Marc Dann, the attorney general-elect, named a veteran lawyer and capital insider to the No. 2 legal position in his office yesterday and announced appointments for two other key positions.

Thomas R. Winters, a partner in the Columbus office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, will serve as Dann?s first assistant attorney general. Winters served as a top aide to Democratic leaders in the state House in the 1970s and 1980s and worked as an attorney and lobbyist after that.

As a lobbyist, Winters once represented coin dealer Thomas W. Noe, who has since been convicted of embezzling from the state?s Bureau of Workers? Compensation. Dann was a dogged critic of Noe and his relationship with the bureau.

Dann named Brian Laliberte as deputy first assistant attorney general. Laliberte is an associate in the Columbus office of Baker and Hostetler LLP, specializing in complex business litigation.

Lawyers from Winters? and Laliberte?s firms supported Dann?s underdog campaign for attorney general, although they were not his top donors. Vorys Sater and its lawyers contributed $8,250, while Baker and Hostetler lawyers chipped in $500.

Dann also named Joyce Chapple as chief operating officer of his administration. Chapple most recently worked as director of human resources for the city of Toledo.