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Fox Rothschild LLP

New Partner and Associate Join the Office
Fox Rothschild LLP welcomes John J. Skinner, Jr., Esquire, as a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Department, and Shannon R. Wing, Esquire, as an Associate in the Financial Services Department, resident in its New York office.
Skinner’s practice focuses on the area of intellectual property. As a registered patent attorney, he prosecutes patents and trademarks at all phases before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, litigates patent and trademark matters in the U.S. District Courts, and drafts and negotiates licenses and other intellectual property agreements for the various requirements of corporate transactions.

Wing’s practice focuses on creditors’ rights and business reorganization. She has handled a wide variety of Chapter 11 cases involving issues relating to securitizations, asset acquisitions from distressed entities, structured finance transactions, fraudulent transfers and preferences. Wing’s commercial litigation experience includes contract and licensing disputes, and copyright and trademark infringement actions.

About Fox Rothschild LLP
Counted among the 200 largest law firms in the nation, Fox Rothschild LLP is a full-service firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Florida, providing a complete range of legal services to public and private business entities, charitable, medical and educational institutions and individuals. For more information about Fox Rothschild LLP, please visit www.foxrothschild.com.

04-18-2006

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Carlton Fields

Christopher T. Graham Joins Carlton Fields in the Atlanta Office
ATLANTA - The law firm of Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Christopher T. Graham has joined the Atlanta office as a Shareholder in the Corporate, Tax, and Asset-Based Financing Practice Group. His practice is focused on the design and implementation of creative family wealth planning strategies for $20 million + net worth families and their closely held businesses, including estate tax planning, succession planning, asset protection, capital gains tax planning and charitable giving.

Prior to joining Carlton Fields, Graham was a partner with Cohen Pollock Merlin & Small in Atlanta, Georgia from 2000 to 2006, where he was the Partner in Charge (""PIC"") of Advanced Strategy Group and Co-Partner in Charge of Family Wealth Planning Group.

Graham is a member of the Fiduciary Law Section of the Georgia Bar. He is also a member of the North Carolina Bar.

Graham received his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1996 and his B.B.A., in Accounting, from the University of Michigan in 1992.

04-18-2006

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

Three WRF Partners Named “Legal Eagles” by Franchise Times
Washington, DC—Wiley Rein & Fielding franchise partners Peter J. Klarfeld, David W. Koch and Marisa D. Faunce have been recognized as “Legal Eagles” by industry publication Franchise Times. The select honor is based on peer and client nominations. Franchise Times reported that 2006 was a particularly competitive year, with triple the nominations compared to years past.

Mr. Klarfeld, who is receiving this recognition for the third year in a row, has extensive trial and appellate experience and a record for success in franchise litigation and arbitration. He has served as lead counsel for some of America’s largest franchisors in some of their most important franchise cases.

Mr. Koch is the chair of the firm’s Franchise Practice and a previous honoree. He works with clients in a wide range of industries, from start-ups to international franchisors, on regulatory compliance, disputes, performance criteria, private equity and licensing transactions, vendor arrangements, and privacy and website issues.

Ms. Faunce counsels franchisors, licensors and manufacturers on transactional, regulatory and intellectual property issues involved in developing and growing franchise programs. She combines trademark expertise with particular experience in challenging franchise transactions and compliance issues.

WRF’s 18-attorney Franchise Practice provides a full range of legal services to meet the unique needs of franchisors. Equally divided between litigators and transactional/counseling attorneys, the group works with a wide range of service and retail industries through all elements of the franchise process.



For more information, please contact Debbie Hearns at 202.719.4530 or dhearns@wrf.com.

04-18-2006

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

Thirteen WRF Attorneys Recognized Among “Best Lawyers in America”
Washington, DC—Thirteen Wiley Rein & Fielding partners have been recognized by their peers as being among “The Best Lawyers in America.” The 2007 edition of the directory bearing the same title includes the firm’s name partners Richard E. Wiley, Bert W. Rein and Fred F. Fielding, as well as Thomas W. Brunner, head of the firm’s 40+-attorney Insurance Practice, R. Michael Senkowski, chair of the Telecommunications Group, and James H. Wallace, Jr., chair of the Patent Group. Franchise attorneys Arthur I. Cantor, Peter J. Klarfeld and practice chair David W. Koch, Bankruptcy partners H. Jason Gold, chair of the group, and Valerie P. Morrison, commercial litigator Bruce L. McDonald and David B. Weinberg, chair of the firm’s Chemicals, Safety & Environment Group, also are among those honored.

Most of these attorneys appear regularly in this annual directory, which The American Lawyer has called the “most respected list of attorneys in practice.” Mr. Wiley has been included for more than 20 years and Mr. Rein, Mr. Fielding, Mr. Brunner, Mr. McDonald and Mr. Weinberg have all been included for more than a decade. Inclusion is determined by more than 1.8 million votes cast by more than 24,000 attorneys nationwide. The WRF group selected for this accolade reflects the diversity and strength of the firm’s many areas of specialty.



For more information, please contact Debbie Hearns at 202.719.4530 or dhearns@wrf.com.

04-18-2006

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP

President Bush Appoints Weil Gotshal Attorney To Serve In His Administration
J. Philip Rosen, a Weil Gotshal partner and co-head of the firm’s Real Estate Transactions & Finance practice, and eight other individuals, including Elie Wiesel, were appointed by President Bush to serve as members of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. The council oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Mr. Rosen will serve for a five-year term that will expire on January 15, 2011.

04-18-2006

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Venable Baetjer & Howard

Venable Partners Judson Starr and Jerry Block to Chair ALI-ABA Conference on Environmental Crimes
First Post-Booker decision conference on environmental crimes will explore OSHA and the Endangered Species Act; Featured speakers include senior officers and attorneys from the DOJ and EPA


Defendants accused of environmental crimes have discovered an unusual result in the federal government’s recent aggressive approach to enforcement.

More cases are going to trial in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court Booker decision removing mandatory sentencing guidelines, and some judges have grown more reluctant to sentence environmental criminals to jail or impose sanctions. This phenomenon, as well as the general expansion of environmental crimes liability, will be the subject of this year’s ALI-ABA Annual Conference on Environmental Crimes next month.

The two-day conference devoted to policy issues that drive environmental crimes enforcement will be held on May 18-19 in Washington, D.C. at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel. The planning chairs are Venable LLP partners Judson Starr and Joseph “Jerry” Block, both of whom have served as Chiefs of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section.

“Environmental crimes are at the vanguard of criminal prosecutions for corporate misconduct, and they highlight the cutting edge issues in white-collar litigation,” said Mr. Starr, co-head of Venable’s Environmental Group.

“The last few years have seen environmental criminal enforcement grow increasingly complex. New laws in a number of seemingly unconnected fields, including OSHA, the Endangered Species Act and Sarbanes-Oxley, have all worked to create a new ‘target rich’ environment of industries not traditionally the subject of criminal prosecutions,” said Mr. Starr.

The featured speakers at this year’s panels are Granta Nakayama, Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement Compliance and Assurance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., and Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

“More companies than ever have to be concerned about violations,” said Mr. Block. “Many businesses grew less vigilant about EPA and DOJ enforcement after 9/11 as the government shifted resources away from environmental crimes, but as we’ve seen recently, prosecutors have come back strong in investigating and prosecuting businesses in such areas as ocean dumping, hazardous materials storage and transportation, plant safety and general industry conditions.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is also considering the scope of the Clean Water Act in the context of wetlands prosecutions. Its decision may fundamentally alter the balance between federal and state environmental enforcement.

Among other faculty presenting at the two-day ALI-ABA event are David M. Uhlmann, Chief, Environmental Crimes Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Alice Martin, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, and many other federal prosecutors and nationally recognized defense counsel.

Mr. Starr was the first Director and Chief of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section (1978-1988). While at the department, he developed and directed the DOJ’s environmental crimes programs and policies. He also served as the DOJ’s chief spokesperson for the program and as the government’s lead coordinator for all federal prosecutors and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. He has been cited in Chambers USA ranking of leading business lawyers as “the gold standard for white-collar crime.”

Mr. Starr is co-author, with Mr. Block and others, of the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Crimes Deskbook, (1995) and the BNA's Environmental Criminal Liability: Avoiding and Defending Enforcement Actions (1995). Additionally, he is the author of the Chamber of Shipping of America's Environmental Criminal Liability in theUnited States: A Handbook for the Marine Industry (2000) and The Knock on the Door: Preparing for and Responding to a Criminal Investigation, American Chemistry Council (1991, updated and reprinted 1999).

Mr. Block has served the U.S. Senate as counsel in congressional investigations. He received a presidential appointment to the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee to provide policy advice to the U.S. Trade Representative and the Administrator of the EPA on issues involving trade and the environment.



As one of The American Lawyer's top 100 law firms, Venable LLP has lawyers practicing in all areas of corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property and government affairs. Venable serves corporate, institutional, governmental, nonprofit and individual clients throughout the U.S. and around the world from its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and offices in Maryland, New York and Virginia. For more information, visit www.venable.com.

04-18-2006

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Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

NANCY BROWN JOINS COLUMBUS OFFICE
COLUMBUS, OH., Nancy G. Brown has joined the Columbus office of Taft, Stettinius, & Hollister LLP as Of Counsel. Prior to joining Taft, Brown served as the Vice-President and General Counsel of Borden Foods Corporation and Borden Chemical, Inc.

Brown has a general corporate and business practice, with experience in mergers and acquisitions, compliance programs, construction, co-packing and advertising contracting, distribution relationships and international law. Brown is a member of the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, and Columbus Bar Association and a member of the Columbus Council on World Affairs.

Brown graduated Order of the Coif from The Ohio State University College of Law with a J.D. and obtained a B.A. and an M.A. in history from The University of Chicago.

Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.

For more information about Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP or one of its 33 practice areas, contact Kelly Hergott at (513) 357-9471, or visit our Website at www.taftlaw.com.

04-18-2006

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