SEATTLE – April 25, 2023 – Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is pleased to announce the new members of its Executive Committee. At the firm's annual partnership meeting, the partners elected two new members and re-elected two returning members. The Executive Committee elected new members to all three leadership positions: Camilo Echavarria as chair, Jaime Drozd as vice chair, and Sanjay Nangia as secretary, effective April 20, 2023.
Echavarria will become the first Latino in the law firm's history to be elected to chair its Executive Committee. An employment litigator, he also is the firm's Los Angeles partner-in-charge and a member of the firm's Diversity Executive Council, which oversees all diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the firm. Based in Seattle, Drozd is the firmwide co-chair of the Litigation practice and is a complex commercial litigator who advises and defends clients against a variety of consumer class actions. Based in San Francisco, Nangia is an experienced trial lawyer who represents a variety of high-profile companies with a special focus on the technology, financial services, energy, and healthcare industries.
The newly elected members of the committee are:
- Nicolas Jampol
- Sanjay Nangia (secretary)
The re-elected returning members are:
- Jaime Drozd (vice chair)
- Jesse Lyon
The remaining members are:
- Camilo Echavarria (chair)
- Scott MacCormack (firmwide managing partner)
- Nancy Libin
- Claude Goetz
- Pete Johnson
- Wendy Kearns
- Sheehan Sullivan
- Jean Tom
"We welcome our new members Nick and Sanjay and look forward to Camilo and Jaime helping guide the firm's strategic direction," said MacCormack. "We are also incredibly grateful to outgoing committee chair Sarah Tune, who helped lead the firm through the pandemic and to new levels of success, and to outgoing member Thomas R. Burke for their years of service and guidance. We thank them both for the significant roles they played in helping shape a successful path forward for the firm."
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