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Former Chevron Energy Solutions Vice President and General Counsel Douglas A. Oglesby Joins Hanson Bridgett
Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy LLP is pleased to announce that Douglas A. Oglesby, former Vice President and General Counsel for Chevron Energy Solutions, a Chevron Corporation operating company, will join the firm effective August 1st. His addition expands the firm's energy and sustainable business practice. Mr. Oglesby will focus on energy transactional matters and counseling, including complex energy alliance agreements, energy services and management agreements, alternative power generation and energy infrastructure construction contracts, wholesale and retail power supply contracts and transmission arrangements, regulatory policy, and wholesale and retail electricity rates and tariffs. As General Counsel of Chevron Energy Solutions, Mr. Oglesby was actively involved in the development and implementation of energy efficiency, conservation, and power systems projects, with special emphasis on developing and constructing small electric generating plants using biofuels and other renewable resources.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Oglesby garnered a high-level of expertise in energy and regulatory law in the electric power industry. His experience includes serving for 9 years as Chief Counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) Electric Supply Business Unit. More recently, Mr. Oglesby served as Vice President and General Counsel of PG&E Energy Services, a position he retained after Chevron acquired the PG&E subsidiary in 2000. Mr. Oglesby was a founder of PG&E Energy Services' predecessor Vantus Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of PG&E Company, and became Vantus' first General Counsel in 1996.

As Chief Counsel at PG&E, Mr. Oglesby was the principal legal advisor to the Electric Supply Business Unit and to PG&E's senior management on a broad array of issues that included electric supply matters, resource planning, industry structure and restructuring, permitting of transmission and power plant facilities (including hydroelectric, geothermal and central station fossil fueled power plants), utility interchange, transmission and non-utility power transactions and associated pricing, rates and tariffs issues. He also led the legal team in defending the operating license for PG&E's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant before the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in various Federal Courts, including the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he has managed and participated in numerous proceedings before the California Public Utility Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the California Energy Commission.

"I am thrilled to be joining Hanson Bridgett's team of exceptional attorneys," said Mr. Oglesby. "This is a great opportunity for me to share my knowledge of the industry with our clients, while continuing to influence public policy by working with government agencies."

Jonathan Storper, Chairman of the firm's Corporate and Sustainable Business Practice Group, who worked as outside counsel with Mr. Oglesby during his tenure at PG&E Energy Services, commented that "Doug's expertise in the energy arena significantly adds to and compliments our existing business practice, particularly at a time when our work in the renewable energy field has been rapidly expanding. With Doug's addition, Hanson will be better able to assist companies, industry associations, utilities, and government agencies with a broad array of energy related services and policy initiatives."

"Bringing Doug to the team reaffirms our commitment to provide our clients, both public and private, with top notch attorneys who are experts in areas of law that are significant and relevant," stated Joan Cassman, who heads the Government Group practice and also worked with Mr. Oglesby on an alternative energy co-generation project involving her client, the City of Millbrae. "We are all looking forward to working with him."

Prior to his tenure with PG&E Energy Services, Mr. Oglesby was a partner at the McKenna & Cuneo law firm, where he represented large energy consumers, domestic and international independent power developers, marketers, and utilities on a wide range of energy and regulatory matters.

Mr. Oglesby has an extensive record of practicing before and providing expert testimony to energy-related government agencies including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, and other state and federal agencies on a wide range of energy-related issues. He actively participated in the development of the 1992 National Energy Policy Act, helping to shape the provisions relating to independent power development and electric transmission.

Mr. Oglesby obtained his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated third in his class and was selected for the national legal honorary Order of the Coif. While at Boalt Hall, he also served as Article Editor of the California Law Review. Prior to law school, he was a line officer in the United States Navy and in the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps after law school.

07-25-2007

Attorney Jami E. Leach appointed to Barrister
The Law Firm of Garan Lucow Miller, P.C. announces attorney and shareholder, Jami E. Leach, has been appointed for a three-year term as Barrister of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law’s chapter of American Inns of Court effective August, 2007.

Ms. Leach graduated with a B.S. (summa cum laude) in 1991 and a J.D. (cum laude) in 1995 from the University of Detroit. She became a member of the Michigan Bar in 1995 and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District in 1995 and the Western District in 1997.

She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Association of Defense Trial Lawyers and the Michigan Association of Municipal Attorneys. She is the co-editor of the firm’s publication, GovLaw, a monthly publication that provides legal information and analysis to Michigan cities, townships, villages, and schools, their officials, carriers and counsel.

Ms. Leach’s practice areas include municipal liability defense, casino litigation, premises liability and automobile negligence. She practices in the firm’s Detroit office.

07-25-2007

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Announces Charter Patent Victory
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that a federal jury in Marshall, Texas has ruled in favor of its client, national cable service provider Charter Communications, in a patent infringement lawsuit.

The suit was brought by Hybrid Patents, Inc., who claimed that it owned patents on the industry standard developed for high-speed Internet connections over cable modems. Hybrid sought as much as $176 million in damages as well as treble damages for willful infringement

The Kirkland team consisted of partners John Desmarais, Eric Lamison, Adam Alper, and Alice Garber, and associates Ryan Casamiquela, Jeanne Heffernan, Sue Shin, Jason Choy, Kenny Nguyen and Jeremy Taylor.

07-25-2007

29 Fenwick & West Attorneys Honored as 2007 Super Lawyers of Northern California
Fenwick & West congratulates its 29 attorneys who were honored by San Francisco Magazine as top practitioners in Northern California. The attorneys in the roster of 2007 Super Lawyers in Northern California were selected based on the results of peer nominations and the recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel.

07-25-2007

Dechert Advises ETF Securities on Launch of Six New Oil ETCs
Dechert LLP advised long standing client ETF Securities on yet another world first with the listing of six new oil Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs) on the London Stock Exchange. These new products offer investors the opportunity to gain direct exposure to one, two and three year oil futures prices in Brent and WTI oil benchmarks. In addition, investors can now be exposed to different parts of the oil futures curve and implement different strategic investments in oil, including benefiting from backwardation which can provide a source of return in addition to the oil price return.

Previously, in April of this year, Dechert helped ETF Securities, through its subsidiary ETFS Metal Securities Limited launch and list a range of physically backed precious metals ETCs on the London Stock Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Euronext SA Paris and Euronext Amsterdam. Dechert also advised ETFS Commodity Securities Limited on its simultaneous launch of 29 separate ETCs in the UK, comprising 19 types of individual securities and ten types of index securities (and a further 19 types of micro securities) ETCs, all separately listed on the London Stock Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana s.p.a., Euronext SA Paris and Euronext Amsterdam.

The Dechert team advising ETF Securities was led by financial services partner Andrew Hougie, assisted by counsel Gary Walker and associates Jessica Brescia and Lucy Reynolds.

Said Andrew Hougie: "Once again we are delighted to have worked with ETF Securities and ETFS Oil Securities Limited on the launch of these new oil ETCs on the London Stock Exchange. They represent another world first in oil ETCs by providing investors with an exposure similar to that of an unleveraged position in oil futures contracts on various parts of the oil futures curve, including one, two, and three year oil futures prices."

07-25-2007

Jack D. Shumate is one of 23 attorneys who have founded the American College of Environmental Lawyers
Butzel Long senior attorney Jack D. Shumate is one of 23 attorneys from across the United States and the only Michigan lawyer who have founded the American College of Environmental Lawyers. The College will recognize the achievements of outstanding environmental attorneys and focus their efforts to enhance the practice of environmental law. The founders of the College are all environmental attorneys who are listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Based in Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office, Mr. Shumate specializes in environmental, natural resources, insurance coverage matters and appellate law. Mr. Shumate is the firm's Senior Environmental attorney. He has been engaged in all aspects of environmental law since 1975. Currently, his environmental practice is focused on investigation and cleanup of Superfund sites throughout the country, pre-acquisition property investigations, environmental aspects of major real estate and corporate transactions, Brownfield redevelopment and environmental litigation.

Mr. Shumate has a broad background in real estate and corporate transactions and related litigation and legislative relations. Prior to joining Butzel Long, he worked in the Corporate Legal Department of Consumers Power Company. His duties in that position included licensing, investigation, and closure and re-use of the Company's coal ash landfills, including resolving heavy metals issues. He has represented subsidiaries engaged in exploration and development of oil, natural gas, and uranium. He also has served as a legal and legislative advisor to the Governor of Ohio.

Mr. Shumate is an active member, and past Chairperson, of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan. He is a frequent author and lecturer on real estate and environmental topics and has served as an expert witness concerning environmental and attorney malpractice issues. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Shumate has a B.S. Degree in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and obtained his J.D. Degree in 1962 from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University. Mr. Shumate is a resident of Grosse Pointe Park.

07-25-2007

Three Nashville Partners Named “Best of the Bar” by NBJ
Lawrence R. Ahern, Kevin M. Doherty and Darlene T. Marsh of Burr & Forman’s Nashville Office were named “Best of the Bar” by the Nashville Business Journal in the areas of Bankrupcty, Insurance and Real Estate respectively. Honorees are chosen by members of the Nashville legal community through a peer-based nomination process in more than two-dozen practice areas.

07-25-2007

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