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Rider & Bennett, L.L.P.

BRATVOLD COORDINATING ATTORNEY MENTORING PROGRAM FOR EIGHTH CIRCUIT
The mentoring program presents a great opportunity to serve the bench and bar and will promote the Association goals of improving Eighth Circuit advocacy and the administration of justice," said Diane Bratvold, Director for Minnesota on the 8th Circuit Bar Association.

More than 20 Association members have already volunteered to participate in the Association’s planned mentoring program for attorneys newly admitted to practice before the Eighth Circuit.

For more information, please click on the PDF icon above and reference page 7 of the Association's November 2006 newsletter.

12-01-2006

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Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP

Pitney Hardin’s Employer’s Law Blog Listed as Resource on U.S. Department of Labor Web Site
Pitney Hardin is pleased to announced that the Employer’s Law Blog has recently been listed as a resource on the U.S. Department of Labor’s web site. It is one of only five blogs nationwide to be listed on the site within the Wirtz Labor Law Library’s “Law Tips Archive.”

“This is a fitting compliment to the quality content in our blog. We’ve only been live for six months, but we already have a wealth of topical employment law information, and we continue to grow in popularity,” explains Pitney Hardin partner and blog Editor-in-Chief Wendy Johnson Lario. “What makes the Employer’s Law Blog different is its business perspective. Our blog is designed for in-house counsel and HR professionals who want to keep up with pertinent developments.”

“Traffic on the blog has been consistently increasing since we launched in June 2006. We anticipate expanding the blog’s content to a include a northeast regional focus with the completion of the merger of Pitney Hardin LLP with Day, Berry & Howard LLP, and the formation of our new firm, Day Pitney LLP, effective January 1, 2007. Day, Berry & Howard’s strength in Boston, Connecticut, New York and Washington, D.C. will compliment Pitney Hardin’s status as a premier New Jersey and New York City law firm,” says Ms. Lario.

Over 30 attorneys strong, Pitney Hardin's Labor, Employment & Benefits practice is one of the region's most comprehensive. With the addition of talent from Day, Berry & Howard LLP, the Group will become stronger, with over 50 attorneys providing comprehensive, client-focused legal and business solutions for employers, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses from Boston to Washington D.C.

12-01-2006

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Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC

OF&P Attorney to Conduct IPIX Bankruptcy Liquidation Sale of Intellectual Property and Tangible Assets
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman attorney Don King will oversee the bankruptcy liquidation sale of intellectual property, office equipment and furnishings for IPIX Corporation.

Reston, Va. headquartered IPIX earned an international reputation for the quality of its high-resolution digital 360° video cameras and immersive still photography business. The company filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on July 31, and was granted the right to resume limited operations on Sept. 27 to generate revenue from sources including ipixstore.com.

World-wide interest in the bankruptcy filing and an earlier advertisement for the solicitation of bids for assets in October resulted in two high bidders who, unless other interested parties intervene, will grab and own the proverbial brass rings this December.

Two additional auctions are scheduled for Dec. 12 and 20 to determine the winning bidders for IPIX tangible assets plus the provisional patents for IPIX’s Gigapixel camera technology. Both will be held at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia at 200 Washington Street in Alexandria. According to King, the Chapter 7 trustee for the matter, motions to approve the sales to the highest bidders will be made immediately after the auctions’ conclusions.

The Dec. 12 auction, slated for 10 a.m., will focus on the sale of IPIX equipment and furniture. Those assets will be sold in bulk. The Dec. 20 auction will focus on the Gigapixel provisional patents and is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. The company’s Gigapixel camera technology was developed in conjunction with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a Pentagon-funded agency that specializes in developing new technologies for military applications. This technology has undergone some testing and was in the process of being enhanced with night-vision capabilities when IPIX filed bankruptcy.

Prior to the bankruptcy filing, IPIX had $30 million in contract opportunities with the Defense Department for this Gigapixel technology.

According to King, "Even though the technology is in the developmental stage, it has a vast number of potential applications. It’s also supported by a provisional patent due to expire mid-February of next year. The potential for the buyer that develops and patents this technology is staggering.”

When asked about the sale of more than 30 more patents owned by IPIX, including its core 360° software technology, King said he expects to announce the auction date of those assets “very soon”, with a potential sale date as early as mid-January 2007. The 360° software technology supports the widely-used IPIX Still and Video businesses.

According to Stephen Karbelk, sales agent for the trustee and the auction process, “There are still many more assets to be sold, including the OMNIview™ dewarping technology and an entire inventory of cameras and lenses located in Winston-Salem, NC.”

King is a principal with Odin, Feldman & Pittleman where he heads the Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice group. King's practice primarily involves representation of debtors, creditors and committees in Chapter 11 reorganizations, but he also represents other types of debtors and creditors, particularly businesses and institutional lenders, in all phases of the bankruptcy process including workouts. Since 1991, he has served as a Chapter 7 trustee in bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Virginia.

12-01-2006

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Holland & Hart, L.L.P.

Paul Schlauch Named World's Leading Mining Lawyer for the Second Consecutive Year
Paul J Schlauch of Holland & Hart LLP has been named the leading mining lawyer in the world at the 2006 Who’s Who Legal Awards. This award follows similar recognition in the inaugural awards last year.

Following on from the success of the 2005 awards, Who’s Who Legal has used the thousands of nominations received from clients and private practice professionals in the course of an ongoing research process to identify the pre-eminent lawyer and firm in each of the 27 practice areas covered in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2006, published in March.

Managing editor Callum Campbell said: “Once again, we are delighted to recognise Paul Schlauch as the winner of the Who’s Who Legal; The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers Mining Lawyer of the Year Award. This is the second year running he has achieved this distinction, and he again received more recommendations than any other practitioner in our research. He remains the world’s leading lawyer for mining expertise.”

The awards are based on a number of factors, including the feedback received in the ongoing research process, past performance in the research and the overall aggregate number of weighted votes cast in their favour. The awards are announced in the The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and identify the pre-eminent lawyer and firm in each of the 27 practice areas covered by the Who’s Who Legal series. For the first time this year, the awards also recognise the overall leading firm in 46 countries around the world.

The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2006 is a compendium volume of the practice areas covered by Who’s Who Legal’s separate single volume publications. It is the result of ten years of independent research incorporating feedback from thousands of lawyers, and covering over 7,000 practitioners across 27 separate practice areas and over 100 countries. The book is distributed free of charge to thousands of corporate counsel and private-practice lawyers who have requested it from around the world.

According to Callum Campbell: “It is impossible to buy entry into this publication, only lawyers who have met independent international research criteria are listed. This book represents an accurate and impartial picture of the global private practice marketplace.

12-01-2006

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Fenwick & West, LLP

Fenwick & West LLP Receives Award for Professional Vendor of the Year
On behalf of Fenwick & West LLP, partner Vic Schachter, member of the firm's Litigation Group and Chair of its Employment Practices Group, accepted the Professional Vendor of the Year award from technology client Synopsys, Inc. Synopsys presented the award on November 16th at its annual off-site retreat for the Office of the General Counsel. Schachter, who was instrumental in achieving a significant litigation victory for Synopsys this past year, was the ideal recipient to accept the award for the firm.

The award, the first of its kind at Synopsys, was created by General Counsel Brian Cabrera to recognize outside vendors for achieving the highest standards of professional quality and client care.

"Given Fenwick & West's service level commitment and its outstanding execution, it's no surprise that the firm is our honoree this year," said Cabrera.

The award was given in recognition of the strong collaborative relationship between Fenwick and Synopsys throughout the years — a relationship that hit an "all time high" this past year when Synopsys prevailed in litigation involving a 17-day jury trial.

According to Cabrera, "Fenwick & West definitely knows about quality client service, as demonstrated by the results they achieved for us in our recent litigation and as typified by Vic's recent presentation to us on the "Ten Commandments of Client Service." This'best practices' approach is evident in all they do for us.

12-01-2006

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Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub, P.C.

Maizel Contributes Chapter to Workouts Manual
Sam Maizel is a contributing Author to the recently published second edition of Business Workouts Manual (Thomson/West). The manual offers authoritative analysis and practical guidance from the nation's leading authorities on all aspects of the business workout. The text includes full coverage of the process of developing a strategy, general workout analysis, working with other creditors, and consensus development. Sam, a nationally recognized expert in restructuring healthcare industry entities, contributed Chapter 31, "Workout Issues in the Healthcare Industry.

11-30-2006

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Merchant & Gould P.C.

Merchant & Gould Partner Chris J. Leonard Graduates From Harvard Business School General Management Program
Merchant & Gould, an intellectual property law firm, is pleased to announce that Chris J. Leonard, partner and chair of the firm's electrical and software practice group, has graduated from the Harvard Business School General Management Program.

Leonard, who founded the firm's Atlanta and Knoxville offices, was admitted into the intensive in-residence program along with 81 other participants representing 24 countries. The program, which focuses heavily on middle to senior level business management, covers a variety of topics including financial analysis, human resources management, corporate governance, leadership and global economics.

Leonard began his career as an intellectual property attorney in 1994. His practice is focused on counseling clients on matters relating to software, e-commerce, telecommunications and traditional electrical and mechanical technologies. His practice encompasses U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, patent infringement and validity analysis, and licensing counseling. He also has extensive litigation experience in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, unfair competition and copyright. He holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee, a certificate in software engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

11-30-2006

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