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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright International Arbitration Advisor Chairs CANACO Editorial Board
Fulbright international arbitration advisor Aníbal Sabater has been appointed to serve as one of the chairs of the CANACO (Mediation and Arbitration Commission of the Mexico City National Chamber of Commerce) editorial board.

In this role, Sabater will help oversee the newsletter published by CANACO and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). The publication is distributed to over 4,000 arbitration practitioners across Latin America.

Sabater joined Fulbright in 2003. He is a licensed lawyer in the United States and Spain, where he obtained his Ph.D. and practiced law for more than six years in Madrid. He has been involved in various international litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution matters. He has also been involved in cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. His practice includes advising parties on appropriate dispute methodologies and conflict of laws issues. He is fluent in English, Spanish and German.

CANACO is the Mediation and Arbitration Commission of the Mexico City National Chamber of Commerce. The non-profit organization’s goal is helping businesses grow and develop, including the goal of providing businesspeople with effective ways to solve their commercial disputes.

12-05-2006

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Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P.

Employment and Business Immigration Attorney Joins Dorsey & Whitney Seattle
The global law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP today announced that Carllene M. Placide has joined the firm’s Seattle office as a partner in the Employment group. Placide will concentrate her practice on employment litigation, employment counsel, and business-based immigration matters.

Placide has been a shareholder in the Seattle law firm of Foster Pepper, PLLC since 2006 and an associate from 2003 to 2005. Previously, she was an associate at the Seattle office of Lane Powell, PC.

Placide is experienced in a broad range of employment issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge litigation, and statutory and regulatory compliance advice. Her clients include municipalities, financial institutions, a leading sporting goods retailer, large grocery store chains, and various private employers. Placide also has extensive experience representing companies on business immigration matters concerning non-immigrant and immigration status, visas, and employer sanctions imposed under federal immigration law.

Bryce Holland, partner-in-charge of the Dorsey & Whitney Seattle office, said: “Carllene is a superior employment and immigration lawyer, with a strong combination of litigation and compliance experience. Her abilities will help support the employment implications of our global practices, as well our general employment counsel in Seattle and throughout the Puget Sound region.”

Placide received her J.D. from Seattle University Law School, and her B.S. from Cornell University.

12-05-2006

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Buchanan-Klett Merger Called 'Biggest Law Firm Story in PA
The 2006 merger of Buchanan Ingersoll and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling was cited in a November 29, 2006, article in The Legal Intelligencer about the trend toward mergers in the legal business landscape.

"We’ve seen two large Pittsburgh-based firms, Buchanan Ingersoll and Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, merge in what has arguably been the biggest law firm story so far this year in Pennsylvania," said The Legal Intelligencer in an article headlined "Law Firm Mergers Change the Legal Landscape."

The article also noted that Buchanan Ingersoll had been the 11th-largest firm in the state, and Klett Rooney was 23rd, but post-merger, the combined firm is the state's fourth-largest.

12-05-2006

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

Dettelbach Selected by Ohio Governor-Elect to Transition Team
Partner Steve Dettelbach has been selected by Ohio Governor-elect Ted Strickland and Transition Chair, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, to be a Strickland-Fisher Transition team leader.

The leaders will convene state government review teams to evaluate current practices and report their findings to the new administration. Dettelbach was selected to be a member of the Ethics Transition Team and will head the group reviewing the Ohio Ethics Commission.

Said Coleman: "We are excited about the committed and talented leaders from across our state who have agreed to head up these government review teams. They will evaluate what our state is doing right and where we can improve, and report their findings to Governor-elect Strickland to help guide his administration.

12-05-2006

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

Maxman Presents to U.S. China Legal Exchange on Anti-Monopoly and Partnership Law
partner Melissa Maxman gave a presentation to the U.S. China Legal Exchange on Anti-Monopoly and Partnership Law at the City Club of Cleveland.

Maxman’s presentation on "Abuse of Dominant Position" compared the U.S. monopolization laws to those now proposed for passage in the People’s Republic of China.

Along with other presenters from the U.S. and Chinese governments, and private practitioners from the United States, Maxman represented the firm as a speaker as part of Baker Hostetler’s sponsorship of the day-long event. Other sponsors included the U.S. Department of Commerce, FedEx, and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.

12-05-2006

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Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

TUCKER ARENSBERG ATTORNEY NAMED SHAREHOLDER
The law firm of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. announced that Brett A. Solomon has been named a Shareholder.

Brett concentrates his practice in the areas of creditors’ rights and real estate transactions. He has represented a wide variety of clients including national financial institutions, alternative mortgage lenders in secondary market transactions, corporations, commercial landlords and tenants and individuals.

Brett graduated from the University of Maryland in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an Area of Interest in Economics. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1999.

Tucker Arensberg is a 70-attorney law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh and with offices in Moon Township and Harrisburg. The firm concentrates in general business law practice, banking, insolvency and creditors' rights, estates and trusts, litigation, technology and intellectual property, environmental law, labor and employment, health care, real estate, government relations, school and municipal law and workers' compensation.

12-05-2006

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Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky Attorneys At Law

Family to be awarded $500,000 in VA case Widow wins settlement in corrupt cancer study, but 6 others kept waiting
The federal government agreed to pay $500,000 to settle the first of seven federal lawsuits brought by the widows of veterans who died in a corrupt cancer research program at Stratton VA Medical Center Hospital, the Times Union has learned.

The six other widows, who still have lawsuits pending against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, are finding the government less willing to admit their husbands were used as guinea pigs in the tainted drug studies.

The Justice Department has not agreed to settle the remaining cases, in part because it's never been determined -- or publicly disclosed -- that more than one veteran died as a result of the corruption. The government's position has been that the men had advanced stages of cancer, so it is impossible to determine what killed them, attorneys in the case said.

But in at least one case it was clear, and Justice Department lawyers recently settled with the family of that victim, James J. DiGeorgio, a 71-year-old Air Force veteran from Brunswick who died at Stratton in June 2001. The settlement comes a little more than a year after a former hospital researcher, Paul H. Kornak, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for his role in the scandal.

VA officials and federal prosecutors have portrayed Kornak as an out-of-control researcher who forged medical records to push cancern-stricken patients into drug studies that allegedly paid the hospital thousands of dollars. But attorneys for the families and people familiar with the hospital's operation contend the corruption was widespread and Kornak was following orders from oncology doctors.

At his sentencing, Kornak said he was a scapegoat. His conviction exposed deep problems at the hospital, where he masqueraded as a doctor despite flunking out of medical school, and was hired despite a felony criminal conviction in Pennsylvania in 1992 for forging a medical license application.

The scandal triggered nationwide efforts by Congress to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs' hiring practices and embattled research programs. Many widows have dismissed the government's assertions that Kornak acted alone.

Attorneys for the widows recently obtained permission to depose Kornak at an Ohio prison, giving the public an opportunity to hear Kornak's story, contained in sealed files kept by the Justice Department, which has declined to prosecute anyone else.

An assistant U.S. attorney in Massachusetts declined comment on the settlement last week, saying it has not been publicly filed. The criminal investigation was handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Albany.

Mary Snavlin, DiGeorgio's daughter, said her family's settlement doesn't bring any closure.

"The families that are out there waiting for their due, they need to get that," she said. "The Justice Department, the VA, the doctors, the non-doctors, they need to own up for what they did to all of the veterans. They need to say 'OK, we did this,' and whether it's 5 cents or $2 million, they need to understand that families are still hurting over this. It will never go away."

In January, the DiGeorgio family filed a motion saying their case should be settled because there was no dispute that his death was caused by experimental drugs that he should never have been given. Settlement talks began the following month.

"We have several other family members of victims to deal with," said Alan C. Milstein, an attorney for plaintiffs in the case, including the DiGeorgio family. "The difference between DiGeorgio and the others is that Mr. DiGeorgio was the one victim the government used in the prosecution (of Kornak) to basically say it was akin to manslaughter."

Many of the remaining widows have said the litigation is not about money. They contend it's about getting answers to why their husbands were used as experiments and in making sure it doesn't happen again.

Milstein said the quandary in their cases is convincing the government that it is indefensible to argue the men would have died anyway because they all had advanced cancer. Kornak admitted forging their medical backgrounds so they could be enrolled in the drug studies, where they were given drugs that may have worsened their conditions and hastened their deaths.

"It's always been my position that when somebody is used and abused the way these people were, that's what I call damage to their human dignity," Milstein said.

Hospital officials have denied a widespread coverup and instead placed blame on Kornak, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of negligent homicide and falsifying medical records.

Kornak posed as a doctor at Stratton, including carrying the title "M.D." on his VA-issued business cards and being introduced to patients as "doctor" even though he never finished medical school. His supervisors knew about his lack of credentials.

In all, Kornak is accused of undermining at least four major research studies involving dozens of veterans and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The hospital earned thousands of dollars for each patient enrolled in the programs, in which pharmaceutical companies tested new drugs on cancer patients to obtain approval for them from the Food and Drug Administration.

Over the summer, attorneys for the plaintiffs obtained permission from a federal magistrate to depose Kornak at Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio.

At his sentencing in November 2005, Kornak apologized for his crimes but told a judge he was "used" by the hospital's former cancer research director, James A. Holland, who was fired along with Kornak shortly after the scandal broke about four years ago.

No one else, including Holland, has been charged in the case. Holland now works in a cancer research program at a Georgia hospital. A federal review of his research credentials is pending.

12-05-2006

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