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Burr & Forman LLP

Burr & Forman Announces 2007 Summer Associates
Burr & Forman announces 36 summer associates for the 2007 year. In the Birmingham, AL office: Katie Berkmeier, University of Alabama School of Law; Jennifer Burt, University of Alabama School of Law; Matthew Cahill, Cumberland School of Law; Paige Janney Casey, Cumberland School of Law; Allen Denson, University of Alabama School of Law; Price Donahoo, University of Mississippi School of Law; Brent Dorner, University of Alabama School of Law; Nancy Fouad, University of Alabama School of Law; Nicholas Gaxiola, Cumberland School of Law; Justin Hendrix, Vanderbilt University Law School; Nicholas Jackson, University of Tennessee College of Law; Jessica Jones, Cumberland School of Law; Justin Kelly, Cumberland School of Law; Lisha Li, Cumberland School of Law; Hugh Long, University of Alabama School of Law; Tommy Mayfield, University of Virginia School of Law; Catherine McCord, University of Alabama School of Law; Morgan McCue, Cumberland School of Law; Zachary Miller, University of Indiana School of Law; Rhett Owens, Cumberland School of Law; Matthew Penfield, Cumberland School of Law; Tae Phillips, University of Alabama School of Law; Anthony Romano, Cumberland School of Law; Sarah Tooley; University of Alabama School of Law; Amanda Wallis, University of Mississippi School of Law; Anna Belle Wilder, Cumberland School of Law; Millie Worley, University of Alabama School of Law; Jennifer Ziemann, Tulane Law School.

In the Atlanta, GA office: Harvey Daniels, University of Georgia School of Law; John Dooley, Georgia State University College of Law; Daniel Huynh, University of Georgia School of Law ; Zack Rippeon, Georgia State University College of Law; Rebecca Thornhill, University of Georgia School of Law.

In the Jackson, MS Office: Seth Little, University of Mississippi School of Law; Frank Pellegrino, University of Mississippi School of Law.

05-11-2007

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Paul D'Arelli is First Florida-Based Attorney to be Certified as a Leed Accredited Professional
Paul D’Arelli, a shareholder with the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, has been certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by the U.S. Green Building Council (USBGC). The first and only Florida- based attorney with this designation in the USBGC website directory of LEED APs, D’Arelli joins only a handful of attorneys nationwide who have recognized the significance of “green” building trends on the future of the building industry and have responded by getting certified.

“As a LEED AP, Paul will be able to assist clients and the development team in evaluating and navigating the LEED certification process, as well as advise clients on rapidly emerging incentive-based and mandatory regulatory requirements pertaining to green building,” said Debbie Orshefsky, Chair of the firm’s National Land Development Practice Group and a shareholder in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. “His certification reinforces Greenberg Traurig’s commitment to continually expand the universe of legal services offered in order to keep pace with clients' varied needs and industry trends.“

With D’Arelli’s LEED AP designation, Greenberg Traurig's clients will be able to earn one point toward LEED Certification for their projects, if a LEED AP is not otherwise on the project team. The LEED Green Building Rating System? is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.

D’Arelli is a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Fort Lauderdale office and has more than 10 years of experience in complex mixed-use redevelopment; Developments of Regional Impact (DRIs); land use plan amendments; platting, zoning and site plan approvals; variances; and land use due diligence. He is also a licensed general contractor with a background in residential development.

D’Arelli received his B.S. degree, magna cum laude, from California Polytechnic State University in 1988, his J.D. from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1995, and his LL.M. degree in Real Property Development from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996. He is a resident of Plantation, Fla.
Pertinent GT Biographies: Paul D'Arelli

05-11-2007

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Piper Rudnick, L.L.P.

DLA Piper’s Levin named 2006-2007 Distinguished Maryland Real Property Practitioner
DLA Piper US LLP has announced that Edward J. Levin, partner in the firm’s Real Estate practice group in the Baltimore office, has been named the 2006-2007 Distinguished Maryland Real Property Practitioner by the Maryland State Bar Association’s (MSBA) Section Council of the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning. He will be honored at the section’s annual meeting June 15.

Each year, the Section Council of the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning accepts nominations from MSBA and section members. Award recipients are chosen based on their experience practicing real property law, their contributions to improving real property practice, and their personal, professional and academic accomplishments.

Levin is past chairman of the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning and served as co-chairman of the Special Joint Committee on Lawyers’ Opinions in Commercial Transactions of the MSBA and The Bar Association of Baltimore City. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Section of Business Law and the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning’s Joint Committee, which is now finishing its Report on Lawyers’ Opinions in Business Transactions, an update of the 1989 edition developed during Levin’s tenure as co-chair. He chaired the Section of Real Property, Planning and Zoning’s Legislation Committee and continues to serve on the committee. He was the primary drafter and proponent of a section-sponsored bill that was recently passed by the Maryland General Assembly amending the rule against perpetuities as it applies to commercial transactions.

“Ed is a lawyer’s lawyer and we are pleased that the MSBA has recognized what we, his colleagues, and his clients already know about him,” said DLA Piper’s Baltimore Managing Partner Paul A. Tiburzi. “His dedication to the MSBA as well as numerous organizations throughout the Baltimore area is inspiring. Ed is both an extraordinary attorney and person, and we all congratulate him on this much-deserved honor.”

In addition to working with the MSBA, Levin was one of the organizers of the award-winning Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.’s (MICPEL) Advanced Real Property Institute. He co-chaired the first two institutes in 1990 and 1991, and since then he has served as a faculty member and member of the program committee.

He is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and was chair of ACREL’s Attorneys’ Opinions Committee from 1993 through 1999. Levin served as a member of the steering committee of the combined American Bar Association (ABA) and ACREL project on guidelines for attorneys’ opinions in real estate secured transactions. He now serves as vice chair of the ABA’s Legal Opinions in Real Estate Transactions Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section.

In 2004, Levin was selected Mortgage Associate of the Year by the Maryland Mortgage Bankers Association, where he has served as counsel since 1995. He is also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

A frequent lecturer and author, Levin is co-author, with Charles T. Albert, of Maryland Real Estate Leasing Forms—Practice and is the author of articles in Probate and Property relating to opinion letters. He has spoken at MICPEL seminars and at meetings of ACREL, the ABA and the MSBA on topics including leasing, financing, land banking, title insurance, workouts and impact fees.

Levin is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and as one of the Top 50 Maryland Super Lawyers of 2007.

He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A., with honors, from the Johns Hopkins University.

05-11-2007

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Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton Names Five New Partners
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is pleased to announce that Edward Drew Dutton, Jyotin Hamid, Jonathan E. Levitsky, Vadim Mahmoudov and Kevin A. Rinker will become partners of the firm, effective July 1, 2007. Mr. Dutton is resident in the firm’s Paris office, and Mr. Hamid, Mr. Levitsky, Mr. Mahmoudov and Mr. Rinker are resident in the New York office.

Drew Dutton, based in the firm’s Paris office, is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital markets transactions. Mr. Dutton joined Debevoise in New York in 1999 and has been principally based in the firm’s Frankfurt and Paris offices since 2001. He received his LL.B. in 1996 from McGill University, his DESS in the Law of Computers and New Technology in 1997 from the Université de Paris XI and his A.B. in East Asian Studies in 1992 from Harvard College.

Jyotin Hamid, based in the firm’s New York office, is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on general commercial litigation, employment litigation and intellectual property. Mr. Hamid joined Debevoise in 1998. He received his J.D. in 1998 from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Journal of International Law, and his B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science and Psychology in 1995 from Tulane University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Jonathan E. Levitsky, based in the firm’s New York office, is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses primarily on public and private mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, often with a cross-border component. Prior to joining Debevoise in 2001, Mr. Levitsky served as Counselor to Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and as a Member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. He served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996-1997 and to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1995-1996. Mr. Levitsky received his J.D. in 1995 from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal, his M.Phil. in Politics in 1992 from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his A.B., magna cum laude, in Public Policy in 1990 from Brown University.

Vadim Mahmoudov, based in the firm’s New York office, is a member of the firm’s Tax Department. His practice concentrates on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies and restructurings, and private equity fund formation. Mr. Mahmoudov joined Debevoise in 1999. He received his J.D., cum laude, in 1999 and his LL.M. in Taxation in 2002 from New York University School of Law, and his B.S., cum laude, in International Finance and Commerce in 1993 from Georgetown University.

Kevin A. Rinker, based in the firm’s New York office, is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance. Mr. Rinker joined Debevoise in 2000. He received his J.D. in 1999 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was on the editorial board of The Tax Lawyer and served as a Teaching Fellow in the LL.M. program, and his B.A. in 1994 from Tufts University.

05-11-2007

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Blank Rome LLP.

Veteran Government Prosecutor and Investigator Bolsters White Collar Practice
Blank Rome announced today that Harold Damelin has joined the Firm as a Partner in the white collar and government investigations group. Mr. Damelin joins Blank Rome from the U.S. Department of Treasury, where he served as Inspector General, and brings more than thirty years of diverse white collar criminal and investigative experience to the Firm.

“We are pleased to welcome Harry to Blank Rome and look forward to incorporating his breadth of federal government and private practice experience into our white collar and government investigations practice,” said Carl M. Buchholz, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. “Harry’s significant government investigation experience from his various positions on the Hill, and most recently as Inspector General for the Department of Treasury, will be a great complement to the Firm.”

Prior to joining Blank Rome, Mr. Damelin served as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In this capacity, Mr. Damelin directed the Office’s audits and investigations of allegations of waste, fraud, abuse and program mismanagement. He was also responsible for keeping the Secretary and Congress informed as to the effectiveness of Treasury programs and operations. Before serving as the Treasury’s Inspector General, Mr. Damelin was Inspector General of the Small Business Administration.

In the public sector, Mr. Damelin served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel to the Majority for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he directed a team of attorneys and investigators, which conducted investigations and held public hearings involving health care fraud, procurement fraud and Russian Organized Crime. Mr. Damelin also served as Senior Counsel to the Majority for the U.S. Senate Special Investigation Committee headed by Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), which examined allegations of illegal and improper activities in connection with the 1996 Federal election campaigns.

Mr. Damelin also served as Deputy Chief of the Grand Jury Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and as a Branch Chief in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.

In private practice, Mr. Damelin was a Partner at the law firm of Arent Fox, and subsequently at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Washington, D.C., specializing in white collar defense work and government investigations. Later in his career, Mr. Damelin returned to private practice with Washington, D.C.-based law firm Powers, Pyles, Sutter and Verville, where he oversaw the firm’s fraud and abuse practice group.

Mr. Damelin received his law degree, cum laude, from Boston College Law School and his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Boston College.

05-11-2007

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Davis Polk & Wardwell

Davis Polk Advises USIS on Its Acquisition by Providence Equity Partners
Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising US Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS) and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) in connection with the acquisition of USIS by Providence Equity Partners Inc., a Rhode Island-based private equity firm. USIS, a Virginia-based portfolio company of WCAS and The Carlyle Group, is a leading provider of pre-employment screening solutions, the largest provider of security investigations for the federal government and a global supplier of cleared personnel supporting critical federal programs.

According to the terms of the transaction, Providence will acquire USIS from The Carlyle Group and WCAS for approximately $1.5 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2007, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

The Davis Polk corporate team includes partner Carole Schiffman, associates Himanshu P. Singh and Marie-Christine Eldridge and legal assistant Matthew Cohen. Partner Sartaj Gill and associate Justin Goldblatt are providing credit advice. Partner Kathleen L. Ferrell and associate Jenny L. Ruzow are providing tax advice. Partner Gail A. Flesher is providing environmental advice. Counsel George R. Ince Jr. is providing employment advice. The intellectual property team includes associate Stefan Quick (not yet admitted). All members of the Davis Polk team work in the New York office.

05-11-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorney David L. Ladov Appears on It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle to Discuss Alec Baldwin Incident
Cozen O’Connor member David L. Ladov recently appeared on CN8’s It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle to discuss the Alec Baldwin voicemail incident. Topics included the questions of whether the voicemail will affect Baldwin’s ongoing custody battle with his ex-wife, Kim Basinger, and if the message can be construed as verbal abuse. Resident in the West Conshohocken, Pa., office, Ladov is co-chair of the firm’s family law practice group, concentrating his practice in all areas of domestic relations, including divorce, custody, child support, equitable distribution and abuse.

Ladov is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and secretary of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the AAML, chair of the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA), former chair of the Family Law Section of the Montgomery Bar Association, and a member of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. He is editor of the Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, a publication of the PBA. Ladov was named a Pennsylvania “Super Lawyer” by his peers, appearing in Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. He has also been selected as one of “Ten Leaders of Greater Philadelphia in Matrimonial and Divorce Law” for 2005-2006 by Digital Press International.

Ladov is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Georgia, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Northern District of Georgia.

A resident of Blue Bell, Pa., Ladov earned his undergraduate degree from The Pennsylvania State University (B.A., with distinction, 1975) and his law degree from Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1978).

05-11-2007

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