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Orrick LLP

American Lawyer Features Orrick's Summer Associates Participation in Pro Bono Projects
Orrick's summer associates help with pro bono projects is featured in an American Lawyer (Student Edition) article. As part of the Appleseed Foundation Project, Orrick summer associates and lawyers interviewed dozens of New Orleans and Birmingham leaders and residents to contribute to a national report on how Hurricane Katrina’s victims fared.

11-10-2006

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Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

Jeffrey M. Casaletto Elected to Stockton Borough Council
Jeffrey M. Casaletto, an associate with the law firm Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., has been elected to the Stockton, New Jersey Borough Council for a three-year term.

A resident of Stockton, Casaletto concentrates his practice on environmental law. He regularly serves clients by assisting them with a wide variety of environmental issues that relate to matters such as ISRA, Brownfields redevelopment, site remediation, waste management and disposal, and commercial/industrial real estate transactions. He also has experience handling matters involving CERCLA, RCRA, EPCRA and OPA. He has negotiated removal orders, EPCRA/OPA settlements, and cost recovery for removal and remedial actions.

Prior to joining Norris McLaughlin, Casaletto was Assistant Regional Counsel, and one of two Michael F. Vaccaro Honors Fellowship Attorneys, at the U.S. EPA Region III where he focused on Superfund matters. Prior to EPA Region III, he was a judiciary law clerk for the Honorable Vincent LeBlon and the Honorable Dennis V. Nieves in Middlesex County, New Jersey. While attending law school, he was a legal intern at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic from August 2000 to May 2001, and for the Environmental Defense Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division during the summer of 2000.

11-10-2006

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Nixon Peabody LLP

New York State governor-elect Eliot Spitzer appoints Nixon Peabody partner to his transition team
New York, NY. New York State Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer has appointed Nixon Peabody partner, Elizabeth D. Moore, as one of his six transition co-chairs. The six individuals serving as Spitzer-Paterson transition co-chairs will lend their experience and knowledge to the transition process, and will be instrumental in ensuring the transition goes smoothly. Among the co-chairs are representatives from the Rockefeller, Cuomo, and Carey administrations. They will not be entering government service.

Ms. Moore is a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, where she advises companies about compliance with federal and state labor laws. She also co-chairs the firm’s Diversity Action Committee, established to develop a strategy to ensure that all of the firm’s attorneys and staff have the opportunity to reach their full potential and to work in an inclusive and welcoming environment. Prior to entering the private sector, Ms. Moore was an instrumental member of Governor Mario Cuomo’s administration. She served as the governor’s counsel from 1991 to 1994. In that capacity, she provided legal advice to the governor, senior staff, and agency heads concerning the complex issues affecting the state and its citizens. Ms. Moore also served as director of the governor’s Office of Employee Relations and served as the state’s chief negotiator and principal spokesperson on all labor and employee relations matters.

Liz joins an impressive group of leaders who will be acting as transition co-chairs. In addition to Ms. Moore, the other Spitzer-Paterson transition co-chairs are Richard Parsons (currently chairman of the board and CEO of Time Warner Inc.); Peter Goldmark (director of the Climate and Air Program at Environmental Defense and previous chief executive officer of the International Herald Tribune); Lloyd Constantine (chairman of Constantine Cannon); Hunter Rawlings (president emeritus of Cornell University); and Rosanna Rosado (publisher of El Diario/La Prensa).

11-10-2006

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McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

Donna Klein Honored as CityBusiness "2006 Women of the Year"
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that attorney Donna Klein will be honored today by New Orleans CityBusiness as one of the 2006 Women of the Year. The honor is a tribute to New Orleans’ outstanding local women.

Klein, the managing partner of McGlinchey Stafford's New Orleans office, has been with the firm since 1988 and serves as the chair of the firm’s multi-office healthcare practice and as the marketing partner. Her practice is concentrated in healthcare and her experience includes advising clients in the areas of fraud and abuse, anti-self-referral laws, civil and criminal investigations, medical staff credentialing, managed care, risk management, contracts and reimbursement. Klein’s prior experience as a registered nurse brings a unique perspective to her legal practice and allows her to successfully represent healthcare clients, including hospitals, physicians, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, independent practice associations, national and multi-national hospital ownership companies and various other health care providers and regulatory bodies throughout the nation.

She has experience speaking and publishing extensively on a variety of medical-legal issues. Klein has been selected as one of the The Best Lawyers in America® in Health Care each year since 1991. In 2004, she was selected by Southern Woman Magazine to receive the Sprint Award and in 2003 she received the Human Rights campaign Humanitarian Award.

Klein is actively involved in the New Orleans community through serving as a board member of the Morial Convention Center and as a member of the Committee for a Better New Orleans/Metropolitan Area. A merit to her knowledge and expertise in the area, Klein has served as an advisor to three Louisiana Governors on healthcare matters for the state.

11-10-2006

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Mayer Brown LLP

New Age Discrimination Regulations Leave Some Problems for Company Pension Schemes
Amending regulations which will clarify and extend - but in some cases restrict - the exemptions for pension schemes under the new age discrimination legislation were laid in Parliament today.

Jonathan Moody, of international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, who for the last three years has led the Association of Pension Lawyers' work on age discrimination, said that the regulations are "on the whole good news - they deal with many of the "meltdown" cases, although we had hoped for clearer wording. Some of the stuff about early retirement and flexible retirement is still problematic. And, there are a couple of unpleasant surprises - for example, on benefits that kick in only after say 5 or 10 years' membership, and on ill-health pensions and death-in-service pensions that allow for prospective service. With only three weeks to go before this becomes law, employers and trustees have rightly been worried about how the new age discrimination rules would affect schemes. It now seems that most schemes will be able to maintain the status quo in most areas - but with a couple of nasty stings in the tail. But some schemes with unusual designs will still have really difficult issues to grapple with.

11-10-2006

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Lane Powell PC

Fourteen Lane Powell Attorneys Named As Oregon Super Lawyers
Fourteen Lane Powell attorneys have been named as Oregon Super Lawyers in the November 2006 issue of Oregon Super Lawyers magazine, published by Law & Politics magazine. Only five percent of Oregon attorneys are given this honor. The selection procedure includes peer nominations, a blue ribbon panel review process and independent research on candidates.

The Lane Powell Super Lawyers and their respective practice areas include: Anne W. Glazer, Intellectual Property; Lewis M. Horowitz, Tax; David G. Hosenpud, Employment Litigation; Neil D. Kimmelfield, Tax; Jeffrey W. Knapp, Employee Benefits/ERISA; Robert E. Maloney, Jr., Business Litigation; Bryan E. Powell, Real Estate; Vicki L. Smith, General Litigation; Thomas W. Sondag, Appellate; Leigh D. Stephenson-Kuhn, Employee Benefits/ERISA; Steven B. Ungar, Criminal Defense - White Collar; Jack C. Walsh, Employee Benefits/ERISA; Karen M. Williams, Real Estate; and Jeffrey C. Wolfstone, Securities and Corporate Finance.

11-10-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Adds John Barquin To International Energy Practice
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that John H. Barquin, an energy attorney with significant experience in the development and financing of international energy projects, has joined the firm as partner in its energy practice group. He will practice from the firm's 100-lawyer Houston office.

"We are very excited to welcome John to King & Spalding and look forward to the contributions he will make to the continued expansion of our energy practice internationally," said Philip R. Weems, the leader of King & Spalding's energy practice group. "Our clients' needs are becoming increasingly global in nature, and John's experience handling energy projects in Latin America, Europe and beyond will be key to our ability to help them address the legal challenges they face around the world."

Barquin practiced for eight years at Vinson & Elkins, where he was a partner from 1998 to 2002. While there, he negotiated and documented complex energy transactions throughout Latin America and other areas of the world. Representative matters Barquin handled included gas transportation agreements; long-term power purchase agreements; transmission, interconnection and EPC contracts; acquisitions and divestitures of pipeline and power plant assets; and limited-recourse financings of power projects and pipelines. For the past four years, he has been involved in a venture developing educational programs for American Public Television.

Before joining Vinson & Elkins, Barquin was resident in the Ankara, Turkey office of White & Case, where he participated in the development and financing of power plants and other complex infrastructure projects (such as the Ankara Metro and Istanbul Airport Expansion) on the Build-Operate-Transfer model. He then served as an advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Defense on a variety of joint venture and co-production projects. Barquin earned a B.A. from University of Texas and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

"I am delighted to be joining King & Spalding's energy practice. King & Spalding's renown in the energy world, its remarkably talented attorneys and its focus on growth offer extraordinary opportunities for someone with my international energy experience," Barquin said.

King & Spalding opened its Houston office in 1995 with three litigation attorneys; today the office has grown to more than 100 attorneys focusing on a diverse array of litigation and transactional law.

11-10-2006

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