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Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Irina Skidan Joins Chadbourne & Parke as Counsel
The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Irina Skidan has joined the Firm as Counsel in the St. Petersburg office. Ms. Skidan will draw on her experience in corporate and financial matters, with a particular focus on capital markets.

“Irina brings rich and varied experience to Chadbourne,” said Chadbourne Managing Partner Charles O’Neill. “Her Russian language fluency and knowledge of the Russian legal and business environment will enable her to provide creative legal advice to our clients.”

Ms. Skidan joins the Firm from Jones Day in Moscow, where she had been Of Counsel. Prior to that she worked for several major law firms in New York on transactional matters involving global corporations and financial institutions. Earlier in her career, Ms. Skidan worked as a certified public accountant.

“Irina is a very welcome addition to our growing St. Petersburg office,” said Laura M. Brank, head of Chadbourne’s Russia and the CIS practice. “She has a wealth of experience advising on cross-border corporate transactions. Irina will enhance the services we offer in St. Petersburg, Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.”

She holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in theater management from Marymount Manhattan College and a J.D., summa cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where she held a fellowship in international business law and was co-editor of the Proceedings of the Symposium on Risk-Based Capital Adequacy Guidelines.

08-01-2007

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Adams & Reese LLP

Norris Re-elected Chair of National Economic Development Committee
State Senator Mark Norris (R-Collierville) was recently elected to a second term as Chairman of the Economic Development, Transportation and Cultural Affairs Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference. He will continue his service on the Executive Committee of the 16-state Southern Legislative Conference headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Norris, a partner with the law firm of Adams and Reese LLP, serves as Senate Majority Leader in the Tennessee General Assembly. He also serves as a Principal of the Washington, D.C. Intergovernmental Forum on Transportation Finance.

Last year, Norris helped bring U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters to Memphis. She chaired hearings by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission which heard testimony by Norris and others on the future of transportation in the United States.

"As a nation, we face special challenges in transportation, but Tennessee and the South are well positioned to take advantage of new opportunities," said Norris. "It's our responsibility to keep this region in the forefront of transportation and logistics so we can seize these opportunities in the future."

Norris represents the West Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, Lauderdale and Dyer in the Tennessee Senate. A 1980 graduate of the University of Denver College of Law, he is a member of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association and Transportation Lawyers Association.

08-01-2007

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Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

Young Conaway Continues to Rank First in Delaware Among Midlevel Associates
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP has ranked 1st in Delaware and 11th in the country when compared to other firms its size, according to the 2007 American Lawyer Midlevel Associates survey.

“The firm is pleased that Young Conaway is continually recognized as a great place to practice law,” said firm chairman James L. Patton, Jr.

The 2007 survey of third, fourth and fifth year associates at 189 firms across the United States probed into associates' levels of job satisfaction, including the interest and satisfaction levels of work; relations between associates and partners, training and guidance, openness about finances and strategies, billable hours policy; the firm's attitude toward pro bono work, and the likelihood of the associate being at the firm in two years.

Patton went on to say, “We are proud of the success the firm has achieved in developing a collegial and mentoring atmosphere among partners and associates. It is gratifying that our associates consistently commend Young Conaway for our providing substantive work while also offering a balance that allows attorneys to pursue family, social and community interests outside the office.”

08-01-2007

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Van Ness Feldman

Van Ness Feldman Augments Active Environmental Practice with Addition of New Associate in Seattle
Van Ness Feldman, P.C. is pleased to announce that Tyson Kade has joined the law firm’s Seattle, WA office as an associate. Mr. Kade brings particular expertise to the firm’s robust and growing Environmental and Natural Resources practices to assist clients impacted by the Endangered Species Act, climate change, electronic and hazardous waste regulations, fisheries management, and FERC relicensing issues.

A graduate of University of Washington School of Law, Mr. Kade was a student advocate for the University of Washington’s Berman Environmental Law Clinic, gaining litigation experience and significant exposure to Endangered Species Act and Superfund issues. Additionally, Mr. Kade served as a judicial intern for The Honorable James L. Robart in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and as a law clerk with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Kade served as a fisheries management specialist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. In this position, he gained experience drafting environmental impact statements and fisheries regulations, as well as assisting with Endangered Species Act section 7 consultations.

Van Ness Feldman’s Seattle-based attorneys provide legal, regulatory, and political counsel to clients throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Mountain West regarding energy, environmental, and natural resource issues. The firm advises industrial and manufacturing companies and major industry coalitions and associations in significant regulatory and environmental liability issues, including challenges to proposed regulations, preparation of complex permit applications, and legislative matters.

08-01-2007

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Ulmer & Berne LLP

Ulmer & Berne LLP Attorney, Marvin L. Karp, Appointed to the Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct
Ulmer & Berne LLP announced today that Marvin L. Karp, a partner in the Firm’s Cleveland office, is among 17 members who have been appointed by Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer to serve on a Supreme Court of Ohio panel that will revise and improve the rules governing the conduct of Ohio judges.

Led by retired appellate Judge Thomas Bryant of Findlay, the Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct includes nine judges and seven attorneys from throughout the state as well as one non-judge/non-attorney. The task force will review the code, accept public comment and recommend a new Code of Judicial Conduct for Ohio judges, which will be based on the substantive additions and revisions to the American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct that were adopted in February by the ABA’s House of Delegates. The review will make Ohio, which last updated its code in 1997, one of the first states to consider changes based on the model code.

With more than 45 years of trial and appellate experience in business, corporate and insurance litigation, Karp has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America since 1983. As a result of surveys taken of Ohio lawyers, he was named as one of the “Top 10 Super Lawyers” in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Karp was named a “Top 100 Super Lawyer” in the state of Ohio and a “Top 50 Super Lawyer” in Cleveland in 2007. In 2004, he received the American ORT Jurisprudence Award for his many contributions to the legal profession and the community. In 2007, Karp received The Ohio Bar Medal for “unusually meritorious service to the legal profession and the community.”

08-01-2007

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Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

Sixteen Oppenheimer Attorneys named 2007 "Super Lawyers"
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP is pleased to announce that the following attorneys have been recognized as 2007 “Super Lawyers” and featured in Minnesota Law & Politics, Twin Cities Business Monthly and Mpls. St. Paul Magazine.

The "Super Lawyers" selection process is designed to identify Minnesota lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent of Minnesota attorneys receive this honor.

"Super Lawyers" are selected based on a four-step process: a general survey is sent to more than 16,000 active Minnesota lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they have personally observed in action; a blue ribbon panel of attorneys consisting of more than 60 practice areas reviews the nomination list; a lawyer-led research department evaluates every nominee's credentials; and finally the candidates are divided according to firm size and geographic location and top candidates from each group are selected as "Super Lawyers."

08-01-2007

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Novack & Macey, P.C.

Overcharge Claim Soundly Defeated
Novack and Macey LLP obtained a complete victory on behalf of its client, Constellation NewEnergy (CNE), in an arbitration brought by one of CNE’s former customers. Constellation NewEnergy operates in competitive retail power markets and is a leading supplier of electricity to businesses and government agencies.

The claimant in arbitration was a former customer of Constellation NewEnergy which alleged that CNE had miscalculated certain charges over a four-and-one-half year period, resulting in a substantial claimed overcharge. After a two-day evidentiary hearing held in May 2007, the arbitrator soundly rejected the claim in an Award entered on June 25, 2007. The Award termed the evidence Novack and Macey presented on CNE’s behalf “overwhelming,” and held that CNE’s charges were proper and consistent with the parties’ contract and intent. In addition to denying the former customer’s claim “in its entirety,” the arbitrator also ordered the former customer to reimburse CNE for various of its arbitration expenses.

Constellation NewEnergy was represented by Novack and Macey partner, Stephen J. Siegel, and associate, Richard G. Douglass, with the assistance of associate Melissa B. Pryor. Over the past decade, Novack and Macey has successfully represented a host of energy companies in their commercial disputes, including CNE’s corporate parent, Constellation Energy Group, a Fortune 200 energy company based in Baltimore, Maryland.

08-01-2007

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