Nixon Peabody expanded its corporate practice with the addition of Conrad Adkins as counsel. Adkins spent the past seven years as in-house counsel at James Hardie Industries.Adkins will provide strategic corporate counseling related to M&A, corporate finance, securities regulation, corporate governance, and complex domestic and international commercial transactions.• Aronberg Goldgehn elected Michael S. Nelson to member within the firm’s Chicago office.Nelson’s practice involves most aspects of real …