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Goodwin Procter, LLP

Jasmine Trillos-Decarie Elected President of Legal Marketing Association — New England
BOSTON, January 25, 2006 — Goodwin Procter LLP, a leading national law firm with offices in Boston, New York and Washington, DC, today announced that its director of marketing, Jasmine Trillos-Decarie, has been elected president of the New England Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) for the 2006 term. Trillos-Decarie joined Goodwin Procter in 1999 as marketing manager and was promoted to director of marketing in 2005.

Trillos-Decarie joined LMA in 1996 and has been a member of the New England chapter since 1999. During her involvement with the organization, Trillos-Decarie has held numerous positions, including chief information officer, vice president and president-elect. In these roles, she worked to produce the chapter’s first website and organized the chapter’s first regional salary survey. In her new role as president, she will oversee the executive board and committee chairs, host the annual executive board retreat, establish goals for the 2006 term and represent the New England chapter of LMA on a local and national level.

The New England chapter of LMA brings together law firm marketers and others directly involved in legal marketing services to promote the profession across New England. With more than 150 members, the organization is the “go-to” resource for the legal marketing industry in New England.

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, she worked at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where she assisted in founding and managing the firm’s first Business Development Department. She developed many of the processes and structures needed to support the firm’s business development initiatives including RFP responses, marketing data collection and individual partner client related initiatives. She earned her B.A. from University of Massachusetts, Boston.

About Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms. The firm’s core areas of practice are corporate, litigation and real estate, with specialized areas of focus that include financial services, private equity, technology companies, REITs and real estate capital markets, intellectual property and products liability. Goodwin Procter is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York and Washington, DC.


01-25-2006

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Fulwider Patton LLP

National Arbitration Forum Issues Decision on Stevie Wonder's Domain Name
A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator awards Stevie Wonder the rights to the Internet domain name stevie-wonder.com

Grammy award-winning musician and entertainer Stevland Morris (known by the stage name Stevie Wonder) successfully defended his trademark in arbitration following the discovery that stevie-wonder.com was being used by another party.

Stevland Morris a/k/a Stevie Wonder filed a complaint electronically with the National Arbitration Forum asserting legal rights to the domain name stevie-wonder.com. The arbitrator found that the domain name was registered by the Respondent, Lad, on April 27, 2000, and resolved to a web page featuring information about the famed musician as well as links to various competing and non-competing commercial websites.

Ruling in Stevie Wonder’s favor, the National Arbitration Forum arbitrator concluded that Wonder had established common law rights in the STEVIE WONDER trademark based on Wonder’s 40+ years of celebrated composing, recording and performing. The arbitrator ruled that stevie-wonder.com was “confusingly similar” to the STEVIE WONDER trademark and that the Respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith by incorporating the trademark without Wonder’s permission or consent. The arbitrator further ruled that the Respondent, who did not submit a response in the case, lacked legitimate rights to, or interest in, the disputed domain name, and ordered that it be transferred to Wonder.

The decision was reached in accordance with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a popular alternative to lengthy and expensive trademark lawsuits. The National Arbitration Forum administers more than 1,000 Internet domain dispute resolutions like that of Stevie Wonder each year.

A copy of the decision, Stevland Morris a/k/a Stevie Wonder v. Lad, is available for viewing on the National Arbitration Forum website at: http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/584849.htm.

Source: http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/news.asp?id=79.

01-25-2006

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright Attorney Becomes Board Certified in Oil & Gas
Fulbright attorney Kip Plankinton has obtained Texas board certification in the area of oil, gas and mineral law. Having focused his entire 15 years of practice on oil, gas and mineral law, primarily as in-house counsel for major oil companies, Plankinton is one of only 265 Texas attorneys that is board certified in oil and gas. Admitted to practice in Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Plankinton joined Fulbright in 2003.
Focusing on energy and natural resource matters, his emphasis is on domestic and international oil and gas acquisitions and dispositions, oil and gas operational and regulatory issues, federal oil and gas royalty matters and administrative adjudication. Plankinton also has unique experience in Native American natural resource issues.

01-25-2006

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Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

USCIS Adopts Alternate Definition of "American Firm or Corporation"
USCIS recently posted a new guidance memorandum on its website and amended the Adjudicator's Field Manual to provide an alternate definition of "American firm or corporation" for purposes of INA Sec. 316(b), the statutory provision that provides that absences from the United States for a continuous period of one year or more shall break the continuity of residence required to qualify for naturalization, with limited exceptions including employment by certain American firms or corporations abroad. The memo also indicates that the standard of proof in most administrative immigration decisions is the "preponderance of the evidence" standard. Both changes are the result of the designation by USCIS Acting Deputy Director Robert C. Divine of a recent AAO decision as a so-called USCIS adopted decision.

01-25-2006

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Fenwick & West, LLP

Fenwick & West Wins 2005 Award for Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm
Jan. 25, 2006 (Mountain View and San Francisco)—ALM's Law Technology News(R), the legal profession's leading technology publication, today announced the law firm and in-house law department winners in its third annual Law Technology News Awards program. The awards recognize the best technology use - and users - in the legal profession. Fenwick & West received the 2005 "Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm" award. The firm’s Practice Support team created their proprietary "FIND" (File Identification Narrowed by Definition) technology, which permits small groups working independently to review documents in easy to-use Web-based environments, from anywhere in the world. The cost-efficient technology significantly reduces the amount of data that lawyers must review in e-discovery and improves the accuracy of the review process.

Law Technology News will make $5,000 donations on behalf of the winners of the program to the Mississippi Center for Justice and New Orleans Legal Assistance. Both organizations provide free legal aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Law firm nominations were solicited throughout the year from the magazine's 40,000 subscribers, and through the publication's Web site. The recipients were selected by an independent panel of three jurors, all members of LTN's Editorial Advisory Board: Andrew Z. Adkins III, director of the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Fredric Lederer, professor of law and director of the Courtroom 21 Project at the College of William and Mary, and David Whelan, director of the Cincinnati Law Library Association.

Additional information on the awards and winners will be available in the March issue of Law Technology News and on the magazine's Web site at www.lawtechologynews.com.

01-25-2006

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Fenwick & West, LLP

Fenwick & West Wins 2005 Award for Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm
Jan. 25, 2006 (Mountain View and San Francisco)—ALM's Law Technology News(R), the legal profession's leading technology publication, today announced the law firm and in-house law department winners in its third annual Law Technology News Awards program. The awards recognize the best technology use - and users - in the legal profession. Fenwick & West received the 2005 "Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm" award. The firm’s Practice Support team created their proprietary "FIND" (File Identification Narrowed by Definition) technology, which permits small groups working independently to review documents in easy to-use Web-based environments, from anywhere in the world. The cost-efficient technology significantly reduces the amount of data that lawyers must review in e-discovery and improves the accuracy of the review process.

Law Technology News will make $5,000 donations on behalf of the winners of the program to the Mississippi Center for Justice and New Orleans Legal Assistance. Both organizations provide free legal aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Law firm nominations were solicited throughout the year from the magazine's 40,000 subscribers, and through the publication's Web site. The recipients were selected by an independent panel of three jurors, all members of LTN's Editorial Advisory Board: Andrew Z. Adkins III, director of the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Fredric Lederer, professor of law and director of the Courtroom 21 Project at the College of William and Mary, and David Whelan, director of the Cincinnati Law Library Association.

Additional information on the awards and winners will be available in the March issue of Law Technology News and on the magazine's Web site at www.lawtechnologynews.com.

01-25-2006

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Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Broadens Life Science, FDA, and FTC Experience in Chicago
Chicago, IL, January 25, 2006 – Karen A. Weaver, and her two associates, formerly of the Weaver Law Group, LLC, are the newest attorneys to join the Chicago office of Epstein Becker and Green, P.C. (EBG). These additions bring a remarkable set of skills and extensive legal experience in a wide variety of disciplines and endeavors. Karen Weaver specializes in the life science industry and brings responsive and sound legal representation to the natural products, food, and drug industries, as well as advertising and marketing claims related to those products.

Weaver, now a member of the firm at Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., advises clients on regulatory compliance, advertising, and multi-level marketing matters, and represents clients before both federal and state administrative and judicial bodies. She also devotes a portion of her practice to intellectual property and commercial litigation.

“Ms. Weaver is a talented, dedicated, and multi-faceted attorney,” said Diane Romza-Kutz, managing partner at EBG Chicago. “We are very pleased to have Ms. Weaver join us as she brings additional depth and strength to our FDA, food, and Life Science practice.”

In addition to forming Weaver Law Group, Weaver has been an associate and then founding partner at two food and drug law firms, and has served as in-house litigation counsel for a Fortune 100 corporation. She has successfully negotiated favorable results for her clients in actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, United States Postal Service, and other state enforcement bodies.

Weaver currently teaches Food and Drug Law at DePaul University and is a sought-after lecturer, having presented lectures on topics as diverse as cosmetic regulation, pet food enforcement, defending FTC actions, and FDA’s proposed dietary supplement GMP’s.

Weaver, also a registered pharmacist, had previously served as executive vice president for a privately held corporation providing pharmacokinetic drug dosing services. Weaver was responsible for strategy development and program execution for pharmacies across the nation involved in a joint venture with her employer, Baxter International, and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals. She has also sold pharmaceutical products for Schering-Plough.

Weaver received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois with a certificate in Healthcare Law. She received a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Toledo, Ohio where she was president of her professional fraternity, played division I-A basketball, and received the Upjohn Pharmacy Intern Award. Weaver also served in the U.S. Armed Forces where she was decorated with the Army Commendation Medal.

“Ms. Weaver’s broad range of interests and experience is a valuable addition to EBG,” said Romza-Kutz.

About Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Founded in 1973, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., is a law firm with more than 380 attorneys practicing in 11 offices throughout the U.S. – Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, San Francisco, Stamford, and Washington, DC – and affiliations worldwide. The firm's size, diversity, and global affiliations allow its attorneys to address the needs of both small entrepreneurial ventures and large multinational corporations on a worldwide basis, including domestic, Fortune 100, middle market, and international affiliates.

01-25-2006

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