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McDonald Hopkins, LLC

Peter Kraguljac to Chair the Intellectual Property Practice Group of McDonald Hopkins Co., LPA
The firm is pleased to announce that Peter Kraguljac has been appointed chair for McDonald Hopkins’ Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group. Peter, also a shareholder in the firm’s Litigation Department, helps Fortune 500 companies resolve IP issues including IP procurement and enforcement, patent infringement, validity studies, design- around strategies and patentability opinions. His patent experience includes: networking and data communications, database systems, programmable logic devices, wireless communications, ink-jet technology, microprocessor and software-controlled systems, medical diagnostic systems and software, and digital imaging. Peter is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Peter received his J.D. from Cleveland- Marshall College of Law and his B.S., in Computer Engineering, from The Ohio State University.

12-20-2006

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Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

SMART Papers Wins Court Approval of Business Reorganization Plan
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, acting as lead counsel, gained approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware of the First Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization filed by SMART Papers, LLC and certain of its affiliates.

After consummating a sale of their Park Falls, Wisconsin operations and disposition of their Chicago converting equipment, the debtors successfully prosecuted the Plan, which contemplates a sale of the remaining business in Hamilton, Ohio to an affiliate of Plainfield Asset Management LLC, a Greenwich, Conn.-based investment advisor.

SMART Papers and certain of its affiliates filed voluntary chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on March 21, 2006. SMART Papers is the largest independent North American manufacturer and marketer of premium cast-coated, matte-coated and uncoated printing, text, cover and writing papers. The company markets a wide range of premium papers, including the well-known brands of Kromekote®, Knightkote® Matte, SMART Digital™, Pegasus®, Carnival®, Synergy®, Passport®, Genesis®, Benefit®, Magna Carta® and SMART Brights®.

12-20-2006

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Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

Chapter 11 Trustee for The Institute for Cancer Prevention Wins
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, acting as lead counsel, gained conditional approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York of the Chapter 11 Plan of Liquidation filed by Hobart G. Truesdell of Walker Truesdell & Associates, Inc. The Order confirming the Plan is subject to receiving final signoff from the Federal Government on a global settlement, which should be forthcoming in the near future.

After the chapter 11 filing on September 21, 2004, the 35-year-old, world-renowned, Institute for Cancer Prevention captured headlines as it was forced to shutter the doors of its Manhattan office and upstate research labs after federal investigators alleged that it had misspent $5.7 million in federal grants. Soon after, Hobart “Hobie” Truesdell was appointed as the chapter 11 trustee in the troubled case and was charged with cleaning up the mess and trying to provide a recovery to creditors in a case where a recovery looked unlikely. Young Conaway has represented the chapter 11 trustee since his appointment.

The Plan was accepted by all voting creditors and provides for a full distribution to all administrative and priority claims and a modest distribution to general unsecured claimholders.

12-20-2006

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Von Briesen & Roper, S.C.

Mark Shiller Admitted to American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
von Briesen & Roper, s.c., announced today that Attorney Mark A. Shiller was admitted to the highly-esteemed American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”). hiller is one of only 52 Wisconsin Attorneys admitted to ACTEC. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel is a professional association consisting of approximately 2,700 lawyers from throughout the United States.

Fellows of the College are nominated by other Fellows in their geographic area and are elected by the membership at large. A lawyer cannot apply for membership in the College. Fellows are selected on the basis of professional reputation and ability in the fields of trusts and estates and on the basis of having made substantial contributions to these fields through lecturing, writing, teaching and bar activities.

The purpose of ACTEC is to maintain an association, international in scope, of lawyers skilled and experienced in the preparation of wills and trusts; estate planning; probate procedure and administration of trusts and estates of decedents, minors and incompetents; to improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and professional responsibility; to bring together qualified lawyers, whose character and ability will contribute to the achievement of the purposes of the College; and to cooperate with bar associations and other organizations with similar purposes.

Shiller is Chair of the Wealth Management, Estate Planning, Estate & Trust Administration and Business Succession Sections of von Briesen & Roper, s.c. He concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, tax planning and business law.

12-20-2006

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Belo Interactive Wins Patent Infringement Case
The Federal Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of Greenberg Traurig, LLP client Belo Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of Belo Corp., in a patent infringement case brought by QuickView.

QuickView sued Belo Interactive and other companies for patent infringement in 2004, claiming that its patent covered Belo Interactive’s method of displaying information on its news and information Web sites, including dallasnews.com. In 2005, a Dallas federal district court granted Belo Interactive summary judgment, ruling that Belo Interactive did not infringe the QuickView patent as a matter of law. Earlier this month, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s decision, granting summary judgment of noninfringement of the QuickView patent in all respects.

The Federal Circuit’s decision confirmed that the QuickView patent did not cover display methods performed by a computer network comprising two or more computers. David Starr, Deputy General Counsel of Belo Corp., said "Although others settled with QuickView by agreeing to pay a license fee, we knew our internet news technology was not infringing and decided that it was important to challenge this lawsuit. We do not intend to pay companies license fees when they assert patent claims that lack merit."

Belo Interactive was represented by Eric W. Buether and Christopher M. Joe of the Dallas office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

12-20-2006

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Garvey Schubert Barer

Seven GSB Attorneys Named "Rising Stars" for 2007
Washington Law & Politics, a monthly publication in Washington State, publishes an annual year-end issue that names the "Rising Stars" of Washington law for the coming year. To be eligible as a "Rising Star", attorneys must be 40 or under, or in practice for 10 or fewer years. Based on peer recognition and professional achievement, only 2.5% of attorneys in Washington are selected.

We are privileged to have seven "Rising Stars" in our ranks for 2007. They are listed below, along with the practice area in which each was selected.

Seth J. Berntsen in Employment & Labor
Christopher S. Brown in Tax
Sevilla C.P. Claydon in Employment & Labor
Yemi Fleming Jackson in Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice
Brent L. Jones in Securities & Corporate Finance
Donald B. Scaramastra in Environmental Litigation
Kenneth L. Schubert, III in Business Litigation

12-20-2006

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Garvey Schubert Barer

Huyen-Lam Q. Nguyen-Bull Elected to Board of Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington
Garvey Schubert Barer's Huyen-Lam Q. Nguyen-Bull has been elected to the Board of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington for 2007.

Ms. Nguyen-Bull, an Associate in GSB's Seattle office, practices in the area of litigation. Ms. Nguyen-Bull served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Judge, from 2003 to 2006. She is admitted to practice in Washington, Montana and before the U.S. District Court in the Districts of Montana and Washington.

12-20-2006

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