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Weltman, Weinberg & Reis, Company

Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. Expands the Cincinnati Office with the Addition of a New Associate
Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A., the nation’s largest creditors’ rights law firm based on revenue and placements according to Collections & Credit Risk magazine, congratulates associate Thomas R. Kendall on his recent success with the bar exam.

Thomas R. Kendall will be working in the Legal Action Recovery department of the Cincinnati office. Mr. Kendall earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College of Law (2006), and his B.S. with honors in Economics from Michigan State University (2001), and has been employed with WWR since law school. A member of the Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations, Mr. Kendall is licensed in the state courts of Ohio.

11-30-2006

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Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Morris, Manning & Martin Files Patent on Legal Project Management System
Atlanta-based law firm Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP has taken another step toward patenting its pioneering Legal Project Management System.

The firm’s system is designed to improve communication, enhance efficiency, and provide transparency in the delivery of legal services, while increasing the corporate client’s involvement and control over the timing and costs needed to complete a legal project. A regular (non-provisional) patent application has been filed to seek patent protection for various novel aspects of applying project management methodologies to the rendering of legal services, as well as monitoring, tracking, and reporting progress to attorneys and clients in a more effective and client-visible manner.

“While project management is widely used in the business world, we feel confident that several aspects of our Legal Project Management System are new inventions,” said John Harris, the partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group who is handling the patent application. “We believe that our particular system provides a comprehensive approach that effectively captures, communicates, and tracks a legal project’s unique requirements and allows for more real-time monitoring of progress, and making updates and changes during the life of the project.”

The firm is currently using aspects of the system for transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property (such as patent and trademark prosecution), litigation/dispute resolution, and venture capital financing deals. The novel aspects of the system have broad applicability to many different types of legal services.

“The system improves communication and gives our clients a clear idea of the legal matter’s status through every step of the transaction,” added Grant Collingsworth, a co-inventor of the system. “The data collected, and the resulting project plan, allow for an ongoing stream of information between the legal service provider and the client.”

“Morris, Manning & Martin’s system helps to create a road map of a legal matter, defining the tasks, assignments and agreements, allowing us to identify and utilize the best and most efficient resources,” added Linda Klausing, the firm’s Director of Legal Project Management and a co nventor of the System.

11-30-2006

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Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP

Kirk Warner Elected as Chairman, Board of Directors of the North Carolina March of Dimes
Smith Anderson partner Kirk Warner was elected to chair the board of directors of the North Carolina March of Dimes. A strong supporter of the March of Dimes for many years, Mr. Warner's term as chairman takes effect January 1, 2007 and he will serve a two-year term.

The March of Dimes seeks to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. The non-profit organization facilitates this mission in numerous ways, including research, community services, education and advocacy.

Mr. Warner heads Smith Anderson's products liability practice group. He has significant experience in products liability and drug/medical devices defense, including serving as lead counsel nationally, regionally and statewide to multiple major automotive and consumer products manufacturers. He has litigated products liability cases throughout the United States in all levels of trial and appellate courts. Mr. Warner has represented all major automotive manufacturers as well as many major insurance companies and Fortune 500 companies in complex litigation matters in over twenty states and Guam. He also has trial experience in asbestos, environmental coverage, commercial, construction, insurance and arson cases.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Warner serves as a Colonel, United States Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General Corps.

11-30-2006

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Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, P.A.

SHEEHAN PHINNEY ATTORNEY PRESENTS TO LAKES REGION RENTAL ASSOCIATION FALL MEETING
Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorney Graham J. Chynoweth spoke at the Lakes Region Rental Association fall meeting on November 30, 2006. Chynoweth’s presentation, titled, “Eviction Law and Tenant’s Rights,” included a discussion of eviction law, landlord-tenant disputes, security deposit law, left-property law and tenant’s rights.

Graham’s general corporate practice focuses on representing small and mid-sized businesses of all types. In addition, he specializes in commercial real estate law. In Graham’s work with small and mid-sized business, he has advised business owners on variety of issues, including formation issues, corporate governance, asset

purchases and sales, contract negotiations, shareholder disputes, and some employment law issues.

The Lakes Region Rental Association is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to to educate our members so that they may run their operations as efficiently and at as low a cost as possible; to provide support and to be a source of information to our members; and to allow our members to benefit from the increase in political and buying power that a larger group has as compared to each property owner individually.

11-30-2006

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Saul Ewing, LLP

Jennings Says U.S. Steel Project Not a Done Deal
Thomas J. Jennings, Special Counsel in the Environmental Department in the Firm's Philadelphia office and U.S. Steel attorney, commented on the Falls, PA water and sewer board approval of a resolution supporting Morrisville, PA's grant application.

The state grant is worth $4.75 million, and $1.6 million would be contributed from U.S. Steel. The combined $6.4 million would fund a sanitary sewer pipeline construction that would run through U.S. Steel's existing facilities and ultimately connect to Morrisville's treatment plant, where sewage would be treated.

Mr. Jennings said that if the grants come through, construction would generate economic development and jobs. He suggested the board act quickly because of the state's December 1 grant application deadline.

"It's not a done deal," Mr. Jennings said. "If one party's not happy, the project will not get done." Mr. Jennings said if it is not done, U.S. Steel would keep treating the approximate 65,000 gallons of sanitary sewage a day. That amount, combined with the 375,000 gallons per day generated from Falls Keystone Industrial Port Complex, could be handled at Morrisville's plant, Mr. Jennings said. He also said that the availability of public sewage could potentially attract new businesses.

11-30-2006

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Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons

RJ&L attorney, Trey Rogers, signs on as Chief Legal Counsel for Governor-Elect Bill Ritter
Thomas M. "Trey" Rogers, III, a partner with the law firm of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, and the attorney for Bill Ritter's campaign and transition team, has signed on as chief legal counsel as part of the Governor-Elect's administration team.

Mr. Rogers has been with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP since 1997. His practice has focused on election and campaign finance law, and labor and employment law. He also has eight years of experience as a political and nonprofit fundraiser and fundraising consultant in Colorado, Oklahoma and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Rogers was named one of the Denver Business Journal's 40 under 40 for 2006, and he is listed in the 2007 edition of "Best Lawyers in American®" in the Government Relations Law category. He is also a graduate of the 2002-03 class of the Denver Metro Chamber Foundation's Leadership Denver Program. Mr. Rogers received his Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University National Law Center, with Honors, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate, cum laude, from University of Colorado.

Along with Trey Rogers, Bill Ritter named senior staff members, Jim Carpenter as chief of staff, and Mary Kay Hogan as legislative liaison. "This trio will form the backbone of an administration that will be committed to making Colorado a leader in education, healthcare, jobs and renewable energy.

11-30-2006

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Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons

RJ&L senior partner, James Lyons, named executive director of Bill Ritter's transition team
RJ&L's senior partner James Lyons has been named the executive director of Gov.-elect Bill Ritter's transition. Ritter's transition team has set up offices adjacent to the Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons law firm in the Denver's Tabor Center office towers.

11-30-2006

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