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Movers & Shakers

BY ALM Staff
November 25, 2009

Nixon Peabody (Washington, DC): The firm has named Seth Mailhot the new leader of the FDA regulatory practice in its Washington, DC, office. Mailhot, who joins the firm as counsel, will also be a member of its life sciences and health services practices. He spent 14 years with the Food and Drug Administration as a certified medical device investigator, an engineer and a compliance officer. Most recently, he was an associate at Latham & Watkins, also specializing in food-and-drug law.

Bass, Berry & Sims (Nashville): Leigh Walton, a partner in the firm's health care practice in the Nashville office, has accepted an invitation to become a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a nonprofit, independent national research institute committed to basic empirical research on law and legal institutions.

Beirne, Maynard & Parsons (Houston): Charles Miers has joined the firm as partner in the Houston office. Miers, formerly of Abbott Simses, will focus his practice on commercial litigation, employment issues, maritime claims, products liability claims, toxic tort and mass tort claims, class action defense and wrongful death and personal injury claims.

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