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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

Pepper Hamilton and The Abraham Group Form Strategic Alliance
Pepper Hamilton LLP and The Abraham Group LLC, an international strategic consulting firm, announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to provide a comprehensive range of legal and business consulting services, focusing primarily on the energy sector.

The announcement was made by Spencer Abraham, chairman and CEO of The Abraham Group and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Robert E. Heideck, Pepper Hamilton’s executive partner.

“Our clients turn to us for solutions to complex legal issues,” said Mr. Heideck. “Increasingly, they also seek strategic advice concerning opportunities in the energy field, energy-related industries and international expansion, areas in which The Abraham Group has deep knowledge and experience. We believe that Spence Abraham and his team will offer clients terrific value with their strategic counsel, and we are excited to work with them.”

Secretary Abraham said, “Pepper Hamilton is an outstanding and highly respected law firm. We look forward to helping the firm grow its energy practice, and to consulting with its clients on government regulatory and international matters. Our strategic alliance provides The Abraham Group with a great platform and offers our clients looking to act on our strategic advice access to an array of top-flight legal services.”

Areas in which The Abraham Group and Pepper Hamilton have mutual interests and experience include energy and natural resources, energy corporate transactions (including venture and private equity), government and regulatory affairs, and international affairs. By forming a strategic alliance, The Abraham Group and Pepper Hamilton can offer their respective clients a variety of services to assist with many business challenges and opportunities in these areas.

About Pepper Hamilton

Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with 400 lawyers in six states and the District of Columbia. The firm provides corporate, litigation and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world. The firm was founded in 1890.

About The Abraham Group

The Abraham Group LLC is an international strategic consulting firm that assists clients seeking opportunities or solutions in the United States and global market. The firm’s major focus and specialization is the international energy sector. Spencer Abraham, the firm’s chairman and CEO, served as U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2001-05, and as a U.S. Senator representing Michigan from 1995 - 2001.

Other partners in the firm include Joseph McMonigle, president, who is a former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Energy and former vice chairman of the International Energy Agency Board of Governors; and Majida Mourad, vice president, who served as a senior advisor to Secretary Abraham and a lead Energy Department representative on international energy matters. Each of the firm’s principals has extensive experience working at senior levels in Congress, the Executive Branch and international affairs. The firm was founded in October 2005.

03-28-2006

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Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P.

Pepper Represents Brandywine Realty Trust in Offering of $850 Million in Senior Unsecured Notes
Pepper Hamilton LLP represented Brandywine Realty Trust in a new offering of $850 million of senior unsecured notes. The underwriting agreement on the offering settled on March 28, 2006. Joint book-running managers for the offering are JPMorgan, Wachovia Securities and Merrill Lynch & Co., with RBS Greenwich Capital and Wells Fargo Securities as senior co-managers, and BNY Capital Markets, Inc., Commerzbank Corporates & Markets, Piper Jaffray, PNC Capital Markets LLC and SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc. as co-managers.

The Pepper team representing Brandywine was led by partner Michael H. Friedman.

03-28-2006

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Jenner & Block LLP

Supreme Court Justice Encourages Students to Pursue Legal Careers
The Thurgood Marshall Academy, a charter school in Washington, DC, recently welcomed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer as its guest of honor for a face-to-face dialogue aimed at inspiring students to pursue careers in law and justice.

Justice Breyer shared the experiences that led him to his current position on the High Court and explored several law-related professional opportunities with the students, among other things. The dialogue was moderated by Fred Graham, Senior Anchor for Court TV, in conjunction with the network’s “Careers in Justice” initiative.

Jenner & Block is a longtime supporter of the school, which integrates in its curriculum issues of justice, equality, law and government. The Firm’s Washington, DC office has been involved in the school’s innovative tutoring program and has adopted its graduating class of 2006. As part of the tutoring program, each week students are brought to the Firm for one-on-one tutoring session with partners, associates and staff.

Attending the special reception for Justice Breyer at the school was Partner Jerome L. Epstein, who serves as the Thurgood Marshall Academy Tutoring Coordinator for Jenner & Block.

Pictured are several Thurgood Marshall Academy students and tutors at the Firm's Washington, DC office. (Top row, from left): Associate Amy L. Tenney, Paralegal Jeffrey K. Phillips, Project Assistant Gina M. Bruno, Project Assistant David F. Kowalski, and Antonio Moore. (Bottom row, from left): Brittnee Flowers, Latonya Kyle, Markita Frederick, Shinale Carmicheal, Shanetra Harrison, Lucreatia Williams, Mr. Epstein, and Tina Owens.

03-28-2006

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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

WCSR.com Named Best Big Firm Web Site in North Carolina
North Carolina Lawyers Weekly has selected WCSR.com as the best big law firm web site in North Carolina. In their review, the judges noted, ""The site offers multiple tools and resources which are very useful and easy to locate. The incorporation of Winston the Bulldog is unique, fresh and very strategic. The professional and consistent marketing/branding of the firm through visual interface and content development make www.wcsr.com stand out from other sites.""

The publication reports on legal decisions issued by all of the state and federal courts in North Carolina, as well as on changes to court rules, verdict & settlement reports, bar discipline and all other news vital to attorneys in the state.

Click here to read the web site review.

This is the third organization to recognize WCSR.com within the last year. In September 2005, Womble Carlyle earned an ""Outstanding Website WebAward"" from the Web Marketing Association (WMA) in its 2005 WebAward Competition. Last week, South Carolina Lawyers Weekly selected WCSR.com as the best big law firm web site in South Carolina.

Click here to read the article.

03-28-2006

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Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Skybox Security Completes Series D Financing
Skybox® Security, Inc., the leader in Security Risk Management (SRM), today announced the closing of its $8.8 million round of Series D financing.

On February 24, 2006, Skybox Security completed its fourth round equity financing led by new investor Rembrandt Ventures. Rembrandt was joined by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, Mofet Technology Fund and Robert Thomas CEO of Infoblox. The funds will be used to expand Skybox’s market momentum and leadership and build out a strong sales and marketing infrastructure to support the company’s award-winning products.

“We’re particularly pleased to have Rembrandt recognize the value of Skybox Security and join our existing group of investors - all of whom have decided to increase their level of commitment to Skybox,” said President and CEO David Batista.

In 2002, Skybox Security was founded by security experts Gidi Cohen, former CEO & co-founder of Vigil Technologies; Moshe Meiseles, former senior vice president of development of Memco (acquired by Computer Associates); and Eran Reshef, founder of Sanctum. The company’s award-winning product, Skybox View™, creates a virtual Integrated Security Model (ISM) of an organizations security risk and control profile. This virtual model can be safely attacked, changed, and analyzed for the purpose of improving the security risk profile of the network as well as auditing security control effectiveness in compliance with defined policies. The entire process is measurable, repeatable and continuous refreshed resulting in a more secure network and reduced IT workload.

About Rembrandt Ventures

Rembrandt Ventures, established in 1997, is a private equity venture fund which targets investments in early and expansion stage high technology companies that demonstrate potential for significant growth. Collectively, Rembrandt and its Principals have assisted in the formation and financing of more than sixty companies. For additional information, visit www.rembrandtvc.com.

About Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners combines extensive venture capital and operating experience to assist entrepreneurs in creating industry-leading technology companies. Lightspeed manages $1.3 billion of committed capital and focuses on seed and early-stage information technology investments in the U.S., Israel and Asia. The firm’s partners have invested in more than 100 technology companies over the past two decades and have contributed to the success of market leaders including Blue Nile, Brocade, Ciena, Galileo Technology, Informatica, Kiva Software, Metasolv, Phone.com, Quantum Effect Devices, Sirocco and Waveset. For more information, visit www.lightspeedvp.com.

About Benchmark Capital

Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs build great technology companies. Benchmark’s partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes franchise companies such as eBay and Shopping.com (Nasdaq: EBAY), Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX), Handspring (Nasdaq: PALM), JAMDAT (Nasdaq: JMDT), Juniper Networks (Nasdaq: JNPR), Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT), and ZipRealty (Nasdaq: ZIPR). Managing more than $3 billion in committed venture capital, Benchmark focuses on investing in entrepreneurs with original ideas. For more information, visit www.benchmark.com.

About Carmel Ventures

Carmel Ventures is Israel's largest software focused fund. Carmel Ventures is committed to helping talented entrepreneurs translate their vision and technology into successful global software companies. Led by veterans of the software and investment industries, Carmel is a ""hands-on"" investor. By leveraging the extensive experience of its team and its global network of strategic partners, Carmel actively supports its portfolio companies. With $170 million under management, its investors include Citigroup, Siemens, Partners Group and other leading worldwide corporations. For more information, visit www.carmelventures.com

About Mofet Technology Fund

Mofet, a publicly traded Israeli venture capital fund on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), invests its operational expertise and financial resources in cultivating enabling Israeli technologies to their fullest potential in global markets. Mofet focuses on leading-edge technological sectors where Israel is recognized as a world leader such as communications, telecommunications, knowledge management, and security. Mofet currently has $100M under management, having invested in 45 companies over the past 10 years and achieving 19 exits (six of which are traded on NASDAQ). For more information, visit www.mofet.co.il

About Skybox Security

Skybox® Security pioneered the science of quantifiable security risk analysis and is driving the advancement of the Security Risk Management (SRM) market. The company’s award-winning product suite, Skybox View™, is the first and only software solution to create a virtual model and staging environment of an organization’s network security and access profile.

This virtual model can be safely attacked, changed and analyzed for the purpose of improving the security profile of the network as well as validating the impact of proposed network changes within defined policies. The result is a more secure network, operational efficiency and reduced IT workload. Skybox View Suite supports two major applications - Skybox Secure™ and Skybox Assure™ - through a modular, scalable suite.

Founded in 2002, Skybox is headquartered in San Jose, California and is privately held. Skybox View has been successfully deployed at highly respected Global 2000 companies worldwide. For more information contact (408) 441-8060 or www.skyboxsecurity.com.

03-28-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding April E-Learn Seminar Examines International Employment Management
International Aspects of Managing Employees,"" an hour-long interactive Web seminar offered by King & Spalding to clients of the firm, will take place on Tuesday, April 18, 2006, at 12:30 p.m. EST. The monthly program is part of the King & Spalding E-Learn Series on current developments in the law, now in its fourth year.

The April 18 program has been developed jointly by the firm's labor and employment practice and employee benefits and executive compensation practice for lawyers and human resources executives who manage employees in the United States and the UK or who are involved in mergers and acquisitions of businesses with employees located in the United States and Europe.

Speakers will be King & Spalding Atlanta partner Samuel M. Matchett of the labor and employment practice and Atlanta associate Laura M. Nolen and London associate Pulina K. Whitaker, both of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice.

The seminar will be presented online from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. EST. Clients of the firm will be able to participate online or view the program at the firm's offices in Atlanta, Houston, London, New York and Washington, D.C. Participants in the King & Spalding E-Learn Series generally receive CLE credit for attending a program.

Among the issues to be addressed in the April 18 seminar are

Employer obligations to employees in the United States and the UK
Employee rights when employment is terminated in the United States and the UK
Key issues arising in the sale and purchase of companies and businesses (depending on whether the employees are located in the United States or Europe)
Speakers

Samuel M. Matchett concentrates on employment relationship matters, with an emphasis in labor and employment law litigation in state and federal courts, governmental agencies and arbitration tribunals. He defends employers in litigation involving the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964 (Title VII), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and employment-related state law claims. His practice entails extensive experience in employment discrimination.

Laura M. Nolen has experience in a broad range of employee benefits matters, including assisting clients with mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions and advising clients on executive compensation arrangements, welfare benefit plans and 401(k) plans.

Pulina K. Whitaker represents clients in employment matters involving transactional employment law, executive and non-executive director hiring and firing, UK redundancy programs and restructuring exercises and U.S. stock and stock-options incentives.

For information on how to register for the April 18 King & Spalding E-Learn Series program, clients of the firm may contact Holly Delgado at 404-572-2460.

About King & Spalding LLP
King & Spalding LLP is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in Atlanta, Houston, London, New York and Washington, D.C. The firm represents more than half of the Fortune 100, and in a Corporate Counsel survey in September 2005 was ranked one of the top ten firms representing Fortune 250 companies overall. For additional information, visit www.kslaw.com.

03-28-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Obtains Successful Jury Verdict For S1 Corporation in Intellectual Property Dispute
King & Spalding LLP, a leading international law firm, successfully represented S1 Corporation, a developer of enterprise financial services software, in a patent infringement action brought against the company and its client, Bank of America, by TradeCard, Inc., in a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sought in excess of $10 million in damages and an injunction preventing further sales of an S1 Corporation software product.

A jury last week found in favor of S1 Corporation. The jury found not only that S1 did not infringe the plaintiff’s patent, but also TradeCard’s patent was invalid.

The King & Spalding trial team consisted of partners Holmes J. Hawkins III and Shane A. Nichols and associate James J. Mayberry.

About King & Spalding LLP
King & Spalding LLP is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in Atlanta, Houston, London, New York and Washington, D.C. The firm represents more than half of the Fortune 100, and in a Corporate Counsel survey in September 2005 was ranked one of the top ten firms representing Fortune 250 companies overall. For additional information, visit www.kslaw.com.

03-28-2006

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