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Berger & Montague, P.C.

National Publication Honors Five Berger Attorneys As Top Lawyers
Lawdragon, a national legal periodical, has recently honored five Berger & Montague attorneys as tops in their fields.



Three senior attorneys -- Merrill Davidoff, Sherrie Savett, and Peter Nordberg -- have been named among the nation's 500 leading litigators. The editors of Lawdragon recognized Messrs. Davidoff and Nordberg's recent half a billion dollar jury verdict against Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp. for property damage claims relating to emissions from the nuclear weapons plant at Rocky Flats, Colorado, and Ms. Savett's impressive record of securities fraud settlements.



Lawdragon also honored two other Berger attorneys, Eric L. Cramer and David Sorensen, as ""New Stars,"" a listing of the top 500 up and coming lawyers in the country, for both of their pioneering work in complex litigation.



""The Lawdragon 500"" are lists of outstanding attorneys as judged by their peers, clients, and researchers of the publication. Over 15,000 lawyers were reviewed for consideration of this prestigious recognition.

05-17-2006

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Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Announces New Members and of Counsel Attorneys for 2006
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, a multi-practice law firm, announces that, effective January 1, 2006, eight of its attorneys were promoted to membership, and four of its attorneys achieved ""of counsel"" status. Steptoe & Johnson provides a wide range of customized legal services to business, industry and public entities throughout the state and the region from its six office locations.

Steptoe & Johnson new member attorneys:

Armando F. Benincasa concentrates his practice in the areas of environmental law, environmental litigation and administrative law. Benincasa is admitted to practice in West Virginia and is licensed to practice before the state courts, the northern and southern District Courts of West Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Benincasa received his Juris Doctorate in 1995 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He practices in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Susan L. Deniker focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment law, including employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, litigation, workplace injuries, wage and hour law, and providing counseling and training for employers. Her practice includes state and federal court cases, as well as cases before the West Virginia Human Rights Commission. Deniker is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the Harrison County Bar Association. Additionally, she is a member of the Employment Law Committee of the West Virginia Bar Association, as well as the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. Deniker is a past president of the Criss-Cross, Inc. Board of Directors and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Lasting Impressions Child Development Center. Deniker graduated from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, where she was a member of the Law Review. She practices in the Clarksburg office of Steptoe & Johnson.

David E. Goddard focuses his law practice in the areas of general litigation, professional liability defense and product liability. He has tried cases in both state and federal courts and has handled numerous serious medical professional liability cases, as well as complex litigation involving banks, construction companies, corporations and employer liability. Goddard is licensed to practice law before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association, the Harrison County Bar Association, Defense Research Institute and the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. Goddard received his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he was recognized as a St. George Tucker Brooke fellow. He practices in the Clarksburg office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Thomas S. Kleeh concentrates his practice in labor and employment law including employment discrimination litigation, wrongful discharge, wage and hour and school law issues. Kleeh is a member of the Kanawha County Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar and the American Bar Association as well as a member of the Kanawha Valley Chapter of the West Virginia University Alumni Association. Kleeh received his law degree from West Virginia University College of Law and served as Editor-in-Chief of the West Virginia Law Review and was a member of the M.E. Lugar Trial Association. He practices in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Kelly J. Little focuses her practice in the area of general litigation with an emphasis in product liability and mass and toxic torts defense as well as insurance defense. Licensed to practice law in both West Virginia and Ohio, she provides legal services to clients throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley Region. Little is a member of the West Virginia State Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Monongalia County Bar Association, the Harrison County Bar Association, the Washington County Bar Association, and a member and former President of the Wood County Bar Association. She is also a member of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, the Defense Trial Counsel Civil Justice, Amicus Briefing, and Product Liability Committees, and the West Virginia Commission on Children and the Law. Little received her law degree from Capital University Law College of Law. She practices in the Clarksburg office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Jason D. Stevens concentrates his practice in the area of long term care litigation and medical malpractice defense. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the West Virginia State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Stevens received his juris doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he won both the George C. Baker Cup Competition and the West Virginia Invitational Trial Tournament. He also served on the Moot Court Board and was a member of the school's National Moot Court team. Stevens practices in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Melissa S. Watkins concentrates her practice in the areas of taxation and business and commercial planning. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant. Watkins is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, American Bar Association, and the Monongalia County Bar Association, as well as a member of the West Virginia Society of CPAs. She is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Watkins received her law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law and holds a Masters of Professional Accountancy Degree from West Virginia University. She practices in the Morgantown office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Kristian E. White practices in the areas of real estate, natural resources, business organizations, commercial transactions, athlete representation, and taxation. White is a Certified Public Accountant. He is admitted to the West Virginia State Bar and is a member of the Ohio County Bar Association and the West Virginia Society of CPAs. White received his law degree from West Virginia University College of Law and is an alumnus of Leadership West Virginia and Leadership Wheeling. White sits on the board of directors of The Children's Museum Of The Ohio Valley, Inc. and Kiwanis Club of Wheeling, Inc. White practices in the Wheeling office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Steptoe & Johnson Of Counsel attorneys:

M. Dawn Alexander concentrates her practice in the areas of general litigation including litigation, health care, product liability and appellate law. She is licensed in the states of West Virginia and Tennessee and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Tennessee, West Virginia, the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia. She is a member of the West Virginia and Tennessee Bar Associations, the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association. She received her law degree from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1996, graduating magna cum laude. She practices in the Martinsburg office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Robert L. Bailey concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial and general litigation and appeals. Bailey is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the Kanawha County Bar Association. He received his law degree from the Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude. After law school, Bailey served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Robert C. Chambers, Judge of the Southern District of West Virginia, and the Honorable Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, Senior Judge of the United Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practices in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Jacquelyn J. Core concentrates her practice in the areas of labor and employment litigation and professional liability litigation. Core is a member of the Monongalia County Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar, the Defense Research Institute, and the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. She is also a member of the Association of American Geographers and the National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys. Core received her legal education at West Virginia University College of Law, where she served as Associate Chief Justice of the Appellate Moot Court Board. Core practices in the Morgantown office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Hannah B. Curry concentrates her practice in the areas of general litigation and appellate law. She is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association, the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Curry received her law degree from the West Virginia University School of Law. Curry practices in the Charleston office of Steptoe & Johnson.

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.

05-17-2006

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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

David Crichlow Elected Pillsbury’s New York Managing Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that David A. Crichlow has been elected managing partner of the firm’s New York office. Crichlow, a commercial litigator, has spent his entire 17 year-career with Pillsbury and its predecessor firm Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts.



Crichlow becomes head of a four-member management committee overseeing the approximately 130-attorney New York office, the firm’s largest after San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The other members are James Chudy of the tax department; Kenneth Taber, co-leader of the national litigation practice; and finance partner Jonathan Whitney. Both Chudy and Whitney are new to the committee.

“We welcome our new managing group in New York – the combination of practice talent and leadership embedded in the new committee bodes well for the future of what is obviously one of our most important markets,” said James Rishwain, who recently became Pillsbury’s chair-elect. “It’s especially satisfying to note the elevation of Dave Crichlow, who has given so much of himself to firm matters even while maintaining a full load as one of our most able big-case litigators.”

Crichlow, 42, was elected following the decision by former managing partner Susan Kohlmann to return full time to her intellectual property litigation practice. Crichlow becomes one of the few African American attorneys to gain managing partner status at a national law firm.

This show of support for Crichlow is no surprise to those familiar with his career at the firm. He joined Winthrop Stimson in 1989, immediately after graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Except for a hiatus to take a federal clerkship, he has remained with the firm ever since. He became a partner in 2000 as a member of the final Winthrop Stimson partnership class before its merger with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro that same year.

In the last several years Crichlow has served as New York hiring partner, firmwide head of the Partner Candidate Evaluation Committee, and co-leader of the National Recruiting Committee.

“Dave’s leadership skills have been evident across the firm for a long time,” Kohlmann said. “He is a gifted litigator who knows how to keep sprawling cases running smoothly, and he commands enormous respect from fellow attorneys and staff alike. It is a reassuring feeling to hand over the management responsibilities of our office to David.”

The New York office had a strong 2005 and recently added several prominent new partners, including Jeffrey Zuckerman, former deputy director for compliance at Morgan Stanley and an ex-SEC enforcement lawyer, along with Ernest Patrikis, who recently joined the firm after serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at American International Group. Also this month, Pillsbury was named litigation counsel to the City of New York in initiating a new wave of federal lawsuits brought by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to stop the flow of out-of-state guns into the city. The firm is leading a group of litigators supporting the City on a pro bono basis.

In taking over the helm of the New York office from Kohlmann, Crichlow said, “I certainly have a great act to follow. Susan Kohlmann played a key part in directing the integration effort following Pillsbury’s merger with Shaw Pittman in 2005. More recently, she’s done a tremendous job in helping reassert the practice strengths of our New York office, particularly our finance and bank regulatory work, our litigation and white-collar practice, and our corporate-securities platform -- areas in which we are one of the leaders in the market. I’m looking forward to further building the office from that foundation.”

This month Pillsbury is set to receive special recognition for its dedication and years of commitment to the City Bar Minority Fellowship Program. “As a minority partner I'm especially pleased with our continued dedication to diversity in the legal profession,” Crichlow noted. He added that as part of the Bar Minority Fellowship Program, Pillsbury offers a fellowship to a minority first-year law student intended to provide a jump-start on a legal career.

Crichlow expects to remain active in his litigation and appellate practice even as he assumes management of the New York office. Recently he represented a hedge fund in a complex commercial matter in federal court. He has also represented the Official Committee of Equity Security Holders in one of the largest bankruptcies filed in the Southern District of New York in the past several years, as well as one of the country’s largest oil companies in its litigation against an Enron affiliate. In addition, Crichlow counseled one of the largest auto-industry finance companies in defeating an attempted nationwide class action.

“Given the current professional climate, I think it’s important for attorneys to contribute to the success of their firms, in addition to working to serve their clients,” Crichlow said. “I believe you can be an effective law firm manager as well as an effective practitioner.”

Crichlow is a New York native. He was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He earned his B.A. from Hofstra University in 1985 before attending law school.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with approximately 900 attorneys in 16 offices, including San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and London. In business for more than 135 years, Pillsbury’s practice focuses on capital markets and financial services, energy, global sourcing, litigation, real estate, technology, life sciences and communications. For more information, please visit www.pillsburylaw.com.

05-17-2006

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Mayer Brown LLP

Carsten Flasshoff, LLM (Tulane) becomes a partner in Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP in Cologne
Carsten Flasshoff (36) has become a partner in the international law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, strengthening its Cologne office. Flasshoff will be active in the field of Corporate/M&A. His main focus will be on advising national and international industrial companies and financial investors during M&As inside and outside Germany, including joint-venture projects and restructurings.

Flasshoff was formerly an attorney at Linklaters, which he joined in 1998, becoming a Junior Partner in 2001.

The addition of Flasshoff is part of the expansion strategy at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw which has successfully strengthened all of its German offices over the past several months. Most recently, the Berlin office was increased with two new partners and two new associates.

05-17-2006

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Haynes & Boone, LLP

Matthew Schindel moves to Haynes and Boone as a Partner
Matthew Schindel, a specialist in complex private equity transactions who played a role in development of the American Airlines Center and the surrounding Victory project, has moved to the Haynes and Boone, LLP Richardson office as a partner.

Mr. Schindel has substantial experience in negotiating complex, non-public transactions involving multiple parties with adverse interests. He regularly advises clients on transactions, including drafting and negotiation of partnership and limited liability company agreements, asset and stock acquisitions, mergers, financing arrangements, employment matters, executive compensation matters, and other general business and contractual matters.

Mr. Schindel previously represented clients in the sale of a controlling interest in Dallas Mavericks basketball team, the development and financing of American Airlines Center in Dallas, and the acquisition and development of the Victory project, a multi-purpose project being constructed around the center just north of downtown.

He has also counseled clients developing a Frisco, Texas medical center complex, Frisco’s Stonebriar Park, and the Black Sands Beach development in Mauna Lani, Hawaii.

Mr. Schindel has been honored as a Texas Rising Star by Law & Politics Magazine and Texas Monthly the last three years, and as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas Under 40 by D Magazine in 2004 and 2006.

He was graduated summa cum laude in 1997 with his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee, where he was Research Editor of the University of Tennessee Law Review, Order of the Coif, and the Harold C. Warner Centurion Scholar.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Moscow and New York, providing a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 450 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by National Law Journal. The firm has been recognized by Vault.com as one of the ""20 Best Law Firms to Work For,"" by Corporate Board Member Magazine as one of the “Best Corporate Law Firms in America,” and has received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Thomas L. Sager Award for commitment to diversity.

05-17-2006

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Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

Elizabeth Wickerham Brunins Joins Eckert Seamans in Pittsburgh
The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today announced that Elizabeth Wickerham Brunins has joined the firm in Pittsburgh as an associate in its Business Division. She will concentrate her practice on corporate and business counseling.

Ms. Brunins most recently served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Bernard L. McGinley in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Previously, she worked in private practice. She graduated from the University of Virginia with her Bachelor of Arts degree and with a Master’s degree in Health Evaluation Sciences. She earned her Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Mason School of Business at The College of William and Mary, and she received her law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary.
About Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott


Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (www.eckertseamans.com), a national law firm with nine offices throughout the eastern United States, provides a full range of legal services nationwide to businesses of all sizes, institutions, municipalities, colleges and universities, government agencies and individuals. Its practice areas encompass litigation, including mass tort and products liability litigation, corporate and business law, intellectual property law, labor and employment relations, aviation & aerospace law, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, employee benefits, environmental law, construction law, municipal finance, and tax and estate law. Eckert Seamans has offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Southpointe, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Morgantown, West Virginia; Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and White Plains, New York.

05-17-2006

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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Harpst Named Partner With Roetzel & Andress
The law firm of Roetzel & Andress is pleased to announce that Todd Harpst has been named partner with the firm.

Mr. Harpst is a member of the Risk Management Group in the Akron office, where he devotes his practice to litigation involving the construction, trucking and transportation industries representing clients on matters involving federal and state trucking issues, catastrophic accidents, construction defects, and construction impact and delay claims in the state and federal courts in Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings.

""Were happy to name Todd as a partner in our firm and recognize his valuable contributions over the years,"" said Brad Wright, Risk Management/Product Liability Practice Group Manager. ""He has proven to be a tremendous asset to our firm, as both a professional and colleague.""

Mr. Harpst earned his juris doctorate degree, cum laude, from the University of Akron School of Law in 1996 and a bachelor of arts from The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College. He is a member of the Ohio Contractors Association and Akron-Portage Home Builders Association. Mr. Harpst is a member of the Ohio and Pennsylvania State Bar Associations. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Mineral City United Methodist Church and has served as a faculty member for Lorman Educational Services.

05-17-2006

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