Steven Quattlebaum has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
He is a founding member of Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull PLLC in Little Rock and Springdale, and his primary areas of practice are complex business, toxic tort and products liability litigation.
Dustin McDaniel has recently been elected to democratic co-chair of the Society of Attorneys General Emeritus, based in Washington. McDaniel served from 2007 to 2015 as the 55th attorney general of Arkansas.
Giana Messore has been hired as lead attorney at the new Little Rock office of Cordell & Cordell, a St. Louis law firm specializing in domestic litigation through more than 100 offices across the country.
Messore previously practiced with a legal aid organization focusing primarily on family law and public benefits.
Walter Dunn has been hired as an of counsel attorney at Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil PA in Jonesboro. His practice will focus mainly on business transactions, commercial law, and energy and utilities law.
Whitney Gass has been appointed to a seven-year term on the Arkansas Board of Corrections. She is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Southern Arkansas University and a University of Arkansas at Little Rock criminal justice doctoral student.
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