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Former federal prosecutor and counsel to defendant in Abramoff scandal further strengthens firm’s national white collar practice
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation practice, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. A former federal prosecutor, Ms. Van Gelder is well respected for her ability to steer clients through the gamut of white collar proceedings—from congressional investigations to civil qui tam actions to administrative hearings and criminal litigation. She has served as counsel to such high-profile clients as David Safavian, the former Bush administration official implicated in the Abramoff scandal and former FDA Administrator Lester Crawford.

“As the traditional boundaries of criminal and civil enforcement continue to expand, Biz’s ability to offer experience and leadership on some of the most complex white collar situations further enhances an already thriving practice,” said James D. Pagliaro, head of Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. “We are delighted to have Biz join us in Washington, where she has honed the skills to assist our clients on a wide range of white collar needs.”

Washingtonian magazine named Ms. Van Gelder a “top criminal defense lawyer,” someone to call if “you find yourself drawn into an awkward congressional investigation, or worse, a grand-jury investigation by the Justice Department or the U.S. Attorney’s office.”

Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice consists of a 700-litigator contingent across 18 offices, and its members’ creativity, sophistication, and cross-practice capabilities have resulted in a mounting number of calls from Fortune 100 firms. Ms. Van Gelder will join a Corporate Investigations and White Collar team that already includes the former head of the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force; 10 former assistant U.S. attorneys; former assistant district attorneys; and former high-ranking attorneys from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

Ms. Van Gelder’s practice will focus on white collar litigation and healthcare litigation, including representing clients in congressional investigations, criminal fraud investigations and qui tam, false claim, civil RICO, and employment litigation. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Van Gelder was a partner and head of the white collar litigation group at a national law firm in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she served for more than 14 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in both the criminal and civil divisions.

09-14-2007

Chadbourne Represents GoAmerica® in Merger With Hands On Video Relay Services
Chadbourne & Parke LLP is representing GoAmerica, Inc. in a merger with Hands on Video Relay Services.

The merger agreement, announced on September 12, is for $35 million cash plus 6.7 million shares of GoAmerica common stock, for a total value of approximately $69 million.

The deal is conditioned on the closing of GoAmerica's acquisition of the assets of Verizon’s Telecommunications Relay Services division for about $50 million in cash and up to an additional $8 million in contingent cash consideration. That was announced on August 2, 2007.

Both deals totaled approximately $127 million in the aggregate.

Chadbourne's communications, media and technology practice acted as transaction counsel for GoAmerica in both the merger agreement with Hands On Video and the Verizon transaction. Working on the deals were DC partners Dana Frix and Michael Salsbury and counsel Sean McGuinness and New York partners Bill Cavanagh (tax) and Marjorie Glover (employment).

GoAmerica is an emerging provider in the expanding market of telecommunications services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Company’s current service portfolio includes innovative wireless and wireline access methods to both text and video relay services marketed under its i711® brand.

09-14-2007

Luce Forward Expands Management Team, Naming Two New Partners In Charge
Luce Forward today announced it has named John C. Murphy and Frederick R. Vandeveer as Partners in Charge of the firm’s Orange County and Rancho Santa Fe offices, respectively.

“Our expansion into new regions requires that we increase the members of our management team to better serve our clients,” said Robert J. Bell, Luce Forward’s managing partner. “We appreciate Fred and John’s willingness to take on these responsibilities, in addition to their individual, successful practices.”

Vandeveer is also the leader of Luce Forward’s Family Wealth and Exempt Organizations practice group. He has practiced trusts and estates law and tax-exempt organizations law since 1980 and has significant experience in all areas of estate planning and probate/trust administration. In addition, Vandeveer also has substantial expertise in representing tax-exempt organizations, including numerous private foundations.

Murphy specializes in eminent domain, inverse condemnation and other complex business disputes. A partner in the firm’s Real Estate Litigation practice group, Murphy was listed in Best Lawyers in America (2006 and 2007) and has been recognized for his work by Orange Coast Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Murphy, who speaks statewide on eminent domain issues, has successfully earned several multi-million dollar jury verdicts for his clients in Orange County and throughout the state and won one of the largest jury verdicts in the history of Marin County Superior Court. In 2005, Murphy served as President of the Ferguson Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

09-13-2007

Washington Supreme Court Upholds Pasco’s Mandatory Rental Housing Inspection Program
The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that a mandatory city housing inspection program based on periodic examinations and certifications by landlord-selected private sector inspectors, does not violate state or federal constitutional protections from unreasonable searches or invasions of privacy.

The Court's decision in City of Pasco v. Shaw, issued September 13, 2007, involved a program to ensure that rental housing meets basic structural, health and safety requirements. In several earlier cases, the Washington Supreme Court had blocked housing inspection programs that used city inspectors to enter private property. In one case, the Court held that probable cause of a violation would be required and that there must be an appropriate warrant; in the second case, the Court found that there was inadequate authority under existing Washington law for "administrative warrants."

Pasco's programs allows landlords to select a city inspector, a trained private inspector certified by the city or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or a licensed structural engineer or architect. The inspector provides the landlord with a certification of code compliance, but is not required to provide the inspection report to City officials. The landlord simply must fix anything that is found out of compliance, until a certificate is finally provided. The Court ruled that because a landlord in Pasco has wide discretion in choosing which professional to carry out an inspection, and because the inspection report is not provided to the government, no "state action" is involved. In other words, although the ultimate result will be to cause all units to comply, the process is sufficiently private so that no governmental searches or privacy invasions are involved. The Court also ruled that protections in the landlord-tenant law provide sufficient guarantees that tenants' privacy rights will not be invaded.

This decision is not only important in the area of low-income housing. It is also important in connection with inspections for compliance with environmental protection laws, such as regulations governing septic systems and private wells.

09-13-2007

DAVIS & GILBERT ATTORNEY GARY KIBEL JOINS THE FACULTY OF MOBILE WEB AMERICAS
Davis & Gilbert announced today that Gary Kibel will serve as faculty at a leading wireless conference. “Mobile Web Americas” will take place on October 2-4, 2007 at the Regal Sun Resort in Orlando, FL. Mr. Kibel will discuss important legal issues that apply to mobile marketing. Topics will include sweepstakes, privacy, CAN-SPAM and more.

Mr. Kibel is an attorney in the Digital Media, Technology and Privacy Group of Davis & Gilbert. He regularly counsels clients with respect to complex technology and intellectual property issues such as software and content licensing, wireless services and entertainment, interactive advertising, search marketing, enterprise technology implementations, contextual/behavioral advertising, privacy and security, joint ventures, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and laws affecting the Internet.

09-13-2007

Clark Hill Attorney Danon D. Goodrum Appointed Chair of the State Bar of Michigan Membership Services Committee
Clark Hill attorney Danon D. Goodrum appointed Chair of the State Bar of Michigan Membership Services Committee, effective immediately.

Danon D. Goodrum is an associate attorney at the Detroit office of Clark Hill PLC. Her practice focus is employment, commercial, and tort litigation. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Goodrum worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the area of regulatory affairs and was a biological research analyst. She co-authored several scientific publications from her work as a biological researcher.

She earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. cum laude from the Detroit College of Law.

09-13-2007

Arnold & Porter Hosts Discussion On World Bank's Arbitration Center
In conjunction with the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the Hispanic National Bar Association, Arnold & Porter, LLP hosted a luncheon event in its Washington D.C. office on September 11, 2007, focusing on the World Bank-affiliated arbitration center, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Panelists included Ambassador Flavio Darío Espinal (Dominican Republic), Ambassador Mariano Fernández (Chile), José Pérez Gabilondo (Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Argentina), Juan Carlos Castrillón (Legal and Economic Advisor, Embassy of Ecuador), and Varinia Daza (Bolivian Representative before the World Bank Board of Directors). More than 50 people attended the event, including representatives from U.S. government agencies, multilateral organizations, law firms, as well as academics from area law schools. In addition to the speakers, representatives from the Governments of Argentina and Paraguay and other Latin American states attended the event, which was held in Spanish.

The panel discussion was prompted by Bolivia's recent withdrawal from ICSID and the current debate among sovereigns in Latin America regarding the benefits and disadvantages of utilizing the ICSID mechanisms that exist for the solution of investor-state disputes. The panelists discussed, among other things, the concerns by Latin American countries with the ICSID arbitration system; the interplay between investment treaties and the ICSID system; and possible changes that may be implemented to improve the current ICSID dispute resolution procedures.

The panel was moderated by Arnold & Porter partners Paolo Di Rosa, David M. Orta, and Raul R. Herrera. Arnold & Porter's recently expanded international arbitration team is led by Mr. Di Rosa, who joined the firm earlier this year, bringing a group of seven attorneys and their support staff. The group includes several associates and two partners: Gaela Gehring Flores and Mr. Herrera, who also practices as part of the corporate and securities group. Arnold & Porter's arbitration group is well-known in the international arbitration bar for its expertise in investor-state arbitration, including Latin America-related ICSID arbitration, with respect to which it has represented numerous sovereign governments, including those of Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and Venezuela.

09-13-2007

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