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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Emily Ciecka Wilcheck Joins Roetzel & Andress' Toledo Office
he law firm of Roetzel & Andress is pleased to announce Emily Ciecka Wilcheck has joined the Toldeo Office as an associate in the Business Litigation group.

Ms. Ciecka Wilcheck focuses her practice on business and commercial litigation along with labor and employment litigation.

Prior to joining Roetzel & Andress, she was a judicial clerk for Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick from 2004-2006.

11-21-2006

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Orrick LLP

Orrick Employment Law Group Profiled
Mike Delikat, an employment law partner based in New York, is quoted extensively in this article about Orrick’s employment law group. Chairman Ralph Baxter, who founded the group in 1978, is mentioned, as are San Francisco partner Gary Siniscalco, Silicon Valley partner Lynne Hermle, and Tokyo partner Laurent Develle, all of whom are identified as top in their field.

According to Delikat, “We have found our strategy: to not be the biggest, but the highest quality…Our practice has evolved. Now we’re positioning ourselves for the growth of litigation in Europe and Asia.

11-21-2006

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McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton Professional Association

McLane Announces Addition of Seven Attorneys
The law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Association is pleased to welcome seven new attorneys to the firm.

Three new associates, Coleen Penacho, Darrell Chichester and Patrick Taylor have joined the firm’s Litigation group, and will serve under the leadership of Bruce Felmly. Mr. Felmly is recognized annually by Chambers USA: A Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers, and has been named “one of the best trial lawyers in the state Darrell is an alumnus of American University, Washington College of Law, having received his J.D. with cum laude honors earlier this year
Craig Standish joins the Tax group, where he will concentrate on a variety of areas of corporate, individual, and estate tax planning matters. McLane has the largest tax group in the state, led by Steven Burke, another lawyer named best in the state in his field.

Doria DiBona Aronson joins the firm’s Trusts and Estates practice, where she will focus on planning, probate and administration work. McLane’s Trusts and Estates practice is led by Bob Wells who, along with eight other attorneys in the group are listed in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America guide for 2007. Five members of the department are also members of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Jarrett Duncan joins the firm, focusing on environmental regulation and litigation, a growing national practice area for the firm, led by Greg Smith, also noted as among the best in his field by Woodward/White. Jarrett received his J.D., graduating cum laude from Vermont Law School.

Lastly, Kara J. Dowal joins the firm's Corporate department, where she will assist business clients in a wide variety of corporate law matters under the leadership of Thomas Hildreth. Kara received her J.D. from Vermont Law School, graduating cum laude, and served as Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review from 2005-2006. She also served as an intern in Vermont’s Office of the Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Division.

“Because the new lawyers that join us know they will be working with many of the leading attorneys in the state, the McLane Law Firm is able to attract many of the best and most motivated students from some of America’s top law schools,” said Steven Camerino, chair of the firm’s management committee. The attorneys who have joined us this fall reflect our effort to ensure that we hire the best professional talent in the state to serve our clients.

11-21-2006

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Dechert LLP

Dechert Advises French Chemical Company Arkema on Proposed Sale of its Agrochemicals Business, Cereaxgri
International law firm Dechert LLP has advised French chemicals company, Arkema, on its proposed sale of its worldwide agrochemicals business, Cerexagri, to the Indian company, United Phosphorus Limited (UPL), producer of crop protection products, for Euro 111 million.

In Paris, corporate partner Joseph Aragonés led a team of Dechert lawyers, including corporate specialists Emmanuelle Trombe and Anthony Paronneau, with the US aspects of the transaction handled by a Dechert team in Philadelphia led by corporate partner Craig Godshall with the assistance of tax partner Ed Lemanowicz, antitrust partner Steven Stack, benefits partner Paul Kimbol and corporate specialist Brian Carmody.

UPL was advised by Linklaters corporate partners Klaus Hoenig (Cologne) and Stéphanie Faber (Paris), with the assistance of corporate counsel James Black (Frankfurt), benefits partner Bindu Culas (New York), antitrust partner Mary Lehrner (New York) and corporate specialists Ronald Meissner (Cologne), Venera Gallousis (Frankfurt) and Pierre Thomet (Paris) and by investment advisers YES Bank Limited (Mumbai) and Close Brothers (Paris).

11-21-2006

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Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP

CRAVATH REPRESENTS JPMORGAN AND BEAR STEARNS IN IDEARC FINANCINGS
Cravath represented JPMorgan Chase and Bear Sterns in connection with financings for Idearc Inc. and a related debt-for-debt exchange with Verizon Communications in connection with the acquisition by Idearc of Verizon’s telephone directories business and the related spin-off of Idearc to Verizon’s shareholders. The financings included $6.5 billion of senior secured bank credit facilities and a $2.9 billion Rule 144A/Reg S high yield senior note offering. The financings were structured as part of a complex series of transactions to take advantage of a rarely used provision of the tax code permitting Verizon to exchange, on a tax-free basis, the senior notes and a portion of the Idearc bank debt for Verizon debt securities previously acquired by JPMorgan and Bear Stearns in open market transactions. The primary lawyers involved in this matter are partners B. Robbins Kiessling, Stephen L. Burns and Stephen L. Gordon, and associates Lauren Angelilli, Brandon R. DeFrehn, Michael A. LaGatta, Chrystie Hale Perry, Lee H. Saladino and Rebecca S. Wollensack

11-21-2006

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Bryan Cave LLP

Partners Named to Top Litigators List
Bryan Cave LLP Chicago Partner Mary "Mimi" Moore and Kansas City Partner Craig O’Dear recently were named among the country’s top litigators by Lawdragon magazine.

Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America includes trial lawyers from 25 practice specialties. Moore was highlighted for her well-known work on employment issues and class derivative actions. O’Dear made the list especially for his work defending World Wrestling Entertainment against a $500 million wrongful-death claim.

Lawdragon creates its guides to the best lawyers in the United States through a combination of online balloting and independent research. The publication’s reporters and editors interview thousands of lawyers to get their input on the top "dragons" in any region or practice field. They also collect votes through an online ballot. Those submissions then are researched and vetted by the editorial staff. Lawdragon also surveys the quality of the votes an individual receives (more weight, for instance, to the vote of a corporate counsel than to a partner in the nominee’s firm).

"Inclusion in the final 500 is based on number and quality of votes, how ‘of-the-moment’ a particular practice area or case is and the impact the individual has on the profession overall," the publication states.

Moore has represented management in a variety of litigation at the administrative level, in state and federal courts in numerous jurisdictions, at the American Arbitration Association and in the U.S. Supreme Court. Her experience includes the defense of both class and individual actions. She has litigated cases involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, various state discrimination statutes and common law and tort claims. Her practice also involves advising corporations on a variety of employment matters.

O’Dear is a trial lawyer with experience prosecuting and defending high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts in more than 20 states. Earlier this year, O’Dear was retained by H&R Block to assume the lead trial counsel role in a breach of contract case asserting $103 million pending in federal court in South Carolina. The trial team was able to settle that case for $3 million. In 2005, he was lead trial counsel for H&R Block in a West Virginia state court class action seeking $2.1 billion in damages and statutory penalties. Later that year, O’Dear assumed the lead trial counsel role for Teledyne Continental Motors in a double fatality case pending in North Carolina involving two wealthy, high-profile plaintiffs, with an actual damage claim exceeding $100 million. Both cases were settled favorably. O’Dear was retained by World Wrestling Entertainment to defend a wrongful death case arising out of the accidental death of WWE wrestler Owen Hart in Kansas City in May 1999. The lawsuit sought damages of $500 million in actual and punitive damages and was settled in 2000 for $18 million. O’Dear then represented WWE in a contribution action against British manufacturer Lewmar to recover a substantial portion of the $18 million settlement. That case settled in September 2003 during the fourth week of trial, with Lewmar paying WWE $9 million.

O’Dear has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation in the areas of restrictive covenants and misappropriation of trade secrets. He has defended lawsuits involving a variety of products, including airplanes, airplane engines, helicopter turbine engines, grade-crossing warning systems, racquetball safety eyewear, child restraint systems for automobiles, farm equipment, multipiece truck wheels, automobile tires, chainsaws and playground equipment

11-21-2006

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP

Weil Gotshal Elects Twenty to Partnership and Appoints Five as Counsel
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, the leading international law firm, announced today the election of twenty new partners, in addition to the appointment of five attorneys to the position of counsel, effective January 1, 2007. Those elected were drawn from across Weil Gotshal’s twenty-office system, including most major US offices as well as Europe and Asia. Thirteen major practice areas were represented.

In its announcement, Weil Gotshal stated that, for the first time, the new partnership class was comprised of a majority of women. Further, the firm stated, this election was also marked by the creation of a new partnership category, "flex-time partner," which was created for new partners making a long-term career choice to work on a flexible schedule. Among the newly elected partners were included two flex-time partners. (The firm noted, in this regard, that the flex-time option is available to both men and women entering the partnership).

11-21-2006

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