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MehaffyWeber, P.C.

Robert Black Elected State Bar of Texas Chair of the Board
Robert A. Black, a shareholder of the firm of MehaffyWeber, P.C. in Beaumont, was elected chair of the board of the State Bar of Texas during the organization’s quarterly Board of Directors meeting in Brownsville, April 21. Black will assume the position during the State Bar’s Annual Meeting June 15-16 in Austin. Black is the first chair of the Board of Directors to come from Beaumont.

Black has served as president of the Jefferson County Bar Association, and has chaired State Bar committees including Facilities & Equipment, and Policy Manual. He has been active in Beaumont community and civic organizations including the Humane Society, Land Manor, Sabine Neches Bridge League, Texas Bar Foundation and the City of Beaumont Planning and Zoning Commission.

12-26-2006

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Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP

Goodsill Partner Alan Fujimoto featured in Seven Hills Magazine.
The law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel is a long-standing law firm in Hawaii that was established in 1878, and it provides legal services not only to businesses but to individual investors. Attorney Alan S. Fujimoto, who has assisted various Japanese companies in their transactions, discussed some points of interest with us.

The law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel has a history of over 125 years and has provided legal services not only to Hawaii businesses but to the finest mainland companies as well. In the 1960’s Japanese companies and individual investors first started arriving in Hawaii as they established businesses and started to buy vacation homes in Hawaii. These investors started to establish businesses primarily in the Waikiki area. Legal assistance was needed in negotiating contracts, setting up corporations and resolving disputes.

Mr. Fujimoto says “In Japan, the traditional thinking has been that you talk to an attorney when a problem occurs. In the United States, the general practice is to involve an attorney from the time you begin discussing a contract.” Contracts are important in the consummation of a transaction in the United States. In the case of a commercial transaction, from the time you negotiate a contract until the transaction is consummated, you may need several documents extending to hundreds of pages.

In the 1990s there was a large outflow from Hawaii of Japanese capital, but in recent years investment from Japan into Hawaii is on the rise again. It is expected that this trend will continue in the near term. Particularly in the real estate area, Mr. Fujimoto is currently receiving as many as 4 to 5 inquiries per month. He says, “For individuals wishing to acquire residential real property in Hawaii, such transactions are mostly handled by real estate brokers alone, so we are generally not involved in such negotiations. But we do get involved when the investor wishes to consider estate planning or other issues as part of the investment process.”

In Hawaii, there are occasions when Native Hawaiian issues can come into play. If there may be an ancient Native Hawaiian grave site within commercial property one has acquired, there are laws that apply to such situations. Hawaii’s economy depends largely on a lively tourism industry, so residents of Hawaii are keenly aware of the importance of preserving the natural environment of Hawaii and such issues can come to the forefront.

Mr. Alan S. Fujimoto is a third generation Japanese-American, but he grew up in Yokohama, Japan. In the negotiation of complicated contracts involving international transactions, his understanding of Japanese customs as a U.S. attorney becomes most precious. “In real estate transactions, we often come across Japanese who want to record on a lucky day under the Japanese calendar,” says Mr. Fujimoto who displays an appreciation of the peculiarities of the Japanese.

Hawaii is familiar to the Japanese. Even then, it is a foreign land. Mr. Alan S. Fujimoto of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, who is well-experienced in various legal fields such as residential real estate, commercial real estate, general business and U.S. visa applications, is a strong ally for Japanese investors who are looking to venture into Hawaii.

Profile: Alan S. Fujimoto
Partner
Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel

Born in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from an American high school in Yokohama, Japan, attended the University of Hawaii (English major). In 1975 joined the Hawaii Visitors Bureau. Left the Bureau after becoming Deputy Director of the Research Department. Attended law school at the University of California – Davis. Graduated in 1984 and passed the Hawaii bar. After joining the law firm of Kashiwa Kashiwa & Kato, the firm merged with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, where he continues to practice. He was a board member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association for seven years.

Photos Above (click on Japanese version link above to view): Ali’i Place, the building in which the law firm has its offices in downtown Honolulu, is surrounded by greenery.

Photo Below (click on Japanese version link above to view): : The office has a very traditional construction with heavy use of dark teak wood. The French consulate is located within the offices. The library encompasses two floors and contains innumerable legal treatises and books. They also have a training room where attorneys and staff are trained on new computer software much like a school.

12-25-2006

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Cooper Levenson Attorney At Law

Cooper Levenson Wins the 2006 Bailey Award
These two articles from the Atlantic City Press award Cooper Levenson with the 2006 Bailey Award.

12-25-2006

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Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley

LAWYERS WEEKLY AWARDS SECREST WARDLE’S JANET C. BARNES LAWYER OF THE YEAR
Janet C. Barnes, a partner at Secrest Wardle’s Farmington Hills, MI office, has been awarded Lawyer of the Year by Lawyers Weekly.

Specializing in defense litigation, Janet C. Barnes has successfully defended corporate and individual clients in the trial and appellate courts of the State of Michigan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and in the United States Supreme Court.

An appellate specialist, Ms. Barnes has helped shaped Michigan law. Ms. Barnes’ interest in developing Michigan law began when she was Editor-in-Chief of the Detroit College of Law Review in 1978 and when she authored, Pittman v City of Taylor: Recent Developments in Governmental Immunity in Michigan, 1977 Det C L Rev 703. Her interest continued as she served as law clerk to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas G. Kavanagh from 1979 to 1981. In private practice, Ms. Barnes has obtained significant decisions limiting the liability of premises’ owners and construction contractors.

Ms. Barnes received her Juris Doctor Cum Laude from Detroit College of Law in 1979. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Michigan State University in 1970. She was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1979, and subsequently admitted to practice in the United District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 1981, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1986 and the United States Supreme Court in 1992.

12-25-2006

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McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC

McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC Welcomes Langdon Cheves
McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC is pleased to announce that Langdon Cheves has joined the firm's Greenville office. Langdon's practice focuses on all matters of general litigation including products liability, premises liability, and insurance litigation.

He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in Philosophy. Langdon received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law where he was a member of the Environmental Law Journal. He is a former law clerk to The Honorable Henry F. Floyd, District Court Judge for South Carolina. Langdon has extensive trial experience throughout South Carolina. He is a member of the South Carolina and Greenville County Bar Associations, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, and the Defense Research Institute.

12-25-2006

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McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A.

Wynn Elected School Attorney Chair
Deryl W. Wynn, shareholder in McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips' Kansas City office has been elected as Chair of the National School Board Association's (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys. The Council represents over 7,000 school board attorneys across America. Deryl took office at the general conference of the NSBA held at the Hyatt at the McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, on April 7, 2006. He will serve for one year in this capacity.

Deryl has been a shareholder with MVP since 1994. He is a member of the Oxford University Roundtable on Educational Policy, was the lead counsel in the completion of the Kansas City, Kansas school district segregation litigation, and is co-author of a treatise on Special Education Law. Deryl represents the Unified School District No. 500, Kansas City, Kansas and the Kansas City, Kansas Community College.

12-25-2006

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McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A.

Montgomery To Receive Award
The Kansas Bar Association has announced that it will award its 2006 Pro Bono Certificate of Merit to MVP's Jason Montgomery. Jason, an associate in the firm's Roeland Park office, will receive the award in recognition of his work on behalf of the Sister Servents of Mary.

The Sister Servants of Mary lost their New Orleans convent when it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Jason helped the religious order in filing an application for disaster relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in negotiating a settlement with the order's insurance carrier and in obtaining television and media coverage of the disaster. This coverage assisted the nuns in their effort to raise money to rebuild their damaged New Orleans facilities.

Jason will be presented with the award at the Kansas Bar Association's annual meeting in Overland Park, Kansas on June 10, 2006.

12-25-2006

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