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Vandeventer Black LLP Attorney At Law

Vandeventer Black Attorneys Harvey and Ottinger Receive VBA Community Service Award
Jim Harvey and Richard Ottinger were recognized as 2005 Virginia Bar Association Community Servant Charter Members. The mission of the program is to encourage, increase, support, and make more effective and efficient, the participation in non-legal community service and pro bono publico legal service by lawyers licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Harvey is a partner with Vandeventer Black and concentrates his practice in construction law, public contracts, products liability and general commercial litigation.

Ottinger is a partner with the firm and concentrates his practice in Commercial Litigation, with a particular focus on products liability defense, commercial and private property disputes.

07-27-2006

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP

What goes around, comes around, for Osler partner
Inco Ltd. will be putting a piece of Canadian legal history to rest on August 16 when it buries its poison pill takeover defence plan. In 1988, Inco unveiled Canada's first poison pill and found itself in the middle of a furious national investor debate. Investors swallowed the bitter medicine, after Inco sugar-coated the pill with a $1.05 billion dividend.

The legal pharmacists who designed Inco’s pill were Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt heavyweights Peter Dey, now a Bay Street financier, and Brian Levitt, now co-chair of the law firm, and then junior associate Clay Horner.

Eighteen years later, it was Mr. Horner who had to shred Inco’s poison pill. Now Osler’s other co-chair, Mr. Horner steered negotiations that led to last week’s agreement to strike down the pill in August. “A lot has happened in the rights plan world since 1988.” Mr. Horner said.

07-26-2006

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Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP

KBT&F Commences Stock Manipulation Lawsuit on Behalf of Fairfax Financial Holdings
KBT&F commenced a lawsuit on behalf of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. alleging that a group of hedge funds and investment analysts conspired to profit by fraudulently causing the company's stock price to drop. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey, seeks $6 billion from several defendants, including SAC Capital Management and Exis Capital. KBT&F partners Marc Kasowitz, Daniel Benson, Michael Bowe and Albert Mishaan are counsel for Fairfax.

07-26-2006

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Goodwin Procter, LLP

$625M Strategic Alliance With Genentech
Inotek announced that they have granted Genentech (NYSE: DNA) an exclusive global license to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors to treat cancer. DNA also will provide funding to use Inotek's small molecule chemistry expertise and pay for all future clinical development costs of PARP inhibitors for cancer. The transaction's potential total value, following $20 million up front and over $600 million in milestones, is $625 million. Inotek holds an option to co-promote PARP inhibitors for acute cardiovascular indications in the U.S. and retains rights to develop and commercialize the inhibitors outside of cancer and the cardiovascular indications included in the option.

Goodwin Procter partners Mitchell Bloom and Kingsley Taft along with associate Shaun Ryan represented Inotek in this matter.

07-26-2006

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Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, L.L.P.

Litigator Tom Dent Joins Duane Morris in Chicago
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to welcome Thomas Dent, formerly a partner with Seyfarth Shaw LLP, to its Chicago office. Tom joins the firm as Special Counsel in the Trial Practice Group, focusing on white-collar criminal defense and civil litigation.

An accomplished litigator, Tom brings more than 35 years of trial experience in both private and public practice to Duane Morris. Since joining Seyfarth Shaw in 1979, he has represented a wide range of clients, from industries to individuals, in internal investigations as well as criminal and tort litigation, and regulatory actions. He has counseled clients in litigation concerning all aspects of white-collar criminal law, including government contracts fraud, criminal fraud investigations and securities fraud. An assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 1970 to 1978, Tom has prosecuted federal criminal violations of all kinds at the grand jury, trial and appellate levels. In that role, Tom tried cases involving securities fraud, corporate embezzlement, immigration, foreign trade, narcotics and environmental law, among others. He is also experienced in the area of federal, state and agency civil litigation. In addition, Tom has been active as a law instructor for the Department of Justice's continuing legal education program in trial practice, and has taught constitutional law for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He frequently presents on criminal prosecution and defense to both professional organizations and government agencies.

A 1967 graduate of DePaul University, Tom earned his J.D. from DePaul University Law School in 1970.

07-26-2006

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Kaye Scholer LLP

Kaye Scholer is Host to NYLPI Pro Bono Advisory Council Panel Discussion
Kaye Scholer hosted a breakfast on July 26 for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest that was attended by 100 summer associates from over 25 New York firms. Joseph M. Drayton, counsel in Kaye Scholer's litigation department, served as the moderator for the program's panel discussion "Making a Difference: Pro Bono as Part of Your Law Firm Career Path.

07-26-2006

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Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP

New York Law Journal: Thacher Proffitt Announces Six New Partners
The New York Law Journal mentioned in their ""News in Brief"" section the promotions of six attorneys to partner: Patrick Boyle, Christian Chandler, Christopher Lewis, Peter Morgan, Robert Olin and Scott Swerdloff.

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Patrick J. Boyle
Christian H. Chandler
Christopher Lewis
Peter S. Morgan
Robert B. Olin
Scott Swerdloff

07-26-2006

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