Brett Kappel, a specialist in campaign finance and ethics regulations, has left Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease and joined Arent Fox's government relations practice, where he will be of counsel.

On Vorys' website, Kappel's bio says he "has been representing clients in Federal Election Commission enforcement proceedings for nearly 20 years, during which he obtained the dismissal of charges against his clients without the payment of any fine in all but a handful of cases."

Kappel received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a Dillard Fellow and the Notes Editor for the Journal of Law & Politics. He received his BA summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany.