Bus' • Are you battling with your child over food? • Is your child sneaking food? • Is your child gaining too much weight? Edward D. Gold of Bloomfield Hills, attorney with the firm of Butzel Long, was elected vice president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Edward D. Gold is a full-time Gold senior shareholder actively practicing in Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office; he heads up the firm's Family Law Practice group. • Do weight problems run in your family? Howard Wallach of Farmington Hills has joined the law firm of Langnas & Associates of Southfield. He special- izes in litigation mat- ters and most recently was a partner in the law firm of Hurwitz, Karp, Wallach and Howard Gantz of Dearborn Wallach Heights. Frank T. Mamat of West Bloomfield has been elected to the board of directors of the Construction Finance Management Association, Greater Detroit Chapter. Mamat focuses his practice on complex labor issues, with an emphasis on union Frank T matters. Mamat Rodman N. Myers of Bloomfield Township, of counsel and member of the Corporate Law Department of the Detroit-based law firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, was re-elected president of the board of the Bloomfield Township Public Rodman Library. Myers '5.: ,;;;..:::- kk..;;;Z:,.%* ,: p 1Ft.:241,ViVat It's A Jewish Food jamboree! Need a flavorful feast of Jewish foods? From the Deli's handmade potato latkes 6 fresh chopped liver, Bakehouse Mandelbread 6 traditional Jewish Rye to Mail Order's Hannukah Heavyweight box .& Catering's custom-service holiday events C more, we've got you covered! All Deli 8 Catering foods available for pick-up or delivery. 2/15 2002 90 Daniel L. Schiffer of West Bloomfield, former senior executive with MCN Energy Group and Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., has joined the firm as of coun- sel resident in the Detroit office. Two of the members of a new con- sulting firm, Executive Consulting Group LLC, are Barbara Clark, president of B. Clark Consulting in Allen, Mich., and Berl Falbaum, president of Falbaum & Associates Inc. in Farmington Hills. The com- pany is at 31731 Northwestern Highway., Suite 106, Farmington Hills; (248) 538-4540. Barbara Lewis of Oak Park has been appointed director of communica- tions at Lutheran Social Services of Michigan. Link Wachler, co-owner of David Wachler and Sons Jewellers in Birmingham, won an honorable mention in the Tahitian Pearl Trophy Competition. The winning piece, "All Tangled Up," is com- prised of diamond and vine-like wisps of 18 karat yellow -gold. Black South Sea pearls dangle, as well as encircle the chain. The piece is on display in Vicenza, Italy, and will be displayed at jewelry shows through- out the world. Butzel Long, a Michigan law firm, has elected two new shareholders. Patricia Erhart Nessel of Novi, practices in the area of family law, including divorce litigation with experience in the areas of business litigation and commercial trans- Patricia actions. Howard B. Nessel Goldman of Bloomfield Hills has experience in a variety of financing and refi- nancing issues, includ- ing acquisition of raw land and commercial properties, long-term lease negotiations, commercial lease nego- Howard Goldman tiations. Both practice in Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office. The law firm of Kemp, Klein, Umphrey & Endelman P.C. has merged with the Southfield-based law firm of May & May P.C. The new firm name is Kemp, Klein, Umphrey, Endelman & May P.C. The announceinent was made by Kemp, Klein CEO Ralph A. Castelli Jr. and May & May principal Alan May. May & May's staff of 12 pro- fessionals will join the new firm at its Troy location, 600 Columbia Center, 201 West Big Beaver Road, on March 1. The new firm will have a staff of 110 persons, including 40 attorneys.