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Gide, Loyrette & Nouel, PC

Gide Loyrette Nouel is pleased to announce that Yan Lan and Han Qimeng, partners in Gide’s China practice, have been chosen as two of the eleven experts who are to be founder members of ICC China Lawyers Corps.
Yan Lan, a partner in Gide's Beijing office, has been selected to work with the ICC China Lawyers Corps as international direct investment expert and international commodity trade expert.

Han Qimeng, a partner in Gide’s Shanghai office, will act as an expert in the fields of construction & real estate and project financing & management.

The International Chamber of Commerce set up ICC China Lawyers Corps. as an international legal service organization aimed at providing outstanding legal services for Chinese and overseas enterprises. As an important resource for ICC China, the lawyers’ corps will primarily serve ICC China’s member companies and other firms involved in international business.

01-22-2007

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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

DEPUTY AG BURBACH JOINS GARDERE
Texas Deputy Attorney General for Litigation Edward D. “Ed” Burbach will join Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, one of the Southwest’s largest full-service law firms, to lead the firm’s Austin Litigation Group. Appointed in 2003 by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Mr. Burbach served as the Texas Attorney General’s lead litigator.

In the AG’s office, Mr. Burbach successfully handled an active docket while managing 11 divisions staffed by over 600 employees, including more than 250 attorneys, and a $35 million budget. He represented the state and its leadership in high-profile litigation. The suits included energy, insurance, financial services, and environmental claims, Public Information Act challenges, disputes regarding the historic Texas Tobacco Settlement, school finance, and election law challenges brought by Presidential, Congressional, Gubernatorial, and State House candidates. In November 2005, he was named as one of the Top 50 In-House Counsel in Texas by the Texas Lawyer newspaper.

Attorney General Abbott thanked Mr. Burbach for the leadership he has provided to the Office of Attorney General and the State of Texas. “For more than three years, Ed Burbach has been a trusted advisor whose expert legal skills have yielded real results for the State of Texas,” said Mr. Abbott. “Under Ed’s leadership, our Consumer Protection Division obtained tens of millions of dollars in restitution for Texas consumers and our Civil Medicaid Fraud Division uncovered over a hundred million dollars in fraudulent Medicaid overpayments. As Deputy Attorney General for Litigation, Ed Burbach guided the State through its most difficult legal disputes, including lawsuits challenging the Texas tobacco settlement and the state’s school funding plan. We all appreciate Ed’s distinguished service to this agency and wish him well on his return to the private sector.”

Prior to his appointment to the Attorney General’s office, Mr. Burbach was a partner with Strasburger & Price LLP. While in private practice, he successfully represented clients on a variety of issues including class actions involving federal and state statutory violations, antitrust, admiralty, energy, insurance, oil well and pipeline catastrophes, and constitutional disputes. He has particular energy industry experience, having made numerous presentations to practitioners in the oil and gas business in the U.S. and Europe and serving as Advisory Board member and longtime faculty member of PETEX, the Petroleum Extension Service of the University of Texas at Austin.

“Ed’s extensive litigation experience will be a key to our efforts to build a Litigation group in Austin, and enhance the litigation group firm-wide,” says Gardere Managing Partner Steve Good. “His background with legislative matters will also serve as a perfect complement to the existing efforts of our Austin office. We are proud to welcome him to Gardere.” Adds Kim Yelkin, the Executive Partner in Gardere’s Austin office, “We are excited to bring such an accomplished attorney to our team. Ed’s experience at the Attorney General's office will not only serve as a boost to our litigation practice throughout the State, but also to the firm’s growth in Austin.”

Mr. Burbach is a member of the Bar of all state and federal courts in Texas, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He has had extensive professional association memberships, including the American Bar Association, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Maritime Law Association of the United States, Association of Average Adjustors (U.K.), Houston- Abidjan Partnership in Trade Committee, and the College of the State Bar of Texas.

01-22-2007

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Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.

BusinessWeek notes new Fross Zelnick sound application
Application filed by partner David Ehrlich seeks registration of Tarzan yell as sound trademark for slot machines on behalf of client Edgar Rice Burroughs.

01-22-2007

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Flaster Greenberg

Attorney William J. Burnett Presents at Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference Third Circuit Bankruptcy Forum
William J. Burnett, a bankruptcy shareholder at Flaster/Greenberg in the Philadelphia office, will present at the Third Circuit Bankruptcy Forum hosted by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference on Friday, February 2, 2007. The event will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Burnett, together with five other bankruptcy lawyers with practices in the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey, will discuss interesting cases that occurred in 2006 in the Third Circuit during the first session beginning at 8:30 a.m. Burnett concentrates his practice in bankruptcy, reorganizations, and workouts. His representations include financially distressed companies, chapter 11 debtors-in-possession, creditors’ committees, trustees, plan administrators, creditors (secured and unsecured), landlords, equipment lessors, asset purchasers, and preference plaintiffs and defendants. He is admitted to practice in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Insolvency professionals practicing in the Third Circuit and all judges sitting in the Third Circuit are invited to attend the Forum. The education sessions will include business and consumer bankruptcy breakout sessions and a Third Circuit review session. All sessions will be dual-tracked worth five CLE credit hours. In addition, the Forum will include a mock Third Circuit argument before Judges Ambro, Rendell and Sigmund argued by Judge Walrath and Edward C. Toole, Jr.

Burnett, a resident of Philadelphia, graduated cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1995 and graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1991 where he holds a B.A. A member of the Board of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Burnett is also an adjunct professor at the Temple University Beasley School of Law for the Integrated Transactional Program.

01-22-2007

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The Law Firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates

Edgar Snyder & Associates Appoints Human Resources Manager
The law firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates is pleased to announce the appointment of Bernard Kuzma as Human Resources Manager. Mr. Kuzma brings over 25 years of comprehensive experience as a human resources professional and administrative generalist to the law firm.

A Baldwin Township resident, Mr. Kuzma received his bachelor’s degree from Penn State University and his master’s in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, the Association of Legal Administrators, and the Pittsburgh Human Resources Association. In addition, Mr. Kuzma was a contributing author to “Smart Moves for People in Charge.”

Edgar Snyder & Associates is a plaintiff’s personal injury law firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Altoona, Ebensburg, Erie and Johnstown.

01-22-2007

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Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC Welcomes Associate Tishia A. Green to the Tampa Office
WHO: Ms. Tishia A. Green

WHAT: Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC, a national labor and employment law firm representing management welcomes Associate Tishia A. Green.

PRACTICE: Green joins Constangy’s employment litigation practice group where she represents employers exclusively in all areas of labor and employment law. In addition to litigation, she provides companies with preventative training and is a frequent speaker on workplace diversity.

EDUCATION: J.D., Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, IN;
B.S., Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL

ADMITTED TO BAR:2003, Florida; 2003,United States District Courts for the Middle; 2004, Northern Districts of Florida and 2005, Southern Districts of Florida

RESIDENCE: Tampa, Florida

01-22-2007

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Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP

Eric S. Proser Promoted to Member at the Law Firm of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC
WHO: Mr. Eric Proser

WHAT: Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC, a national labor and employment law firm representing management and headquartered in Atlanta, promotes Workers’ Compensation Team Leader Eric Proser to member (partner).

PRACTICE: Proser is the Department Head of the firm’s workers’ compensation practice and has been successfully defending workers' compensation claims for nearly a decade. Under his leadership, the firms’ workers’ compensation practice has expanded and now includes defense of employers, self-insurers and insurers in Georgia (Atlanta and Macon offices), North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Alabama. In addition to his litigation practice, he counsels employers and insurers on how to prevent or minimize exposure to work injury claims, and on implementing best practices and light duty return to work programs. Proser is a frequent speaker at seminars and symposiums on a wide variety of workers’ compensation topics.

EDUCATION: J.D., Emory University School of Law; B.A. with honors, State University of New York at Albany

ADMITTED TO BAR: 1997, Georgia; 1997, New Jersey

RESIDENCE: Atlanta, Georgia

01-22-2007

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