Baker Donelson has hired its first nonlawyer managing director to help run its financial institutions group. Scott Peterson, previously a consultant at Warbird Consulting Partners in Atlanta, is working with Baker Donelson shareholder Tim Lupinacci, who chairs the group.

“If you think of it like a business unit,” Lupinacci said, “if we bring in a professional to help us drive revenue, growth and efficiencies for clients, will that help us to better manage the practice?”