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Wolf Block Groups Join Nelson Mullins

Erik Even — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:15:24 +0000

Lawyers from the Washington, DC and Boston offices of now-defunct Wolf Block will join the Columbia, South Carolina office of Nelson Mullins.

Those resurfacing at Nelson Mullins include five Boston partners, including Wolf Block Public Strategies CEO Robert Crow; two associates and two lobbyists from Boston; and a lobbyist from Washington.

Crowe was co-chairperson for finance for the Democratic National Committee during the 2004 presidential campaign, and is co-chairperson of Senator John Kerry’s finance committee and political action committee.

Wolf Block’s partnership dissolved the 106-year-old firm on March 23th.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is a large US law firm and lobbying group based in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2007, the National Law Journal ranked the firm the the largest in South Carolina and 111th largest in the United States. The firm also ranked 127th in profit per attorney on the 2007 Am Law 200 survey.

Former SC House Speaker Joins Nelson Mullins

Erik Even — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:06:42 +0000

David Wilkins, recent US ambassador to Canada recently came to an end and former speaker of the South Carolina House, is returning to a practice of law, joining the government relations and administrative law practice at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, one of South Carolina’s largest law firms, with a special emphasis on US/Canada trade. He starts the job tomorrow.

Canada is the United States’ biggest trading partner.

He joins other prominent South Carolina political figures already working in government relations at Nelson Mullins. They include Dick Riley, two-time governor and US education secretary; Phillip Lader, former ambassador to the UK, administrator of the Small Business Administration and White House deputy chief of staff; and George B. Wolfe, former deputy general counsel at the Treasury Department and deputy director of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

Also employed with Nelson Mullins are Wilkins’ former law partner, Timothy E. Madden, and his son, Robert W. Wilkins.

Wilkins, a Republican, was named to the coveted diplomatic post by former President George W. Bush, whom Wilkins had backed during South Carolina’s pivotal presidential primary in 2000 and again in 2004.

He received his law degree from the University of South Carolina.

Nelson Mullins Launches Florida Office

Erik Even — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:34:36 +0000

Nelson Mullins has hired five attorneys from Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan’s Tallahassee office, to form a new Florida office. The new group represents automobile manufacturers in dealer, distribution and business matters.

The attorneys include partners Dean Bunch and Andy Bertron, of counsels Melissa Fletcher Allaman and C. Everett Boyd, Jr., and associate Virginia L. Gulde. These attorneys represent most of the automobile manufacturers and importers doing business in Florida.

The group plans to remain at their current Tallahassee offices.