On the move, legal edition: December 27, 2010 

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, December 26, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Jana Leslie has joined the Easton office of Miles & Stockbridge. She counsels clients on estate planning and estate administration matters, and tax issues relating to asset protection and long-term care, special needs planning, estate administration, and elder law. Leslie earned her J.D. from University of Maryland School of Law after she received a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland, College Park.

Douglas M. Bregman, of the Bethesda firm of Bregman, Berbert, Schwartz & Gilday, has been voted onto the Columbia Law School adjunct faculty. He will be teaching at Columbia in the fall and continuing his teaching at Georgetown University Law Center in the spring.

Wendy E. Jacobs was recently elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, a partnership of the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Legal Services Corp. Jacobs is the director of the forensic and valuation services division of Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra, an accounting firm with offices in Lutherville, Bel Air, and Elkton.

Five partners in the Baltimore office of McGuireWoods have been named Maryland Super Lawyers for 2011 by Law & Politics magazine: Alan C. Cason, bonds/government finance; Ava E. Lias-Booker and Donald A. Rea, business litigation; Patrick M. Shelley, real estate; and Douglas M. Topolski, employment & labor. Also, two lawyers in the office have been named Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Stars: Jennifer J. Stearman, bonds/government finance; and Sung B. “Ben” Yhim, business litigation.

Seven members of Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, in Baltimore have been named Maryland Super Lawyers for 2011: David B. Applefeld, construction litigation; Michael G. Hendler, F. Kirk Kolodner and Marc B. Noren, family law; Jerald B. Lurie and David B. Rudow, business/corporate; and Andrew Radding, criminal defense: white collar. Also, two of the firm’s associates were chosen as Maryland Rising Stars: Carol G. Cooper, family law; and Robert M. Horne, estate planning & probate.

Cynthia C. Allner, a principal in the Baltimore office of Miles & Stockbridge, received a Distinguished Service Award from TerraLex, the global legal network, for her role as chair of TerraLex’s Meetings Committee. The weeklong annual event took place in Washington, D.C., this fall. Allner represents financial institutions in asset-based, cross-border and trade finance transactions. She also handles corporate finance and merger and acquisition finance for publicly traded and privately owned businesses.