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Movers & Shakers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35 Field Asset Services Appoints Donald Neville as CFO Field Asset Services named Donald F. Neville CFO to oversee all finance and accounting functions for the company. Neville has 25 years' management and military experience and has served as CFO and CEO of both private and public companies in the security, high technology, software, and manufacturing industries. His previous employers include Reddworks, ClearCube Technology, and Mail.com. Jones Lang LaSalle Brings in Capital Markets Leader for New England Region Jones Lang LaSalle hired Frank Petz as managing director and New England capital markets leader. He will focus on debt finance, equity placement, and investment sales. Following experiences at both Eastdil Secured and CBRE Melody, Petz joins Jones Lang LaSalle from Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, where he was a top revenue generator. Trott & Trott Adds Five Attorneys to Team Trott & Trott announced five new hires to the firm's litigation and title departments. Matthew Bedikian joined as an attorney in the title department with a focus on real estate law. Bedikian received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Prior to joining Trott & Trott, he held the position of a law clerk with the Michigan Bureau of Employment Relations, where he focused on the areas of labor and employment law. Jennifer Burnett is a litigation attorney with a concentration on litigation related to residential mortgage foreclosure and lending. Burnett earned her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Western Michigan University and her Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School. Before joining the firm, she served as a law clerk with Detroit-based Huth Lynett, where she focused on commercial real estate litigation. Brett Mellin joins Trott & Trott as a litigation attorney with a focus on the areas of real estate, lending, and foreclosure law. Mellin obtained his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and earned his Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School. He previously served as a law clerk in Trott & Trott's title department, focusing his practice in the area of foreclosure law. Melissa Schmitz is part of the firm's team of litigation attorneys with a focus on title and foreclosure law. Schmitz received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan Flint and her Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School. Prior to her new appointment, she worked as a law clerk in Trott & Trott's foreclosure title review department. Ian Redmond also joined the litigation team with a focus on commercial litigation, real estate, and business litigation. Redmond earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Dallas and his Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School. Prior to joining the firm, he was a sole practitioner representing both businesses and individuals in all phases of commercial litigation. Trott & Trott is a Farmington Hills, Michigan-based law firm that focuses on the mortgage banking industry. The firm provides comprehensive loss mitigation solutions on behalf of its banking, lending, servicing, and investor clients for borrowers seeking alternatives to bankruptcy and foreclosure. The firm couples its strategic loss mitigation programs with outreach initiatives that focus on consumer education and awareness. Trott & Trott also offers foreclosure, litigation, and bankruptcy services. PNC Financial Services Announces New President William S. Demchak has been elected president of PNC Financial Services and PNC Bank by the company's board of directors. Demchak had been senior vice chairman of PNC since 2009 and held supervisory roles for all PNC businesses since 2010. Demchak first joined PNC in 2002 as CFO. In 2005, he was appointed head of corporate and institutional banking. Marinosci Law Group Names Managing Partner of New Arkansas Office Marinosci Law Group announced Robert Coleman as managing partner of the firm's new Little Rock, Arkansas, office. Over the past 20 years, Coleman focused his practice on representing banks, thrifts, and mortgage companies in residential lending, default servicing, and loan origination. Coleman's experience also includes examinations, regulatory compliance, and other general real estate matters. ProVest Announces New Hire and Promotion to West Coast Team ProVest LLC, a legal support services firm, selected Rick Zois as the company's data services architect. He is tasked with helping lead growth of ProVest's information services division. Zois has more than 15 years' experience in information management with an emphasis on data utilization and work flow design as well as skip tracing and account treatment strategies. He was previously director of analytics at DCI, the largest telecom receivables management company in the United States. ProVest also announced the recent promotion of Brian McGrath to the West Coast business development team. McGrath first joined the company as an operations manager in the Chicago office. For his new role, McGrath relocated to San Diego. There he is responsible for expanding ProVest's offerings on the West Coast and nationally in non-judicial states. McGrath previously ran a regional property preservation company based in Austin, Texas. CONTINUED ON PAGE 37 36 to have lower levels of math reading achievement compared to their more stable peers. Also, changing schools frequently is associated with higher dropout rates in high school. The report analyzed the impact of foreclosures in different states and found that Alaska and North Dakota had the lowest rate with 2 percent of children affected. Nevada led the country at 19 percent. Other states with high rates of affected children were Florida (15 percent), Arizona (14 percent), California (12 percent), and Michigan (10 percent). The report makes several suggestions to combat the issue and highlighted a program called McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth, which provides schools with tools to help homeless students stay in school. Loan modifications were also stressed, and the report called for bolder steps to improve the performance of modification programs, including national mortgage servicing standards, the resurrection of 2009 legislation that would amend bankruptcy laws to allow judges to modify residential mortgages, and principal reductions for homeowners under certain circumstances. First Focus is a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions. KNOW THIS Capital Economics says recovery looks to be on firmer ground with anticipated GDP growth of 2.0% this year and 2.5% in 2013.

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