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Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, L.L.P.

Fidelity Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President to Join WilmerHale
WilmerHale is pleased to welcome Stuart Fross as a partner in its Investment Management Practice. Mr. Fross joins the firm from Fidelity Management and Research Company where he was Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Assistant Secretary to the Fidelity Group of Funds.

Mr. Fross has extensive experience advising fund boards and their advisers, including the Fidelity Group of Funds, Fidelity’s closed-end fund board and the board for its Luxembourg-based funds. Mr. Fross’ experience will enhance WilmerHale’s extensive Investment Management practice, which focuses on the representation of SEC-registered open- and closed-end funds, hedge funds, offshore funds and registered and unregistered investment advisers. The group provides advice on a variety of issues including entity structure and organization, SEC filings, mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, compliance matters, and other corporate and securities law issues. At Fidelity, Mr. Fross most recently oversaw that firm’s Strategic Initiatives area, which supports a wide variety of Fidelity business units, including all of Fidelity’s equity and fixed income trading operations, and Fidelity’s exchange traded fund effort. He was previously the General Counsel of Fidelity International Limited, and has had responsibility for a wide range of international businesses, including Fidelity Canada.

“Stuart and I have known each other almost for almost 20 years. He is a highly respected member of the investment management community. We are very pleased to welcome him to the partnership and look forward to sharing with our clients the benefit of his extensive domestic and international investment management expertise,” said Christopher Harvey, co-chair of the Investment Management Group at WilmerHale.

Mr. Fross received his JD from the University of Chicago in 1985 where he was awarded the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic Award. He graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with his AB in 1981. He is also on the faculty of Boston University School of Law in the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law.

04-12-2007

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White & Case, LLP

White & Case Wins Appellate "Foil" Case For Insurers
White & Case recently secured a significant appellate victory in a Freedom of Information Law ("FOIL") case involving insurance company clients. The Appellate Division, First Department of New York County, in Markowitz v. Serio that was decided on April 5, overturned a lower court decision, agreeing with White & Case's argument that granting access to certain proprietary information as to policy cancellations, non-renewals and declinations would give the companies' competitors an unfair market advantage.

"This win reaffirms the application of an important FOIL exemption that protects companies which volunteer to, or must, file proprietary information with New York public agencies from harmful disclosure," said Richard G. Liskov, counsel in White & Case's New York office. "This decision will have a great impact in New York and possibly persuade courts in other states to rule the same way."

Insurance companies doing business in New York state are required to disclose proprietary information to the New York Insurance Department, which is not released to the public at large. In 2004, concerned with the availability and affordability of auto insurance in Brooklyn, Borough President Marty Markowitz sued the Department, under the State's Freedom of Information Law seeking access to the insurers' proprietary data on auto policy counts by zip code and cancellations, non-renewals and declinations by zip code. In December, 2004 White & Case intervened on behalf of several insurance companies in a suit brought by the Borough President against the Insurance Department. In January, 2006 the New York Supreme Court ruled that the Department had no right to exempt the requested data from disclosure under the Law. The Appellate Division unanimously reversed that decision, citing an exemption in the Freedom of Information Law that allows government agencies to refuse disclosure if it will cause substantial competitive harm to the company filing the information.

04-12-2007

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White & Case, LLP

White & Case Advises Société Générale on its Acquisition of Banco Cacique
White & Case advised Société Générale on its acquisition of Banco Cacique, a major Brazilian retail bank which employs 1,800 people and serves 600,000 customers. The completion of the transaction is subject to approval by the Central Bank of Brazil.

The White & Case team advising Société Générale was led by partner Bernard Tézé in Paris, working closely with partner Donald Baker and associate Daniel Duval in São Paulo. The Firm worked in collaboration with partner Moacir Zilbovicius and his team at Brazilian firm Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados.

"This transaction is a significant milestone for Société Générale in terms of the realisation of its growth strategy in the Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese markets," commented Bernard Tézé.

The transaction follows on from Société Générale's recent acquisition of 20 percent of the shares in Rosbank, the second largest retail banking institution in Russia. Société Générale has also taken an option to acquire an additional 50 percent of the shares in Rosbank, on which Bernard Tézé, along with White & Case's Moscow team, also advised Société Générale.

04-12-2007

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Stoel Rives, LLP

Stoel Rives Principal Ed Reeves Receives 2007 Torchbearer Award
The law firm Stoel Rives LLP is pleased to announce that Edward Reeves, a principal in the firm, has received the prestigious 2007 Torchbearer Award from the Cascade AIDS Project (CAP).

The Torchbearer Award is presented annually to a person or organization that has made a major contribution of hours, resources or volunteers to CAP and a major contribution to the field of HIV/AIDS education and advocacy. Past recipients of the award include Nike and Senator Gordon Smith.

Reeves was honored for his 21 years of service to CAP and his long history of HIV/AIDS pro bono work. In the 1980s, Reeves led a legal team that provided pro bono representation on a precedent-setting case involving an HIV-positive individual who had been denied health care benefits by his employer because of his HIV status. Reeves has been involved with CAP since 1985 and currently donates his time by providing labor and employment advice and conducting regular training in human resources law.

“Ed’s work on issues relating to HIV and AIDS has had a far-reaching effect,” says Walter Van Valkenburg, Managing Partner of Stoel Rives’ Portland office. “We’re very proud of what he has accomplished, and we’re glad to see his efforts publicly recognized.”

Reeves’ law practice at Stoel Rives focuses on counseling employers, educating management in labor and employment law, and advising private colleges and universities on education law. He also provides neutral mediation and arbitration services. Reeves is listed annually as one of the top employment lawyers in Oregon in both Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-06) and The Best Lawyers in America (2006-07). He earned his J.D. from Boston University School of Law and his B.A. in history, together with a certificate in teacher preparation, from Yale University. While attending law school, Reeves served as a legal intern with the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston. Before joining Stoel Rives in 1984, he was the law clerk to Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Edwin J. Peterson.

04-12-2007

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Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross, P.C.

Peter G. Verniero to Chair New Jersey Ad Hoc Committee on Continuing Legal Education
Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross is pleased to announce that Peter G. Verniero, a Member of the Firm and former Supreme Court Associate Justice, will be chairing the New Jersey Ad Hoc Committee on Continuing Legal Education. The committee's focus is on revisiting New Jersey's continuing legal education requirements and to make recommendations on how to improve the quality and delivery of CLE to New Jersey attorneys.

04-12-2007

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Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell Attorneys At Law

Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell Partner Suzanne A. Singer Wins Case For Broward Community College
Suzanne A. Singer, a partner with Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell in Miami recently won a defense verdict in Federal Court in and for the Southern District of Florida for the District Board of Trustees of Broward Community College (BCC).

BCC was sued by an individual who filed a religious discrimination and retaliation complaint under 42 USC section 1983 and The Florida Civil Rights Act. The plaintiff – a Catholic adjunct instructor employed by the defendant – claimed that he was given an unfair course-load assignment based on his religious affiliation. The plaintiff further argued that other instructors belonging to different religious affiliations – namely Evangelical Protestant – were, in fact, given preferential course-load assignments. Likewise, the Plaintiff claimed that he was retaliated against when BCC non-renewed him as an adjunct for filing an EEOC complaint. He also claimed that BCC retaliated against him for speech that was protected speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution when he complained of matters of public importance including that BCC’s policies were designed to encourage the teaching of a particular religious viewpoint and the expenditure of public funds to aid a particular religious agenda was adopted.

The court granted Ms. Singer’s motion for summary judgment on behalf of BCC and Dr. Winston Thompson, Department Chair of the Social Science Department, with regard to the retaliation claims under 42 USC section 1983 and The Florida Civil Rights Act.

The case then proceeded to trial on behalf of BCC for the discrimination claim under The Florida Civil Rights Act. During the three-day trial, Ms. Singer maintained that the plaintiff was not discriminated against in course-load assignment and the disparate treatment, if any, was for reasons other then his religious affiliation.

The jury of eight (8) men and women agreed with Ms. Singer’s arguments and ruled in favor of BCC.

04-12-2007

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Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

Eighteen Norris McLaughlin Members Named Among New Jersey
The Somerville law firm Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. is pleased to announce that 18 of its members have been selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers® 2007.

New Jersey Super Lawyers are selected based on a peer-review survey mailed to more than 32,000 attorneys throughout the state, a blue-ribbon panel review process, and independent research on each candidate. Only five percent of New Jersey attorneys are given this honor.

The firm’s 2007 Super Lawyers include:

· Morris S. Bauer, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
· William A. Dreier, Alternative Dispute Resolution
· Victor S. Elgort, Tax
· Daniel R. Guadalupe, Business Litigation
· Edward A. Hogan, Environmental
· Peter D. Hutcheon, Business/Corporate
· Steven A. Karg, Business Litigation
· James H. Laskey, Utilities
· Jeralyn L. Lawrence, Family Law
· Michael K. Ligorano, Immigration
· J. Anthony Manger, Health Care
· G. Robert Marcus, Corporate Law
· Richard A. Norris, Family Law
· Ira S. Novak, Health Care
· Richard J. Schachter, Business Litigation
· James J. Shrager, Business Litigation
· Edward G. Sponzilli, Business Litigation
· Michael J. Stanton, Family Law

04-12-2007

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