Bowman & Co. has named three staff members to the partner ship group this month. The New Jersey CPA firm promoted Kenneth M. Drewes, Michael Thilker and Josette Traversa.

 Thomson Reuters has made Co-Counsel, a GenAI assistant, available with its Checkpoint Edge research platform.

Co-Counsel was first introduced with the company’s legal products,

Thomson’s announcement said, “This new AI-Assisted Research skill leverages large language models (LLMs) providing an intuitive interface for tax professionals to pose questions to in everyday language.”

Answers are linked to Checkpoint Edge editorial content.

Nancy Hawkins, VP of product management, research, said in the statement that “Many professionals that are required to perform tax research are not attorneys themselves, and making the research process easier and faster for them is what this product is all about.”

Sikich has promoted two of its employees to newly created executive positions. The firm named Cameron Petroff as chief marketing officer and Kelli Schweder has been promoted to chief of staff.   

Tom Mescal, a partner who held leadership positions at CPA firm  Armanino, has retired from the from after more than 20 years.