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Gray, Plant & Mooty

Tamara Hjelle Olsen Receives Industry Leader Award
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal named Tamara Hjelle Olsen an “Industry Leader� in its 2007 Women in Business project. Industry Leaders are women who have risen to the top of their fields—key players at the forefront of their industries and innovators who are leading trends and breaking new ground. Honorees were selected by the Business Journal’s editors and recognized at an awards ceremony on July 25.

In its 10th year, the Women in Business project honored 51 women who have transformed the business community through corporate leadership, entrepreneurial excellence, and innovation. This year, the Business Journal recognized 25 “Women to Watch� and 25 “Industry Leaders,� and honored one woman with the Career Achievement award and one male CEO with the Ally award.

“I am so pleased to be honored with the Business Journal’s Industry Leader award,� says Olsen. “The Women in Business project has a longstanding tradition of recognizing a diverse group of established and emerging women business leaders and I’m honored to be included in the class of 2007.�

Olsen is GPM’s Managing Officer and Chair of its Board of Directors, co-chair of the firm's Higher Education practice group, and a principal in its Employment Law practice group. She advises businesses and nonprofit clients in personnel-related matters, and advises colleges and universities, and their boards, on general higher education issues including accreditation, student affairs, faculty issues, and conduct code violations.

A summa cum laude graduate of Moorhead State University, Olsen earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1986. She received the Author’s Award from the Minnesota State Bar Association in 1989, is consistently named a Minnesota Law & Politics "Super Lawyer" and, in 2006, was named a “Top 100 Female Super Lawyer.�

Olsen is also a member of Minnesota Women Lawyers, the Hennepin County Bar Association, and a past member of the Minnesota State Bar Association Committee on Women in the Legal Professions. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Dunwoody College of Technology and is a member of its Personnel Committee. Olsen has also taught “Women and the Law� at the University of Minnesota and served on the Park Nicollet Medical Foundation Institutional Review Board. She was named GPM’s Managing Officer in 2007 and is the first woman to hold that position in the firm’s 141-year history.

07-27-2007

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Fox Rothschild LLP

Fox Rothschild’s West Palm Beach Office Continues to Grow
Fox Rothschild LLP welcomes Pauline W. Cheung, Esq. and Ricardo A. Antaramian, Esq. as associates in its tax and estates department, resident in its West Palm Beach, Florida office. Cheung and Antaramian both focus their practice on federal taxation, with particular emphasis on corporate, partnership, international tax planning, and related matters.

Cheung earned her J.D., cum laude, in 2005 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she also received her L.L.M in Taxation this year. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Vanderbilt University, graduating cum laude in 2002.

Antaramian received his J.D., with High Honors, in 2005 from the Florida State University College of Law, and his B.S. in Geological Sciences from Rutgers College in 1994. He was also graduated from the University of Florida’s Graduate Tax Program and holds a diploma in Computer Engineering from the Chubb Institute.

07-27-2007

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Fox Rothschild LLP

Fox Rothschild Grows its Family Law Practice in New Jersey
Fox Rothschild LLP welcomes Sandra C. Fava, Esq. as an Associate in the Family Law Practice, resident in the Roseland, New Jersey office. Fava’s practice involves all aspects of family law, including divorce, equitable distribution, custody, support, and marital agreements, as well as domestic violence actions. She represents clients in all stages of family law litigation.

While in law school, Fava studied abroad in Italy at the Universities of Parma and Milan. There, she studied business transactions and comparative constitutional Law while also serving as Translator.

Fava earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2005 and her B.A. from Rutgers State College in 2002. She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, and is a member of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, as well as the Morris and Essex County bar associations.

07-27-2007

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Fox Rothschild LLP

Min S. Suh of Fox Rothschild Elected to PBI Board of Directors
Min S. Suh, a partner with Fox Rothschild LLP has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. The Institute is the continuing legal education arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA).

Suh’s practice focuses on representing multinational and domestic corporations in business immigration matters before the U.S. Departments of State, Labor and Homeland Security. She manages complex immigration matters and trains employers on topics such as employment verification compliance, hiring practices and employment discrimination. Her experience also includes representing employers in employer sanction cases under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Suh has authored numerous articles and lectures frequently on topics related to her practice area. She has been selected as a "Super Lawyer" by Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine (2006, 2007) and recognized as one of 30 statewide “Lawyers on the Fast Track� by The Legal Intelligencer (2004).

The Pennsylvania Bar Institute (www.pbi.org) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide Pennsylvania lawyers with information that is timely, practical, cost effective and of the highest possible quality.

07-27-2007

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Bullivant Houser Bailey

Bullivant lawyers named Northern California Super Lawyers
Two Bullivant Houser Bailey PC attorneys have been honored by their peers as Super Lawyers for 2007 in Northern California, the firm announced today. Lawyers were selected based on the results of thousands of peer reviews and votes, and the recommendation of a blue-ribbon panel.

Bullivant attorneys selected in Northern California:

Kent J. Clancy, Insurance, San Francisco

Andrew B. Downs, Insurance, San Francisco

In Northern California, Super Lawyers is published in San Francisco Magazine, in conjunction with Law & Politics. Law & Politics annually surveys lawyers throughout numerous states, conducting additional research to identify lawyers who have achieved the highest level of professional achievement. Approximately five percent of lawyers in the state receive the Super Lawyer designation.

07-27-2007

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Bryan Cave LLP

New Lawyer Expands Firm’s Capacity in Commercial Litigation
Stacey L. Herter has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as counsel in the firm’s Irvine office. She joins Bryan Cave’s commercial litigation group.

Herter has gained extensive experience with complex civil litigation matters, including class actions, business, employment, real estate and commercial disputes. She has represented clients in disability litigation matters involving all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Herter’s practice focuses primarily on civil rights law and corporate and employment litigation. Her clients have included theater owners, national hotel chains, restaurants, developers and various retail establishments.

Herter is a frequent contributor to Disability Compliance Bulletin, an LRP publication, and Previews, The National Association of Theatre Owners Newsletter.

Herter received her J.D. in 1996 from Pepperdine University School of Law and her B.A. in 1993 from the University of Southern California.

07-27-2007

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The Law Firm Of Baker & Daniels LLP

Fenton Strickland Joins Baker & Daniels Tax Practice
Fenton D. Strickland, a certified public accountant, has joined the state and local tax practice group at Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate attorney in the downtown Indianapolis office.

Before joining Baker & Daniels, Strickland served two years as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Brent E. Dickson in the Indiana Supreme Court. He also worked in Indianapolis as an accountant for 11 years, including the period from 2000 to 2005 during which he was the assistant controller at CIC Enterprises LLC.

Strickland graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1994 and summa cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis with a jurisprudence doctorate in 2005. He was an adjunct professor at the IU School of Law during the 2006-07 academic year.

07-27-2007

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