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Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C.

LAW FIRMS ACROSS LONG ISLAND WELCOME THEIR NEW SLATE OF PARTNERS
In an annual ritual that's part prestige, part power and part inside baseball, law firms across Long Island have welcomed their new slate of partners.

J. Bruce Maffeo of the firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, Garden City -
As part of the firm's litigation department, Maffeo focuses on white-collar criminal defense and securities fraud. He currently serves as outside counsel to the International Brotherhood of Team-sters. Before entering private practice, Maffeo was a trial attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Justice's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section.

03-02-2007

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Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C.

WORKERS CHARGED WITH STEALING SCRAP METAL FROM MEDFORD-BASED GERSHOW RECYCLING
A pair of workers embezzled more than $250,000 from Medford-based Gershow Recycling by stealing truckloads of scrap metal to sell to outside vendors, Suffolk District Attorney Tom Spota charges.

Anthony C. "Rocky" Grazio, 42, a contract driver for Gershow, and Gershow clerk Shawn Fortunato, 40, were each arraigned on one charge of second-degree grand larceny. Both pleaded not guilty in Suffolk County District Court.

Grazio was released Feb. 25 on $5,000 bail, while Fortunato was released Feb. 23 on her own recognizance. They face five to 15 years in jail if convicted.

Robert Clifford, a spokesman for the DA's office, said the alleged wrongdoing was discovered in an audit conducted by Gershow last month, the details of which were fleshed out by the company's general counsel, Garden City-based Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein.

Meyer Suozzi litigation partner Richard F.X. Guay, based in Manhattan, said the audit found a pattern of falsified accounting entries. He said Grazio stole truckloads filled with shredded steel intended for Gershow mills and diverted them to other customers as if the material was his own.

Guay said each truckload was worth at least $8,000, for a total of about $250,000, although the total could be much higher. He said others could be implicated in the scheme.

03-02-2007

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Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, L.L.P.

MGB Continues To Grow
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun is pleased to welcome Michelle Armond as an associate. Her practice will focus on litigation and patent prosecution matters.

“Michelle’s unique experience in litigation, particularly matters related to electronics and medical devices, builds on the diversity that we consistently strive to accomplish within our litigation team,” said Jeff Sharp, managing partner of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun. “Her concentrated knowledge in these areas makes her an excellent addition to the firm. She contributes to the foremost goal of our litigation team, which is to possess a genuine understanding of our clients and their business.”

Ms. Armond focuses in the areas of computers, software, electrical, Internet and e-commerce. Prior to joining Marshall Gerstein & Borun, she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Armond received her J.D. in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as an articles editor for the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. During this time, Armond authored Introducing the Defense of Independent Invention to Motions for Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Infringement Lawsuits and State Internet Regulation and the Dormant Commerce Clause. In 2000, she earned a B.S., with honors, in electrical engineering and history from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Ms. Armond is also a patent attorney, registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

03-02-2007

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Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.

MITRIONE APPOINTED TO NORTH PALM BEACH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD
Michael V. Mitrione, a corporate attorney and shareholder at Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart in West Palm Beach, was recently appointed to the North Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Mitrione is chair of Gunster Yoakley’s Corporate Department and has been with the firm since 1979. He concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions, partnerships, licensing, securities law compliance, and banking, plus other corporate, securities and finance matters.

Currently, Mitrione serves on the advisory board for the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at University of Florida’s Warrington School of Business. Mitrione has been active in numerous civic and professional organizations, including the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, where he served as Chairman from 1989-1990, and currently serves on its Life Science Strategic Steering Group; the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Greater Palm Beach, where he served as president from 2002-2004; the National Association of Corporate Directors; and SunFest of Palm Beach County, Inc. Board of Directors. Mitrione has been listed as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” for corporate law every year since 1991, and has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Florida Trend. He is a member of the American Bar Association, The Florida Bar and The New York State Bar Association.

03-02-2007

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring Expands International Arbitration Practice With New Partner And Co-Chair Arif Hyder Ali
Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of partner Arif Hyder Ali to the firm’s International Arbitration Practice, which he will co-chair with partner Stuart H. Newberger. Ali brings 17 years of experience in international dispute resolution and investment risk management counseling, spanning more than 30 countries and five continents. Ali is joined by associate Baiju Simal Vasani.

Ali and Vasani’s arrival augments Crowell & Moring’s longstanding reputation for resolving complex international disputes around the world. They join from Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and will be based in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office. Ali is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee’s Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. He has held senior positions at the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center and the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) in Geneva, and practiced international arbitration in Paris with Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Derringer.

“Arif and Baiju are best of class practitioners who have the experience, trial skills, and cross-cultural understanding to handle the most complicated and high-stakes disputes around the world. They expand our team’s significant international experience and will serve clients with skills they have honed resolving some of the most complex disputes faced by corporations and governments today,” said Kent A. Gardiner, Crowell & Moring chairman.

Ali’s recent matters include representing a Houston-based energy company in investment arbitrations against the Governments of Ecuador and Peru at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a Brazilian joint venture company in a US$2 billion International Chamber of Commerce arbitration seated in Paris, a NAFTA arbitration against the United States on behalf of Canadian company Grand River Enterprises Six Nations, Ltd., and Spanish language arbitrations relating to energy, gas pipeline projects, and concession agreements in Bolivia, and Guatemala. As a result of Ali’s representation of the State of Bahrain in its territorial and maritime border dispute with the State of Qatar before the International Court of Justice, in 2001, he was decorated by the King of Bahrain with the Order of Bahrain (II).

Vasani’s experience includes working on arbitrations in Angola, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Nigeria, and the much publicized arbitral and bankruptcy battles between Yukos Oil and the Russian Federation.

“Our international disputes practice is currently handling matters in Washington, New York, Vienna, Geneva, London and Stockholm on any given day. We serve these clients through a deep bench of practitioners who bring the highest caliber of experience both in private commercial arbitration and public investment treaty arbitration,” said Stuart H. Newberger, co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Arbitration practice.

In 2006 Global Arbitration Review ranked Crowell & Moring's International Arbitration Practice as "excellent" and also ranked it as "the largest arbitration outfit in Washington, D.C." In addition to Washington, lawyers in this field are working out of the firm’s offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels.

Investment Arbitration:

Examples of the firm’s public international investment and treaty arbitration work includes representing Cyprus-based Libananco Holdings Co. Ltd. in its $10.1 billion expropriation claim against the Republic of Turkey, the largest claim ever filed at ICSID and one of only a handful of cases brought under the Energy Charter Treaty.

The firm also is representing a major Canadian mining company in a $50 million NAFTA expropriation case against the U.S. under the Additional Facility rules at ICSID. It recently represented the Republic of Bolivia in the highly-publicized case of Aguas del Tunari v. Republic of Bolivia at ICSID, which arose from the so-called “Water War.”

International Commercial Arbitration:

The firm’s far-reaching work in international commercial arbitration includes representing a Chinese chemical manufacturer in an intellectual property/trade secret dispute against one of the world’s largest petroleum companies in an arbitration at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; handling a dispute between a Nigerian telephone company and a Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer, involving claims alleged to be worth more than $23 million, at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Geneva; and representing one of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies in a multi-million dollar intellectual property dispute in an ICC arbitration.

International Litigation:

As part of its experience in handling international disputes, Crowell & Moring is acknowledged as the leading law firm to represent parties in cases brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). Representative matters include cases by former hostages held in Lebanon against the Islamic Republic of Iran in which the firm recovered tens of millions of dollars for its clients, as well as pending cases against Libya for aircraft sabotage, including the notorious bombing of UTA Flight 772, the French jumbo jet blown up over Africa en route to Paris.

About Crowell & Moring:

Crowell & Moring LLP is a full-service law firm with nearly 350 lawyers practicing in litigation, antitrust, government contracts, corporate, intellectual property and more than 40 other practice areas. More than two-thirds of the firm's lawyers regularly litigate disputes on behalf of domestic and international corporations, start-up businesses, and individuals. Crowell & Moring's extensive client work ranges from advising on one of the world's largest telecommunications mergers to representing investment banks and major corporations in litigation, corporate, and financial services matters. Based in Washington, D.C., the firm also has offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels.

Editor’s Notes (Lawyer Bios):

Arif Hyder Ali has represented parties in international commercial and public investment arbitrations involving thermal, nuclear and hydro power plants, oil and gas pipeline construction and concession-related matters, project finance and development agreements, hotel tourism projects, patents and trademarks, information technology, and foreign investment. He has represented parties before inter-governmental tribunals, including the United States-Iran Claims Tribunal and the UNCC. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer and arbitration practitioner in a number of industry publications, including Chambers USA and The Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Who’s Who in Public International Law, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration, and Lawdragon. Ali received his B.A. (Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia University and his J.D. (Vanderbilt Medal) from New York University School of Law. He speaks six languages, including Spanish, French, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali. Ali joins from Fulbright & Jaworski’s Washington, D.C. office.

Baiju Simal Vasani holds degrees from London University, Oxford and Northwestern Law School. He is dual-qualified to practice law in the United States and England. Vasani joins from Fulbright & Jaworski’s Houston office. At the time of hire, Vasani is a member of the Texas Bar only.

03-02-2007

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Lowis & Gellen LLP

LOWIS & GELLEN WINS VICTORY FOR CLIENTS IN CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT
Lowis & Gellen attorneys Martin McManaman and Patrick Moran won a victory in federal court for four clients who had been accused of violating the plaintiff's civil rights. The plaintiff, a former inmate at a local county jail, sued the county sheriff, the county jail's warden and two jail guards, alleging that each violated the plaintiff's Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by allowing another prisoner at the jail to attack and severely injure the plaintiff. After conducting limited discovery, McManaman and Moran filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that the plaintiff had no evidence to prove that any defendant violated his civil rights. In his published opinion, Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois agreed, holding that "no reasonable juror could find" that the defendants acted with deliberate indifference for the plaintiff's safety. By prevailing on their motion for summary judgment, McManaman and Moran prevented the case from going to trial. Judge Der-Yeghiayan's published opinion can be found at 2007 WL 433537 (N.D.Ill. Feb. 6, 2007).

03-02-2007

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Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, LLP

Partner Donald Jay Schwartz Selected as a Scoring Judge for the New York Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition
Attorney Donald Jay Schwartz, a partner at the Mineola based law firm of Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn LLP (FCSMC&C), has been selected to serve as a Scoring Judge for the New York Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition (STAC) scheduled for March 3 and 4, 2007 at the New York County Supreme Court in New York, NY.
Sponsored by the Association of Trial Lawyer’s of America, STAC is an annual nationwide trial competition involving 224 teams from 125 law schools. The goal of the three hour moot court trial is to inspire excellence in trial advocacy. Mr. Schwartz’s role as a Scoring Judge will be to evaluate the performance of the students involved in the competition.

“I am excited to participate in the New York Regional Student Trial Advocacy Competition,” explained Mr. Schwartz. “As a litigator with over 30 years of experience, I take my role as a Scoring Judge seriously and look forward to watching the students as they exhibit their legal talents and abilities in the moot court setting.”

Donald Jay Schwartz is partner-in-charge of the FCSMC&C Litigation Department and has an advanced level of expertise in all aspects of commercial litigation, involving such areas as real estate, corporate, partnership, commercial landlord and tenant, employer and employee rights, insurance law and personal injury.

Mr. Schwartz is a member of the New York State District Attorneys Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the Jewish Lawyers Association of Nassau County and the New York State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Nassau County Bar Association and serves on a number of its committees, including the Grievance Committee, which is by appointment only, where he holds the position of Vice Chairman.

03-02-2007

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