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Kaye Scholer LLP

Tanenbaum's Seminar on Structuring Outsourcing Agreements Now Available on DVD
ReedLogic has released a new DVD in its Video Leadership Seminar series entitled "What Executives Need to Know About Structuring Outsourcing Agreements, With William Tanenbaum of Kaye Scholer LLP." This seminar provides C-level executives and attorneys with strategies to structuring outsourcing transactions in light of recent industry and legal developments. Among other topics, Mr. Tanenbaum, who is the chair of the Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group at Kaye Scholer, covers the seven key points in structuring an outsourcing agreement; the three most negotiated terms; specific negotiation strategies for common and over-the-horizon issues, privacy and data security, and an outline of specific best practices drawn from actual case studies. The DVD is available from ReedLogic, at www.reedlogic.com, and through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ingram Book Group.

08-21-2006

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Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.

Bracewell & Giuliani Attorney Speaks at Water Rights Sales and Transfers Seminar
Bracewell & Giuliani attorney Frank Z. Ruttenberg spoke at a seminar designed to assist the practitioner in all aspects of the emerging area of water issues, and water rights sales and transfers on August 11 in Corpus Christi. Click here to view his presentation.

All aspects of surface and groundwater sales and transfers, including engineering, regulatory and legal framework were explored. Topics discussed during the seminar included legal and regulatory framework for water and water rights sales and transfers; real examples of water transactions: surface and groundwater; engineering issues affecting transactions; water rights conveyance and transfer documents and ethical issues in the water practice.

Ruttenberg has been practicing law as a commercial and real estate lawyer in San Antonio since 1979. In recent years, he has been involved in assisting clients in connection with the purchase of groundwater and surface water rights throughout the state of Texas. His experience in dealing with water rights includes negotiating and drafting documents for the purchase and sale of groundwater rights, the lease of groundwater rights, the development of diversion facilities for surface water rights, and other water development and water supply agreements.

Ruttenberg is listed among the Best Lawyers in America for real estate law. Scene in San Antonio Monthly named him among the Most Influential San Antonians of 2005, stating that he has been ""widely regarded as the 'best of the best' in real estate and water law.

08-21-2006

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Adams & Reese LLP

Edwin B. Cleverdon Joins Birmingham Office of Adams and Reese LLP
Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that Edwin B. Cleverdon has joined the firm’s Birmingham office as a member of the ERISA/ Employee Benefits Practice Team in the Special Business Services Practice Group.

Prior to joining Adams and Reese, Mr. Cleverdon served in the office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., where he practiced in the areas of tax accounting issues (accrual of income and deductions, capitalization), travel and transportation expenses (including reimbursement and fringe benefit plans), tax shelters (LILOs, lease stripping, “Son of BOSS”), personal injury damages, information reporting and qualified settlement funds. He is author of Rev. Proc. 2004-34, providing rules for income deferral of advance payments;'1.274-5 of the Income Tax Regulations, providing rules for substantiating expenses; Rev. Rul. 99-7, providing rules for deducting transportation expenses and has also authored annual revenue procedures announcing standard mileage rates and per diem rates. He also served as an attorney advisor to Special Trial Judge Carleton Powell of the U.S. Tax Court, where he drafted and edited memoranda and opinions concerning depreciation, strike income, property transactions, self-employment income tax, scholarship income, business deductions, res judicata, and awards of attorney’s fees, as well as researched issues of tax law and court procedure.

In 1993, Mr. Cleverdon earned his Masters in Tax Law from the New York University School of Law, and in 1992, he earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award for Secured Transactions and was named an Alumni Scholar. He was a member of the Law and Psychology Review editorial board, and served as Research Assistant to Dean Kenneth C. Randall. Mr. Cleverdon also holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Alabama (1989) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Alabama (1984).

08-21-2006

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Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP Welcomes New Charlotte Attorney
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP is pleased to announce that William R. (Will) Terpening has joined the firm, practicing in the Charlotte, North Carolina office.

Mr. Terpening joins the firm as an Associate in the Litigation Practice Group and will focus his practice on white-collar criminal defense and civil litigation. Mr. Terpening comes to us from the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Terpening received both his J.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 2001 and his B.A. from Brown University in 1998.

08-21-2006

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Shefsky & Froelich

Summer Associates Participate in the ADL's Summer Research Program
Shefsky & Froelich is honored to have been a participant in the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Charles Wittenstein Summer Associate Research Program again this summer.

This very worthwhile program reinforces for law students the importance of pro-bono work. The participants research and write briefs on some of the many civil rights issues confronting the ADL on a daily basis.

Now in its fifth year, the program is named after Charles F. Wittenstein who served as ADL Southern counsel and Civil Rights Director for 21 years.

Shefsky summer associates, Camilla Rykke and Erin Lynch, and research clerk, Michael Driscoll, presented a well-written research memorandum addressing the legal issues involved when a tenured professor is terminated as a result of his public comments denying the Holocaust.

Our summer associates joined summer associates at the Chicago law firms Gardner Carton & Douglas, McDermott Will & Emory, Jones Day, Jenner & Block, Vedder Price, Sachnoff & Weaver, Sidley Austin, Kirkland & Ellis, Katten Muchin Rosenman and Latham & Watkins in this meaningful program.

08-21-2006

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Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP

Environmental Law Update: New Law Requires Notice to Municipality of Remedial Action
Upon initiation of the remedial action phase of the remediation of a contaminated site, any person who is responsible for conducting a remediation of the contaminated site, including NJDEP when it conducts a remediation of a contaminated site using public monies, shall provide written notification describing the activities that are to take place at the contaminated site to the clerk of the municipality wherein the site is located. (P.L.2006, c.65)

Under the law, “person responsible for conducting the remediation” is defined as any person who executes or is otherwise subject to an oversight document, and “oversight document” is defined to include any document NJDEP or a court issues to define the role of a person participating in the remediation of a contaminated site or area of concern. The definition includes administrative orders, administrative consent orders, court orders, memorandums of understanding, memorandums of agreement or remediation agreements.

Written notice to the municipality must include the site location, including address and tax block and lot number. The municipality must also be informed that it may receive a copy of the Remedial Action Workplan for the site and any updates or status reports from the responsible party, upon request. If remediation will take longer than two years to complete, notification must be provided to the municipality every two years until remediation is completed.

The public must also be notified of the remediation, pursuant to rules and regulations to be adopted by NJDEP within six months of the enactment of this law. Specifically, the rules and regulations will require written notification to any local property owners and tenants who reside within 200 feet of the contaminated site.

The law makes an exception to the notification requirement for remediation of a contaminated site caused by a leaking residential underground storage tank used to store heating oil for on-site consumption in a one to four family residential building, or an emergency response action.

08-21-2006

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Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.C.

Court Rules Race Bias Law Does Not Apply Outside U.S.
Principal Leslie A. Lajewski was quoted in the August 21, 2006 issue of Business Insurance in an article discussing race discrimination conducted outside of the United States.

The article stated:
""It makes it, at least in the 2nd Circuit, really clear for employers that have people overseas to know under Section 1981 where their liability ends,' said Leslie Lajewski, a partner in the New York office of Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman P.C. With so many employees today transferring overseas and back, it is welcome to have a clear ruling that conduct outside of the United States can't be the basis for a discrimination claim under Section 1981 of the U.S. Civil Rights law, she said.

08-21-2006

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