Washington Law Firm Gets Jolly Before TheHolidays

November 19, 2003, 1:00 a.m. EST 1 Min Read

WASHINGTON - (11/19/03) -- Venable LLP, one of the nation's toplaw firms, said it has hired well-known credit union attorney BruceJolly to join its banking and financial services practice. Jolly,who served as Washington counsel for CUNA and represented NASCUSand several area credit unions, comes to Venable from the Shook,Hardy & Bacon LLP. Venable has, among other things, representedNAFCU when it intervened in the landmark AT&T Family FCU caseand in the American Bankers Association's 1999 challenge of NCUA'snew field of membership rules.

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