Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that the firm’s partners Leigh Anne Hodge, Lela M. Hollabaugh and Kimberly B. Martin have been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation 2020.

Hodge, Hollabaugh and Martin are among the more than 225 litigators – comprising nearly half of the firm – who make up Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group. The group’s attorneys have experience nationally and internationally and in a wide range of industries. The group has handled high-stakes and complex cases, including arbitration and litigation, in every state, as well as every federal district and appellate court, across the United States.

A member of Bradley’s Healthcare Practice Group and leader of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group, Hodge represents clients in the healthcare industry in regional and national engagements. She regularly represents and counsels clients in the healthcare industry in product liability litigation, medical malpractice litigation, peer review and staff privileges matters, administrative hearings before licensure board, ERISA litigation, Medicare Advantage plan litigation, managed care litigation, insurance disputes, and insurance fraud cases. Hodge is based in Bradley’s Birmingham office.

Managing partner of Bradley’s Nashville office, Hollabaugh has served as the lead trial lawyer in more than a dozen jury trials, as well as more than two dozen bench trials, arbitrations and administrative hearings. She advises leading natural gas pipeline companies and other infrastructure clients on issues involving location, land acquisition, construction, and operations. She also represents leading pharmaceutical, medical device and other manufacturers in matters ranging from individual lawsuits to mass tort cases around the country.

Based in Bradley’s Huntsville office, Martin is a member of the firm’s board and focuses her practice on general litigation with an emphasis on medical device and pharmaceutical products liability litigation, as well as white collar matters and False Claims Act litigation. She has tried cases in state and federal court. Most recently, she was a national team member for sales and marketing issues defending a pharmaceutical company in multi-district litigation throughout the United States. Martin has represented multi-national pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in litigation across the country.

Now in its ninth edition, the Top 250 Women in Litigation determines honorees through research of litigators’ professional activities as well as client feedback from surveys and individual interviews. According to Benchmark Litigation, “These women have earned their place amongst the leading female litigators by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history as well as by earning the hard-won respect of their peers and clients.” For more information about Benchmark Litigation, visit www.benchmarklitigation.com.

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.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Alé Dalton has been selected for the Hispanic National Bar Association’s (HNBA) 2020 Latina Leadership Academy.

The HNBA’s Latina Leadership Academy is geared towards Latina lawyers from all areas of the profession who have been practicing less than 10 years. The program offers curriculum specifically developed for Latina attorneys and draws from a significant body of research. It addresses areas identified as key to shattering glass ceilings and securing the advancement and long-term success of Latina lawyers — one of the most underrepresented groups in the legal profession. In addition, attendees gain insights into the importance of mindfulness and resilience in their daily lives and how mindful practice will increase opportunities for advancement in the workplace.

As a member of Bradley’s Healthcare Practice Group, Ms. Dalton assists clients in the healthcare industry with a wide range of transactional, operational and regulatory matters. Her practice focuses on counseling clients during mergers and acquisitions, as well as guiding clients through issues that arise from the complex nature of operating in the highly regulated healthcare industry. Her experience includes handling acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures involving hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, and other providers. She also advises clients in matters involving clinical research and telemedicine.

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.

The D’Amore Law Group, P.C. is proud to announce that the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA) awarded Portland attorney Tom D’Amore with its 2020 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for his work and $26.4 million dollar verdict in Allison, et al. v. Horizon Transport, Inc. Mr. D’Amore was honored along with co-counsel Steve Brady of the Brady Law Group, at a virtual gala on August 27, 2020.

The SFTLA board of directors annually honors an attorney or team of attorneys for an exceptional trial victory of the last year based on the size of the verdict, stakes in controversy, diligence and determination shown by counsel, and the rights and interests of society that were vindicated through the verdict.

D’Amore and Brady were nominated for their co-representation of a husband, Matthew Allison, and the estate of his wife, Sara Allison, against transportation companies Horizon Transport and Smoot Enterprises and their drivers. In May 2019, an Oregon federal jury returned a record personal injury $26.4 million verdict against the two transportation companies and their drivers for their prolonged bout of “road rage” with one another that caused a head-on accident, killing 30-year-old Allison and severely injuring then 27-year-old Allison.

The jury deliberated for nearly six hours following a nine-day trial and found that the concerted negligence of the defendants caused the fatal June 2016 crash. The jury found that Allison suffered $600,000 in economic damages and $7 million in noneconomic damages, and his wife’s estate suffered $2.38 million in economic damages and $10 million in noneconomic damages. The jury also found for the Allisons against the transportation companies in the amount of $6.5 million in punitive damages against Smoot and Horizon.

An attorney for more than 29 years, D’Amore is licensed to practice law in Oregon, Washington and California, and is a board-certified civil trial attorney with the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA). He is also one of a few attorneys in the United States board-certified in trucking injury law by the NBTA.

About D’Amore Law Group

Since 1992, the D’Amore Law Group has represented thousands of injury victims and their loved ones in Oregon, Washington and California in various complex and catastrophic personal injury matters. Founder Tom D’Amore is dedicated to asserting the rights of clients who have been seriously injured by the negligence and intentional conduct of individual and corporate wrongdoers. The firm handles a wide variety of personal injury and wrongful death cases, in areas including automobile, trucking, motorcycle and bicycle accidents, nursing home and medical negligence, sexual abuse, construction and job site injuries, class action suits and bad faith insurance lawsuits. The firm has locations for meeting clients in Portland, Lake Oswego, and Bend, Oregon, as well as in Vancouver, Washington. For more information, please visit www.damorelaw.com.

The law firm of Norris McLaughlin, P.A., is pleased to welcome Alan Tenenbaum as a Member of the firm in its Intellectual Property Practice Group in the New York office.

Tenenbaum concentrates his practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation and counseling. He represents corporate clients throughout the United States and before the International Trade Commission in litigation involving patent, trademark, unfair competition, and other commercial claims. His litigation and trial work includes matters involving electronic hardware, software, consumer products, medical devices, chemicals, and both branded and generic pharmaceuticals.

Tenenbaum is a trusted general counsel to a variety of companies. Applying business solutions from a legal perspective, he works with clients to identify, acquire, protect, manage, and monetize products, technology, and intellectual property rights. He also negotiates IP and IT agreements and other complex agreements involving technology.

Tenenbaum frequently speaks and writes on the topics of patent litigation, software patents, and intellectual property involving emerging technology. He has been named in New York Super Lawyers® for several years, most recently in 2020. He is also rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell. Tenenbaum earned his J.D. with honors in 1988 from George Washington University and his B.S. in 1985 from Union College.

Norris McLaughlin, P.A., is a multi-practice, mid-sized regional law firm of 120+ attorneys with main offices located in Bridgewater, NJ; New York, NY; and Allentown, PA, uniquely positioned to represent established and emerging middle-market, privately-owned companies, Fortune 500 corporations, and individuals. For more information, including a full practice area listing and attorney biographies, please visit www.norrismclaughlin.com.

Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that Ian J. Dankelman has joined the Firm as an Associate in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Insurance/Reinsurance Industry team. Dankelman focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Dankelman counseled notable commercial clients at a nationwide law firm that specialized in first-party property cases. For almost two years, Dankelman served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Elizabeth Kovachevich in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit where he tried over a dozen jury trials to verdict.

Dankelman received his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law (cum laude), and his Bachelor of Science from Florida State University (magna cum laude). During his time at the University of Florida, he was the Internal Vice President of the Florida Moot Court Team. He is licensed in the state of Florida.

Known as a Litigation Powerhouse® with a Big Law-caliber reputation in litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States and internationally, Freeborn has a team of litigators that includes former federal and state prosecutors with decades of trial experience handling all areas of complex disputes and litigation. Freeborn’s Insurance/Reinsurance group serves all areas of the global insurance and reinsurance marketplace, and its members have immersed themselves in the intricacies of reinsurance custom and practice and the commercial relationships upon which participants in the industry depend. The Freeborn Insurance/Reinsurance practice has been recommended by the 2020 Legal 500 United States Guide for Insurance.

ABOUT FREEBORN & PETERS
Freeborn & Peters LLP is a full-service law firm with international capabilities and offices in Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.; Richmond, Va.; Springfield, Ill.; and Tampa, Fla. Freeborn is always looking ahead and seeking to find better ways to serve its clients. It takes a proactive approach to ensure its clients are more informed, prepared and able to achieve greater success – not just now, but also in the future. While the firm serves clients across a very broad range of sectors, it has also pioneered an interdisciplinary approach that serves the specific needs of targeted industries.

Freeborn’s major achievements in litigation are reflective of the firm’s significant growth over the last several years and its established reputation as a Litigation Powerhouse®. Freeborn has one of the largest litigation departments among full-service firms of its size – currently with more than 90 litigators, which represents about two-thirds of the firm’s lawyers.

Freeborn is a firm that genuinely lives up to its core values of integrity, effectiveness, teamwork, caring and commitment, and embodies them through high standards of client service and responsive action. Its lawyers build close and lasting relationships with clients and are driven to help them achieve their legal and business objectives. For more information, please visit www.freeborn.com.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that the Charlotte Business Journal has named Chara O’Neale among the 40 top business leaders under the age of 40 in the Charlotte region. A panel of judges selected O’Neale based on her professional accomplishments, her community involvement, and her overall impact on the region.

O’Neale is Parker Poe’s director of talent management and diversity & inclusion. She has worked tirelessly to improve diversity and inclusion at Parker Poe and in the broader legal community, including through her leadership on the Mecklenburg Bar Foundation’s board of directors. She has influenced dozens of minority students in the Carolinas by revamping THRIVE, Parker Poe’s daylong program to help minority students navigate law school and thrive as they pursue the different paths a legal career may take.

In addition, O’Neale is a driving force behind Parker Poe’s efforts to work for change in light of police killings of African Americans. Those efforts include centering the firm’s annual Community Service Day around organizations that are committed to furthering racial equality, pursuing pro bono cases representing individuals who have been arrested during peaceful protests, and counseling Black-owned businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

O’Neale has also made a concrete difference in the lives of children in the Charlotte region as a board member on the Council for Children’s Rights, one of the most comprehensive child advocacy and child legal services agencies in North Carolina. Additionally, she has been a leader of the firm’s partnership with Susan G. Komen Charlotte, a nonprofit working to meet the most critical needs related to breast cancer in the region.

The Charlotte Business Journal will recognize O’Neale and the other winners at its 27th annual 40 Under 40 Awards program held virtually on Thursday, October 8. She will also be profiled in the CBJ’s 40 Under 40 Special Report in October.

September 1, 2020 (Akron, Ohio): Brouse McDowell is pleased to welcome Jennifer M. Himmelein as a Family Law attorney in our Cleveland Office.

Himmelein joins Brouse from Cavitch Familo & Durkin where she had a broad family law practice covering domestic relations, juvenile, probate and mediation. She has experience handling a variety of cases in Domestic Relations Court, including but not limited to, divorce, dissolution, legal separation, child custody and visitation, parental alienation, domestic violence, spousal and child support, post-decree modifications and disputes, registration of foreign orders, property division disputes, contempt proceedings, and a myriad of other enforcement actions. She also frequently helps draft prenuptial agreements for couples, including same-sex couples.

In Juvenile Court she has handled paternity, child support proceedings, custody and visitation disputes, and other private custody and support disputes between unmarried parents, as well as, guardianships of minors and minor name change application proceedings in Probate Court.

Himmelein regularly serves as a Court-appointed Guardian ad Litem in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Lake and Geauga Counties. Himmelein has participated in extensive divorce-related mediation training and is certified as a Parent Coordinator. Himmelein also conducts private mediations related to divorces and parenting issues.

Himmelein received her JD from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, cum laude, and her BA from Kent State University, summa cum laude.

About Brouse McDowell
Brouse McDowell is a 100-year old business law firm based in Northern Ohio. With offices in Akron, Cleveland, Toledo, and Youngstown, Ohio and Naples, Florida, the firm’s attorneys serve clients ranging from the nation’s largest corporations to mid-market entities, sole proprietorships, municipalities, and nonprofits. The collective experience of more than 80 attorneys working in an interactive and collaborative environment yields creative, practical solutions for our clients. Our attorneys cover several areas of law, including business restructuring, business bankruptcy and commercial law; business transactions and corporate counseling; cybersecurity & data privacy; environmental; health care law; labor and employment; litigation; litigation and information management; real estate and construction; tax; trademark, copyright and trade secret law; and trusts and estates. We have multidisciplinary experience in several industries, including health care, oil and gas, manufacturing, and technology, among others.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Applegate Dieck has joined the firm’s Charleston office. She is a former chief regulator in South Carolina who helps clients navigate the complex web of environmental permitting and compliance.

Utilities, industrial companies, real estate developers, and land owners turn to Dieck for counsel on the full range of environmental issues, including obtaining permits and avoiding or resolving disputes with government agencies.

Dieck is the former director of environmental affairs for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). In that role, she was responsible for all permitting, compliance, and enforcement for the state’s environmental programs. She has also served as chief counsel for DHEC’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, where she advised staff on permitting and enforcement issues along South Carolina’s coast.

Dieck is also passionate about community service. She serves on the board of trustees for the Historic Charleston Foundation. Additionally, she is a member of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce’s Environmental Technical Committee and a graduate of Leadership Charleston.

Dieck joins Parker Poe from Moore & Van Allen.

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the addition of Breen M. Schiller and Nikki E. Dobay to the firm’s Tax Practice Group as State and Local Tax (SALT) partners. Ms. Schiller will join the firm’s Chicago office and Ms. Dobay will join the firm’s Sacramento office in the next few weeks.

Schiller is joining the firm from Horwood Marcus & Berk in Chicago, where she had been the Chair of the SALT practice group. In addition to Schiller’s Illinois tax experience, she has consulted with clients on state and local tax issues across the country, including for several of Eversheds Sutherland’s existing clients. She regularly consults and represents some of the largest taxpayers in the US.

Dobay is joining from the Council On State Taxation (COST), where she had been senior tax counsel. Dobay joins former COST lawyers Jeff Friedman and Todd Lard, both of whom represented COST’s members on state tax matters before joining Eversheds Sutherland. She has extensive Oregon tax experience, including with the state’s newly imposed Commercial Activity Tax. Ms. Dobay also has represented clients on state tax policy matters across the US. Her legislative and regulatory experience will add to the firm’s considerable state tax policy practice.

Eversheds Sutherland’s Tax Practice is comprised of more than 100 attorneys representing many of the world’s largest corporations—including more than 35 of the Fortune 100—in every industry sector and in virtually every area of tax law, on the federal, international, state and local levels. By virtue of the size of its tax practice and its varied client base, Eversheds Sutherland is active in every area of taxation—from planning the most complex corporate tax transactions to representing taxpayers in administrative and judicial tax controversies.

About Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals, acting for 75 of the Fortune 100, 68 of the FTSE 100 and 113 of the Fortune 200.

With more than 3,000 lawyers, Eversheds Sutherland operates in 68 offices in 32 jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In addition, a network of more than 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa, provide support around the globe.

Eversheds Sutherland provides the full range of legal services, including corporate and M&A; dispute resolution and litigation; energy and infrastructure; finance; human capital and labor law; intellectual property; real estate and construction; and tax.

Eversheds Sutherland is a global legal practice and comprises two separate legal entities: Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP (headquartered in the UK) and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (headquartered in the US), and their respective controlled, managed, affiliated and member firms. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland is for description purposes only and does not imply that the member firms or their controlled, managed or affiliated entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. For more information, visit eversheds-sutherland.com.

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., is pleased to announce that John C. Hanson, an attorney in the firm’s Southern Illinois office, has been elected treasurer of the Madison County (Illinois) Bar Association.

A native of Edwardsville, Ill., Hanson previously served as recording secretary for the Madison County Bar Association. He is a member of Greensfelder’s Litigation practice group, representing companies in a variety of commercial litigation matters. Previously, he served as an assistant state’s attorney in the Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Hanson received his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law. He also holds a Master of Arts from Eastern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

The Madison County Bar Association serves more than 400 attorneys and residents of Madison County, which is part of the greater St. Louis metro area.

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.

Location Offers Strong Regional Counsel in Complex Commercial Transactions and Options for Preferred Venues

Porzio, Bromberg & Newman P.C. (Porzio) is delighted to announce that Cheryl A. Santaniello has joined the firm to launch and lead Porzio’s first Delaware office. The new office is part of the firm’s long-term strategy to offer clients expanded services in Delaware and seamless access to its bankruptcy courts. Santaniello brings three decades of legal experience and community service to the position and is a trusted advisor to clients on complex business transactions and acquisitions. The office supports Porzio’s strong bench in bankruptcy in its New Jersey and New York offices, and is positioned to grow with regional lateral recruitment. The new office is located at 300 Delaware Ave., Suite 1220, in Wilmington.

In addition to serving as managing principal of the Wilmington office, Santaniello is a member of Porzio’s Real Estate and Bankruptcy Practice Groups. Highly regarded for her practice in the areas of business transactions, commercial real estate, lending and creditors rights, Santaniello represents commercial purchasers, sellers, lenders, developers, landlords, and tenants in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Santaniello serves as outside general counsel to clients in a variety of industries, helping them navigate their day-to-day operations and providing legal opinions to lenders and rating agencies on entity formation and existence, authority, bankruptcy-remoteness and non-consolidation.

Santaniello received her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

About Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C.
At Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., a dynamic approach to problem-solving and client service creates the energy and passion that form the foundation of the firm. Porzio meets clients’ rapidly changing needs by realigning our considerable resources to address demanding matters. Porzio is a business-oriented multidisciplinary law practice where attorneys collaborate with each other and with clients to find solutions to challenges and problems. Porzio strives to incorporate diversity and inclusion in its daily practices to create an enriched workplace that benefits the firm’s clients. With more than 90 lawyers throughout offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Morristown, Princeton, and Ocean City, New Jersey; Westborough, Massachusetts; Wilmington, Delaware; and San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm is committed to serving clients, providing high-quality work and achieving results. Porzio provides a broad array of litigation, corporate, transactional and counseling services to clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to individuals to public entities. For additional information, please visit www.pbnlaw.com.

The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) has announced that G. Todd Butler, a partner at Phelps Dunbar LLP in Jackson, Mississippi, has joined the IADC, a preeminent invitation-only global legal organization for attorneys representing corporate and insurance interests.

Butler’s practice focuses on civil rights and employment defense as well as appellate litigation. He has served as counsel in more than 100 trial court cases and presented appellate arguments in both federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Butler serves as general counsel to the Mississippi Municipal Liability Plan, the Mississippi Municipal Workers’ Compensation Group, and the Mississippi Municipal Service Company. He is a member of the Federalist Society and formerly served as chairman of the Mississippi Bar’s Appellate Practice Section. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Mississippi College School of Law and included in the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers in America listings.

Prior to beginning his practice, Butler served as a law clerk to Judge Leslie H. Southwick on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D. (summa cum laude) from Mississippi College School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) from Mississippi State University, where he served as president of the Student Government Association.

About the International Association of Defense Counsel
The IADC is the preeminent invitation-only global legal organization for attorneys who represent corporate and insurance interests. Founded in 1920, the IADC has members who hail from six continents, 51 countries and territories, and all 50 U.S. states. The core purposes of the IADC are to enhance the development of skills, promote professionalism, and facilitate camaraderie among its members and their clients, as well as the broader civil justice community. For more information, visit www.iadclaw.org.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Alicia N. Netterville and Christina M. Seanor, associates in the firm’s Jackson office, have been appointed to committees of the Mississippi Bar for the 2020-2021 bar year, beginning Sept. 9.

Netterville has been appointed to the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, which investigates all claims concerning the unauthorized practice of law in Mississippi and makes recommendations to the Board of Bar Commissioners in regard to the unauthorized practice of law. It has the authority to take steps to prevent the unauthorized practice of law in Mississippi.

Netterville is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy, Litigation, and Labor and Employment Practice Groups. She assists clients with minimizing exposure under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including helping clients analyze their data collection activities to determine whether they are subject to or exempt from CCPA compliance. She also litigates claims involving anti-trust, mass torts, Section 1983, and false claims.

Netterville received her J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Mississippi School of Law and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Seanor has been appointed to the Women in the Profession Committee. The committee assesses and identifies issues related to the status of women in the legal profession, including barriers that may prevent women attorneys from full participation in the work, responsibilities, and rewards of the profession. It also works to identify quality-of-life issues that affect all lawyers. The committee also makes recommendations to the Bar for action to create solutions to problems observed by the committee and to address issues raised by the committee.

Seanor is a member of the Litigation Practice Group. She represents corporate clients in intellectual property and competitive practices litigation, with a focus on licensing agreements, unfair competition and trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, and business torts. She also represents financial services clients against consumer claims, including RESPA, FCRA, FDCPA and TCPA. In addition, Seanor represents healthcare clients regarding state and federal regulations, and regularly represents healthcare clients in Section 1983 civil-rights suits by prison inmates.

Seanor earned her J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Mississippi School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mississippi.

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.

Newark, New Jersey, August 26, 2020 – William J. Palatucci, one of New Jersey’s most prominent and widely respected attorneys, is joining McCarter & English LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Litigation Practice, effective August 31, where he will also be supporting the firm’s rapidly expanding Government Affairs Practice. Since working for Gov. Tom Kean in 1985 and later as a law partner with Gov. Chris Christie, Palatucci has developed a well-earned reputation for his strategic advice and pragmatic approaches to complex legal, public policy and governmental initiatives.

McCarter’s Managing Partner Joe Boccassini said, “We are honored to welcome Bill to our team. His extensive experience with legal and public policy issues that affect both private and public sector clients is unparalleled. Our national base of clients will greatly benefit from his knowledge of how major public policy decisions may impact their businesses.”

Palatucci’s legal experience is wide and diverse. He served as General Counsel to the Trump Transition Committee from June 2016 through the election in November 2016; he served as General Counsel to Governor Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, and in the private sector served as General Counsel to Community Education Centers in Roseland, New Jersey. Prior to joining McCarter, Palatucci spent almost eight years at Gibbons, P.C. in the firm’s Corporate Practice, where he handled a variety of issues for clients in a wide range of industries, often focusing on the regulatory aspects of transactions, land use matters or state licensing requirements.

Palatucci serves as the Republican National Committeeman for New Jersey, a position he has held since 2010. In addition to his work for Governor Kean, for the past nearly 40 years, he has been closely involved in many significant federal and state elections, with leadership roles in the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, and served as Chairman of Governor Chris Christie’s re-election campaign in 2013.

In addition to his legal and political experience, Palatucci currently serves as a member of the Seton Hall University School of Law Board of Visitors, the National Advisory Board for the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, and is Chair of the University of Phoenix Board of Trustees for its Jersey City, NJ, campus. Palatucci is on the Board of Trustees of Turning Point, Inc., a nonprofit drug and alcohol addiction treatment center that assists more than 3,500 New Jersey residents each year.

Palatucci has been recognized by NJBIZ on its “Law Power 50” and “100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Business” lists as well as by ROI-NJ on its “Influencers Power List.”  Palatucci earned his B.A. from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.

In 2014, Palatucci was presented with the Seton Hall University School of Law’s Distinguished Graduate Award. In 2014, he and Senator Cory Booker were honored with the annual “Good Guy Award” from the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey.

Hong Kong – Sidley is pleased to announce that Olivia Ngan has rejoined the firm in Hong Kong from Linklaters LLP and will be a partner in its China Corporate and Finance group.

Ngan represents lenders and borrowers, including listed companies, real estate companies, bond issuers, corporate borrowers, financial institutions, and asset managers on a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has broad experience advising on pre-IPO, structured, acquisition, real estate, and equity margin financing, as well as general corporate lending transactions, with a particular focus on mainland China-related transactions.

Sidley’s China Corporate and Finance group is a vital part of the firm’s leading global Capital Markets group, representing clients in structuring and executing securities transactions and disclosure matters across several sectors, including fintech, telecommunications, media and technology, and life sciences.

CHICAGO – The global law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the formation of a new, fully integrated Global Privacy & Data Security practice. Sheryl Falk, Steve Grimes, and Alessandra Swanson will lead a cross-disciplinary and international team with a deep bench of experience in privacy and data security issues that span employment, health care, trade secrets, breach counseling, litigation, consumer, emerging technologies, private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

The new practice is the culmination of Winston’s Global Privacy & Data Security Task Force, formed in 2017, which effectively established a suite of capabilities to serve clients across a wide range of regions and industries. Now, the team of more than 75 attorneys in 13 offices across the world can work together seamlessly to address the full spectrum of clients’ privacy and data security challenges, including:
• Privacy counseling and compliance program building
• Regulated Personal Information
• Privacy and data security litigation
• Internal forensic investigations and cybersecurity incident response
• Theft of confidential information and trade secrets
• Breach notification, response and regulatory defense
• Technology outsourcing
• Private equity and mergers and acquisitions
• Health care privacy and security
• Financial privacy
• Employee privacy
• Emerging technology
• E-commerce and consumer interaction
• Marketing and online advertising
• International trade, export controls, and sanctions

Falk draws on her deep expertise in privacy, data security, and forensic technology, as well as her strong litigation background as a former federal prosecutor, to handle complicated privacy and data protection issues. She concentrates her practice on privacy and data security counseling and diligence, providing strategic advice to mitigate privacy and data security risk in emerging technology, investigating trade secret theft, leading data security incident response, and handling privacy and trade secret litigation.

Grimes is a former federal prosecutor, an experienced trial lawyer, and a former chief compliance officer and senior litigation counsel for a global, publicly traded Fortune 500 company whose practice focuses on compliance counseling, sensitive internal investigations, and complex litigation. He works with companies across many industries to investigate highly sensitive and urgent issues related to trade secret theft, technology and security breaches, employee misconduct, conflicts of interest, financial fraud, and potential violations of anti-bribery and other laws.

Swanson is a former federal privacy regulator and leverages her unique experience to help clients understand their regulatory and compliance obligations regarding the use, disclosure, and protection of personal information. She focuses her practice in the areas of Regulated Personal Information, privacy and data security counseling, security breach response and regulatory defense, marketing and data ownership issues, corporate advisory services and outsourcing, and large-scale commercial contracting.

Brouse McDowell welcomes former Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell to the firm. Justice O’Donnell, retired from The Supreme Court of Ohio, and joined the law firm of Brouse McDowell in an Of Counsel capacity focusing on alternative dispute resolution and appellate matters.

Justice O’Donnell served on the Supreme Court of Ohio from 2003-2018, and is one of Ohio’s longest-serving justices. During his time on the Court, he led statewide efforts to promote integrity and professionalism in law, leading to the creation of a nationally recognized Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program. Justice O’Donnell also served on the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for 14 years and the Eighth District Court of Appeals for eight years. He previously practiced law at Marshman, Snyder & Corrigan in Cleveland.

Justice O’Donnell has dedicated significant time to non-profit causes. He served as Chairman of the Ohio Legal Rights Service Commission, an organization that advocates for the human, civil and legal rights of people with disabilities in Ohio, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Our Lady of the Wayside, an organization dedicated to serving the needs of the mentally and physically challenged.

Justice O’Donnell has received numerous accolades, including recognition as “Person of the Year” by the Mayo Society of Greater Cleveland in 2015, and as the recipient of the Jurisprudence Award from the American ORT Cleveland Chapter in 2006. Further, he received St. Edward High School’s Alumnus of the Year Award in 2005, Kent State University’s award for outstanding graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Cleveland State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Justice O’Donnell received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Kent State University, and his JD from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.