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Elliott Hurwitt

Corporate Counsel

02-01-2013

CHARLOTTE TAGGART has joined U.K. firm ­Reynolds Porter Chamberlain as a partner. She was formerly the general counsel of Lockton Companies ­International.

GERALD PAPPERT, previously executive vice president, GC, and secretary of Cephalon Inc., is now a member with Cozen O'Connor in Philadelphia.

Jones Day hired LOCKE McMURRAY as a partner in New York. He had been the head derivatives and bankruptcy lawyer at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

JOHN HABERMAN, former senior patent director at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals L.P., joined Lathrop & Gage as of counsel in Boston.

RAYMOND HOLST, who had been executive director in the tax counsel group at Morgan Stanley Co., is now counsel in the New York office of Latham & Watkins.

Hong Kong firm Howse Williams Bowers announced that BRIAN HO, former director, corporate finance equity, of Standard Charter Bank, joined the firm as a partner.

MARGARET STOLFA, who was general counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, is now a partner at Bernkopf Goodman in Boston.

KATHLEEN BIRRANE, former SVP, GC, and corporate secretary at Maple Life Financial Inc., joined DLA Piper as of counsel in Baltimore.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton hired JAMES FREIS JR., former director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, as counsel in the Washington, D.C., office.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom announced that JAMES BRELSFORD, formerly the chief legal officer and senior vice president of IP licensing at SanDisk Corporation, is now of counsel at the firm in its Palo Alto office.

JEREMY DONGILLI, former senior complex director in the mass tort claims department at American International Group, joined Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney as of counsel in the firm's Philadelphia office.