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Cozen O' Connor

Paige Boiko Segrera joins Cozen O'Connor Miami Office as Associate
Paige Boiko Segrera recently joined Cozen O'Connor’s Miami office as an associate in the general litigation department. Prior to joining the firm, she interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the civil division for federal Judge Shelby Highsmith of the Southern District of Florida. She also served as a law clerk with Adorno & Yoss in Miami.

Segrera practices in the area of commercial litigation. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia (B.A., 1999) and her law degree from the Florida International University College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2006), where she was executive comments editor of the FIU Law Review. She is admitted to practice in Florida.

10-20-2006

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Cozen O' Connor

Joshua M. Rosen Joins Cozen O'Connor Seattle Office as Associate
Joshua M. Rosen recently joined Cozen O'Connor’s Seattle office as an associate in the firm’s insurance department. Prior to joining the firm, Rosen was an associate with Murchison & Cumming in Los Angeles.

Rosen concentrates his practice in the areas of construction defect, general liability, insurance coverage claims/litigation, premises and security liability, and products liability. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 1995) and his law degree from Tulane University Law School (J.D., 1999). He is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia and Washington.

10-20-2006

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Save the City of Philadelphia More Than $10 Million in Paramedics’ Overtime Case
Cozen O’Connor members Mark J. Foley and George A. Voegele Jr. and associates Victoria L. Zellers and Melanie M. Kennedy of the firm’s Philadelphia office saved the City of Philadelphia more than $10 million in overtime costs, following a favorable ruling in Lawrence et al. v. City of Philadelphia that claimed the City owed approximately 300 current and former Fire Service Paramedics (FSPs) additional overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA).

In 2003, FSPs initiated a lawsuit against the City claiming they were entitled to additional overtime pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek, believing that they do not fall under the same overtime exemption as firefighters, who are not entitled to overtime pay until they have worked 61 hours in an eight-day period. Over the past three years, the parties engaged in extensive written and deposition discovery, and in January 2006, Senior U.S. District Judge Clifford Scott Green held oral arguments on the motions.

The FSPs’ attorneys argued that the training and duties of the paramedics show that they are not trained in or authorized to perform fire protection activities. The FSPs’ attorneys also argued that paramedics are not as extensively instructed as firefighters, and that Section 203(y) of the FLSA, passed by Congress in 1999 as an amendment to the FLSA to clear up confusion over which workers were subject to a higher overtime threshold, requires identical or equivalent training. However, the Cozen O'Connor defense team argued that the paramedics are employees of the fire department who are authorized to engage in fire suppression when necessary and carry equipment for the task. They also demonstrated that, while the training received by FSPs was not always as extensive as that of firefighters, it nevertheless was sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirement that paramedics be “trained in fire suppression” in order to qualify for the higher overtime threshold.

On September 29, 2006, Green issued a Memorandum and Order in favor of the City, ruling that the FSPs are covered by Section 203(y), finding that both in training and in practice, the paramedics meet the law’s definition of “fire-protection employees” and have firefighting authority and responsibilities. He stated that the evidence established the City’s right to apply the Section 203(y) exemption to its paramedics.

According to Voegele, the case hinged on the duties of the paramedics and their level of training, but the City was able to clearly show that the paramedics were both trained in and responsible for firefighting when called upon by their commanders to do so.

10-20-2006

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Dallas Office Attorney Lawrence T. Bowman Named Texas Super Lawyer
Cozen O’Connor member Lawrence T. Bowman was named a 2006 Texas “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics, appearing in the October issues of Texas Super Lawyers and Texas Monthly. Super Lawyers names Texas' top lawyers as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. 2006 Texas Super Lawyers is based on surveys of the more than 55,000 attorneys across the state who have been licensed to practice for five years or more. The goal is to select as Super Lawyers the top 5 percent of Texas attorneys in more than 60 practice areas. Texas Super Lawyers is published annually in the October issues of Texas Monthly, which has a readership of more than 2.4 million, and Texas Super Lawyers magazine, which is mailed to more than 73,000 Texas attorneys.

Bowman is chair of Cozen O'Connor's general litigation department and the office managing partner of the firm's Dallas office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, representing clients in regard to contractual, tort, construction, product liability, intellectual property, antitrust and securities law matters. He was selected as a Texas ""Super Lawyer” in 2005.

Bowman is a frequent author and lecturer for many organizations, including the National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP), National Economic Research Association (NERA), Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB), bar associations and clients in the insurance industry and other arenas.

Bowman is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Texas, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas. He is a member of the American and Dallas bar associations, State Bar of Texas, American Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers, Defense Research Institute, NASP and the National Fire Protection Association.

Bowman earned his undergraduate degree from La Salle University (B.A., 1975) and his law degree from Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 1978).

10-20-2006

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorney Christopher D. Brown Serves as Lecturer for National Association of Mutual Insurers and for Ace Insurance
Cozen O’Connor member Christopher D. Brown recently served as a lecturer for the National Association of Mutual Insurers in Tampa, Fla., speaking on the topic of insurance bad faith; and for Ace Insurance in Chicago, Ill., speaking on the topic of Florida procedural issues.

Brown practices from the firm’s Miami office. He is an experienced tort, commercial and employment lawyer who focuses his tort work in products and aviation litigation. He has defended numerous major aircraft and component part manufacturers, including Raytheon, Honeywell, Jeppesen-Sanderson, Bell Helicopter, Aero Kool, and United Instruments. Brown has been involved in several air crash jury trials, including the $300 million products liability trial that arose from the 1995 air crash of American Airlines flight 965 in Cali, Colombia. In the commercial and employment fields, he has represented both private and public entities. His numerous private sector clients include insurers, investment houses and private companies, and his public sector clients include the court administrator for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida and the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office. He also has extensive experience in the area of election and voting rights law. In addition to arguing before the Florida Supreme Court on election law issues, Brown was also a member of the litigation team representing the plaintiffs in Florida’s 2002 redistricting litigation.

Brown has an A/V Rating in Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized as a top litigator by Chambers USA. He was named a Florida ""Super Lawyer"" by Law & Politics.

Brown is a member of the American and Cuban-American bar associations, the Florida Association of Women Lawyers and the League of Prosecutors. He is a former adjunct professor of international law at Florida International University and speaks French, Russian and Spanish. He is admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia, and before the Supreme Court of Florida and the U.S. District Court for the Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Florida.

Brown earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1986), attended the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, Genève, Diplôme d'études supérieures (1992), earned his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law (J.D., 1994) and his graduate degree from Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (M.A.L.D., 1995).

10-20-2006

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Immigration Attorney Ellen Freeman's Addition to Firm Noted
The recent addition of attorney Ellen Freeman as special counsel to the firm's Immigration practice group in Pittsburgh was noted by immigration web site ILW.com on Thursday, October 19, 2006, as well the October 23 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Freeman focuses her practice on employment-based immigration such as temporary work visas and permanent residence, including PERM/labor certification applications, preference petitions and consular processing/adjustment of status.

ILW.com is a leading immigration law publisher and web site, with over 25,000 pages of immigration law information for immigration law professionals. Its flagship publication, Immigration Daily, is the only daily newspaper on immigration law in the world, and has approximately 13,000 subscribers.

10-20-2006

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Tax Attorney Darin Zenov Receives Tenth Pro Bono Award
Tax attorney Darin I. Zenov recently received his 10th Exceptional Participation Pro Bono Service Award from Put Something Back of Miami-Dade County. Zenov is a shareholder in the Miami office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

Zenov was honored in recognition and appreciation of his continuing support and outstanding contribution to the pro bono project in the areas of probate and guardianships. The Put Something Back Pro Bono Project provides free legal assistance to the low-income population of Miami-Dade County. It is designed to increase access to the civil legal system by serving as an umbrella agency for referral to legal service providers and as a clearinghouse for attorneys who volunteer to help people in need.

Through this project, clients are referred to volunteer attorneys experienced in a wide range of legal matters, including: family cases; children's matters requiring guardians ad litem in juvenile dependency, probate and civil court; consumer and housing concerns; domestic violence permanent injunction matters; AIDS and other health crisis issues; Social Security and veterans benefits; employment matters; the preparation and processing of wills; and non-fee generating civil court cases where damages at issue are greater than $5,000. It is the largest and most comprehensive pro bono project in Florida.

10-20-2006

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