Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP Transitions to New Managing Partner, Executive Board
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP has completed a 12-month transition to a new management team and structure.
Martin Fletcher, who has served as the Managing Partner-Elect since 2008, succeeds Al Mezzanotte in the position of Managing Partner. Mezzanotte has just completed his ninth year as managing partner.
The firm as also now streamlined its structure and is now managed by a single nine-member Executive Board in lieu of its former three-member Management Committee and fifteen-member Executive Committee.
The new Executive Board consists of:
-Martin Fletcher (Baltimore), Managing Partner
-Julie Dymowski (Washington), a partner in the Community Association’s Practice
-Frank Jones, Jr. (Baltimore), head of the Business Department and member of the Boards of both the Greater Technology Council and the Maryland Business and Technology Coalition
-William F. Ryan, Jr. (Baltimore), head of the Litigation Department and member of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
-John Gontrum (Towson), a partner in the Land Use practice group and Former President of the Baltimore County Bar Association.
-Harry Johnson (Baltimore), head of the Products Liability and Environmental Exposure practice, former President of the Maryland State Bar Association, Member of the Maryland State Bar Foundation Board of Directors, and the Fourth Circuit’s Representative on the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary.
-Paul Nussbaum (Baltimore), head of the Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy Litigation practice and Chair of the Firm’s Business Development Committee.
-Deborah Diehl (Baltimore), a partner in the Corporate practice group and Member of the Board of the Maryland State Bar Association.
-Andrew Terrell (Washington and Northern Virginia), a partner in the Community Associations practice and head of the Virginia office.
In addition, the firm’s Executive Director, Nick Politakis, is a non-voting, ex officio member of the Board.
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