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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Sonnenschein Names New Managing Partner of Phoenix Office
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP announced today that Mark W. Daliere has been named managing partner of the law firm’s Phoenix office. Daliere assumes the role from co-managing partners Marlene Nations and Jay Shafron, who will return to their law practices full time.

“Mark has been a tremendous asset to Sonnenschein since we opened our doors in Phoenix last year, and he will be a great leader as we move forward in growing the office and our world-class Hospitality & Leisure Practice,” said Elliott I. Portnoy, Sonnenschein chairman.

Daliere joined Sonnenschein's Phoenix office upon its opening in May 2006, with five other leading hospitality/real estate attorneys, including Richard F. “Rick” Ross, global chair of Sonnenschein’s Hospitality & Leisure Practice. Daliere’s practice emphasizes the representation of some of the world’s largest hotel companies, including Hilton Hotels Corporation, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., and Fairmont Hotels in relation to hotel, resort, mixed-use luxury projects and developments throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

“I’m honored to be selected for this role and look forward to helping expand the firm’s footprint in the Phoenix market,” said Daliere. “Marlene and Jay did a wonderful job getting the office off the ground, and I hope to build on the foundation that they laid.”

Daliere takes over leadership of the Phoenix office during a time of growth and will oversee its upcoming move to new, larger office space in early 2008. The state-of-the-art space, positioned on the top floor of the high-rise located at 24th Street and Camelback Road, will provide 360-degree views of the entire valley.

Daliere earned a J.D. degree from Loyola University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Tufts University.

At Sonnenschein, we are committed to providing the highest-quality legal and counseling services for all of our clients, all of the time. They include many of the world’s most admired businesses , nonprofits and individuals. Through integrated, inter-office teamwork, we help them to prosper and grow.

08-30-2007

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Moses & Singer LLP

Moses & Singer lures Melvin Katz, LBO & Private Equity Specialist, from Bryan Cave
Melvin Katz, a longtime, distinguished corporate attorney who has practiced in the private sector, has joined the corporate law department at Moses & Singer.

Katz, who was most recently of counsel to international law firm Bryan Cave, joins Moses & Singer as a partner.

A specialist in leveraged buyout deals and other private equity-related transactions, Katz will represent institutions as well as buyout funds and publicly traded and privately held companies.

“I have built a strong corporate practice background throughout the course of my career, and Moses & Singer’s extensive resources will provide me with an opportunity to improve my client relationships,” Katz said. “At the same time, I am confident that I can add depth to the representation of the firm’s existing client base, especially in the area of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.”

Jay R. Fialkoff, managing partner of Moses & Singer, said, “Mel Katz has the perfect blend of knowledge, experience and perspective to counsel not only the clients that come with him to Moses & Singer, but also our firm’s existing clients. He will be a valuable asset to our growing corporate department. Buyouts and corporate finance deals are more complex today than ever, with more layers, and it takes an attorney of Mel Katz’s ability and experience to guide clients through those deals in a way that solves their problems and maximizes their opportunities.”

08-30-2007

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Margolis & Edelstein

Declaratory Judgment In Garage Policy Case.
After a five-day jury trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia partner Christopher James Pakuris received a verdict in the amount of $980.88. Plaintiff's pretrial demand was $500,000.00 and her lowest demand during trial was $250,000.00. Plaintiff alleged that she suffered a torn tarsal tendon that had been ripped off the ankle bone when a lid fell off a washing machine. Plaintiff presented two medical doctors at trial who testified the injury was permanent and would leave the plaintiff with pain and a limp for the rest of her life. Plaintiff boarded over $55,600.00 in medical specials. The minimal verdict was a compromise with six of the eight jurors wanting to return a defense verdict and two of the jurors wanting to give the plaintiff her emergency room specials only. The emergency room specials were the amount of the award.

08-30-2007

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Mannheimer Swartling, PC

Accent Equity sells EuroFlorist
Mannheimer Swartling has advised Accent Equity on its sale of the EuroFlorist group. EuroFlorist, seated in Malmo, Sweden, conducts business in ten European countries, and has approximately 10,000 member florists. The turnover of the EuroFlorist group the past financial year totalled SEK 630 million.

The Mannheimer Swartling team was led by private equity partner Peter Alhanko and senior associate Carl Fürstenbach. The team further comprised Annika Estreen, Claes Kjellberg and Sara Varda St. Vincent.

08-30-2007

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Locke, Liddell & Sapp, L.L.P.

Locke Liddell & Sapp Expands IP Practice With Hiring of Three Lateral Attorneys in Dallas
John MacPete, Robin Barnes and George Tompkins have joined Locke Liddell & Sapp’s Dallas office in the Intellectual Property Section – Barnes and MacPete as Members and Tompkins as an Associate. All three have moved their IP practices from the Dallas office of Storm LLP, an intellectual property boutique law firm.

MacPete, Barnes and Tompkins bring extensive experience in IP law, particularly in the litigation arena. Their knowledge and practice skills further strengthen Locke Liddell’s already strong Intellectual Property and IP Litigation practice. At the end of 2006, IP Law & Business magazine named Locke Liddell & Sapp among the Top 10 law firms in the country for intellectual property work. In its annual survey “of the firms Corporate America calls on for IP help,” Locke Liddell & Sapp was listed as one of the top 10 “go-to firms” that general counsel at the Fortune 250 turn to for their primary IP litigation and patent work. Since then, Locke Liddell has hired lateral IP attorneys in both its Houston and Dallas offices. MacPete and his group concentrate in “Rocket-Docket” IP litigation and have experience in the three “Rocket-Docket” federal courts in the United States: the Eastern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia and the Western District of Wisconsin.

John MacPete concentrates his practice in patent litigation and also has experience in representing clients in trademark and copyright litigation. He places a heavy emphasis on counseling clients on an ongoing basis concerning all aspects of intellectual property with a view toward advancing his clients’ strategic business objectives, avoiding unnecessary litigation and ensuring protection of key innovations. He has served as lead trial counsel in 16 jury trials that went to verdict. He served as lead trial counsel for Anheuser-Busch in a $240 million dollar patent infringement/antitrust declaratory judgment action against a bottling company to protect a significant capital project of Anheuser-Busch to convert all its breweries and lid manufacturing facilities to a smaller diameter can lid. The case was brought in the Western District of Wisconsin and resolved in nine months from filing. He also served as co-lead defense counsel for Anheuser-Busch in a patent infringement/trade secret matter and as co-lead counsel along with co-counsel for Plaintiff QTI in a trademark infringement case that resulted in a broad permanent injunction prohibiting a large international software manufacturer from using its international umbrella brand in the United States. MacPete is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the California Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board.

Since graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 1998, Robin Barnes has practiced in the area of IP law, primarily focusing on litigation and complex licensing. She has been involved in all aspects of litigation, from pre-filing investigation through trial in several multimillion dollar lawsuits involving claims of patent, trademark, cybersquatting, and copyright infringement for clients such as Anheuser-Busch and Catalina Marketing. She has substantial experience in claim construction analysis and briefing complex patent, copyright and trademark issues at the district court and court of appeals levels. She has drafted successful motions for summary judgment of non-infringement, to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, to permit interlocutory appeal on patent-related subject matter jurisdiction, for reconsideration of an unfavorable summary judgment (briefed by predecessor counsel) in a copyright infringement matter, and numerous discovery-related motions. She has also been the primary drafts-person on four appeals at the Federal Circuit and two appeals at the Fifth Circuit and has experience briefing issues before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board and the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences. In addition, she has negotiated and drafted several highly complex patent license agreements involving multiple parties and multiple patents. She has a Master of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville and is a registered patent attorney with patent prosecution and counseling experience in the mechanical and chemical arts.

George Tompkins has practiced in the area of IP law since 2001. He has been involved in a wide range of litigation matters including prosecuting and defending trademark lawsuits against large media corporations, defending a $240 million patent infringement claim against Anheuser-Busch, prosecuting an oilfield patent lawsuit, prosecuting and defending two software patent infringement suits, and prosecuting and defending several copyright disputes. His litigation activities include drafting and responding to dispositive motions, taking depositions, drafting and responding to discovery, working with expert witnesses, and preparing jury instructions and other pre-trial documents. In addition to his litigation experience, Tompkins has extensive experience filing and prosecuting applications for trademark registration and significant experience preparing patent applications covering a variety of inventions. He is a graduate of Baylor Law School, where he served as an editor of the Baylor Law Review.

Locke Liddell & Sapp’s IP attorneys have years of experience – both domestic and international – in helping clients secure, exploit and defend their valuable intellectual property. Attorneys work with patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, publicity rights and trade secrets in a broad range of technologies and applications, from electrical and mechanical technologies to chemistry and biotechnology. They are well versed in software and databases, business methods and proprietary processes.

08-30-2007

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Lionel Sawyer & Collins

SMITH & KOTCHKA JOIN LIONEL SAWYER & COLLINS’ EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW PRACTICE GROUP
Lionel Sawyer & Collins is pleased to announce that Gregory E. Smith and Malani L. Kotchka, partners/shareholders in the Las Vegas law firm of Smith & Kotchka, will join the Firm’s Employment and Labor Law Practice Group on September 4, 2007. The addition of Smith and Kotchka expands the team of Lionel Sawyer & Collins attorneys who maintain a comprehensive and robust labor and employment law practice, counseling employers on all aspects of the employment relationship and representing employers before state and federal administrative agencies and the courts.

Gregory E. Smith has 33 years of experience in labor and employment law. A partner/shareholder with Smith & Kotchka since 1982, Smith was a field attorney with the NLRB from 1974-1977 and was in-house labor counsel for the Nevada Resort Association from 1979-1981. Smith has extensive experience in advising and representing management in traditional labor law matters, including unfair labor practice proceedings, union organizing campaigns, contract negotiations, arbitrations, and state and federal court injunction proceedings involving union strikes and picketing. In addition to his traditional labor law experience, Smith has litigated extensively in federal and state courts, as well as before administrative agencies, in the areas of wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, and wage and hour disputes. Smith was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America and in Nevada Super Lawyers for Labor and Employment Law.

Malani L. Kotchka, also a partner/shareholder with Smith & Kotchka since 1982, has represented employers for 30 years in all aspects of labor and employment law. Kotchka was previously an associate at Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where she litigated before the NLRB and other federal and state administrative agencies, in federal and state courts, and represented management in union organizing campaigns, union contract negotiations, arbitrations and strike injunctions. At Smith & Kotchka, Kotchka has represented both public and private sector employers. During her legal career, Kotchka has represented employers before the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Department of Labor, the Nevada Employee-Management Relations Board, the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kotchka has also developed a strong practice in employment advice and safety and industrial insurance compensation matters before Nevada hearing officers, appeals officers, regulatory agencies, the OSHA Review Board and courts, where she represents only employers. She was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America and in Nevada Super Lawyers for Labor and Employment Law.

Smith and Kotchka join a team that includes Laura Thalacker, Of Counsel at Lionel Sawyer & Collins and a driving force in the Firm’s Employment and Labor Law Practice Group. As a litigator and employment law practitioner in Nevada since 1994, Thalacker’s practice with Lionel Sawyer & Collins has focused exclusively on representing employers in employment and labor law matters. Thalacker provides day-to-day compliance advice and training to employers on a wide range of workplace matters, drafts employment policies, handbooks, and contracts, and litigates employment and labor disputes before federal and state administrative agencies and courts.

Lionel Sawyer & Collins represents a variety of large and small businesses in employment and labor matters before all Nevada, federal and state courts and various administrative agencies. Since 2003 Chambers USA has consistently rated the firm as one of the top labor and employment firms in Nevada.

08-30-2007

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Lindquist & Vennum PLLP

2007 Summer Associate Program a Success
Lindquist & Vennum's Summer Associate Program, offered in our Minneapolis office, is intentionally small—seven to nine students—but is an integral part of our hiring process. In fact, offers were extended to all nine of our 2007 summer associates and all have decided to join the firm in 2008.

To ensure summer associate exposure to various legal matters, during the first half of the summer we assign work from many of the firm's practice areas. During the second half of the program, Summer Associates solicit projects on their own, just as associates do.

Summer associates are encouraged to attend depositions, motion hearings, trials, negotiating sessions, client meetings and closings.

We attempt to give each summer associate as much feedback as possible. The summer associate receives an oral evaluation and a written evaluation on each project. These evaluations are discussed with the summer associate during two formal performance evaluations.

Because a lawyer's ability to communicate through writing is crucial to success in the practice of law, we offer a writing program. Each associate is assigned a writing program mentor. Three initial writing assignments are critiqued for organizational abilities, style and composition.

Involvement with assignments and meetings does not preclude social activities which include both cultural and sporting events. Two associate mentors help acquaint each summer associate with other members of the firm and with the Twin Cities.

08-30-2007

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