• Michael Flagg joined the D.C. office of Manning Selvage & Lee as senior vice president of the New York public relations firm. Mr. Flagg was a reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg News.
ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING
• Jerome Strauss was named vice president in the federal programs division of Dewberry, a Fairfax professional services firm. He served as a senior vice president for an engineering firm.
ASSOCIATIONS, GOVERNMENT, & NONPROFITS
• Julie Kantor was promoted to vice president in the office of public policy at the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. She has been recognized as NFTE Executive of the Year. The NFTE, based in the District, helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock creativity.
• Philip G. Sunderland was appointed vice president and general counsel for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Mr. Sunderland served as secretary and counsel to MWAA’s board of directors.
HEALTH CARE
• Paul Romness joined the Washington office of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Frankfurt, Germany, as vice president of government affairs and public policy. He worked at PR Strategies LLC.
HIGH TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• Dan Elam joined Gimmal Group Inc. as a managing director. Gimmal Group is a New York information technology services firm with offices in the District. Mr. Elam worked for eVisory, a Richmond record management firm with an office in the District.
LEGAL
• Alan D. Eisler was selected as a Maryland and Washington Super Lawyer for 2008. Mr. Eisler is a principal and founding partner of Rockville law firm Stark, Meyers, Eisler & Leatham. Super Lawyers is an annual listing of lawyers who attain a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
• Bradley T. Lennie and Yisun Song joined the intellectual property practice of Hunton & Williams LLC, a McLean law firm.
• Dwight Fettig joined Arnold & Porter LLP as senior legislative and policy adviser to the Washington law firm. Mr. Fettig was senior director for government relations at Freddie Mac.
• Glenn M. Cooper, who heads the litigation section at Bethesda law firm Paley Rothman, was admitted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
• Stefan D. Baugh and Michael J. Klyce Jr. were named partners at Chicago law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Mr. Baugh works in the firm’s real estate practice and Mr. Klyce works in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. They will be based in Katten Muchin’s D.C. office.
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