Thomas Baxter joined Venable as counsel in the firm’s corporate practice group. Baxter’s experience focuses on matters regarding the distribution, production and finance for film and television studios, and multichannel video programming distributors. Previously, he was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He will be based in the Los Angeles office.

RAND Corp. has appointed Robert Case as its vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Case had previously been RAND’s associate general counsel from 2013-2015. Most recently, he had been ASRC Industrial Services’ senior vice president and general counsel. Case is based in Santa Monica.