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Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP

Westfield Group In Connection With Transactions With CBL & Associates And Simon Property Group
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising The Westfield Group in two transactions. The first being an agreement to acquire two shopping centers in the Miami, Florida trade area; the purchase price for the two centers is US$400 million. In the second transaction, The Westfield Group has agreed to divest four St. Louis, Missouri shopping centers in two separate transactions, with a minimum gross value of approximately US$1.04 billion, representing a premium to book value.

The Westfield Group, with a market capitalisation of approximately US$31 billion, is the 9th largest entity listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a leading international law firm with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The Debevoise team is led by partner Matthew T. Golden and includes associate Ann Seung-Eun Lee.

08-13-2007

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Elizabeth L. McGinley Joins New York Office
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that Elizabeth L. McGinley has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office, where she will work in the Tax Section.
Ms. McGinley's primary practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and real estate transactions.

Her broad background includes corporate tax, partnership tax, private equity and financing arrangements. During her career, she has represented major public corporations, private investors, entrepreneurs and real estate developers.

"Liz's diverse background in tax will dovetail nicely with our expanding transactional practice," said New York Managing Partner Daniel S. Connolly. "We are pleased to welcome her to the Bracewell team."

Before joining Bracewell, Ms. McGinley was counsel at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. She is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and a Certified Public Accountant.

Bracewell opened its New York office in April 2005 after former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined as a name partner. Since then, the firm's New York office has quickly grown to more than 40 attorneys.

08-13-2007

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Adams & Reese LLP

James D. Helton II Joins Adams and Reese LLP
Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that James D. Helton II has joined the firm’s Downtown Nashville office as an associate in the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services Practice Group. He will serve as a member of the Real Estate, Banking and Finance, and Corporate Teams.

Mr. Helton practices primarily in the area of commercial real estate and finance, creditor’s rights and LLC formation and counseling. He has represented local and national lending institutions in numerous complex commercial real estate transactions. He has also co-authored and contributed to several consumer regulatory opinions for clients seeking to asses the legality of their loan products in Tennessee, and has aided clients undergoing examination of their loan products by the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions. He has a diverse client base, having worked with individual clients as well as legal departments of national corporations.

Mr. Helton earned his Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 2005, where he was a member of Moot Court and served as Senior Publications Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice. In 1999, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

08-13-2007

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Adams & Reese LLP

Seven Partners Selected for Fellowship in Louisiana Bar Foundation
Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that seven partners were recently named Fellows of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Fellowship consists of judges, lawyers, and law professors who have demonstrated dedication in upholding the Louisiana Bar Foundation's mission to preserve, honor, and improve the justice system by funding, developing and promoting efforts which enhance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system and advance the reality of equal justice under the law.

Adams and Reese Fellows for 2007 include Mark R. Beebe, Christy F. Kane, Donald C. Massey, Malcolm A. Meyer, Mary L. Meyer, Lee C. Reid and Sharon Ryan Rodi. They join nineteen other Adams and Reese attorneys in both the Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices who were inducted as Fellows in previous years.

08-13-2007

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Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, LLP

Partner Takes On New National Office With ABA/YLD
Tyler Cooper partner Elizabeth K. Acee will be elevated to the position of Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division at the organization’s annual meeting August 9-11, 2007, in San Francisco.

Lizz, who has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the 149,000-member nationwide organization since August 2006, now begins her one-year term as Chair-Elect. In August 2008, she will assume the office of Chair, the top leadership post in the ABA/YLD. As Chair, she will be responsible for national administration of the organization through August 2009.

The ABA Young Lawyers Division is made up of attorneys under the age of 36, as well as those practicing law for five years or less. The goal of the organization is to advance the integrity of the legal profession, provide services and outreach to its members, and promote public service.

Among Lizz’s goals for the ABA/YLD is to launch a national public service project for young lawyers. Indeed, it is the service aspect of the organization that initially attracted Lizz to become involved in its programs. When interviewed by an ABA/YLD publication, she said that working with the organization inspired her “to tirelessly advocate for those without a voice, and to help engineer steady progress for the underprivileged and underrepresented.”

Lizz is a litigation attorney in Tyler Cooper’s New Haven office. She focuses on commercial litigation and labor and employment law, and also handles a variety of other complex matters including unfair trade practice disputes, contract disputes, health care fraud and abuse cases, and product liability claims.

It is not surprising that Lizz has been selected to take on national responsibilities with the ABA Young Lawyers Division. In Connecticut, Lizz has a long history of bar association involvement. She is a past Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section, the largest section of the Connecticut Bar. She also served as the organization’s Secretary, Treasurer and Chair-Elect. She has also held the office of Assistant Secretary-Treasurer with the CBA Senior Section. Additionally, Lizz spent a number of years chairing the Women in the Law Committee for both the CBA Young Lawyers Section and Senior Section.

Lizz is not the first of Tyler Cooper’s attorneys to take on a national leadership role in young lawyers’ organizations. In the early 1950s, former Tyler Cooper Partner Richard H. Bowerman served as Chair of the ABA Junior Bar Conference, the ABA/YLD’s predecessor organization. He held the post in 1953, having served as Vice Chairman in 1952 and Secretary in 1951. Richard Bowerman and Lizz are the only two Connecticut lawyers ever to have achieved these leadership positions.

08-13-2007

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Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Shingleton Named to Inaugural LEAP Class
Lorena A. Shingleton, ACP, a paralegal in Steptoe & Johnson’s Charleston office and a member of the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA), has been named to the inaugural class of 15 paralegals from throughout the nation to participate in NALA’s new Leadership Enhancement and Preparation (LEAP) program. The class had its first meeting during the 32nd annual NALA convention this July in New Orleans.

LEAP is a new training program coordinated by NALA’s Professional Development Committee and designed to explore the various facets of leadership and prepare volunteers for the challenges of national leadership roles with NALA. The class will be divided into smaller teams that will undertake research and reading assignments. There will be monthly internet webinars on subjects ranging from general information on the paralegal profession and the structure of NALA to specific leadership skills such as public speaking and association governance. This is certainly an honor, and an opportunity to step into the realm of national leadership of paralegals.

08-13-2007

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP

Jon R. Gray Becomes Chair of NBA Judicial Council
SHB Partner Jon R. Gray was recently installed as chair of the National Bar Association (NBA) Judicial Council during the council’s Annual Thurgood Marshall Awards Luncheon held August 1, 2007, in Atlanta, Ga. He is the first Missouri jurist to lead the nation’s oldest and largest organization of black judges and judicial officers. Major areas of focus during his one-year term will include advocating for sitting judges who are the target of unfair political attacks, recruiting black youth into law careers, and increasing Judicial Council membership.

Joining Judge Gray as officers of the NBA Judicial Council are Judge Marcella Holland as treasurer (Baltimore City Circuit Court, Eighth Judicial Circuit); Justice Robert Rucker as secretary (Indiana Supreme Court); and Judge U. Gene Thibodeaux as financial secretary (Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit). Judge Gray succeeds Judge Michael G. Bagneris (Civil District Court, New Orleans), who now assumes the role of immediate past chair. Justice Peggy Quince (Florida Supreme Court) is chair-elect of the council for the 2008-09 bar year.

Judge Gray joined SHB Kansas City in the General Litigation Division in mid-2007 after serving more than 20 years as a circuit judge in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri. He is a 1973 graduate of Grinnell College and 1976 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. A life member of the NAACP, he currently serves on the executive committees of the Truman Medical Centers and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

08-13-2007

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