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Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir PC announced on Thursday that it’s building out its new Washington, D.C., office with the addition of a third shareholder in its pipeline and hazmat safety practice who used to be an attorney for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

After three years as a regulatory counsel to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Brianne Kurdock told Law360 on Friday she’s happy to once again be working with James Curry and Keith Coyle, two attorneys she worked with as a senior attorney at the PHMSA.

“To have three of us together with that kind of agency expertise was really compelling,” she told Law360 on Friday. “I enjoyed my days at INGA but this is an opportunity I just had to take.”

Kurdock plans to help clients with strategic and compliance counseling, audit preparation, incident response, enforcement proceedings, regulatory comment preparation and litigation.

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