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Robinson & Cole LLP

R&C LandLaw Partner Speaks at National Association of Homebuilders Conference
Robinson & Cole Landlaw Partner, Brian Blaesser, made a presentation in January at the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) International Builders Show on “Regulatory Barriers to Work Force Housing.” Mr. Blaesser has authored various publications on affordable housing and recently completed an incentive-based Inclusionary Zoning Study for the District of Columbia.

01-30-2006

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Firm sponsoring 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Marketing Compliance Congress
Nutter is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Marketing Compliance Congress (PMCC) on January 30-31 in Washington, D.C. Robert Ullmann, chair of the firm’s Government Enforcement Defense practice, will present key insights through a case study, Investigation and Defense of a Pharmaceutical Case. He will be joined by Daniel Olohan, partner in the firm’s Government Enforcement Defense practice. The conference is produced by the Center for Business Intelligence.

Bob will also participate as a panelist during Build an Effective Compliance Program for Your Sales Force. In addition to Bob and Dan, Allison Burroughs, Alexa O’Keefe, Elizabeth Cleary and Dawn Perlman will represent the firm at the event.

During the PMCC, over 450 senior-level pharmaceutical executives will convene to network, discover new areas of scrutiny in the fraud and abuse track, and learn new strategies for balancing risk with promotion when it comes to off-label usage.

01-30-2006

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Quattlebaum Elected to National Advisory Council
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Jan. 30) — Nelson Mullins partner A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. was elected to the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. (PLAC), an invitation-only non-profit association that represents a broad cross-section of American and international product manufacturers, in recognition for his work in product liability defense.

Mr. Quattlebaum serves as managing partner in the Greenville office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and as a member of the Firm's Management Group. Mr. Quattlebaum practices in the areas of product liability litigation, business litigation and other complex civil litigation in South Carolina as well as in jurisdictions throughout the Southeast.


Mr. Quattlebaum is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Product Liability Steering Committee of the American Law Firm Association, the Defense Research Institute, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association, the American Bar Association, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, the Greenville County Bar Association, and the South Carolina Bar. He currently serves on the Board of Governors and in the House of Delegates of the South Carolina Bar, and currently is a member of the Society of Justice and a Life Fellow.

The Product Liability Advisory Council seeks to improve and reform law in the United States and elsewhere, with emphasis on the law governing the liability of manufacturers of products. Since 1983, PLAC has filed more than 700 briefs as amicus curiae in both state and federal courts presenting the broad perspective of product manufacturers seeking fairness and balance in the application and development of the law as it affects product liability. To be eligible for membership, an attorney in private practice must demonstrate experience and leadership in product liability litigation. For more information on PLAC, go to www.plac.com.

Nelson Mullins, established in 1897, has more than 360 attorneys practicing from offices in Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Raleigh, Washington D.C., and Winston-Salem. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call (803) 255-9788 or (803) 255-9280

01-30-2006

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Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C.

New Resident Director Leads Miller Canfield's Grand Rapids Office
The law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. announces that Michael G. Campbell, a principal, has been appointed resident director of the Grand Rapids office. He joins Richard A. Gaffin in managing the office’s overall operations.

At Miller Canfield, Campbell focuses his practice on commercial and financial transactions, including commercial loan documentation, construction lending, lease financing, tax-exempt financing, and mergers and acquisitions. He is also highly experienced in the formation and maintenance of corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships, and business succession planning.

His professional memberships include the American Bar Association (Corporation, Banking, and Business Law Sections); State Bar of Michigan (Real Property Section & Probate, Corporation, Finance, and Business Law Sections); Grand Rapids Bar Association (past treasurer, Fund Development, Foundation Committee, and Finance Committee, and Business and Taxation Section [past chairman]).

Other activities include president of the Association for Corporate Growth, Western Michigan Chapter, Notre Dame Alumni Board from 1997-2000, certified lacrosse official (including COC, Collegiate Officials Council for college games), Habitat for Humanity, and numerous activities with St. Stephen’s Parish.

He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Michigan State University, and a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

He resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The 350-attorney law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. was established in Detroit in 1852 and has offices in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Howell, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe, Saginaw, and Troy, Michigan. Other offices are located in New York City, Pensacola, Florida, Windsor, Ontario, and in Gdynia, Wroclaw, and Warsaw, Poland.

01-30-2006

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Mayer Brown LLP

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Burgeoning Financial Services Practice Adds Six New Partners
30 January 2006, Washington, D.C. - The international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is pleased to announce the addition of six financial services partners to the Firm's Washington, DC and New York offices. The partners will further expand Mayer, Brown's rapidly-growing financial services practice, which has grown by 26 lawyers over the past year.

Joining from the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP are Scott A. Anenberg, Marc R. Cohen, David R. Sahr, Thomas J. Delaney and Alex C. Lakatos in Washington, and Mark G. Hanchet in New York.

"We are delighted to welcome these top-flight financial services lawyers to the firm," said Charles M. Horn, financial services regulatory practice leader for Mayer, Brown Rowe & Maw's Washington, DC office. "They will greatly enhance our ability to advise banks, securities firms and other financial firms in the US and around the world on a full range of financial regulatory, transactional, enforcement and litigation matters."

"We are excited about our association with Mayer, Brown" said Marc Cohen. "Our clients will benefit from the firm's strong global platform and superb capabilities in finance, financial services, corporate, real estate, tax and litigation."

"These lawyers further fortify Mayer, Brown's unparalleled ability to respond at a global level to the strategic needs of our banking, finance, corporate and asset management clients here and abroad," added Jason Kravitt, Mayer Brown's New York and Chicago-based senior finance and securitization practice leader. "We are enthusiastic about adding their regulatory and litigation experience to our existing regulatory capabilities. We have built one of the leading financial services practices in the US which, when combined with our transactional and litigation skills, offers our clients a level of multidimensional services that few firms can equal."

The group provides financial regulatory advice and litigation services primarily to financial services firms before all of the Federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Congress, and state financial regulatory authorities. They have over 100 years of combined experience representing marquee banking and financial services firms in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, as well as leading financial institutions in the United States, and draw upon prior work experience with U.S. governmental authorities including the FDIC, the OTS and the Banking Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

This is the second lateral move of a large group of financial regulatory attorneys to Mayer, Brown in the past six months. In July, 20 lawyers -- including Kathryn B. McGrath, Joseph I. Goldstein, Richard J. Morvillo and six other partners -- joined from Crowell & Moring LLP's SEC group.

"We are pleased to have these great attorneys join us," said Kenneth S. Geller, who as partner-in-charge of Mayer, Brown's Washington, DC office has overseen a 37% increase in lawyer headcount, including 19 new lateral partners, in the DC office since January 2005. "These new partners will expand upon our existing strengths."

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is among the largest law firms in the world with 1,400 lawyers in seven U.S. (Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, and Washington, D.C.) and six European cities (Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, London, and Paris.)

01-30-2006

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Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, L.L.P.

The Recorder, "Fishing for Punitive Fix in Exxon Case"
The dozens of Alaska fishermen sardined into a Ninth Circuit courtroom Friday seemed to only reluctantly accept Judge Andrew Kleinfeld's statement that the court views "torturing and killing large numbers of people" as "more reprehensible than putting a drunk in charge of a supertanker."
Brian O'Neill, the lawyer for more than 30,000 people economically affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, didn't want to minimize the gas company's mistake.
"Putting a drunk in front of a supertanker is still reprehensible," he said.
Figuring out a way to translate that reprehensibility into dollars under ever-changing Supreme Court guidance is once again the problem for the Ninth Circuit.
So, for the third time since an Alaska jury hit Exxon with $5 billion in punitive damages in 1994, the Ninth Circuit panel is facing the question of whether that award is appropriate.
The class action brought by those who suffered economic damage from the spill has bounced repeatedly between the Ninth Circuit and the Alaska courtroom of Judge H. Russel Holland, a result of Holland's reluctance to significantly lower the award. It's also due to the changing Supreme Court guidelines over how to award punitive damages.
Most recently, the Supreme Court said in 2003 that punitive damages should not exceed compensatory damages by more than a 9:1 ratio, and that compensatory damages may stand in for punitives as a deterrent in many cases.
"The Supreme Court began its exploration of punitive damages, and the Exxon Valdez case became a ping pong ball in that process," said Elizabeth Cabraser, a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco and one of the team of lawyers representing the fishermen in trial.
"It's really a casualty of that process," she added. "It's been very difficult to wait since 1994."

01-30-2006

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Leonard, Street and Deinard

Leonard, Street and Deinard honored with a “Work-Life Champion” award
Leonard, Street and Deinard was honored by the Work-Life Champions Partnership, which recognizes Minnesota employers who create a flexible and supportive workplace and enable their employees to meet a dual agenda: meeting family and personal responsibilities and achieving business objectives.

01-30-2006

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