Leane C. Medford has joined the national law firm Polsinelli Shughart as shareholder. Highly accomplished in her field, Medford focuses on commercial litigation and appeals. She is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America TM and the Texas Bar Foundation.

Celeste R. Yeager, Vice-Chair of the Hospitality Industry Team at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, is slated to participate in the 2012 Labor and Employment Roundtable hosted by The Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. The event will be held May 6-7 2012 at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y. In addition to her leadership role with the Hospitality Industry Team, Ms. Yeager chairs the Firm's Immigration and Naturalization Practice and is a partner in Gardere's Labor and Employment Practice Group. Ms. Yeager is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and regularly represents employers nationally in all types of employment disputes, including class and collective actions before local, state, and federal administrative agencies and courts.