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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

McMillian Quoted About Teen Court Program
Jimmie McMillian of the Indianapolis office was quoted in a December 13 Indiana Lawyer article, ?A jury of their peers,? about a Teen Court program in which he is involved.

12-13-2006

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Moreau Quoted on Indy Homeless Initiative
Bill Moreau of the Indianapolis office was quoted in a December 13 Indianapolis Star article, "Program for homeless is rescued," about a local health center program that benefits homeless individuals in the area. Bill is chairman of the board of the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention.

Bill also was quoted in a December 14 Indianapolis Star article, "Indy seeks financing as second homeless plan launched," about Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson's plans to re-launch a popular event that provided support services for homeless people.

12-13-2006

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Vare Talks about Money Laundering Case
Todd Vare of the Indianapolis office was quoted in a December 13 Indiana Lawyer article, ?Courts: What is money laundering?,? about a case that could rise to the U.S. Supreme Court and define what money laundering is.

12-13-2006

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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

Womble Carlyle Attorneys Ranked Among North Carolina's Top Lobbyists
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC today announced that former North Carolina State Senator Sandy Sands and former North Carolina Court of Appeals judge Jack Cozort have been ranked among the 10 most influential lobbyists in North Carolina. Sands has moved up one spot to rank fourth, and Cozort has moved up twenty-six spots to rank eighth, in the 2005-2006 North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research's biennial lobbyist rankings. Both attorneys are members of Womble Carlyle's Federal and State Government Affairs Practice Group in its Raleigh office.

The Center's lobbyist rankings are based on results from a survey conducted during January, February and March 2006. At that time, all 50 state Senators, 120 Representatives, 442 registered lobbyists (including the lead state agency legislative liaisons), and 16 state capital news correspondents were asked to list the 10 most influential lobbyists and state agency legislative liaisons during the 2005 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Survey respondents received a list of all lobbyists and legislative liaisons registered with the Secretary of State at the end of the 2005 session. The overall response rate to the survey was 48 percent.

Sands, who was ranked for the seventh consecutive time and ranked as the top practicing lawyer in this year's ranking, was first elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1986 and served with distinction through 1994. He joined Womble Carlyle in 1995 and has spearheaded Womble Carlyle’s Raleigh regulatory and lobbying practices. By combining his legal expertise and legislative experience, he has been able to assist many clients with legislative and regulatory solutions to their problems where judicial approaches alone were insufficient. He has represented such clients as AT&T, Bank of America, Philip Morris, USA, Miller Brewing Company, Kraft Foods, Thomas Built Buses, Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Williams Companies, Transco Gas Pipeline, Vulcan Materials, Carolinas Healthcare System, Entergy Wholesale Operations, Lowes Home Improvements, General Electric, NBC/Universal, Enterprise, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Ameriquest, Cheesecake Factory, Cisco and MBNA. Sands also regularly works with the North Carolina Governor’s office, Department of Commerce, Department of Revenue and the legislature to procure economic incentive packages for clients.

Cozort, who is new to the top 10 this year, has extensive experience representing clients before members of Congress and state legislators as well as federal and state executive branches of government. Cozort served as a North Carolina Court of Appeals judge for 12 years and while serving, took a 15-month leave of absence from the bench to serve as acting director of the Administrative Office of the Courts. Prior to his tenure on the Court of Appeals, Cozort served as legal counsel to North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., also a Womble Carlyle attorney, for eight years. In this role, he was a legislative program leader and legislative liaison for the Governor. He also worked as an associate attorney general with the North Carolina Department of Justice. He has represented a number of businesses and organizations before the North Carolina Legislature and agencies of the North Carolina executive branch. He has represented such clients as Dell, Inc., Sprint, Nextel Communications, NC Association of Retired Government Employees, the Town of Cary, Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina and American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina.

Seven of the top 10 lobbyists are lawyers and three are former legislators. Overall, 26 of the 50 most influential lobbyists are lawyers. This is the thirteenth time the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research has released its biennial lobbyist rankings.

12-13-2006

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Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner, LLP

Illinois Tool Works Cleared at Federal Circuit
A federal appeals court has cleared Illinois Tool Works Inc. of patent infringement and defamation in an eight-year-old case that accused the manufacturer of improperly advertising to clients that the plaintiff had stolen the technology he asserted in the lawsuit.

Frederick L. Whitmer, ITW’s lawyer from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman& Steiner LLP, said the decision clearing his client was bound to be affirmed because it cleared the company from every angle.

12-13-2006

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Schiff Hardin LLP

SCHIFF HARDIN LLP WELCOMES GEORGE F.A. PARNELL AS A PARTNER IN THE NEW YORK CITY OFFICE
Schiff Hardin LLP has added George F.A. Parnell as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group in the New York City office. He joins the firm from Holland & Knight LLP in New York City, where he was a senior counsel. His background combines particularly strong credentials in private practice, as well as in-house practice in general counsel and corporate secretary roles.

Mr. Parnell's extensive experience includes: corporate governance; private equity; Entrepreneurs; public and private companies; financial institutions in the areas of global development projects; initial public offerings; proxy solicitations; mergers and acquisitions; investments; derivatives; Regulation S, 144A, and 144K transactions; SEC disclosure requirements (1933 and 1934 Acts); and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

He has hands-on experience leading, working within, and developing legal resources in multinational and domestic corporations. Mr. Parnell has participated in more than $100 billion of U.S., United Kingdom, German, French, Swiss, Japanese, Australian, and South African mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestiture transactions of public, private, and family businesses. He has a strong background in advising senior management .

Mr. Parnell has been an international lecturer on such subjects as mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, MONEYVAL, regulatory (SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and disclosure) requirements, and antitrust.

Earlier in his career, he was an attorney with leading New York and Boston law firms, as well as serving in various senior management/general counsel/secretary positions at the U.S. Securities & Futures Corp., Degussa Corporation, Met-Path Inc., and Grand Metropolitan PLC.

Mr. Parnell received his undergraduate degree (B.A., International Studies, 1982) from New England College; studied abroad (Special Study: Law, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 1981-1982) at Saint Clare's Hall, Oxford University; attended graduate school business courses (Finance for Non-Financial Executives Course, 1999) at the Rutgers Graduate School of Business and (Focused Financial Management - Private Equity - Surviving the Down Cycle, 2002) at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and earned his law degree (J.D., Common Law, 1985) from Tulane Law School He is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.

12-13-2006

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

Firm Names Three New Partners
The national law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., has named three new partners from its Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis offices.

James V. Chin is an attorney in the Atlanta office where his practice focuses in the areas of insurance and business trial and litigation. He represents large business insurers in first party coverage and industrial subrogation claims. Mr. Chin is admitted to practice in Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. He received his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1993) and his B.A., cum laude from the University of Georgia (1988).

Edward D. Lodgen is an attorney in the Los Angeles office. He practices in the areas of business and construction litigation with an emphasis on surety and fidelity law. He is admitted to practice in California; the Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of the U.S. District Court of California; the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. Mr. Lodgen received his J.D. from Loyola Law School (1991) and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (1987).

Jason W. Pfeiffer is an attorney in the Minneapolis office where his practice focuses in the areas of insurance and catastrophic loss litigation. He is admitted to practice in Minnesota; Missouri; and Kansas. Mr. Pfeiffer is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law (1998) and his B.A., magna cum laude from Augustana College (1995).

12-13-2006

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