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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

DaQuana L. Carter Receives Pepper Hamilton's William R. Klaus Pro Bono Award
Pepper Hamilton LLP has awarded associate DaQuana L. Carter the firm’s 2006 William R. Klaus Pro Bono Award in recognition of Ms. Carter’s outstanding pro bono work.

“Dee is a leader in many capacities, and she inspires others to get involved,” said Robert E. Heideck, Pepper’s executive partner. Mr. Heideck presented the Klaus Award to Ms. Carter at a reception on October 25, 2006 in Pepper’s Philadelphia office.

Mr. Heideck continued, “Dee’s perseverance, skill and dedication to pro bono work are a tribute to the firm’s continued efforts to help those in need of legal services. I am extremely pleased to present the Klaus Award to an associate, because Dee and the rest of our associates represent the future of our firm. Those who give pro bono time are the backbone of Pepper Hamilton – it’s the nature of who we are.”

Ms. Carter has been involved in pro bono work since she graduated from law school in 2003. This summer alone, she successfully concluded several pro bono matters, including an adoption proceeding that enabled a woman in Philadelphia to bring her nephew to the United States from Jamaica. Also, working with a team of students from Villanova University School of Law, Ms. Carter resolved a “tangled title” case for a Philadelphia man living in his home since 1968, who had been threatened with foreclosure. In addition, she worked on an emergency request from the University of Pennsylvania Law School on behalf of the mother of a terminally ill two-year-old, winning benefits for the mother to help improve the child’s quality of care.

Ms. Carter concentrates her practice in health effects litigation and is an active member of Pepper’s Diversity Committee.

The pro bono award is named for William R. Klaus, a chairman emeritus of Pepper who died in 2005. Mr. Klaus was one of the founders and early presidents of Philadelphia’s Community Legal Services and a former chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

11-01-2006

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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Kevin W. Chapman and C. Mark Stevenson Join Parker Poe
Parker Poe is pleased to announce that Kevin W. Chapman and C. Mark Stevenson have joined the firm in the Charlotte office.

Kevin Chapman has joined the Business Law Practice Group in the Charlotte office. His practice involves a broad range of corporate and business law issues. Mr. Chapman regularly advises clients and in-house counsel on the legal aspects of business transactions. He received his JD, with honors, in 2005 and his Master of Accounting in 2000 and his BSBA in 1998 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Parker Poe, Mr. Chapman was an associate in a Greensboro law firm.

11-01-2006

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Orrick LLP

Orrick Ranked in Global Litigation List
Orrick was recognized in The American Lawyer article about U.S. law firms with significant international litigation practices. With 74 litigators in non-U.S. offices, Orrick is ranked seventh in a list of firms with international litigators.

11-01-2006

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Grows Government Affairs Practice With the Addition of Richard Gordon, A Key Political and Governmental Strategist
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announces that Richard S. Gordon, a long-time and respected figure in New York and national Democratic politics, has joined the firm as a Partner in the New York office effective today. Mr. Gordon is the most recent addition to the firm’s expansion of the New York offices and the national Government Affairs practice.

Mr. Gordon has extensive political experience, and has served numerous Democratic campaigns in policy and organizational capacities throughout his career. For five years, Mr. Gordon served as Director of Policy and Planning for Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana. He was the architect of the Governor’s major policy initiatives in education, workforce retraining, health care, welfare reform, and the environment, and in the development and implementation of the Governor’s national Democratic activities. Mr. Gordon previously served Governor Bayh as Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, directed the Governor’s efforts during his chairmanship of the Democratic Governors Association, and is currently a senior advisor to the All-American PAC, now chaired by Senator Bayh.

“Richard Gordon is a dear friend, a trusted and respected confidant and someone I have counted on throughout my political, governmental and personal life. The depth of his national experience and great insight on political and policy matters has been essential to me. For more than thirty years we have been friends and worked closely, first while I was governor and now while I am in the Senate, to make this country even better than it is and to provide greater opportunities to all Americans. Rich has dedicated his life to these causes. It is hard for me to put in words how much I appreciate all he has done for me and the people and beliefs that we both hold so dear. I have relied on him at every phase of my career, and I will continue to do so,” said Senator Bayh (D-IN).

Mr. Gordon served as the National Finance Chair for the Evan Bayh for Senate campaign and the Washington Transition Director for Senator-Elect Bayh, served on Vice President Mondale’s presidential campaign staff and was an aide to Senator Claude Pepper. He also was the Executive Director of the Friends of Mario M. Cuomo, helping to direct the Governor’s political activities throughout the state.

He has served on the staff of several Congressmen, and has worked on multiple Congressional campaigns. In 1992, Mr. Gordon was appointed a Clinton/Gore member of the Democratic Platform Committee. He is a member of the Chairman’s Board of the Democratic Governors Association, a position he has held since the board’s inception. As such, he has been an advisor and counselor to numerous governors across the nation.

“Richard Gordon has been one of the Democratic Governors Association’s strongest supporters dating back to the organization’s very first days, working tirelessly on behalf of our nation’s democratic governors. He has been of tremendous assistance to governors throughout the country. As chairman of the DGA, I am grateful for his dedicated service and leadership on the DGA Chairman’s Board, and his continued counsel and assistance,” said Governor Bill Richardson.

Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Mr. Gordon held multiple leadership positions in the private sector, most recently as the founder of the Gordon Law Firm, a firm with a national practice located in New York. Before starting his practice, Mr. Gordon practiced law at some of the leading litigation and environmental firms in New York City. He was also the Executive Vice President of a leading publicly traded health care company and its related nursing home and medical managed care companies.

“I have been heavily involved in Democratic politics throughout my career, and have also worked extensively in the private sector, primarily in law and business. What compelled me to join McKenna Long & Aldridge’s national Government Affairs practice was its unique blend of government, politics, and business, as well as the opportunity for me to use my experience to help continue to evolve the government affairs practice and the firm,” said Richard Gordon.

“We are very pleased that Richard Gordon has decided to join our national Government Affairs practice. His significant experience in public policy, especially on a national level, will add further credibility to our reputation as a leading government affairs practice as we continue to expand and solidify our presence in New York and across the United States,” said former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Gordon Giffin, a Clinton appointee, partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge and head of the Public Policy and International department.

Mr. Gordon is the latest addition to the firm’s national Government Affairs group that includes the former Clinton White House Director and Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Marcia Hale and Keith Mason; Eric Tanenblatt, former chief of staff to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and advisor to the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell (R-GA); Buddy Darden (D), former Georgia Representative to the Seventh Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives; Randy Evans, who represents the current and former Speakers of the United States House of Representatives; and former U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA), as well as a recently established and fast-growing government affairs practice in New York, which joined the firm on June 1, 2006.

11-01-2006

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McGlinchey Stafford PLLC

A National First For Louisiana
The prestigious American College of Real Estate Lawyers elected Louisiana attorney Mike Rubin as its President at the College’s annual meeting held in Seattle, Washington. He is the first Louisianaian to be elected to this position, and he is the only Baton Rouge lawyer in the organization.

Rubin, a senior partner in the McGlinchey Stafford law firm, is nationally recognized for his law review articles and writings about real estate and finance. Trained in Louisiana’s unique civil law tradition, which is unlike the common law of the other forty-nine states, Rubin now leads this national group in its efforts to further develop and enhance real estate law for the benefit of all involved, including homeowners, commercial developers, businesses, and lenders from coast-to-coast.

The American College of Real Estate Lawyers elects as its members only those nationally-known lawyers of proven experience and knowledge who are distinguished for their skill, experience and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law.

Rubin has taught as an adjunct professor at the LSU Law School, and both federal and state courts have cited his publications as authoritative. He is a past-president of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Bar Association of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents, and the Baton Rouge Bar Association.

Rubin also has served on Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. He currently is Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Real Property Section of the American Bar Association.

11-01-2006

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McAfee & Taft A Professional Corporation

Firm Represents Professional Basketball Club in Purchase
McAfee & Taft is pleased to have represented The Professional Basketball Club, LLC in a $350 million transaction that transferred ownership of the NBA Seattle Sonics and WNBA Storm to an Oklahoma City-based investor group. The teams were purchased from a group headed by Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz.

"Having represented the NBA in the temporary relocation of the New Orleans Hornets to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina, the firm's representation of the purchaser in the Sonics transaction marks an important step in the continuing growth our our sports-related practice," said shareholder Frank Hill.

On July 18, 2006, the Basketball Club of Seattle (BCOS) announced that it had signed a purchase agreement to sell the Sonics and Storm to The Professionall Basketball Club of Oklahoma City. The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale at its annual meeting in late October, and the transaction was completed on October 31st.

11-01-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding’s Bank Lending, Capital Markets Practices Ranked Among the Top in the U.S. in IFLR 1000
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, has ranked the firm’s bank lending and debt and equity capital markets practices among the best in the United States.

In the 2007 edition of IFLR 1000, King & Spalding’s bank lending practice is one of only 21 recommended in the United States, and its debt and equity capital markets practice is one of only 28 recommended in the United States.

IFLR 1000 is a guide to the top law firms advising on international corporate finance. Its recommendations are based on face-to-face and telephone interviews with leading private practice lawyers and in-house counsel from the world’s most important business and financial centers.

11-01-2006

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