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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Apollo Management to Acquire Realogy Corp.
Skadden is representing Realogy Corporation, a real estate brokerage company, in its approximately $9 billion acquisition by Apollo Management, L.P., a private equity firm, in a going-private transaction.

12-31-2006

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Citigroup Acquires Grupo Cuscatlán
Skadden, Arps is representing Citigroup Inc. in its US$1.5 billion acquisition of Grupo Cuscatlán S.A. (El Salvador), a provider of banking and financial services, from Corporación UBC Internacional S.A. (Panama)

12-31-2006

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Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

Firm Receives Pro Bono Award
The Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court presented Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. with a pro bono award for work on behalf of Guardians ad Litem. In 2006, the firm contributed approximately 4,000 hours representing Guardians whose only purpose is to care for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

“More important than any amount of time spent, our attorneys protected and dramatically improved the lives of children,” states Katie Crosby Lehmann, partner and pro bono chair.

12-31-2006

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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Marianne Ajemian participates in Boston Globe roundtable on big business issues for 2007
Marianne Ajemian, a partner in the firm's Real Estate and Finance practice and a member of the Executive Committee, participated in a Boston Globe roundtable discussion on big business issues in 2007 and was quoted in the subsequent article, "We asked some big wheels what they see in 2007" in the Boston Globe on December 31. Marianne provided input on real estate issues for the coming year. Other participants on the roundtable included Lynn Browne, executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Ranch Kimball, outgoing state secretary of economic development; Paul Levy, president of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Ralph Martin II, a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP and former Suffolk County district attorney; James Rooney, executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority; and Henri Termeer, chief executive of Genzyme.

Marianne was elected national president of the Network of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW Network) in October 2006, following service as the organization's president-elect since January 2006. The appointment continues Marianne's leadership in the real estate industry nationally and locally. She is past president of New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE), a member of the board of directors of the CREW Network, a member of the Real Estate Finance Association, and a member of the jury for the Harleston Parker Medal awarded by the Boston Society of Architects.

12-31-2006

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Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP

Sedgwick Persuades California Appellate Court to Declare Death Benefits Statute Unconstitutional
Los Angeles Partner Christina J. Imre successfully argued before the California Court of Appeal that a state law requiring payment of a workers' compensation death benefit to the estates of employees, who die without dependents, is unconstitutional. By striking down the Labor Code death-without-dependents statute, the opinion will save insurers and self-insured employers millions of dollars in duplicate and illegal payments.

Ms. Imre, initially retained to represent amici Zenith Insurance Company and the Association of California Insurance Companies, ultimately coordinated and directed the challenge on behalf of the industry. Given her expertise and the institutional implications, she was tapped to argue the case before the appellate court.

12-31-2006

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Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP

Sedgwick Attorney Elected Chairman of the OCBA Products
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP is pleased to announce that Sedgwick attorney Richard Crites has been elected to serve as chairman of the Orange County Bar Association's Products Liability Section for 2007. The OCBA provides a wide variety of programs, services and opportunities for more than 9,000 members. Its products liability section provides a forum to educate and inform members of recent developments in products liability law and related topics of interest.

"Like his fellow Sedgwick attorneys, Richard Crites is a leader within the legal profession, and the community," said Curtis Parvin, managing partner of Sedgwick's Orange County office. "The OCBA will greatly benefit from Richard's dedication to the ideals of the legal practice and his wealth of products liability expertise."

"I am honored to take up this challenge and I look forward to the opportunity to work with fellow members of the legal community to foster a high level of excellence among attorneys in this specialized field of law," said Crites.

Crites, a senior associate at Sedgwick, manages cases from inception through trial, including post-judgment practice. He has significant experience in myriad areas of the field, including pharmaceutical and dietary supplement cases, tire failure cases, fire subrogation, toxic tort and environmental contamination cases, work-place exposure claims, and other serious personal injury actions. In a crowning achievement, Crites was named as national coordinating counsel for a Tennessee manufacturer in nationwide subrogation litigation. In that role, Crites was instrumental in securing a unanimous defense verdict for his client, which The Daily Journal recognized as one of California's "Top 10 Defense Verdicts of 2004." A Southern California native, Crites earned his B.A. from Cal Poly, Pomona and his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

12-31-2006

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Fineman, Krekstein & Harris, P.C.

FINEMAN KREKSTEIN & HARRIS, P.C. HAS ADDED THREE ATTORNEYS TO ITS LITIGATION GROUP
Christina L. Capobianco, a resident of Center City Philadelphia, was recently a defense attorney in civil practice in a small local law firm. Previously, she served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Brown, Camden County Superior Court, Criminal Division. She also served as judicial intern to the Honorable Theodore McKee, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Philadelphia and legal intern in the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

Capobianco earned her BA, cum laude, from Rutgers University and her JD, with honors, from Rutgers School of Law, Camden. She is member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Kimberly Brown Douglas, a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, recently served as judicial law clerk to The Honorable Mary C. Jacobson, Superior Court of New Jersey in Trenton. She had previously served as law clerk for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Women Against Abuse Legal Center, both in Philadelphia. She had also served as judicial intern to The Honorable Joseph Irenas, Senior United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey in Camden.

Douglas earned a BS from the University of Arkansas and a JD from Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, where she was articles editor for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. She is member of both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Josh Horvitz, a resident of Center City, was recently law clerk for the Philadelphia Court of Commons Pleas, Civil Motion Program. He also served as judicial intern for The Honorable M. Faith Angell, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge in Philadelphia.

Horvitz earned a BA from the University of Michigan and a JD from George Washington University School of Law. He is a member of both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

12-31-2006

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