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O'Melveny & Myers, LLP

O'MELVENY & MYERS REPRESENTS AFFILIATES OF CCMP CAPITAL AND GS CAPITAL PARTNERS IN $4.7B MERGER WITH TRIAD HOSPITALS
O'Melveny & Myers recently represented affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors LLC, a leading private equity firm formed in August 2006 by the former buyout/growth equity investment team of JPMorgan Partners, and GS Capital Partners, in a $4.7 billion definitive merger agreement with Triad Hospitals, Inc.

The O'Melveny & Myers legal team who represented the affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners in the transaction included New York's Greg Gilbert, Harvey Eisenberg, Bill Kuesel, Steve Epstein, Dan Rubin, Cristina Buccola, and Michael Andrescavage on M&A/private equity matters; Los Angeles' George Demos and David Deaton on healthcare matters; New York's Greg Ezring, Sung Pak, and Ryan DeFord on financing matters; New York's Brad Okun on tax; and New York's Jeff Held on real estate matters.

02-05-2007

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright’s Public Finance Practice Ranked Among Nation’s 10 Best
Fulbright & Jaworski’s public finance practice ranks among the top practices in the nation in the three principal roles – bond counsel, underwriter counsel and disclosure counsel, according to Thomson Financial’s newly released rankings for 2006.

Fulbright’s national public finance practice includes more than 50 attorneys, who have represented virtually every type of participant in the municipal securities market. The firm regularly helps finance more than $15 billion in public infrastructure annually and has represented six of the nation’s 10 most populous cities on public finance matters.

“Our broad national experience in every facet of the municipal securities market, together with strong local presence on all three coasts, enables us to better serve our clients,” said Fredric Weber, head of Fulbright’s Public Finance and Administration Department. “With extensive experience representing state and local governments, underwriters, institutional investors, credit enhancers, investment contract providers and swap providers, our lawyers are better able to anticipate and accommodate the needs of other transaction participants while protecting our clients’ interests.”

Thomson Financial provides information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. Each year, Thomson Financial releases year-end rankings of those involved in the municipal marketplace, including public finance practices at law firms.

Based on dollar volume for long-term municipal issues, Thomson ranked Fulbright the nation’s 2nd top disclosure counsel, 6th best bond counsel in negotiated offerings, 7th top bond counsel in all offerings, and 8th top underwriters’ counsel.

Fulbright recently served as lead finance counsel to the New York Mets in an innovative financing of a new ballpark to replace Shea Stadium. The transaction was dubbed the “Deal of the Year” by the project finance community because of the uniqueness of the public-private partnership with The City of New York.

Fulbright also acted as bond counsel in a $2.3 billion financing of a 20-year supply of natural gas for municipal utilities located in Texas and elsewhere. The transaction was the third largest municipal securities issue nationally in 2006.

Additionally, Fulbright acts as disclosure counsel to the City of New York– considered the country’s largest municipal issuer. The firm also represented the underwriters in financing the new Dallas Cowboys football stadium and has served as bond counsel to the Houston-Harris County Sports Authority during its financings of Minute Maid Park, Reliant Stadium and Toyota Center in Houston. Fulbright frequently represents school boards, counties, municipalities, state agencies, special districts and authorities, and other issuers of municipal bonds.

Fulbright’s attorneys have helped to bridge the gap in the nation’s transportation network through innovative financing of toll roads, highways, airports, transit systems, ports, bridges and parking facilities. Fulbright is also representing the underwriters of one of the largest municipal securities issues in Texas— a $600 million offering for the Texas Transportation Commission.

Nationally, Fulbright’s public finance lawyers have assisted with more than 200 projects making up more than $45 billion in financings for publicly-owned electric generation and transmission facilities.

02-05-2007

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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Dewey Ballantine Represents Triad Hospitals in Its Agreement To Be Taken Private for $6.4 Billion
Dewey Ballantine LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that it represents Triad Hospitals, Inc. in its agreement to be taken private by affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners in a deal valued at approximately $6.4 billion.

The acquisition of all outstanding Triad common stock will be at a 16% premium to the closing price this past Friday. The attorneys working on the deal include partners Robert Myers, Greg Owens, Christopher Peterson, Morton Pierce, Michelle Rutta and Gordon Warnke, counsel Kenneth Barr, and associates Bonnie Diaz, Alain Genier, Steven Harrison, Timothy Knauff, Apryl Mathes and Oleksandr Shulzhenko.

Triad Hospitals has been a Dewey Ballantine client since its inception in 1999, when it was spun out by HCA Inc. along with LifePoint Hospitals utilizing a complex taxfree structure that the firm was integrally involved in designing and implementing. Throughout the past eight years, Dewey Ballantine has been counsel to Triad in the issuance of securities totaling more than $2.2 billion, bank finance transactions totaling more than $2.7 billion and M&A transactions totaling more than $2.3 billion. The firm has also represented Triad in various tax audit matters.

02-05-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorney Justin B. Wineburgh Discusses Artists’ Needs
Cozen O’Connor member Justin B. Wineburgh recently participated in a roundtable discussion on the topic of “Addressing Artists’ Needs” at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, N.J. Sponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the event brought attorneys from New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NJVLA) and members of the local arts and entertainment community together to discuss the rights and needs of artists in New Jersey. Wineburgh answered questions on copyright issues, personal appearances, public artwork displays and documentary filmmaking, among other topics.

Wineburgh practices from Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office and heads the film/video unit of the firm’s entertainment law practice area. He has a broad-based practice, representing clients in the film, television, music and sports industries in complex tort, commercial, defamation, privacy, corporate, employment and intellectual property matters. Wineburgh also represents writers, distributors, retailers, managers, agents, engineers, production companies and talent in a variety of capacities, including corporate and pre-litigation counseling. He has also successfully resolved numerous matters throughout the country through the use of alternate dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Wineburgh is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida, and before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Florida, Supreme Court of New Jersey and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. He has also been specially admitted to handle cases in New York, California, Illinois, Virginia, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan and the District of Columbia, as well as before the California Labor Commission.

Wineburgh is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Florida bar associations, young lawyers' division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, sports and entertainment law section of The Florida Bar, American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Judicature Society, Philadelphia VIP and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. He is active in numerous civic organizations, serves as a mentor to law students and newly admitted attorneys, and regularly handles pro bono matters for a variety of organizations.

Wineburgh was selected as a 2006 Pennsylvania "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by American Lawyer Media, which recognized 45 of the top lawyers and leaders of the legal community under the age of 40 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Moreover, in 2006, he received the Widener University School of Law Alumni Spotlight Honor, a distinction which recognizes the accomplishments of only four alumni of the law school each year. Finally, in December 2006, Wineburgh was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni of Lafayette College.

Wineburgh earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College (B.A., 1994) and his law degree from Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1997), where he was editor/administrative board member of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and a member of Phi Delta Phi, Harrington Inn, Honor Chapter. He served as a judicial intern to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and as a law clerk for the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

02-05-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie LLP Represents Dingess-Rum Properties, Inc. in Sale of Coal Reserves to Natural Resource Partners L.P.
Baker & McKenzie LLP announced today that it represented Dingess-Rum Properties, Inc., a West Virginia land company, in connection with the sale of approximately 92 million tons of coal and 33,700 acres of surface and timber to Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: NRP and NYSE: NSP). In return, Dingess-Rum received 2.4 million common units of NRP. The transaction closed on January 16, 2007. At closing, the transaction value was approximately $142 million.

The transaction was the culmination of a multi-year review of strategic alternatives by Dingess-Rum. Dingess-Rum was founded in 1903 and remains closely held by the descendants of its founding families. NRP is a publicly traded master limited partnership. As a result of the transaction, Dingess-Rum’s shareholders received a more liquid security in exchange for a portion of Dingess-Rum’s assets and will benefit from the larger pool of coal assets held by, and growth potential of, NRP. Dingess-Rum, with an office in Charleston, West Virginia, continues to hold other substantial assets and investments, including mineral properties in southern West Virginia.

Baker & McKenzie’s team was led by Chris Groobey and included Washington, D.C. corporate and securities associate Pamela Dayanim, Houston tax Partner Susan Stone and Houston tax associate Michael Snider.

“We are pleased to have worked with Dingess-Rum on this very important transaction for the company, its shareholders and employees. Dingess-Rum has always been dedicated to the economic development of West Virginia and, in selling these assets to NRP, has ensured the continuing stewardship of these assets by a company with operations headquartered in West Virginia,” said Chris Groobey, a project finance Partner in Baker & McKenzie’s Washington, D.C. office. “All employees of Dingess-Rum located in Logan County are now employed by NRP and will benefit from being associated with a large and growing company. Dingess-Rum’s shareholders and their descendants, meanwhile, will benefit from having the greater diversity of assets associated with owning a significant stake in NRP.”

Campbell Woods PLLC, led by Roy F. Layman in Huntington, West Virginia, acted as corporate and West Virginia counsel to Dingess-Rum in the transaction. NRP was represented by its General Counsel Wyatt Hogan and Caroline Blitzer of the Houston office of Vinson & Elkins LLP.

02-05-2007

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Flaster Greenberg

Attorney Abbe F. Fletman Co-Chairs American Bar Association’s “Memo to Outside Counsel: You’re Not Listening. Time to Get Serious About Diversity.”
Flaster/Greenberg shareholder Abbe F. Fletman will co-chair the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar program entitled “Memo to Outside Counsel: You're Not Listening. Time to Get Serious About Diveristy” on Friday, February 16, 2007, 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. This 25 th annual seminar will be held at the Amelia Island Plantation in Amelia Island, Florida from February 15 to 18, 2007.

The program will address efforts corporations employ to encourage outside counsel to commit to diversity in the legal profession, including requiring reporting on the number of women and minorities at firms, making decisions on new relationships based on diversity criteria and ending or limiting relationships with firms whose performance evidences a lack of meaningful interest in being diverse.

A Philadelphia lawyer, Fletman is head of the Litigation Section of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group.

02-05-2007

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Dow Lohnes PLLC

Dow Lohnes Congratulates Clients Antoine Bethea and T.J. Rushing of the Indianapolis Colts on Winning Super Bowl XLI
Dow Lohnes congratulates 2007 Super Bowl Champions Antoine Bethea and T.J. Rushing, along with their Indianapolis Colts teammates on their 29-17 victory against the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. Bethea, a first-year safety and sixth round draft pick from Howard University, had 4 tackles during the game, ranking third on the Colts in tackles. During the regular season, Bethea also ranked third on the Colts in both tackles and interceptions. Rushing is a rookie defensive back and seventh round NFL draft pick from Stanford University who has been a standout special teams performer.

02-05-2007

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