The White House announced that Perkins Coie partner Bob Bauer '76 was named as White House counsel and will begin serving by the end of this year. (The White House) More

Christopher Frankenfield ’09 received the 2009 Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award for his paper, The Relationship Between ERISA, State and Local Health Care Experimentation, and the Need for National Health Care Reform. The award was granted by the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in its fifth annual employee benefits writing competition. (American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Release) More

President Obama had nominated N.C. Court of Appeals judge, James Wynn LL.M. '95, to the Fourth Circuit. (Greensboro News-Record) More

Former corporate lawyer J. Travis Laster '95 on his first weeks on Delaware's Court of Chancery. (Delaware Online) More

In a Congressional hearing, DeMaurice Smith '89, executive director of the NFL players association, called for more independent study of head injuries and promised that players’ safety would not be a bargaining issue with the league. (New York Times) More

Dionne E. Thompson has been appointed as the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamations Chief of Congressional and Legislative Affairs. She will oversee Reclamation's congressional and legislative affairs activities and serve as Reclamation's primary liaison with Congress. (U.S. Dept of Interior) More

Stephanie Tsacoumis '81 has been appointed Georgetown University’s new General Counsel (bisnow.com) More

Following confirmation by the Senate, Timothy Heaphy '91 was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. (RrockbridgeWeekly.com) More

New York ADA Pierce Moser '99 is a member of the elder abuse prosecution team that secured a victory in the case against Brooke Astor's son. (NY Law Journal) More

Matthew Winter LL.M. '91 has been named President and CEO of Allstate Financial. (businesswire.com) More

Ronald P. Sokol '62, LL.M. '63, wrote an Op-Ed on the Polanski Case. (New York Times) More

Philip K. Howard '74 penned an Op-Ed on health care reform: Why Medical Malpractice is Off Limits. (WSJ) More

President Barack Obama has nominated Justice Barbara Keenan LL.M. '92 of the Virginia Supreme Court to the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Keenan has served on the Virginia Supreme Court since 1991. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) More

George Bostick '73, one of the founders of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Team, has been appointed Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. (Sutherland.com) More

Behind every pervert, including the California man accused of keeping a sex slave for 18 years, there’s invariably a complicit community, writes Linda Fairstein '72 —and an enabling wife. (DailyBeast.com) More

Sports manager and teacher Donald Dell '64 likes to think his honesty with clients is a key selling point. "Smart athletes will demand the truth." (Investors.com) More

His former professor, Mortimer Caplin '40, and classmate, A.E. Dick Howard '61, comment on Senator Edward Kennedy '59 as a law student. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) More

Senator Edward M. Kennedy '59 of Massachusetts, one of the most influential senators in history, has passed away. (New York Times) More

Lobbyist Heather Podesta '97 was featured as an "Insider's Insider" in the Washington Post. (Washington Post) More

Delaware's governor has nominated corporate lawyer Travis Laster '95 for the state's Court of Chancery, which hears a large number of high-profile business and shareholder disputes. (WSJ Law Blog) More

Neil MacBride '92 has been nominated by President Obama to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

President Obama has nominated Richmond lawyer Timothy Heaphy '91 for U.S. Attorney of Virginia's Western District. (roanoke.com) More

R. Hewitt Pate '87 was tapped by Chevron to become its general counsel. Pate has been global competition group head in Hunton & Williams' Washington, D.C. office, after serving as head of the DOJ's antitrust division. (law.com) More

Jack Graveley '72, former head of the Virginia NAACP, and radio talk show host, finds satisfaction in being part of the daily conversation in Richmond again. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) More

Mary Bauer '90, who has directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project since its inception in 2004, has been named as the SPLC's new legal director. (SPLCenter.org) More

Randal J. Kirk '79 of Pulaski County, replacing the outgoing Thomas F. Farrell II '79, joins fellow Law alumni on the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. Appointed to second four-year terms: A Macdonald Caputo '66 and Alan A. Diamonstein '58. (UVA News) More

Jeff Kreisler '99 was featured on UVA blog, chronicling his life from Law School to comedian and author.

Glenn Saks '97 was interviewed on National Public Radio's Marketplace report and on WLRN Miami Herald News about the mortgage foreclosure crisis and how it is impacting tenants (NPR's Marketplace) More

Leah Ward Sears LL.M. '95 stepped down as Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1992, she became the first woman -- and youngest person -- appointed to Georgia's highest court. Sears recently wrote about "disposable marriage." (CNN.com)