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Stoel Rives, LLP

Stoel Rives LLP Welcomes Three New Attorneys
Stoel Rives LLP, a regional business law firm, is proud to announce Aaron D. Barker, Scott D. Hansen and Samuel E. Webb have joined the firm.

Scott Hansen joins the firm’s litigation group. He represents clients on matters involving products liability, employment, energy, accounting, antitrust, and general commercial litigation. Prior to joining Stoel Rives, Scott was an associate with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP in Washington, D.C. Scott is a 2001 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.

Prior to joining Stoel Rives, Samuel Webb worked as intellectual property counsel for NPS Pharmaceuticals in Salt Lake. As an of-counsel with Stoel Rives’ technology and intellectual property group, his practice emphasizes patent preparation and prosecution, management and growth of intellectual property estates, acquisition and licensing of intellectual property rights, and analysis of patent validity and infringement. Sam has experience with a wide range of technologies, though his practice focuses on intellectual property matters relating to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices. Sam graduated from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1999.

Aaron Barker also joins Stoel Rives’ technology and intellectual property practice group. He focuses his practice on patent preparation and prosecution in the areas of software, semiconductor devices, consumer electronic devices, medical devices and telecommunications. Aaron joins Stoel Rives after spending two years with Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear in Irvine, California. He is a 2003 graduate of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

About Stoel Rives LLP: Stoel Rives is a business law firm providing counseling and litigation services throughout the western United States. The firm’s 350 attorneys provide client-focused services to a wide range of clients from eight offices in five western states. Stoel Rives is regarded as a regional leader in energy, natural resources, environment, litigation, corporate and intellectual property law. For more information about Stoel Rives LLP, please visit www.stoel.com.

04-26-2006

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Stoel Rives, LLP

Attorney Gregory C. Gatto Re-Joins Stoel Rives
Gregory C. Gatto has joined Stoel Rives where he will continue his practice in land use, natural resources and environmental law. Gatto joins Stoel Rives’ Tahoe City office from the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster where he was an associate. Prior to that Gatto was at Stoel Rives’ San Francisco office from 2003-2005.

Stoel Rives has offices throughout the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Utah, and four in California — San Francisco, Sacramento, Tahoe City and San Diego. The firm’s Tahoe City team serves businesses, contractors, developers, landowners and private individuals. Stoel Rives’ California offices represent entities and businesses ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups and municipal agencies. The firm has depth and experience in litigation and transactional counseling services in natural resources, the environment, real property, commercial transactions, government relations, energy, products liability and title insurance.

""It is great to have Greg back; he shares our goal of delivering unequalled service,” said Chris Keele, managing partner of Stoel Rives’ California offices. Randy Faccinto, senior partner in the Tahoe City office adds, “We are confident Greg’s experience in land use and environmental issues will be of great assistance to our real estate developer and natural resources clients.”

Gatto is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Tahoe-Truckee Bar Association.

Stoel Rives LLP is a multipractice business law firm with operations throughout the western United States. With more than 350 lawyers, Stoel Rives is a regional leader in natural resources and environment, energy, litigation, corporate, and intellectual property law. For more information about Stoel Rives and its offices in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Idaho, visit www.stoel.com.

04-26-2006

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Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP

University of San Diego Honors First Woman to Become Luce Forward Partner; Susanne Stanford Receives Alumni Achievement Award
Susanne Stanford, the first woman to become a partner at Luce Forward, will be honored by the University of San Diego Saturday, May 6, 2006.

Stanford, a 1975 magna cum laude graduate of the USD School of Law, will receive the Author E. Hughes Award for Career Achievement.

A trailblazer in the San Diego legal community, Stanford became a partner in 1981 and chaired the firm's family practice for many years. Stanford is now a retired partner and of counsel to the firm. Founded in 1873, Luce Forward is San Diego's oldest and largest locally based law firm with 200 attorneys practicing throughout California.

She is a past president of the Lawyers Club of San Diego and has served on a number of committees for the San Diego County Bar Association including committees to draft a code of ethics and conduct for civil attorneys.

""Susanne exemplifies the university's commitment to excellence and public service and we are very pleased to honor her,"" said Jack Kelly, senior director of Alumni Relations.

The University of San Diego Alumni Honors is a gala evening of dinner, tributes, and dancing honoring outstanding graduates in the areas of career achievement, contributions to humanitarian causes and volunteer service to USD. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the university's Jenny Craig Pavilion. For tickets or more information, call 619.260.4819 or visit www.sandiego.edu/alumni/alumnirelations.

About the University of San Diego

The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution of higher learning chartered in 1949; the school enrolls approximately 7,500 students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The establishment of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies will bring the University's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Law, Leadership and Education Sciences, and Nursing and Health Science.

04-26-2006

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Godfrey & Kahn

TWO GODFREY & KAHN ATTORNEYS NAMED STATE EDITORS OF HOUSELAW®
The law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is pleased to announce that two attorneys in the firm’s Milwaukee office have been named Wisconsin State Editors of HouseLaw®, a legal reporting service designed for mortgage lenders, brokers and others involved with housing finance:


James A. Sheriff, leader of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Sheriff and Godfrey & Kahn currently act as General Counsel to the Community Bankers of Wisconsin, a trade group of independent community banks. In addition, he is a member of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee and Consumer Financial Services Committee, as well as the Lawyer’s Council of The Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington, D.C. based trade group representing the nation’s largest financial services companies.


Thomas R. Homberg, member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group. Homberg has extensive experience in representing banks, bank holding companies, trust companies and other financial service providers on a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Consumer Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.

HouseLaw® is a comprehensive monthly report of legal developments in the housing finance and home equity lending areas. Recognized housing finance lawyers in each state are invited by HouseLaw to participate as state editors. The HouseLaw® State Editors contribute material for publication, and materials from other sources are added to items identified in a computer search by HouseLaw® Editors.

Founded in 1957, Godfrey & Kahn maintains offices in Milwaukee, Madison (La Follette Godfrey & Kahn), Appleton, Green Bay, and Waukesha, WI and Shanghai, PRC. With more than 190 attorneys, Godfrey & Kahn provides legal and business advice to clients ranging from small businesses and governmental entities to large privately and publicly held national and international companies.

04-26-2006

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Duane Morris, LLP

Former Appellate Judge Robert Byer Joins Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to welcome former Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Byer as a partner. Robert will join the firm's expanding Trial Practice Group, and will practice in both the firm's Pittsburgh and Philadelphia offices. Robert was most recently a partner with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP in Pittsburgh, where he founded and was a leader of that firm's national Appellate Practice Group. He will play a similar role in developing the appellate practice at Duane Morris.

Robert brings to Duane Morris a wealth of appellate and trial experience, as well as experience in strategic corporate counseling. He focuses his practice in appellate work, complex litigation, intellectual property litigation and administrative law. He also advises clients on corporate compliance, corporate governance, crisis management and dispute resolution, and conducts internal investigations for major corporations.

As an appellate lawyer, Robert has briefed or argued more than 120 appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, several other federal appellate circuits, the Pennsylvania appellate courts and the appellate courts of California, Maryland and Washington. He also has briefed and worked on appeals in the United States Supreme Court. His appellate work covers a wide range of legal areas, including corporate governance, intellectual property, administrative agency law, tax cases, Constitutional law, insurance coverage contract cases, professional liability, product liability and toxic torts.

Robert is an elected fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Other honors include:

appointment to the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit;
listing in Best Lawyers in America under both Appellate Law and Commercial Litigation;
designation as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer under Appellate Practice;
listing as one of the 100 Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania and 50 Top Lawyers in Pittsburgh by Philadelphia and Law & Politics magazines;
appointment as a member for nine years and chair for five years of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Appellate Court Rules.
He is a founding Steering Committee member of the newly formed Third Circuit Bar Association and the author of a chapter in the forthcoming Third Circuit Practice Manual.

During his tenure as a Commonwealth Court Judge from 1990 to 1992, Robert heard appeals and presided over original jurisdiction cases in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, covering a wide range of areas, including environmental; state and local taxation; public employee labor and employment; public utilities; insurance regulation and insolvencies; eminent domain; land use; torts; workers' compensation; and state and local administrative agency law. After his service on the Commonwealth Court, Robert served for four years as a Judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. He authored many published opinions as a judge of both courts.

Robert is also an elected member of the prestigious American Law Institute and a former director of the American Judicature Society. He taught courses focusing on appellate review of administrative agency decisions at The National Judicial College and on civil procedure as an adjunct faculty member at Duquesne University School of Law. He is a frequent course planner and faculty member at seminars and continuing legal education programs in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and has published numerous articles and course materials on appellate advocacy and procedure, civil procedure and in various substantive areas. He served two terms as chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Civil Litigation Section and is an active member of the American Bar Association's Council of Appellate Lawyers, among other bar activities.

Robert earned his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977, and was Note Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. He did his post-graduate work at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford and received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh.

About Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP, among the 100 largest law firms in the United States, is a full-service firm of more than 600 lawyers. In addition to legal services, Duane Morris has independent affiliates employing approximately 100 professionals engaged in other disciplines. With offices in major markets, and as part of an international network of independent law firms, Duane Morris represents clients across the nation and around the world.

04-26-2006

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Crowell & Moring LLP

FORMER AT&T SENIOR COUNSEL JOINS CROWELL & MORING LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Steven H. Talkovsky has joined the firm's Government Contracts Group as counsel in the Washington, D.C. office. Talkovsky joins the firm after 22 years with AT&T, most recently as senior counsel for the company’s federal government business unit. At Crowell & Moring, Talkovsky will draw from his broad experience to enhance the firm's longstanding service on government contract matters for clients in telecommunications, professional services and other industries.

""Steve is a great addition to our deep and seasoned government contracts team. He offers clients the unique insight and experience he has developed in steering a leading telecommunications firm through the labyrinthine issues of government telecom contracting, from bids and compliance to contract terminations. Steve has the knack for both the nuts and bolts and what makes good business sense,"" said George D. Ruttinger, chair of Crowell & Moring's Government Contracts Group.

As a senor counsel for AT&T and member of the AT&T Government Solutions Management Leadership Team, Talkovsky advised senior management on all aspects of sales to the federal government including the opportunities and risks of government and prime contractor Requests For Proposals, proposal strategies, and contract negotiations with suppliers, prime contractors, and the government. He also served as senior counsel to AT&T's government communications international unit, supporting sales to foreign governments; represented the company before the Federal Communications Commission; and drafted and negotiated contracts with Regional Bell Operating Companies and independent telephone companies.

He received his B.A. from New York University, in 1974 and his J.D. from Boston University, cum laude, in 1977.

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group has a 40-year history and lawyers who are bar and industry leaders. Recently rated number one in the nation by 2005 Chambers USA, both private contractors and government agencies - domestic and foreign – turn to Crowell & Moring for expertise in procurement law and litigation. The Group's almost 50 government contract lawyers provide counsel on issues including contract formation matters and strategies, bid protests, contract interpretation and performance disputes, post-performance audits, investigations, and allegations of fraud.

Crowell & Moring LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 300 attorneys practicing in litigation, antitrust, government contracts, corporate, intellectual property and more than 40 other practice areas. More than two-thirds of the firm's attorneys regularly litigate disputes on behalf of domestic and international corporations, start-up businesses, and individuals. Crowell & Moring's extensive client work ranges from advising on one of the world's largest telecommunications mergers to representing governments and corporations on international arbitration matters. Based in Washington, D.C., the firm also has offices in Brussels, California and London.

04-26-2006

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Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, L.L.C.

Sears Holdings Assistant General Counsel Returns to Bell, Boyd
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd welcomes David P. Glatz who has rejoined the firm's Corporate Group as a member after serving as Assistant General Counsel - Securities & Governance at Sears Holdings Corporation.

Working both as in-house and outside counsel to numerous publicly-traded companies, Mr. Glatz has become noted as an experienced adviser on corporate governance and compliance programs, securities, and merger and acquisition transactions. During his time at Sears Holdings, he facilitated a $1 billion share repurchase program and handled day-to-day disclosure issues for the company. Previously, as Counsel - Securities & Transactions at SIRVA, Inc., a global relocation services company, he shepherded a $400 million secondary public offering, the $100 million acquisition of a relocation services provider, and the auction sale of the company's European Specialized Transportation business.

“Dave's reputation as an experienced practitioner on corporate governance and securities issues is well known in the securities law community, and we are very pleased to welcome him back as a valuable member of Bell, Boyd's corporate team,” said Mark McMillan who chairs the firm's Corporate Group.

Mr. Glatz received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from DePaul University and his J. D. cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

04-26-2006

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