TYSONS, Virginia, Sept. 13 -- Squire Patton Boggs, a law firm, issued the following news: Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Javier Izquierdo as a partner in its Madrid Litigation Practice. He joins from Perez-Llorca Abogados, where he was co-head of the Litigation Practice. Mr. Izquierdo, who arrives with a three-lawyer team, is the latest partner to join the firm in Madrid, following the recent addition of Corporate partner Carlos Blanco Morillo and Competition partner Gorka  more

LYNCHBURG, Virginia, Sept. 13 -- Randolph College issued the following Q&A on Sept. 12, 2023, with visiting professor of dance Danie Etienne: * * * Some of Danie Etienne's earliest, and fondest, memories of dance are being carried away by the jazz-based rhythms of Haitian kompa music. Kompa--a mix of electric guitars, vocals, horns, and drumming--began in Haiti in the 1950s and takes its name from the Spanish word for rhythm, compas. Etienne, a visiting professor of dance and director of the  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 13 -- Troutman Pepper, a law firm, issued the following news: Jonathan Floyd, an associate in Troutman Pepper's nationally recognized Consumer Financial Services Practice Group, has been named among Virginia Lawyers Weekly's 2023 "Leaders in the Law." Floyd was recognized among attorneys across the commonwealth who are "setting the standard for other Virginia lawyers." Honorees were selected based on their outstanding contributions to the practice of law in Virginia,   more