Maryland law firms announce staffing changes: August 11, 2006

Daily Record, The (Baltimore), Aug 11, 2006 by Daily Record Staff

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DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP's Baltimore office has been recognized as the Maryland leader in several areas of legal practice in the newly published Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm's corporate/M&A, employee benefits & executive compensation, employment (mainly defendant), general commercial litigation and real estate practices were honored by Chambers. DLA Piper's leading Baltimore lawyers are: Francis Burch Jr.; David Chalk; Neil Dilloff; Russell Gardner; Richard Hafets; Jason Harmon; John Kratz; Edward Levin; Richard Levine; John Machen; Linda Marotta Thomas; Robert Mathias; Emmett McGee; Mark Muedeking; George Nilson; Charles Scheeler; Larry Seegull; Robert Jay Smith; Thomas Totten; and Jane Wilson.

Ober|Kaler announced that Stuart M. Schabes has joined the firm as principal. Schabes is former head of Galland, Kharash, Greenberg, Fellman & Swirsky PC's Baltimore office. He is an expert in tax planning, tax controversy and corporate tax compliance matters for limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals. Schabes was an attorney-adviser to Judge Herbert L. Chabot of the U.S. Tax Court. He will bring to Ober|Kaler several colleagues from his former firm: Richard T. Topper and Ray N. Weinstein, both highly experienced enrolled agents with over 30 years working as IRS employees; and Esther Froehlich, a paralegal.