Barclay Damon has elected partner Melissa Zambri to be managing director of the firm’s Albany office. In this role, she also will join Barclay Damon’s management committee, the firm’s governing body. Along with Albany, Zambri will oversee the firm’s Boston and Washington D.C. offices. She will remain co-chair of the it’s health care & human services practice but will step down as leader of the firm’s health care practice group.

Marie Polito Hofsdal has joined Pryor Cashman as counsel in the firm’s bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors’ rights group.  She was formerly at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker.