Business law attorney Paul H. Ode, Jr. of Burlington has been elected managing partner and chief executive officer of the law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. Ode took over on January 1 for John H. Marshall, who has held the post since the firm first adopted a managing partner governance model in 2002. Ode was elected by the firm’s directors in December. He had previously served as deputy managing partner and is a former chair of the firm’s Business Law Group. He joined the firm in 1982 after completing a clerkship with U.S. District Court Chief Judge Albert W. Coffrin.