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Stevens & Lee P.C.

Stevens & Lee and Nation's Leading Advocacy Organization for Disclosure and Apology Following Adverse Medical Events Join Forces to Teach Disclosure and Apology
The Stevens & Lee Health Care Litigation and Risk Management Team is pleased to announce its collaborative relationship with the Sorry Works! Coalition to provide exceptional education and training in disclosure, effective communication and event management, all of which can lead to patient satisfaction and professional liability risk reduction.

“Disclosure is an extremely hot topic in health care and insurance, and through this partnership with Sorry Works!, we will provide the training tools and consulting to help health care professionals learn disclosure and apology and use it the right way,” said James W. Saxton, Chair of Stevens & Lee’s Health Care Litigation Group.

“So often people automatically assume that all defense lawyers are opposed to apology and disclosure, but this is not the case,” said Doug Wojcieszak, founder and spokesperson for the Sorry Works! Coalition. “Stevens & Lee is one of the nation’s leading med-mal defense practices and we are very excited to be teaming with them to teach apology and disclosure.”

The Sorry Works! Coalition and Stevens & Lee will work together to provide training and program implementation for physicians, hospitals and other health care providers that covers all aspects of disclosure and apology, from legal and insurance issues to cultural and ethical concerns. The program will include educational presentations to introduce disclosure, communication skill development workshops and the development of an organization-wide training program and support programs.

“Often times one of the road blocks to effective disclosure is the fear of legal ramification based on that disclosure,” said James Saxton. “We provide the information and tools to move past these barriers.”

This collaborative relationship has been created to provide physicians and health care organizations with all the components of a true disclosure program from education, training, policies, procedures, monitoring and execution. This partnership combines the legal and risk management expertise of Stevens & Lee with the presence of Sorry Works! to create a dynamic team that will provide a suite of teaching products for health care, insurance and legal professionals.

02-15-2007

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Rogers Towers

Rogers Towers Adds Its Third Registered Patent Attorney To Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Stephen E. Kelly, associate with Rogers Towers, P.A., has become registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Kelly practices in the area of intellectual property law, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and related unfair competition matters.

Prior to joining Rogers Towers, Kelly worked in the field of engineering, where he gained experience in structural analysis, including linear, non-linear, seismic, and wind analysis. He also has extensive experience in dynamic and finite element modeling of complex structural systems. He concentrated his research studies on aeroelasticity of long-span suspended bridges and wind effects on high-rise and low-rise buildings.

Kelly is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor in 2006 and was Student Works Editor of the Florida Law Review. He also attended Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a Master of Civil Engineering in 1999, and a B.S., Civil Engineering, in 1988. Kelly is a member of The Florida Bar.

Rogers Towers, P.A., founded in Jacksonville in 1905, has the largest in-house Intellectual Property Practice Group in Northeast Florida. The Rogers Towers IP Group consists of three registered patent attorneys with knowledge and experience over a broad range of technologies, and is supported by several litigators with IP litigation experience. In addition to their law degrees, the IP attorneys possess engineering degrees in civil engineering, materials engineering and computer science. A Patent Attorney is registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upon passing a specialized patent bar exam and an attorney must be registered to represent inventors before the U.S.P.T.O.

02-15-2007

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Patton Boggs LLP

Patton Boggs LLP Builds International Business Transaction Capability in New York: Firm Also Adds to Litigation Capability
Patton Boggs LLP continues to significantly enhance its business law and core litigation capabilities by adding lateral partner hires to the firm’s New York office. Since the office opened in October 2006, the firm has pursued its commitment to add top legal talent to fill key roles with a focus on providing its clients with a wide range of legal services, such as advising on international business transactions, corporate finance, and complex commercial litigation matters.

A noted business lawyer specializing in corporate governance and regulatory matters Nick Simeonidis helped establish the office and was soon joined by Jay Gladis, an accomplished international business transactions and corporate finance counselor. Most recently, the firm announced the addition of two more lateral partners, Timothy J. Pfister and Michael A. Smith. Mr. Pfister will continue to focus on international corporate transactions and Mr. Smith will concentrate on cross-border corporate finance and M&A matters. Longtime commercial litigation practitioner Jim Copley has also joined the office to expand the Firm’s overall capacity to serve clients.

“We welcome our newest colleagues, Tim and Michael, to the firm and look forward to their valuable contributions,” said Stuart M. Pape, Managing Partner. “Our growth and success in the New York metropolitan area is a strategic priority of the firm and Nick, Jay and Jim have done an exceptional job helping us to effectively expand and move toward achieving this goal. We will continue to recruit top legal talent in New York to fill key roles and offer our clients the best legal practitioners available. We are especially pleased to have such capable business lawyers with ties to many parts of the world join our already expansive international transactions practice.”

Mr. Simeonidis offers clients creative external strategies and internal compliance systems tailored to the particular legal and political framework affecting their businesses. He brings 20 years of experience counseling multinational consumer products companies and advocates legal change to advance these goals in the legislative and regulatory arena, as well as designing and managing strategic litigation. Mr. Simeonidis previously served as General Counsel and Senior Vice-President of Human Resources for General Cigar Holdings, the world’s foremost maker of handcrafted cigars, working on significant challenges to the U.S. premium cigar industry. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School, earning a J.D. in 1986. He attended Princeton University, with an A.B., graduating magna cum laude in 1983.

Mr. Gladis serves as senior counselor to enterprises engaged in substantial transnational business transactions. He possesses more than 30 years of experience as general outside counsel and lead transactional counsel for prominent, international clients from Japan, Europe, and the Middle East across a wide variety of industries, dealing extensively with the unique challenges of transnational transactional practice, including culture, communications, foreign laws, politics, and bureaucracy. Mr. Gladis has been directly involved in strategic commercial planning matters such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, joint development arrangements, licenses, franchises, reorganizations, corporate securities, and financial transactions. He was previously a partner at two major international law firms. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating with a J.D., in 1974 and earned an A.B., at Princeton University, in 1971.

Mr. Pfister’s practice concentrates on international corporate finance and capital markets transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, project finance, and general corporate strategic counseling. He represented clients in a wide array of inbound and outbound transactions involving the European Community (EC) and most of the EC’s constituent members, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Central Europe, and Russia. Mr. Pfister was previously a corporate partner in the New York office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Law, (J.D.) in 1978 and attended the University of Virginia, earning a B.A. (Economics and Foreign Affairs) in 1974.

Mr. Smith focuses on matters involving corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. He has represented issuers and underwriters in private and public offerings of both equity and debt (including high-yield debt), with an emphasis on Rule 144A offerings and the Canada-U.S. Multijurisdictional Disclosure System. His experience includes the application of U.S. securities laws and corporate governance reforms to Canadian and other foreign companies as well as their underwriters and advisors. Previously, Mr. Smith was a partner in Winston & Strawn’s New York office. He has practiced law with leading international firms in Toronto, New York, and London, England. Mr. Smith earned an LLB. at Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario in 1990 and a B.A. (Honors) in International Relations at Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1987.

Mr. Copley has represented clients in federal and state courts nationwide for more than 20 years and has substantial experience in litigating matters before American Arbitration Association panels. His complex commercial litigation practice emphasizes the defense of product liability cases – he represented a major cigarette manufacturer in dozens of such lawsuits nationwide for over a decade and was part of trial and appellate teams in numerous landmark cases involving both class actions and cases brought on behalf of individual plaintiffs. He has substantial experience in developing expert testimony on sophisticated scientific, medical, and economic issues pertinent to product liability and intellectual property matters. Mr. Copley graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.) in 1981 and earned a B.S. in Economics with distinction from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1978.

02-15-2007

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Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Boston Globe quotes MBJ Partner on the TJX / Pier 1 Imports Executive Noncompete Dispute
MBJ Partner Mark Whitney was recently quoted in the Boston Globe's Business Section (from 2/15/07) in connection with an article concerning the unusual tactics being employed by one competitor against another in a dispute over a senior executive's noncompete agreement. The article addressed the well-publicized and heated dispute between TJX Cos. and Pier 1 Imports, Inc., in which Pier 1 hired a senior executive of TJX despite the fact that he had signed a noncompete agreement.

At the outset of the dispute, TJX had been in the process of writing threatening ("shot across the bow") letters to Pier 1 and the former executive warning about TJX's intent to enforce the executive's noncompete agreement in Massachusetts. In an unusual move, Pier 1 and the former executive filed a preemptive suit called a declaratory judgment action in a Texas court, Pier 1's home state. Pier 1 then immediately sought and obtained a TRO (temporary restraining order) from the Texas court ordering TJX to refrain from suing its former executive.

02-15-2007

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Holme, Roberts & Owen, L.L.P.

HRO Hires Lawyer from Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) announces that James M. Elegante, formerly Vice President and General Counsel of Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, a subsidiary of the global resources company, Rio Tinto plc, has joined the firm’s Salt Lake City office as a partner. He will focus on commercial law and technology-related transactions.

Mr. Elegante’s recent professional experience includes corporate governance and compliance, cooperation agreements for technology development, commercial transactions, energy procurement and sales, environmental permitting and compliance, safety and hygiene regulation, employment regulation, and dispute resolution through litigation and arbitration. He is a former adjunct professor of law at the University of Turin in Turin, Italy, and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and he held teaching positions at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Elegante has been a senior legal counselor to corporate boards, executive management teams, and businesses, and he has authored and co-authored numerous articles in various professional publications.

Mr. Elegante received his Juris Doctorate and a Master of Arts in French and Russian Literatures from the University of Utah, and a Bachelor of Arts in French and Journalism from Northern Arizona University. He also took certificates in graduate studies at the Università Italianà per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy and the Université de Paris, en Sorbonne, Paris, France, and he did graduate studies in Comparative Literatures at the University of Texas.

02-15-2007

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Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

Cade Selected as a Leader in the Law by Wisconsin Law Journal
Nathaniel Cade, a partner in Michael Best's Litigation Practice Group, was selected by the Wisconsin Law Journal as a 2007 "Leader in the Law." The publication annually recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions to the practice of law, including: leadership in advancing legal services to the poor, important contributions to Wisconsin's legal community and important contributions to the community at large.

Nate is particularly experienced in products and premises liability, tort law, personal injury defense, construction law, insurance defense and commercial litigation. He also represents Wisconsin lawyers before the Office of Lawyer Regulation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court governing body with responsibility for regulating and disciplining lawyers. Nate has conducted and had involvement in numerous trials, mediations and arbitrations throughout Wisconsin and the United States. He lectures extensively on ethics, and also has done so on products liability, environmental law and construction insurance law.

In July 2002, the State Bar President appointed Nate as chair of the State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Ethics and he was reappointed to that position by successive state bar Presidents in 2003 and 2004. He currently is a member of the Committee. He also was appointed in 2003 by the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to serve on the Court’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which proposed revisions to the State’s Rules of Professional Conduct in July 2004. Please click here to learn more about Nate's work and community involvement.

02-15-2007

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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.

MINTZ LEVIN RANKED AMONG TOP BOND COUNSEL FIRMS BY DOLLAR VOLUME IN THE NORTHEAST REGION FOR 2006
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. - a full-service, 480-lawyer AmLaw 100 firm with offices throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. - is pleased to announce that in 2006, the firm was ranked fifth among bond counsels in the Northeast Region, with a total dollar volume of $4.359 billion, according to the trade publication, The Bond Buyer. The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

"Mintz Levin is committed to maintaining its position as a national leader in the specialty field of public finance as well as its reputation for quality, creativity and responsiveness," said Greg Sandomirsky, a Member of the firm and Head of its Public Finance section. "We are proud to be recognized as one of the top bond counsel firms."

Mintz Levin conducts its bond practice through a core group of approximately 20 professionals from its offices in Boston, New York and Washington D.C., which is supplemented as necessary by lawyers in the firm's Real Estate, Health Care, Bankruptcy and Workout, Environmental, Federal Regulation and Litigation Sections. Its comprehensive public finance practice includes structuring and documenting primary offerings; counseling issuers and other participants in both the primary and secondary public markets; and representing bondholders, bond trustees, bond insurers and borrowers in restructuring or resolving troubled transactions. In combination with the firm's other practice areas, our public finance attorneys also counsel clients with respect to public pension funds, legislative matters and transactions involving other capital markets.

02-15-2007

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