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Murtha Cullina LLP

KYLENE A. FREDRICK JOINS THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS GROUP OF MURTHA CULLINA LLP
Kylene A. Fredrick has joined Murtha Cullina LLP as a Consultant in the Firm’s Government Affairs Group. Ms. Fredrick received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Connecticut and is pursuing her Masters in Business Administration from Southern Connecticut State University. Prior to joining Murtha Cullina’s Government Affairs Group, Ms. Fredrick worked for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities as a Legislative Analyst and Lobbyist. Previously, Ms. Fredrick was employed at the Connecticut General Assembly as a legislative aide.
As one of Connecticut's largest lobbying practices, Murtha Cullina's Government Affairs Group is a full service operation for public policy management and lobbying.

01-03-2007

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Locke, Liddell & Sapp, L.L.P.

DALLAS COUNTY JUDGE MARGARET KELIHER JOINS LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP
Outgoing Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher has joined Locke Liddell & Sapp as Of Counsel in the Public Law Section of the Firm. She will be based in the Dallas office, and will also work out of the Austin office during legislative sessions.

“We are so pleased that Judge Keliher will be part of our team,” said Robert Miller, Chair of Locke Liddell & Sapp’s Public Law Section, which in 2006, for the third year, was named the Top Law Firm Lobby Practice in Texas by Capitol Inside, a website political newsletter. “Judge Keliher has an outstanding reputation, and is well-known for her innovative ideas. Her statewide credibility and contacts in North Texas will be invaluable to our public law practice.”

Judge Keliher was first appointed to an unexpired term as Dallas County Judge on August 2, 2002, and in November 2002 was elected to a four-year term. She became the first female in the history of Dallas County to serve in that role. She also served as Judge of the 44th District Court of Dallas from 1999-2002, and in 2001 the Dallas Bar Association ranked her as one of the hardest working Civil District Court Judges. Her legal career includes handling commercial and business litigation in private practice, and serving as a felony prosecutor in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Prior to that, she was a Certified Public Accountant with Deloitte. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Virginia, and graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University School of Law.

“I have long admired the caliber of attorneys at Locke Liddell and am excited to be part of such an established firm,” Judge Keliher said. “I am thrilled to be able to combine my professional experiences in both the public and private sectors in my role at Locke Liddell.”

Judge Keliher has long been active in Dallas' community activities, serving on the Dallas County Mental Health Mental Retardation Board, as a Board Member of the Dallas Children's Theater Guild, the Volunteer Center of Dallas and the YWCA. She has also served as a member of the Committee for a Qualified Judiciary, chaired the Visiting Judges sub-committee of the Dallas Bar Association, and serves on the Executive Board for SMU's Dedman School of Law.

01-03-2007

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Lindquist & Vennum PLLP

Lindquist & Vennum Names New Partners
Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP today announced that two current associates have been elected to the partnership. The new partners are Mark Dietzen and DeAnne Hilgers

Mark Dietzen is a member of Lindquist & Vennum’s Financial Institutions Group and focuses his practice on representing financial institutions in a wide variety of activities, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, new-bank charters and charter conversions, relocations, branch formations and regulatory matters. Dietzen also works extensively with both lenders and borrowers on various commercial lending transactions.

DeAnne Hilgers, a member of the firm’s Litigation Group, centers her practice on antitrust and commercial litigation. Hilgers also developed the firm’s immigration practice, emphasizing employment-based immigration. She assists employers and foreign nationals with non-immigrant visas; immigrant visas through the foreign labor certification process; naturalization; consular processing; and I-9 compliance and audits. Hilgers has been recognized as a Rising Star by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine.

01-03-2007

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Herold And Haines, P.A.

Robert B. Haines speaks at the New Jersey State Bar Association
Mr. Haines will be speaking at the NJSBA Tax Section's "Hot Topics" on January 17, 2007

01-03-2007

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Fowler, White, Boggs & Banker, Attorneys At Law

Tom Pelham to Head Florida's Department of Community Affairs
Governor Charlie Crist selected Fowler White shareholder, Tom Pelham, to head up the state's Department of Community Affairs. Tom was Secretary of the agency from 1987 to 2001. He has been a member of Fowler White's Government, Environmental and Land Department since 2002. According to Crist, "His diverse background as both an attorney and a planner will be a unique asset to the department

01-03-2007

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Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

Jennifer Stueber Joins Calfee
Calfee welcomes Jennifer Stueber as an associate in our Public Law and Finance group. She received her J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and her B.A. from The Ohio State University.

01-03-2007

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Gardner, Carton & Douglas, L.L.P.

New 640-Lawyer Firm Established As Combination of Drinker Biddle and Gardner Carton Becomes Effective
After announcing their intention to combine in November, the law firms of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP are now officially merged.
The new firm enters the new year as Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, but will be known as Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton in Chicago and Milwaukee during 2007. The
combined firm includes more than 640 lawyers in 12 offices nationwide, making it one of the 70 largest law firms in the United States.
“This combination provides our clients with a critical mass of top-notch lawyers across the country,” said Alfred W. Putnam Jr., chairman of Drinker Biddle. “We now
have major presences – each with more than 100 professionals – in the dynamic legal markets of Philadelphia, Chicago, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.”
While expanding and deepening its presence in several key markets across the country, the combination also has strengthened many of the firm’s core practice
areas. For example, the firm’s newly combined intellectual property group has more than 80 professionals, making it one of the biggest IP groups in any U.S. full-service law firm. Other examples of the firm’s enhanced capabilities to provide superior client service include:
• In the corporate and securities practice, the number of public companies
served increases, as does representation of businesses based abroad in places
such as Europe, Asia and Australia.
• The corporate restructuring practice’s capabilities double, with the addition of
lawyers in both New York City and Chicago along with a prominent
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bondholder/creditor representation team handling large national cases. The
firm now has a presence in three of the top five bankruptcy venues: New
York, Chicago and Delaware.
• The firm now boasts more than 300 litigators in a wide variety of practice
teams, including general commercial, antitrust, communications, products
liability, mass tort and class actions, environmental, insurance, labor and
employment, construction, corporate governance and securities and white
collar crime.
• The investment management practice, which pre-merger was already
recognized by The American Lawyer as one of the top 10 groups in the
nation, gains additional depth with the addition of lawyers with significant
experience in hedge funds that complements the existing group’s broad 1940
Act practice.
• A pharmaceutical industry consortia practice joins lawyers already serving top
pharmaceutical companies. This practice adds significant experience to a
large and continually growing government and regulatory affairs practice.
• The combination of one of the country’s premier ERISA law practices with an
expanded labor and employment group, with specialties in defense of class
actions, creates a human resources law group that will compete with the
largest firms in the country.
• The firm’s commitment to health care law remains – and in particular in
representation of large academic medical centers – with a group of more than
40 professionals comprising a practice that has been ranked No. 1 in the
United States by Chambers USA.
• In real estate, a highly respected Midwest-based team of lawyers provides a
strong complement to existing strengths on the East Coast, along with
enhancing national relationships in commercial and retail development and
leasing.
• Several nationally known industry-focused practices, including education,
customs and trade, and Native American affairs, now gain a larger platform
from which to provide service to their clients.
According to the firm’s management, the process of combining the firms is going
very smoothly.
“The integration of the two firms has been progressing since we announced the
merger in November, and that process will continue during the year ahead,” said
Andrew C. Kassner, executive partner of Drinker Biddle. “There are many logistical
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details in a combination of this size that need to be handled, but one of the most
important aspects of the combination – the blending of the firms’ cultures – has been an
overwhelming success, something we expected from the very beginning.”
Some business-related details of the combination include:
• The firm has redomesticated as a Delaware limited liability partnership.
• Drinker Biddle’s Chicago lawyers have relocated from 161 N. Clark St. to the
Gardner Carton’s 191 N. Wacker Dr. offices.
• Gardner Carton’s New York City lawyers will be moving to Drinker Biddle’s 140
Broadway location later this month.
• Additional office space is under construction at Drinker Biddle’s Washington,
D.C., office at 1500 K St. NW. Lawyers and professionals from Gardner Carton’s
office at 1301 K St. NW will be relocating in the spring.
• Both firms’ graphic identities have been merged into a new look, with a combined
website launched today.

01-03-2007

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