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Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & Knight, PC is pleased to announce that former Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael “Mike” Whisonant Sr. has joined the firm as of counsel. He will focus his practice on federal criminal defense with an emphasis on white-collar crime and tax matters.
Dillard Dodd
McCracken Pickell
Baker Donelson has added 4 new associates to the Firm: Rodney Dillard, Katelyn Dodd, Mary Parrish McCracken, and Lindsay Pickell.
Miya Moore has joined Maynard Cooper & Gale LLP as an associate in the labor and employment and immigration practice groups. She assists businesses across a broad range of immigration, labor and employment, and compliance-related matters.
Mazie Bryant has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP as an associate in the health care practice group. Bryant, who previously worked at Dentons Sirote, represents health care providers, practices, associations and other entities in various business and legal matters, including state and federal regulatory compliance issues. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that J. David Pugh, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been elected to a second two-year term as the Southeast Region chair on the Associated Builders and Contractors Executive Committee.
The law firm of Gaines Gault Hendrix, P.C. is pleased to announce the association of Wilson Law, P.C. and to welcome David M. Wilson as a partner in the firm. The firm is also pleased to announce that Marie T. Prine has joined the firm as a partner, Devona J. Segrest has joined the firm as of counsel, and Jonathan B. Metz has joined the firm as an associate.
Christopher L.
Hawkins, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, Hawkins has been selected for inclusion in the American College of Bankruptcy.
Jennifer Powell
Decker, an attorney who represents clients in real estate, leasing and commercial lending Decker transactions, has joined Baker Donelson as a member of the Firm’s Real Estate Group. Balch & Bingham is pleased to welcome nine new associates to the firm: John Banks, Avery Burns, Mitch Fucetola, Robert Humphrey, Demarcus McGee, Melanie Mitchell, Madison Tucker, Matt
Banks Burns
Fucetola Humphrey
McGee Mitchell
Tucker Warren
Warren and Jace Williams. These attorneys will work in the firm’s nationally recognized Banking & Financial Services, Energy, Corporate, and Litigation practices.
Williams
Dentons Sirote is pleased to announce that
Tanya K. Shun-
nara, a shareholder in the Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation pracShunnara tice, has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Bruce P. Ely has been selected as the recipient of the Franklin C. Latcham Ely Award for Distinguished Service to the State and Local Tax Profession on behalf of Bloomberg Tax and Bloomberg’s State Tax Advisory Board.
Brandy Robertson, Caroline Hollingsworth and Mark Ekonen
The Heninger, Garrison, Davis, LLC team is starting the year off with some exciting news, as the firm begins the year with three new partners. The partnership committee has endorsed Mark Ekonen, Caroline Hollingsworth, and Brandy Robertson for partnership.
Ryan Hawks has joined the corporate group at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP. Hawks, who previously worked in the corporate practice at Dentons Sirote, focuses his practice on complex transactions and general corporate matters in the health care industry. Balch & Bingham is pleased to announce Elizabeth Flachsbart’s election to the firm’s partnership, effective Jan. 1, 2022.
Flachsbart Bradley Arant
Boult Cummings
LLP is delighted to announce that the firm scored a 90 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Goozée
Williams Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP has added Amanda Goozée as a partner in Birmingham, the civil law and litigation firm.
Kirsten E. Williams
has been promoted at the firm to associate attorney.
Clinton T. Spee-
gle, a law leader who has defended multiple major universities in NCAA compliance investigations, has been promoted to partner at Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC.
Speegle Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Beryl Newchurch Billings, Nicholas Fordice, Annie Miles Golson, Elizabeth R. Hobbs, Morgan C. Kain and Virginia
Billings Fordice
Golson Hobbs
Kain Wright
C. Wright have joined the firm’s offices in Birmingham.
Odom
Wright Real Estate attorney Michael Odom is now a partner with McGlinchey Stafford.
James W. Wright
Jr., a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been elected to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association’s Board of Directors for the 2021-22 term.
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to
announce that
Natalie Vann
Walker has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation group as an associate in the Birmingham office. Natalie will Walker focus her practice on litigation on behalf of financial institutions and lenders, creditors’ rights, complex corporate and contract disputes, and lender representation in bankruptcies and workouts.
Mendez Mulligan
Two Birmingham attorneys have been named principals at Bressler Amery & Ross: Louis F. Mendez and Patrick Mulligan.
Starnes Davis Florie LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of three attorneys to partner: Allen King, Michael Lasserre, and Tyler McInKing tyre. King’s practice is devoted to civil litigation to include professional medical liability, health care litigation and general business litigation. McIntyre concentrates on civil litigation to include health care
Lasserre McIntyre
law and medical malpractice defense. Lasserre’s practice is focused on intellectual property matters and other complex, high-risk commercial litigation.
Centeno Cowan
Lawrence Roberts
Burr & Forman has announced the election of four attorneys to partnership in its Birmingham office: Matthew Centeno, Meryl Cowan, Bill Lawrence and James Roberts.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announces that the firm has elevated five attorneys to partner in its
Harris Hinshaw
Pipes Premo
Birmingham office: Abigail Harris, Matthew Hinshaw, Gregory Pipes, Grant Premo and Benn Wilson.
Heninger GarriWilson son Davis is proud to announce the addition of James
A. “Jay” Stewart
as a new partner in its Birmingham office. After over 20 years as a practicing attorney, Jay brings to HGD Stewart extensive experience in complex civil litigation including commercial litigation, business torts, transportation litigation, construction litigation, as well as expertise in contract law.
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