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Freeborn & Peters LLP

David S. Warner Join Freeborn & Peters LLP as Partner
Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that David S. Warner has joined the Firm as Partner.

Mr. Warner joins the Firm in its Business Law Services practice group, concentrating on land use and zoning. Prior to joining Freeborn & Peters LLP, Mr. Warner worked at Holland & Knight LLP in its real estate practice.

04-27-2006

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Boult Cummings Attorney to be Honored as a 2006 African American Alumni Achievement Award Recipient
Boult Cummings attorney Luther Wright will be honored by Middle Tennessee State University on May 5, 2006 as a 2006 African American Alumni Achievement Award Recipient.

The student awards honor the late Al Wilkerson, alumnus and former faculty member who helped establish the Multicultural Affairs Office and MTSU's first African American alumni organization. Recipients of the alumni awards have demonstrated achievement through professional, community or university involvement.

Luther is a member at the law firm of Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry. He has extensive experience in the areas of labor and employment law, corporate business litigation, class action lawsuits, entertainment disputes and probate matters. He represents management in employment litigation, as well as wrongful discharge, employee assaults on supervisors, Fair Labor Standards Act claims, union arbitrations and independent contractor disputes.

Luther received his undergraduate degree from Middle Tennessee State University in 1992. Luther is board chair of Students Taking a Right Stand (STARS), and serves as board member of the One Fund (Nashville's first minority business development fund), the Nashville Bar Association and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. He is a former president of the Napier Looby Bar Association and member of the inaugural class of the Tennessee Bar Association's Leadership Law program.

Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC is among the largest law firms in Nashville. The firm was founded in 1910 and provides legal services to privately held and publicly traded companies across the United States. More information can be found at www.boultcummings.com.

04-27-2006

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McCarthy Tetrault, L.L.P.

McCarthy Tétrault Litigation Partner Stephen Grant Awarded Highest Honour by Law Society of Upper Canada
Stephen Grant, a litigation partner at McCarthy Tétrault, is a 2006 recipient of the highest honour bestowed by the Law Society of Upper Canada: the Law Society Medal. Each year, the Law Society awards this prestigious medal to selected lawyers for significant contributions to the profession and for outstanding service.

""We are very proud of Stephen,"" said Malcolm Mercer, Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group. ""With the excellence of his practice and his commitment to the profession, it is no surprise that Stephen has been honoured. This is a well deserved tribute.""

Mr. Grant joins a group of more than 80 lawyers who have received the medal since it was struck in 1985. Recipients of the medal are permitted to wear it on appropriate occasions, and can also use the designation ""LSM"" after their names.

Mr. Grant, a certified Specialist in Family Law by the Law Society of Upper Canada, has an active leadership role in the litigation profession. He is past chair of the Family Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association Ontario and a currently a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and Section Head of the Family Law Section of the Bar Admission Course, as well as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He writes and speaks frequently on family law and professional liability.

With offices in all major Canadian financial centres, as well as London, U.K., McCarthy Tétrault advises on the largest transactions and cases in Canada. Authoritative legal directories such as the International Financial Law Review and the Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada consistently rank McCarthy Tétrault among the world’s top law firms. Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers has described McCarthy Tétrault as ""clearly a leader"" with ""an enviable position in the marketplace."" With close to 700 lawyers representing a broad spectrum of practice areas, it’s easy to see why McCarthy Tétrault is Canada’s premier law firm.

04-27-2006

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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P.

ABA Tax Section Presents Distinguished Service Award To Fried Frank’s Martin Ginsburg
The American Bar Association Section of Taxation 2006 Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Martin D. Ginsburg, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and Of Counsel to the firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in Washington, D.C. The award will be presented during the Section’s 2006 May Meeting, at the plenary breakfast on May 5 in Washington, D.C.

The Distinguished Service Award was established in 1995 and is presented each year in recognition of a lawyer’s exceptional contributions to the tax system and tax bar. This year’s award honors Professor Ginsburg for his outstanding service to the legal profession, the tax system and tax education.

“Marty Ginsburg is an outstanding lawyer and law professor,” said Dennis B. Drapkin, chair of the Section of Taxation. “He exemplifies the best of both the practitioner and teaching professions, and has earned this distinction with grace, intelligence and a wonderful sense of humor.”

“Fried Frank has a long tradition of giving back to the legal community and Marty is a proud example of that tradition,” said Alan Kaden, chairman of Fried Frank’s Washington tax department. “Not only has he played an instrumental role in Fried Frank’s tax practice, but he has also played a vital role in the education of many future lawyers and in the development of tax policy, which is why he is so deserving of such an honor.”

Ginsburg served as the Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1980 when his wife got a good job there. He joined the tax department at Fried Frank in 1980 and that year began teaching at Georgetown University Law Center. Ginsburg has also taught at New York University School of Law, as an adjunct professor from 1967-79 and visiting professor in 1993; Stanford Law School, visiting professor in 1978; the University of Leiden in Holland in 1982; the Salzburg Seminar in Austria, 1984; Harvard Law School, visiting professor in 1986; and the University of Chicago Law School, visiting professor in 1990. Ginsburg is co-author with Jack Levin of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts.

Ginsburg is an active member of the Section of Taxation, having served on its Council and as chair of its Committee on Simplification. He has also chaired the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Committee on Taxation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ginsburg has been a member of the Advisory Group to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and member of the Advisory Group to the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. A Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, Ginsburg is a frequent speaker at tax seminars, and author of many articles on corporate and partnership taxation and business acquisitions.

The American Bar Association Section of Taxation is the national voice of tax lawyers with approximately 18,000 lawyers nationwide. Its goals include helping taxpayers better understand their rights and obligations under the tax laws and working to make the tax system fairer, simpler and easier to administer.

With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.

04-27-2006

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Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner, LLP

Global Finance Names Thacher Proffitt Best Legal Advisor
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, a 158-year-old law firm, announced today that it was named Best Legal Advisor in North America by Global Finance magazine. The magazine’s “World’s Best Investments Banks 2006” awards identified those banks that should be chosen - based on profitability, financial strength and quality of staff - as partners to companies for their financings and acquisitions; best legal advisors were chosen for their ability in representing the parties to these deals.


“We are honored to receive this award from Global Finance,” said Paul D. Tvetenstrand, managing partner of Thacher Proffitt. “We are proud to be recognized for our capital markets advice to the investment banking community.”


Global Finance, with 50,000 subscribers and more than 250,000 readers in over 158 countries, has an audience of executive officers and those responsible for making investments and strategic business decisions for global companies and financial institutions.


Chosen by editors, industry analysts and experts, the investment banks were chosen for the categories of best equity deal, best debt deal, best M&A deal, and best overall investment bank in six regions (North America, Western Europe, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Middle East/Africa), globally, and in ten industry sectors. In addition, country winners were chosen in 23 countries. The legal advisor category was comprised of the same seven geographic regions.


Deals announced or completed in the last three quarters of 2005 or the first quarter of 2006 were considered for the awards.

04-27-2006

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Paul, Weiss Represents The New York City Opera in Its Plans to Build a New Home
Today's New York Times Metro section features an article, "City Opera Plans New Hall With Ties to Lincoln Center," that discusses New York City Opera's plan to build a concert hall in the base of a new apartment building designed by the world-renowned architect Christian de Portzamparc planned for the former American Red Cross site near Lincoln Center. The opera company's new theater is to have about 1,800 seats with the expected cost of approximately $350 million. Paul, Weiss partner Meredith Kane is representing New York City Opera in all aspects of the transaction to develop the new opera house, including the negotiations to structure the deal with the developer and the City of New York, transfers of air rights from Lincoln Center, as well as complex financing and construction issues.

04-27-2006

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Top Clinton White House Official Joins MLA as Managing Director
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announces Marcia L. Hale joined the firm as managing director in the firm’s national Government Affairs practice on April 24 and is based out of the Washington, DC office. An experienced public policy strategist with an extensive career in the public and private sectors, Ms. Hale will focus on federal, state and local government affairs.

“I have known Marcia for over twenty years and have enormous confidence that her experience, judgment and character will ensure her success in advising our clients on government and public policy challenges,” said Gordon Giffin, Chair of the firm’s Public Policy and International Department and former US Ambassador to Canada. “For my money there is no one better.”

Ms. Hale has most recently advised several organizations including the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to this, she worked for Universal Access Telecommunications as Senior Vice President for Government and Corporate Affairs. She also served in various public affairs positions with Monsanto Corporation including as Director of Public Affairs, U.K. and as Director of State Government Affairs, directing Monsanto’s efforts with state and local governments.

During the Clinton administration, Ms. Hale served as Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House, a position she held for four years. Here she worked with Keith Mason, a partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge who previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director in that office. In this capacity, she was responsible for coordinating policy initiatives and political outreach involving state and local elected officials. Prior to this position, she also served as Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling and Advance. She began her Washington, DC experience as a Legislative Assistant to US Representative Butler Derrick of South Carolina. She has also held several senior level positions in government and national campaigns, as well as working at both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

“Marcia will be a real asset to our national Government Affairs team,” said Eric Tanenblatt, head of the firm’s national Government Affairs practice. “Her experience in the national public policy arena working with federal, state and local officials across the country will be extremely valuable to our clients and the firm.”

Other team members of McKenna Long & Aldridge’s federal Government Affairs practice include former US Senator Zell Miller, former Congressman Buddy Darden, Jason Klitenic, the former deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, Douglas Farry, a former senior policy adviser to ex-House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), Joseph Dowley, a former chief counsel to the House Ways & Means Committee and Alex Albert, former chief of staff to Senator Miller and legislative director to Senator Coverdell.

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

McKenna Long & Aldridge is a full-service law and government relations firm of 400 lawyers and public policy advisors with offices in Atlanta , Brussels , Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The firm provides business solutions in the areas of corporate law, government contracts, intellectual property and technology, complex litigation, public policy and regulatory affairs, international law, real estate, environmental, energy and finance. To learn more about the firm and its services, log on to www.mckennalong.com.

04-27-2006

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