The People: April 25, 2011

Monday, April 25, 2011 | 3 a.m.

Brian W. Burton is president and CEO of Three Square Food Bank. Before joining Three Square, Burton was executive director of the Wilkinson Center in Dallas, Texas, a nonprofit organization that provides low-income families with emergency services including food assistance, education and case management. Burton has a master of divinity in education from Southern Seminary, a master of business administration from Louisiana State University and a bachelor of arts from Ouachita Baptist University.

Jim Mace is a shareholder of Greenberg Traurig LLP. Mace is in the real estate and transactional practices group of the Las Vegas office of the firm. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Mace was the managing shareholder of the Las Vegas office of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLC and previously was with Snell and Wilmer. Mace has a juris doctor from Syracuse University College of Law and a bachelor of arts from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Brett Axelrod is managing partner at Fox Rothschild LLP. Axelrod focuses her bankruptcy practice on the representation of Chapter 11 debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees and purchasers of bankruptcy assets. She is the director of the Turnaround Management Association of Nevada and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Axelrod has a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law and a bachelor of science from California State University, Northridge.

Ken Van Winkle Jr. was reappointed managing partner of Lewis and Roca LLP for a third four-year term through March 31, 2015. He is a member of the firm’s real estate transactions group and focuses on real property acquisitions and dispositions, real estate equity and debt financing and real estate leasing.

Stan Friedman is the owner of Pivotal Communications, an integrated marketing and communications boutique for emerging growth enterprises in green technology and sustainable development, health and wellness, media and publishing and within the public, nonprofit and nongovernmental organization sectors. Pivotal has an associate office in San Francisco serving emerging technologies, mobile commerce and financial services clients.

Barbara Pope is vice president of client relations and marketing for Lentz & Mercier CPAs.

Richard I. Dreitzer is a partner in the labor and employment department of Fox Rothschild LLP. Dreitzer was with the civil division of the Nevada office of the U.S. Attorney General, where he advised state agencies, including those in the labor and employment arena, on open meeting law issues, personnel matters, administrative law and regulatory matters.

Michael N. Feder, Eric D. Hone and Jennifer Ko Craft are shareholders, and Robert B. Kouchoukos, Franchesca Van Buren and Jamie L. Zimmerman are associates with Gordon Silver. The firm has created two new practice groups in intellectual property and entertainment and sports law. Feder and Kouchoukos will practice in both groups, while Hone, Ko Craft, Van Buren and Zimmerman will practice in the entertainment and sports law group.

Perry Wong is a senior economist with City National Bank, where he will lead the bank’s economic strategy council. Wong specialized in regional economies and was with the Milken Institute.

Aaron Bart Fricke is an associate in the litigation group of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. His practice focuses on employee benefit and ERISA matters. Fricke was an associate at Maupin Cox & LeGoy in Reno. Fricke worked for several years in logistics and accounting.

Serena Baig is an associate with the estate planning firm of Jeffrey Burr Ltd. She has a bachelor of arts from the University of California, Berkley, a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law and a master of law in taxation with an emphasis in estate planning from Boston University School of Law.

Jennifer Dunn, Aaron Hendrickson and David Sills are salespeople in the Henderson office and Jessica Ha is a salesperson in the Summerlin office of Liberty Mutual.

Savannah McBride is assistant account executive with Trosper Communications LLC. McBride was public relations coordinator for Cayane Marketing Group: AdvisorPR. Before that, she was with MassMedia Corporate Communications.