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Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg, LLP

Once again, Davies Top-Ranked Canadian Law Firm in GSI Legal Counsel Rankings
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP is the top-ranked Canadian law firm in The Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI) year end Counsel Rankings. (Click here to see the rankings).

Davies led all Canadian law firms in the rankings by total transaction value for completed mergers with 20 deals accounting for over US$72 billion in volume. The rankings consist of all deals resulting in a change in control registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including international transactions.

As a result of numerous complex transactions, practice standards and capabilities, Davies is consistently recognized among its peers, clients and third-party organizations for its excellence in M&A.

GSI is a leader in the securities information sector helping the world's pre-eminent legal and financial firms fulfill their most demanding research requirements for over fifteen years.

01-10-2007

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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Michelle Basil participates on BBA panel to discuss the ABA’s recent Legal Risk Seminar
Michelle Basil, partner in the Banking and Financial Services practice, was invited to be a panelist during a Boston Bar Association discussion on the American Bar Association’s recent Legal Opinion Risk Seminar. This was a joint presentation of the Corporate Law, Legal Opinions and M&A Committees. Michelle and her panel addressed, among other topics, responsibilities and concerns of opinion recipients and opinion hotspots.

01-10-2007

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McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

27 McGlinchey Stafford Attorneys Named As 2007 Super Lawyers®
McGlinchey Stafford announced today that Super Lawyers® magazine identified 28 of the law firm’s attorneys as Super Lawyers®, with three named among the top 50 lawyers in Louisiana: R. Keith Colvin, Michael H. Rubin and Kenneth A. Weiss.

This month, the Louisiana Super Lawyers® listing will be published in the St. Charles Avenue Magazine, the Winter 2006-2007 issue of Louisiana Life magazine and the Louisiana Super Lawyers® magazine.

Super Lawyers® is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The listing is developed as a resource to assist attorneys and sophisticated consumers in the search for legal counsel. Super Lawyers® is a legal publisher that uses a multi-step process to identify qualified candidates.

McGlinchey Stafford attorneys who are recognized as Louisiana’s 2007 Super Lawyers® include:

*Denotes those recognized by Super Lawyers® as one of the Top 50 Attorneys in Louisiana.

01-10-2007

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Miller Nash LLP

Miller Nash Lawyer Peter Richter Selected President of Oregon Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates
Peter Richter, a partner of Miller Nash LLP, was recently selected president of the Oregon Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. This is a national organization of lawyers with membership by invitation only, who have demonstrated actual experience in the trial of lawsuits.

Richter has represented hundreds of clients in helping them resolve their legal problems, including having tried numerous lawsuits in several areas of the law. He was selected as one of Oregon’s 10 best lawyers in commercial litigation by Law and Politics magazine, a list that represents the top 5 percent of Oregon attorneys as determined by the national magazine’s independent research and by peer evaluation. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for the last 10 years, and was recently listed as one of Oregon’s best lawyers by the National Law Journal.

Richter has practiced law with Miller Nash since 1973, has been an adjunct professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School teaching trial advocacy for the last 20 years, and is one of the founders of the Oregon State Bar Trial Advocacy College. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law, and has been a member of the board of the Multnomah Bar Association, the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel, and the Multnomah Athletic Club, where he served as president.

“Peter has dedicated his career to serving the legal community, both as an outstanding model of professionalism and as an educator of young lawyers,” said Tom Sand, managing partner at Miller Nash. “The Board of Trial Advocates will benefit from his dedication and commitment to the practice of law.”

Richter also was recently awarded the Oregon State Bar’s Special President’s Award of Appreciation in recognition of his outstanding achievement in continuing legal education of lawyers and law students.

According to Richter, the American Board of Trial Advocates has taken an active role in the preservation of the jury system, including training of young lawyers, to help clients resolve disputes promptly, economically, and satisfactorily. “Although alternative-dispute-resolution methods are appropriate in some circumstances, the value or the risk to a client of a lawsuit depends in large part on what a jury would do under the circumstances,” said Richter. “Without the measuring stick of jury verdicts, parties of a lawsuit would be left to rely on guesswork to decide what the settlement value of the case might be.”

Richter said that as a result, rather than the community’s sense of justice being a standard, the standard becomes more one of economics and expediency rather than of what is right and wrong. “One of my goals is to help increase funding for judges in Oregon as part of the Board’s way of helping the judicial system. Another goal is to have the Board’s Oregon chapter be more active in educating the public, especially businesses, about the importance of the jury system, and have the Board take a more active role in training young lawyers to streamline and make jury trials more efficient and less expensive,” he concluded.

01-10-2007

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Eason, Gammon Selected to 'Legal Elite'
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Raleigh Partners Joseph W. Eason and William H. Gammon have been selected by their peers as among North Carolina's most effective lawyers in litigation and construction law, respectively, and are listed in the January 2007 Business North Carolina's Who's Who of North Carolina's Legal Elite.

The magazine surveyed 18,000 lawyers from the N.C. Bar to determine the best lawyers in 14 practice specialties for this year's 6th Legal Elite. Voters could not pick themselves and could only select members of their own firms if they also voted for out-of-firm lawyers in the same categories. Only about 3 percent of the state’s lawyers are selected from among the top vote-getters.

Mr. Eason's practice focuses on the resolution of commercial and regulatory disputes, with particular emphasis on utility and insurance industry issues. He also assists a variety of clients on matters pertaining to trade regulation, including issues arising under federal and state antitrust and unfair trade laws, and laws protecting intellectual property interests. In the energy and utilities area, Mr. Eason has been the lead attorney in numerous cases involving electric power, gas and telephone tariffs and contracts, participating in numerous proceedings before the North Carolina Utilities Commission, as well as state and federal courts throughout the state. He also has extensive experience in complex commercial litigations and class actions, including cases involving allegations of unfair competition and deceptive trade practices. He has represented manufacturers, distributors, and financial service providers in market unfair trade litigations brought by private parties and by state officers, including the Attorney General. Mr. Eason served as primary counsel in several reported decisions in which issues of first impressions pertaining to trade practices have been resolved by federal or state courts in the Southeast region.

Mr. Gammon has a broad private construction and public contracts law practice. He is the immediate past chair of the N.C. Bar Association's Construction Law Section and is one of the authors of the section's Construction Law Deskbook. He also is the co-chair of the Carolinas AGC/NCBA Construction Law Section Joint Committee. In addition to his being named previously in the 2006 Legal Elite, he also has been listed in the 2007 The Best Lawyers in America for Construction Law. His public contracts practice includes experience in disputes involving government supply and construction matters, pre-award controversies such as bid protests, claims analysis and presentation, negotiations, claims litigation, procurement fraud counseling, prosecution and defense of Miller Act claims, and contract appeals. He has been involved with public and private projects as diverse as the construction of hotels, water treatment plants, manufacturing facilities, lock and dams, earth-filled dams, POL facilities, and sports arenas. In addition, he has handled disputes about the manufacture of refueling carts, "black box" technology, ammunition, and other similar items for the federal government.

01-10-2007

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Henson & Efron, PA

Mark L. Wilson Joins Henson & Efron, P.A.
The Minneapolis law firm of Henson & Efron is pleased to announce attorney Mark L. Wilson has joined the firm. Wilson practices in the areas of business, tax and succession planning for closely-held business enterprises; mergers and acquisitions; business finance; commercial real estate; organization of and planning for business enterprises; and general business law.

Before joining Henson & Efron, Wilson served as President of Weisman Enterprises, Inc., which manages more than $400 million in vending sales for clients such as The Home Depot, Target Corporation, Best Buy Company and others. Over the span of his career, Wilson has served as general counsel and business advisor to three generations of ownership and management of a national retailer; represented more than a dozen Coca-Cola soft drink bottlers over a twenty-year period in a rapidly changing and consolidating industry; served as primary real estate counsel and advisor to a national real estate owner, operator and developer; organized, financed and structured the business format for a vending management business, including the organization of a national licensing and distribution network, as well as the design and implementation of a multi-tiered estate and tax plan for the shareholder's family; and acted as counsel to the selling shareholders of a regional graphic arts supply distributor and then organized and led a leveraged management buy-out and ultimate re-divestiture of the business.
Wilson serves on the Board of Directors of Winmark Corporation, a company that provides financial services and develops franchises for retail stores that buy, sell, trade and consign used and new merchandise. He also serves as chair for the Minnesota Center for Photography, a non-profit arts organization, and vice-chair for the Minnesota Community Foundation, which has provided charitable giving services to donors throughout the state since 1949.

01-10-2007

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Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P.

HDBDK Successfully Defends General Motors in Crashworthiness Case
After a five week trial, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania state court jury returned a verdict for General Motors in a seat back crashworthiness case. The plaintiff claimed that the right front seat in a 1999 model year General Motors Cavalier was defective and caused the death of the right front passenger. The jury determined the right front seat was not defective and was crashworthy. General Motors was represented by Kyle H. Dreyer and Wendy D. May along with William Ricci of the firm of Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & Disipio of Philadelphia.

01-10-2007

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