Who’s Doing What: New hires

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Randall Erickson has joined Godfrey & Kahn SC in the firm’s securities practice group in Milwaukee.

Erickson was the senior vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel of Marshall & Ilsley Corp. prior to M&I’s acquisition by the Bank of Montreal earlier this year. Erickson received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1984. Erickson was admitted to the bar in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He focuses his practice on securities, banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance and other related matters.

• Marney Hoefer has joined Stafford Rosenbaum LLP as a senior associate. Hoefer’s practice focuses on environmental law and governmental affairs. She received her law degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000.

• Jodi Jensen has joined the government relations team at Dewitt Ross & Stevens SC, Madison. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a member of the Department of Administration’s executive staff and governor’s legal staff. Jensen will be based in the firm’s Madison office, where she will focus on government relations, administrative law and campaign finance and elections law. She earned her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

• Kevin Trost has joined Axley Brynelson LLP to aid in the representation of financial institutions and insurers at the firm’s Madison office. Trost brings knowledge of commercial litigation, insolvency law, creditor’s rights, workouts, receiverships, and residential and commercial foreclosures.

He also handles the forfeiture of shares in cooperatives, land contracts and the foreclosure of vessels secured by first preferred ship’s mortgages. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.