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WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that Courtney D. Trombly, a former federal prosecutor, has joined the firm's special matters and government investigations practice as counsel in the Washington, D.C., office. She will focus her practice on internal investigations and corporate white-collar defense.

MENLO PARK, CA (MARKET WIRE) Howard University has selected BoardVantage for the electronic distribution of written and digitized materials to the University's Board of Trustees.

R. Lee Bennett, a shareholder in the Orlando office of GrayRobinson P.A., has been reappointed by the Orange County Bar Association as its delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

Businessman Edward P. Swyer, lawyer E. Stewart Jones and University at Albany professor Helen Desfosses have been named recipients of the University at Albany Foundation Citizen Laureate awards.

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory will not replace Richard Cordray as Ohio’s state treasurer.

Law firm Locke Lord Bissel & Liddell LLP has formed a national climate change practice team to help clients navigate issues related to the legal and economic impacts of global climate change, the law firm said this week.