ATLANTA, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Powell Goldstein LLP
announced today that partner David S. Baker has been appointed Chairman of
the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. Mr. Baker has served
on this committee since 2003.
"I am honored to receive this appointment as Chair of a committee which
I have been a member of for a number of years. We are engaged in assisting
those responsible for administering professional discipline in the various
states. Helping to maintain the highest level of professionalism and ethics
in the practice of law is essential to the success of our system of
jurisprudence. This is essential for the maintenance of confidence in the
legal profession," stated Mr. Baker.
Mr. Baker has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to the American
Bar Association. He served as Chair of the Section of General Practice of
the American Bar Association from 1986 to 1987 and as Chair of the ABA's
Standing Committee on Environmental Law from 1993 to 1996. He also formerly
served as Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Section of
General Practice, and as a member of the ABA House of Delegates.
Mr. Baker's broad area of practice with Powell Goldstein includes
counseling of clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged
buy-outs, joint ventures, asset-based financing, distributorship
arrangements, environmental matters, healthcare law and the formation and
operation of cooperatives.
Mr. Baker was selected for the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America
for Corporate Law and has been so designated since the inception of that
publication. He is also listed as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta
Magazine.
Mr. Baker graduated cum laude with an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in
1961 and received a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from
Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania in
1958.
Powell Goldstein LLP was established in 1909 and has nearly 300
attorneys who provide legal counsel to clients in a wide variety of
practices from offices in Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Dallas. For more
information, visit http://www.pogolaw.com or call 404.572.6613.
SOURCE Powell Goldstein LLP
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