Announcements

AnnouncementsBradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP partners Leigh Anne Hodge, Lela M. Hollabaugh and Kimberly B. Martin have been named to the 2021 Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation list, published by Benchmark Litigation.

AnnouncementsBuchalter is thrilled to welcome new Corporate Law Shareholder Jenni Krengel as Chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group.

AnnouncementsLittler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, today announced that Bradley E. Strawn has rejoined the firm and will serve as Office Managing Shareholder in Atlanta. Strawn will succeed Whitney M. Ferrer who will be assuming a leadership role in a new service launching later this year. Ferrer will also continue to focus on her active practice at the firm. Strawn, who joins from insurance broker McGriff, spent 2005 to 2018 at Littler and is the fourth lateral shareholder in recent months to return to the firm.

AnnouncementsAkerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Litigation Practice Group with partner Brenda Radmacher in Los Angeles.

AnnouncementsNational law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka announced that Eva Guzman, former Texas Supreme Court justice, will join the firm on August 4 as a shareholder in the firm’s litigation, appellate, and Texas tax controversy practices where she will focus on litigating cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts and resolving disputes at the administrative level. Justice Guzman will work in the firm’s Houston and San Antonio offices.

AnnouncementsSeth McCloskey, a personal injury lawyer at the Law Offices of Steven C. Laird P.C., recently earned Board Certification in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

AnnouncementsSmith Currie, one of the nation’s most recognized construction and government contracts law firms, today announced it was named 2021 Construction Law Firm of the Year by Chambers and Partners USA, and its deputy editors.

AnnouncementsOnna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform, today announced key enhancements to its Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Exchange connectors, strengthening customers’ ability to find, access, and protect their Microsoft and other third-party application data, all in one place.

AnnouncementsChandler Combest has rejoined the Birmingham, Alabama, office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Most recently, he served as senior vice president and general counsel for the Frazer Lanier Company.

AnnouncementsHolly Engelmann has joined Duane Morris LLP as partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in its Dallas office.

AnnouncementsRachel John, Former NYC Department of Design & Construction Assistant General Counsel Joins Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

AnnouncementsPerkins Coie is pleased to announce that Christopher A. Williams has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice in its Antitrust & Unfair Competition Litigation practice group as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office.

AnnouncementsLittler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, today announced that Bradley E. Strawn has rejoined the firm and will serve as Office Managing Shareholder in Atlanta. Strawn will succeed Whitney M. Ferrer who will be assuming a leadership role in a new service launching later this year. Ferrer will also continue to focus on her active practice at the firm. Strawn, who joins from insurance broker McGriff, spent 2005 to 2018 at Littler and is the fourth lateral shareholder in recent months to return to the firm.

AnnouncementsBradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP was named to the list of “Frequently Recommended Law Firms” in the 2021 BTI Consulting Group report “The BTI Most Recommended Law Firms 2021: The Firms Top Legal Decision Makers Recommended Above All Others.”

AnnouncementsSteve Adkins has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP in their Intellectual Property practice as a partner in Washington D.C.

AnnouncementsEversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Darwin Conner has joined the firm as US Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, resident in the New York office.

AnnouncementsInsurance litigator Marisa O’Sullivan has joined Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office.

AnnouncementsThe latest legal maneuver designed to help Bayer AG circumvent its legal responsibility to cancer victims exposed to Roundup has drawn a swift rebuke from the trial lawyers of the Dallas-based Fears Nachawati Law Firm.

AnnouncementsMichael Best LLP has elected seven attorneys to the firm’s Partnership

AnnouncementsBuchalter is pleased to announce the addition of Shareholder David Balfour, and welcome him to the Firm’s San Diego office as a member of the Health Care practice group. Balfour joins with experienced health care litigator, Carol Salmacia, also based in San Diego.