Former Georgia state senator Rusty Paul joins Arnall Golden Gregory, to head the Atlanta law firm’s government affairs & public policy practice. He is a Sandy Springs city councilman, and was previously a federal assistant cabinet secretary and chairman of the state Republican Party. Paul served in the Department of Housing & Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush, as assistant secretary for congressional & intergovernmental affairs. He founded his own government affairs firm, iSquared Communications.
Harold Creel Jr. joins lobbying firm Alcalde & Fay as a partner. Creel is a former federal Maritime Commission chairman under Clinton and GW Bush, and will lobby on behalf of the Cruise Lines International Association. Previously, he was senior counsel to the Merchant Marine subcommittee of the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. His JD is from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Sir Ian Kennedy joins the UK’s Beachcroft LLP to head its new NHS health advisory service. Kennedy was previously chair of the Healthcare Commission, a member and chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and a member of both the General Medical Council and the Medicines Commission. He is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College London. Kennedy was knighted in 2002 for services to medical law and bioethics.