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

WRF To Receive Sodexho Law Department\'s Commitment to Diversity Award
Wiley Rein & Fielding has been selected by the Sodexho Law Department to receive its Commitment to Diversity Award in recognition of the firm's participation in the department's minority student job shadowing program. WRF will be presented the award, which is given annually, at the Law Department reception immediately preceding this year’s Sodexho Foundation Dinner.

The minority student job shadowing program pairs first year law students with attorneys in their area of interest, allowing the students to gain first-hand experience in the daily practice of law. WRF is proud to support this program and others that promote the goal of diversity in the workplace.

Sodexho USA is a leading food and facilities management company in North America and a member of the Sodexho Alliance. The Sodexho Foundation is committed to eliminating hunger in the United States and their annual dinner celebrates heroes of everyday life.

05-11-2006

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Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Senior Tax Lawyer Robert Cudd Joins Morrison & Foerster
Morrison & Foerster announced that leading tax lawyer Robert A.N. Cudd has joined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. Mr. Cudd brings over 30 years’ experience in a broad range of tax matters, including corporate, merger and acquisition, partnership, financial institution, real estate investment trust, and insurance tax issues.

Mr. Cudd has had extensive experience structuring all types of corporate and partnership transactions and financial products, including those involving foreign entities, limited liability companies, REITs, RICs, REMICs, and tax-exempt organizations such as pension funds and foundations. He has been involved in all of the tax aspects of structuring investments in real estate, securities, joint-venture projects, and hedge funds. He has broad experience in taxable and tax-free corporate, partnership, and business reorganizations; in acquisitions and dispositions; and in structuring financial products, such as securitizations, swaps, options, hedges, contingent payment debt instruments, and other innovative products.

Morrison & Foerster Chair Keith Wetmore said of his arrival: “Bob’s background fits well with our national and West Coast tax and business practices. He has the breadth of experience, seniority, and professional presence to work on major corporate transactions and to advise emerging company and venture clients.”

Tom Humphreys, Co-chair of the firm’s Tax Department, added “I have known Bob for many years and have the highest regard for him. He has top-notch skills and an unparalled level of engagement and deal experience in sophisticated areas of tax practice.”

Mr. Cudd joins Morrison & Foerster from the New York office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where he was a partner. “I am excited to have the opportunity to join Morrison & Foerster, which has one of the leading tax practices in the nation,” he said. “Moreover, after twenty-five years in the New York area, I am looking forward to practicing on the West Coast.”

Mr. Cudd received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1978.

The firm’s Tax Department regularly advises clients on the full range of tax matters, including the federal, state, and local tax law implications of transactions and business structures, as well as tax planning and consulting and the representation of clients in tax litigation. The Department also encompasses practices in employee benefits and executive compensation, trusts, estates, and estate planning.

“Federal tax considerations play an increasingly critical role for our corporate group, particularly in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and the development and issuance of structured securities,” added Robert Townsend, Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Group. “Bob’s sophisticated tax expertise and commitment to client service will further enhance our ability to meet the needs of our clients in their critical transactions.

05-11-2006

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Jenner & Block LLP

Rhonda E. de Freitas Rejoins Jenner & Block as Of Counsel
Rhonda E. de Freitas has joined Jenner & Block as Of Counsel to the Firm’s Family Law Practice.

Ms. de Freitas began her law career as an associate in Jenner & Block’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice. She later concentrated in matrimonial counseling and litigation as a solo practitioner in suburban Northfield, Illinois.

Most recently, Ms. de Freitas was an asociate attorney at Chicago’s Beerman Swerdlove LLP, where her practice focused on representing clients through settlement or trial of pre- and post-decree matrimonial disputes, including property divisions, complex financial analysis, child custody, visitation and support. Ms. de Freitas' practice area has encompassed not only all districts within Cook County, but also the collar counties of Lake, McHenry, DuPage and Will.

Ms. de Freitas graduated from Florida International University in 1987 with a B.A. in Liberal Studies. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993, where she was a member of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal.

05-11-2006

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Jenner & Block LLP

Jenner & Block’s Commitment to Pro Bono Honored by DC Judges
Jenner & Block was among the fourteen law firms recently honored by the chief judges of the District of Columbia federal courts at the “40 at 50”: Judicial Pro Bono Recognition Breakfast for their “outstanding dedication” to pro bono work.

Established by the DC Circuit Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, the “40 at 50” breakfast recognizes law firms for which 40 percent of their attorneys have individually fulfilled at least 50 hours of pro bono service in 2005.

Among the pro bono activities conducted by the Firm’s DC office in 2005 was a settlement forged for the Food & Friends organization in a trademark dispute and a successful appeal in the DC Circuit on behalf of a woman who filed a disability discrimination claim against her former employer.

In addition, a team of Jenner & Block attorneys helped develop the legal arguments and write the briefs for the Florida attorneys representing Michael Schiavo in the closely watched litigation surrounding his wife, the late Terri Schiavo, who had been kept alive against her wishes by a Florida law supported by that state’s Governor. After a victory before the Florida Supreme Court in 2004, the Firm’s legal team drafted the legal briefs that opposed subsequent appeals by Mrs. Schiavo’s parents in light of a Congressional act in March 2005 that gave the federal courts jurisdiction in the case.

Jenner & Block’s DC office also filed a number of amicus briefs on behalf of public interest groups before the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts in cases raising important social and constitutional issues. And, the Firm continued its representation of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks in his habeas corpus proceedings before the district and appellate courts.

Jenner & Block is one of the few firms in the District to have been recognized each of the four years the award has been offered.

The breakfast featured hosts Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

05-11-2006

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Jenner & Block LLP

Anne S. Kenney Joins Jenner & Block as Of Counsel
Anne (“Andi”) S. Kenney has joined Jenner & Block as Of Counsel to the Firm’s Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Practice after an 18-year career representing clients across a wide range of industries on environmental, health and safety matters.

Ms. Kenney’s national practice focuses on counseing clients on regulatory compliance issues and best practices, as well as on defending clients in enforcement proceedings involving alleged violations of OSHA, MSHA and state occupational safety and health requirements. Besides helping to broaden the Firm’s OSHA capabilities, Ms. Kenney brings to Jenner & Block significant experience in representing clients in a wide variety of environmental matters, having developed extensive experience in complex CERCLA and RCRA matters and having participated in the structuring of several complicated Superfund settlements and consent decrees.

Most recently, Ms. Kenney was of counsel at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, where she managed OSHA investigations, defended enforcement actions and negotiated settlements. Among other things, she also successfully fought the EPA’s attempt to recover past and future Superfund response costs arising from the cleanup of a former potassium surface mine in Florida.

In addition to private practice, Ms. Kenney was, for more than seven years, Senior Environmental, Safety, and Health Counsel at Waste Management, Inc., where she managed environmental, health and safety compliance, rulemaking and enforcement matters as part of the corporate legal department.

Ms. Kenney graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 1984, with an A.B. in public policy studies and economics. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, graduating cum laude in 1987. She was an Associate Note Editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

05-11-2006

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Goodwin Procter, LLP

Paul W. Hespel Joins Goodwin Procter in New York
Goodwin Procter LLP, one of the nation’s leading law firms with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC, today announced that Paul W. Hespel has joined the firm as a partner in its Leveraged Finance Practice, resident in the New York office.

Hespel has extensive experience in all areas of leveraged finance, with a particular focus on buy-out financings, leveraged lending, cross-border and structured financings. He has represented borrowers, financial sponsors, arrangers, agent banks, dealer managers, investment banks and secured lenders. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating secured and investment grade credit facilities, first and second lien credit facilities, bridge and mezzanine financings, letter of credit facilities, high-yield debt offerings, asset securitizations and structured financings

Hespel joins Goodwin Procter from Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was a counsel in the firm’s Finance Group in New York. He received an LL.M. from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium and from Duke University, and received an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France.

05-11-2006

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Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

Jodi Dyan Oley Joins Eckert Seamans in Philadelphia
The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today announced that Jodi Dyan Oley has joined the firm in Philadelphia in its Litigation Division. She will concentrate her practice on general civil litigation and product liability matters.

Ms. Oley graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with her bachelor of arts degree. She earned her law degree from The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.

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.

05-11-2006

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