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Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Janet Douvas Chafin Speaks at SIPES Meeting
JW Litigation Partner Jan Chafin will speak at the August meeting of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES) at the Petroleum Club in Houston on August 16, 2007. In her presentation titled "Business Ethics in the Oil and Gas Industry: How to Be Ethical and How to Protect Yourself From Those Who Aren't," Ms. Chafin will provide practical advice on how to protect proprietary geological and geophysical work product from misappropriation.

Ms. Chafin has extensive trial experience, having served as lead counsel in dozens of trials in state and federal courts during the past 27 years. Her practice encompasses a wide variety of business disputes, with a focus on disputes in the oil patch. She has represented clients in disputes involving theft of drill site leases; joint interest owner/operator problems; AFE issues; failure to develop; take-or-pay; gas balancing; royalty owner claims; pipe failure claims regarding failure of anti-corrosive products; operator-driller disputes; land boundary disputes; and defense of a variety of oil field death and personal injury cases.

SIPES was founded in 1963, and with over 1,300 members in 20 states, SIPES strives to be the go-to organization for furthering the professional and business interests of independents, small business owners, and consulting earth scientists. SIPES members include a wide range of people: engineers, geochemists, geologists, geophysicists, paleontologists, petrophysicists, and a mix of other earth scientists. Each member of SIPES is certified as a Professional Earth Scientist.

08-08-2007

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Frost, Brown & Todd, L.L.C.

Frost Brown Todd Welcomes German Licensed Attorney
Frost Brown Todd LLC, one of the region’s largest full-service law firms, is pleased to announce the arrival of Kai Bitter to its Cincinnati office.

Kai Bitter, a German lawyer, has joined our International Services Group as Associate and will launch a German desk in our Cincinnati office. His practice is concentrated on international business transactions and other corporate matters. Kai also serves as Of Counsel with our strategic alliance partner firm Wahlert Rechtsanwälte in Stuttgart, Germany. Kai’s presence in Cincinnati supports our close cooperation with Wahlert and truly enables us to offer the services of a German full-service firm here in the Midwest.

Prior to joining our firm, Kai practiced in the corporate departments of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Baker & McKenzie in Germany. He graduated from his law school in Muenster, Germany in 2000 and received a post-graduate degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law one year later. Kai is admitted to practice in Germany.

08-08-2007

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Fox Rothschild LLP

Thomas J. Kent, Jr., Franchise & Corporate Attorney, Joins Fox Rothschild’s Chester County Office
Fox Rothschild announced that Thomas J. Kent, Jr. has joined the firm’s Franchising & Distribution practice as a partner, resident in the Chester County office.

“We have known Tom for years and are thrilled that he has decided to join us,” said Michael S. Harrington, managing partner at the Chester County office. “Tom has a superb reputation in the franchise and distribution area. His reputation and experience are an excellent addition to Fox Rothschild and to our Chester County office.”

Kent focuses his practice on franchising and distribution, as well as mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and corporate/partnership organization/reorganization.

“Fox offers me an excellent opportunity to grow my practice, and offers my clients the depth and breadth of an entrepreneurial law firm with a growing national platform,” said Kent. “It’s my pleasure to join Fox, and I’m looking forward to the many opportunities the firm can provide to both me and to my clients.”

Before joining Fox, Kent was the managing partner of a mid-size Chester County law firm. He began his legal career as in-house counsel with an international franchise corporation and ultimately became the Director of Center Development for the Franchise.

Kent is a graduate of Villanova University (B.A. 1992) and Widener University School of Law (J.D. 1995). He is active in the legal community as a member of the Pennsylvania and Chester County Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

08-08-2007

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Fox Rothschild LLP

Jean A. Durling of Fox Rothschild Elected to NALP Board of Directors
Jean A. Durling, Chief Recruitment and Professional Development officer at Fox Rothschild LLP, has been elected to serve on the board of directors for NALP – the Association for Legal Career Professionals, which is based in Washington, D.C. Durling will serve a two-year term.

Durling manages the recruitment, professional development and diversity initiatives for Fox Rothschild’s 14 offices and 400+ attorneys. Her primary focus is on the recruitment, integration, training and development of all attorneys and paralegals. Durling has been a member of NALP since 1987, and is also a member of the Legal Recruitment Administrators of Philadelphia (LRAP), the Professional Development Consortium (PDC), and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). She has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources since July 2004.

Founded in 1971 as the National Association for Law Placement®, NALP (www.nalp.org) is dedicated to facilitating legal career counseling and planning, recruitment and retention, and the professional development of law students and lawyers.

08-08-2007

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Chapman & Cutler LLP

Chapman and Cutler Ranks alongside Top Law Firms Nationally in Latest American Lawyer Survey of Mid-Level Associate Satisfaction
Confirming that mid-sized law firms have as much to offer young attorneys as their larger rivals, financial services law firm Chapman and Cutler LLP was ranked number 12 out of 164 firms nationwide in mid-level associate satisfaction, according to the latest survey by American Lawyer magazine.

The Chapman associates who completed the magazine’s questionnaire work in the firm’s principal office in Chicago as well as offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City.

Chapman took its place among the top-rated firms in the country on the strength of associate evaluations that consistently outpaced the national average. The annual American Lawyer poll asks associates to rank 26 aspects of their work assignments and workplace culture on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being a perfect score. Chapman’s overall score was 4.16. Approximately 80 percent of the firm’s mid-levels participated, itself well above the AmLaw average

. Some of Chapman’s best scores go straight to the heart of why associates choose to stay with a particular firm. Midlevels rated Chapman a near-perfect 4.9 in “opportunities to work with partners,” and an equally strong 4.6 for relations among fellow associates. Other professional categories in which the firm received high marks include: how interesting and satisfying the work is; the extent to which billable-hour expectations are realistic; partner-associate relations; and openness of communications regarding the partnership track. In all categories, Chapman’s mid-levels rated their firm higher than the national average.

Workplace culture is especially prized at Chapman, the survey reveals. In four of the five categories related to firm culture – collegiality, dedication to diversity, family-friendliness, and morale – Chapman again was rated above the survey average. In the fifth category – competitiveness – the firm ranked lower than its peers, which to most associates is likely a virtue.

“It’s not often that an organization gets to see itself through the eyes of its younger workforce, many of whom are facing serious choices about the direction of their careers and futures,” said Richard Cosgrove, Chapman and Cutler’s chief executive partner. “Knowing that the AmLaw survey provides such an unvarnished view of working life at a modern law firm, we’re especially pleased by this year’s results, which show such a high degree of satisfaction among our mid-level associates.”

Mr. Cosgrove noted that the ratings highlighted two important aspects of law firm life – “the quality of the work one does and the overall atmosphere in which one does it,” he said. “We pride ourselves on maintaining a culture of openness: every Chapman lawyer has access to every other lawyer, without regard to hierarchy. That has paid huge benefits in terms of our people sharing expertise and information, and working together. Our lawyers genuinely like one another.”

08-08-2007

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Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione, P.C.

USPTO Grants Reexaminations on Patents Covering Software Used by Futures Traders
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted its requests for reexamination of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,766,304 and 6,772,132. In the orders granting the reexaminations, the examiner agreed that the requests cite substantial new questions of patentability regarding the claims of each patent.

The patents, currently owned by Chicago-based Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), relate to a user interface for entering trade orders. Specifically, the user interface has a display that includes a static price ladder and implements a specific order entry methodology. The goal of such systems is to reduce the time it takes to enter a trade order when electronically trading on an exchange.

Filed earlier this year, the Requests for Reexamination addressed whether the patented features were in existence prior to TT's patents -- thus making the patents invalid -- by citing a trading interface widely used in Japan by members of the Tokyo Stock Exchange that predates the TT patent filings.

"This marks a significant step forward in establishing that these patents are invalid," said James L. Katz, a shareholder in Brinks' Chicago office, reiterating that these patents are of substantial interest to the members of the futures trading industry and their technology providers because of the aggressive enforcement actions taken by Trading Technologies.

In its 2004 "open letter" to the industry, TT demanded hundreds of millions of dollars a year in perpetuity for its patents. When the technology providers refused to pay, TT filed suit. In ongoing patent infringement litigation in the Northern District of Illinois between TT and eSpeed, a leading technology provider for the world's financial electronic markets, the court recently granted summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of eSpeed regarding eSpeed's most current generation of futures trading software. A trial has been set for September 10, 2007 to further consider the validity of these particular patents.

08-08-2007

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Scott Burnett Smith Chairs the Huntsville Library Foundation's Annual Fundraiser
Scott Burnett Smith, a partner in the Huntsville office, is the Chair of the Huntsville Library Foundation's annual fundraiser, Vive le Livre. This year's author is Carl Hiassen, humorous novelist about Florida life. The event will be held Thursday, September 6, 2007, in the North Hall of the Von Braun Center. Vive le Livre raises money to help the Huntsville Madison County Public Library System acquire books and other resources. This is the 21st annual fundraiser. Last year's event raised over $250,000 for the Library.

08-08-2007

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