Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. is pleased to announce that former Director of Regulatory Affairs with the Midwest Independent Transmission System

7.10.07

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon is pleased to announce that on June 21, 2007, Fred Cummings and Carolyn Johnsen, Members (Partners) with the firm's Phoenix office, were inducted as Fellows into the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA).

Cummings is Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. He has extensive trial experience in the areas of health care, medical malpractice and medical products liability defense litigation and has significant experience in all aspects of complex commercial litigation. Cummings received his J.D. from Georgetown University, Law Center (1984) and his B.S.F.S., with honors, from Georgetown University (1980).

Johnsen serves as the only Arizona lawyer on the founding board of LCA and is Chair of the firm's Business Restructuring & Reorganization Department. As a commercial, bankruptcy, and restructuring attorney, litigator and appellate attorney, Johnsen has extensive experience in every aspect of commercial reorganizations, representing both debtors and creditors. She has several published decisions and has been a frequent speaker at state and national bankruptcy seminars. Johnsen received her J.D. from Texas Tech School of Law (1980) and her B.S. from Texas A&M University (1977).
The Litigation Counsel of America is a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellowship in the LCA is highly selective and by invitation only. Fellows are selected based upon effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels, and superior ethical reputation. The LCA is aggressively diverse in its composition. Established as a trial and appellate lawyer honorary society reflecting the American bar in the twenty-first century, the LCA represents the best in law among its membership.