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on the move 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.
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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.
