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Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Miller & Chevalier Continues Expansion of International Practice
Miller & Chevalier Chartered today announced that Larry E. Christensen has joined the firm's International Practice as a Member. He joins the firm after serving as the Vice President of Export Controls for JPMorgan Chase Vastera.

Christensen has been active in the export controls area since 1979. He spent eleven years (1986-1997) at the Commerce Department, serving in the Office of Chief Counsel of Export Administration and as Director of the Office of Regulatory Policy. He headed the complete redrafting of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) in 1995-6, the first such rewrite since 1949. In addition, during his tenure at Commerce, he was primarily responsible for the regulatory and interagency issues surrounding the State Department scope of jurisdiction under the ITAR and authored the deemed export rule and coordinated the policy support for the rule prior to its publication.

"Larry brings a valuable combination of government, corporate and private practice experience that will greatly enhance the existing capabilities that we offer our clients," said John Davis, Chair of Miller & Chevalier's International Department. "His experience in export controls and economic sanctions adds substantial depth in the compliance area to the firm's 25-year export controls practice. We're thrilled to have him join our growing international team."

Miller & Chevalier has a broad-based international practice that offers a unique platform for my practice," said Christensen. "As demand for sophisticated ITAR counsel continues to grow in the wake of increased compliance and enforcement activity, my background and experience will complement the diversity and depth of Miller & Chevalier's well known international capabilities in areas including FCPA and international corruption, and global compliance and risk management."

The arrival of Christensen is the latest step in Miller & Chevalier's ongoing strategy to strengthen its international practice and continue to provide critical experience across the spectrum of trade and investment policy issues, the related areas of international regulation under U.S. laws and international agreements, and corporate compliance. The announcement follows the addition of William Clements, who is Of Counsel to the firm, and, like Christensen, has significant experience in the export controls and economic sanctions area. He served as Corporate Counsel, International Trade Regulation, for the General Electric Company, and prior to that, he served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council and as Director of the Office of Technology and Policy Analysis, Bureau of Export Administration, at the US Department of Commerce. From 2004 - 2006, Clements was a member of the State Department's Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG).

About Larry Christensen

Larry Christensen has worked in export controls and trade sanctions for more than 25 years and has been counseling clients on International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) since 1979. He has trained and supervised consultants and managed services employees that have performed more than 10,000 jurisdiction self-determinations, over 80,000 classifications and more than 100 export compliance assessments over the past three years.

He is the author of the EAR provisions regarding publicly available treatment, including the provisions regarding the scope of the academic exclusion from the scope of the EAR. In addition, he led the U.S. delegation to COCOM in connection with the drafting of the General Technology Note. Mr. Christensen represented the Commerce Department in connection with negotiations with certain of the national laboratories related to compliance with the deemed export rule in its early phases and with the rule that preceded the deemed export rule.

At JPMorgan Chase Vastera, Christensen participated in the consulting practice and managed service offerings of the company. He trained on virtually all U.S. export control topics and certain elements of foreign export controls.

Mr. Christensen has counseled firms in the development of compliance strategies, process assessments and audits. He has also assisted firms facing governmental administrative audits and criminal investigations. He has advised corporations on the most challenging substantive areas of exports, such as commodity jurisdiction, the outer limits of U.S. re-export embargoes and encryption. He has also trained and shaped compliance strategies for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the related OECD treaty on bribery of foreign officials, and the U.S. Anti-boycott rules. Mr. Christensen is familiar with the export laws of many countries. He was on the team that trained the Government of Singapore before it implemented its export control laws.

A frequent international lecturer, Christensen has testified before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives regarding export control legislative developments. He earned a B.A. from the University of South Dakota and a J.D. from Duke Law School.

08-13-2007

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Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC

Adam Peck and William King Awarded Best of the Bar in the Birmingham Business Journal
The Birmingham Business Journal recently recognized members of the legal community for their outstanding acheivements. Partners William King and Adam Peck were both honored as being "Best of the Bar" in their respective fields. William King for the area of Employer Benefits and Adam Peck for Environmental Law.

08-13-2007

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Jackson Lewis, LLP

Fourteen Jackson Lewis Partners Ranked Among Top Employment, Labor and Benefits Lawyers in the USA by Chambers
Jackson Lewis LLP is pleased to report that fourteen partners are featured in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007. The firm was ranked second nationally for labor and employment law. Our offices in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina were ranked among the top labor and employment law firms in their respective states.

Congratulations to:

Ashley Abel, Greenville
Joan Ackerstein, Boston
David Block, Miami
Mark de Bernardo, Washington DC
A. Robert Fischer, Stamford
David Gordon, Atlanta
C. Shawn Kee, Denver
Susan McKenna, Orlando
David Nagle, Richmond
Andrew Pickett, Boston
Andreas Satterfield, Greenville
Bruce Schwartz, White Plains
Thomas Royall Smith, Boston;
and J. Steve Warren, Greenville

Jackson Lewis Chairman Patrick L. Vaccaro said, "We are honored to be recognized by Chambers as one of the leading workplace law firms in the United States. We congratulate these partners for their hard work and achievements."

Each year, Chambers USA publishes a list of the top law firms and attorneys across the United States. It determines rankings through thousands of in-depth interviews with randomly selected attorneys, clients, and businesses.

08-13-2007

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Jackson Lewis, LLP

Ten Jackson Lewis Partners Included In Top 100 Labor Attorneys in America List
Jackson Lewis LLP is proud to announce the following ten labor partners were named to the list of Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States for 2007, as compiled by Labor Relations Institute, Inc., a leading industry information source:

Christopher C. Antone, Dallas TX
Patrick L. Egan, Boston MA
Roger P. Gilson, Stamford CT
Steven S. Goodman, Long Island, NY
Wayne W. Hansen, Seattle WA
Bradley W. Kampas, San Francisco CA
Thomas P. McDonough, White Plains NY
Thomas P. Piekara, White Plains NY
Robert D. Vogel, Los Angeles CA
Thomas V. Walsh, White Plains NY

Inclusion on the list puts these attorneys in the top one percent of labor attorneys in the U.S., making them ten of the most active attorneys representing companies in National Labor Relations Board monitored elections.

These Jackson Lewis attorneys made the elite list by being selected from more than 8,700 attorneys evaluated by Labor Relations Institute. The honor of Top One Hundred was determined by the number of NLRB elections in which each attorney provided representation and the success of those election outcomes.

"To be included in the Top One Hundred is a tremendously prestigious honor," according to Jackson Lewis Chairman Patrick L. Vaccaro. "It demonstrates a long-term and highly professional dedication to those attorneys' clients and profession."

08-13-2007

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Flaster Greenberg

Attorney Abbe F. Fletman Panelist at Pa. Bar Institute’s Course, “The Federal Local Eastern District Rules of Civil Procedure: A Practical Review”
Abbe F. Fletman, shareholder and head of the Litigation Section of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, will serve as a panelist at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s course, “The Federal Local Eastern District Rules of Civil Procedure: A Practical Review” on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at the Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia. Fletman will join a panel of federal magistrate judges and discuss the following issues: requirements for filing a lawsuit: what to include in motions; how to avoid problems in discovery; how to deal with out-of- town counsel; what to avoid as local counsel; when to agree to mediation; and when to request reconsideration.

08-13-2007

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Flaster Greenberg

Attorney Abbe F. Fletman Moderates American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting Section of Litigation
Abbe F. Fletman, shareholder and head of the Litigation Section of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, will moderate the 2008 American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting Section of Litigation Woman Advocate Committee Business Breakfast Meeting on Saturday, May 11, 2008 in San Francisco. The program, which will be held at the San Francisco Market Street Hotel, is entitled, “A Partner is a Partner is a Partner? Law Firm Employment Categories and Their Legal Consequences.”

08-13-2007

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Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, P.L.L.C.

Williams Kastner's Gabe Galanda speaks about Tribal Sovereign Immunity at the University of Arizona
Williams Kastner's Gabe Galanda speaks about Tribal Sovereign Immunity at the University of Arizona

Seattle, Wash. (August 13, 2007) - Gabe Galanda recently participated in a broadcast forum hosted by Native Nations Institute (NNI) Radio, which convened a group of tribal leaders and Indian law experts in Tucson to discuss tribal sovereign immunity and the need for Native nations to approach the issue strategically. Moderated by Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Co-Director Joseph P. Kalt, the forum, which was featured on public television and is available by podcast, seeks to provide tribal leaders and their constituents some important food for thought as they seek to protect their nations' interests and advance their nation-building priorities. Gabe spoke along with tribal visionaries Citizen Potawatomi Nation Chairman Rocky Barrett, University of Arizona College of Law Professor Rob Williams, and Ho-Chunk, Inc. CEO Land Morgan.

Gabe Galanda is a senior associate in the Seattle office and his practice focuses on complex, multi-party Indian law and gaming litigation and representing Indian tribes. He also assists tribal governments with economic development and diversification initiatives, and works with corporate entities doing business in Indian Country. Gabe is a descendant of the Nomlaki and Concow Tribes and enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.

08-13-2007

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