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Hogan & Hartson LLP

Hogan & Hartson Lawyers Earn Top Rankings in 2006 Edition of Chambers USA
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. announced today that many of its practice groups and attorneys have been recognized in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, an annual guide ranking attorneys and law firms based on in-depth interviews with attorneys, clients, and corporate counsel in the United States, conducted by the Chambers research team.

Hogan & Hartson was recognized in 49 practice areas and regions, including first tier rankings in the following categories:

Corporate/Commercial – District of Columbia
Corporate/M&A – Colorado
Corporate/M&A – Maryland
Corporate/M&A: Latin American Investment – Florida
Corporate/M&A: Northern Virginia – Virginia
Environment – Colorado
Healthcare – District of Columbia
Immigration – District of Columbia
Insurance: Insurer Firms – District of Columbia
Litigation: General Commercial – Maryland
Media & Entertainment: Corporate – New York
Native American Law – National
Transportation: Aviation: Regulatory & Litigation – National

In addition, the firm received national recognition in the following practices:

Business Process Outsourcing
Government Contracts
Government Relations
International Arbitration
International Trade
Native American Law
Products Liability
Sports Law
Transportation: Aviation: Regulatory & Litigation
Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial)

The firm’s total number of practice rankings increased from 36 to 49 this year.

The following lawyers received first tier rankings for their individual practices:

Richard K. A. Becker – Corporate/M&A: Northern Virginia (Virginia)
William Bowman – Insurance: Insurer Firms (District of Columbia)
Alan L. Dye – Securities: Advisory (District of Columbia)
J. Warren Gorrell, Jr. – Corporate/Commercial (District of Columbia)
Paul Hilton – Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
Richard Horan – Corporate/M&A: Northern Virginia (Virginia)
W. Michael House – Government: Government Relations (National)
Henry D. Kahn – Corporate/M&A (Maryland)
Carol Weld King – Native American Law (National)
Daniel Shea – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Andrew Shoemaker – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Colorado)
Michael J. Silver – Corporate/M&A (Maryland)
Tom Strickland – Environment (Colorado)
Ann Morgan Vickery – Healthcare (District of Columbia)
Paul Virtue – Immigration (District of Columbia)
Mark Weinstein – Media & Entertainment: Corporate (New York)
Miguel A. Zaldivar – Corporate/M&A: Latin American Investment (Florida)

An additional 67 Hogan & Hartson attorneys ranked among the top five in their local markets. A complete list of rankings is available at www.chambersandpartners.com/us.

Since 1990, London-based Chambers and Partners has published Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession. Chambers' staff of full-time researchers prepare directories which assess and rank the world’s leading lawyers according to their reputations amongst peers and clients. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business was first introduced in 2003.

About Hogan & Hartson
Hogan & Hartson is an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., with over 1,000 attorneys practicing in 23 offices around the globe. The firm's broad-based international practice cuts across virtually all legal disciplines and industries.

Hogan & Hartson has European offices in Berlin, Munich, Brussels, London, Paris, Budapest, Geneva, Warsaw, and Moscow; Asian offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo; Latin American office in Caracas; and U.S. offices in New York, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Washington, D.C.

06-06-2006

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Ropes & Gray, LLP

Ropes & Gray adds two new partners to West Coast offices
Ropes & Gray is pleased to announce that Geoffrey P. Leonard and Scott D. Elliott have joined the firm’s West Coast corporate practice, where they will represent clients in securities, corporate finance and general corporate matters, and will also participate in the firm’s private equity practice.

Leonard and Elliott, who have joined Ropes & Gray as partners, were both formerly partners in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick. At Orrick, their practice emphasized representing emerging growth and established technology companies, including life sciences, in the areas of securities and finance, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions, among other areas. Leonard and Elliott both also have extensive experience representing venture capital firms and investment banks. Leonard came to Orrick from Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Leonard and Elliott are the latest in a series of high-profile additions to Ropes & Gray’s California corporate practice. In August 2005, Brian C. Erb, formerly of Wilson Sonsini, joined Ropes & Gray’s West Coast corporate practice as a partner. In February 2006, Eric W. Wright, also of Wilson Sonsini, joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice.

“By coming to Ropes & Gray, Geoff and Scott maintain the momentum of our growth in the California legal market,” said Dwight W. Quayle, the chair of Ropes & Gray’s corporate department. “As was the case with Brian Erb and Eric Wright, our clients and colleagues alike will benefit from our new partners’ deep-rooted knowledge of the Bay Area business community.”

“Geoff and Scott have a great track record heading up strategic initiatives,” said John Chesley, partner in charge of the firm’s San Francisco office. “They bring proven results in practice development and firm growth, and they are committed to hiring and training talented attorneys. Those traits fit beautifully with our West Coast strategy.”

Leonard earned his law degree cum laude in 1981 from the Georgetown University Law Center, three years after completing his undergraduate studies at Trinity College. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the California State Bar.

Elliott is a 1992 cum laude graduate of the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Elliott is a member of the California State Bar.

06-06-2006

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Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP

THIRTY-THREE CRAVATH LAWYERS AND SIXTEEN PRACTICE AREAS RECOGNIZED IN CHAMBERS USA: AMERICA\'S LEADING LAWYERS FOR BUSINESS 2006
In the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Cravath ranked in the top two tiers in the following practice areas:

Antitrust
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Capital Markets: High Yield Products
Corporate M&A
Environment
Intellectual Property - Trademark & Copyright
Litigation - General Commercial
Litigation - Securities
Media & Entertainment - Corporate
Tax
Ten Cravath partners were ranked in the first band of leading individuals and a total of 33 Cravath lawyers were represented on the list of leading individuals across several bands in multiple practice areas.

06-06-2006

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Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Cooley Godward Expands East Coast Litigation Practice
Cooley Godward LLP today announced that Douglas P. Lobel has joined the Firm as a partner in its Business Litigation practice group. He will be resident in Cooley’s Reston, Va. office and will focus his practice on complex contract and commercial litigation matters. Lobel joins the Firm from Arnold & Porter LLP, where he was senior partner in that firm’s litigation group. As a former federal and state prosecutor, he has significant trial experience representing clients from a wide range of industries in complex litigation, class action lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the country. In addition, he has extensive experience litigating in the “rocket docket” of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.

“We are delighted to add a lawyer of Doug’s stature to our ranks and expect that he will add significant depth, breadth and experience to our already prominent East Coast litigation practice,” said Joe Conroy, head of Cooley’s Reston, Va. office.

“Doug is a seasoned and extremely talented litigator with a long record of success on behalf of major corporations in significant litigation matters,” said John Dwyer, head of Cooley's Business Litigation practice group. “His arrival marks the continued expansion of Cooley’s national business litigation capabilities, and he is joining a world-class team of litigators.”

Lobel has a diverse practice involving complex commercial litigation, financial services and telecommunications litigation, economic crimes and fraud and class actions. He has represented individuals and large financial services firms in civil litigation, consumer class actions, NASD, NYSE and SEC proceedings, arbitrations and federal grand jury investigations. He has also represented local, long distance and international telecommunications carriers in high profile lawsuits and commercial arbitrations, including disputes over inter-carrier compensation, tariff and regulatory issues and consumer billing.

Prior to entering private practice 15 years ago, Lobel was a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In that position he investigated and prosecuted complex and high profile financial and securities fraud cases. Before that, he was an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, where he handled over 30 felony trials.

About Cooley Godward

Cooley Godward is an established provider of strategic litigation and business transaction services and a recognized leader in the representation of high-growth private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Our singular focus on providing the highest quality legal services has enabled our clients to achieve their strategic business objectives and garnered for Cooley recognition as one of the country's leading law firms.

Cooley was named to The American Lawyer magazine’s 2005 “A-List,” the publication’s annual ranking of “the best of the best” among the nation's top law firms. For additional information please visit www.cooley.com.

06-06-2006

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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. of Baker Donelson Named Honorary Co-Chair of Nature Conservancy Statewide Campaign
Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senior Counsel with the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, has been named honorary co-chair of a conservation campaign conducted by the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

""The natural resources of this great state are among its greatest resources, and the efforts to protect them are critical to our distinctive beauty and experience,"" said Senator Baker. ""I am honored to be asked to serve in this capacity and welcome the opportunity to tell more Tennesseans about this beautiful state of ours."" Senator Baker is co-chairing the campaign with former Tennessee Governor Ned Ray McWherter.

""Saving the Last Great Places of Tennessee"" is the largest conservation campaign in Tennessee's history, with a goal of raising $14 million that will be used to expand conservation programs across Tennessee. The campaign, which has gifts in pledges of more than $10 million to date, will extend through the end of 2006.

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC is one of the 100 largest law firms in the country. Through strategic acquisitions and mergers over the past century, the Firm has grown to include more than 440 attorneys, and public policy and international advisors. Baker Donelson represents clients across the U.S. and abroad from offices in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and a representative office in Beijing, China.

06-06-2006

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Bayard, P.A.

Steven R. Director Serves as Panelist at Philadelphia Bar Association Progra
Steven R. Director, a director at The Bayard Firm and Chair of the Tax Department, was a panelist at the June 6, 2006 program sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association's Probate & Trust Law Section entitled ""Fiduciary Law in the First State - What a Pennsylvania Practitioner Should Know About Delaware's Law, Practice and Procedure.""

Steve and his co-panelists discussed the significant advantages of moving existing trusts to Delaware and the procedures for transferring the trusts. In addition, the panelists addressed both the tax and non-tax implications of such a transaction. The program materials for the workshop were published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) and are available for purchase through the PBI (http://www.pbi.org/).

06-06-2006

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Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Bob Steptoe Receives Harrison County Chamber Award
Robert M. Steptoe, Jr., CEO of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, was awarded the Lifetime Commitment Award at the 87th Annual Dinner of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce. The Lifetime Commitment Award is new for 2006 and is presented to a person or company that has been a member for more than 50 years and has shown an outstanding commitment to active involvement in the chamber and the community.

Steptoe is a member in the Clarksburg office of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC and focuses his practice in the areas of labor and employment law and civil litigation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation, and is recognized in ""The Best Lawyers in America"" in the field of labor and employment law. He is also recognized in the 2005 Chambers USA 3rd Edition of America's Leading Business Lawyers.

Within the community, Steptoe has served as President of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce, President and Campaign Chair of the United Way of Harrison County, member of the West Virginia Ethics Commission, Board member of United Hospital Center, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as Trustee of the West Virginia Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Steptoe received his legal education at West Virginia University College of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review and a member of the National Moot Court Team. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Virginia, after which he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve and served two years on active duty.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, a multi-practice law firm, has provided customized legal services to business, industry, and public entities in West Virginia and the region for nearly a century. With over 160 lawyers and a support staff of over 200, Steptoe & Johnson maintains six offices throughout West Virginia.

06-06-2006

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