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Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

V&E Notches Major Victory Before ITC
The International Trade Group of Vinson & Elkins LLP scored a major victory before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in its sunset review of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel (CTL) plate from Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.

The ITC voted in favor of revoking all of those orders, allowing a crucial steel product to be imported from those countries into the United States duty-free. V&E’s victory is an unprecedented accomplishment, as the ITC has never before voted in favor of such wide-scale revocation in a case involving a flat-rolled carbon steel product. V&E, representing Mexico and Brazil, served as lead counsel for all countries involved in the sunset review.

"Plate is one sunset review that came out the right way," said V&E partner Kenneth Pierce, who along with V&E partner Christopher Dunn spearheaded the successful defense. "With domestic industry profits over 20% and tremendous demand for plate, the tariffs were only punishing American consuming industries. Removal of these taxes is important to many downstream industries and the rebuilding of the Gulf's infrastructure — especially given supply shortages and the benefits of cross-border trade with Mexico, a large net importer of U.S. plate.

12-14-2006

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Thompson Hine LLP

Firm Grows Business Litigation Practice
Sunny H. Kim has joined the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP as an associate in the firm’s Business Litigation practice in the New York office. She focuses her practice on civil litigation and white-collar crime. She has experience in the areas of antitrust, securities law, corporate governance, complex litigation and media law. Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Ms. Kim was an associate with the law firm of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP.

Ms. Kim earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2000, where she was notes and articles editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1995 and serves as president of her alumnae class. Ms. Kim is a member of both the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in the state of New York and the commonwealth of Massachusetts as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

12-14-2006

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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Parker Poe Attorneys Elected to Wake County Bar Leadership
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP has announced the recent election of James C. Thornton and Cynthia L. Wittmer to bar leadership positions and the swearing in of Catharine Biggs Arrowood as President of the Wake County Bar Association and 10th Judicial Bar Association for 2007.

Mr. Thornton, a partner in the Torts, Trial & Insurance Practice Group, was elected to the Wake County Bar Association Board of Directors. He received a JD in 1989 and a BS, with highest distinction, from the University of Kentucky in 1986.

Ms. Wittmer, a partner in the Antitrust & Business Torts Practice Group, was elected as a 10th Judicial District Bar Councilor. Ms. Wittmer received a JD from Duke University in 1981 and a BA, with honors, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975 and has chaired the Judicial District Grievance Committee for a number of years.

Ms. Arrowood, a partner in the Antitrust & Business Torts Practice Group, served as President-Elect of the organizations in 2006. She received a JD, cum laude, in 1976 and a BA, cum laude, in 1973 from Wake Forest University.

12-14-2006

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Ober & Kaler, P.C.

Eight Associates Join Ober|Kaler
Ober|Kaler is pleased to announce that eight associates have joined the firm in key practice areas including Health Law, Business, Lending & Leasing, and Litigation. Kristin Cilento, Sarah Hornbeck, Seth Kossman, Kelly Preteroti, Jed Spencer, Mark Stanley, and Matthew Vocci are resident in the firm's Baltimore office. Alan Arville will practice from Ober|Kaler's Washington, DC office.

Sarah Hornbeck will provide real estate counsel to clients buying, selling, leasing, and developing commercial and residential properties. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate at Gordon Feinblatt. Ms. Hornbeck served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable James R Eyler in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and interned at Deutsche Bank and T Rowe Price.

Ms. Hornbeck serves on the board of directors of Maryland Lawyers for the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law (JD, 2003) and Washington College (BA, 1997).

She lives in Federal Hill.

Seth Kossman will support Ober|Kaler's expanding tax practice. A CPA and former tax accountant with Black & Decker, Mr. Kossman is an LLM candidate at the University of Baltimore, Graduate Tax Program. He graduated from the University of Maryland (JD, with honor, 2001), and Ner Israel College (BA, 1997). In 1999, Mr. Kossman served as a legal intern for Judge John Carroll Byrnes.

He is a resident of the Pikesville area.

Practicing in the firm's Health Law Group, Alan Arville brings a wealth of experience as advisor to physicians, hospitals, and other health care entities on transactional matters, antitrust laws, HIPAA and EMTALA issues. He was previously with Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn in Ohio.

Mr. Arville graduated from the University of Dayton (BA, 2000) and Georgetown University Law Center (JD, cum laude, 2003).

He is a resident of Penn Quarter in Washington, DC

12-14-2006

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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Bob Fishman and Michael Leon receive NAIOP Public Affairs Award
Bob Fishman and Michael Leon, partners in the Land Use, Permitting and Development practice, were among a small group of lawyers who received the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Public Affairs Award at the New England Chapter Annual Meeting on December 14.

The award recognizes Bob and Mike’s work with legislators and their staff on behalf of NAIOP to successfully negotiate and pass a new streamlined permitting law, signed by Governor Romney on August 2.

12-14-2006

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Mayer Brown LLP

Fifth Circuit Rules That Constitution Requires Texas Courts to Give Full Consideration to Defendants' Mental Health Before Handing Down Death Penalty Statement by William H. Knull, III, Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw LLP, which filed several amicus briefs on the issue
Today, in Nelson v. Quarterman, the full Fifth Circuit sitting en banc resolved a long-standing dispute under the Supreme Court's Penry decisions, over whether pre-1991 penalty-phase questions posed to Texas juries in capital cases allowed them to weigh the moral culpability of the defendant in light of mitigating evidence relating to mental health and experiences of abuse during childhood.

The result is an important victory for defendants in capital cases who suffer from mental illness or from the effects of an abusive childhood.

Drawing heavily from the amicus brief filed by Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, the court ruled that the Fifth Circuit and Texas state courts have not been following the Supreme Court's long-standing requirement that capital juries be given the means to give full consideration and full effect to mitigating evidence about a defendant's mental health problems and abusive childhood.

The decision will affect a number of other Texas death row inmates sentenced under the pre-1991 scheme, as well as any other defendant condemned to death by a jury unable to give full effect to all mitigating evidence."

Background:

The Fifth Circuit ruled that (1) statutory sentencing schemes must allow capital juries to give full effect to a defendant's mitigating evidence, and (2) the contested Texas capital sentencing scheme failed to give full effect to Nelson's mitigating evidence. Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw has been involved in litigating Penry issues in the Fifth Circuit and in the Supreme Court for more than five years, including the representation of a death row inmate whose habeas petition remains in suspension pending the outcome of other cases raising similar issues.

During this period, we have filed a series of amicus briefs in the Court of Appeals and in the Supreme Court challenging the Fifth Circuit's narrow reading of Penry. The Supreme Court recently struck down 15 years of Fifth Circuit jurisprudence on the issue. In Nelson, we filed an Amicus brief on behalf of the National Mental Health Association, arguing that the Supreme Court long ago imposed the full effect requirement. The Nelson court formally endorsed that standard and granted federal habeas relief.

Christopher Richart and Lee Kovarsky, both from the MBR&M Houston Office, authored the Nelson amicus brief.

12-14-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding to Establish Middle East Presence
Subject to partnership approval next month, King & Spalding intends to establish an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to respond to growing client demand in the areas of Islamic finance, energy, real estate, private equity and international arbitration in the Middle East and North Africa. Details are being finalized.

Robert D. Hays, chairman of King & Spalding, said "Many of our lawyers have been handling client matters in the Arabian Gulf region for over 20 years, and with the explosive growth in investment within the region and the vibrant regional business hub that has developed there, we believe the timing is right for King & Spalding to have a significant presence in the region. In addition, the firm's Middle East office will provide a gateway to other rapidly expanding business regions of the world, in particular India and the Far East."

The highest concentration of King & Spalding's clients outside the United States is in the Arabian Gulf and the level of work for those clients has grown dramatically over the past decade. The firm was named the top Islamic finance legal advisor by Euromoney in 2004, largely based on the pioneering Islamic finance, private equity and real estate work the firm has done for those clients in the United States and Europe. Many of those same clients are now calling on the firm to provide its expertise on similar transactions within the Middle East. The firm's energy practice also has extensive experience in the Middle East, handling numerous projects in the region, and is poised to enhance its ability to serve clients based in and with interests in the Middle East. The firm's arbitration and capital markets practices also stand to benefit greatly from the firm's presence in the Middle East, due to the presence of a regional arbitration venue and the Dubai International Financial Exchange in the DIFC.

The plan calls for Partner Philip Weems, the leader of King & Spalding's energy practice, to lead the effort in Dubai. Weems has extensive experience working in the Middle East and lived in Asia for more than 10 years. He plans to relocate from the firm's Houston office. Jawad Ali, a partner in the firm's Islamic finance and investment practice, would also relocate to Dubai. Ali, currently resident in the firm's London office, has lived and practiced in the Gulf region and has an active practice currently focusing on Middle Eastern clients. Isam Salah, the head of the firm's Islamic finance and investment practice, will be splitting his time between the firm's offices in New York and Dubai.

12-14-2006

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