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Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP

Attorney Tony Toranto Joins Luce Forward’s Growing Statewide Real Estate Practice
Attorney Tony Toranto has joined Luce Forward’s Real Estate Practice Group as Special Counsel in the firm’s downtown San Diego and San Francisco offices. Toranto’s move to Luce Forward follows the addition of six new land use attorneys to the firm’s San Francisco office as part of the Real Estate Group’s strategic growth plan.

Toranto specializes in the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, management and leasing of real property. Throughout his career, he has closed over $1 billion in real estate financings, represented developers and investors in real estate joint ventures, and managed the closing of the largest single parcel eminent domain settlement in California history. Toranto’s practice includes work in complex transactional issues across all major product types from office, hotel and industrial to retail, residential and mixed-use.

“Tony is a talented attorney with the background and experience to contribute to the growth of our premier group of real estate attorneys,” said Robert J. Bell, Luce Forward’s Managing Partner. “I am confident that he will contribute to the strength of our practice and support the success of our clients. His addition further strengthens Luce Forward's position as one of California's strongest real estate practices.”

Toranto was previously an associate in the Real Estate Group at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss in the firm’s San Francisco office. Toranto is also a member of the Urban Land Institute.

“Luce Forward has one of the most respected and progressive real estate practices in California,” said Toranto. “I look forward to working with the Real Estate Practice Group’s highly accomplished attorneys, especially in this time of new growth.”

Toranto earned a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and his M.A. and A.B. from Stanford University.

06-19-2007

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Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins to Add Corporate Partner in Spain
Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Antonio Morales will join the firm's Madrid office as a partner in the Corporate Department. Morales' practice focuses on administrative and public law, with a particular focus on regulated industries including the energy, utility, water and telecommunications sectors.

Morales was appointed as a State Attorney (abogado del estado) in Madrid in 1997. In 2002, he became the Secretary General of the Spanish Nuclear Security Council where he was responsible for regulatory issues, enforcement, drafting rules and legal affairs. Morales moved into private practice in 2005, where he has built a highly regarded practice providing regulatory and litigation advice to large industrial companies as regards electricity, natural gas, nuclear energy and renewable energy, among other sources.

"Antonio is an exciting addition to our team," said Jose Luis Blanco, Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins' Spanish offices. "Antonio is among an elite group of lawyers in the Spanish market in his field, and his addition to the team is another significant step forward in building our practice and particularly our top-notch M&A capabilities in Spain. His depth of knowledge and track record advising on some of the largest deals in the market make him ideally suited to offer the key regulatory advice companies need as they pursue major M&A opportunities. He has earned a stellar reputation at the Spanish bar for being extremely hard-working, entrepreneurial and a great team player."

John Watson, Vice Chair of the Global Corporate Department, commented: "Antonio's leading Spanish regulatory experience dovetails with our corporate and M&A practice, and he is a good strategic fit for our growth plans. His experience, judgment, and reputation will be of great service to our clients. Antonio is going to be a major addition to our corporate team, and is further testimony to our commitment to the Spanish market."

"I was attracted to Latham & Watkins because of the breadth and depth of its corporate practice in Europe, its established US platform and the outstanding lawyers who work there. I'm excited to become part of this premier international law firm," said Morales.

Morales will join Latham & Watkins from Lovells LLP, where he has been a partner since 2005. He served as the head of Lovells' administrative law practice group in Spain. He studied law at the Complutense University in Madrid, graduating in 1995. In 1997, Morales was appointed as a State Attorney. He held several posts as the Spanish government's representative before various courts in the greater Madrid area. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has been published widely on a range of subjects in the field of public law.

06-19-2007

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Lane Powell PC

Legal 500 Names Lane Powell a Top Litigation Firm
Lane Powell was recognized as one of the top nine regional law firms in the U.S. for copyright litigation in The Legal 500 (United States): Volume III (Litigation). Attorneys Ken Davis and Dan Donlan were individually honored for their work in copyright law.

The Firm's work in music copyright infringement litigation was highlighted in the write-up, as well as our work in computer software copyright disputes, with particular focus on open-source issues.

Rankings in the independent UK-based Legal 500 are based on surveys of thousands of clients and lawyers, as well as public company filings.

The copyright group was also recently recognized in The Legal 500 (United States): Volume II (Intellectual Property, Technology, Media & Telecoms).

06-19-2007

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Krieg & De Vault, L.L.P.

Krieg DeVault opens Noblesville Office
The Indianapolis headquartered law firm of Krieg DeVault LLP announced today the further expansion of its offices into Hamilton County. Krieg DeVault just signed an agreement to take space in the Huntington Bank building located at 949 Conner Street. This location will serve as the firm’s Noblesville office which will open shortly after Labor Day.

The firm’s entry into Hamilton County took place in 2003 with the opening of its Carmel office. The firm plans to make the same commitment in Noblesville. “We need to be closer to our clients in Hamilton County,” said Michael E. Williams, the firm’s Managing Partner. “Our client base is growing dramatically in this area and other northern suburban counties.” Our business is about relationships and a way to solidify these relationships is by having an active presence in the community we serve.”

Among the professionals who will be located in the Noblesville office will be Jerry Barr, former Judge with the Hamilton County Superior Court Number #2, who joined the firm in 2003, Brian Zaiger, attorney for the Town of Westfield, Kevin G. Buchheit, a land use planner and zoning consultant and Ike Batalis, who serves as a Senior Consultant to the firm. Other professionals who will maintain offices (14 professionals in total) at this location include Angela Hamm, Andrew Buroker, Susan Ziel, Glenn Troyer, Eric Manterfield, Julie Bolling, John Kirkwood, Jim Crawford, Amy Adolay and Jeff McDermott.

Jeff McDermott, who serves as the Executive Partner at the Firm's Carmel office, will also serve as the Executive Partner in Noblesville. "By maintaining offices in Noblesville for more than a dozen of our lawyers and other professionals, we will be able to better serve the legal and business needs of our Hamilton County clients in multiple areas, including real estate, zoning, healthcare, estate planning, litigation, employment law, corporate, municipal law and public finance" McDermott said.

06-19-2007

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Ice Miller LLP

Running the Firm: Firms push ethics education for paralegals
Rob Gauss, partner at Ice Miller, and chair of its professional development committee was recently interviewed by the Indiana Lawyer regarding paralegal ethics-

Like in most careers, a paralegal may be faced with an ethical dilemma surrounding his or her work. A client may ask the paralegal for advice, not wanting to bother the attorney. The paralegal may accidentally forget to correctly identify himself or herself as a paralegal to the client when communicating over the phone, by letter, or through email. The paralegal may not tell a new employer that he or she has a conflict of interest with certain clients because of a previous job.

06-19-2007

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Godfrey & Kahn

Godfrey & Kahn Ranked Top Wisconsin-Based Real Estate Law Firm
The law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is pleased to announce that it has been listed in Midwest Real Estate News magazine as one of the Top Real Estate Law Firms in the Midwest. Rankings were based on the number of real estate transactions that were completed in 2006.

Godfrey & Kahn’s Real Estate Practice Group includes approximately 30 attorneys throughout Wisconsin. They represent financial institutions, owners, developers, contractors, construction managers, brokers, and others in buying, selling, exchanging, leasing, financing, managing, and developing real estate nationwide.

“This ranking recognizes Godfrey & Kahn’s Real Estate Practice Group’s strong position in the Midwest,” said Michael J. Dwyer, head of the firm’s Real Estate Group. “As our clients have grown, so have we, and we look forward to continuing that growth.”

Founded in 1957, Godfrey & Kahn maintains offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay, and Waukesha, WI; Washington, DC; and Shanghai, PRC. With more than 190 attorneys, Godfrey & Kahn provides legal and business advice to clients ranging from small businesses and governmental entities to large privately and publicly held national and international companies.

06-19-2007

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Cinven reaches agreement to acquire BUPA's hospitals for £1.44bn
European private equity firm, Cinven, has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the hospital operations and assets of BUPA, the third largest provider of private medical services in the UK, for a total consideration of £1.44bn (€2.13bn). International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising Cinven on this transaction, which was run as a competitive auction process. Freshfields also advised Cinven on its 2005 acquisition of Partnerships in Care, the mental-health service-provider, for £552m, and the November 2006 acquisition of Phadia, the international allergy diagnostics business headquartered in Sweden, for €1.285bn.

The Freshfields team was led by corporate partner David Higgins with corporate senior associate Tim Wilmot and associate Victoria Marland, finance partners Christopher Davis and Jeffrey Rubinoff and associates Fergus Wheeler and Liz Ricossa, and real estate partner John Fordham and associates Andrew Fleetwood and Jane Stark.

Freshfields has also advised on several other major deals in the healthcare sector recently, including Investor's acquisition of Mölnlycke Healthcare Group in January this year, the sale of Kodak's healthcare group, also in January, and Allianz Capital Partners' sale of Four Seasons Health Care in September 2006.

Freshfields has now advised Cinven on more than €10bn in transactions across Europe in recent months, including disposals of United Biscuits and Klöckner Pentaplast and acquisitions of Gondola Holdings, Avio and Phadia.

06-19-2007

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