On the Move – Legal edition

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, July 11, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler members Andrew Radding and Jerald B. Lurie work together even away from their firm. Radding is stepping down as founding president of the Simon E. Sobeloff Law Society’s Baltimore chapter, and Lurie will succeed him. The Maryland State Bar Association recently reappointed Radding as Program Committee co-chair, while Lurie was reappointed co-chair of the Judicial Appointments Committee and chosen by the Board of Governors to fill a vacancy from Baltimore. Radding began a term as Baltimore Bar Foundation president July 1. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, civil and domestic litigation, and representation of professionals in courts and administrative tribunals. Lurie chairs the firm’s business section, concentrating on business, real estate, employment, intellectual property, health care and tax law.

Lawrence M. Hammond has joined Tydings & Rosenberg, of Baltimore as a partner. He focuses on corporate, real estate and construction law. Hammond also represents individuals in estate planning and estate administration. He previously was managing member of Hammond & Hammond.

Several attorneys with Paley Rothman, of Bethesda, have been honored or named to new positions: Linda D. Schwartz has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Association; Patricia M. Weaver was recently inducted as president of the Bar Association of Montgomery County; Arthur G. House has been certified as an international mediator and named to the Panel of Mediators of the International Mediation Institute. Glenn M. Cooper, Kathleen M. Dumais, Howard B. Soypher and Bibi M. Berry were named in a report on “Top Divorce Lawyers” in the May/June 2010 issue of Bethesda Magazine.

Treanor Pope & Hughes, of Towson, has affiliated with Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, which has offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia. Treanor Pope & Hughes’ nine lawyers will continue to represent local and national businesses, governmental entities and individuals in complex civil litigation, and in corporate, financial and real estate advice and transactions.

June 4 was designated Tribute to E. Scott Johnson Day in Maryland to honor Johnson, head of the intellectual property group at Ober|Kaler, of Baltimore, who is stepping down as chair of the Maryland State Arts Council. Johnson is a past president of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Maryland Lawyers for the Arts, the CityLit Project and Young Audiences of Maryland. He is a co-founder and immediate past chair of the Maryland Film Industry Coalition, and serves on the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development Film Production Workgroup.

Jane C. Luxton, a partner with Pepper Hamilton, has been appointed chair of the firm’s sustainability, clean tech and climate change team, which helps businesses and individuals respond to new regulatory mandates and “green” initiatives. Luxton’s experience includes federal and state environmental laws as well as international environmental regimes. Before joining the firm, she was general counsel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For her work at NOAA, Luxton twice received the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award; in previous government service she received the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for complex litigation. Pepper Hamilton is a multi-practice firm with offices in seven states and the District of Columbia.

William B. Schultz, a partner with Zuckerman Spaeder and head of its food and drug practice, has been named one of 10 “Champions” recognized for public service, pro bono efforts, and advocacy by the National Law Journal. Schultz was recognized for his role in the passage of last year’s Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. He started working on the issue of tobacco regulation in 1994 as counsel to the House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Schultz continued that work as deputy commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration and as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department’s Civil Division. His commitment to advocate for more stringent regulation continued when he joined Zuckerman Spaeder in 2001, where he assists public health groups in educating congressional staff, analyzing related legal issues, drafting amendments, and negotiating the language and scope of the bill.

T. Sky Woodward, of the Baltimore office of Womble Carlyle, has been named a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. She represents real estate and financial service industry clients in indoor environmental quality and commercial litigation; manufacturing clients in mass tort product liability and toxic tort cases and emerging environmental matters; and other businesses in environmental, land use, and commercial litigation matters.

Kevin Shepherd, co-chair of the real estate practice of Venable, of Baltimore, and chair of its finance group, recently received the Distinguished Maryland Real Property Practitioner Award from the Maryland State Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning. He had served on the American Bar Association Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Profession and the Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight. Shepherd is president of the American Academy of Real Estate Lawyers.

Mark F. Scurti, of Hodes, Pessin & Katz, of Towson, recently received the Belsky Award from the Maryland State Bar Association Consumer Bankruptcy Section for his support. Scurti received his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law and holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Loyola College, Maryland.  He is a past president of the Bar Association of Baltimore City.

Priscilla Carroll, a partner in Bowie & Jensen’s transactional department, recently received the William J. Casey Award from the American Red Cross of Central Maryland for her service, which includes working as chair of the Red Cross board of directors nominating committee for the past two years. Carroll’s practice with Bowie & Jensen, of Towson, focuses on commercial real estate law. She previously was General Counsel to Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, and headed the real estate section of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, practicing commercial real estate and finance law there for more than 25 years.

Eight attorneys in Ballard Spahr’s Maryland offices have been listed as “Leaders in Their Field” in the 2010 edition of “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business”: Charles R. Moran for capital markets: REITs (Nationwide) and corporate/M&A; Douglas M. Fox for corporate/M&A; Morton P. Fisher Jr., Marci I. Gordon, Mark Pollak, Raymond G. Truitt and Roger D. Winston for real estate; and Jon M. Laria for real estate: land use. In addition, the firm’s real estate practice in Maryland received Chambers’ highest band ranking.

Three partners from the Baltimore office of Saul Ewing have received recognition for legal excellence and client service by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” They are Harriet E. Cooperman and Gary B. Eidelman for their labor and employment practices; and Charles O. Monk II for his bankruptcy litigation practice.

Gregg Bernstein and Martin S. Himeles Jr. of the Baltimore office of Zuckerman Spaeder have been recognized  by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” for their work in Litigation: General Commercial Maryland.

Jay G. Cohen and Thomas L. Totten of the Baltimore office of Duane Morris have been recognized by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Cohen for his work in corporate/mergers and acquisitions, Totten for real estate.

Douglas M. Topolski, a partner in the labor and employment department of McGuireWoods, of Baltimore, has been named a Leading Lawyer by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”

Thirteen lawyers from the Baltimore office of DLA Piper have been recognized by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” They are: William David Chalk, Jason C. Harmon and Jay Smith, corporate/M&A; Neil Dilloff, Brett Ingerman, Robert J. Mathias and Charles P. Scheeler, litigation: general commercial; Guy E. Flynn, Richard E. Levine and John Machen, real estate; Mark Muedeking and Linda Marotta Thomas, employee benefits & executive compensation; and Russell H. Gardner, labor & employment.