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Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP celebrates Centennial by donating $100,000 to charities in three states
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP will cap off the year-long celebration of its centennial in December with the partners donating $100,000 to charity. The firm will award centennial grants to 12 charities at a series of receptions at their offices in Providence, Boston, MA, and Concord, NH.

“These centennial grants are our way of giving back to the communities we serve and showing how grateful we are to have reached such a significant milestone in our firm’s history,” said Michael P. DeFanti, Managing Partner of Hinckley, Allen & Snyder. “For 100 years, we’ve had the privilege of serving clients throughout New England, and we felt that donating to charity was the most appropriate way to celebrate.”

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder has chosen to focus their donations on community-based organizations that are committed to addressing critical issues related to children. Because all of the charities the firm chose are small organizations with big goals, they felt that their grants were likely to make a significant impact for the children these charities serve.

The Rhode Island charities receiving centennial grants from Hinckley, Allen & Snyder are:

* Institute for the Study and Practice of Non-Violence, whose mission addresses potentially violate situations through a streetworker program that helps gang members and school dropouts mediate disputes.
* Kid’s Café Program of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, an organization that serves wholesome evening meals to children at risk of hunger.
* Louie’s Place, an academic and social support program for youth ages 6 to 16 through its after school and summer day camp programs.
* A Wish Come True, Inc., an organization that grants wishes to children ages 3 to 18 who have life-threatening illnesses and live in Rhode Island and areas of Southeastern Massachusetts.

In Massachusetts, centennial grants will be presented to:

* CASPAR Youth Services, whose mission provides comprehensive substance abuse prevention and intervention services in the Cambridge and Somerville public schools.
* The Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts, an advocacy for indigent children who are abused, neglected, runaways, delinquent, or have special education or mental health needs.
* Christmas in the City, an organization that supports and mentors Boston’s homeless families, including work to help families make a successful transition from homelessness to independent living.
* Cornerstones Residential Program, a program that provides 24-hour mental health treatment, behavior modification, crisis intervention, family stabilization and group-based milieu treatment for children ages 6 to 13.

In New Hampshire, centennial grants will go to:

* CASA of New Hampshire (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children), an advocacy for the interests of abused and neglected children in the New Hampshire court system.
* Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, a program that will use the grant to provide 100 pre-paid room nights at David’s House so that indigent parents with children in the neo-natal intensive care unit can stay nearby.
* The Rolfe and Rumford Home, whose mission provides safe and protective shelter for girls 6 to 18.
* Summerbridge Manchester, a Breakthrough Program at The Derryfield School that provides a year-round, tuition-free academic program for promising students with limited economic means and opportunities from the Manchester, NH, school district.

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder started out in Providence as Green, Hinckley & Allen on January 1, 1906. Numerous mergers and name changes later, the full-service law firm has over 120 attorneys serving businesses and individuals throughout New England. Many well-known Rhode Island names have graced the firm’s roster of lawyers, including two who later served as governor and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, Theodore F. Greene and John H. Chafee. Several of the firm’s attorneys have moved on to serve as judges in the Rhode Island court system. In 1984, the firm expanded into Boston and in 2001 an office was opened in Concord, NH.

12-01-2006

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Groom Law Group, Chartered

IRS Waives Reporting of 409A Deferrals for 2006, But 2005 and 2006 Violations of 409A Trigger Last Minute Reporting and Withholding Obligations
the IRS announced in Notice 2006-100 that employers will not be required to report on 2006 Forms W-2 (or 1099-MISC) amounts deferred in 2006 that are subject to Code section 409A. However, the IRS decided not to waive reporting of section 409A violations that occurred in 2006 or 2005 or the withholding requirements related to 2006 violations.

12-01-2006

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Graham and Dunn

Graham & Dunn Announces First Annual 1L Diversity Fellowship
Graham & Dunn is committed to the growth of diversity in our firm and in the local legal community. We believe that a diverse work force enhances the services we provide our clients and creates a better work environment for our attorneys and staff. In an effort to increase the diversity represented in our firm, and in the legal community as a whole, the firm is pleased to announce the first annual Graham& Dunn 1L Diversity Fellowship. The fellowship recipient will receive a paid summer clerkship at Graham & Dunn and a $7500 scholarship to be applied to the law student's second year tuition.

12-01-2006

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Flynn, Gaskins & Bennett, LLP

Seven Attorneys Named Rising Stars for 2007
MSP Communications has announced its list of Rising Stars for 2007. Rising Stars are recognized as up-and-coming lawyers who are under 40 years old, or are over 40 but have been practicing law for ten or fewer years. The list of 2007 Rising Stars is published in the December/January 2007 issue of Minnesota Law & Politics, and the December, 2006 issues of Twin Cities Business Monthly and Mpls/St.Paul magazines.

Only 2.5% of attorneys in Minnesota made the list. Ballots were mailed to all of the current Super Lawyers in Minnesota.

2007 FGB Rising Stars are:

* Wendy M. Canaday
* Andrea D. Kiehl
* Kelly Moffitt
* Andrew Noel
* Daniel Sacco
* Lori D. Semke
* Rob Vaccaro

12-01-2006

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Downey Brand LLP

Downey Brand expands family law practice
Meredith L. Mahan joined the firm's family law practice. She received her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2002 and her B.S. from the University of Oregon in 1998. Prior to joining Downey Brand, Mahan was a solo practitioner of the Law Office of Meredith L. Mahan.

12-01-2006

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Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC

A Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of a family practice specialist represented by Kent Mathewson and Nick Lopuszynski.
After nearly two weeks of trial before Judge Irwin Solganick, the jury rejected the plaintiff’s request for $4.75 million. The patient had chronic vascular disease and had suffered an above the knee amputation of his leg as well as a stroke which left him without the ability to speak or use his right arm. The plaintiffs, the patient and his wife, had alleged that the defendant physician failed to properly monitor the vascular disease and the threatened status of the lower limb, allowing the circulatory compromise to eventually require the amputation of the leg and cause a cerebral vascular accident.

12-01-2006

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Cummings & Lockwood LLC

Cummings & Lockwood LLC Elects Two New Principals
Cummings & Lockwood LLC is pleased to announce that Rani Newman Mathura and Heather J. Rhoades have been named principals of the Firm effective January 1, 2007.

Rani Newman Mathura joined Cummings & Lockwood as an associate in the Vero Beach, Florida office and later moved to its Greenwich, Connecticut office where she is a member of the Private Clients Group. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, her J.D. from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, and her LL.M. in Estate Planning from the University of Miami. Prior to joining the firm, Rani was the probate staff attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Her trusts and estates practice includes estate planning, estate and trust administration and probate litigation. Rani is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Florida, New York and Michigan.

Rani is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association (where she serves on the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee and as a co-chair of the Estates & Tax Section), the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the Florida Bar, the Michigan Bar Association and the American Bar Association (where she serves as a member of the ABA President’s Special Committee on Disaster Preparedness). Rani is also a member of the Junior League of Greenwich. In addition, she is active on the Board of Directors for Audubon Greenwich and is chair of its Development Committee. Rani was a 2002 recipient of the Connecticut Law Tribune’s New Leaders of the Law, Advocacy of the Law Award for coordinating the ABA/FEMA hotline for victims of the September 11th disaster and a 2006 recipient of ABA Star of the Year Award for her work with victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Heather J. Rhoades is an attorney in the West Hartford Private Clients Group. Heather concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate settlement, trust administration and probate litigation.

Heather is a frequent speaker on estate and tax planning issues and has authored a number of articles focusing on various estate planning subjects. Heather participated in the first annual Senior Citizens’ Law Day at Quinnipiac Law School as a speaker on the topic of estate planning techniques.

Heather received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut and her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Heather now serves as a mentor for UConn law students in their first year.

Heather is admitted to practice in Connecticut. She is a member of the American, Connecticut and Hartford County Bar Associations. She is also a member of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and a member of the state and federal estate tax sub-committee of this Section. In addition, Heather is a member of the Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford and the Greater Hartford Probate Forum.

Heather resides in Glastonbury with her husband, Jonathan Morton.

12-01-2006

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