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Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Paul Hastings Awarded 'Asia Pacific LNG Deal of the Year 2006' by Project Finance Magazine
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that the firm's innovative work on the financing of the landmark $6.5 billion Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia was awarded the "Asia Pacific LNG Deal of the Year 2006" by Project Finance Magazine. This award marks the fourth "Deal of the Year" awarded to Paul Hastings by Project Finance Magazine since 2004.

The Paul Hastings Global Projects Group represented Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) in its financing of the LNG facility being developed for the Tangguh LNG project in Bintuni Bay, Irian Jaya Barat province of Indonesia. Tokyo partner Raj Pande led the Paul Hastings team.

The financing of the Tangguh LNG project marked the largest private sector investment in Indonesia's energy sector since the Asian financial crisis and brought together several funding sources, with various guarantee schemes, under one project umbrella. It is the first LNG deal since Indonesia amended its oil and gas law in October 2001 and, according to Project Finance Magazine, "carves out a precedent for future investment in Indonesia's oil and gas sector."

The "Asia Pacific LNG Deal of the Year 2006" continues the firm's tradition of award-winning project finance deals. In February 2007, Project Finance Magazine awarded Paul Hastings the "North American Portfolio Financing Deal of the Year 2006" for representing Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in connection with the acquisition of CalPeak Power by Tyr Capital and Starwood Energy Group Global.
In 2005, Paul Hastings received Project Finance Magazine's "Asia-Pacific Oil & Gas Deal of the Year" for its work on the groundbreaking Guandong Dapeng US$850 million LNG project; a milestone in the development of mainland Chinese bank led projects. That same year,
Paul Hastings represented Petronet LNG Ltd. on a landmark LNG expansion project which was awarded the "EMEA Oil & Gas Deal of the Year. In 2004, the publication awarded Paul Hastings the "Latin American Deal of the Year" for its work on the $300 million Tuxpan V Power Project - the first Mexican IPP in which financing was completed before construction. In 2003, the firm was awarded the "US Power Deal of the Year" by Asset Finance International (a sister publication to Project Finance Magazine) for its work on the Tri-State Springerville Lease Financing-a $940 million construction and lease financing for a 400 megawatt coal-fire power plant in Arizona.

"Continued recognition on award winning deals is a noteworthy achievement for any firm," notes John Hawkins, chair of Paul Hastings Global Projects Practice. "These awards demonstrate the capabilities of our Global Projects Group and are a testament to the innovation that our lawyers deliver to landmark projects worldwide."

About Paul Hastings Global Projects Group: The Paul Hastings Global Projects Group is internationally recognized for the breadth and depth of its project finance capabilities. With more than 25 years of experience, Paul Hastings has one of the most experienced teams of project lawyers in the world. In the last few years, the Global Projects Group has represented clients in more than US$40 billion of project transactions globally.

05-18-2007

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright Mourns the Passing of Beloved Retired Partner, Advisor to LBJ and Son of Firm's Founder
"I am saddened to report that our beloved retired senior partner, John H. Crooker, Jr., passed away at home early this morning. His devotion to his family, his country and the Firm over a long and productive life was unshakable. He leaves a lasting legacy of the highest professional and personal integrity. His graciousness, his humor and his kindness will be remembered by everyone who knew and worked with him, whether in professional, civic or social endeavors.

For those who did not have the honor and the pleasure of knowing him, the major milestones of his remarkable life and career are enumerated below. Although it is impossible to convey the full depth and breadth of his service and generosity to others in this brief message, his optimism and good-hearted spirit will live on in all of us.

* John H. Crooker, Jr., was born October 26, 1914.
* He started with the firm his father had co-founded as an “office boy” while a student at Rice Institute (now Rice University).
* His maternal grandmother was the first woman lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas.
* After graduating from Rice, he earned his law degree from The University of Texas Law School, summa cum laude, in 1937. He joined the firm that year in Houston.
* With historic timing, his love of his country compelled John Crooker, Jr. to join the U.S. Navy on December 6, 1941. He served throughout World War II in the Pacific Theater as a briefer for Admiral T. C. Kinkaid, Commander Seventh Fleet. He earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander and a Bronze Star.
* He returned to the firm after the War and was named a partner in 1947.
* He was a member of the firm’s Policy Committee from its inception in 1952. During his career with the firm, he also served on the Accounting and Employment Committees.
* He was Chair of the Corporation, Banking & Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, 1958-59.
* From 1965 to 1971, he served on the Board of Regents, State Senior Colleges of Texas.
* In 1966 and 1967 at the behest of the Policy Committee, he spent several months in the Washington, D.C. office evaluating its future and determining the practice areas that should be its main focus.
* He became a senior partner in 1967.
* It was also in 1967 that President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated John Crooker to be chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
* He was confirmed by the Senate in 1968 and served until almost the end of 1969, when he rejoined the firm.
* He served as Chair, Board of Trustees, University of St. Thomas, 1974-78, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters.
* He served as Chair of the Houston Chamber of Commerce in 1979.
* He retired from practice in 1980.
* He faithfully served at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston, where he chaired several major committees, including the Board of Stewards. The Church recognized him with a “Distinguished Life Awards.”
* In 2004, the firm celebrated Crooker, Jr.’s 90th birthday along with that of retired partner, Walter J. Morrison, with an afternoon party in the lobby of the Fulbright Tower in Houston.
* When asked about the favorite time of his career with the firm in a 2005 interview for the firm’s alumni magazine, AfterWords, John Crooker, Jr., said, “I guess I’m such an incurable optimist, that whatever the time was, that was a good time.”

He is survived by his wife, Kay Berry Crooker; five children (Mrs. W.E. Schwing, John H. Crooker III, Mrs. Barry Hunsaker, Jr., Mrs. Alec Mize, and Mrs. David Margrave); twelve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

His optimism and good-hearted spirit will live on in all of us."

05-18-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorney Justin B. Wineburgh Lectures on Television Law for Drexel Graduate Students
Cozen O’Connor member Justin B. Wineburgh
recently lectured on television law for graduate students at Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. The students are enrolled in the university’s Master of Sciences (M.S.) and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) programs in Television Management, and plan to focus their careers in the entertainment industry.

Resident in the Philadelphia office, Wineburgh counsels clients in the entertainment industry in the U.S. and abroad. He represents clients in the film, television, music, new media and sports industries in complex tort, commercial, defamation, privacy, corporate, employment and intellectual property matters. Wineburgh has represented talent, writers, distributors, retailers, managers, agents, producers, music engineers, production companies and artists in a variety of matters, including litigation, contract negotiations, transactional matters and pre-litigation counseling, and has also served as production counsel for a number of independent films.

Resident in the Philadelphia office, Wineburgh counsels clients in the entertainment industry in the U.S. and abroad. He represents clients in the film, television, music, new media and sports industries in complex tort, commercial, defamation, privacy, corporate, employment and intellectual property matters. Wineburgh has represented talent, writers, distributors, retailers, managers, agents, producers, music engineers, production companies and artists in a variety of matters, including litigation, contract negotiations, transactional matters and pre-litigation counseling, and has also served as production counsel for a number of independent films.

Wineburgh is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida, and before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Florida, Supreme Court of New Jersey and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. He has also been specially admitted to handle cases in New York, California, Illinois, Virginia, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan and the District of Columbia, as well as before the California Labor Commission.

Wineburgh is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Florida bar associations, young lawyers' division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, sports and entertainment law section of The Florida Bar, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Philadelphia VIP and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He is active in numerous civic organizations, serves as a mentor to law students and newly admitted attorneys, and regularly handles pro bono matters for a variety of organizations.

In 2006, Wineburgh was selected as a Pennsylvania “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by American Lawyer Media and was also selected as a Widener University School of Law Alumni Spotlight Honoree, an award given to four alumni of the law school each year.

Wineburgh earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College (B.A., 1994) and his law degree from Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1997), where he was editor/administrative board member of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and a member of Phi Delta Phi, Harrington Inn, Honor Chapter. He served as a judicial intern to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and as a law clerk for the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

05-18-2007

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Miami Attorney Darin I. Zenov Honored at Dade County Bar Association's Eighteenth Annual Awards Luncheon
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC shareholder Darin I. Zenov received the 2007 "Put Something Back" Pro Bono Award for, among other things, establishing Casa Valentina, a new charity serving foster youth in South Florida, as a tax-exempt entity for both state and federal tax purposes. Zenov was presented with the award during Dade County Bar Association's Eighteenth Annual Awards Luncheon, held in Miami on May 16, 2007.

The event was attended by more than 200 people, including the chief judge for the circuit courts for Miami-Dade County, all of the judges from the Miami-Dade County probate bench, numerous other state and federal judges, along with other dignitaries and members of the legal community. Prior to being presented with this award, Zenov received the same award for his work as a guardian ad litem in divorce cases, along with 11 Exceptional Participation Awards from Put Something Back for his pro bono work in a variety of areas of law, including, probate, guardianship, and representing the best interests of children in highly contested divorce cases.

About Darin I. Zenov

Zenov focuses his practice on domestic and international estate planning, pre-immigration tax planning, prenuptial, postnuptial and domestic partnership agreements, charitable planning and giving, international transactions and taxation, tax-exempt entities and charitable organizations, probate and guardianship. He was honored as a "Top Up and Comer" in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions of the South Florida Legal Guide. In January of 2001, he was listed as one of South Florida's top lawyers by the South Florida Legal Guide. In 2006, he was named as a Florida Super Lawyer®, and was honored among Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite in the magazine's 2006 survey. Zenov has an A/V rating by Martindale Hubbell.

Zenov received his LL.M. degree in tax with a specialization in international tax in 1997. He received his law degree from the University of Miami in 1991 and his B.A. degree from Brandeis University in 1988 where he majored in economics.

05-18-2007

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Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P.

Beverly Lyman presents to Ohio State Bar 2007 Convention
Beverly Lyman presented a seminar on May 17, 2007 for the Intellectual Property Section of the Ohio State Bar Association 2007 Annual Convention. The title was "Public Patents Versus Private Trade Secrets". Topics were distinctions between patents and trade secrets, definitions and scope of protection, potential benefits and drawbacks, and business factors to consider when deciding which type of intellectual property protection is warranted.


Beverly's expertise is in the biotechnology and chemistry practice areas. Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1996 and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Beverly holds both Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry from Hahnemann Medical College, and completed post-doctoral work at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She also holds a M.S. degree in Science Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology in 1978 from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Beverly graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis Law School in 1996.

05-18-2007

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Weber, Gallagher, Simpson, Stapleton, Fires & Newby, LLP

Jeffrey D. Newby Quoted in Appellate Division Decision
Jeffrey D. Newby, managing partner of the Firm’s Cherry Hill office, was quoted in the recent New Jersey Appellate Division decision of Cruz v. Central Jersey.

In Cruz, the court held that the January 14, 2004 amendment to the dependency statute (N.J.S.A. 34:15-1) increasing the dependency benefit rate to 70 percent regardless of the number of dependents should be applied in pending cases on or after the effective date of the amendment. The increased rate will not apply to benefits paid prior to January 14, 2004 but only from that date forward.

The decision does not address whether the new rate will apply to dependency claims that were not pending at the time of the amendment. There may be new litigation that will address that issue.

Both the majority and the dissent in Cruz cited to Mr. Newby's December 2002 testimony that the ambiguity in the bill leading to the statute was not avoided since the statutory language was not amended from its original form.

Feel free to follow up with any of our attorneys in Cherry Hill or Newark regarding this decision.

05-18-2007

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Ulmer & Berne LLP

Mike Ungar will present “Motions to Dismiss: Procedural & Substantive Approaches for Expediting Arbitrations.”
Michael N. Ungar, Chair of Ulmer & Berne LLP’s Litigation Department and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, will be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s 4th annual forum on Responding to Broker/Dealer Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement in New York, NY on May 21, 2007.

Mr. Ungar, who was recently recognized by peers as one of the Top 10 attorneys in Ohio, will partner with in-house counsel from Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. to present, “Motions to Dismiss: Procedural & Substantive Approaches for Expediting Arbitrations.” The presentation will cover when to file a motion to dismiss, the effect of the NASD Eligibility Rule on dispositive motions, strategies when filing and arguing a motion before NASD arbitration panels, approaches and methods that persuade a panel to issue a favorable ruling, and preparing for the challenges of arbitrating before a single SRO.

05-18-2007

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