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Leonard, Street and Deinard

Attorney Susan M. Robiner appointed judge to the 4th Judicial District of Hennepin County
Shareholder Susan M. Robiner has been appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty as district court judge to the 4th Judicial District serving Hennepin County.

The appointment of Robiner and two other judicial appointees were announced at a news conference at the Capitol on July 17.

“Our firm certainly regrets losing an attorney of Susan’s caliber and professional standing,” said Joseph M. Finley, firm president. “But we are happy that the Court is gaining a judge who will bring such great experience, intelligence and wisdom to the bench. And we are very happy for Susan, who wants to devote the next phase of her professional life to public service.”

Robiner is a 1981 graduate of Carleton College and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1985. She joined Leonard, Street and Deinard in 1985 and most recently served as Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Information Technology Department. She has been honored as a “Rising Star” and “Super Lawyer” numerous times by Minnesota Law & Politics and is recognized in Chambers USA as one of “America’s Leading Business Lawyers.” She also serves as adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

07-19-2006

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King & Spalding

GSI Ranks King & Spalding 16th for M&A Deals in 2Q 2006
King & Spalding LLP, a leading international law firm, ranks 16th in the value of its completed mergers and acquisitions deals for the second quarter of 2006, according to Global Securities Information, Inc., a provider of specialty information services to legal and financial professionals. GSI credited King & Spalding with 5 completed deals during the quarter, for a total estimated value of $12.24 billion.

King & Spalding's team of over 90 M&A attorneys is committed to delivering the highest quality legal services to its clients, from the largest public corporations to the smallest start-up companies. The firm represents a substantial number of Fortune 100 corporations and other large cap companies, emerging growth and middle market companies as well as major investment banks and financial institutions. It has significant experience representing sellers, purchasers, target companies and financial advisors in all types of domestic and international transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, tender offers, leveraged buy-outs, hostile takeover defenses, and joint ventures.

07-19-2006

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Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

Fredrikson & Byron Attorney Jay Quam Appointed To Hennepin County District Court Judgeship
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. is pleased to announce that firm shareholder Jay Quam was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to a Fourth Judicial District Judgeship.

Quam has been a member of Fredrikson & Byron since 1988. A shareholder practicing general litigation, Quam’s experience involves most types of large and small civil disputes. Quam chairs Fredrikson & Byron’s Professional Development Committee, has been a Hennepin County Conciliation Court Judge, teaches trial advocacy at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and is an attorney coach for the Mounds View High School Mock Trial Team. He is a member of the Central Minnesota Legal Services Board, served on the Volunteer Lawyers Network Board of Directors and founded its summer associate program, and co-founded and is an advisor with the Educational and Representational Program for North Vista Education Center. Quam has also provided pro bono legal advice to clients of Catholic Charities/Branch III Homeless Shelter, and The City, Inc. Throughout his legal career, Quam has made a significant commitment to pro bono service. In recognition of his efforts, he received the 2003 Fredrikson & Byron Distinguished Service Award for his longstanding pro bono service, including devoting an average of 150 hours per year to pro bono over the last 10 years. Quam received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1988, and his bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude from Moorhead State University in 1984.

“Jay has been an excellent Fredrikson lawyer and partner. He has served our clients well and he has inspired us to become better lawyers and citizens through his commitment to training, to providing pro bono legal services to the disadvantaged, and to community service in general,” John Koneck, president of Fredrikson & Byron, said as he announced Quam’s appointment to the bench.

Fredrikson & Byron is a 200-attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Iowa, London and Monterrey, Mexico. The firm's primary areas of practice include banking, corporate, employment, healthcare, intellectual property, international, litigation, real estate, securities, and tax. We serve a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, public companies, privately-held businesses, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and family businesses. Fredrikson & Byron's attorneys also work with individuals on estate planning, family law, and immigration matters. We are the exclusive Minnesota law firm member of the World Services Group, a worldwide network of professional service providers. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com.

07-19-2006

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Dykema Gossett PLLC

Guenther Joins Dykema
The law firm of Dykema announces that John P. Guenther has joined the firm's Intellectual Property practice group as a Member in its Bloomfield Hills office. Mr. Guenther's practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property law, including domestic and international patent and trademark acquisition and maintenance, IP litigation, trade secret protection, high-profile product and trademark clearances, due diligence efforts, and licensing. In his practice, he counsels and represents Fortune 500 companies, as well as a number of mid-size and start-up organizations in a wide variety of technical fields. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. district courts in several states and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a long-time member of the Licensing Executive Society. From 1993-1999, Mr. Guenther served as in-house legal counsel and Director of Intellectual Property for a prominent Michigan-based plastics company with both domestic and international operations.

A resident of White Lake, Mr. Guenther holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Detroit. Mr. Guenther also served as a legal intern to the Honorable Horace Gilmore of the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Before attending law school, Mr. Guenther was a practicing CAD/CAM engineer for General Dynamics"" Land Systems Division and a design engineering consultant to Ford Motor Company's Advanced Vehicle and Project Alpha groups in Dearborn.

07-19-2006

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring Honored as Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year in Orange County
The California office of Crowell & Moring LLP has been named Law Firm of the Year 2006 by the Public Law Center (PLC) and will be honored for its pro bono program at a July 20, 2006 dinner at the Irvine Hyatt Regency. The PLC is celebrating its 25th anniversary of service to the Orange County community and more than 700 attorneys, judges, business and civic leaders are expected to attend the Volunteers for Justice dinner.

As part of the firm's pro bono program, Crowell & Moring lawyers assisted in preventing the closure of a Catholic Worker House because of a zoning issue; litigated on behalf of elderly and indigent Leisure World residents to obtain documents being withheld by management; represented a grandmother in obtaining custody of her grandchildren when the parents were incarcerated; and defended a single father suffering with cancer from the malicious actions of his neighbor. Deborah Arbabi, Randall Erickson, Kirsten Heikaus Weaver, Queena Hu, Theresa Lopez, Van Nguyen, Tricia Rizer, and other attorneys and staff at Crowell & Moring’s Irvine office contributed hundreds of pro bono hours in 2005. In 2002, firm partner Steven P. Rice was honored as the Public Law Center Attorney of the Year.

In a survey of the nation’s 200 highest-grossing firms, Crowell & Moring LLP ranked 13th in American Lawyer's ""Pro Bono Report,"" which was based on the most recent “AmLaw 200” survey of that magazine. The firm boasted an average of 80.4 pro bono hours per lawyer with 62.2 percent of lawyers providing more than 20 hours of pro bono work.

Crowell & Moring has committed itself - as a firm and as a community of professionals - to assure that all citizens have access to the legal system. Crowell & Moring's promotion of broad participation in pro bono work by the firm's lawyers and staff has enabled the firm to serve a range of urgent community needs.

The firm has been recognized by many legal service organizations for its pro bono contributions and has the distinction of receiving the District of Columbia Bar's pro bono ""Law Firm of the Year Award"" for two of the past 15 years (1991 and 1994). In April 2006, for the second consecutive year, Crowell & Moring was one of 14 Washington, D.C. law firms honored by the Chief Judges of the local Federal Courts for its commitment to pro bono work and meeting the benchmark of having 40 percent of its lawyers personally provide 50 or more hours of pro bono service.

07-19-2006

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Brown & Brown

BROWN RUDNICK EXPANDS STRUCTURED FINANCE GROUP WITH ADDITION OF ALBERT J. PINZON AND THOMAS R. WEINBERGER
Brown Rudnick, a premier international law firm, announces that Albert J. Pinzon and Thomas R. Weinberger have joined the firm as partners in the Structured Finance Group. Bringing over 25 years of combined experience in the capital and insurance markets, Mr. Pinzon and Mr. Weinberger previously led the Insurance-Linked Securities and Life Insurance Finance practices at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass. At Brown Rudnick, this team will handle a wide range of matters involving insurance and reinsurance as well as complex capital market transactions.

Albert J. Pinzon has over fifteen years of experience in corporate and securities law, structured finance and insurance regulatory matters, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions, insurance-linked securities and corporate restructurings. He has represented both acquirers and sellers in a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and has represented underwriters and issuers in a variety of public and private securities offerings. Mr. Pinzón regularly develops and structures complex financial solutions for financial institutions that bridge traditional finance with structured finance. He represents finance companies, hedge funds, insurance companies, private and institutional investors, and other financial institutions in all aspects of capital markets, cross-border financing, asset-based lending, structured and trade finance, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions. Mr. Pinzón has substantial expertise structuring complex cross-border deals for companies doing business in Latin America and Canada.

In the area of insurance-linked securities and alternative risk transfers, Mr. Pinzón specializes in insurance securitization transactions, including catastrophe risk transfers, imbedded value deals, life insurance reserve funding securitizations, (a.k.a. regulation XXX and AXXX facilities), and life settlements and premium finance facilities. Mr. Pinzón’s practice also includes advising insurance and reinsurance companies, hedge funds and investment banks on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and derivatives based transactions.

Thomas R. Weinberger focuses his practice on insurance and risk-linked securities, life insurance finance and related capital markets transactions, including Regulation XXX and AXXX, reserve funding transactions, life settlements, premium finance and alternative risk transfer and securitization transactions.

Mr. Weinberger is also active in cross-border asset-based lending and M&A transactions. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and securities law, public and private offerings, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Mr. Weinberger represents insurers, reinsurers and investment banks, as well as both buyers and sellers in major international M&A transactions. He also advises publicly traded companies on a wide variety of securities law matters, and counsels boards of directors on corporate governance matters. Additionally, he works with private investment partnerships on matters involving fund formation and portfolio company transactions.

According to Brown Rudnick’s CEO, Joseph F. Ryan, “By expanding our Structured Finance Group to include Insurance-Linked Securities practices, the firm will be well-positioned to help clients capitalize on the convergence of the capital and insurance markets. Albert and Tom possess a strong background in alternative risk transfer and life insurance finance combined with substantial experience in complex capital market transactions, augmenting our existing life settlement securitization practice.”

This announcement follows Brown Rudnick’s June notice that former Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (DTE), Paul G. Afonso, joined the firm as the Co-Practice Leader of the Government Law & Strategies Group in Boston. Also in June, Stephen Hallam joined the Litigation Department as a partner in the firm’s London office.

07-19-2006

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Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

CHC Elects Daub Chair
Community Health Charities elected Blackwell Sanders attorney Hal Daub chair of the board of its executive committee. CHC is the nation's leading nonprofit focused on addressing health and philanthropic issues in the workplace. Daub has been involved with CHC for 35 years.

Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin cares about our communities and about the needs of others. Throughout the year, our firm contributes to organizations and groups based upon mostly the interests of our partners, associates and staff who invest volunteer hours and serve on boards and committees for numerous charities, foundations and charitable events. A highlighted list of these charitable organizations is available online.

07-19-2006

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