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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.

Charles Carey to Speak on Bond Financing for Affordable Housing Projects
Mintz Levin attorney Charles Carey will speak at An Overview of Bond Financing for Affordable Housing Projects, a seminar sponsored by the Boston Bar Association Affordable Housing Committee of the Real Estate Section, Thursday, March 8, 2007. This seminar will provide an overview of the important role bond financing plays in the development and financing of affordable housing projects. Panelists will explain how bonds work and the role of issuers, underwriters, rating agencies and other parties.

Charles is a member in the firm's Boston and New York offices and practices in the Public Law Section. He has extensive experience in taxable and tax-exempt revenue bond financings.

03-08-2007

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Alston & Bird LLP

Senator Dole to Co-Chair President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors
President Bush named Senator Bob Dole and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to serve as co-chairs on The President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors.

President Bush met with the co-chairs on March 7th and said, "I've asked two of America's fine public servants, Senator Dole and Secretary Shalala, to chair a commission that will analyze our health care both at the Defense Department and at the Veterans Department, to ensure that not only our soldiers but their families have got complete confidence in the government's upholding its responsibility to treat those who have been wounded.... And I'm confident that this commission will bring forth the truth. And as I assured the chairmen, I am confident that there will be a quick response to any problems that you may find."

Senator Bob Dole, a special counsel at Alston & Bird, was elected to Congress from his home state of Kansas in 1960 and to the U.S. Senate in 1968. He resigned from the Senate in 1996. His service includes active duty in World War II, during which he was gravely wounded and received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster.

03-08-2007

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Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, LLP

Kramer Levin Client Illinois Union Wins Summary Judgment Against Wendy’s
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel client Illinois Union (one of the ACE Group of Companies) was granted a summary judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (James L. Graham, J.), dismissing this suit by Wendy’s in a 21-page opinion. The suit had charged Illinois Union with bad faith for its refusal to indemnify Wendy’s and its wholly-owned subsidiary Triune Corporation for the millions of dollars they had paid to settle claims brought by certain franchisees based on alleged misrepresentations and deceptive business practices. Illinois Union had refused coverage under its policy on the ground that Wendy’s and Triune had not complied with the policy’s timely notice requirements. In a case of first impression under Ohio law, the court held that the insureds’ failure to satisfy the notice requirements of this “claims-made” policy barred coverage regardless of any showing by the insurer that it had been prejudiced thereby, and despite the fact that the notice obligation appeared in the policy as a “condition” to coverage rather than as part of the policy’s insuring clause.

Philip Kaufman, Yehudis Lewis and Julie Weiswasser were part of the Kramer Levin team that represented Illinois Union.

03-08-2007

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King & Spalding

Chilton Varner, A King & Spalding Trial Lawyer, Receives American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Award
Chilton Davis Varner, a partner and trial lawyer at King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, has been selected by the American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta chapter as the recipient of its 2007 Judge Learned Hand Award. The annual award honors an outstanding leader of the legal profession who exemplifies the high principles for which Judge Hand was renowned.

Varner will accept the award during ceremonies at the Judge Learned Hand Award luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Atlanta on June 5.

The American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Award was established in memory of the legendary figure who was Senior Judge of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he served from 1924 to 1951. Widely admired as a dean among American jurists, Judge Hand was famous for the extensive range of decisions he rendered in more than 2,000 cases.

Varner has 30 years of courtroom experience as a trial lawyer defending corporations in product liability, business torts, contract and other commercial disputes. She has been identified by the National Law Journal as one of the country’s top women litigators. The International Who’s Who in Product Liability judged her the leading product liability practitioner in Georgia in 2005 and as one of fourteen “most highly regarded” product liability practitioners globally in 2006.

Varner was selected as a member of the 11-member American delegation to the 2004-2005 Anglo-American Legal Exchange led by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia to discuss issues of law with their British counterparts. In 2004, she was appointed by then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern practice in all civil cases in the federal court system. She is a member of the board of directors of Brown & Brown, Inc., a publicly traded insurance broker, and serves on the Emory University Board of Trustees, Wesley Woods Geriatric Center Board of Directors and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors.

03-08-2007

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Sponsors Emory Law Symposium On Problems Facing Women at Large Law Firms
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, is a presenting sponsor of an Emory University School of Law symposium on the attrition of women from the legal workplace, particularly women lawyers of color. The symposium, entitled “No More Early Exits,” will be held at the law school’s Tull Hall, in Atlanta, Ga., on March 31, from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. The program is free of charge.

The symposium was prompted by the release of a recent study by the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. The study found that women of color “are leaving large law firms in droves because they are victims of an uninterrupted cycle of institutional discrimination.”

Terri Plummer McClure, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of UPS, is the luncheon keynote speaker. Also speaking is Jill Schachner Chanen, legal affairs writer for the ABA Journal.

The symposium was developed for lawyers, law students, recruiters and educators by Emory Law’s Legal Association of Women Students and by former King & Spalding lawyer Katherine Brokaw, who is assistant dean for student affairs and director of academic assistance at the law school.

03-08-2007

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King & Spalding

John Hinchey, Head of King & Spalding’s Construction Disputes Practice, Named President-Elect of the American College of Construction Lawyers
John W. Hinchey, head of the construction disputes practice of King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, has been chosen president-elect of the American College of Construction Lawyers. He will assume office in February 2008.

The American College of Construction Lawyers is one of the premier legal associations in America. Founded in 1990, it comprises the top one percent of the construction bar in the United States and includes lawyers and judges from Canada, Britain and France. Fellowship is extended by invitation to those lawyers and judges who, after careful investigation, are found to have mastered the practice or the teaching of construction law and dispute resolution in the highly complex technical and legal fields pertaining to the built environment, and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. The ACCL provides a professional forum for its Fellows to explore and analyze complex legal and industry issues arising nationally and internationally.

Hinchey was inducted into the ACCL in 1992. He has served on the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee for five years.

At King & Spalding, Hinchey focuses his practice on national and international construction arbitration and dispute resolution. He represents clients across a broad spectrum of construction, contracting and procurement activities. He divides his time between King & Spalding’s Atlanta and London offices.

03-08-2007

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Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Joel W. Heydenburk appointed to Young Leaders Council Steering Committee
Jackson Walker attorney Joel W. Heydenburk was recently appointed to the Steering Committee of the Young Leaders Council, a subset of the Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council. The Young Leaders Council is made up of professionals under the age of 40 who are involved in commercial real estate. The Council provides educational and mentoring opportunities to members and assists the Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council with both political and philanthropic community affairs.

Mr. Heydenburk is an associate in the Business Transactions section of Jackson Walker. His practice focuses on real estate and finance transactions, and his experience includes preparing and negotiating commercial property leases, representing buyers and sellers in acquisitions and sales of commercial properties, and preparing loan documents and associated real estate documents for commercial mortgage lenders.

03-08-2007

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