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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Douglas W. Dahl Joins Lathrop & Gage as an Associate
Joel Voran, CEO of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced today Douglas W. Dahl has joined the Kansas City office as an associate in the wealth strategies and employee benefits law groups.

Dahl’s practice focuses on the preparation of estate planning instruments including wills, revocable trusts, durable powers of attorney for financial matters and durable powers of attorney for health care and living wills. He also advises clients regarding business succession planning. His employee benefits practice includes assisting clients with the design, implementation and administration of retirement plans, as well as non-qualified plans and other deferred compensation alternatives.

Dahl most recently received his LL.M. in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2007 with distinction. He also received a certificate in Employee Benefits while at Georgetown. He received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 2002 and his juris doctorate from Samford University, Cumberland School of Law in 2006. While in law school, Dahl served as the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy and worked as an intern for the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service.

08-23-2007

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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Jason C. Parks Joins Lathrop & Gage as an Associate
Joel Voran, CEO of Lathrop & Gage announced today that Jason C. Parks has joined the Kansas City, Mo., office as an associate in the intellectual property practice area.

Parks’ practice has been focused on intellectual property litigation at the Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy P.C. firm since 2005. He received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1998 and his juris doctorate from University of Kansas School of Law in 2003.

Parks is a member of The Missouri Bar, Kansas Bar Association and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Lawyers Association of Kansas City, Young Lawyers Division. He is also Director and Organizer of Youth Empowerment Summit.

08-23-2007

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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Robert J. Bruchman Joins Lathrop & Gage as an Associate
Joel Voran, CEO of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced today that Robert J. Bruchman has joined the Kansas City, Mo. office as an associate in the corporate practice area.

Bruchman focuses his practice on representing businesses of virtually every size from publicly held corporations to small, closely held private companies and individuals in national franchise offerings, general corporate counseling, trade secret and non-compete agreements, complex contractual agreements, asset purchase agreements, aviation agreements, separation agreements for fortune 500 executives, mergers & acquisitions, business entity formation and international business transactions.

Bruchman received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2001 and his juris doctorate from the University of Kansas in 2004. He received the CALI Award for Highest Grade in Contracts II and was named Spears Scholar for Academic Achievement. Bruchman was a member of the University of Kansas Honors Program and was named an Ambassador for the University of Kansas.

08-23-2007

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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Jehan Kamil Joins Lathrop & Gage as an Associate
Joel Voran, CEO of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced today that Jehan Kamil has joined the Overland Park, Kan. office as an associate in the business disputes law group.

Kamil’s practice focuses on business disputes in the business litigation division. She served as a research attorney for the Honorable Patrick D. McAnany, Kansas Court of Appeals for the last two years.

Kamil received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2002 and her juris doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2005. She is a member of the Sam A. Crow American Inn of Court, the Women Attorney’s Association of Topeka and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.

08-23-2007

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Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP

JMBM Negotiates New Home For California State Automobile Association
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP (JMBM), one of California's foremost full-service law firms, has announced that a team comprised of their Real Estate, Corporate, Finance, Tax and Land Use attorneys advised the California State Automobile Association (CSAA) in their negotiations for a site near Walnut Creek, California for the relocation of their headquarters in San Francisco.

The JMBM team, led by Martin H. "Marty" Orlick, helped negotiate for CSAA a 255,000 square-foot, six-story build-to-suit lease with a purchase option, with Equity Office Properties, which was acquired earlier this year by Blackstone Group, L.P.

"This is a visionary move by CSAA," said Orlick who specializes in complex real estate transactions. "The move will better enable them to operate like the forward-thinking company they are."

The transaction required expertise involving leasing, tax, land use, construction, and finance. Construction on the 255,000-square-foot building near a BART transit station is scheduled to begin early in 2008 and be

08-23-2007

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Haskell, Slaughter, Young & Gallion, L.L.C.

HASKELL SLAUGHTER’S HORTON TO SPEAK ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO PHYSICIAN SELF-REFERRAL LAW
William W. Horton, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, will be a panelist on a continuing education webinar entitled “Major Fraud and Abuse Changes: How Medicare Proposes to Change the Way You Do Business”. The Web-based educational program, sponsored by DecisionHealth, a leading provider of educational services and publications to the healthcare industry, will be presented at 11:00 – 12:30 CDT on Wednesday, August 29. The panelists will discuss the potential of recent proposals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to make significant changes in the “Stark Law” regulations governing physicians’ financial relationships with other healthcare providers. For more information or to register for the program, visit http://www.decisionhealth.com/conferences/A1355/home.html.

ABOUT WILLIAM W. HORTON

Bill Horton currently serves as Chair of Haskell Slaughter’s Transactional Practice Group and leads the firm’s healthcare practice. A nationally recognized speaker and author on healthcare, corporate and securities law, and professional responsibility topics, Mr. Horton has held leadership positions for several years with the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section. His primary professional focus is on the representation of healthcare providers and other business enterprises, particularly in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance law, regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters. With substantial experience in both private practice and as senior legal officer for a large public company, Mr. Horton has been involved in some of the largest corporate finance and acquisition transactions in the healthcare services industry, and is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” for Health Care Law.

08-23-2007

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring Pro Bono: DC Appleseed Urges New Direction For District Of Columbia’s Child Support System
The District of Columbia’s child support system is failing tens of thousands of District children. In 2006, more than 76,000 children (under age 18) were part of the child support system – more kids than are enrolled in the D.C. Public Schools and charter schools combined. But the system is not living up to its promise for three out of four District children on its caseload. At least 58,000 children eligible for support received no money at all.

In light of these circumstances, at the invitation of the D.C. Office of Attorney General, DC Appleseed, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP, conducted a two-year investigation of the system to examine the roots of the District government’s child support crisis.

The investigation concludes that the District’s child support model is primarily a punitive one designed to identify and sanction “deadbeat dads” when, based on the demographics of the District, it needs a constructive model designed to assist “dead broke dads” to meet their financial and other parental obligations.

DC Appleseed found that despite modest improvements in the District’s child support program, the city continues to fall significantly below the national average on key indicators including: rates of establishing child support orders; collecting on past-due child support payments: establishing paternity; and cost effectiveness.

The report includes several recommendations to improve the current situation. Primarily, the District’s child support system should use the leverage it has to help parents overcome the barriers they face to paying child support, whether those barriers are related to employment, criminal justice involvement, immigration or family relationships. In short, the child support office of the Attorney General should move from sometimes being an inflexible and punitive agency to one that is a resource for families and children.

With the appropriate commitment, the District and the courts can significantly improve the performance of the child support system. The recommendations contained in the report are but a first step. DC Appleseed is prepared to assist in implementation of the recommendations in the report and to join with District leaders, the courts, community-based organizations and others in this important effort.

A full version of the report, Taking Care of the District’s Children: The Need to Reform D.C.’s Child Support System, is available at www.dcappleseed.org.

The Crowell & Moring LLP team included Marc F. Efron, John E. McCarthy, Jr., Shauna E. Alonge, Linda S. Bruggeman, Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, and Denise O. Giardina.

08-23-2007

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