Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, has expanded the national footprint of its Litigation Practice Group with the addition of Adam Massaro in Denver. Joining from Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, Massaro brings with him valuable first-chair trial experience in complex business litigation and provides important business counsel to clients internationally.

Massaro practices in the areas of intellectual property and corporate litigation often involving complex, multi-million dollar high stakes matters. He represents clients in the cannabis industry in both state and federal court, including obtaining a complete defense win at trial for a client, obtaining injunctive relief for a plant-touching entity, and enforcing Cannabis intellectual property rights. He works with clients on intellectual property matters in a broad range of areas, including software, internet-based technologies, industrial equipment, and sporting goods. He has litigated intellectual property and high technology cases in Colorado, California, Nevada, and Arizona federal district court. Massaro also has represented international clients ranging from South Korea to India on matters such as trade secret, trademark, patent, and corporate litigation.

The expansion of Akerman’s Litigation Practice Group in Denver is part of a national growth strategy to further serve clients’ business needs. The team also recently expanded in Houston, with litigation partners Joel Mohrman and Andy Cao who have experience in intellectual property litigation, class actions, and complex commercial litigation; and litigation partner William Sentell who focuses his practice on franchise dispute resolution and related corporate, regulatory, and compliance matters.

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, is pleased to announce the expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice Group with the addition of Jeffrey Armstrong and Benjamin Urban in Chicago. Armstrong and Urban bring with them a broad range of experience in intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, unfair competition, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Armstrong has litigated patent infringement and trade secret matters in federal district courts, authored briefs in patent matters at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and patent offices around the world, and represented clients in post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. In addition to his prosecution and litigation practice, has also authored legal opinions regarding patent, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, and copyright issues, assisted clients with licensing patents and patent portfolios, and represented clients in trademark oppositions at the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board.

Urban focuses his practice on patent prosecution before the USPTO as well as patent offices worldwide. He has extensive experience in consumer electronics and software technologies having successfully prosecuted over 500 patent applications to issuance in these areas. Through these efforts, he has helped a leading consumer electronics manufacturer build its patent portfolio more than tenfold. He also has significant experience in telecommunications, web-conferencing, robotics, and online gaming, among other technologies.

Houston lawyer named among top young civil litigators in Texas in 2021 legal listing

HOUSTON – Erin Bullard, a trial lawyer with Houston-based Bissinger, Oshman & Williams LLP, has been selected among the top young lawyers in Texas for 2021.

Bullard was recognized in the prestigious Texas Rising Stars legal guide based on her civil litigation work on behalf of plaintiffs. Each year, Rising Stars recognizes no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in the state.

Bullard represents corporate clients and individuals in a wide range of complex civil litigation, including claims of covenants not to compete, trade secrets, financial fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent transfer, and negligence.

She earned her law degree from Texas A&M University School of Law and holds a Master of Laws degree in Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Law from the University of Houston Law Center. She is a former litigation analyst for a forensic accounting firm and judicial intern to Judge Rose Vela at the Texas 13th Court of Appeals.

Rising Stars recognizes the state’s most accomplished attorneys age 40 or younger or who have been in practice for 10 years or less. It is based on lawyer nominations, peer review and independent research. Rising Stars is a companion to the prestigious Super Lawyers guide to the top attorneys in the state. The Super Lawyers rating service is part of Thomson Reuters.

Lyons & Simmons co-founder honored for commitment to justice for injury victims

DALLAS – Chris Simmons, co-founder of Dallas-based trial firm Lyons & Simmons, has earned recognition once again as one of the Top 100 Up-and-Coming attorneys in the state as selected by the prestigious Texas Rising Stars legal guide.

This is the fifth consecutive year Simmons has been listed among the Top 100 young lawyers in the state regardless of practice focus, and he has been recognized on the Rising Stars list for his personal injury work every year since 2014. The annual peer review guide honors the best lawyers age 40 or younger or those in practice less than 10 years.

Also honored in the 2021 guide for his personal injury work is associate Stephen Higdon. This is his third year to be selected by Rising Stars, which recognizes just 2.5 percent of eligible lawyers in the state each year.

Simmons’ recognition is based upon a proven record of obtaining outstanding results in cases tried before judges, juries and arbitrators involving life-altering personal injury, wrongful death and “bet-the-company” business disputes throughout Texas and across the country. His work in high-stakes, complex litigation has also earned recognition in Best Lawyers in America, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas, and Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, and has earned him a Professional Excellence Award from Texas Lawyer magazine.

Higdon’s practice at Lyons & Simmons focuses on personal injury and complex business litigation. He has extensive courtroom experience, handling a wide range of civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law.

Texas Rising Stars is a companion guide to Texas Super Lawyers, which is owned by Thomson Reuters.

Buchalter is pleased to announce the arrival of new Shareholder William J. (“Bill”) Keeler, Jr. Keeler joins in Portland as the newest addition to the Firm’s growing Tax & Estate Planning Practice Group. Licensed in California and Oregon, Bill has extensive experience representing families, individuals, and trustees in various estate and trust disputes anywhere on the West Coast.

Keeler focuses his practice on all matters involving estates, trusts, and conservatorships, and has been designated an expert witness in trust, estate and conservatorship litigation as well as in related tax and professional negligence cases. He has also served as a mediator for trust, estate and conservatorship disputes bringing extensive knowledge of estate planning and trust administration, as well as practical experience as trial counsel to settle cases.

Keeler taught Estate Planning at California State University, Fresno, sharing his considerable knowledge and experience with students for over a decade. He has since lectured extensively for Continuing Education of the Bar, the National Business Institute, and addressed numerous Bar Associations, Estate Planning Councils, and estate planning professionals. Keeler has also served as judge pro tem in the probate departments of the Fresno County Superior Court, and the Orange County Superior Court.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that T. Sky Woodward, a partner in the firm’s Washington office, has been appointed by Maryland Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr. to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

The mission of the Maryland State Board of Elections is to ensure compliance with the requirements of Maryland and federal election laws by all persons involved in the process. The board is made up of five members who serve four-year terms and represent both principal political parties — three of the majority and two of the minority party. The members are appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the Maryland Senate.

Woodward represents clients in complex legal matters, including class actions, environmental, commercial, and constitutional litigation. She provides risk mitigation counseling to her real estate industry clients. Her business clients have spanned a variety of industries, including commercial and multifamily real estate developers and property management companies, financial services companies, and product manufacturers.

Woodward previously served as a member of the Maryland Appellate Courts Judicial Nominating Commission, to which she was appointed by Gov. Hogan. She serves on the board of directors of the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, as vice president of the Parish Council at Church of the Nativity in Baltimore County, Maryland, and is the past president of Maryland Defense Counsel, Inc. (MDC), the statewide organization of trial lawyers who devote their practices to defending business in civil litigation.

Hanzo, a company known for its pioneering technology in dynamic web content preservation from enterprise collaboration applications and complex websites, today announced support for Slack Plus with their purpose-built discovery solution, Hanzo Hold for Slack.

Hanzo enables targeted collections and rapid access to discovery insights to corporate legal and HR teams. Support for Slack Plus offers flexibility and a user-friendly solution that empowers internal teams to do early case assessments and efficiently make key strategic case decisions.

What corporate legal teams can do with Hanzo Hold to manage their Slack Plus discovery workflows:

– Make sense of the data. Slack Plus exports are produced in complex and difficult-to-read JSON file formats. Now you can easily upload these files to Hanzo Hold for processing and analysis, avoiding the need to build your own parser and database.

– Narrow the scope. Slack Plus exports can only be limited by date range—leaving a lot of data in the pool. Hanzo enables users to extract content automatically based on defined matter scope, including relevant date range, custodians, and/or channels to reduce data volumes.

– Get all of the necessary data. Slack exports include message content and links to attached files, but not the files themselves. Hanzo Hold augments Slack Plus exports by recognizing these links for messages in scope for the matter and directly collecting relevant files and attachments.

– Rapidly glean insights. Leverage the robust search capabilities for investigation and early case assessment to gain immediate access to relevant content, and view in context as it appears in Slack.

– Precisely export Slack data in a review-ready format. Export exactly the right data for review, without the need for subsequent culling, processing, or complicated data conversion—saving time and downstream cost.

Houston, March 23, 2021 – Five Texas-based attorneys with Chamberlain Hrdlicka have been named to the 2021 Texas Rising Stars by Super Lawyers Magazine, including Jarrod B. Martin, Kathryn “Kelly” Shields and Justin E. VandenBout in Houston as well as F. Matthew “Matt” Flores and Jaime Vasquez in San Antonio. Part of the national Super Lawyers rating service, Texas Rising Stars recognizes the best attorneys age 40 or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state receive this honor.

Flores focuses his practice on probate and fiduciary litigation, representing trustees, executors, beneficiaries, individuals, and business entities in the areas of estates, trusts, contested guardianships, and other related litigation. He also assists clients in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, and closely held business succession planning. He is Board Certified in Estate Planning & Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Flores graduated from the Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He obtained his law degree from the University of Missouri School of Law and earned a Master of Laws degree in Estate Planning from the University of Miami School of Law. He’s been named to Best Lawyers in America 2021 – “Ones to Watch” and 2021 San Antonio’s Rising Stars by San Antonio Scene Magazine.

Martin has more than a decade of national litigation experience with a focus on restructuring and bankruptcy. He has practiced in both federal and state courts across the country, including time at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, representing a variety of clients, including bankruptcy trustees, creditors, and corporate and high net-worth debtors, helping them through their bankruptcy and beyond. He has a wealth of experience in restructuring matters affecting energy companies and has represented creditors in some of the largest oil and gas bankruptcies filed in Texas. He is also a Subchapter V Trustee appointed by the Department of Justice under the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, supervising eligible, financially distressed businesses navigating the streamlined and expedited debt restructuring process. Martin received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA and his J. D. from The University of Miami School of Law. He’s been named to Texas Rising Stars for three consecutive years since 2019.

Shields is a litigation attorney who maintains a diverse litigation practice, representing clients in probate and fiduciary litigation, labor and employment litigation, complex commercial litigation, and arbitration. She has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts in a variety of cases including will contests, trust disputes, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, FLSA, Title VII, ADA/ADEA, contractual disputes, and construction disputes. Shields graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and psychology. Shields then graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law. She was named to 2021 Best Lawyers in America – “Ones to Watch.”

VandenBout is a trial lawyer who maintains a nationwide litigation practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation and complex insurance coverage litigation. He has successfully represented both Plaintiffs and Defendants in federal and state courts throughout the United States in matters ranging from intellectual property disputes, catastrophic personal injury, products liability, professional liability, construction, and breach of contract matters. He has trial experience in a variety of cases, including business partnership disputes, personal injury, property damage, intellectual property, and commercial litigation. In connection with his representation of claimants, he has been successful in collecting over $225 million in matters throughout the United States. VandenBout graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He is a Texas Bar Foundation Life Fellow, granted to only the top 1/3 of 1% of lawyers in Texas. VandenBout’s skill and advocacy on behalf of clients has consistently earned him recognition as one of the top lawyers in Texas in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance coverage. He’s been named to Texas Rising Stars for six consecutive years since 2016, “Leading Lawyer in Texas” by Leaders in Law and “Top Lawyer in Houston” by H Texas Magazine.

Vasquez concentrates his practice on federal, state, and international tax controversy matters. He has counseled clients in tax litigation matters, handling cases before the United States Tax Court, United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Vasquez is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and earned his undergraduate and Master of Accounting degrees from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, his law degree from University of Texas School of Law, and his Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University. He’s been named to Texas Rising Stars for eight consecutive years, since 2014. He was also named “Outstanding Lawyer” by San Antonio Business Journal and “Lawyer of the Year” for San Antonio in Litigation & Controversy – Tax in 2019 by Best Lawyers in America. He’s been listed on Best Lawyers in America for the past three years.

Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP has launched a complete rebrand that includes a new visual identity, website and shortened brand name, Lewis Roca. The rebrand reflects the firm’s client experience focus that is the foundation of its culture and approach to service delivery.

Lewis Roca, founded more than a century ago, was formed after Lewis and Roca combined with Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons in 2013 and with Christie Parker & Hale in 2016. The rebrand fortifies the rich histories of the legacy firms under a strong, contemporary brand.

Experience Amplified, now in its third year, is a rigorous client experience program benchmarked and measured on a regular basis to ensure clients are receiving optimal service and value. Lewis Roca incorporates the Net Promoter Score tool, widely adopted by Fortune 500 companies. For more information on the program, visit www.lewisroca.com/experience.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that six attorneys across the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices have been named by Super Lawyers as Texas Rising Stars for 2021 for their work in a wide range of practice areas.

Bradley Dallas Office Managing Partner Richard A. Sayles added, “We congratulate our Dallas and Houston lawyers who have earned this recognition as among the top young attorneys in Texas. Their knowledge and skill set are assets to the firm and to our clients and will continue to be as we expand our capabilities in Texas.”

Bradley attorneys honored by Texas Rising Stars for 2021 include:

Dallas

• Samuel T. Acker, partner (Business Litigation)
• Matthew J. Agnew, senior attorney (Health Care)

Houston

• Mary Elizondo Frazier, partner (Business Litigation)
• Melissa Gutierrez, associate (Consumer Law)
• Ryan T. Kinder, partner (Business Litigation)
• Philip J. Morgan, associate (Civil Litigation: Defense)

Rising Stars honorees – who must be 40 years old or younger or in practice no more than 10 years – are selected by Super Lawyers through independent research, peer nominations and an evaluation by a blue-ribbon advisory board. No more than 2.5% of lawyers in Texas are honored each year. Distributed to attorneys and ABA-accredited law school libraries, the Texas Rising Stars lists also are published in Texas Super Lawyers Magazine – Rising Stars and Texas Monthly magazine. Super Lawyers is published by Thomson Reuters.

Ball Janik LLP, a construction defect and property damage law firm with offices in Florida and Oregon, is pleased to announce that Doug Stanford, Jr. has joined the firm’s Orlando office. Stanford is a real estate attorney in the Construction Defect practice, strengthening Ball Janik’s continual commitment to its clients.

Stanford focuses his legal practice on representing residential owners in the pursuit of complex construction defect claims. Prior to joining the firm, Stanford spent his career handling complex construction defect matters on behalf of owners throughout Northeast Florida. Stanford has significant experience in appellate matters focused on pursuing justice on behalf of owners in complex construction matters, including first-party property damage claims, contract disputes, and failure of real estate sellers to disclose latent defects.

Stanford is a member of The Florida Bar Appellate Practice and the Real Property, Probate & Trust Sections. He received his J.D. from the Florida Coastal School of Law, and his bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that seven of the firm’s partners have been elected as Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). T. Michael Brown, William C. Byrd, Frank M. Caprio, E. Mabry Rogers, David Roth, Charles Stewart and T. Sky Woodward have been inducted into the global honor society.

The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. Members are nominated by their peers and elected by the ABF board. The Fellows support the research of the ABF and sponsor seminars and events of direct relevance to the legal profession. The independent, nonprofit ABF seeks to advance the understanding and improvement of law through research projects on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world.

Almost 60 Bradley attorneys across all the firm’s offices have been inducted as ABF Fellows. Membership in the Fellows is limited to one percent (1%) of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. ABF Fellows hail from nearly 40 countries and hold a wide variety of influential roles.

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.

Chicago – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Daniel Rubinstein has joined the firm as a partner in its Chicago office. Rubinstein will be global co-leader of the White Collar: Government Litigation and Investigations practice. He joins Sidley from Winston & Strawn where he was the chair of the Chicago Litigation practice.

Recognized as one of the top lawyers in commercial litigation and white-collar defense, and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Rubinstein has tried more than 20 jury trials to verdict, numerous bench trials, and contested evidentiary hearings in state and federal court. His nationwide practice focuses on complex litigation, white-collar criminal matters, regulatory matters, and corporate internal investigations. Rubinstein has successfully resolved a broad range of matters that have involved theft of trade secrets, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. He frequently defends clients in regulatory investigations brought by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and other regulators.

Prior to entering private practice, Rubinstein was an assistant district attorney in Oakland, CA and an assistant United States attorney in both Los Angeles and Chicago.

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome three new attorneys to the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group, notably enhancing the firm’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice: partners Sharon R. Klein, who will serve as chair of the Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice, and Alex C. Nisenbaum, as well as associate Karen H. Shin. The prominent team will also establish a new office for Blank Rome in Orange County, California. They join Blank Rome from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP where Klein led compliance for the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group.

The team collectively advises clients on state, federal, and international data privacy and information security laws, regulations, and rules, including compliance with HIPAA/HITECH, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and the California Consumer Privacy Act. They have significant experience assessing and mitigating risks related to the privacy and security of personal data; data ownership and commercialization of data; artificial intelligence; planning, auditing, drafting, and implementing privacy, security, and data protection policies and best practices; and breach response, crisis management, and investigation strategies for non-compliance. They are also well-versed in negotiating and drafting complex technology and cloud transactions, licensing, and strategic IT and commercial agreements. Their clients span a variety of industries, such as healthcare, consumer goods, e-commerce, FinTech, pharmaceutical, medical device, financial services, education, automotive, and manufacturing. Klein and Nisenbaum are also both certified as information privacy professionals by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Klein brings more than 40 years’ experience to Blank Rome and is a known thought leader in data privacy, cybersecurity, and complex technology transactions. Her acumen in data privacy stems not only from her significant experience executing outsourcing and technology contracts, but also from the 12 years she spent as associate general counsel at Siemens Medical Solutions USA where she notably focused on operationalizing healthcare and life science regulations, including HIPAA/HITECH and the Common Rule. Klein is active in many organizations, serving as a board member of the Girl Scouts of Orange County; a member of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society); a commissioner of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission; and a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services task force working to promote national cybersecurity standards. Klein earned her J.D. from Temple University School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Syracuse University.

Nisenbaum synthesizes the patchwork of state and federal legal requirements to assist clients in bringing innovative products to market and develop compliance programs that are in line with their business goals. He notably advises consumers and vendors of information technology products and services on commercial technology agreements involving cloud services and software licensing, software and mobile application development, information technology and business process outsourcing, hardware acquisition, telecommunications, data licensing, and professional services. Alex earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Shin focuses on a diverse range of data privacy and information security matters, including compliance with various privacy laws and regulations. She also assists clients in developing and implementing internal and external privacy policies as well as drafts various technology-related agreements and performs due diligence reviews. She is a member of the Orange County Korean American Bar Association. Karen earned her J.D. from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and her B.A. from New York University.

Brown Rudnick Expands IP Litigation and Technology Groups with addition of Ian Diebernardo and Jason Sobel.

NEW YORK – Brown Rudnick LLP announced the addition of Ian DiBernardo and Jason Sobel, based in the Firm’s New York office. DiBernardo and Sobel have practiced together for nearly two decades, providing full-service Intellectual Property (IP) counsel to innovative technology clients in a wide range of industries. They have tried numerous cases, and they are trusted advisers to companies at all stages of the corporate lifecycle.

DiBernardo is a Brown Rudnick Partner and Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group. He will serve also as Practice Group Leader of the US Technology Group. Sobel is a Partner in the IP Litigation and Technology Practice Groups.

Their arrival enhances Brown Rudnick’s highly regarded IP Litigation Group, which serves clients worldwide on an array of matters, including litigation involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, trade dress, license agreements, and other disputes. The addition further expands Brown Rudnick’s commitment to providing full-service intellectual property and transactional services to its technology clients. DiBernardo and Sobel join from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, where DiBernardo served as Co-Chair of Stroock’sIP and Technology Group and as Co-Chair of Stroock’s Fintech practice.

DiBernardo counsels emerging and established companies, focusing on complex intellectual property and technology transactions and intellectual property litigation. He has first-chair trial and appellate experience, successfully representing both plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trade secret, copyright, and breach of contract disputes. He has successfully argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. DiBernardo also counsels clients in connection with a broad range of technology and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, license, outsourcing, cloud computing, corporate finance, and other commercial agreements.

Sobel’s practice spans the full spectrum of intellectual property law, including litigation, transactions, prosecution, and other strategic matters. He provides intellectual property and litigation counsel to clients in numerous industries and technological disciplines. Sobel has served as trial counsel in bet-the-brand litigation, and he has litigated numerous highly contentious, complex competitor disputes. He has represented clients in claims of patent, trademark and copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, unfair competition, breach of restrictive covenant agreements, fraud, and a wide variety of other disputes.

Bill Baldiga, Chairman & CEO of Brown Rudnick, commented, “We are excited to welcome Ian and Jason to the Firm. They bring sophisticated practices to our already strong IP Litigation and Technology teams. Their addition further expands our offerings for our IP and Technology clients worldwide.”

Neil Foster, a London-based Brown Rudnick Partner and Chair of the Global Technology Group, added, “Ian and Jason bring extensive experience working with innovative companies on a wide range of IP and technology transactions and disputes. They will be a tremendous asset to our clients and to our technology sector practice across all offices.”

Brown Rudnick’s IP Litigation Group has a deep bench of seasoned trial lawyers with technical backgrounds. The team includes prominent patent practitioners who have litigated in the busiest patent courts, including in front of the Federal Circuit, International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where the team has petitioned for and opposed more than 100 inter partes reviews and covered business method patent proceedings. Brown Rudnick’s Technology Group acts for companies in the technology space on a range of legal issues, including advising on transactions involving fintech, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, cleantech, environmental technology, corporate venturing, impact investing, health care, and digital health.

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, today announced the addition of Isha Malhotra as of counsel in its Singapore office. Malhotra, who joins from Squire Patton Boggs, represents clients throughout South Asia on employment matters. Malhotra is licensed to practice law in India and is fluent in Hindi language.

With a focus on representing companies operating in India, Malhotra provides counsel on compliance with labor and employment regulations across industries and jurisdictions. She has advised clients on a wide variety of employment law matters, including structuring employment agreements and policies, dual employment structures and immigration procedures, background screening policies and processes, wrongful termination claims, and breach of employment contracts. Malhotra also works closely with in-house human resources and legal teams on hiring, training and managing the performance of employees through expansions.

Opened in late 2019, the Singapore office is Littler’s APAC Regional Hub from which the firm services clients in the Asia Pacific region. In addition to Sutton, special counsel Nancy Zhang, who is qualified to practice in the People’s Republic of China, is based in Singapore. The office works closely with attorneys across Littler’s global platform who are licensed in the Asia Pacific region, including shareholder Naomi Seddon, who is admitted to practice in Australia and New Zealand, and shareholder Aki Tanaka, who is licensed in Japan. They, and several other Littler attorneys with international practices, regularly assist clients on matters in those markets, as well as Asia Pacific-based clients with U.S. operations.

Malhotra received her LL.B from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in India and her LL.M. from National University of Singapore.

Littler’s international operations consist of more than 1,600 attorneys across 25 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Venezuela. The firm’s global capabilities also include lawyers with exceptional international experience, including practitioners dually licensed in the U.S. and Australia, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and South Africa.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher C. Lam, managing partner of the firm’s Charlotte office, has been named to lead continuing legal education (CLE) efforts for the International Association of Defense Counsel’s (IADC’s) 2022 Annual Meeting, which will be held July 9-14, 2022, in Berlin, Germany. Within the IADC, Lam serves as chair of the Engagement and Retention Committee and is a past chair of the Business Litigation Committee.

Founded in 1920, the IADC benefits approximately 2,500 invitation-only, peer-reviewed members and their clients, as well as the civil justice system and the legal profession. Membership is comprised of the world’s leading corporate and insurance lawyers and insurance executives who serve as partners in large and small law firms, senior counsel in corporate law departments, and corporate and insurance executives. Members represent the largest corporations around the world, including the majority of companies listed in the FORTUNE 500.The IADC takes a leadership role in many areas of legal reform and professional development.

Lam has a national practice focused on business litigation and product liability defense. He helps clients protect their business interests in disputes related to contracts, business torts, product liability, earn-outs, trade secrets, non-competes, LLCs and partnerships, defamation, motorsports, and private equity investments. Lam has been recognized in numerous leading attorney directories, including Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America®, Super Lawyers, Legal Elite, and Benchmark Litigation and was named one of Charlotte’s Most Admired CEOs in 2020 by the Charlotte Business Journal.

Lam is a leader in several professional and civic organizations. He currently serves as chair of the 2021 Charlotte Access to Justice Campaign. He is the immediate past president of the Mecklenburg County Bar and is a past co-chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Administration of Justice Committee. In addition, he serves on the Board of Visitors for Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and is a trustee of North Carolina Humanities.

You can read the IADC’s press release here.

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.

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., is pleased to announce that Lauren A. Daming, an attorney in the firm’s St. Louis office, has earned the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) credential in the United States through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CIPP/US designates professionals who demonstrate a strong foundation in U.S. private-sector privacy laws and regulations and an understanding of the legal requirements for the responsible transfer of sensitive personal data to/from the United States, the European Union, and other jurisdictions. The IAPP is the world’s largest association of privacy professionals with more than 65,000 members across 151 countries.

A member of Greensfelder’s Employment & Labor and Electronic Information Management practice groups, Daming counsels clients regarding the many privacy issues that affect employers. Her experience includes advising and representing clients in privacy-related employment litigation on topics involving privacy torts; pre-employment concerns such as background checks, drug testing, and best practices for interviewing candidates; medical screenings and employer obligations under the ADA and GINA; employee monitoring and surveillance; and employee data collection, such as issues involving the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, biometric information, and facial recognition technology. She also handles complex litigation matters, including those involving intensive electronic discovery aspects. In addition, Daming represents employers facing issues related to discrimination, leave and accommodations, wage and hour issues, employee benefits, and traditional labor issues.

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.

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Seth Lamden has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Insurance Recovery group. Lamden’s addition brings the nationally celebrated practice to nearly 35 attorneys—a group that has more than doubled in size since joining Blank Rome five years ago when the firm welcomed more than 100 attorneys from Dickstein Shapiro, including 14 insurance recovery attorneys, as well as recently adding a prominent insurance recovery team in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Lamden brings to the practice 20-plus years of helping policyholders understand and enforce their rights to coverage. Lamden joins Blank Rome from Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP.

Lamdeneth has advised policyholders on insurance issues in many industries over the years, including: construction (contractors, design professionals, and developers); real estate; managed care; financial services; energy; professional services (law firms, insurance brokers, and healthcare providers); hospitality; and product manufacturing, among others. He helps policyholders avoid disputes with their insurers by counseling them through the insurance buying process to ensure that their policies have favorable terms and in presenting claims to their insurers.

When coverage disputes cannot be avoided, Lamden represents policyholders in litigation and negotiation. He has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds on behalf of policyholders in connection with a broad array of claims and losses, such as: consumer class actions; professional liability claims; environmental claims; course-of- construction property damage and delay claims; construction defect claims; toxic tort claims; product liability claims; directors and officers liability claims; employment practices claims; ERISA fiduciary liability claims; property damage; cyber losses; and business interruption losses.

Recognized for his dedication to insurance recovery law, Lamden was named a fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel, an honorary organization of the country’s top insurance coverage lawyers. He is also the incoming chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section. Furthermore, Lamden is sought after for his commentary on insurance coverage issues, having spoken at many industry events and authoring dozens of articles and nine book chapters on issues related to insurance recovery.

Lamden earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from UIC John Marshall Law School, and his B.A. from Brandeis University.