By Scott Goldstein: Legal League Quarterly Fall 2011 - Exploring New Territory
In the News! NDeX Announces Promotion of Ronald Redmer to CIO
1. M O V ERS & S H A K ERS
Potestivo & Associates Promotes Its Own to Marinosci Law Group Names Managing
Managing Attorney Partner of New Arkansas Office
Potestivo & Associates announced the promotion of associate attorney Marinosci Law Group announced Robert Coleman as managing partner of
Keith H. Werwas to assistant VP and managing attorney for the Chicago office. the firm’s new Little Rock, Arkansas, office. Over the past 20 years, Coleman
Werwas began his career with the firm in 2009 and works with all aspects of focused his practice on representing banks, thrifts, and mortgage companies
default servicing, including foreclosures, bankruptcies, and REO disposition. in residential lending, default servicing, and loan origination. Coleman’s
Werwas graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Law. experience also includes examinations, regulatory compliance, and other
general real estate matters.
Marinosci Law Group
Hires Managing Litigation Attorney
Marinosci Law Group announced the hiring of Gregg Dreilinger as Gerner & Kearns Attorney
managing litigation attorney for the firm’s Florida office. Dreilinger has Accepted as Fellow for State Bar Foundation
represented lenders and servicers in foreclosure actions for more than 15 years. Gerner & Kearns Co. announced the acceptance of Daniel A. Cox,
He received both a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a Juris Doctorate from the firm’s director of legal operations, as a fellow for the Ohio State Bar
the University of Florida. Foundation (OSBF). Membership in the OSBF is an honor extended to
lawyers and judges who adhere to the highest ideals of the legal profession and
are dedicated to serving their communities. OSBF acts as the charitable arm
for the state’s bar association.
NDeX Announces Promotion of Ronald Redmer to CIO
NDeX announced the appointment of Ronald D. Redmer as the company’s
new CIO. Redmer is responsible for managing the firm’s information technology
division while also designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining ProVest Announces New Hire
solutions for integration in mortgage banking institutions, title companies, and Promotion to West Coast Team
investors, insurers, and other associated firms. ProVest LLC, a legal support services firm, selected Rick Zois as the
company’s data services architect. He is tasked with helping lead growth
of ProVest’s information services division. Zois has more than 15 years’
experience in information management with an emphasis on data utilization
and work flow design as well as skip tracing and account treatment strategies.
Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co. He was previously director of analytics at DCI, the largest telecom receivables
Hires New Associate in Ft. Lauderdale management company in the United States.
Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co. (WWR) brought a new associate on board ProVest also announced the recent promotion of Brian McGrath to the West
to its Ft. Lauderdale office. Ana Cosculluela practices in the real estate default Coast business development team. McGrath first joined the company as an
group with a focus on real estate title and closing services. Cosculluela’s specialties operations manager in the Chicago office. For his new role, McGrath relocated
include residential and commercial real estate acquisition and financing, title to San Diego. There he is responsible for expanding ProVest’s offerings on
insurance, corporate law, and foreclosure and commercial litigation. the West Coast and nationally in non-judicial states. McGrath previously ran a
regional property preservation company based in Austin, Texas.
Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen
Adds Partner and Hires Two Associates
Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen announced the addition of Desarae Harrah Millsap & Singer Adds
as partner. Harrah’s focus for the firm is litigating disputes related to real estate, Two New Attorneys to Its Ranks
banking, construction, and business and commercial issues. Harrah works out Millsap & Singer, LLC, a provider of legal representation on foreclosure,
of the firm’s Kansas City office. She graduated from the University of Missouri bankruptcy, and mortgage-related litigation in the states of Missouri and
Kansas City School of Law and has been with the firm since October 2006. Kansas has hired two new attorneys.
Harrah is admitted to practice in Missouri and Kansas as well as the U.S.
District Courts for the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas. Kenneth Coyne joined the firm as an attorney practicing in the areas
of bankruptcy and real estate litigation. He received his bachelor’s degree
Aaron Elking and Benjamin Musholt were announced as the two new in 1990 from Saint Louis University and his Juris Doctor from the Saint
associates with the law firm. Elking will work out of the St. Louis office in the Louis University School of Law in 1995. He currently serves as a trustee and
civil litigation and creditors’ rights departments. ambassador for the St. Louis-based St. Patrick’s Center.
Musholt will work in the Kansas City office in the civil litigation, business Jennifer Michaels joined the firm as an associate attorney with a specialty
and commercial transactions, and banking and finance departments. n judicial foreclosures in the state of Kansas. She received her bachelor’s
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egree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 and her Juris Doctor
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Both Elking and Musholt graduated from the University of Missouri in from the Washburn University School of Law in 2009.
Kansas City, class of 2011, and are admitted to practice in Missouri.
Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen is a full-service law firm that works with
national and regional banking, mortgage, business, and title company clients.
The firm has offices in Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; and
St. Louis, Missouri.
Legal League 100 ~ In Pictures (cont'd)
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(5) Sponsors Tina Jones and Colleen Beckett of Prommis Solutions catch Mortgage’s Leesa Logan and Kristen Thomas, and Reisenfeld & Associate’s
up with McCalla Raymer’s Charlie Kelley. (6) The Legal League welcomes Majenica Springer find time for a chat during the private networking
Ann Thorn, SVP of bankruptcy, foreclosure, and attorney network reception. (8) GMAC Mortgage’s John Pritchett and Caroline Demers
management at Bank of America as the keynote lunch speaker. catch up with Bank of America’s Bill Demers between sessions.
(7) Freedman Anselmo Lindberg’s Jennifer Hester, American Home
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