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Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

N&R Receives Top Marks by Chambers USA
Needle & Rosenberg P.C., an Atlanta-based law firm, focused on intellectual property law, announced today that the firm earned the highest recognition in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, an attorney/firm directory published annually. Needle & Rosenberg is listed and ranked in the top band for law firms in Georgia for their practice in intellectual property. The directory also names and recognizes three N&R attorneys among its top rankings for their practice in intellectual property.

In the Chambers USA written review of Needle & Rosenberg as a number one ranked firm practicing IP law in Georgia, the publication stated: “the group retains its top-band position thanks to its ‘incredible focus, knowledge, dedication and enthusiasm’."" Needle & Rosenberg attorneys Bill Needle, Larry Nodine and Sumner Rosenberg were recognized in the guide as leading individuals in intellectual property for Georgia. Bill Needle is described as “an outstanding, first-class patent lawyer;” Larry Nodine is cited as “an excellent advocate who can easily switch from commonplace disputes to the most complex case imaginable;” and Sumner Rosenberg received strong support from the market for his computer background and experience. All 3 attorneys have earned distinction by Chambers USA as well as the firm has been named to the number 1 ranked position since Chambers USA began its published review of US law firms 4 years ago.

Chambers and Partners Publishing based in London produces the annual guide and objectively reviewed hundreds of law firms and clients across the nation. For the current US directory, over 10,000 interviews were conducted covering the whole of the USA. They were carried out by a team of 40 full-time researchers over a period of 6 months.

Founded in 1983, Needle & Rosenberg is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the Southeast with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and an office in San Diego, Calif. The firm lives and breathes intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing as well as litigation in these areas. Key patent practice areas include biotechnology, medical technology, chemical, electronics, software, manufacturing and mechanical. As an intellectual property boutique, the firm’s professionals are not only attorneys but are also engineers and scientists. The firm has one of the highest percentages of advanced degrees per professional of any firm in the country.

06-08-2006

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Rawle & Henderson, LLP.

Twelve Rawle & Henderson Attorneys Designated as 2006 Super Lawyers
Rawle & Henderson is pleased to announce that 12 attorneys with the Firm have been named Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania for 2006. All twelve of the attorneys are partners at the Firm and ten are receiving the distinction for third consecutive year.

The Rawle & Henderson Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for 2006 are as follows:

Timothy J. Abeel, Carl D. Buchholz, III, Fred B. Buck, Thomas A. Kuzmick, John H. McCarthy, John C. McMeekin II, Edward C. Mintzer, Jr., Peter J. Neeson, David I. Rosenbaum , John J. Snyder, James C. Stroud, Thomas P. Wagner ,

In addition, two of the Firm’s Super Lawyers, Thomas P. Wagner and James C. Stroud have a special designation of Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyers. Thomas P. Wagner is also designated as a Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. The Super Lawyer designation is determined through surveys sent to all practicing attorneys, licensed for five years or more, asking them to nominate the best lawyers they have personally observed in action. Those peer nominations then go to a blue ribbon panel review for the final selections.

The Super Lawyers program was started 13 years ago when Law & Politics magazine published the first list of Minnesota Super Lawyers. It was intended to serve as a consumer's guide to the best attorneys in the state. As the program grew with the creation of a Washington list, the publishers decided to introduce Super Lawyers in cities around the country. Today, Super Lawyers recognizes the top attorneys in Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Northern California, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.

06-08-2006

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Murtha Cullina LLP

JACQUELINE DeANDRUS BUCAR JOINS MURTHA CULLINA LLP
Jacqueline DeAndrus Bucar has joined Murtha Cullina as counsel in the New Haven office.

Ms. Bucar has extensive experience in immigration and labor and employment law. Her
immigration practice focuses on business and family immigration law, with an emphasis in
academics, professionals, physicians, physician waivers and nurses. She also regularly advises
employers on a wide variety of issues in the workplace such as wrongful discharge and
discrimination, including The Americans with Disabilities Act and sexual harassment.

Ms. Bucar received her J.D. and B.S. from the University of Connecticut and her
M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University. She has been selected for more than 10 years as one of The
Best Lawyers in America (Woodward & White).

With more than 130 attorneys in five offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Murtha
Cullina LLP offers a full range of legal services to businesses, governmental units, non-profit
organizations and individual clients. The Murtha Cullina Health Care Group includes more than
twenty attorneys, and represents a majority of the hospitals and nursing homes in Connecticut, as
well as numerous physicians and physician groups. Other areas of the firm's practice include
litigation, transactional representation in the corporate, financial and real estate areas, estate and
privately owned business planning, and a full range of industry-focused legal services including
Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights, International Business, Construction, Employee Benefits/ERISA,
Environmental and Land Use, Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Government Affairs (Connecticut
only), Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal Law and
Public Finance, Securities, Tax and Utilities and Communications.

06-08-2006

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Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P.

WRF Insurance Practice and Attorneys Recognized among the Best
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Wiley Rein & Fielding’s Insurance Practice as one of the best insurer-side practices in the nation's capital and singled out partners Thomas W. Brunner, Laura A. Foggan, Theodore A. Howard, Daniel J. Standish and John C. Yang as leading lawyers. Ratings are based on extensive interviews of law firms’ clients, colleagues and competitors.

The 2006 edition of the guide notes that over the past year, the group built “on its core foundations of traditional insurance work” and expanded into the regulatory, international and legislative arenas, commenting that, “The increasingly rigorous nature of insurance regulation, in particular, has ensured that the firm has been busy on compliance work at both a federal and national level. In this work, it has been aided by the fact that a close nexus exists between the firm's government and insurance departments, allowing lawyers from each to feed off one another's knowledge.”

As the insurance group expands the breadth of its practice, it continues to dominate the field in the area of coverage. Chambers notes that the group’s efforts in this area are “top-notch” and that clients “say the firm has been ‘phenomenal’ in assessing coverage issues, drafting opinions and acting as litigation counsel in coverage disputes.""

Accolades extend to several partners in the practice, including the group’s chair, Tom Brunner, who “is acknowledged to be something of a pioneer in insurance law,” with “more experience than just about anyone” in the area of insurance coverage. Brunner is praised as a “zealous advocate of his clients' position” who “is always able to come up with 'fresh and creative solutions.’”

Honors go to Laura Foggan, who is “universally ‘trusted to get superb results for her clients.’” Foggan also is commended for the diverse range of her practice and for “directing commercial litigation across the country.” Leading lawyer Theodore Howard, heralded by clients for being “all around professional and businesslike, ” is recognized for his experience handling a wide range of insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes and litigation.

Professional Liability Group chair Daniel Standish is singled out for his reputation as “one of the key people in the industry,” a reputation that “has been sealed through his prowess in D&O and professional liability. Clients appreciate his level of expertise, while peers acknowledge that he…has been instrumental in some recent key decisions, particularly concerning rescission.” Clients contacted by Chambers praised John Yang as“reliable and knowledgeable” with skills that complement those of other members of the team.

In compiling the Chambers USA guide, researchers from London-based Chambers and Partners evaluate law firms and attorneys on several factors, including: technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment and other qualities most valued by clients.

06-08-2006

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Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P.

WRF International Trade Practice and Attorneys Receive Top Honors in National Rankings
Washington, DC – Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Wiley Rein & Fielding’s International Trade Practice as being among the nation’s best and named partners Charles Owen Verrill, Jr. and John B. Reynolds III as “Leading Lawyers.” Chambers ratings are based on extensive interviews of law firms’ clients, colleagues and competitors.

Previously recognized by Chambers as one of the country's “elite international trade practices,” WRF’s International Trade Group represents clients in domestic and international trade regulation matters, market access issues and dispute resolution. The current edition of the legal directory adds that the team “sustains a high profile in trade remedy litigation, having built a favorable reputation for itself in the steel sector” as well as for its expertise in national security issues.

Charles Verrill, chair of WRF’s International Trade Practice, is singled out for his trade remedy and trade policy work and for his counsel in import and export matters in particular. John Reynolds is given a top-tier ranking in the area of export controls and economic sanctions and is lauded as an “outstanding OFAC practitioner who has worked in the field for years and therefore has a tremendous sense of how it has evolved.” He also received plaudits for his work with export controls, especially in the areas of national security-related controls, munitions and exports implicating U.S. sanctions regulations.

In compiling the Chambers USA guide, researchers from London-based Chambers and Partners evaluate law firms and attorneys on several factors, including: technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment and other qualities most valued by clients.

06-08-2006

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Proskauer & Rose, LLP

Proskauer Rose Widely Recognized in 2006 Chambers USA
Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 650 lawyers in the United States and Europe, has been widely recognized in the new edition of Chambers USA, an annual directory of America's leading business lawyers. Forty-one Proskauer attorneys and 24 practice areas were included in this year's edition of Chambers USA, widely acknowledged as one of the world's top arbiters of legal achievement. These rankings reflect a 30 percent increase from 2005 in the number of individual attorney rankings at the firm and a 25 percent increase in the number of practice rankings.

Proskauer's national sports law and ERISA litigation practices received Chambers' highest rankings, as did the firm's Boston-based private equity fund formation practice and its New York-based employment practice, widely considered one of the nation's best and the only NY employment practice ranked in the top tier by Chambers. Also receiving top-tier recognition were the firm's corporate/M&A, healthcare and false advertising practices, the latter of which is receiving recognition from Chambers for the first time. In addition, the firm's national wealth management practice was recognized for the first time, as were its New York-based general commercial litigation and Los Angeles-based employment defense practices.

Also recognized by Chambers, as they have been in years past, are Proskauer's: Washington, D.C. and Boston-based intellectual property practices; Newark, New Jersey-based employment defense practice; and its New York-based bankruptcy/restructuring, employee benefits & executive compensation, environment, insurance dispute resolution, media & entertainment litigation, and real estate practices. Chambers' practice-based rankings reflect Proskauer's established and ever-growing prominence in these fields, based on the firm's handling of a wide-range of matters throughout the year.

""The inclusion of so many of our marquee and emerging practices in this year's Chambers USA, not to mention the attorneys who were named, is a tremendous recognition of the dedication and expertise we bring to every client matter and to the significant breadth and depth of our capabilities,"" said Allen I. Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer Rose. ""I congratulate each and every attorney.""

The annual Chambers USA rankings are determined from interviews with clients and attorneys across the country. The results are independently audited and based on a number of criteria including technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by clients.

06-08-2006

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Nixon & Peabody, LLP

Scott M. Turner Named Managing Partner of Rochester Office; Turner a Nationally Recognized Leader in Environmental Law
Turner, one of the founders of Nixon Peabody’s 30-year-old environmental practice, is an environmental lawyer whose practice focuses primarily on assisting clients through the environmental reviews and permit proceedings required for siting major new industrial and energy projects across the United States. He also defends clients in environmental enforcement cases brought by EPA and state agencies. He is listed as a leading lawyer in environmental law in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2004, 2005, and 2006). He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law (2006–2007). Turner chaired the firm’s Environmental Practice Group for fourteen years and has served two terms on its Policy Committee.

Active in the Rochester community since moving here in 1973, Turner currently is chair of the SUNY Brockport College Council, a trustee of the Rochester Historical Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of Unity Health System and of Park Ridge Hospital and chair of the system’s Behavioral Health Committee.

He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.

“The Rochester office is a vital part of Nixon Peabody because of the office’s critical mass of talented professionals and the wonderful clients we have across Upstate New York. I am excited about working with the office to expand on our long history of providing exceptional service to a wide array of corporate and institutional clients and individuals,” said Scott Turner.

As managing partner for Rochester, Turner succeeds David M. Schraver, who led the office from 2000 to 2006. Schraver will continue his practice, which includes a broad range of complex civil and commercial litigation in state and federal courts.

About Nixon Peabody
Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States with more than 600 attorneys collaborating across 15 major practice areas in 16 office locations, including Boston, New York, Rochester, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The firm’s size, diversity and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national and international matters. Nixon Peabody has been recognized by Fortune magazine as a “100 Best Companies to Work For®” in 2006.

06-08-2006

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