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Palmer & Dodge LLP

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Retained as Disclosure Counsel to New York City
Following a lengthy selection process, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has been selected by The City of New York to serve as disclosure counsel to the City in connection with the issuance of negotiated and competitively sold general obligation and special obligation bonds and notes by the City and certain of its related agencies. The EAP&D team includes Bob Hale, partner in the Boston office, who also supervises the Firm’s services as bond and disclosure counsel to the City of Boston, Pam Robertson and Peter Kiernan, partner and of counsel, respectively, in the New York City office, and Jennifer Frauson Sullivan and Lourdes German, associates in the Boston office. In addition to Boston, and now New York City, lawyers in EAP&D’s Public Finance Department serve as disclosure counsel to large public issuers throughout the east including the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Massachusetts Port Authority, Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee, and Hillsborough County (Tampa/St. Petersburg) and Miami/Dade County, Florida.

05-05-2006

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Lavin O'Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio, Attorneys At Law

Pennsylvania Bar Association Award
Our firm has been named recipient of the 2006 Award for the “Promotion of Women to Leadership Positions Within the Firm,” given by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Women in the Profession Committee. The award will be presented on Wednesday June 7, 2006 at the Hershey Lodge & Convention Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania at the 13th Annual Women in the Profession Conference, held as part of the P.B.A.’s Annual Meeting. “Leadership – Taking it to the Next Level” is the theme for this year’s Conference. Women comprise nearly half of the Firm’s attorneys and have been involved in multiple leadership roles benefiting the firm, its clients and the community for many years.

05-05-2006

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Haynes & Boone, LLP

Thomas J. Williams Receives TCBA Professionalism Award
Media law specialist Thomas J. Williams of Haynes and Boone, LLP received this year’s prestigious Professionalism Award at the Tarrant County Bar Association’s Law Day ceremonies held Thursday at the Ridglea Country Club.

Mr. Williams, a partner with the Fort Worth Haynes and Boone office, was honored as the bar member who best “exemplifies, by conduct and character, professional traits that others in the bar should try to emulate.”

“This is certainly a well-deserved honor for Tom,” said Brian D. Barnard, the firm’s Fort Worth administrative partner. “Anyone who has ever encountered Tom comes away impressed with his gracious, congenial professional countenance. Tom is the embodiment of the bar’s Professionalism Award, and we’re proud he is a part of the Haynes and Boone team.”

The Professionalism Award was established in 2000 by the Tarrant County association to recognize inspiring role models who are respected by their peers. In accepting the award, Mr. Williams joins some of the brightest luminaries of Tarrant County law. Most recently, recipients have included Louis E. Sturns (2005), Roland K. Johnson (2004), Tom Hill (2003) and John Gray (2002).

Mr. Williams has developed extensive experience in business, libel, intellectual property, and media law litigation. He has been listed in ""The Best Lawyers in America"" for First Amendment Law in every edition of that publication since 1991.

In his practice, Mr. Williams has represented numerous publishing and broadcasting companies in a variety of matters including defense of libel and invasion of privacy claims, access to public information matters, and free press-fair trial issues. He also was counsel to a major Texas newspaper in two appeals to the Texas Supreme Court in a significant invasion of privacy case.

A University of Texas undergraduate who graduated from the UT law school with honors in 1975, Mr. Williams is admitted to practice in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

He is a Life Fellow with the Texas Bar Foundation, a sustaining Life Fellow with Tarrant County Bar Foundation, and a member of the Media Law Resource Center, Inc., Defense Counsel Section.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Moscow and New York City, providing the 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.

05-05-2006

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Saint John & Wayne, L.L.C.

ADR: Finding the Best Neutral to Hear Your Case
St. John & Wayne partner Robyn M. Gnudi participated in a roundtable discussion for Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Magazine. The discussion, which focused on “finding the best neutral for your case,” featured eight distinguished New Jersey practitioners in Alternative Dispute Resolution. It was published in the April 2006 issue. To read the entire transcript see link below.

05-04-2006

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Goodwin Procter, LLP

Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Raises $30.6 Million
Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it has raised $30.6 million through the sale of approximately 6.1 million shares in a registered direct offering led by Federated Kaufmann Funds. The company said that the financing will enable it to continue clinical trials of its Tocosol Paclitaxel treatment for metastatic breast cancer while simultaneously expanding efforts to develop other products. The lead placement agent in the offering was Needham & Company, LLC and Punk, Ziegel & Company and ThinkEquity Partners LLC acted as co-placement agents in the offering.

Mitchell S. Bloom, partner at Goodwin Procter, and James R. Kasinger and James W. Burns, associates at Goodwin Procter, represented the placement agents in this transaction.

05-04-2006

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Baron & Budd, P.C.

Baron & Budd Attorney Sherry Talton Speaks to Dallas Students during Law Day
Baron & Budd, P.C. attorney Sherry Talton spoke today on the topic of “Understanding Our Government” to a group of sixty 4th graders at T.G. Terry Elementary School in Dallas. Ms. Talton’s presentation was provided as part of Law Day 2006-- an American Bar Association community service project in which regional bar associations, including the Dallas Bar Association, host various events to commemorate an annual theme. This year, the Law Day theme is “Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers.”

Ms.Talton is an associate in the firm’s litigation practice, representing victims of asbestos-related mesothelioma, silica-related diseases, and occupational hearing loss.

05-04-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst advised Calyon on a US$1.5 billion CDO
Ashurst advised Calyon as arranger of the G Square Finance 2006-1 Ltd CDO. The transaction is a multi-tranched CDO of asset-backed securities managed by Wharton, with a total value of US$1.516 billion.

The team from Ashurt's securities and structured finance group was led by partner Michael Smith and comprised lead associate Dhanesh Sanichara, solicitors Indra Rajaratnam and Alistair Wyllie and trainee solicitor Kenneth Pang. Also advising were tax partner Ian Johnson, corporate partner Eric Stuart and corporate associate Jeroem Smets in Brussels.

McKee Nelson advised Calyon on US law aspects and Speechly Bircham advised Wharton.

05-04-2006

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