Jenner, Day Pitney Name New Managing Partners

Jenner & Block - New York

Jenner & Block has named Susan Kohlmann, a litigator in the firm’s Content, Media & Entertainment practice, managing partner of its New York office, the firm announced on Friday.

A graduate of the Columbia University Law School, Kohlmann chairs the firm’s Trademark, Advertising, and Unfair Competition practice, and also heads Jenner’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is the first female managing partner of the firm’s New York office.

Kohlmann replaces Richard Ziegler, co-chair of Jenner’s International Arbitration Practice, who has run the firm’s New York office for the past eight years. According to the firm’s press release, Ziegler will focus on expanding the ...