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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Former New Jersey Lieutenant Governor
Kim Guadagno joined Connell Foley LLP
as partner. She also has been appointed to
the Boards of OceanFirst Financial Corp.
and OceanFirst Bank N.A. OceanFirst
Financial Corp.’s subsidiary, OceanFirst
Bank N.A., founded in 1902, is a community
bank with $7.5 billion in assets and
branches located throughout central and
southern New Jersey.
Connell Foley’s Karen Painter Randall,
chair of the firm's Cybersecurity and Data
Privacy group, has been reappointed to the
American Bar Association (ABA)
Cybersecurity Legal Task Force by ABA
President-Elect Robert M. Carlson.
John Wilcox of Dysart Taylor Cotter
McMonigle & Montemore, P.C. in
Missouri was elected First Vice President of
the Transportation Lawyers Association
(TLA). Every year, the officers ascend to the
next position up the line, meaning that
Wilcox will become TLA’s president in 2020.
He will be Dysart Taylor’s seventh TLA president,
following Lee Reeder (1952),
Wentworth Griffin (1962), Bill Taylor (1985),
Alex Lewandowski (1994), Ken Hoffman
(2000), and Pat McMonigle (2011).
Robert J. Burnett, director and chair of
Houston Harbaugh’s Oil and Gas practice
has been re-elected to the Pennsylvania
chapter of the National Association of
Royalty Owners (NARO) Board of Directors
for a third consecutive term; he has served
on the board since 2012. He also was recently
appointed to the Pennsylvania Bar
Association’s Shale Energy Law Committee.
Jaclyn E. Faulds, an associate attorney in
Houston Harbaugh’s Corporate practice, was
re-elected treasurer of the Allegheny County
Bar Association’s Women in the Law Division.
Attorneys from Missouri USLAW firms have
formed a national foundation to help combat
the Opioid crisis, St. Louis attorneys
Patrick Foppe and Nancy Vidal both of
Lashly & Baer, P.C., along with Kansas
City, Missouri, attorney Ken Hoffman of
Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle &
Montemore, P.C. helped to form The
National Zip-Out Unused Opioids
Foundation along with the help of Dr.
Susan E. Mackinnon of Washington
University in St. Louis. The goal of their
Foundation is to empower everyone to potentially
save the life of a young person by
increasing awareness of the dire need to
clean these dangerous drugs out of medicine
cabinets. Recently, the national Zip-
Out Unused Opioids Foundation published
a new educational brochure that shows how
to safely dispose unused pain pills in compliance
with the Federal Food and Drug
Administration guidelines and federal law.
The brochure instructs the public to place
their unused opioid pills in a plastic food
storage bag, add liquid dish detergent to
dissolve the pills, and then throw away the
plastic bag with the dish detergent mixed
with dissolved pills inside. For more information,
visit zipoutopioids.org.
Lashly & Baer attorney John Fox Arnold
received the William L. Weiss Award during
the Bar Association of Metropolitan St.
Louis Annual Senior Lawyers’ Luncheon.
The award honors one of their own who has
shown outstanding leadership in the bar
and the legal community. He has been an
attorney at Lashly & Baer, P.C. for over 48
years and was a leader of the firm for 29 of
those years.
J. Cliff McKinney II of Quattlebaum,
Grooms & Tull PLLC in Little Rock,
Arkansas, received a Presidential Award of
Excellence from the Arkansas Bar
Association for his work as chair of the
Governance Committee.
Thomas G. Williams of Quattlebaum,
Grooms & Tull PLLC in Little Rock,
Arkansas, has been reappointed by Lt. Gov.
Tim Griffin to serve a second six-year term
on the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and
Disability Commission, a state constitutional
agency created by the adoption of Arkansas
Constitutional Amendment 66 in 1988. The
Commission strives to maintain public confidence
in the judiciary and promote greater
awareness of proper judicial behavior.
SmithAmundsen’s Sulema Medrano received
the Hispanic Lawyers Association of
Illinois (HLAI) Latina Attorney of the Year
award.
Law360 has ranked several USLAW member firms among its 2018 list of “Best Law Firms for
Female Attorneys.” In the category of firms with 150-299 lawyers, Hanson Bridgett LLP
(4) in San Francisco and SmithAmundsen (10) in Illinois were included. In the 20-149
lawyer category, Franklin & Prokopik, P.C. in Maryland ranked seventh on the list. For
this national ranking, Law360 surveyed more than 300 U.S. firms. Firms were first grouped
according to size, then firms that fell below the average in various categories were deemed
ineligible for the ranking. Remaining firms were ranked using a formula that equally weights
the percentage of non-partners and percentage of total partners who are women.