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Stoel Rives, LLP

Stoel Rives Attorney Receives "Light a Fire" Award for Nonprofit Work
Stoel Rives associate Saskia de Boer received a Light a Fire Award this month from Portland Monthly magazine and the Oregon Community Foundation. De Boer was honored with an individual award in the category of Extraordinary Board Member Under 35 for her work as a board member of Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette (PPCW) and her efforts to get more young professionals involved with nonprofit organizations.

The Light a Fire Awards were established in 2005 as a way of supporting the local nonprofit community by recognizing the people and groups—nonprofit organizations, philanthropists, volunteers, corporate donors, board members and others—whose extraordinary acts of service have raised the quality of lives in Portland and beyond. This year’s awards were presented at a banquet on October 10, and recipients will be profiled in the November issue of Portland Monthly.

In addition to serving on the PPCW board, de Boer chairs its Development Committee and is a member of its Finance Committee. To encourage other busy young professionals to devote time and energy to nonprofit work, she launched a series of educational, fund-raising and networking events through PPCW called “Sexy Tuesdays.” The events range from social gatherings at neighborhood hot spots to larger fund-raising events such as art auctions and concerts. The goal is “to build a new generation of supporters and advocates” for nonprofit organizations and strengthen connections between nonprofits.

“We’re very proud of Saskia,” says Walter Van Valkenburg, Managing Partner of the Stoel Rives Portland office. “She is an inspiring example for us all, and she reflects the strong community-service spirit that Stoel Rives strives to foster firmwide.”

De Boer credits her earlier experience as Public Affairs Manager of PPCW for both motivating her to become a lawyer and leading her to Stoel Rives. “I was interested in public health and education,” she says, “and working with PPCW helped me realize how law and public policy shape the entire landscape of health care, from how we think about it to how it affects us individually and as a society.”

She adds that Stoel Rives’ commitment to pro bono work and community involvement drew her to the firm. “Stoel Rives attorneys are very active in the community,” she notes. “I connected with some of them before I went to law school, and I knew from the start that this was the firm for me.”

De Boer’s practice focuses on tax-exempt organizations, charitable giving, tax planning, estate planning and administration. She is also on the Stoel Rives Hiring Committee and provides pro bono legal services through the Multnomah County Legal Aid Services clinic co-managed by Stoel Rives. She received her law degree from Stanford Law School and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College.

10-25-2006

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Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP

Paul L. Gale Appointed to Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference
Ross, Dixon & Bell is pleased to announce that Partner Paul L. Gale has been selected as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. Paul is one of only 36 lawyers in the Central District of California to be selected to this delegation. During his three-year term, Mr. Gale will assist the court in a number of ways including using his extensive experience to provide input on matters of federal practice and procedure. Members also volunteer their time to implement conference programs.

10-25-2006

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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Donna Flammang Joins Roetzel & Andress' Fort Myers Office
The law firm of Roetzel & Andress is pleased to announce Donna M. Flammang has joined the firm as a Partner in the Fort Myers Office.

"We are pleased to have Donna join our firm," said Steven Hubbard, Partner-in-Charge of the Fort Myers Office. "Her background and experience will augment the scope of services we are able to offer our clients."

Ms. Flammang focuses her practice on corporate and business services, estate planning, employment law, and business litigation. She most recently practiced at an Ohio-based law firm and is the former vice president, general counsel and secretary of a NYSE, Fortune 1000 manufacturing company.

10-25-2006

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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Roetzel & Andress Attorney Patricia Brown Fugée Authors Chapter for "Inside the Minds" Series
Roetzel & Andress is pleased to announce that Patricia Brown Fugée, a Partner in the Toledo office, has authored a chapter in the new book, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Settlements and Negotiations: Leading Lawyers on Debtor/Creditor Relations, Litigation Issues, and Bankruptcy Proceedings. Ms. Fugée's chapter is entitled "Getting and Keeping What Is Yours Without Burning Bridges."

A member of Roetzel & Andress' Business Litigation Group, Ms. Fugée focuses her practice on bankruptcy/creditor's rights and business litigation matters. She represents creditors, including lending institutions, landlords, and trade creditors in various proceedings, including bankruptcy cases, foreclosures, workouts, and receiverships. Ms. Fugée's clients have also included various trustees and debtors, and she has been appointed as a receiver to liquidate assets.

Published by Aspatore Books, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Settlements and Negotiations: Leading Lawyers on Debtor/Creditor Relations, Litigation Issues, and Bankruptcy Proceeding offers "an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for dealing with financially distressed companies," according to the publisher. The new book is part of a series, "Inside the Minds," in which leading executives and attorneys provide insight into the leading minds in the business and legal world.

10-25-2006

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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

Phyllis W. Beck of Pepper Hamilton Appointed to Continuing Legal Education Board
The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck, of counsel at Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to a three-year term as a member of the Continuing Legal Education Board.

Judge Beck joined Pepper in 2006, after retiring from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Superior Court, the intermediate appellate court in Pennsylvania. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Thornburgh in 1981, and was the first woman to serve as a judge on the Superior Court, which was formed in 1895. Judge Beck became Senior Judge at the end of 1997, and stepped down from the bench on December 31, 2005.

Judge Beck started her career in private practice and joined Temple University School of Law as an associate professor in 1974. She became vice dean at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1976, and held that position until she was appointed to the bench in 1981. She also has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Center on Professionalism. She is a Fellow of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.

10-25-2006

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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

Michael J. Leonard of Pepper Hamilton Adds Commentary to New Book on Design Protection in Europe
Michael J. Leonard, an associate with Pepper Hamilton LLP, provides specialist commentary for a new book entitled Design Protection in Europe: Decision of European and National Courts, Volume 1, edited by Dr. Henning Hartwig, an attorney in Munich, Germany.

Design Protection is the first available collection of decisions issued by community and national courts assessing the validity of the European Community Design Registration, an intellectual property right established in 2003 to provide registrants with protection for the outward appearance of a product or part of it, resulting from the features such as lines, contours, colors, shape, texture and/or materials of the product itself, and/or its ornamentation.

The book contains a collection of published and unpublished decisions from courts in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and the Invalidity Division of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. Decisions include Mattel v. Simba Toys and Hee Jung Kim v. Zellweger Analytics. Prominent design specialists, such as Mr. Leonard, have commented on the fundamental steps taken in each decision.

Mr. Leonard concentrates his practice in intellectual property and advises clients concerning the acquisition, development, clearance, management, protection, enforcement and licensing of intellectual property, with an emphasis on trademark, copyright, unfair competition and domain name issues. Mr. Leonard earned an LL.M. in international intellectual property law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute in 2005 and also served as a legal intern at the German intellectual property law firm of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenberg Geissler, where he worked closely with Dr. Hartwig.

10-25-2006

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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

M. Kelly Tillery of Pepper Hamilton Appointed to National Arbitration Forum’s IP ADR Panel
M. Kelly Tillery, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been appointed to the National Arbitration Forum’s Intellectual Property Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Panel. Mr. Tillery will serve as an arbitrator for the panel.

The panel includes 33 attorneys who are intellectual property experts with varying specializations. IP panelists were selected for their extensive ADR backgrounds, and serve as mediators and/or arbitrators. Those selected as IP arbitrators, including Mr. Tillery, have the knowledge and arbitration experience to make reasonable determinations that follow the law.

Mr. Tillery practices in Pepper’s Philadelphia office. He focuses on intellectual property litigation and is nationally known for his work in anti-counterfeiting actions, especially injunctions. He has long been in the forefront of obtaining individual, national and facility injunctions to protect the trademarks and copyrights of performing artists as well as major software, novelty, jewelry and designer manufacturers from around the world. He also is experienced in commercial litigation.

10-25-2006

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