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Morrison & Foerster, LLP

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Announces Special Million Dollar Grant For Children and At Risk Youth
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation is pleased to announce grants totaling $1,000,000 to four nonprofit organizations across the country, over and above its customary giving. The organizations and projects chosen for the most recent special grants are: Public Counsel (Los Angeles), Inwood House (New York), Seven Tepees (San Francisco), and the Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation (Denver).

All four of the projects chosen for these unique grants seek to address critical, unmet needs of children and youth by supporting the creation of innovative projects with the potential for significant, lasting impact. The projects will serve their target communities by: advocating on behalf of foster children with severe developmental disabilities in Los Angeles County to obtain services to which they are legally entitled (Public Counsel); creating a computer-based family literacy program for pregnant and parenting teens in the South Bronx (Inwood House); developing and sharing a program to teach life-readiness skills, job training and college/career advising to at-risk teens in San Francisco (Seven Tepees); and establishing a long-term intervention program to provide tutoring, life skills training and adult support to at-risk inner-city youth in Denver (Colorado I Have A Dream).

Paul T. Friedman, a San Francisco litigation partner who chairs the Foundation, said, “Morrison & Foerster has long been deeply involved with philanthropic activities in the communities in which we live and practice. The Foundation is an important part of our firm, and it speaks volumes about the people and culture of Morrison & Foerster.”

The Foundation sought recommendations from throughout the firm for these grants, which represent some of the largest awards in its history. Nearly 90 nominations came from attorneys and staff in every domestic office, and overseas, many of whom are personally involved in these non-profits. The Foundation’s board of directors, consisting of a partner from each of the firm’s domestic regions, reviewed each proposal and unanimously selected the four recipients.

Public Counsel (www.publiccounsel.org) received a $300,000 grant from the Foundation. The grant will be used to create a Developmentally Disabled Child Advocacy Program to address the critical and unmet needs of Los Angeles County children with severe developmental disabilities who either are in the foster care system or have been adopted out of the system. “Public Counsel is extremely thankful to The Morrison & Foerster Foundation for its magnificent support,” said Dan Grunfeld, President/CEO of Public Counsel in Los Angeles, “This extraordinary grant is philanthropy at its best: it will allow us to serve some of the most critically needy and vulnerable children in our society, developmentally disabled foster children.”

Inwood House (www.inwoodhouse.com) received a $250,000 grant from the Foundation. These funds will allow Inwood House to create a computer-based Family Literacy Expansion Project, Family UniverCITY, at the organization’s Teen Family Services Center for pregnant and parenting teens in the South Bronx, as part of its mission to help teens take charge of their lives and become healthy and self-reliant adults. “Inwood House is thrilled to be able to bring new services to the young families of the South Bronx,” said the grant recipient’s Executive Director, Linda Lausell Bryant. “Our teen parents aspire to build a better life for their children, and the key to their success is education. With this Morrison & Foerster Foundation grant, Inwood House will strengthen teen parents’ ability to place learning at the center of family life.”

Seven Tepees (www.7tepees.org) received a $250,000 grant from the Foundation. The grant will allow them to develop a pilot program of teaching life-readiness skills, job training and college/career advising to at-risk teens in San Francisco, and to expand this model for transitioning youth to adulthood by providing consulting and direct services at local public schools. “With a new grant from The Morrison & Foerster Foundation, Seven Tepees aims to expand its college and career guidance program to address a grave need of high school students in San Francisco’s Mission District,” said the grant recipient’s Executive Director, Diane Dodge. “In collaboration with university counseling training programs, Seven Tepees will provide local high schools a seasoned curriculum, career counseling interns, and a plethora of services on school sites including parent and teacher trainings and career fairs for high school juniors and seniors.”

Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation (www.cihadf.org) received a $200,000 grant from the Foundation. These funds will allow the organization to “adopt” a specific group of at-risk students in a Denver school, providing them with the necessary academic and social support throughout grades 3-12 to enable every member of the group to succeed in life and graduate from high school. The program will also separately raise funds to provide academic or vocational scholarships for each student. Former Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation board president Steve Kaplan, who heads the initiative to start more I Have A Dream classes in Denver, noted: “This significant grant provides the Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation with the opportunity to serve an additional 50 children who otherwise would face the likely prospects of significant gang activity, early pregnancy, and dropping out of school. The Morrison & Foerster Foundation’s leadership in our community will inspire many others to support at-risk youth.”

This is the second time that the Foundation has conducted a million-dollar special grant program based on project recommendations by Morrison & Foerster personnel. In 2004, following a similar call for nominations, the Foundation announced that it had selected five nonprofits to share a million-dollar fund. As with the latest set of special grant recipients, those projects focused on serving disadvantaged children and youth in some of the regions where the firm has offices.

01-17-2007

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Object Health Joins Manatt Health Solutions
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, the national law and consulting firm, announced today that Julie Murchinson and Timathie Leslie, principals in Object Health, a healthcare information technology management consulting firm based in San Francisco, and their colleagues have joined Manatt Health Solutions, the policy and business advisory division of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP, effective January 1, 2007.

"We welcome the Object Health group as part of our growing Manatt Health Solutions division, which focuses on strategy and business advice, policy analysis and research, and government relations services for the healthcare industry," said William Bernstein, Chairman of Manatt's national healthcare practice.

"Our healthcare practice is one of the fastest growing and dynamic areas of our Firm," added William Quicksilver, Manatt's Chief Executive Officer. "The addition of Julie and Timi and their colleagues significantly expands our California and national healthcare footprint."

Since 2004, founders Julie Murchinson and Timathie Leslie have led efforts to assist healthcare organizations and communities optimize health information for improved operational efficiencies and clinical health outcomes. Object Health works with foundations, community health centers, communities, health IT companies, healthcare delivery and healthcare payer organizations to achieve improved quality of care enabled by health IT. The Object Health team will remain in their current San Francisco office location as part of Manatt Health Solutions.

"We are delighted to join Manatt Health Solutions, which has a first-class national practice advising a broad range of healthcare companies on business strategy and public policy," said Julie Murchinson, Object Health's co-founder and principal. "Our expertise is a perfect compliment to Manatt's existing practice, and together we will be able to provide healthcare companies with advice on regional variations in healthcare delivery, payment streams and delivery models, organizational readiness to adopt new healthcare IT technology, programs to improve standards of care, and managing diverse patient populations."

Ms. Murchinson is joining Manatt Health Solutions as a managing director.

Previously, Ms. Murchinson served as vice president of services at CareScience, Inc., as a consultant for Deloitte & Touche and as a consultant in the healthcare practice of Ernst & Young. Ms. Murchinson obtained her M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Healthcare and Operations Management. She holds a B.A. in Business Management/Accounting from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.

"This move is a natural evolution for Julie and me," said Timathie Leslie, Object Health's co-founder and principal, who is joining Manatt Health Solutions as a managing director. "Manatt's larger platform will enable us to stay at the forefront of advising clients on new models of healthcare delivery, supported by improved health information technologies. We will also continue our work on health information privacy and security issues."

Ms. Leslie, previously served as director of technology solutions at CareScience, Inc., as director of partner relations for the National IPA Coalition, as a senior healthcare consultant for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and in the IT strategy practice of Coopers & Lybrand. Ms. Leslie holds a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

01-17-2007

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Loeb & Loeb, LLP

Loeb & Loeb’s Chief Information Officer Named ‘IT Director of the Year’
Law Technology News® has named Judi Flournoy, Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Chief Information Officer, the “IT Director of the Year” for 2006.

The award will be presented at the fourth annual Technology Awards, where the magazine recognizes leaders in the field for both innovation and implementation. Nominations were accepted from law firms nationwide for significant achievements in technology, and winners were chosen by a panel of technology experts. The awards will be presented at the LTN Technology Awards Dinner, at LegalTech New York on January 29, 2007.

“Judi set high standards for herself and the IT Department from the day she joined the firm,” said Jerry Post, Loeb & Loeb’s Chief Operating Officer. “She finds solutions to some of the most difficult tech issues we face in providing legal services. Judi also has a rare ability to sell her innovative ideas to lawyers.”

Flournoy joined Loeb & Loeb in June of 2004 and faced an immediate challenge – how to better repurpose the same legal document content used over and over again by the attorneys, staff and clients. Thanks to Flournoy and Loeb’s Technology Department – ‘Loeb Technology Services’ - (a department Judi reengineered when she joined the firm), in June 2006 the firm became an early adopter of an innovative software program, which significantly advances the creation and sharing of work product. They trained the entire firm including 17 new lateral hires who joined just as the new program was rolled out.

The second thing Flournoy’s LTS Department accomplished in 2006 was to switch the firm to a secure instant messaging system called Microsoft Live Communication Server.

“Our fourth annual Law Technology News® Awards recognize the achievements of law firms and law departments in the use of innovative technologies. Today's law firms and legal departments face unprecedented pressures to deliver faster, better and cheaper services. These leaders all have demonstrated creativity, determination and spirit in meeting those goals,” said Monica Bay, editor in chief of Law Technology News®.

Flournoy is on the Editorial Advisory Board for Law Tech News. She is the current president and on the Board of Directors of ILTA (International Legal Technology Association). Flournoy was recently selected by City Tech magazine as a Global Tech Leader for her work with ILTA and “being a successful thought leader and CIO.

01-17-2007

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Loeb & Loeb, LLP

Loeb & Loeb Nashville Partners Ken Kraus And Robert Sullivan on Business TN’s 'Best 150 Lawyers' List
Loeb & Loeb Nashville partners Ken Kraus and Robert Sullivan are included in Business TN’s list of the 'Best 150 Lawyers in Tennessee, published in the January 2007 issue of the magazine. Business TN "polls leading attorneys, judges and corporate executives across the state to spotlight some of the brightest minds in Tennessee's legal community." According to the magazine, as of last June, nearly 18,000 attorneys were practicing in Tennessee. Since 2004, their ranks have grown annually by roughly 550 new attorneys.

Ken Kraus was noted for representing a number of music stars in Nashville including, the Elvis Presley estate, Carrie Underwood, Clint Black, Kid Rock, Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman and Nickel Creek.

Robert Sullivan was noted for administering the Johnny Cash estate, which recently sold his home in Hendersonville to Barry Gibb, and was recognized for handling entertainment litigation and transactions for major recording artists, songwriters and publishers.

Business TN covers the Nashville business community and has a circulation of 36,000.

01-17-2007

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Jones Day, P.C.

Jones Day Acts for Management Team in the Acquisition of the Business of Amtrak Express Parcels Limited
Adam Plainer and Linton Bloomberg acted for a management team in an acquisition of the business of Amtrak Express Parcels Limited following the appointment of administrators on 13 January 2007. The deal was notable in that the purchase had to complete in less than 24 hours from initial instructions and eventually completed at 4am on a Saturday morning for operational purposes.

The West Midlands based express parcels company had suffered financial difficulties and had been seeking a buyer in recent months. The business has a turnover of £80 million and nearly 1,000 employees, with 80 depots across the country.

Assistance was provided by Marc Isaacs, Claire Martin-Royle and Tina Chamberlain.

01-17-2007

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Hogan & Hartson LLP

Hogan & Hartson Partner Craig H. Smith Appointed General Counsel for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Hogan & Hartson LLP health partner Craig H. Smith has been appointed to the position of General Counsel for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), effective January 29, 2007.

With an annual budget that exceeds $16 billion, AHCA regulates health care facilities in Florida and administers Florida's Medicaid program. As general counsel, Smith will oversee more than 40 lawyers and will be a member of AHCA's Leadership Team. Smith will work closely with Florida state Gov. Charlie Crist's administration and AHCA Secretary Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, as they seek to address a number of critical health care issues facing the state of Florida, including statewide Medicaid managed care reform, negotiating volume discounts on prescription drugs, and improving access to quality health care for all Floridians.

"We are very proud that one of our Miami health partners will serve in such an important leadership position for Florida’s health care system," said J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., Chairman of Hogan & Hartson.

Smith, who joined the Miami office of Hogan & Hartson in 2001, is Board Certified in Health Law by the Florida Bar. While at Hogan & Hartson, Smith was a member of the firm’s health and life sciences practice groups, where he represented health care industry clients on a wide range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. Smith also served in a special temporary role as in-house counsel for one of South Florida’s leading health care systems.

Smith received his law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Nova Southeastern University.

01-17-2007

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Bracewell & Giuliani Partner to Moderate Panel on State Tax Expansion Issues at ABA Meeting
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP partner Robert Joe Hull will moderate a panel discussion within the Closely Held Business and State & Local Taxes joint committee during the American Bar Association Section of Taxation’s Midyear Meeting. The meeting will take place Friday, Jan. 19 at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Florida.

The panel will address various recent amendments to taxation legislation affecting businesses expanding into multi-state operations, including transfer tax aspects of entity formations, reorganizations and dissolutions. “For businesses expanding into other states, many legal taxation constraints and ramifications must be evaluated before pressing forward,” Mr. Hull explains. “With several states moving to a new tax system in 2007, it is vital that businesses aspiring to operate in these states have a full understanding of the taxation procedures for the areas in question.”

The Midyear Meeting provides the nation’s leading attorneys and government officials with a forum to discuss the latest federal tax policies, initiatives and regulations, as well as provide networking opportunities for tax section members and government guests.

A partner in Bracewell & Giuliani’s Houston office, Mr. Hull has more than thirty years of experience in dealing with federal, state and local taxation matters, including planning and controversy work. Additionally, Mr. Hull is a contributing editor to the Journal of Multistate Taxation, which provides targeted state and local planning strategies for companies involved in multi-state operations and individuals with assets in more the than one state.

Mr. Hull also has significant federal experience in matters such as real estate development and finance, non-profit entities, tax-exempt financing and executive compensation. Mr. Hull is a nominee of the Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

01-17-2007

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