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Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC

OFP Attorney to Speak on Recent Trends in HR Law
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman attorney Misti Mukherjee will speak on “Recent Trends in HR Law” at the Sept. 19 meeting for the Dulles Society of Human Resource Management.

The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, Va. Doors will open at 5:15 p.m. with the program starting at 7 p.m.

Mukherjee, co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment group, is a human resources community leader and frequent speaker on employment law issues. Her practice is management-oriented, and she counsels and trains businesses, non-profit organizations and trade associations to anticipate and avoid labor and employment problems.

09-04-2007

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Mayer Brown LLP

Brian Aronson Rejoins Mayer Brown's Los Angeles Office to head up the Real Estate Practice
Mayer Brown today announced that Brian Aronson has rejoined the firm as the head of the Los Angeles Real Estate practice. Mr. Aronson, 40, brings more than 15 years of experience back to the firm where he was originally employed from 1996 to 2005.

"We are pleased Brian has agreed to head up our local Real Estate group," James E. Tancula, Los Angeles partner-in-charge said. "With an impressive track record representing a large number of major clients, he will play an important role in the further expansion of the practice both in Southern California and globally."

Mr. Aronson spent the last two years as a partner at Holland & Knight where he advised real estate investment trusts (REITS), pension funds and their advisors, life insurance companies and commercial lenders on a variety of real estate matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and commercial loan transactions. Most recently, Mr. Aronson's representations include a joint venture between a national real estate investment/development company and a real estate investment advisor in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of office and retail buildings in Southern California. In addition, he has represented clients in connection with the acquisition and disposition of a number of high profile office buildings and commercial projects throughout the United States.

"Brian is a talented lawyer providing innovative solutions to the most complex deals," added George Ruhlen, one of Mayer Brown's Real Estate Practice leaders. "He will be an asset to our national and global clients and I look forward to working with him to continue to grow our world-class practice."

"Mayer Brown's Real Estate group is preeminent in the field," said Mr. Aronson. "The firm's strong platform and commitment to growth provide me with an extraordinary opportunity to develop a stellar West coast practice and increase the firm's national presence."

Also joining Mayer Brown is Tricia Greenlee. Ms. Greenlee received her B.A., cum laude, in history from Loyola Marymount University in 1994 and received her J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1994. Ms. Greenlee joins as an associate.

Mr. Aronson received his B.A., cum laude, from The American University in 1988. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991.

Mayer Brown LLP's Real Estate Practice is large, varied and international in its capability. The group consists of lawyers throughout the Firm's international network of offices with the combined expertise and skills necessary to provide excellent service to clients in complex real estate transactions worldwide.

09-04-2007

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Lane Powell PC

Twenty-Six Lane Powell Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008.
Twenty-six lawyers from Lane Powell were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007-2008.

The Portland lawyers and their practice areas include: Craig D. Bachman, Intellectual Property Law; Anne W. Glazer, Intellectual Property Law; Lewis M. Horowitz, Tax Law; David G. Hosenpud, Mass Tort Litigation; Neil D. Kimmelfield, Tax Law; Jeffrey W. Knapp, Employee Benefits Law; Milo P. Petranovich, Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation; Bryan E. Powell, Real Estate Law; Thomas W. Sondag, Appellate Law; Leigh D. Stephenson-Kuhn, Employee Benefits Law; Steven B. Ungar, White-Collar Criminal Defense; Jack Walsh, Employee Benefits Law; and Karen M. Williams, Project Finance Law.
The Seattle lawyers and their practice areas include: Glenn J. Amster, Land Use and Zoning, and Real Estate Law; Stanton Phillip Beck, Construction Law; Michael D. Dwyer, Corporate Law; Charles R. Ekberg, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; D. Wayne Gittinger, Corporate Law; Thomas F. Grohman, Corporate Law; Bruce W. Leaverton, Banking Law and Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; James Markham Marshall, Labor and Employment Law; Michael E. Morgan, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Kit G. Narodick, Equipment Finance Law; Charles W. Riley, Jr., Trusts and Estates; Joan E. Robinson, Banking Law; and Gary P. Tober, Tax Law.

Ekberg, Gittinger and Morgan have been listed for 20 or more years, and Stephenson-Kuhn and Marshall have been listed for 10 or more years.

The current, 14th edition of Best Lawyers (2008), is based on more than 1.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

09-04-2007

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Latham & Watkins

Vault UK Guide Names Latham & Watkins Third Best Firm to Work for in the UK
In the Vault Guide to the Top 50 UK Law Firms, a leading guide for law students, Latham & Watkins was named the third best law firm to work for in the UK. Based on feedback from more than 1,500 UK lawyers, the firm placed second within the categories of Associate Satisfaction, Pay, Partner/Solicitor Relations and Diversity (in sexual orientation). Latham also placed third for Informal Training and Mentoring, Pro Bono and Diversity (in minorities).

09-04-2007

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King & Spalding

102 King & Spalding Lawyers Named in 2008 Best Lawyers in America Guide
One hundred two King & Spalding attorneys were selected by their peers to be included in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The firm’s lawyers received 153 total mentions in 38 different categories of legal expertise.

In addition to the individual selections, six of the firm’s Georgia practices had more lawyers listed in the guide than any other firm in the state. The firm ranked No. 1 for Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mass Tort Litigation; and Personal Injury Litigation.

The Best Lawyers in America guide has been called “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice” by Corporate Counsel magazine. The entirely peer-based research process consists of nearly 2 million confidential evaluations and thousands of telephone interviews with leading attorneys across the country.

Six King & Spalding lawyers have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 consecutive years, and 14 have been listed for at least 10 years.

09-04-2007

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Establishes Office in Frankfurt
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that it has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, further expanding its international footprint to four offices outside the United States, to respond to growing client demand in the areas of real estate capital markets, finance, corporate and tax. The office will focus initially on extending the firm’s real estate capital markets capacity in Europe and the UK and is expected to grow quickly to full-service status.

The Frankfurt opening marks the firm’s fourth new office in the past year and its ninth worldwide location.

Robert D. Hays, Jr., chairman of King & Spalding, said, “Our lawyers have been handling real estate matters for German-based clients for 30 years. With the tremendous surge of activity in the high-end commercial property market in Europe, including the UK, brought on by extensive migration of property stock into international investment vehicles, we believe the timing is right for King & Spalding to have a significant presence in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, to allow us to serve our clients throughout Europe.”

The majority of King & Spalding’s European clients and many of its U.S. clients increasingly are concentrating their real estate investments in Europe. King & Spalding advises clients on European real estate investments made by or on behalf of funds or funds of funds, which span multiple jurisdictions, involve joint ventures, include portfolio transfers, require the formation of European fund investment vehicles and are geographically diverse. German expertise and experience, including corporate, tax and G-REIT/investment law experience, are critical components of those transactions.

Management of the Frankfurt office will be through King & Spalding’s real estate capital markets group, headed by partners Scott J. Arnold and William B. Fryer, in New York. Arnold, Fryer, partner Wilfried Witthuhn and senior associate Sebastian F.C. Kaufmann will divide their time between New York and Frankfurt. Witthuhn and Kaufmann are German nationals currently practicing law full-time in New York.

Two German national attorneys are joining King & Spalding as partners in the new Frankfurt office:

* Mario Leissner, until now the general counsel and head of legal and tax of Oppenheim Immobilien-Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH (OIK), in Wiesbaden, Germany. Leissner specializes in fund structuring, regulatory law, real estate and corporate transactions and financing work. He studied law at the University of Potsdam and received training in tax law at the Tax Law School in Freiburg. Leissner is fluent in German, English, French and Russian and conversant in Italian and Spanish.
* Michael Prinz zu Löwenstein, until now a partner with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, in Frankfurt. Active in the fields of general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance and real estate, he has worked with King & Spalding for more than 20 years and is well known to the firm’s lawyers. Earlier, he was with Stegemann, Sieveking & Lutteroth in Hamburg, Germany, and was retained by the government of Germany as legal adviser to the office of the president of the Republic of Niger. He studied law and history at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn.

Accompanying Leissner at this time in the move from OIK’s legal office are Alexandra Weis and Nicole Bittlingmayer, who are joining King & Spalding as associates.

King & Spalding expects to continue its legal services for longtime client OIK and retain its good working relationship with the Heuking Kühn firm.

“A Frankfurt presence extends our platform for providing King & Spalding clients with sophisticated real estate capital markets work throughout Europe, in addition to our capabilities in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East,” Scott Arnold said. “We anticipate that the Frankfurt office also will work closely with the firm’s transactional teams in London and Dubai.”

King & Spalding's real estate practice group provides experienced and sophisticated advice on a complete range of commercial real estate transactions. Its real estate capital markets practice—one of the U.S. leaders in this field—has earned a reputation for its creative structuring of mergers and acquisitions and complex equity and debt financing transactions.

09-04-2007

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Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP

Ten Attorneys in Kelley Drye’s Washington, DC, Office Selected to Best Lawyers in America 2008
Kelley Drye’s Washington, DC, office is pleased to announce that ten Partners have been named Best Lawyers in America for 2008 by American Lawyer Media. Best Lawyers is one of the nation’s most highly regarded annual legal guides and inclusion is based on an extensive peer review process. The following Washington-based Kelley Drye attorneys have been recognized for their expertise in these fields:

* Kathleen W. Cannon, International Trade and Finance Law
* Michael J. Coursey, International Trade and Finance Law
* David A. Hartquist, International Trade and Finance Law
* John E. Heintz, Insurance Law
* William C. MacLeod, Antitrust Law
* Barry J. Pollack, White-Collar Criminal Defense
* Lewis Rose, Advertising Law and Information Technology Law
* Paul C. Rosenthal, International Trade and Finance Law
* John E. Villafranco, Advertising Law
* John L. Wittenborn, Environmental Law

These ten honorees will be listed in The Washington D.C. Area’s Best Lawyers Second Annual Special Section in the September 30, 2007, issue of The Washington Post Magazine.

09-04-2007

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