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Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC

2006 Super Lawyers
George H. Barber, Kenneth W. Biermacher, Joseph M. Coleman, Kenneth C. Johnston, Raymond J. Kane, Arthur V. Lambert, Michael A. Logan, Gordon B. Russell were each selected as a "Super Lawyer" for 2006. Texas Super Lawyers is a comprehensive listing of outstanding lawyers in more than 50 areas of practice, and represents less than 5 percent of the attorneys in Texas. Texas Super Lawyers are selected in an extensive nomination and balloting process, based upon over 20,000 votes cast by members of the Texas Bar.

01-29-2007

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Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P.

Kennedy Covington Recognized as Community Leader in the Arts
Kennedy Covington is a proud recipient of a 2006 Spirit Award from The Mint Museums and Donald Haack Diamonds. Created in 1986, the Spirit Awards honor organizations or people whose contributions have significantly enhanced the local arts community.

01-29-2007

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Partner Russell Greenblatt Quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Retiree Medical Coverage
Russell E. Greenblatt, a partner in the Firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article addressing the issue of retiree health benefits and how companies are considering using trusts to shed the burden of legacy costs (Managing: Now Someone Else Has to Tell Retirees 'No', January 29, 2007).

01-29-2007

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Hunton & Williams, LLP

Hunton & Williams Names Frank Emory as New Head of Litigation Department
Hunton & Williams LLP today announced it has named Frank E. Emory Jr. as the head of its 300-lawyer Litigation Department, one of the largest in the nation. In his new role, Emory will be responsible for both the litigation and intellectual property practices. Emory, the first African American to become a department head at the firm, focuses his practice on cases involving intellectual property, complex contract disputes, business torts, and covenants against competition. He has tried more than 50 cases in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels and administrative agencies, including serving as lead counsel in New York federal court for Bank of America in a successful jury trial defense last year of a patent infringement claim filed by TradeCard which had sought a multimillion dollar damage award against the bank.

He is a member of the firm’s Executive and Diversity Activities Committees and has served as co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Strategies Committee. Emory also helped build a partnership for the firm with Sodexho and Duke Energy that resulted in a joint summer clerk program for minority law students.

“Frank has been a leader at our firm on the practice level and for our diversity initiatives, and we are pleased to have him take on the responsibility of leading our Litigation Department,” said Wally Martinez, the firm’s managing partner. “He is not only an excellent trial lawyer but he is a strong leader committed to continuing to grow our national litigation practice.”

Emory received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, cum laude, and his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He will work from the firm’s Washington and Charlotte offices. “I am honored to lead this group of incredibly talented lawyers,” said Emory. “I look forward to continuing to grow the group and reinforcing its reputation as a go-to national trial practice for companies in the United States and abroad that face significant litigation challenges.”

The Hunton & Williams’ Litigation Department has tripled in size in the past 15 years, and recently expanded to the West Coast with the addition of lawyers from Los Angeles-based trial boutique O’Donnell & Mortimer. It boasts a large number of senior trial lawyers who have handled an average of 75 trials each in their careers, and several of which are Fellows in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

The practice has represented clients across the United States and around the globe in a full range of matters, including bankruptcy, competition, complex commercial litigation, bet-the-company cases, intellectual property, product liability and toxic tort, and securities and white collar criminal defense. The team focuses on cases involving substantial enterprise risk and has handled more than 250 trials and 23,000 matters in the last five years.

Hunton & Williams’ clients include many of the Fortune 50, and the team serves as lead litigation counsel for Alcoa and is a preferred litigation provider for Pfizer. Members of the Litigation Department have handled numerous high-profile cases in the past year. They represented Duke Energy in the recent Supreme Court case U.S. v. Duke Energy Corporation regarding New Source Review, and represented MercExchange in the closely watched eBay patent infringement litigation, which also climbed to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. Hunton & Williams attorneys were also co-counsel for NTP against Research in Motion resulting in NTP’s $612.5 million final settlement and also counseled the nation’s largest wireless carrier in a $41 billion merger.

01-29-2007

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Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP

Gentry Locke Paralegals honored, named to RVPA Board
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP is pleased to announce that Lois Sumpter, a paralegal with the Firm since 2004, has been named “Member of the Year” by her fellow paralegals of the Roanoke Valley Paralegal Association.

Four other Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore paralegals have been newly elected to serve on the RVPA Board. Lisa Woodson will serve as President, Laura Seifred as Treasurer, and Keysha McNeil and Lisa Wirt will serve on the Board of Directors for the RVPA during 2007.

01-29-2007

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Fenwick & West, LLP

Fenwick & West Represents Symantec in $830 Million Acquisition of Altiris
Fenwick & West LLP represented Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) in its acquisition of Altiris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATRS), a leading provider of IT management software that enables businesses to easily manage and service network-based endpoints – from mobile devices, laptops, and desktops to servers and storage assets. Altiris stockholders will receive $33 per share of Altiris common stock in cash, for a total transaction value of approximately $830 million net-of-cash-acquired. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions, including Altiris stockholder approvals, and is expected to close in the second calendar quarter of 2007.

More information about the transaction can be obtained from the Symantec Web site.

The Fenwick & West transaction team included corporate attorneys Dan Winnike, Doug Cogen, Andrew Luh, Christian Lymn, Mariana Antcheva, Nandini Acharya, Shannon O'Sullivan and Aaron Hou; compensation and benefits attorneys Scott Spector, Blake Martell, Elizabeth Gartland, William Herochik and Mona Clee; technology transactions attorneys Stephen Gillespie, Chad Woodford, Chris Joslyn, Christa Gaines, Darren Hutchins and Lance Stern; patent attorney Daniel Brownstone; trademark attorney Linda Henry; antitrust attorney Mark Ostrau; and tax attorneys Ron Schrotenboer, Adam Halpern and Larissa Neumann.

01-29-2007

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Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP

CRAVATH REPRESENTS IBM IN ITS ACQUISITION OF SOFTEK
Cravath represented IBM in its acquisition of Softek Storage Solutions Corporation, a privately held company based in Vienna, Virginia. The lawyers involved in this matter are partner George F. Schoen and associates William Chou and Kai Haakon E. Liekefett on corporate matters; partner Andrew W. Needham and associate Augustus N. Makris on tax matters; and associates Julia Gray and Lori Diamond Goodman on executive compensation and benefits matters. The deal was announced on January 29, 2007.

01-29-2007

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