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Butzel Long

Robert M. Nemzin joins Butzel Long
Robert M. Nemzin has joined Butzel Long as an associate attorney practicing in the firm's Bloomfield Hills office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate, tax, real estate, and wealth management.

Mr. Nemzin is a graduate of New York University School of Law (LL.M., Taxation, May 2007). He also is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (J.D., May 2006) where he was the Title Editor for the Law Review and a member of the Frank Murphy Honor Society and the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Honor Society.

Mr. Nemzin interned as a law clerk with a metro Detroit area law firm where he researched, analyzed and drafted legal documents including trial and appellate motions, complaints, and affidavits. He also served the Honorable Bernard A. Friedman, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, as a judicial intern where he performed a variety of duties including the legal analysis of pending cases and the preparation of memoranda to aid clerks and the Judge in the disposition of pending civil and criminal matters.

Mr. Nemzin is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., Communication Studies, May 2003). He received many honors as an undergraduate including the following: recipient of the Albert Goodman Scholarship (1999-2000); recipient of the Communication Studies Summer Scholar (June 2002), and recipient of the G. McDonald Communication Studies Scholarship (March 2003). He also received University Honors in both the Winter 2002 and Fall 2002 semesters. Mr. Nemzin is a member of the State Bar of Michigan. Mr. Nemzin is a resident of Royal Oak.

08-07-2007

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Shannon Lisenby Selected for the 2007-2008 Leadership Birmingham Class
Shannon B. Lisenby, a partner in the firm's Birmingham office, was selected for the 2007-2008 Leadership Birmingham class. Leadership Birmingham aims to prepare and encourage its graduates to engage in greater individual and group action in order the contribute to the betterment of the community and its people. Through a series of monthly seminars, these leaders come to know and understand more about the community and one another as they explore timely and relevant issues, and exchange ideas and points of view.

08-07-2007

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Davis Polk & Wardwell

AerCap Holdings Equity Offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the underwriters on a $518 million SEC-registered global secondary offering of 20,000,000 ordinary shares of AerCap Holdings N.V., a Dutch foreign private issuer, by shareholders of AerCap controlled by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. The ordinary shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AER.”

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, AerCap Holdings N.V. is an integrated global aviation company with a leading market position in aircraft and engine leasing, trading and parts sales.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner ichard J. Sandler, associates Diego A. Rotsztain, Byron B. Rooney and Molly C. Breyfogle and summer associate Aryeh L. Kaufman. Partner Michael Mollerus and associate Amir C. Chenchinski provided tax advice. Partner Gail A. Flesher provided environmental advice. Partner Nora M. Jordan and associate Rachel J. Strum provided 1940 Act advice. The NASD team included counsel Marcie A. Goldstein and legal assistant Peggy Ann Petercsak. Luis C. Martos and Elizabeth Rollings were the legal assistants on the transaction. All members of the Davis Polk team work in the New York office.

08-07-2007

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Davis Polk & Wardwell

Genpact Limited Initial Public Offering
Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as joint book-running managers of the $467 million initial public offering of Genpact Limited. Genpact and certain selling shareholders offered an aggregate of 35,294,118 common shares, of which 17,647,059 shares were sold by Genpact and 17,647,059 shares were sold by the selling shareholders. Genpact is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “G.”

Genpact began in 1997 as the India-based captive business process services operation for General Electric Capital Corporation and provides a wide range of business processes that address the transactional, managerial, reporting and planning needs of its clients. Since becoming an independent company in 2005, Genpact has expanded to serve clients in a variety of industries, including banking and finance, insurance, manufacturing, transportation and health care.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Richard A. Drucker and associates Arthur Einav and David L. Portilla. The tax team included partner Kathleen L. Ferrell and associate Arie Rubenstein (not yet admitted). The NASD team included counsel Marcie A. Goldstein and legal assistant Peggy Ann Petercsak. Lisa Garmong was the legal assistant on the transaction. All members of the Davis Polk team work in the New York office.

08-07-2007

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Ulmer & Berne LLP

Ulmer & Berne LLP has announced the addition of Gordon D. Kinder as senior counsel in its Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Group.
Ulmer & Berne LLP has announced the addition of Gordon D. Kinder as senior counsel in its Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Group.

Mr. Kinder’s practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution. “Gordon has a strong background in patent preparation and prosecution in the area of mechanical engineering, and will be a great addition to the Firm,” said Michael D. Stovsky, Chair of the Firm’s IP & Technology Group.

According to Mr. Stovsky, Ulmer & Berne saw mechanical engineering patent prosecution as one of its clients’ growing needs and has expanded the capabilities of the Firm’s practice by adding attorneys experienced in the areas of not only mechanical engineering but also electrical engineering and computer science. The IP & Technology Group plans to continue its expansion efforts to meet the needs of its clients.

“In response to the growing needs of our clients, we have enhanced our IP group with attorneys who have advanced technical degrees and extensive experience in patent preparation, prosecution, opinion and other related work,” said Mr. Stovsky. “With these additions, Ulmer & Berne has become a more full-service firm in the area of IP & Technology. Ultimately, the Firm’s goal is to become one of the top firms that clients turn to for all of their IP and technology needs.”

Mr. Kinder’s experience also includes patent litigation, as well as counseling and advising clients on all of the issues related to the sale or purchase of intellectual property. He serves on the boards of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and The Three Corner Round Pack Outfit, Inc. Prior to joining Ulmer & Berne, Mr. Kinder was a partner at Cleveland-based law firm Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP. He also served as past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association. He earned both his J.D. and B.S. in mechanical engineering, with honors, from Case Western Reserve University.

08-07-2007

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Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Wadsworth Atheneum Names Shipman & Goodwin Partner as Acting Director
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announces the appointment of Coleman H. Casey, currently President of the Board of Trustees, as Acting Director of the Museum until such time as a new Director is hired. The Museum is presently engaged in an international search for a new Director to replace Willard Holmes, who resigned in April.

Casey has been the President of the Board since November 2005, having first joined the Board of Trustees in 1990. He has served during that time on a wide variety of Museum committees. He is a graduate of Amherst College and The Yale Law School and is a partner in the Hartford law firm of Shipman & Goodwin LLP. In addition to his leadership of the Atheneum, Casey is a long-standing member of various boards, including the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, where he has also served as President of the Board.

"I am honored and moved by the Museum’s appointment of me," Casey remarked. "During this transition, the Museum needs day-to-day executive leadership. The Museum is one of the nation’s cultural jewels and continues to be the same vital and stimulating gallery it has been since its founding in 1842."

"It will be a tremendous asset for the Museum to have even greater access to Coleman’s business and leadership skills," noted Nicholas Ruocco, Deputy Director.

"The search for a new Director can typically take many months, so it is vital that the team now in place manage the Museum to the best of its resources and engage its members and visitors during this period," Casey commented. Working closely with the Board of Trustees and the dedicated and talented staff of the Museum, Casey will lead the Museum in the coming months in showcasing its outstanding permanent collections and presenting great exhibitions so that the next Director has a vibrant, out-reaching and forward-looking museum to run.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, founded in 1842, is a Connecticut cultural treasure and America’s oldest continuously operating art museum. With collections that include nearly 50,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years, the Museum is welcoming back its old Masters formerly on traveling loan as it currently celebrates the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks—glorious paintings, sculpture and decorative arts displayed as never before. The Museum looks ahead to a robust season of upcoming exhibitions with again: serial practices in contemporary art, photo-based art inspired by a gift from the celebrated local collector Mickey Cartin, from September 22 through December 30, 2007; Matrix 157/Christopher Mir, a collection of unique paintings compiled from collage images that suggest both traditional and Surrealist style, will be on exhibit from October 4, 2007 through January 6, 2008; and not-to-be-missed is the major international traveling exhibition, Impressionists by the Sea, opening February 9, 2008, with over 50 paintings documenting French 19th century artists’ fascination with the Normandy coast.

08-07-2007

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Johnson & Bell, Ltd.

First District Appellate Court reverses the jury's verdict resulting in a victory for Johnson & Bell client, Walgreen, Co.
In a victory for Johnson & Bell client, Walgreen Co., the First District Appellate Court affirmed judgment notwithstanding the verdict awarded subsequent to a jury trial.

In the wrongful death case of Crumpton vs. Walgreen Co., 2007 Ill. App. Lexis 732 (1st Dist. 2007), the plaintiff sued Walgreen Co. alleging a short-fill of a prescription. The plaintiff’s daughter committed suicide after not having taken her antipsychotic medication for four days. The mother alleged that the pharmacy was negligent in not having given her daughter the prescribed amount of pills. The jury returned a verdict for the mother but also found that the mother was also to blame, appointing her 25 percent negligent. The trial court granted the pharmacy’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV,) finding that the only evidence before the jury was that the daughter’s suicide was not foreseeable. The appellate court affirmed, finding that the general rule that suicide was an intervening cause applied to the daughter because the evidence did not show that she was so bereft of reason as to cause her to commit suicide. The mother testified that the daughter acted normal, and two physicians testified that it was not reasonably foreseeable that the daughter would commit suicide.`

08-07-2007

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