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Hogan & Hartson LLP

Hogan & Hartson Receives Award From NAACP for Pro Bono Work
Hogan & Hartson LLP has received the Civil Rights Champion Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The award, presented to the firm during the NAACP's annual convention in Washington, D.C. on July 17, recognized the firm's pro bono service and commitment to advancing civil rights and social justice on behalf of the NAACP.

Hogan & Hartson has assisted NAACP branches on many pro bono matters over the years. In the 1970s, the firm helped to save the NAACP from bankruptcy when a state court judgment in Mississippi threatened its existence. The firm succeeded in obtaining a federal court injunction to stop the enforcement of the state court order until it could be reviewed on appeal. The firm since has assisted NAACP branches in such matters as a long-running school desegregation case in Prince George's County, Maryland, and a Supreme Court case involving voting rights in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Most recently, Hogan & Hartson and co-counsel settled a series of federal court cases against restaurants in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that closed rather than serving the largely African-American patrons who attend Black Bike Week there each May. The firm is very proud of its long affiliation with the NAACP and honored by the award.

07-28-2006

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Robinson & Cole LLP

Robinson & Cole Sponsors Happy Hour for Local Bar Associations
R&C recently sponsored a happy hour at Hot Tomato's in Hartford for members of the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut, the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association, the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the George W. Crawford Black Bar Association. The event was primarily a networking event with the added opportunity to meet summer interns from around the Greater Hartford area.

07-28-2006

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Foreign Legal Consultant Named To Argentinean Arbitration Board
Fulbright foreign legal consultant Francisco Balduzzi has been named a founding member to the Advisory Board of the Argentine Committee for National and Transnational Arbitration (Comité Argentino de Arbitraje Nacional y Transnacional), CARAT. As a founding member, Balduzzi will be involved in CARAT’s academic and pro bono activities.

CARAT is the first Argentine committee of its kind and was formed within the sphere of FORES, an Argentine NGO founded 25 years ago to promote the improvement of the judicial system in Argentina and Latin America. CARAT has 89 founding members, including full-time law professors and practicing attorneys from Argentina and around the world.

Balduzzi joined Fulbright in 2002 and focuses on international disputes and transactions. He is part of the International Arbitration and the Latin America practice groups. Balduzzi has more than 10 years of experience in Latin America. He has represented a broad range of clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay.

07-28-2006

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Two Fulbright Attorneys Named to Citywealth’s List of Top 100 Wealth Advisers
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. senior counsel Meryl Finkelstein and partner G. Edward Deery are among the Top 100 wealth advisers in North America, according to Citywealth, a UK-based weekly newsletter.

The online newsletter interviewed more than 2,000 wealth advisers and managers to put together its list of the most highly-respected wealth advisers. The list includes attorneys, accountants, investment professionals and philanthropy consultants. Most of those polled have worked in the industry for more than two decades.

Ms. Finkelstein serves as senior counsel in Fulbright's New York office. She has extensive knowledge of estate planning techniques and counsels clients on estate planning, business succession and wealth transfer issues. She's also experienced in charitable, retirement and insurance planning, the preparation of federal estate tax returns, the handling of estate tax audits and the preparation and settlement of fiduciary accountings.

In his practice, Mr. Deery, a partner in Fulbright's Houston office, addresses all aspects of wealth transfer planning, tax planning, charitable planning and estate and trust administration. He has substantial experience in the creation and administration of family limited partnerships and advanced estate planning. Mr. Deery has assisted his clients with the formation and administration of charitable trusts, private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.

07-28-2006

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Foley & Lardner

Partners Ranked by Peers in Practice
Peter N. Wang and Michael P. Richman have been named 2006 New York “Super Lawyers” in the areas of business litigation and bankruptcy, respectively, by Law & Politics Media, Inc.

To compile the annual list, Law & Politics surveyed more than 59,000 lawyers in Manhattan, asking them to vote for the best lawyers they have personally observed in action. The final list features the top five percent of Manhattan attorneys in more than 60 areas of practice.

07-28-2006

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Foley & Lardner

Fritz Vorlop Appointed Working Group Chair for eHVRP
Foley Partner Fritz Vorlop has been appointed to the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program's (eHVRP) Working Group of Chairs. Mr. Vorlop will co-chair the Legal Working Group with Stephen Bernstein from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. The Legal Working Group of eHVRP will establish and recommend appropriate agreements, guidelines and disclosures as well as address legal issues associated with the program.

eHVRP was founded in May 2006 and is a collaborative of health care industry organizations, technology companies and security professional. The goal of eHVRP is to establish approaches and procedures that will help ensure eHealth systems are broadly and rapidly deployed with the highest levels of privacy and security.

View the full press release on the working groups.

07-28-2006

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Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP

Smith Moore Expands Wilmington Office
Dana Pellizzari has joined the Wilmington office of Smith Moore LLP. Pellizzari becomes the third attorney in Smith Moore's Wilmington office, which opened a little over a year ago with the addition of Michael Lee's practice.

An alumnus of State University of New York at Albany and Wake Forest University School of Law, Pellizzari's practice will focus on corporate law, real estate development, and mergers and acquisitions.

Pellizzari is a member of the Richland County Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association and South Carolina Bar Association. She received the American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Research and Writing and the American Jurisprudence Award for Torts II in the spring of 1993.

07-28-2006

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