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Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP

Cravath Represents Nuveen Investments In Its Acquisition By A Madison Dearborn-Led Investor Group
Cravath represented Nuveen Investments, Inc. in its acquisition by an investor group led by Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, for approximately $6.3 billion. The lawyers involved in this matter are partner Robert I. Townsend, III, associate Michael A. LaGatta and summer associates Benjamin J. Vogt and Greta Gao on corporate matters; partner Michael L. Schler and associate Dana Frenkel on tax matters; partner Eric W. Hilfers and associate Jennifer S. Conway on executive compensation and benefits matters; and associate Matthew G. Morreale on environmental matters. The deal was announced on June 20, 2007.

06-20-2007

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Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

Orville L. Reed, III Named as a Leading Litigation Attorney in the 2007 Edition of Chambers USA
The law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP (“BDB”) is pleased to announce that Orville L. Reed, III has been named as one of Ohio’s leading litigation attorneys in the 2007 Edition of Chambers USA.

Chambers USA is unlike any other US legal directory. No attorneys are included unless they are strongly recommended by the market. Chambers has over 30 full-time researchers investigating the reputations of leading lawyers throughout the world to produce a global directory. In addition to the global and USA guide, they also focus on the United Kingdom to a produce similar guide to the legal profession.

Mr. Reed has extensive trial practice of over 30 years. His practice is focused on the representation of major self-insured and manufacturing concerns in commercial and personal injury litigation. Mr. Reed has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (1989 - 2007) and he is listed among the Top 10 Ohio Super Lawyers™, as well as one of the Top 50 Lawyers in the Cleveland area in 2007 by Law & Politics, Inc., as recognized by his peers. He has a Martindale-Hubbell Rating of AV, which indicates very high to pre-eminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar.

A graduate of Borromeo Seminary College of Ohio and the University of Notre Dame Law School in Indiana, Mr. Reed is admitted to practice law in the Federal District Court, Northern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. He is a member of the American, Ohio State and Akron Bar Associations and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Reed resides in Akron, Ohio, with his wife, Kathleen.

06-20-2007

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Brown & Brown

Energy Curtailment Specialists Announces Strategic Business Development Initiative in New England Energy Market
Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc (ECS), the largest demand response service provider in the United States, announced today that it has added to its advisory team of former state energy regulators to provide counsel on strategic business development initiatives in the New England energy market. The group’s expert guidance will help ECS expand its demand response programs in the New England region. ECS currently has under contract more than 700 MW of demand response capacity, sufficient to power more than 700,000 New England homes.

ECS has tapped Paul G. Afonso, the former Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (now the Public Utilities Commission), to join the already formed advisory group and lead ECS’ efforts in the New England region. Mr. Afonso is currently the Practice Leader of Brown Rudnick’s Government Law & Strategies Group in Boston.

Afonso will be joining William M. Flynn, former Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). Mr. Flynn, now a partner in the New York firm of Harris Beach, PLLC, and leading their Energy Practice group, has been ECS’ lead advisor since February 2007. Flynn’s focus has been primarily on the New York market with additional focus on the national level and the Mid-Atlantic region ECS President and CEO Glen E. Smith, commented, “Our demand response programs in New York and California have been very successful and have been highly effective in alleviating pressure on the electricity grid when demand is extremely high. We hope to introduce an equally successful model to New England. We believe that combining the experience and knowledge of two former state regulatory chairmen will accrue not only to ECS’ benefit, but more importantly, to those customers we serve.”

About Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. (ECS) is one of the largest demand esponse providers in the United States. ECS offers turnkey, administrative and a la rcarte demand response services.

06-20-2007

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Department of Fair Employment and Housing

Top Federal Prosecutor James Cooper Joins Arnold & Porter LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that former federal prosecutor James Cooper has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Cooper will practice primarily in the areas of white collar criminal defense, governmental and congressional investigations, securities enforcement, government contract fraud and national security law and policy.

“James has an impressive trial record and is highly respected among his peers and colleagues, said Arnold & Porter Chair Thomas Milch. “His talents, expertise and prominent government background will further strengthen our white collar defense practice, and we think he will be a tremendous asset to our clients.”

“After a satisfying career as a federal prosecutor, I am excited about transitioning into private practice, where my litigation skills and trial expertise can be utilized in a corporate setting,“ Mr. Cooper said. “Arnold & Porter’s strength in litigation and white collar defense in complex business and governmental settings will provide an excellent platform for my practice.”

Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, Mr. Cooper served as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia (2002–2007), where he conducted over 40 criminal trials, including complex white collar trials. He supervised approximately 85 senior lawyers investigating and prosecuting violations of federal criminal laws, including, among other things, white collar fraud and public corruption, terrorist financing and provision of material support to terrorist organizations and state sponsors of terrorism, breaches of U.S. export control laws, and violations of the Medicare anti-kickback statute.

Mr. Cooper previously served as Acting Chief of the National Security Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, as well as the Deputy Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. Mr. Cooper became a federal prosecutor in 1994, and personally prosecuted and tried numerous corruption and fraud cases as a lawyer in both the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice. He has extensive, first-hand experience as a prosecutor evaluating issues of corporate cooperation and compliance in the context of implementing the Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations in its various forms. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Mr. Cooper served as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

06-20-2007

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The Stolar Partnership LLP

Doreen D. Dodson Receives Legislative Advocacy Award from the ABA
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Governmental Affairs honored Doreen D. Dodson, Partner with The Stolar Partnership LLP, with a 2007 Legislative Advocacy Award. The Legislative Advocacy Award, also presented to The Honorable Richard B. Teitelman, Supreme Court of Missouri, recognizes individuals who were instrumental in successfully advocating or advancing ABA legislative priorities for each session of Congress. In particular, Doreen was recognized for her work securing increased funding for the Legal Services Corporation and pay raises for federal judges.

Throughout her practice, Doreen has been an active member of the ABA, most recently serving as Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. Doreen also serves on the Missouri Supreme Court Advisory Committee and was the first female president of the Missouri Bar.

06-20-2007

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Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP Announces Ten Partners Named 2007 Florida "Super Lawyers"
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP is pleased to announce that the following partners were named 2007 Florida Super Lawyers: Erin Smith Aebel, C. Philip Campbell, Mary Li Creasy, Bruce H. Gordon, W. Kent Ihrig, Barbara R. Pankau, Darrell C. Smith, Ted C. Taub, J. Todd Timmerman, and Gregory C. Yadley. Mr. Yadley was also named one of the "Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers".

Super Lawyers is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

The Super Lawyers selection process is a combination of balloting, blue ribbon panel review and independent research. Only 5% of Florida attorneys have been selected for 2007 Florida Super Lawyers.

06-20-2007

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Gardner, Carton & Douglas, L.L.P.

Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Honors Drinker Biddle’s Alicia Hickok With Top Pro Bono Award
The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation today recognizes Drinker Biddle & Reath lawyer D. Alicia Hickok for her significant efforts in providing pro bono legal services by presenting her with its prestigious Louis J. Goffman Award.

The annual award, established in 1989, is given to professionals or organizations whose dedication to serving Pennsylvania’s poor and disadvantaged citizens serves as a model to everyone in the legal industry. Hickok is one of three recipients of this year’s Goffman Awards. Sharon Browning, the executive director of Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program, and the Exelon Corporation Legal Department are also being honored

“Many big firm lawyers ‘talk the talk’ when it comes to pro bono. Alicia ‘walks the walk,’ ” said David F. Abernethy, Drinker Biddle partner and chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. “And she walks farther, longer and more consistently than any lawyer I have met in more than 20 years of private practice.”

In the past several years, Hickok has spent thousands of hours working for pro bono clients, from death row inmates and community organizations involved in First Amendment litigation to indigent and disabled individuals seeking Supplemental Security Income benefits.

“Alicia is a remarkable example of our firm’s dedication to community service and we are proud of her accomplishments,” said Drinker Biddle Chairman Alfred W. Putnam, Jr. “Alicia contributes significantly to our efforts in meeting the firm’s longstanding commitment to pro bono representation, both as an experienced litigator handling her own pro bono work and as a mentor to our younger lawyers who are following her example.” With hundreds of lawyers volunteering their time and talents last year, Drinker Biddle spent more than 21,000 hours serving pro bono clients

An example of Hickok’s passion for pro bono is Waldrip v. Georgia. Drinker Biddle became involved in the case in 1998 after Tommy Lee Waldrip was convicted of murder. Waldrip, currently an inmate on Georgia’s death row, alleges that police obtained a false confession of murder from him after they denied his request for counsel. To date, Hickok has spent more than 1,400 hours on the case

“Everyone deserves representation,” Hickok said. “I have seen individuals and firms wrongly accused. I have watched people driven into the ground by others’ abuse of the legal system.

“We can’t stand by and let this happen in our society simply because people are without means to hire counsel,” Hickok added. “There needs to be someone dedicated to their representation, someone fighting for them.”

Hickok’s dedication to community service traces back to when she was in middle school. “A nearby park had become unsafe,” she said. “I worked on a campaign to get the city to clean up the park and provide supervised activities for the kids.”

Hickok also has done other pro bono work during her five years at Drinker biddle. She wrote an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to establish that a lawyer who has represented the murder victim may not ethically represent the accused murderer. “Procedurally, the law surrounding death penalty litigation is such a tangled web,” said Hickok. “It is important to me to navigate these waters.”

Hickok also played a key role in drafting an amicus brief that supported the prevailing side in Van Orden v. Perry, a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that Texas authorities were not obligated to remove a monument placed near the Texas
Capitol decades ago, containing the text of the Ten Commandments, because the decision by government officials to keep the monument was a historic preservation effort, not an endorsement of a particular religion. “I believe freedom of religion is about allowing people to have their own religious views, not excising the role of religion in history,” she said.


Hickok instills this devotion to community service in her three children. Attending today’s luncheon will be her two sons, Samuel and Bennet. Samuel, a senior at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., wants to start a music and tutoring after-school program for inner-city kids. Bennet, who enters high school in the fall, recently accompanied a group to Chester, Pa., to help individuals with household repairs that they couldn’t do themselves. Hickok’s daughter, Elonnai, however, will be unable to attend the luncheon because she will still be in France working with an organic farm in preparation for her trip to Senegal early next year. “Elonnai wants to work with agricultural communities in third-world countries that are facing the pressures of globalization,” said Hickok. “Her hope is to help these communities move toward a sustainable economy while protecting their cultural values.

.” Hickok graduated from University of Pennsylvania Law School cum laude. Before joining Drinker Biddle in 2002, Hickok was a law clerk for the Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell.

06-20-2007

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