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Keating, Muething & Klekamp PLL

Keating Muething & Klekamp Named "Go-To" Law Firm by Corporate Counsel and American Lawyer Media
Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK) was recently named a “Go-To” Law Firm by Corporate Counsel and American Lawyer Media (ALM). KMK will be listed in the 2007 Directory of In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies produced by Corporate Counsel and ALM. KMK was chosen by AK Steel Holding Corporation and Fifth Third Bancorp in the area of Litigation.

This Directory incorporates survey data collected by Corporate Counsel magazine for its annual “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies?” issue. Corporate Counsel sent surveys to each company’s General Counsel, with questions about their department, as well as their outside counsel in five practice areas. General Counsel were asked for their “primary outside counsel” - the law firms that are on the company’s preferred list; the “go-to” firms for a specific practice area; firms that handled the most important cases in the previous year; firms used most often; and/or firms with the most billings from that company. The choice of which firms to name was up to the companies. This year corporations were asked to limit their selections to seven firms per practice area. Businesses that named more than seven firms within a practice area were required to limit their selection.

10-19-2006

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Hinshaw & Culbertson, L.L.P.

Hinshaw Attorneys Honored as Best Lawyers in America
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP attorneys, Ronald E. Mallen, a partner in the San Francisco, California office; James M. Lestikow, a partner in the Springfield, Illinois office; and Michael P. Malone, the partner-in-charge of Hinshaw's Milwaukee, Wisconsin office have been selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, to be published in 2007 by Woodward / White, Inc.

Mr. Mallen, who has been included in the book since its inception, was honored as one of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Legal Malpractice Law. Mr. Lestikow was chosen in the area of Trusts and Estates, and Mr. Malone in the area of Medical Malpractice Law.

Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on a comprehensive peer-review survey. The current edition is based on 1.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. Best Lawyers also conducts thousands of telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process.

10-19-2006

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Fowler, White, Boggs & Banker, Attorneys At Law

Douglas J. Helling and Carly L. Johnson Join Fowler White as Associates
Douglas J. Helling and Carly L. Johnson have joined the law firm of Fowler White Boggs Banker as associates.

Mr. Helling will practice in the firm’s Securities, Financial Services and White Collar Practice Group where he will represent brokerage firms, financial institutions, corporations, and their associated persons in arbitration, litigation in state and federal courts and in investigations and proceedings before state and federal regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations. Mr. Helling received his bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, his master’s degree from North Carolina State University and his law degree with honors from Florida State University College of Law.

Ms. Johnson will practice in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group where she will concentrate her practice in the area of general real estate matters, property acquisition and development, public finance, construction and permanent financing, commercial leasing, condominium and planned unit developments, homeowners associations, foreclosures, real estate litigation and title insurance. Ms. Johnson received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and her law degree from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law.

10-19-2006

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Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Dickstein Shapiro LLP Involved in Two Divestitures Totaling More Than $1 Billion
Dickstein Shapiro's Corporate & Finance team recently represented client Trans-Elect in two divestitures with an aggregate transaction value of $1.1 billion. On October 10, 2006, the sale of Trans-Elect affiliate Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC (METC) to ITC Holdings Corp. was completed in a transaction valued at approximately $865 million. The transaction created the largest independent electric transmission company in the U.S. and the country's tenth largest transmission company overall.

On September 15, 2006, Trans-Elect affiliate Trans-Elect NTD Path 15, LLC was sold to a subsidiary of Atlantic Power Holdings, LLC in a transaction valued at approximately $230 million. Trans-Elect NTD Path 15, LLC owns approximately 72% of the transmission system rights in the Path 15 transmission project located in California. This project is an 84-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line built along an existing transmission corridor in California to help alleviate what had been a chronic transmission congestion point in the state's north-south transmission capacity. The project went into service in December 2004.

"We are pleased with the results of these two strategic transactions for Trans-Elect," said Patrick Lynch, the Dickstein Shapiro partner in charge of the transactions.

Dickstein Shapiro provided legal counsel to Trans-Elect and Trans-Elect NTD Path 15 in the divestitures. Also involved in managing various aspects of the transactions were partners Gary Schoenbrun, Laura Szabo, and Rebecca Wright, and associates Saminaz Akhter, Nicole Vorrasi, and Steve Walter.

Dickstein Shapiro's Corporate & Finance group is international in scope and represents some of the world's largest corporations, commercial banks, investment banks, and venture capital firms. The group's practice ranges from small, traditional transactions to large, highly complex transactions and provides a full range of corporate, financial, and transactional legal services to clients. To best meet all the needs and objectives of its clients, the Corporate & Finance group offers the complete resources of the firm for problem-solving and transaction implementation. Regardless of the transaction, Dickstein Shapiro brings to the table its reputation as an innovative, effective, and efficient law firm.

10-19-2006

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Dickinson Wright PLLC

H. Jonathan Redway to Speak on Devising and Executing Discovery Plans in the Age of Electronic Data at the Seventh Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Course of Study on Litigating Trademark, Domain Name, and Unfair Competition Cases
Dickinson Wright attorney H. Jonathan Redway will speak on the topic of the upcoming amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure at the ALI-ABA course of study on Litigating Trademark, Domain Name, and Unfair Competition Cases on October 19-20, 2006, at the Langham Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Featured at the seminar will be a panel discussion with top practitioners discussing some of the most current issues in unfair competition law, including the interaction among domain names, trademarks, false advertising, and the fair use doctrine, such as:

Filing Considerations
Devising and Executing Discovery Plans in the Age of E-mail
Non-Traditional Trademark Claims
Expedited Relief
False Advertising
Famous Marks
Expert Witnesses
Trademark Use, Non-Use, and Mis-Use on the Internet
Actual Confusion
Damages

Presenter: H. Jonathan Redway
Mr. Redway is Co-Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Task Force and works out of the Washington, D.C. Office. Mr. Redway focuses his practice on intellectual property disputes and licensing. He has served as lead litigation counsel in numerous patent disputes involving various technologies, as well as numerous copyright and trademark disputes. Mr. Redway has significant experience protecting non-traditional source identifiers, including product configurations, user interfaces, packaging, and the use of colors. Mr. Redway has extensive jury and bench trial experience before federal and state courts throughout the United States, as well as before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

10-19-2006

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Dickinson Wright PLLC

Peter Webster Named To State Bar of Michigan Standing Committee on Civil Procedures and Courts
The State Bar of Michigan has re-appointed Dickinson Wright PLLC Attorney Peter Webster to the Standing Committee on Civil Procedure and Courts. Webster practices real estate, condemnation, product liability and commercial and business litigation out of the Firm’s Bloomfield Hills office.

The State Bar committee deals with court rules and statures related to civil practice in the courts and with the administration, organization and operation of the trial courts.

In addition to his State Bar activities, Webster serves on the Oakland County Business Round Table and is a former Oakland County Commissioner, City of Royal Oak City Commissioner and City of Royal Oak Mayor Pro Tem. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Boys & Girls Club of South Oakland County and is vice chairperson of the Oakland County Brownfield Development Authority.

Webster received a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering systems from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a J.D. from Wayne State University School of Law.

10-19-2006

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Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Paul Hastings Advises Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited and Macquarie Bank Limited on Landmark CMBS
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, has advised Citigroup and Macquarie as joint arrangers of a 3 year US$145 million commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS) transaction. The deal was the first cross-border CMBS transaction in China.

The transaction involved the issuance by Dynasty Assets (Holdings) Limited, a Cayman incorporated Special Purpose Vehicle, of US$145 million Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Secured Notes, which are backed by properties located in nine cities in China. The Series 2006-1 Notes are rated A2/A- by Moody's and S&P, respectively.

Commenting on the deal, Neil Campbell, Partner and Head of the Asian Structured Finance Group at Paul Hastings, said, "It has been our privilege to once again act as transaction counsel on another ground-breaking securitisation deal in Asia, on this occasion for our long-time clients Citigroup and Macquarie. This deal is another milestone in the development of the ABS market in Asia."

The Paul Hastings team was led by partners Neil Campbell, Michelle Taylor, and Vivian Lam, together with Richard Ambery, Donna Healy, Erika Wan and Heidi Pang.

10-19-2006

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