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Butzel Long

Robert A. Boonin elected to Council of the Labor and Employment Law Section of State Bar of Michigan
Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin has been elected by the membership Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan to serve on its Council. He will serve a two-year term on the Council which is the governing board of the Section.

The Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan comprises lawyers whose practice is concentrated in labor and employment law matters, representing employers, employees and unions, as well as neutrals. Mr. Boonin fills one of the seats reserved for employer advocates. The Council oversees all operations and programs for the Section, including training, education, information and analysis about issues of concern to its members through meetings, seminars and public service programs. The Council meets monthly and, in addition to seminars, the Section meets twice annually.

Mr. Boonin is continuing Butzel Long's distinguished record of leadership in the Council. In recent years, Butzel Long labor and employment attorney John Hancock, Jr. served as chair of the Council. In addition, former Butzel Long attorneys Robert Battista, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board and Andrea Roumell Dickson, executive vice president and chief of staff, Wayne State University, are former chairs of the Council.

Mr. Boonin is an editor of a chapter on national origin discrimination in the upcoming edition of the preeminent treatise ""Employment Discrimination,"" and a contributing author on new wage and hour cases of the upcoming supplement of the American Bar Association's treatise on the Fair Labor Standards Act. He is a member of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education's (ICLE) Advisory Committee for Labor and Employment Law Issues and is actively involved in the planning of the ICLE annual seminar in April 2007.

Mr. Boonin practices in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office. His practice is largely concentrated in the areas of labor, employment discrimination, wage and hour matters, public contract law and education law. He has represented public and private sector clients across the country in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour class and other actions, tenure proceedings and other employment-related lawsuits, as well as in arbitrations, labor negotiations, fact-findings, unfair labor practices and representational proceedings and labor strikes. Recently, he served as special counsel to the coalition which successfully sought a correction to Michigan’s Minimum Wage law to preserve the overtime exemptions.

He is active in national and state bar association sections in labor and employment law and public contract law, including the Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, and he also is a past-president and board member of the Michigan Council of School Attorneys, a member of the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys and the local chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly IRRA). He currently co-chairs the Washtenaw County Bar Association's Trial Practice Section and is in the Washtenaw Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is a past chair of the Washtenaw County Bar Association’s Employment Law Section, and recently completed six years on the Ann Arbor YMCA Board of Directors.

Mr. Boonin frequently publishes articles and speaks at conferences on various topics involving labor and employment law matters, including discrimination and wage and hour law. Among his publications and presentations are: ""The Constitutional Constraints in Dealing with Drug Abuse in the Schools,"" Michigan Bar Journal (Nov. 1989); ""Wage and Hour Law for Michigan Public Employers,"" Michigan Public Employment and Labor Relations Law (MPELRA 1994); ""Damages Recoverable in the Employment Case,"" Michigan Wrongful Discharge and Employment Law (ICLE 1994); ""Fair Labor Standards Act Update,"" (ICLE 2006).

He is an honors graduate of The University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1985). He earned is Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1976), and a Masters Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University (M.L.I.R. 1980).

10-25-2006

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Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP

Simpson Thacher Represents Klabin Segall S.A. in Initial Equity Offering
Simpson Thacher recently represented Klabin Segall S.A. and several selling shareholders in an initial offering of common shares of the Company that closed on October 11, 2006. The transaction raised the U.S. dollar equivalent of approximately US$240 million in proceeds of which US$170 million related to a primary portion and US$70 million related to a secondary portion. The common shares were offered to the public in Brazil, with selling efforts to qualified institutional buyers in the United States under Rule 144A and to non-U.S. persons in Europe under Regulation S. Klabin Segall S.A. is a leading real estate development company targeting the largest metropolitan areas of Brazil.

Since December 2005, the firm has closed nine ""Brazilian IPOs"" (each included a 144A/Reg S offering outside of Brazil) in which it has represented the issuer, in addition to several other transactions where we have represented the placement agents.

The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction consisted of Jaime Mercado, Christopher Frigon, Adriana Kertzer and Fionna Tsu (corporate), and Jonathan Cantor and Peter Rosen (tax).

10-25-2006

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Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P.

Sandra A. Bresnick Joins Sidley Austin LLP as an Intellectual Property Partner
Sidley Austin LLP today announced that Sandra A. Bresnick has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice, resident in New York. Ms. Bresnick will continue to focus her practice on patent litigation, particularly in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and the life cycle management of drugs and biologic products.

Ms. Bresnick represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property trials and appeals, including Hatch-Waxman litigation. Ms. Bresnick also counsels clients regarding intellectual property management and strategic alliances. She is registered to practice before the US Patent & Trademark office.

“Sandi’s deep understanding of pharmaceutical and biotechnology issues, combined with her extensive patent litigation experience is a rare combination of talents,” said David Pritikin, National Chair of Sidley’s Intellectual Property Practice. “Sidley has a strong commitment to the pharmaceutical and life science industries across all disciplines. Sandi adds to an already deep roster of IP talent.”

“I am excited to join Sidley’s New York office, especially since I am reconnecting with my former colleagues and friends, Jen Gordon and Scott Familant,” said Sandra Bresnick.

Ms. Bresnick received a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University, and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Ms. Bresnick is a contributing editor of The Journal of Biolaw & Business and teaches “Pharmaceutical Patent Law” at Rutgers University School of Law.

10-25-2006

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Kaye Scholer LLP

Kaye Scholer Team Secures Halliburton Victory in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Kaye Scholer recently obtained a resounding victory for its client Halliburton in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The team successfully defended Halliburton in a class action suit filed by current and former employees. At stake was over $1 billion in unpaid overtime premiums that plaintiffs sought for work on behalf of the US Army in Iraq and Kuwait. The judge accepted Kaye Scholer's argument that even if the Army's Contracting Officer had fully intended to require Halliburton to pay overtime and had done everything possible to make it happen, the effort would be void because the Contracting Officer lacked authority to impose an overtime premium obligation for government contract work performed overseas.

The judge granted the motion to dismiss all claims except an unquantified claim that Halliburton's record keeping system made mistakes in the number of hours worked by some employees. It is likely that the plaintiffs will move to voluntarily dismiss this remnant.

The Kaye Scholer team was led by Washington, DC partner Ronald K. Henry, chair of the firm's Government Contracts Practice Group.

10-25-2006

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

Robert Cooper Honored as Antitrust Lawyer of the Year
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Robert E. Cooper will be named the 2006 Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California.

The award will be given at the Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Award Dinner, which will culminate the section's 16th Annual Golden State Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Institute. The event is being held on Thursday, October 26 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

10-25-2006

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Edwards & Angell, L.L.P.

Kathy Murphy Is Elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers Board of Governors
Kathryn Cochrane Murphy, senior counsel at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP in Boston, MA, has recently been elected to the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL; the College) for a three-year term commencing in 2007.

Ms. Murphy has been a member of the College since 1993, and currently serves as Chair of the ACREL Meetings Committee. The Board of Governors is composed of the officers of the College and 15 other members, nominated by the Nominating Committee and elected for staggered three-year terms by the Regular Members at the Annual Meeting. The College was founded in 1979. Membership in the College is by invitation only; prospective members are nominated and elected by the ACREL membership at large. Nomination to ACREL is based on professional reputation and demonstrated ability in the field of real estate law, ten years of substantial experience as a real estate lawyer and contributions to the improvement of real estate law and practice through writing, teaching and other public service.

The purpose of ACREL is: to promote high standards of professional and ethical responsibility in the practice of real estate law; to work to improve and reform real estate law and practice; to make educational materials available to the bar and the public; and to participate in law reform matters and legislative, administrative and judicial initiatives when appropriate.

Ms. Murphy is a member of the Real Estate Department of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. She has extensive experience as a commercial real estate lawyer, representing institutional landowners as ground lessors in connection with mixed-use developments, for profit entities and non-profit institutions in matters of real property acquisitions, dispositions, permitting, leasing, financings and design and construction contracts. Ms. Murphy also represents developers in connection with condominium matters. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Ms. Murphy received a B.A., cum laude, from Yale University and her law degree, magna cum laude, from the Boston College School of Law.

10-25-2006

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Dykema Gossett PLLC

Joseph M. West Joins Dykema
Dykema announces that Joseph M. West has joined the firm as an Associate in the Litigation Practice Group. Mr. West’s practice focuses on general litigation matters. Following law school, he served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Ronald L. Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. West has authored articles on white collar crime; see: Federal Fraud Prosecutions of Schemes to Defraud Foreign Sovereigns of Import Taxes, 50 Wayne L. Rev 1061 (2004) and Application of the [Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development] Anti-Bribery Convention, Mich. Int’l Lawyer Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Spring 2005.

A resident of Ann Arbor, Mr. West received his B.A., summa cum laude, and his J.D., summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from Wayne State University.

10-25-2006

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