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Attorneys from Baird Holm were selected to serve on numerous executive committees for Nebraska State Bar Association law sections, including Sarah M. Gorsche (Labor Relations & Employment Law Section), John P. Heil (Natural Resources & Environmental Law Section), Michael W. Chase (Health Law Section), J. Scott Searl (2022 Vice-Chair, Corporate Counsel Section), Lindsay K. Lundholm (Corporate Counsel Section), Amber N. Preston (Business Law and Securities Law Sections), Kenneth W. Hartman (House of Delegates Chair-Elect), Thomas O. Ashby (2002 Chair, Bank Attorneys Section) and Jeremiah C. Hollembeak (Bank Attorneys Section). Jill Robb Ackerman finished her term as the Nebraska State Bar Association president. She was selected to serve on the Nebraska State Bar Association 2022 Executive Committee as the immediate past president. Baird Holm David Levy was elected to serve as the president for the History Nebraska Board of Trustees. Baird Holm partner Lindsay K. Lundholm was appointed to the American Arbitration Association (AAA) Roster of Arbitrators. Baird Holm attorney John R. Holdenried was selected as a Fellow of the American Health Law Association (AHLA). Baird Holm Partner R.J. (Randy) Stevenson received the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s College of Public Affairs and Community Service (CPACS) Alumni Award.

In addition to his appointment to the New York State Bar Association Task Force on Racial Injustice and Police Reform, Oliver Young of Barclay Damon has been appointed to the organization’s Task Force on Racism, Social Equity, and the Law. Linda Clark of Barclay Damon has been named co-chair of the legal committee of the National Association for Specialty Pharmacy. On behalf of the NYS Bar Association Cannabis Law Committee, Jason Klimek of Barclay Damon wrote the tax section of the committee’s comments on a discussion draft of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. The comments were submitted to Senator Charles Schumer’s office on his proposed federal-level cannabis legalization legislation.

Carr Allison co-founder Charles Carr has been re-elected to the Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) Board of Directors. TIDA is a nonprofit association whose members are devoted to sharing knowledge and resources for defense of the trucking industry.

Mitchell W. Taraschi has been named co-chair of Connell Foley LLP Construction Group. He will serve as co-chair alongside Michael X. McBride. Click here to read more. Michael X. McBride, co-chair of Connell Foley LLP Construction Law Group, served as chair of New Jersey Alliance for Action’s White Paper Committee responsible for drafting “A Vision for the Future of the Garden State: Critical Issues for the Candidates for Governor.” Click here to read the full paper. Timothy E. Corriston, a member of Connell Foley LLP’s Executive Committee and co-chair of the Environmental Law Group, has been elected firm Managing Partner. Corriston, who will assume the role effective January 1, 2022, succeeds Philip F. McGovern Jr., who has served as Managing Partner since 2016. Read more here.

Leslie A. Boe of Dysart Taylor in Kansas City, Missouri, has been named president of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Women’s Council, an organization of campus and community members who actively support the education of women graduate students by providing financial assistance and expanded opportunities to enhance and enable their educational experience and careers.

Scarlett M. Corso of Franklin & Prokopik, P.C. in Maryland has been awarded the Bar Association of Baltimore City Young Lawyers’ Division (“YLD”) Public Service Award for the 2020-2021 year. This award recognizes a YLD member who has devoted substantial time to public service activities or other community service initiatives. Click here to read more about Corso’s extensive community outreach.

Shannon Nessier, a litigation partner at Hanson Bridgett LLP, received DRI’s 2021 Richard H. Krochock Award that recognizes a DRI member who has provided exemplary leadership to the DRI Young Lawyers Committee (YLC) through sponsorship or participation in its programs and activities; provided guidance, support, and service as a mentor to the members of the YLC; and promoted those qualities which enhance the image of the civil defense trial lawyer to the public. Davina Pujari of Hanson Bridgett LLP was elected to Environmental Law Institute Board of Directors effective December 1, 2021. Raffi Zerounian of Hanson Bridgett LLP was appointed as editor-in-chief of the Trademark Reporter.

William “Bill” Fish, Jr. of Hinckley Allen in Connecticut received the Champion of Open Government award from the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information.

Donald Myles of Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, PLC (JSH) in Arizona has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). Myles is the seventh JSH attorney elected to ACTL, including Stephen Bullington, John Masterson, A. Melvin McDonald, Russell Skelton, Phillip Stanfield, and Past Chair Georgia Staton. Kimberly Page, an associate attorney at Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, PLC (JSH), has been named president of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel Young Lawyers Division (AADC YLD) 2021-2022 Board of Directors. Page previously served as the AADC YLD vice president and board secretary.

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Larson • King attorney Nicholas A. Rauch has been awarded the 2021 Deb Oberlander Award by the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association. The award recognizes a lawyer who demonstrates outstanding leadership, professionalism, skills, and advocacy in the practice of law. Tony Novak, a partner with Larson • King, has been elected to serve as president of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association for 2021-2022.

Murchison & Cumming Managing Partner Dan L. Longo has been recognized as a visionary by the L.A. Times B2B Publishing Division in the Business of Law: Trends, Updates, Visionaries & In-House Counsel Leadership Awards Magazine. Murchison & Cumming’s Los Angeles Senior Associate Anthony D. Ross has been sworn in as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association (BHBA). His priorities as president include diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as well as expanding professional development and business opportunities for BHBA members. Click to learn more.

J. Cliff McKinney of Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC was appointed a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). Founded in 1892, the ULC is comprised of state commissions on uniform laws from each state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A managing member of the law firm, McKinney concentrates his practice on real estate, land use and business transactions.

Rivkin Radler managing partner Evan H. Krinick has been named to a distinguished panel of attorneys statewide who have been asked by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) to serve on a newly formed “Task Force on Post-Pandemic Future of the Profession.” Rivkin Radler Partner Tamika Hardy was elected president of the Amistad Black Bar Association. Tracey McIntyre, Rivkin Radler director of legal talent and head of the firm’s Diversity, Development & Inclusion Committee, received a Diversity in Business award from Long Island Business News.

Patrick J. Sweeney of Sweeney & Sheehan, P.C. in Philadelphia was named the first vice president of DRI, the leading organization of civil defense attorneys and in-house counsel. Before this, Sweeney served in several leadership positions in DRI, including committee chair (twice), regional director, governance committee, annual meeting steering committee chair, national director, law institute member, secretary-treasurer, and second vice president. In two years, Sweeney will become DRI president.

Caroline Guy of Therrien Couture Joli-Coeur in Quebec, Canada, has been appointed to the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Harmonization of Trademark Law and Practice Committee. INTA is an international association of trademark owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property rights to foster consumer confidence, economic growth and innovation. The College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA) has appointed Johanne Muzzo of Therrien Couture Joli-Coeur in Quebec, Canada, an attorney and certified Canadian trademark agent, to the Trademark Agent Board of Examiners for a two-year term. The Board of Examiners assumes responsibility for administering the trademark agent qualifying examinations. The College was recently created by federal legislation to regulate the patent and trademark agent profession in Canada.

Jonathan Harwood of Traub Lieberman in Hawthorne, New York, has been named chair of the DRI Professional Liability Committee. Harwood is a longstanding DRI member and previously has served as vice chair, membership chair and seminar chair for the Professional Liability Committee.

New name, same trusted team. USLAW’s official jury consultant and courtroom technology partner, Litigation Insights, has joined with the experienced trial services firm IMS Consulting & Expert Services. While the name is changing, USLAW members and clients will have the same trusted team supporting their jury consulting and courtroom technology needs. For additional details and contact information, visit IMS online.