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Henson & Efron, PA

Elizabeth M. Stuva Joins Henson & Efron, P.A.
Henson & Efron is pleased to announce that attorney Elizabeth M. Stuva has joined the firm. Elizabeth practices in the areas of Business Formation and Shareholder/Owner Agreements, Commercial Transactions, and Corporate Finance.

Elizabeth practices in a wide variety of corporate and business transactional matters, including supplier agreements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, securities, contract drafting and negotiation, entity formation, contract interpretation, sales, corporate recordkeeping and due diligence. She also handles environmental law matters, largely those arising from due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and real estate transactions.

She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to joining Henson & Efron, Elizabeth was an associate with Barna, Guzy & Steffen, Ltd.

Henson & Efron, P.A. is a mid-sized law firm located in Minneapolis. The firm is known for its excellence in delivering a full range of legal services to individuals and businesses of all sizes. Henson & Efron is also a member of Legal Netlink Alliance, an international affiliation of medium-sized law firms providing clients access to high-quality legal counsel around the world.

07-10-2006

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Gray, Plant & Mooty

St. Cloud Attorney, Phillip Kunkel Elected Chair, Business Law Section, Minnesota State Bar Association
The law firm of Gray Plant Mooty is pleased to announce that St. Cloud attorney, Phillip Kunkel has been elected for a one-year term as Chair of the Business Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association, effective July 1, 2006. Kunkel is a principal at Gray Plant Mooty concentrating his practice on commercial financing and bankruptcy, and agricultural and agri-business financing.

The Business Law Section has nearly 1,300 members and is one of MSBA’s largest. As Chair, Kunkel will be responsible for executing the Section’s annual programs relating to Minnesota and federal statutes, regulations and decisions involving business corporations, nonprofit organizations, partnerships, limited liability companies, professional associations and financial institutions; securities; the Uniform Commercial Code; franchising and distribution; and other areas of business law.

Gray Plant Mooty is a full-service law firm with offices in Minneapolis and St. Cloud, Minnesota and Washington, DC. Approximately 160 attorneys serve regional, national and international clients. Gray Plant Mooty is a progressive, smart, approachable, and community-oriented law firm, founded in 1866. The firm’s web site is www.gpmlaw.com.

07-10-2006

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Venable Baetjer & Howard

Venable Attorney Brian Schwalb Selected as One of Washington's Legal Elite
Venable LLP is pleased to announce that partner Brian Schwalb has been selected as one of Washington’s “Legal Elite” by Washington SmartCEO Magazine.

For the second consecutive year, Washington SmartCEO selected a group of Washington’s top attorneys who were evaluated on their area of expertise, leadership, professional accomplishments, innovation, and relationship development. The attorneys were nominated by CEOs, business owners, and industry and legal experts.

Mr. Schwalb is an accomplished trial lawyer and commercial litigator. His practice focuses on business, tax, employment and real estate disputes and issues confronting individual entrepreneurs, closely held businesses, corporations and universities. In April, Mr. Schwalb represented a local university in a four-week jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against claims brought by a former law professor. The jury found for the university on all claims.

Mr. Schwalb is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School. After a two-year clerkship and four years as a trial attorney at the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Schwalb began his private practice in Washington, D.C. in 1998. He, his wife and three daughters live in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Schwalb has been active in the District of Columbia Bar Association, having served on the Litigation Section’s and the Courts, Lawyers and Administration of Justice Section’s Steering Committees. He is on the board of the Council for Court Excellence, and is also a member of the American Bar Association and its Litigation Section. Mr. Schwalb has taught advanced trial advocacy in programs sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the ABA.

As one of The American Lawyer's top 100 law firms, Venable LLP has lawyers practicing in all areas of corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property and government affairs. Venable serves corporate, institutional, governmental, nonprofit and individual clients throughout the U.S. and around the world from its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and offices in Maryland, New York and Virginia. For more information, visit www.venable.com.

07-10-2006

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Proskauer & Rose, LLP

Proskauer Rose Attorneys Recognized As New York Area's Best Lawyers
Forty-seven attorneys at Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 650 lawyers in the United States and Europe, have been named in the 2007 edition of ""The Best Lawyers in America"" as among the New York area's top attorneys.

The Proskauer lawyers included in the annual guide to the legal profession, which will be published in September, encompass 18 practice areas in the firm's New York and Newark offices and were chosen for inclusion based solely on a vote of their peers.

""I'm extremely proud of our New York-area attorneys and their accomplishments on behalf of our clients and the firm,"" said Allen I. Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer. ""'Best Lawyers' is especially noteworthy because inclusion is based on the recommendations and respect of our peers and colleagues. It is truly a great honor.

07-10-2006

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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

Robert S. Hertzberg of Pepper Hamilton Elected JVS Chairperson
Robert S. Hertzberg, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been elected chairperson of the board of JVS Detroit, a leading human services organization founded in 1941 as the Jewish Vocational Service. The term is for two years.

Mr. Hertzberg is a bankruptcy lawyer and fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He has been practicing almost exclusively in the bankruptcy and restructuring field for more than 25 years, representing secured lenders, debtors, debtors-in-possession, trustees, creditors and creditors’ committees.

JVS (www.jvsdet.org) is a constituent agency of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit that helps people from all walks of life determine goals and lead more meaningful and productive lives. Eight locations in the metropolitan Detroit area serve more than 30,000 people a year with programs that include career development, youth services, aid for those with disabilities and financial counseling.

Pepper has been practicing in downtown Detroit since 1979, and was one of the first national law firms to enter the Detroit market. Lawyers in the office handle corporate and securities (including venture capital and SBIC), bankruptcy and reorganization, environmental (litigation and regulatory), labor and employment, litigation, public finance, real estate and tax matters. The office offers clients all the resources of a large, multi-office firm with a national and international practice.

Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with 400 lawyers in six states and the District of Columbia. The firm provides corporate, litigation and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world. The firm was founded in 1890.

07-10-2006

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Former State Purchasing Director Joins McKenna Long & Aldridge
Colorado’s former Purchasing Director, Richard Pennington, has been named of counsel to McKenna Long & Aldridge’s government contracts practice group (www.mckennalong.com). The addition of Mr. Pennington expands the national law firm’s well-known expertise in federal government contracting into the state and local government market.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Pennington was Director of the Division of Finance and Procurement of the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration. He was responsible for the state’s financial affairs and accounting as well as statewide procurement of goods and services for multiple state agencies. He was the state Purchasing Director from 1999-2002.

Pennington brings more than 23 years of contracting and procurement experience at both the federal and state level to the firm’s 55-plus attorney government contracts practice. Additionally, the firm’s government contracts practice group has received Chambers Directory USA’s highest national ranking for the second year in a row and is recognized by the directory as the nation’s first government contracts practice. The Denver office’s lawyers represent many of the west’s technology, aerospace and defense industry companies.

Pennington serves the board of advisors for the Denver Chapter of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) and is a member of the National Association of State Procurement Officials. Additionally, Pennington has co-authored papers on e-procurement funding and standardization, performance-based contracting and technology, and best practices in integration of financial and procurement data for the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council.

Pennington graduated with distinction from the United States Air Force Academy and earned his law degree from the University of Denver. He has a Masters of Law in Government Procurement Law from George Washington University.

07-10-2006

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Katten Muchin Rosenman Adds Keir Dougall as Partner in Litigation Practice
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP today announced the addition of Keir N. Dougall to the Firm as a partner in its Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Mr. Dougall will practice in the Firm’s New York office.

“Keir’s wealth of trial experience, his work as a federal prosecutor and his background in the areas of white collar crime, regulatory enforcement and commercial litigation, make him a valuable addition to our Practice,” said Anthony L. Paccione, chair of the Firm’s New York Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. “We are very pleased to welcome him to our team.”

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Dougall, 41, was Counsel in the New York office of White & Case LLP. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in New York and Philadelphia. While with the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mr. Dougall served as the Criminal Health Care Fraud coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and was responsible for developing and supervising the District’s investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud offenses. He provided training to the FBI, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Labor on health care fraud and related issues and was a frequent public speaker on those issues. Mr. Dougall was also a member of the District’s Public Integrity Section, where he conducted white collar, tax and bank fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, public corruption and corporate criminal investigations and prosecutions.

A seasoned trial attorney, Mr. Dougall’s experience with the U.S. Attorney’s office included a month-long jury trial, working with pharmaceutical corporations, in which he won the conviction of an individual who sold millions of dollars worth of counterfeit, trademark infringing and contaminated injectable fertility drugs and contaminated Parkinson’s disease drugs. He also led a labor racketeering investigation of corrupt union representatives and officials which resulted in the conviction of more than three dozen defendants and culminated, after a two month jury trial, in guilty verdicts against a former union vice president, on charges of operating a no-show jobs, kickback, fraud, money laundering and RICO scheme. The Attorney General of the United States commended Mr. Dougall for this racketeering prosecution, praising his “outstanding work” and “superlative efforts.”

Mr. Dougall received his B.S. from Cornell University and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He also holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

The lawyers in Katten’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice are adept at achieving the business objectives of their clients in cases ranging from contract disputes and regulatory matters to securities class action lawsuits and other complex commercial litigation. The Firm serves its clients with a broad, national litigation practice staffed with attorneys in each office whose backgrounds and experiences are as varied as the clients they serve. Their experience and foresight leads to sound assessments of business and legal risks, accurate estimates of costs of defense, and, when necessary, favorable settlements. As a result, the Practice can deliver cost-effective services on multi-million dollar cases, as well as efficiently respond to smaller matters.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (www.kattenlaw.com) is a national, full-service law firm with offices in the nation's largest centers of business, government, finance and technology and an associated entity in London. The Firm’s 600 attorneys in more than 40 practice areas provide timely and cost-effective counsel to clients in numerous industries. They serve as business advisors and advocates for a wide range of public and private companies - from entrepreneurial, emerging-growth, and middle market firms to global Fortune 100 corporations - as well as government entities, non-profits, and charitable and cultural organizations.

07-10-2006

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