• Congratulations to the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GAWL) on its 80 year history of supporting the interests of women lawyers.  Hughes Consultants is proud to support the Mid-Year Meeting, a day long event for women in business on November 18^th at Alston & Bird.  The event will focus on negotiating, diversity, flexibility and other topics important to women in business.
• Nicole Andres joined more than 900 lawyers in the 2008 Run for Justice 5K to raise money for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.  The event raised $20,000 for the organization.
• Melba Hughes joined thousands of men and women to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund by walking in the 2008 Atlanta Breast Cancer 3-Day.  Taking place in 14 cities nationwide, the Breast Cancer 3-Day is a series of three day, 60-mile walks that raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research, education, and community outreach programs.
• Melba Hughes has been asked to return to Harvard Law School as a speaker for the 2008 Fall Market Series Program.
• Shelly Walters has joined Rogers & Hardin as Executive Director.  The Executive Director position is the senior non-lawyer position in the firm.  Congratulations to Shelly and Rogers & Hardin.
• Daily Report quotes Melba Hughes.
• Turner Broadcasting has added Kelly MacLanahan to their team of talented attorneys.
• Melba Hughes was quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report.
• Congratulations to Rogers & Hardin's newest corporate associate, James Gooch.
• Tyco Electronics retained hughes CONSULTANTS to fill the position of Labor & Employment Counsel. 
• Turner Broadcasting has hired Kevin Glidewell to serve as Sports Counsel.
• The legal department at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has grown with the addition of Leon Altman.
• Caroline Munroe has joined the law firm of Schulten, Ward & Turner as a tax associate.
• Valparaiso University School of Law welcomes Lisa Huenink and Velma Jones to their team.
• Michelle Moore Hylton has joined Turner Broadcasting's legal department as Senior Counsel.
• Melba Hughes was an invited speaker in the 2007 Fall Market Series Program sponsored by Harvard Law School.
• Fields, Howell, Athans & McLaughlin welcomes their newest hire, Nathan Thompson.
• Bert Levy has joined the prominent firm of Fine and Block. 
• hughes CONSULTANTS has been retained by Tyco Electronics to find a Labor & Employment Counsel.
• Rachel Shockley has joined Kessler, Schwarz & Solomiany, PC, one of the preeminent domestic relations firms in Atlanta.  Rachel was previously an associate with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.
• MetLife's Atlanta office has added David Gildernew to their team as a Senior Counsel.
• Tyco International has retained hughes CONSULTANTS  to fill a search for a Senior Compensation and Benefits Counsel in Princeton, NJ. 
• hughes CONSULTANTS  is proud to have filled a position for Sourcing Counsel with GE Capital Solutions in Danbury, CT.  Congratulations to Ryan Doherty.  Ryan joins GE from IBM.
• Congratulations to Tammye Brown and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.  Tammye is joining their Raleigh office in January, 2007.
• Burr & Forman has retained hughes CONSULTANTS  to help grow their Atlanta office.
• hughes CONSULTANTS  is growing...please join us in welcoming Steven Lynch to the team!  Steven is joining Hughes Consultants as a Senior Recruiter.
• Andrea Hirsch has joined the Atlanta office of Herman, Mathis, Casey, Kitchens & Gerel.
• MetLife has hired Mark Shaffer as Senior Counsel in their Atlanta office. 
• hughes CONSULTANTS  was mentioned in The Daily Journal

            Three minority-owned legal recruiting firms have been tapped by the California Minority Counsel Program to provide a more diverse pool of job candidates to law firms and corporations. 
            The California Minority Counsel Program was launched in 1989 and has nearly 300 members, including the Clorox Co., Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment America.
      As part of its Diversity Recruiting Initiative, which aims to maximize job prospects for attorneys of color, the program selected the Oakland-based Grisham Group, Hughes Consultants in Atlanta and Chicago's Winston & Green.
           The three recruiting firms will be introduced at the California Minority Counsel Program's 17th annual Business Development Conference, scheduled for Sept. 13-14 at San Francisco's Hotel Nikko.

• We are pleased to add Bank of America to our distinguished list of clients.
• Toni Burgess joins Smith Gambrell & Russell from the Philadelphia office of Blank Rome. 
• hughes CONSULTANTS has been selected by the California Minority Counsel Program as one of three preferred recruitment firms.  CMCP’s mission is to promote diversity among California's attorney population, and thereby advance a more inclusive and just legal profession.
• Melba Hughes has been chosen to serve as the Search Consultant to the City of Atlanta Search Committee. 
• Kenyon & Kenyon has added Marcia Sundeen to the DC office.  Marcia joins as the Chair of the International Trade Practice Group.  Marcia brings over 20 years of intellectual property litigation experience to the firm.  Marcia was most recently a partner at Arnold & Porter.
• hughes CONSULTANTS has been retained by Valparaiso University School of Law to assist in the search for a Director of Advancement.
• Rogers & Hardin hires real estate associate.  Congratulations Lowell Plotkin.
• hughes CONSULTANTS is pleased to announce the successful completion of our retained search with MetLife.  Congratulations to Peg McCue in her new position as Associate General Counsel. 
• Congratulations to Sean Sullivan, our most recent placement at Williams Mullen, in their DC office.  Sean joins Williams Mullen from Hogan & Hartson.
• Melba Hughes to discuss market trends in lawyer compensation and recruiting at the Altman Weil Partner Compensation Seminar.  June 7, 2006, The Four Seasons Hotel, Atlanta.
• hughes CONSULTANTS announces the continued growth to the Tysons Corner office of Williams Mullen with the addition of Kathy Holmes.
• hughes CONSULTANTS was successfully retained by Williams Mullen to place a communications group in their Northern Virginia office.  Congratulations to Brian McDermott, Ward Quill, and Mike Fleming.
• hughes CONSULTANTS welcomes two new additions to our office.  Please help us welcome Mary Stuart Hall and Sheri Kornblum to the team! Mary Stuart will be focusing on the associate marketplace.  Sheri brings an additional seven years of legal recruiting experience to our team.
• hughes CONSULTANTS is pleased to announce our re-entry into the Southeastern legal marketplace.  We are thrilled to be back in the Atlanta market and look forward to working with our historic clients.   
• hughes CONSULTANTS places the new publisher of the Fulton County Daily Report, Steve Korn.  Congratulations to Steve.
• Melba Hughes to speak at The National Association of Women Lawyers General Counsel Institute, November 7-8, 2005, Sofitel Hotel, New York.
• Melba Hughes to speak at The Chief Recruiting & Professional Development Officers Conference, Hosted by The American Lawyer Media.  March 9-10, 2005 at The St. Regis Hotel, New York.
• Valparaiso University School of Law hires Director of Career Services from hughes CONSULTANTS LLC.  Valerie Jensen, formerly of William Mitchell College of Law, is a wonderful addition to Valparaiso University Law School staff. 
• Altman Weil, Inc. runs second half of Profile: Melba Hughes in the Report to Legal Management.  Melba gives her observations on recruiting practices in the law firm market, the recent surge in lateral movement of law firm partners, and what the immediate out-look is for associate hiring and compensation.
• hughes CONSULTANTS LLC places new General Counsel! Congratulations to Susan de Mars the new general counsel of U.S. Pharmacopiea in Rockville, MD.  Susan joins USP from the law firm of Reed Smith, where she was a partner in their health care practice group.
• hughes CONSULTANTS LLC is pleased to announce that Rebecca Walsh has joined Tyco Healthcare as a Senior Employment Counsel in their St. Louis operations.  Congratulations to Rebecca.
• Altman Weil, Inc. runs a profile of Melba Hughes in their Report to Legal Management.  This profile will be a two part interview conducted by Altman Weil's Altman's Daniel J. DiLucchio. In this interview, Melba discusses what is involved in transitioning from a law firm to an in-house environment.
• hughes CONSULTANTS LLC places Associate General Counsel with Honeywell.  Katherine Ma joins Honeywell's Chemicals Unit as the new Associate General Counsel.  Katherine practiced with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in both the New York and Hong Kong offices before going in-house with Honeywell.  Congratulations to Katherine. 
• Congratulations to Laurie Hartman who joins Emory University as the Assistant Dean of Career Services. 
• Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell hires two bankruptcy associates from hughes CONSULTANTS.  Congratulations to Jonathan Strauss and Laura McGeoch.
• hughes CONSULTANTS LLC is proud to announce that Dewey Hembree has joined the law firm of McGlinchey Stafford in Jackson, Mississippi as Of Counsel.  Dewey is a long term resident of Madison County and served as Attorney for the Madison County Board of Supervisors for several years while practicing as a Partner with the law firm of Montgomery McGraw. 
• Tyco hires Chief Labor & Employment Counsel from hughes CONSULTANTS LLC.  Robert Chiaravalloti, formerly of PepsiCO Inc., has joined Tyco as their Chief Labor & Employment Counsel.  Congratulations to Robert.
• hughes CONSULTANTS LLC receives certification as a woman and minority owned firm, having met all of the criteria established by the National Minority Supplier Development Council.
• Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach joins client roster. Hughes Consultants places Peter Sloane.  Peter Sloane has begun work at the New York office of Milberg Weiss.  Peter left Milbank Tweed, where he was a litigation associate to join Milberg's well respected class action team.
• New Orleans law firm hires 2 associates from hughes CONSULTANTS LLC.  McGlinchey Stafford has hired Sergio Alarcon and Benjamin Schupp to join their New Orleans office.  We wish both Sergio and Benjamin well.
•  hughes CONSULTANTS places new General Counsel Congratulations to Mark Pollack, the new general counsel of Arthur Andersen. "Pollack comes to his new job with expertise that's somewhat unusual for a GC. He worked for six years as a federal prosecutor in Illinois before joining Jenner, where he defended clients in securities class actions and professional liability cases. He also headed the firm's white-collar criminal defense practice. So why did Pollack take what effectively is a dead-end assignment? He says the move wasn't all that risky,given that he knows he can go back to Jenner at any time.  Plus, he says, "the more I learned [about the job], the more I was intrigued."    Corporate Counsel, September 2003
• hughes CONSULTANTS  fills opening in Jackson, Mississippi.  Scott Pietrowski joins McGlinchey Stafford's Jackson office.  Congratulations Scott!
• Del Monte Foods hires 2 in San Francisco.   hughes CONSULTANTS LLC is proud to have sucessfully completed two placements for our new client Del Monte Foods.Rhonda Bethea and Isobel Jones both joined Del Monte's legal department this month.
•  NCDS Hires 2 from hughes CONSULTANTS LLC. Sean Mikula and Rebecca Kozycki  have begun work as Development Directors for National Community Development Services (NCDS). In this new role, they will plan, organize,and direct campaigns to capitalize community economic development programs nationally.  Congratulations to Sean and Rebecca!
• Emory University Hires Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs! Carolyn Wright, formerly of King & Spalding, has joined Emory University School of Law as the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs.  Congratulations Carolyn!           
•  Southern Poverty Law Center hires Grace Graham. Grace has started her new position as Staff Attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Grace is a graduate of Boston College Law School and formerly practiced with Howrey Simon Arnold & White in Washington, DC.  As a member of Southern Poverty Law Centers legal staff, Grace will be able to develop and litigate significant civil rights cases.  Congratulations Grace!