Professional Notices Shannon Reaves was promoted to partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP’s Washington D.C. office. Reaves focuses Reaves his practice in the areas of Exon-Florio reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States; industrial security, including Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence mitigation matters before the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy; and export control compliance. Natalya Dennett has opened a private practice in Williamsburg called Dennett Law Group, PLLC. The firm specializes Dennett in domestic relations and family law, and provides representation in Williamsburg and the peninsula and to clients in highly contested divorce matters, complex custody and visitation proceedings, protective orders, support matters, and more. Lauren E. Fisher White has been elected a partner of Christian & Barton, L.L.P. , in Richmond. She focuses her practice on labor and employment counseling and litigation. litigator, Jackson-Akiwumi focuses her practice on complex civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, and investigations. For 15 years, Jackson-Akiwumi practiced law in the public and private sectors, most recently serving as a federal public defender in Chicago. As a federal public defender, Jackson-Akiwumi represented more than 400 clients accused of federal crimes, tried multiple federal jury trials, and argued a half dozen cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern School of Law. Holland & Knight has added three partners to its Tysons office: Howard Clemons works in the Mid-Atlantic Corporate, M&A and Securities practice group. Clemons concentrates Clemons his practice on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with a significant focus on mergers and acquisitions. During his career, he has advised on employee and executive matters for hundreds of merger and acquisition transactions. Lauren Benny is a member of the firm’s Business Section. Benny focuses her practice in the areas of mergers and Benny acquisitions, general corporate law, and equity financing transactions. She has advised clients, both buyers and sellers, on more than 50 merger, acquisition, and disposition transactions in a number of different industries, including government contracting, consulting services, technology, and automotive and transportation. David Schneider is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Section. Schneider focuses his practice on Schneider land use and real estate development, assisting developers and landowners in a wide variety of land use entitlements in jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia. Sabalewski Sizemore Wossene Holland & Knight has also added 10 attorneys who focus on financial services litigation to the firm nationally. The team includes Virginia lawyers Travis Sabalewski , partner, and associates Justin Sizemore and Ariel Wossene. The new team will office in the firm’s Tysons office. The group defends financial services companies in individual and class action consumer finance cases in courts throughout the country, litigating alleged violations of the FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA and ECOA, unfair competition laws and various state consumer protection laws. Clients include banks, credit card companies, auto finance lenders, mortgage and other consumer finance companies, and debt collection companies. Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman has added John E. Peterson Jr. to the firm’s Richmond office as a partner. Peterson focuses his practice on medical malpractice defense. Fisher White Peterson Irving M. Blank , former VSB president and a partner at Richmond’s Blank & Marcus, LLC, has received the Virginia Blank Association of Defense Attorney’s and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s 2020 Civility and Professionalism Award. The award is given by each association to a member of the other who exhibits the highest degree of civility and professionalism in dealing with litigation opponents. Zuckerman Spaeder LLP has added Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to its Washington, D.C. office as partner. An experienced www.vsb.org Guthrie Berry Jackson Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman has also added three new associates to the Richmond office: Justin G. Guthrie, Laura M. Berry and Briana M. Jackson. Guthrie focuses his practice on insurance coverage matters. Berry and Jackson will focus their practices on general civil litigation. Jackson-Akiwumi VOL. 69 | FEBRUARY 2021 | VIRGINIA LAWYER 57
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