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Senniger, Powers, Leavitt & Roedel's, P.C.

Senniger Powers Named Largest Patent Practice in St. Louis
Senniger Powers was recently identified as the firm having the largest collection of patent practitioners in St. Louis, in the April 13, 2007 issue of the St. Louis Business Journal. With approximately 50 attorneys, many of whom have advanced degrees and technical experience in science and engineering, as well as being registered to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office, the firm is also the largest collection of IP attorneys in the state of Missouri.

04-19-2007

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Rothman Gordon

ZATKOS PROMOTED TO PARTNER AT ROTHMAN GORDON LAW FIRM
The attorneys of Rothman Gordon, P.C. are pleased to announce that John W. Zatkos, Jr. has been promoted to partner of the firm. Mr. Zatkos joined Rothman Gordon as an associate in the Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability department in 2001. In addition to his practice, Mr. Zatkos has made it his mission to educate the public about their rights regarding Workers' Compensation. Recent presentations have included The Carnegie Library Business Series, the Center for Education Management, the Department of Labor & Industry, Sterling Educational Seminars and numerous union meetings. Mr. Zatkos also teaches at CCAC's Center for Professional Development. He has twice been named a "Rising Star" by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

Mr. Zatkos received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Duquesne University. He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania.

04-19-2007

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Phillips Lytle, L.L.P.

PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS IN BUFFALO AND CHAUTAUQUA OFFICES
The law firm of Phillips Lytle LLP, a full service law firm with statewide coverage, has named Craig A. Leslie as special counsel at the firm’s Buffalo office and John Taber with the Chautauqua office as partner. Both appointments are effective immediately.

Mr. Leslie concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability, tort litigation, commercial litigation and real property valuation dispute and tax assessment challenges. He has substantial trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts. Mr. Leslie received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University at Buffalo School of Law and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is a member of the American, New York, and Erie County Bar Associations, a member of the ABA’s Torts, Trial and Insurance Practice Section and Automobile Law Committee, a member of DRI, and an associate member of the American Association for Justice. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors for both MusicalFare Theatre Company and Musicians United. Mr. Leslie resides in Getzville.

Mr. Taber returns to Phillips Lytle from General Electric where he held the position of International Legal Counsel. He focuses his practice in the areas of corporations, general business, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate and finance, and has significant experience in the areas of telecommunications law and cooperative corporations. Mr. Taber received his J.D. from Cornell University and his B.S. in Business Management, graduating first in his class from Cornell University. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and Jamestown Bar Association. A resident of Bemus Point, Mr. Taber also serves as Chairman of the Pearl City Lyceum.

04-19-2007

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Phillips Lytle, L.L.P.

PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP NAMES JOHN TABER TO PARTNER
The law firm of Phillips Lytle LLP, a full service law firm with statewide coverage, has named John Taber with the firm’s Chautauqua office as partner. His appointment is effective immediately.

Mr. Taber returns to Phillips Lytle from General Electric where he held the position of International Legal Counsel. He focuses his practice in the areas of corporations, general business, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate and finance, and has significant experience in the areas of telecommunications law and cooperative corporations. Mr. Taber received his J.D. from Cornell University and his B.S. in Business Management, graduating first in his class from Cornell University. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and Jamestown Bar Association. A resident of Bemus Point, Mr. Taber also serves as Chairman of the Pearl City Lyceum.

04-19-2007

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Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, L.L.P.

Senator Robert Jubelirer Joins Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP (“Obermayer”), a full service law firm headquartered in Philadelphia for over 100 years, today announced that former Pennsylvania State Senate President Pro Tempore Robert C. Jubelirer has joined the firm as a partner. According to Robert I. Whitelaw, Managing Partner, Jubelirer will launch the firm’s Government Affairs practice in Harrisburg and open a new regional office in Altoona to develop business opportunities from Central Pennsylvania’s burgeoning economy.

“I’m thrilled that Senator Jubelirer chose to bring his decades of experience in state government and tremendous knowledge of the political process in Pennsylvania to Obermayer,” said Whitelaw. “Our clients will benefit not only from Jubelirer’s skilled representation and access to state government officials, but also his deep familiarity with the legislative, administrative and regulatory landscape in the Commonwealth.”

Prior to joining Obermayer, Jubelirer served eight terms (1975-2006) representing the 30th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate, which includes all of Bedford, Blair, Fulton and Huntingdon Counties and Menno Township in Mifflin County. Senator Jubelirer served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate for nearly 21 years, which currently stands as the longest time any member has served in this role. Before ascending to President Pro Tempore, Jubelirer twice served as the Republican Floor Leader. In 2001, Senator Jubelirer was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor when then Governor Tom Ridge resigned to serve as Director of Homeland Security. He held that office with its additional responsibilities until January 2003.

During his tenure in the Pennsylvania State Senate, Jubelirer provided leadership on major issues such as economic development, transportation improvements, job creation, open government, education reform and property tax relief. He sponsored legislation creating Pennsylvania’s Tuition Account Program and the state’s Sunshine Law, and led the fight for major child protection measures known as “Ashley’s Law.”

Senator Jubelirer was a driving force in securing state funding for key economic, community and cultural projects, highlighted by the Blair County Ballpark, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Double-A affiliate, and the Blair County Convention Center. His leadership has earned recognition and awards including:

* Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association
* National Federation of Independent Business
* Blair County Chapter of the NAACP
* Pennsylvania Bar Association’s President’s Award
* Common Cause Champion of Good Government Award
* Dickinson School of Law Career Achievement Award
* The Pennsylvania State University Distinguished Alumni Award

Senator Jubelirer remains involved in numerous community and civic activities, including serving as Chairman of the Blair County Multiple Sclerosis Society.

04-19-2007

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Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, L.L.P.

Cooley Godward Kronish Establishes Clinical Teaching Fellowship at Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School today announced that Cooley Godward Kronish LLP has committed $250,000 to support a teaching fellowship for five years for the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (IRC), which enables law students to get practical training by representing individual immigrants and immigrants’ rights organizations. Attorney Jennifer H. Lee has been named the inaugural Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year.

The clinic, directed by Associate Professor Jayashri Srikantiah, teaches about two dozen students each year how to represent indigent individual immigrants on a variety of matters such as: seeking humanitarian relief from deportation on behalf of non-citizens with criminal convictions; obtaining asylum protection for non-citizens who flee persecution; and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic violence to gain lawful status in the United States. The IRC shares an affinity with Cooley’s pro bono practice, which includes providing counsel in immigration and human rights cases.

"Immigrants’ rights are a major civil rights issue of our time,” said IRC director Jayashri Srikantiah. “Together with the Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow Jennifer Lee, I hope to inspire and teach the next generation of compassionate and public service-minded lawyers.”

Cooley’s gift has grown out of a long-standing relationship with Stanford Law School and a shared focus with the IRC on immigrants’ human rights. Cooley has been an affiliate partner of another clinic, the Stanford Community Law Clinic, since 2003.

“We’re pleased to help support the teaching mission of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Stanford Law,” said Maureen Alger, Cooley’s full-time pro bono partner. “The IRC’s work dovetails with the Cooley’s ongoing commitment to pro bono work on behalf of indigent immigrants and asylum-seekers.”

Lee is joining the IRC from private practice. She has extensive experience working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence and was director of the Community Liaison Project at Sanctuary for Families’ Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services in New York. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review, an editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Following law school, she clerked for the late Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson of the Eastern District of New York.

“I am honored and excited to be the first Cooley Godward Kronish Fellow,” Lee said. “I look forward to building upon the impressive track record of the IRC in training Stanford law students by advancing the rights of immigrants in this country.”

Cooley attorneys regularly represent indigent immigrants who have been the subject of persecution in their home country before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Cooley is co-counsel on a landmark case, Santillan, et al. v. Gonzales, et al., filed in federal district court in San Francisco, in which the court granted summary judgment in favor of a nationwide class of lawful permanent residents who had been denied documentary proof of their lawful status, or "green cards.”

In addition, Cooley recently teamed with civil rights groups, including the ACLU and the Mexican-American Legal Defense & Education Fund, to challenge a law passed by the City of Escondido, Calif. that precluded "illegal aliens" from renting or staying in rental property in that city. The team obtained an injunction and the city dropped the ban and agreed to pay fees and costs.

The IRC is currently representing clients in several immigration-related cases in state, federal, immigration, and international courts. Recent successes include: the IRC’s efforts on behalf of 24 civil rights groups in Lopez v. Gonzales before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled in favor of the non-citizen in that case; numerous victories in immigration court on behalf of lawful permanent residents with past criminal convictions; several cases in which the IRC worked successfully to secure legal status in the United States for clients who were immigrant survivors of domestic violence; and an asylum case in which the IRC represented a Guatemalan woman who fled severe domestic and gang-related violence.

The IRC is one of ten clinics that operate within the umbrella clinical education program, the Stanford Legal Clinic. Clinical education at Stanford Law Schoold provides in-depth, hands-on learning opportunities that prepare students for real-world legal practice, and it helps instill in students a fundamental, lifetime commitment to public service and pro bono activities. Students in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic interview and counsel clients, investigate facts, develop case theory, interview witnesses, write declarations and briefs, and argue cases in immigration court. Students also conduct multi-disciplinary advocacy work on behalf of immigrants’ rights organizations and community organizations to protect the human rights of all immigrants.

“Clinical education is a teaching-intensive incubator for tomorrow’s public service and pro bono lawyers, as well as a training ground for all future lawyers—whatever their long-term career intentions,” said Larry Marshall, professor of law, David and Stephanie Mills Director of Clinical Education, and associate dean for Public Interest and Clinical Education. “The Cooley Fellowship will enable us to offer more students closely supervised clinical training, and the opportunity to reflect deeply on the work they do.”

About the Stanford Legal Clinic

Stanford Law School runs a variety of clinics that litigate in a number of specialized fields, including immigrants’ rights, community law, cyberlaw, environmental protection, and educational advocacy. The clinics operate cohesively as a single law firm—the Stanford Legal Clinic (SLC)—and provide pro bono representation to the public. Clinical courses are structured as supervised settings that teach students: how to work with clients and colleagues, how to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in practice, and how to apply legal concepts taught hypothetically or in the abstract in the classroom to a real world, client representation situation.

Overall, the SLC has the capacity for every student to take one clinical course at some point during their three years at Stanford Law School. The school’s long term goal is to expand the number and range of its clinical courses and develop a “clinical rotation” where students take only a clinic during a particular quarter—with no competing exams or classes. Expanding the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and other course offerings within the Stanford Legal Clinic is a central part of the comprehensive curricular innovation underway at Stanford Law School.

04-19-2007

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Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, L.L.P.

International Taxation Expert Joins Hughes Hubbard in Miami
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced today that
Richard. L. Winston, who practices in the areas of corporate and international taxation, has joined its Miami office.

Winston, who was formerly a partner with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, focuses on structuring and analyzing cross border transactions in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Andrew Braiterman, the Chair of Hughes Hubbard’s tax practice, said “Mr. Winston’s addition bolsters the firm’s already strong capabilities in the international tax arena, in particular in Latin America, where Richard has extensive experience.”

The 2006 edition of Chambers USA noted that Richard Winston is “thorough, diligent and creative” and impresses clients with his “sharp, up-to-the-minute corporate and international tax advice.”

Mr. Winston represents a number of Global 500 corporations on both U.S. and non-U.S. tax matters, including income tax and VAT issues. A number of non-U.S. clients have specially retained Mr. Winston to handle their tax structuring issues in Europe and Latin America. Timothy McCarthy, Managing Partner of the Miami office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Latin American practice, said “Mr. Winston represents an exciting expansion for the office and for our Latin American corporate practice. His arrival is especially timely as Miami continues to grow as the Gateway to Latin America.”

Mr. Winston received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1990 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1994 where he was an Editor of the Virginia Law Review and an Executive Editor of the Virginia Tax Review. He also received an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1995. He is admitted to the bar in Florida, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

04-19-2007

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