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Brown McCarroll, L.L.P.

Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. Receives Austin White Lime’s Award
Austin White Lime awarded Brown McCarroll with it’s External Vendor of the Year Award for 2005. Brown McCarroll was recognized for its contributions to the company as an outstanding external service provider for over 40 years. The Firm also received this award in 2001.

“Austin White Lime is one of the firm’s oldest clients,” said H. David Hughes, who accepted the award on behalf of the Firm. “We are thankful to have an excellent relationship with this client and are honored to receive this award.”

The relationship with Austin White Lime dates back as early as the 1940’s, when Jay H. Brown, name partner and founder of Brown McCarroll, worked with the Robinson family in providing general legal counsel for the company. The Firm’s continued work in a variety of areas complements Austin White Lime’s range of business interests, and allows the company to work with a single firm in handling a broad scope of legal needs.

Austin White Lime Company operates a limestone quarry and chemical lime production facility on the border of north Austin, just south of Round Rock. The Company’s lime products are sold all over the state of Texas and are used in wide variety of applications such as soil stabilization, water treatment, steel and aluminum manufacturing, and sugar refining. The Company employs an average of 160 employees and operates its facility 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. One of the oldest Austin businesses still operating, Austin White Lime Company was established in 1888.

03-10-2006

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Broad and Cassel

Six Leading Attorneys Join Broad And Cassel’s Miami Office Firm Also Adds Two New Statewide Practice Groups
ORLANDO, FL; March 6, 2006 — Statewide law firm, Broad and Cassel, continued implementation of its strategic growth plan in Miami, with the recent addition of six outstanding attorneys and two new practice groups since the start of 2006.

In the last seven weeks alone the firm has added six leading attorneys from the area, including partners Patricia M. Baloyra from Tew Cardenas and Ronald Albert, Jr., from Holland and Knight; Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz, who joins as Of Counsel from Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.A.; and associates Miriam Alfonso, Isabel C. Diaz, and John Gravante.

These new attorneys, as well as existing staff, will help support the firm’s new statewide practice groups, Insurance and Financial Services and Public Finance and Capital Projects.

Mark F. Raymond, P.A., who joined the firm in January 2005 and was named managing partner four months later, has continually focused on his vision to grow the Miami office into a firm that serves a diverse market with growing needs.

Patricia M. Baloyra joined the firm this year as a partner in the firm’s Land Use and Environmental Law Practice Group. Ms. Baloyra previously served as an assistant city attorney for various municipalities in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe County, and has extensive experience in intergovernmental relations and municipal government. She has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Miami and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Ronald Albert, Jr., joined the firm in January as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Recognized by Florida Trend Magazine as a “Legal Elite,” and a Martindale-Hubbell AV-Rated Attorney, Mr. Albert has extensive experience in a broad array of corporate transactions. He is also an active member of the community, currently serving as the chairman of the Mount Sinai Medical Center Young Presidents Club, a member on the executive committee of the Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation, vice president of Temple Beth Shalom, and treasurer for the Lawyers for Children America.

Most recently, Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz and Isabel C. Diaz joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, as Of Counsel and Associate respectively. Previously with Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.A., de las Cuevas-Diaz and Diaz bring extensive experience in multi-million dollar real estate transactions and commercial lending representing both developers and banks. Paralegal Yandra Hernandez has also joined the firm as a result of the transition.

Miriam Alfonso, who also began her legal career at Broad and Cassel in 1998, returned to the firm as an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. A magna cum laude graduate of The University of Miami Law School, Ms. Alfonso most recently worked in the Corporate Department with Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.

John Gravante, who graduated second in his class at the University of Miami School of Law, joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group as an associate. Gravante also graduated with honors from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He now serves the University of Miami School of Law as an adjunct professor in legal research and writing. Gravante previously worked with Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A.

The firm’s two new practice groups also represent significant steps in the statewide strategic growth plan. Raymond will serve as the South Florida representative of the new Insurance and Financial Services Practice Group, which is chaired by A. Kenneth Levine, a partner in the Tallahassee office. Services within this area range from licensing and compliance
issues to complex litigation for such clients as life and health insurers, property/casualty carriers, health maintenance organizations, managed care organizations, insurance agencies and adjusting firms.

Orlando Partners Joseph B. Stanton and Douglas Starcher chair the new Public Finance and Capital Projects Practice Group, which was formed to handle the increasing volume of municipal finance transactions across the state. South Florida representatives of the Public Finance and Capital Projects Practice Group include, Ronald Albert., Jr., Mark F. Raymond and Jeffrey Robinson. Backed by extensive experience in this area, the Broad and Cassel team is poised to serve as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel or bank counsel in a wide range of public finance and projects issues.

03-10-2006

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Bricker & Eckler LLP

Bricker & Eckler legal secretary elected president of NALS
Columbus, Ohio …Catherine A. Hankins, Certified PP, PLS, a legal secretary with the law firm of Bricker & Eckler, has been elected as the 2006-2007 president of NALS - the association for legal professionals. Hankins was inducted into this national office today at the NALS Professional Development & Education Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Active within NALS, Hankins previously served as president-elect, secretary/treasurer, director of education, director of certification, and Region 3 director - the national liaison for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

Founded in 1929, NALS is the oldest legal support services organization in the country. Membership includes legal secretaries, legal assistants, paralegals, and court support professionals. Through NALS, members enrich their knowledge of the legal profession through continuing legal education, certification and networking.

Hankins joined Bricker & Eckler in 1987.

03-10-2006

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Benesch Attorneys Law

\"Benesch Beat\" Podcast Wins National Marketing Award
CLEVELAND, OHIO – March 10, 2006 – Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced that the law firm's podcasts entitled ""The Benesch Beat"" won first place in the electronic media category of the national Legal Marketing Association's ""Your Honor Awards."" The LMA ""Your Honor Awards"" is the vehicle by which products and services that stand for the ""best of the best"" produced by the legal marketing industry are honored. Over 250 entries were submitted.

The producer of Benesch’s podcasts, Mark Avsec, is not only an intellectual property attorney at the firm, but also an accomplished musician and composer. Avsec stated, ""Benesch has always been an entrepreneurial firm. It is natural to explore cutting-edge technology like podcasts, in addition to traditional paper and e-mail client advisories, to keep clients abreast of current legal information."" The podcasts are sent automatically and directly to individuals who subscribe to the free service and are also posted on Benesch’s website (www.bfca.com). In addition, they are listed in Apple’s iTunes directory.

“The Benesch Beat” podcast, which is professionally-produced at a state-of-the-art recording studio in Cleveland, features former WMMS morning legend Ed “Flash” Ferenc as moderator and theme music produced by Avsec. ""The Benesch Beat"" provides individuals, clients and prospective clients with an interesting and simple way to access informative, mini-legal seminars.

03-10-2006

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Bassford Remele

BASSFORD WELCOMES NEW ASSOCIATES
BASSFORD REMELE, A Professional Association, is pleased to announce that Lisa P. Harper and Jonathan P. Norrie have become associates of the firm.

03-10-2006

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Bassford Remele

REBECCA EGGE MOOS ELECTED SECRETARY OF MN CHAPTER OF AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES
BASSFORD REMELE is pleased to announce that Shareholder Rebecca Egge Moos was recently elected secretary of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). ABOTA is an elite organization of accomplished trial lawyers who are of high personal character and honorable reputation. Membership is by invitation only. The primary purpose of ABOTA is the preservation of the civil jury trial.

Ms. Moos is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation. She is a Minnesota State Bar Association board-certified civil trial specialist and a past president of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association. Ms. Moos represents health care professionals, hospitals and clinics in medical malpractice and board matters. She also represents local and national insurers and corporations in complex commercial claims. In addition, Ms. Moos serves as arbitrator and mediator in civil litigation matters.

03-10-2006

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Archer & Greiner, P.C. Attorney At Law

Archer & Greiner Attorneys Named Among \"Best Lawyers in America\"
HADDONFIELD, NJ – March 10, 2006 – Archer & Greiner, P.C. is pleased to announce that nine of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 edition. Attorneys named are:

Haddonfield, New Jersey
John C. Connell — First Amendment Law
Frank R. Demmerly, Jr. — Trusts and Estates
Peter E. Driscoll — Trusts and Estates
Christopher R. Gibson — Environmental Law
Lee M. Hymerling — Family Law
Ellis I. Medoway — Insurance Law
Steven K. Mignogna — Trusts and Estates
William J. Thompson — Family Law

Flemington, New Jersey
Lloyd H. Tubman — Environmental Law; Land Use & Zoning Law

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward/White, Inc., has become regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on peer-review surveys in which 16,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

03-10-2006

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