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Loyens & Loeff

Loyens & Loeff N.V. appoints new board members
The composition of the Board of Loyens & Loeff N.V. has changed. Pim Bertels (53), tax advisor, has been appointed as Chairman, succeeding Philip van Hilten. Board member Ronald Pfeiffer, civil-law notary and attorney, also stepped-down. He will be succeeded by attorney Maarten Das (57).

Pim Bertels joined the firm of Loyens & Volkmaars in 1975, where he became partner in 1988. Pim Bertels gives tax advice to Dutch listed and family-owned companies, with a special focus on takeovers and restructuring.

Maarten Das joined the law firm of Loeff Claeys Verbeke in 1975, where he became partner in 1980. He heads the Litigation department in the Corporate Practice Group, where he specialises in corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration. Maarten Das is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Heineken Holding N.V. and a delegated Supervisory Director of Heineken N.V.

Effective 1 September 2006, Philip van Hilten (54) will focus his activities on the Luxembourg office. Ronald Pfeiffer (61) will continue his practice as a civil-law notary and attorney, partly at the Rotterdam and partly at the Luxembourg offices of Loyens & Loeff.

06-13-2006

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Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C.

Lihn Appointed President of Young Lawyers Division for Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
Caleb Lihn, an associate with Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C., was recently appointed President of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) for the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel (AADC).

Lihn, who concentrates his practice on civil litigation, construction defect and transportation defense, received his J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2002. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Arizona.

06-13-2006

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Robinson & McElwee PLLC

Tim Miller Appointed to EMLF Board of Trustees
Charleston Member, Tim Miller, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF). Based in Lexington,Kentucky, EMLF is a non-profit educational organization providing information on legal issues related to the energy and mineral industry through various programs and publications. Miller practices in the Firm's litigation department.

06-13-2006

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Hagens, Berman, Sobol & Shapiro, L.L.P.

Steve Berman Finalist for Trial Lawyer of the Year
Seattle attorney Steve W. Berman was named as a finalist for the Trial Lawyer of the Year award presented by The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

The award recognizes the attorney who has made the most outstanding contribution to the public interest through precedent-setting litigation.

All of the finalists will be honored and the winner announced July 18 at the TLPJ annual gala and awards dinner.

The TLPJ cited Berman’s work as a lead attorney for a class of Hungarian holocaust survivors and their heirs, where Berman helped secure a $25.5 million dollar settlement fund with the United States government after it failed to return personal artifacts seized just prior to the end of WWII.

06-13-2006

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Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner, LLP

Breton A. Bocchieri Joins Thelen Reid’s Los Angeles Office
Thelen Reid & Priest LLP announced today that well-known intellectual property attorney Breton (Bret) A. Bocchieri has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Bocchieri joins Thelen Reid from Perkins Coie, where he was a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice in Santa Monica.

Mr. Bocchieri is widely recognized for his work on complex patent matters and his emphasis on technology-driven litigation. His practice also focuses on trademark, copyright, cyber-piracy, trade secret, and related antitrust litigation. With extensive experience as lead counsel, Mr. Bocchieri has established a number of important precedents in intellectual property law and is a noted author and lecturer on intellectual property litigation strategy and tactics.

Among his numerous legal victories, Mr. Bocchieri won the largest award to date in a cyber-piracy case: $117 million (re Qwest Communications Int’l v. One Quest). In addition to pioneering a new method of calculating damages for Internet infringement, Mr. Bocchieri was the principal architect of a patent litigation procedure related to infringement claims that is now used as a textbook example in law courses across the country. Mr. Bocchieri is frequently quoted in legal and national media outlets on cyber-piracy and patent issues, and he has been featured on CNN Headline News as one of the country’s leading experts on Internet piracy.

“Bret brings talent, experience, and leadership to a vitally important practice area for our clients here in Southern California,” said Thomas E. Hill, managing partner of Thelen Reid’s West Coast operations and Los Angeles office. “He is a top-flight lawyer and rainmaker, and he will help us continue the expansion of our IP practice.”

“Thelen Reid’s strong reputation in intellectual property, its presence in major markets, and its profile in California set the firm apart,” said Bocchieri. “I'm very excited about joining my new colleagues in growing the firm’s intellectual property practice.”

Mr. Bocchieri is a frequent speaker and author of publications in the area of intellectual property. He served as the Vice Chair (1995-99) of the Committee on Intellectual Property for the American Bar Association and has also served in leadership roles for the State Bar of California.

06-13-2006

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Jenner & Block LLP

Partner Lisa Scruggs Receives Alta May Hulett Award
Jenner & Block Partner Lisa T. Scruggs was honored on May 31 by the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Alliance for Women with its 2006 Alta May Hulett Award, which recognizes lawyers that promote positive change and have contributed to the advancement of women in the legal profession.

Ms. Scruggs was lauded for her two years of service as Senior Policy Advisor to the Chicago Public School’s (CPS) Chief Executive Officer, and for her work as Vice President of the Board of Directors and founding Board member of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School, a math, science and technology academy and the only all-girls public school in Chicago.

In presenting Ms. Scruggs with the award, which is named for the first woman in Illinois to become an attorney, Judge Ann C. Williams praised Ms. Scruggs for her integrity and “perceptive” insights into the law, as well as her support of mentoring programs for personal and professional development. In addition, she highlighted Ms. Scruggs ability to “get the job done, no matter what it takes,” while maintaining her sense of humor and without sacrificing commitments to her family. Ms. Scruggs was a clerk for Judge Williams on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1998-2000.

Ms. Scruggs, a member of the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice, has developed a broad body of experience in counseling non-profit organizations and schools on a variety of education policy governance issues. Most recently, she was part of a unique two-year “executive loan” arrangement with the CPS, in which she provided legal and policy advice focusing on new school creation, implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act and analysis of federal and local funding sources.

Also honored at the event was Judge Carole Kamin Bellows. Judge Bellows received the CBA Alliance for Women’s Founder’s Award for her trailblazing work on behalf of women attorneys, which included her presidency of the Illinois State Bar Association – the first bar association presidency held by a woman in any state.

Pictured from left to right: Partner Jennifer A. Burke; Partner Gail H. Morse; Partner and Award recipient, Lisa T. Scruggs; Partner E. Lynn Grayson, inaugural recipient of the Alta May Hulett Award in 2000 and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Women’s Forum affinity group; Alyse Lasser, Co-Chair of the CBA Alliance for Women Executive Committee; and Partner Jill Sugar Factor, Co-Chair of the Firm’s Women’s Forum.

06-13-2006

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Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, L.L.P.

Hughes Hubbard Adds Christopher Paparella To Its Top-Ranked International Arbitration Practice
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced today that Christopher Paparella, an expert in international arbitration and transnational litigation, has joined its New York office as a partner. Mr. Paparella, who started in this area working with Professor Albert Jan van den Berg in Amsterdam, was chair of the International Arbitration practice at his former firm.

Chris Paparella has over 15 years experience in international disputes, and has developed particular expertise in oil and gas, energy, construction, and telecommunications disputes. Chris has represented clients in Europe, South America, Africa and the Middle East in high-stakes arbitrations concerning upstream and downstream oil and gas projects, power plant projects and telecommunications projects. His experience includes representing an engineering contractor in a dispute arising out of an offshore pipeline project in Latin America; representing a US–French engineering and construction consortium in connection with claims arising out of a petrochemical plant in the Middle East; and representing a US-French-Venezuelan consortium in claims arising out of a heavy oil processing plant in Latin America.

About Hughes Hubbard’s International Arbitration Practice

Hughes Hubbard is consistently ranked among the top firms in international arbitration by the most respected legal publications. The current Chambers Client Report, for example, ranks Hughes Hubbard among the top five U.S.-based firms in international arbitration. Chambers Global describes Hughes Hubbard as “firmly entrenched within the arbitration elite” and comments that Hughes Hubbard “marries a distinguished arbitration team to an effective litigation unit.”

“Chris’s broad arbitration experience, particularly in oil and gas projects and telecommunications, will expand the reach of our practice,” predicts John Townsend, who leads Hughes Hubbard’s Arbitration and ADR Practice Group. “We are delighted to have him join the 50 Hughes Hubbard lawyers involved in arbitration work,” Townsend adds.

Hughes Hubbard has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, Jersey City, Paris and Tokyo, and over 30 specialized practices, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, corporate reorganization, real estate and cross-border transactions, securities litigation, arbitration, product liability, antitrust, intellectual property, labor, employee benefits and tax.

06-13-2006

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