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Foster Pepper PLLC

Brad Thoreson Appointed to Three Leadership Posts
Foster Pepper PLLC is pleased to announce that Brad Thoreson, Member in the firm’s Real Estate practice group, has been appointed to leadership positions for the following organizations:

Boys and Girls Clubs of King County - Director, Corporate Board of Directors. Brad will work with 50 executives from the area’s largest companies to fulfill the organizational mission of inspiring and enabling all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. With 12 full-service Clubs, and 28 before- and after-school program sites, the organization is one of the largest of its kind in the nation, serving 18,000+ members yearly. Services for youth include character and leadership development, education and career development, health and life skills, the arts, and sports/recreation.

Urban Land Institute (ULI), Washington District Council - Co-Chair, Membership Committee and Member, Sponsorship Committee. The ULI offers an unbiased and nonpartisan exchange on issues impacting the land use industry. Brad will provide leadership to the Washington District Council that provides avenues for active dialogues between private industry, environmental organizations, and public agencies to help find solutions to local and regional issues. The Council is comprised of nearly 70 members, and in his role as Co-Chair, Brad will help the organization continue to build a diverse and actively involved public and private sector membership.

07-28-2006

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Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner, LLP

Thelen Reid Welcomes Seasoned Trial Attorney Thomas Douvan
Thelen Reid & Priest LLP announced today that seasoned trial attorney Thomas Douvan has joined the firm as of counsel in the Los Angeles office.

Mr. Douvan comes to Thelen Reid from Joseph Costella & Associates, where he has handled hundreds of liability cases as staff litigation counsel for St. Paul Traveler's Insurance Co.

""Mr. Douvan brings more than 20 years of experience as a highly-effective trial attorney to the firm,"" said Thelen Reid Vice Chairman Michael S. Elkin, who also chairs the firm's nationwide Commercial Litigation practice.

Douvan’s legal career began in 1986 as an assistant prosecutor for the Oakland County Prosecutor's office in Oakland County, Michigan. From there, he joined the Detroit firm of Cooper, Fink & Zausmer, where, for five years, he handled municipal, environmental, toxic tort, eminent domain, and insurance litigation for the City of Detroit, as well as major commercial and industrial clients.

In 1992, Mr. Douvan moved to San Francisco, where he joined the firm of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. There he managed a docket of 75-100 toxic tort asbestos cases, as well as handled EMF, CERCLA, and other environmental litigation. His clients included Thelen Reid clients PG&E and Shell Oil Company.

Mr. Douvan later became a partner at Arter & Hadden. For five years he handled commercial, environmental, intellectual property, and trade secrets litigation for a broad range of national and international clients in the chemical, consumer products, banking and financial, food service, and technology industries.

From 2001-04, he worked with McDonough, Holland & Allen in Oakland, California on land use, eminent domain, environmental, intellectual property, and trade secrets litigation.

""Tom Douvan's trial experience on behalf of the industries and clients that form the backbone of Thelen Reid make him a very welcome addition to our California-based Litigation and Appellate practices,"" said Thomas E. Hill, managing partner of West Coast operations for the firm.

Mr. Douvan received his J.D. from the University of Michigan, where he also holds a B.A. in Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa.

07-28-2006

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Phelps Dunbar LLP

New Partner Joins Phelps Dunba
Phelps Dunbar LLP is pleased to announce that Harvey S. Kauget has joined the Tampa office as a partner in the firm’s regional commercial litigation group.

Mr. Kauget practices in the area of intellectual property litigation, focusing primarily upon patent litigation. He has had several patent infringement jury trials and has litigated intellectual property matters throughout the country, including Florida, New York, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, Indiana and California. In addition to his intellectual property litigation experience, Mr. Kauget is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Kauget had significant engineering experience as an engineer in the semiconductor industry.

Mr. Kauget received his J.D. in 1995 from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. He received his M.S. in Materials Engineering with an Electronic Materials Concentration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1984 from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Mr. Kauget is admitted to practice in all state courts of Florida and the District Courts in and for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, as well as in New York and New Jersey. He is a member of The Florida Bar, New York State Bar Association and New Jersey State Bar Association.

Phelps Dunbar is a regional law firm of more than 250 attorneys, with offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Tupelo, and Gulfport, Mississippi; Houston, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and London, England.

07-28-2006

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Hunton & Williams, LLP

Hunton & Williams Attorneys Named ‘New York Super Lawyers’
Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce that 10 attorneys in the firm’s New York office have been named New York Super Lawyers in the 2006 edition of New York Super Lawyers magazine. This is the first year that Super Lawyers have been selected in New York, joining their peers in 31 states and regions across the United States.

Super Lawyers are chosen annually by active lawyers who have been in practice for five years or more. More than 59,000 lawyers were invited this year to select the “best attorneys they’ve personally observed in action” in Manhattan. Only five percent of Manhattan’s attorneys were selected as New York Super Lawyers this year.

“It is always rewarding when our lawyers are recognized by their peers,” stated Jeff Jones, managing partner of the firm’s New York office. “I know my colleagues join me in congratulating them!

07-28-2006

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Holland & Hart, L.L.P.

Paul Schlauch Named World s Leading Mining Lawyer for the Second Consecutive Year
Paul J Schlauch of Holland & Hart LLP has been named the leading mining lawyer in the world at the 2006 Who’s Who Legal Awards. This award follows similar recognition in the inaugural awards last year.

Following on from the success of the 2005 awards, Who’s Who Legal has used the thousands of nominations received from clients and private practice professionals in the course of an ongoing research process to identify the pre-eminent lawyer and firm in each of the 27 practice areas covered in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2006, published in March.

Managing editor Callum Campbell said: “Once again, we are delighted to recognise Paul Schlauch as the winner of the Who’s Who Legal; The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers Mining Lawyer of the Year Award. This is the second year running he has achieved this distinction, and he again received more recommendations than any other practitioner in our research. He remains the world’s leading lawyer for mining expertise.”

The awards are based on a number of factors, including the feedback received in the ongoing research process, past performance in the research and the overall aggregate number of weighted votes cast in their favour. The awards are announced in the The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and identify the pre-eminent lawyer and firm in each of the 27 practice areas covered by the Who’s Who Legal series. For the first time this year, the awards also recognise the overall leading firm in 46 countries around the world.

The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2006 is a compendium volume of the practice areas covered by Who’s Who Legal’s separate single volume publications. It is the result of ten years of independent research incorporating feedback from thousands of lawyers, and covering over 7,000 practitioners across 27 separate practice areas and over 100 countries. The book is distributed free of charge to thousands of corporate counsel and private-practice lawyers who have requested it from around the world.

According to Callum Campbell: “It is impossible to buy entry into this publication, only lawyers who have met independent international research criteria are listed. This book represents an accurate and impartial picture of the global private practice marketplace.”

The information is also available without charge on www.WhosWhoLegal.com, and is updated on a daily basis. Who’s Who Legal is the official research partner of the International Bar Association.

07-28-2006

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Goodwin Procter, LLP

Behrman Capital Sells Tandem Health Care to JER Partners, Formation Capital for $620M
Behrman Capital announced that it has sold portfolio company Tandem Health Care, Inc. to JER Partners and Formation Capital, LLC in a $620M transaction. Tandem Health Care is a provider of health care services that include short-term transitional care, long-term nursing care, Alzheimer's care, assisted living, rehabilitation, mobile diagnostic imaging, and pharmacy and hospice services. Behrman Capital invested in Tandem in 1998, and has since made additional equity investments to facilitate multiple acquisitions to supplement growth, enter new geographic markets and expand Tandem's product offering.

Goodwin Procter partner Andrew Weidhaas represented Behrman Capital in this matter.

07-27-2006

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Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C.

KEVIN SCHLOSSER PRESENTS CONSTRUCTION LAW SEMINAR
On July 18, 2006, Kevin Schlosser, chair of the Litigation Department at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, participated as Instructor in the "Construction Management Training Course," a 12-week special instructional program for minority contractors jointly sponsored by the New York State Association of Minority Contractors, Medger Evers School of Business, CUNY, and Turner Construction. Mr. Schlosser's program involved "Legal Aspects of Construction Management." Mr. Schlosser is also on the faculty panel of the Construction Management Institute, run by the Jamaica Business Resource Center and the NYSAMC, and has been presenting seminars in construction law to minority contractors for over ten years.

07-27-2006

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