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Clark Hill PLC

Stephanie M. M. Smith to Address American Bar Association Real Property Section
Clark Hill attorney Stephanie M. M. Smith will address the American Bar Association’s Real Property Section during the annual conference in San Diego on May 4-7. Smith will present in a panel entitled “The Scope of Urban Redevelopment” on Friday, May 5. Smith is one of three people presenting in the panel, the others are Jim Davies (Community Development Coordinator of the San Diego Redevelopment Agency) and Matthew B. Jumper (President of the San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation).

The panel will provide an “in-depth look at urban redevelopment through the development, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the residential, commercial, industrial and retail districts utilizing state and local government tax credit incentive programs and various funding sources.”

Smith is an attorney with Clark Hill PLC’s Real Estate Practice Group. She focuses her practice in the areas of real estate, affordable housing, corporate law, and commercial litigation. Before joining the firm, she was an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School’s Legal Assistance for Urban Communities Clinic where she taught affordable housing law in a clinical teaching environment. She has represented nonprofit real estate developers in the Detroit area whose primary focus was mixed-use and mixed-income affordable housing developments.

Smith is currently a Real Property Fellow of the Real Property Section of the ABA. She was recently appointed Vice-Chair for the Affordable Housing Committee of the Real Property Section. In this capacity, she also serves as the Program Chair of the Stand-Alone CLE Program.

Smith earned her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, and her B.A. from Howard University.

05-03-2006

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Wolf Block Schorr & Solis

Helen Casale Among Business Journal\'s \'40 Under 40\'
WolfBlock partner Helen Casale has been selected by The Philadelphia Business Journal as a winner in this year's 40 Under 40 Awards Program.

A partner in WolfBlock's family law practice, Casale was selected from a field of 200 nominees. This award recognizes the Philadelphia region's most accomplished young professionals who are proven performers in both their industries and communities.

Winners were selected by editors based on business success, community activities, regional impact and leadership ability. Candidates were nominated by colleagues or friends or were self-nominated. Each winner is 39 years old or younger, works in the Greater Philadelphia Area and is a first-time recipient.

Casale focuses on domestic relations law including child custody, divorce, support, adoption, property distribution and abuse actions. She is currently vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s newly formed Committee on the Legal Rights of Gay Men and Lesbians. She has spoken at several seminars for the Pennsylvania Bar Association regarding GLBT issues, including same-sex custody disputes, property division, marriage and second-parent adoptions.

She earned her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law and her B.A. from Lynchburg College.

Casale and other winners will be honored May 2 at a banquet hosted by the Business Journal at the Sheraton Society Hill.

About Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen

Founded in Philadelphia in 1903, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP, a Pennsylvania limited liability partnership, is an organization of 300 attorneys and other professionals offering legal and law-related services throughout the Northeast. Legal services in the areas of corporate and securities, emerging growth, venture capital counseling, information technology, intellectual property, international transactions, real estate, litigation, environmental law, health law, employment law, personal planning, and consumer law are provided in several Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen offices: WolfBlock Brach Eichler in Roseland, NJ; WolfBlock Public Strategies Group in Boston, MA and Washington, D.C.; and Government Relations services in Harrisburg, PA.

05-03-2006

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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Sutherland Attorneys Brian L. Rubin and Christian J. Cannon Win Distinguished 2006 Burton Award for Legal Achievement
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces that partner Brian L. Rubin and associate Christian J. Cannon have won the 2006 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for their article, entitled “The House That the Regulators Built: An Analysis of Whether Respondents Should Litigate Against NASD,” published in BNA’s Securities Regulation & Litigation Report last May.

The Burton Award is a national program run in association with the Library of Congress and dedicated to refining and enriching legal writing by lawyers and law school students. Now in its seventh year, the competition is open to the top 1,000 law firms and only 30 entries were named award winners.

“Brian and Chris’ article is noteworthy for its scope and insights, because it examined all of the disciplinary proceedings brought by NASD from 2000 through 2004 (215 trial decisions and 75 appeals) in analyzing whether it is worthwhile to litigate against NASD,” said Mark D. Wasserman, Sutherland’s Managing Partner. “Yet, it also boiled the cases down to a few surprising conclusions and conveyed them in a simple, straightforward and entertaining way, which is the essence of what this award honors.”

Mr. Rubin (a former Deputy Chief Counsel with NASD’s Enforcement Department) and Mr. Cannon (a former NASD registered representative) reviewed five years of disciplinary proceedings and found that when fraud was alleged, for example, respondents won more than twice as often than when fraud was not an issue. In addition, respondents who were represented by counsel were successful in getting lower monetary sanctions 60% of the time. The article and its findings were cited in several other publications including Ignites.com, BD Week, Institutional Investor Daily, Registered Rep, On Wall Street, Mutual Fund Daily, Chicago Lawyer and Investment News. Please click here to read the full article.

BNA’s Securities Regulation & Litigation Report has published an updated analysis by Mr. Rubin and Mr. Cannon, which reviews 2005 NASD disciplinary proceedings and compares those results with prior years. Please click here to read the full article.

Mr. Rubin and Mr. Cannon are part of Sutherland’s securities regulatory, enforcement and white collar practice group, which is one of the nation’s top practices in this field. Its attorneys include former senior attorneys of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, NASD, the Department of Justice and financial service providers. The Sutherland team provides a full range of services, from advice and support during compliance and regulatory examinations, to internal investigations, to defense and guidance during civil and/or criminal investigations, and to vigorous litigation in self-regulatory, administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement proceedings, trial, and, if necessary, appeals.

About Sutherland

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is a national law firm known for solving challenging business problems and resolving unique legal issues for many of the world’s largest companies. Founded in 1924, the firm has grown to more than 425 lawyers with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, New York, Tallahassee and Washington. For further information about the firm, please visit www.sablaw.com.

05-03-2006

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Stites & Harbison PLLC

Timothy L. Meyer joins Stites & Harbison in Nashville
Stites & Harbison announced today that Timothy L. Meyer has joined Stites & Harbison as associate in the Nashville, Tenn. office. Meyer is a member of the Real Estate & Finance Service Group.


Meyer comes to Stites & Harbison from Windrose Medical Properties Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, where he served for over three years as associate counsel. There his legal practice included all aspects of the acquisition, financing and development of specialty medical properties with a focus on medical office buildings and the drafting and negotiation of lease documents. Meyer attended Vanderbilt University where he received his Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois. Meyer is admitted to practice in Tennessee.


About Stites & Harbison


Stites & Harbison PLLC is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky; Nashville, Tenn.; and Washington, DC. Thirty-one Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV™-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®. The firm traces its origins to 1832.

05-03-2006

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Lane Powell PC

Colletta and Pinkstaff Join Lane Powell
Dominic G. Colletta and John C. Pinkstaff have joined Lane Powell as shareholders in the Firm’s real estate and land use practice group.

Prior to joining Lane Powell, Colletta was a partner at Ramis Crew Corrigan LLP, a boutique real estate and land use law firm. Spanning a 30-year career, Colletta has negotiated and advised clients in sophisticated real estate, land use and financial loan transactions. He has also assisted clients in public/private, mixed-use development projects, condominium projects, owners’ associations, and acted as counsel for a number of local municipalities in the Portland metro area. He has been very active with the Oregon State Bar Real Estate and Land Use Section and served as chair in 2004. Colletta received his J.D. from the Loyola University of Los Angeles School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Portland.

John Pinkstaff also comes to Lane Powell from Ramis Crew Corrigan. As a partner, his practice emphasized real estate and land use, environmental and municipal law matters. He has handled a wide variety of development issues for both the public and private sector including large format commercial centers, residential subdivisions and rural development. In addition, he has extensive experience dealing with environmental matters, having represented local governments with regard to hazardous waste cleanups, solid waste disposal site permitting and subsurface sewage disposal issues. Pinkstaff earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his B.S. from the University of Oregon.

05-03-2006

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Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P.

President-Elect of Charlotte Women\'s Bar Joins Kennedy Covington
Kennedy Covington, one of the largest full service law firms in the Carolinas, is pleased to announce that Nina Shor has joined its Charlotte office as special counsel in the Real Estate Department. Shor is one of the founding members of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, Charlotte Women's Bar, and is currently serving as the organization's first vice president and is president-elect.


""Nina is one of the brighter lights in our real estate community and we are excited that she is joining our practice,"" said co-managing partner, Buddy DuBose. ""Her natural leadership skills and broad range of experiences will be an immediate asset in serving our expanding client base.""


Shor will focus her practice on mixed-use, single-family subdivisions, condominium, and shopping center developments. She has had a broad-based national real estate practice and has represented borrowers, lenders and servicers in secured lending transactions, as well as national and regional companies with the acquisition, development, leasing and sale of real property.


""This is a great time to practice real estate law in Charlotte,"" Shor said. ""Developers, lenders and the public sector are working together to redevelop under-used sites in downtown and the nearby older residential areas to create a more urban, walkable city. Kennedy Covington has been involved in many of these new projects and I am looking forward to an opportunity to represent our clients as Charlotte continues to grow and evolve.""


Shor received her law degree from the New York Law School, cum laude, and served as a member of the New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law. Prior to that, she received a bachelor's degree in economics with distinction from the University of Toronto and was selected as an Ontario Scholar. She is the Recipient of the Commercial Real Estate Women Outstanding New Member Award for 2004.


As one of the largest real estate law practices in the Carolinas, Kennedy Covington serves the needs of its clients in all areas of development, finance, leasing, environmental, land use and zoning, entitlements, public/private agreements, tax increment financing (Amendment One), real estate-related litigation matters, mixed-use/planned development, and other real estate related matters.


Through its network of attorneys in North Carolina and South Carolina, Kennedy Covington serves as local, regional and national counsel for a wide range of developers and institutional investors in the Carolinas, throughout the Southeast and in other active real estate markets within the United States. The firm has experience in every type of commercial and residential development, including unimproved land, office and industrial parks, retail centers (including retail strip shopping centers, power centers and regional malls), resort and club developments, golf course communities, hotels, apartments, condominiums, and mixed-use developments.


Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P., headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is one of the largest full service law firms in the Carolinas, with offices in Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, Columbia and Rock Hill. Our lawyers bring a wealth of experience and knowledge of the law to bear in solving problems and leveraging opportunities for clients in varied industries such as banking and finance, real estate, technology and manufacturing. At Kennedy Covington, we give more than a legal opinion; we provide a business perspective.

05-03-2006

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Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, L.L.P.

The American Lawyer Ranks WilmerHale Among Top Performing Firms
The firm is again listed as a leading national law firm according to the Am Law 100 2006 list, published in this month’s issue of The American Lawyer. The firm ranked 14th among the nation’s 100 highest grossing law firms.

05-03-2006

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