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Friday, February 6, 2009
Changing Places
Who's changing places in the legal sector?
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Three attorneys have joined the law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green. Nicole M. Barsamian has joined the Boston office, where her practice focuses on general litigation. Barsamian previously worked at the New Hampshire firm of Wiggin & Nourie.
Jessica A. Lamb has joined the firm’s corporate department where her focus is primarily on tax law. Prior to joining Sheehan Phinney, Lamb interned at the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board. She is now at the firm’s Manchester, N.H., office.
Daniel K. Fink also has joined the firm’s corporate department and is located in the Manchester office. His practice emphasis is in the corporate formation area as well as transactional matters involving real estate and intellectual property.
The firm also appointed shareholder Maria E. Recalde as chair of the corporate department. Recalde will also be a member of the firm’s four-member management committee. Recalde is located in the firm’s Boston office, and her practice includes technology and intellectual property transactions and counseling, strategic counseling on legal and business issues facing emerging companies. Recalde is a former trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation, former chair of the Boston Bar Journal’s Board of Editors and she also served on the council of the Boston Bar Association. Recalde was raised in Managua, Nicaragua. She received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and her J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Brian L. Michaelis has been named chair of the intellectual property practice group at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Michaelis’ practice concentrates in all areas of intellectual property law and technology business practice, including intellectual property litigation and counseling, and validity and infringement analysis. Michaelis, a partner in the firm’s Boston office, takes over from Alan Unikel and Chris Larkin. Michaelis received his bachelor’s degree from New Hampshire College and his J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Alexandra C. Fennell, an associate of Pepper Hamilton LLP, has joined the firm’s intellectual property practice in the Boston office. Fennell joined Pepper Hamilton from Goodwin Procter LLP’s Boston office, where she was an associate. She has also practiced with Day Pitney LLP in Boston. She earned her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and has a bachelor’s degree from Washington & Lee University.
Pepper Hamilton has also elected to P. Thao Le as a partner and named Courtney Worcester of counsel. Le is a member of Pepper Hamilton’s corporate and securities practice group and concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, venture capital investments, private fund formation and general corporate matters. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston in 1994 and her J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 1999. Worcester is a member of the commercial litigation practice group and concentrates on corporate governance and shareholder litigation, including associated federal securities law issues. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 1996 and Boston University School of Law in 1999.
Foley Hoag LLP has promoted Pat A. Cerundolo, Mark A. Haddad, Andrew B. Loewenstein, Colin J. Zick to partner. Cerundolo is a graduate of Boston College Law School with an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. Haddad is a graduate of Harvard Law School with an undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo. A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Loewenstein clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit before joining Foley Hoag. Colin received both his J.D. and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Mark L. Johnson, the former chair of the underwriting group at WilmerHale, has joined Cooley Godward Kronish LLP’s business practice as a partner at the Boston office. Johnson’s experience includes representing issuers, underwriters and investors in financings by companies in a variety of industries, including software, telecommunications, medical services and cable television operations.
Fish & Richardson PC has named six attorneys as principals in the firm’s Boston office. Jeffrey Barclay, Jay Kugler DeYoung, Todd Garcia and Rex Huang are now principals in the firm’s patent prosecution group. Christopher Dillon and Maria Hamilton are principals in the firm’s litigation group.
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