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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Lathrop & Gage Named Best Law Firm in Kansas City by Ingram's
Readers of Ingram's magazine voted Lathrop & Gage L.C. "Best Law Firm" in Kansas City.

The recognition is part of the magazine's annual “Best of Business” section, which seeks to identify regional companies that “consistently offer products and services of the highest quality.” Stinson Morrison Hecker and Lathrop & Gage tied for first place.

The magazine highlighted Lathrop & Gage’s size and history. The firm has nearly 300 attorneys in 10 offices nationwide.

"Best of Business 2007" appears in the August issue of Ingram's.

08-21-2007

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Lathrop & Gage LLP

Josh C. Snider Joins Lathrop & Gage as Of Counsel
Joel Voran, CEO of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced today that Josh C. Snider has joined the Boulder, Co. office as of counsel in the intellectual property transactional group.

Snider’s experience includes all levels of transnational patent prosecution and litigation; all levels of trademark prosecution and litigation; and copyright prosecution and litigation. Snider’s practice has also included all levels of representation in general civil litigation cases as well as administrative law advocacy before the U.S. Social Security Administration and Illinois Department of Employment Security.

Snider received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998 and his juris doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, in 1999.

Snider’s memberships include Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Audio Engineering Society.

08-21-2007

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Harris Beach LLC

Deirdre L. Hay Named Managing Editor of Antitrust Law Journal
The law firm of Harris Beach PLLC is pleased to announce that attorney Dr. Deirdre L. Hay of Ithaca (effective August 1, 2007), was named Managing Editor of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Journal, recognized internationally as one of the leading law reviews devoted exclusively to antitrust law. The Antitrust Law Journal publishes original articles and essays on significant current issues of antitrust and trade regulation law, selected programs and papers from the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section meetings, certain Section reports, symposiums, resolutions, and comments, and other materials of benefit to the bar.

Dr. Hay, who practices in Harris Beach’s Ithaca office, has considerable experience in a broad range of antitrust counseling, transactional, and litigation matters. She also represents financial institutions in all aspects of banking and real estate transactions. Dr. Hay serves on the Harris Beach Financial Institutions & Capital Markets Industry Team and practices in the firm’s Commercial Real Estate and Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Groups.

Dr. Hay holds a Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD) from the University of Sydney, Australia, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Harris Beach in 2006, Dr. Hay practiced antitrust and energy deregulation law in the United States and trade practices and intellectual property law in Australia. She has represented international clients before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Dr. Hay has also published various law journal articles on topics relating to antitrust, trade practices and intellectual property issues and given seminar presentations on these subjects. The title of her doctoral thesis is “A Comparative Analysis of Unilateral Effects from Mergers of Firms Offering Differentiated Products: Australia and the United States.” The thesis has been accepted for publication as a book with Vandeplas Publishing.

Dr. Hay is a member of the American Bar Association and its Antitrust Law Section, Tompkins County Bar Association, and is a founding member of the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”). She serves as a Director of WBASNY. She was awarded the Donald McCredie Fellowship in 1996 (a fellowship honoring Donald McCredie, a judge in New South Wales, Australia). She has served on the Executive Board of the Cornell University Campus Club. While living in Washington, D.C., she was a board member and membership officer for the Australians in Washington Association.

08-21-2007

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Bingham McCutchen, LLP

Bingham Expands Labor and Employment Group in San Francisco
Bingham McCutchen LLP announces the arrival of Walter Stella as a partner in the San Francisco office. Stella joins Bingham’s Labor and Employment Practice Group from Shook Hardy & Bacon. The firm also announces the appointment of Silicon Valley partner Wendy Lazerson as co-leader of the labor and employment group.

Having focused almost exclusively on employment issues in his 15-year career, Stella has built a successful practice that focuses on both employment litigation and counseling. He has represented clients in a wide range of employment matters, including wage-and-hour class actions, harassment and discrimination suits, and trade-secret theft. Stella has developed an excellent reputation as an employment lawyer in the Bay Area legal community, representing a variety of local high-tech companies in employment counseling and litigation.

“The addition of Walter further bolsters our strong labor and employment practice,” said San Francisco partner David Balabanian, chair of Bingham’s litigation area. “With 50 lawyers, our labor and employment group is already effective, and Walter will make it even stronger." Bingham’s labor and employment group provides a full range of labor, employment and benefit services to large multinational companies as well as to small businesses.

“Walter has proven himself to be an energetic and ambitious lawyer with a growing practice,” added San Francisco Managing Partner Geoff Howard. “He is a good match for our office.”

For Stella, the attraction to Bingham was the caliber of its employment and labor practice, the group’s synergy with other key practices as well as the firm’s national and international reach and momentum.

“I’m excited to add to Bingham’s employment and litigation bench strength and see great opportunities with the firm’s financial institutions and life sciences client base, as well as its Pacific Rim practice. It’s a great time to join this firm on the move,” said Stella, who is actively involved in the Northern California Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He is a 1990 graduate of Cornell Law School.

In addition to Stella’s arrival, Bingham announces the appointment of Silicon Valley partner Wendy Lazerson co-leader of the labor and employment group, replacing Los Angeles partner Debra Fischer, who assumed the role of deputy chair of Bingham’s litigation area.

In her more than 20-year career in employment law, Lazerson has advised employers on the particularities of California and federal law in all matters related to the workplace. She also has represented employers in class action and other litigation, arbitration and mediation of claims arising in the workplace.

“I am delighted to assume a leadership role at this exciting time for Bingham's labor and employment group,” Lazerson said. “Our group is in a growth mode. We are working on sophisticated mergers and acquisitions at one end of the spectrum, while being fully engaged in high-stakes class action work, and doing everything in between.”

Lazerson added that Stella is “an excellent addition” to the group and the San Francisco office. “In addition to being an entrepreneurial lawyer, he is dedicated to mentoring our associates, a quality we value. I look forward to continued growth and development of our talented team.”

08-21-2007

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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

Womble Carlyle Named 2007 Best Law Firm for Women by Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC today announced it has been named as one of the top "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother magazine and Flex Time Lawyers LLC. A new initiative from the leading advocates for work-life balance and women-friendly policies, Best Law Firms for Women honored 50 winning firms for their commitment to the retention and advancement of female talent.

Working Mother magazine selected law firms based on survey data collected earlier this year by Flex-Time Lawyers LLC and Working Mother Media. For this inaugural survey, Working Mother measured firms on a variety of factors, including representation of women in leadership positions, compensation and benefits, parental leave, childcare, flexibility options, treatment of women staff as well as women lawyers, and programs to help train, retain and advance women.

"We are honored to be recognized for this award by Working Mother magazine," said Gloria Agard, Womble Carlyle's Director of Diversity and Workplace Initiatives. "Womble Carlyle strives to create a healthy work/life balance for all of its attorneys and employees and we are proud to be set apart in this area."

Womble Carlyle will be profiled in the August/September issue of Working Mother magazine, and the firm will be honored at a special awards event on September 24, 2007.

"Since its founding, Working Mother magazine has been the champion of progressive, women-friendly changes in the workplace," said Carol Evans, CEO, Working Mother Media. "Every year we see substantive advances in companies' policies across the country, and we are so excited to be able to pair with Flex-Time Lawyers to celebrate change in a field that has historically struggled to support women and their life choices. I commend Womble Carlyle for taking the lead for women lawyers.

08-21-2007

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Thompson Hine LLP

Thompson Hine Continues to Get High Marks From Associates
For the third year in a row, Thompson Hine LLP has been ranked among the top 40 firms nationally in The American Lawyer’s annual job satisfaction survey of midlevel associates.

More than 7,000 associates from nearly 200 firms participated in the survey, which interviews associates in their third, fourth or fifth year. The survey rates firms on 11 areas of midlevel associates’ job satisfaction, including interest level in and satisfaction with their work, training and guidance, compensation and benefits and the inclination to stay at the firm at least two more years.

“Associate satisfaction is very important to Thompson Hine,” says Nancy Barnes, chair of the firm’s New Lawyer Committee. “Our rankings in this survey show that our efforts in attracting and retaining great associates are paying off.”

For more details on the survey, including methodology, go to www.americanlawyer.com.

Associates and others interested in Thompson Hine can find more information about joining the firm at www.thompsonhine.com/careers/associates/.

08-21-2007

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McAfee & Taft A Professional Corporation

Bernard Jones Selected to Serve on ACS Government Relations Committee
Bernard Jones, an attorney with the law firm of McAfee & Taft, has been selected to serve on the American Cancer Society Government Relations Committee for the High Plains Division, a six-state area including Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

As a member of the committee, Jones will assist in the decision-making process for advocacy issues that impact the American Cancer Society. These issues range from general health care issues to tobacco laws and breast and colon cancer screening.

For Jones, a lawyer with a keen interest in the legal issues surrounding governmental relations and lobbying, the decision to serve was an easy one. “My grandmother has beat breast cancer twice, so cancer prevention and policy is something that has affected me personally,” he said. “I’m proud to be part of a team that intends to do something about the suffering and death caused by cancer. It will be a great opportunity to serve and make a difference.”

The Oklahoma City native is a graduate of Bishop McGuiness High School, Southern Methodist University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. Jones worked as a litigation associate with an Ohio law firm for two years before returning to Oklahoma and joining McAfee & Taft, the state’s largest law firm, in 2006. His practice currently encompasses the areas of general/commercial litigation, as well as labor and employment, family law and products liability litigation.

The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by saving lives, diminishing suffering and preventing cancer through research, education, advocacy and service. Founded in 1913 and with national headquarters in Atlanta, the Society has 13 regional Divisions and local offices in 3,400 communities, involving millions of volunteers across the United States.

08-21-2007

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