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Lobbying world
• Emily Kertz Lampkin has created The Lampkin Group, a strategic public affairs firm. Lampkin most recently left DCI Group, where she was a partner. She previously worked for the Education Department as deputy chief of staff for strategy and senior adviser to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. She served as deputy director of public affairs for the Commerce Department in the George W. Bush administration and was one of the first Washington hires of the Bush presidential campaign in 2000.
• Stephen Ward has come to Van Heuvelen Strategies to be a principal at the firm. Ward leaves his position as chief of staff to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D–N.M). Prior to his time on Capitol Hill, he worked for 10 years as director of government affairs for EDS Corp.
• Sean Smith has joined Porter Novelli as a senior vice president for the global crisis communications group within the firm. Smith leaves the Homeland Security Department, where he served as the assistant secretary for public affairs. Before that, he was a spokesman for President Obama’s campaign and the communications director for the Pennsylvania campaign efforts during the general election.
• Carl Northrop, Michael Lazarus, Andrew Morentz and Vance Schuemann on Monday opened the doors on Telecommunications Law Professionals. All four come from the Paul Hastings firm. Northrop is the managing member of the new firm and recently was chosen by his peers to be included in the Communications Law portion of 2011’s The Best Lawyers in America. Lazarus, who worked at Crowell & Moring prior to Paul Hastings, is a member of the firm along with Morentz. Schuemann, who worked at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand before Paul Hastings, is the firm’s senior public policy adviser.
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