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rectors and executives in corporate governance matters and litigation relating to corporate transactions. He was previously with Davis Polk & Wardwell.
research, development, licensing and other strategic collaboration and acquisition transactions.
CHARLES E. LUFTIG
JEFF BARNES is listed
in Texas Super Lawyers as a rising star for 2016, a recognition he has received every year since 2007. He is a partner with Fisher & Phillips in Houston, where he focuses on labor and employment law.
has been named deputy general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget. He previously served for three years at the National Security Council as director for counterterrorism, then as deputy legal advisor, and finally as the senior advisor for the deputy national security advisor.
TONI J. HOVERKAMP SEVEN YOUNG ALUMNI were featured in the Law360 list of top attorneys under 40, including DANIEL BRESS ’05 (for class action), MATT EINBINDER ’05 (energy), PETER GILMAN ’04 (asset management), LAUREN J. KING ’08 (Native American law; pictured), TIRZAH LOLLAR ’04 and BRIAN TULLY MCLAUGHLIN ’05 (government contracts), and J. LEONARD TETI ’05 (tax).
2006
MICHAEL SIGNER was
ALLISON ORR LARSEN
has received tenure at William & Mary Law School and has been promoted from associate professor to professor of law. She has received several teaching awards, most recently the 2015 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence. Her scholarship includes constitutional law and the institutional and informational dynamics of legal decision-making. Larsen will conduct comparative research on fact-finding as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in England this fall. SCOTT LUFTGLASS
joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York as partner in the litigation department, where he represents public company di-
elected to the Charlottesville City Council in November and unanimously selected by his colleagues on the council to serve as mayor. He practices law at his own firm, Madison Law & Strategy Group, where he focuses on corporate and regulatory law (see story on p. 19). SEAN SUDER is chair
of Graydon Head & Richey’s commercial real estate industry group and partner-incharge of Graydon’s new Over-The-Rhine office in Cincinnati. Suder is also managing director of the Graydon Land Use Strategies consulting affiliate, which consults with local governments throughout the Midwest, South and East Coast on drafting more consistent, clear, usable and defensible zoning and land use codes. Suder practices real estate and land use law and is admitted to practice in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
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was promoted to counsel with Farrell Fritz in Hauppauge, N.Y., where she concentrates her practice on residential and commercial real estate.
THOMAS R. WASKOM
TYLER CHANCE
was promoted to counsel with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va. His practice concentrates on class action, mass torts and environmental litigation.
YARBRO has been
GRAHAM M. WILSON
was promoted to partner with Perkins Coie in Washington, D.C., where he focuses his practice on political law and litigation. He counsels clients on federal and state campaign finance law, voting rights, ethics regulations, lobbying laws and pay-to-play issues. Before joining Perkins Coie, Wilson served as an attorney at the Federal Election Commission office of general counsel, litigation division.
named a shareholder with Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella in Nashville, Tenn., where she focuses her practice on litigation in employment, personal injury, criminal and probate matters. She was named to the 2015 Attorney for Justice pro bono honor roll by the Tennessee Supreme Court for her work with the YWCA, Metro Nashville’s community corrections advisory board, and the board of directors for Rooftop Nashville. Yarbro is an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Vanderbilt University Law School.
CHRIS BOOTHE was named shareholder with Winstead in Charlotte, N.C. He is a member of the real estate finance practice group, representing lending institutions in the financing, acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial properties nationwide. JASON R. BREGE is
listed as a North Carolina Super Lawyers rising star for 2016. He is a partner with Smith Anderson in Raleigh, where he focuses on helping life sciences and technology companies develop and commercialize their intellectual property and technology assets through structuring and negotiation of
CRAIG G. FALLS was elected partner at Dechert in Washington, D.C., where he focuses his practice on antitrust/competition, white-collar and securities enforcement law. TOMMY GOODMAN is an associate vice president at The Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm in Washington, D.C., headed by former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen. Since joining the firm in 2011, Goodman has advised clients on the legal, political and regulatory matters affecting their interests, with a focus on Latin America, particularly Mexico and Cuba. He is currently working on a project that could bring a major league team’s minor league affiliate to Havana in the near future. The prospect was the subject of a Nov. 28 article in The New York Times. DANIEL R.B. NICHOLAS was
elected counsel with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Washington, D.C., where he advises clients regarding U.S. federal income tax with emphasis on international tax planning and transactions and