirement that findings be made available to authorities and employees. As data and insights accrue over time, HR teams – in tandem with Littler counsel – will be well-positioned to develop more targeted assistance, training and policies based on substantive analytics.

Littler’s NOM-035 Survey complements the firm’s broad suite of innovative andpractical resources for employers. Littler’s Service Solutions – including Littler CaseSmart (the firm’s approach to efficiently managing employment litigation), the Littler Pay Equity Assessment (a technology tool for conducting audits and guiding legal strategy) and Littler onDemand (a data-driven solution for employment law advice and counsel) – are designed to provide clients with efficient legal counsel, help shape legal and compliance strategies, and spot trends and inform critical business decisions.

“A bill regulating the use of contact tracing data has moved its way through both chambers of the New York State legislature. Senate Bill S8450C regulates all information that includes or can reveal the identity of any individual and any COVID-19 related information or test results,” reports Dominic Panakal in HeyDataData.

“New York State established a tracing initiative to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic across the state. The tracing program is part of the larger strategy of reducing transmission and ensuring affected individuals are appropriately isolated. As part of this initiative, the state employs contact tracers to communicate with individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, as well as any parties who have been in contact with them and therefore exposed to the virus.”

“During the early stages of the pandemic, Governor Cuomo said ‘once you trace, and you find more positives, then you isolate the positives — they’re under quarantine, they can’t go out, they can’t infect anybody else.’ Municipalities and local governments in New York have also engaged in this program or a variant of it. For example, New York City hired 3,000 disease detectives and case monitors to identify anyone who has come into contact with individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19.”

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“Weatherford International has recruited Scott Weatherholt as executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer (CCO),” reports Ben Maiden in Corporate Secretary’s Appointments.

“Weatherholt was previously senior vice president and general counsel at Arena Energy and its affiliates, a role in which he had a focus on offshore Gulf of Mexico shelf exploration and production activities. Before that, he was an executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Midstates Petroleum, where his work included legal oversight of a merger with Amplify Energy and a large debt-for-debt recapitalization.”

“Earlier in his career, Weatherholt spent a decade at Samson Resources, where he was assistant general counsel of operations with responsibility for operational legal, land and regulatory issues for the Permian Basin, Eagleford, Mid-continent, Haynesville/Cotton Valley, Powder River, Green River and Bakken business units.”

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“Judge Raag Singhal … dismissed a class action lawsuit that claimed Burger King Corporation’s advertising deceived customers by making a ‘presumption’ that its plant-based “Impossible Whopper” patties would be cooked on different grills than those used to cook meats,” writes

“Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged to have been ‘duped’ into believing that Burger King cooked its Impossible Whopper patties on dedicated grills due to the patties being marketed as ‘0% beef and 100% Whopper.’ The plaintiffs had previously argued that Burger King marketed the Impossible Whopper as vegan, but then dropped that claim given that Burger King’s advertising did not expressly mention that the Impossible Whopper was in fact vegan.”

“In dismissing the plaintiffs’ breach of contract claim, Judge Singhal held that Burger King’s promotional material did not mislead customers about cooking methods and that it did not imply that its plant-based patties would be grilled separately from meat products.”

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“While a great number of people believe that in-house lawyers earn less than their Biglaw counterparts, top in-house attorneys — the general counsel of America’s largest companies — often earn sums that exceed Biglaw partner pay,” writes Staci Zarestsky in Above the Law’s In-House Counsel.

The article takes a look at “Corporate Counsel’s latest survey of the nation’s best-paid general counsel, a ranking that pulls together all the money that GCs make in total cash compensation, which is a combination of base salary, cash bonus, and nonequity incentives.”

Read the article to see how general counsels’ compensation has changed since last year’s survey.

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Nashville partner Lauren Kilgore recognized for her ‘Talent and Litigation’ work

DALLAS – Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP entertainment and business litigation partner Lauren Kilgore has been selected to Billboard magazine’s 2020 listing of the nation’s leading music attorneys.

 Billboard’s 2020 Top Music Lawyers list recognizes attorneys who are on the front lines of the music industry’s legal battles and deals in a time marked by economic and social upheaval due to the global pandemic.

Kilgore, a partner in Shackelford’s Nashville office, is among the attorneys recognized for their “Talent and Litigation” practices. She has been instrumental in helping identify new business models to help record label and performing artist clients weather the coronavirus shutdown.

Kilgore’s practice focuses on complex litigation and sophisticated entertainment and business issues involving license agreements, trademarks, copyrights, rights of publicity, general releases, distribution agreements, publishing agreements, recording agreements, artist development agreements, and management agreements. She also handles online media issues and crisis management for individuals and corporate clients.

The Top Music Lawyers for 2020 were selected by Billboard editors, based upon such factors as peer and colleague nominations, and the representation of clients with a notable music industry impact as measured by charts, sales and streaming performances. Recognition covers six categories including Talent and Litigation, Major Music Groups, Streaming, Live, Music Publishing, and Performing Rights. The entire list can be found in the July 25, 2020, issue of Billboard or online.

Board-Certified Bankruptcy Lawyer Joins Houston Office as a Partner

HOUSTON and FORT WORTH, TEXAS – Forshey Prostok L.L.P. is proud to announce the addition of Deirdre Carey Brown, pllc, as a Partner in the firm’s Houston office.

Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Brown has 20 years of bankruptcy and restructuring experience. Her work includes representing both Chapter 11 debtors, official committees, creditors, and equity, in a variety of industries, with particular focus in the construction and energy markets.

To learn more about Brown, visit: https://forsheyprostok.com/attorneys/deirdre-carey-brown-pllc/

“Deirdre is a great fit for our growing team of bankruptcy and restructuring professionals,” said managing partner Jeff Prostok. “Particularly as we face growing demand in the energy sector, Deirdre’s experience in both Houston and Louisiana will serve our clients well.”

Prostok notes that, with the addition of Brown, Forshey Prostok now has eight partners who each have more than 15 years of business bankruptcy experience.

“We pride ourselves in offering the skill and sophistication of a large firm, but without the conflicts and expensive overhead,” he said. “I don’t know of many firms in Texas, big or small, with the business bankruptcy firepower our firm offers.”

Brown, who relocated to Houston from New Orleans 15 years ago, said the firm’s ability to support complex cases sealed the deal.

“I was impressed by the quality of Forshey Prostok’s lawyers, and I’m looking forward to helping grow the firm’s base in Houston,” she said. “The bankruptcy judges in Houston have excelled in handling the complex case docket while being proactive and accommodating in dealing with issues from COVID-19. We will surely see an increase in complex cases filing in Houston in the coming months.”

Brown has been recognized for her work in business bankruptcy by Texas Super Lawyers (2016 to 2019) and Houstonia Magazine (2013-2015 and 2018) and is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. She earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School and her B.A. from Michigan State University. Ms. Brown is also certified in mediation.

About Forshey Prostok L.L.P.

Forshey Prostok L.L.P. provides extensive experience in all areas of bankruptcy law from its offices in Fort Worth and Dallas. The firm’s scope of representation includes handling complex business reorganizations, enforcing of creditor’s rights, leading commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation, overseeing creditors’ committees, directing workouts, and closing bankruptcy acquisitions. Forshey Prostok is ranked by the Chambers USA legal guide and received a Tier 1 ranking from Best Law Firms for bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights. For more information, visit https://forsheyprostok.com/.

FORT WORTH, Texas – The complex bankruptcy and restructuring law firm Forshey Prostok L.L.P. is pleased to announce the addition of Michael D. “Mickey” Ricketts as Of Counsel in the firm’s Fort Worth headquarters.

Ricketts, who handles bankruptcy and commercial litigation, has also done extensive work as an intellectual property litigator, successfully representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex patent infringement cases across a wide range of industries, including 3D computer graphics, augmented reality, GPS-based asset tracking, and hand tools. Before becoming a lawyer, Ricketts was a software/systems engineer in the U.S. defense industry.

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Ricketts holds dual B.A. degrees in computer science and music from Southern Methodist University (2001) and received his J.D. from SMU’s Dedman School of Law in 2010. He is licensed to practice law in Texas and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, welcomes Mark Lichtenstein to the firm’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group. Lichtenstein brings extensive experience working with corporate and distressed assets, particularly while resolving restructurings and bankruptcy matters on behalf of private equity firms, financial institutions, and hedge funds.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has brought companies across all industries severe disruption, distress or uncertainty,” said Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group Chair Andrea Hartley. “Mark brings important experience, critical to helping our clients navigate financial complexities as a result of the current economic fallout.”

Lichtenstein focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate and bankruptcy matters, including restructuring of private equity portfolio companies, bankruptcy litigation, and the acquisition of assets in bankruptcy cases, as well as workouts, creditors’ rights litigation, distressed real estate matters, and commercial counseling. He also has experience in structured finance transactions and the rendering of opinions in connection with these transactions.

In addition, Lichtenstein has experience representing secured and unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, debtors, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Trustees, landlords, and licensees and licensors of intellectual property. He has handled bankruptcy litigation, including fraudulent conveyance, preferential transfer, breach of fiduciary duty, recharacterization, involuntary bankruptcy and equitable subordination cases. Lichtenstein also has experience in corporate and real estate transactions and non-bankruptcy litigations, including foreclosure actions in the CMBS context or otherwise, lender liability actions, and partnership and corporate disputes.

About Akerman
Akerman LLP is a top 100 U.S. law firm recognized among the most forward thinking firms in the industry by Financial Times. Its more than 700 lawyers and business professionals collaborate with the world’s most successful enterprises and entrepreneurs to navigate change, seize opportunities, and help drive innovation and growth. Akerman is known for its results in middle market M&A and complex disputes, and for helping clients achieve their most important business objectives in the financial services, real estate and other dynamic sectors across the United States and Latin America.

Akerman’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group serves as a strategic partner to creditors, distressed businesses, court appointed committees, and various fiduciaries. Our team—which includes lawyers certified in Business Bankruptcy by the American Board of Bankruptcy Certification—has served as bankruptcy counsel in many of the nation’s largest bankruptcy filings. Creative and cost-effective, we work closely with clients to resolve financial issues quickly, whether through bankruptcy or out-of-court solutions.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Junaid Odubeko, a partner in the firm’s Nashville office, has been accepted to the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation’s Diverse Leaders Academy (DLA).

“We congratulate Junaid on his new role with DLA,” said Bradley Director of Inclusion and Diversity George D. Medlock Jr. “Workplace diversity is a core value at Bradley, and we are very proud of Junaid’s uniform commitment to furthering inclusion and diversity at the firm and in the legal community.”

DLA provides opportunities for lawyers in underrepresented groups to participate in leadership roles within the ABA Section of Litigation. Odubeko will serve a two-year term beginning Aug. 1, during which he will participate in Diversity & Inclusion Committee activities and engage in substantive work as a member of a Section committee or task force.

A member of Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group, Odubeko focuses his practice on advising and representing clients in complex commercial and business disputes and real estate litigation. He has represented clients in industries that include healthcare, financial services, transportation, lodging, entertainment, and insurance. In addition, Odubeko represents clients in a variety of state regulatory matters before the state’s various departments, boards and commissions. His administrative law experience includes representing insurance producers before the department of commerce and insurance and representing utility companies before the Tennessee Regulatory Authority. Furthermore, Odubeko represents and advises clients in the political arena on legal and other issues related to election law and campaign finance.

Odubeko has served on the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, which is a national organization made up of general counsel and law firm managing partners who participate in programs designed to attract, inspire, and nurture the talent in society and within the members’ organizations, thereby helping a new and more diverse generation of attorneys ascend to positions of leadership.

At Bradley, Odubeko is an active member of the firm’s Recruiting Committee and the firm’s Lawyers of Color Resource Group. He was the recipient of the firm’s 2019 Diversity Leadership Award.

About Bradley
Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm’s nearly 550 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including banking and financial services, construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and technology, among many others.

U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Practice Chair Dan Geyser recently spoke with Texas Lawbook about his past success as a solo practitioner and what ultimately motivated him to join Texas appellate powerhouse Alexander Dubose & Jefferson.

In the article “Dallas Lawyer Dan Geyser: From Solo Shop to SCOTUS Practice Leader,” Geyser described wanting to focus a practice on U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appeal Litigation and how that decision snowballed into him becoming one of the most active Texas lawyers before the nation’s highest court.

Read more about Dan and what compelled him to join ADJ. You can also visit TexasLawbook.net (subscription required.)

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a finalist in the St. Louis Business Journal’s 2020 list of the “Healthiest Employers” in St. Louis. The firm is listed in the medium size category for companies with 100 to 499 employees and is the only law firm among the 24 finalists across all categories.

Greensfelder’s Well-Being Program strives to increase the overall wellness of all employees through opportunities encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social health. Initiatives have included yoga, Pilates and meditation classes; seminars on nutrition, financial health and other topics; a healthy recipes cookbook; and numerous other opportunities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm strived to ensure that employees working remotely still had wellness resources available, including virtual challenges and seminars and tips on setting up ergonomic workstations at home. Launched in early 2019, the firm’s Well-Being Program is led by Greensfelder Human Resources Manager Jessie Fenton.

The list of “Healthiest Employers” finalists is available on the Business Journal’s website (subscription required). The winners in each category will be profiled in the publication’s Aug. 28 issue.

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., founded in 1895, is a full-service law firm with offices in St. Louis, Chicago and Southern Illinois. Greensfelder offers comprehensive legal solutions for clients locally, nationally and internationally. Areas of practice include business services; communications and media; construction; educational, religious and tax-exempt organizations; employee benefits; employment and labor; energy; franchising and distribution; health care; intellectual property; litigation; real estate; securities and financial services; and trusts and estates. Find out more at www.greensfelder.com.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that six of the firm’s attorneys have been appointed to new leadership roles with the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation for the 2020-2021 bar year, beginning Aug. 1.

The firm’s attorneys newly appointed as ABA Section of Litigation leaders are Dylan C. Black, Tiffany J. deGruy, Tiffany Graves, Robert Emmett Poundstone IV, Anne Marie Seibel, and Ethan T. Tidmore.

A partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, Black will serve on the planning committee for the Litigation Section’s 2021 Annual Conference in Houston. A member of Bradley’s Class Action and Complex Litigation Practice Group, he focuses his practice on complex civil litigation in state and federal courts, with particular emphasis on class actions, state and federal securities fraud cases, professional liability matters, and insurance coverage litigation.

A partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, deGruy will serve as co-chair of the Woman Advocate Committee. She focuses her practice on trying high-stakes business litigation.

Based in the firm’s Jackson, Mississippi, office, Graves will serve as co-chair of the Pro Bono Committee. Graves is Bradley’s pro bono counsel and oversees the development and administration of the firm’s pro bono programs.

Managing partner of the firm’s Montgomery, Alabama, office, Poundstone will serve on the Access to Justice Committee. He frequently represents clients in litigation matters pending in federal and state trial and appellate courts.

A partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, Seibel has just completed her service as one of the section’s managing directors and has been elected to serve on the Section of Litigation’s Council. She focuses her practice on multi-forum or multi-plaintiff high-stakes litigation and has trial experience in a variety of venues, as diverse as New Hampshire and Alabama trial courts and multiple arbitration proceedings.

A partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, Tidmore will serve as co-chair of the Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee. He concentrates his practice primarily on complex commercial litigation.

About Bradley
Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm’s nearly 550 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including banking and financial services, construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and technology, among many others.