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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Pennsylvania Super Lawyers byLaw & Politics
Cozen O’Connor is proud to announce that 41 attorneys from the firm’s Philadelphia and West Conshohocken offices have been named 2007 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers by Law & Politics, and will appear in the June 2007 issues of Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

05-31-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Nelson A. Diaz Joins Cozen O'Connor's Philadelphia Office as Of Counsel
Nelson A. Diaz recently joined Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office as of counsel in the general litigation department. Prior to joining the firm, Diaz was a partner with Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia. Diaz, who concentrates his practice on litigation and dispute resolution, served as a Judge for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1981 through 1993. The youngest judge appointed to the Court and the first Latino judge in Pennsylvania history, he was also appointed administrative judge by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where he saved the state millions of dollars annually and used a nationally recognized Pro Tem Judges Program to reform the court’s case flow efficiency.

During his distinguished career, Diaz also served as City Solicitor of Philadelphia and as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he focused on reforming public and mixed-use housing programs. During his tenure in these positions, he was instrumental in increasing the number of women and minority lawyers in both organizations. Diaz was also a White House Fellow, serving as Special Assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale, and Executive Director of the Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia.

Diaz is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Temple University, where he also served on the university’s Presidential Search Committee, and is a former chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

An active member of the community, Diaz is co-chair of the annual Martin Luther King Day of Service and is a member of the Philadelphia Children’s Commission. He is also a member of the Executive and Nominating Committees of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a board member of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, the Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau Multicultural Affairs Congress and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Diaz was awarded the American Bar Association’s 2001 Spirit of Excellence Award, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Award of Excellence, and several civil rights and management awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential Hispanic Americans by Hispanic Business and has been named to multiple Who’s Who lists, including those for the East, Hispanic-Americans, Law, Law Enforcement, the Delaware Valley, American Politics and American. Diaz has also appeared in several books on leadership and ethics.

Diaz is a graduate of St. John’s University (B.S., 1969) and Temple University’s Beasley School of Law (J.D., 1972), and he also earned a Certificate on Mediation/Arbitration from Pepperdine University School of Law’s Stratus Institute for Dispute Resolution in 2001. Diaz was awarded an honorary doctorate of law by St. John’s University (1987) and an honorary doctorate of public service by Temple University’s Beasley School of Law (1990).

05-31-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Member Elena Park Recognized for Excellence
Cozen O’Connor member Elena Park has been honored with two awards recently. She was recognized as a “Minority on the Verge” by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, and was awarded the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2007 Pro Bono Award. The “Minority on the Verge” list serves to highlight minority attorneys who, through the quality of their work and their impact on their firms, are rising to prominence in the state legal community. The list is based on nominations from the legal community which were then narrowed by the publications’ editors. Park received the Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Award because of her tireless efforts for pro bono clients, many of whose cases focus on delicate and complex matters of immigration and asylum.

Park practices from Cozen O’Connor’s West Conshohocken and Philadelphia offices and heads the firm's immigration practice. She is also an active member of the firm's Diversity, Pro Bono and Hiring Committees.

Park has extensive experience in representing multinational corporations, domestic companies, nonprofit institutions and investors seeking to employ foreign nationals in the U.S. for immigrant (permanent) or nonimmigrant (temporary) visas. She has represented clients on diverse immigration matters before the Department of Labor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration Board of Appeals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the EOIR, federal district court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Park is regular speaker on the topic of immigration law. In October 2006, she was one of the featured speakers at Widener School of Law's Immigration Event. She has presented Continuing Legal Education courses to attorneys, including "Wage/Hour and Immigration Issues in Employment Cases" and "The Basics of Immigration Law." Park is a frequent writer on immigration issues: she has published articles in Workforce Management and The National Law Journal. She has also been quoted by the media on the topic of immigration law, including the L.A. Times
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A member of the American and Montgomery Bar Associations, Park is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is dedicated to helping indigents navigate complex immigration laws. She also provides immigration expertise on immigrant rights' cases, including the constitutional law challenge to the controversial Hazleton, Pa., anti-illegal immigration ordinance. Park has also been awarded the Philadelphia Bar Association Gomez Award for Public Service.

Park earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto (B.A., with honors, 1994) and her law degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law (J.D., 1998), where she was articles editor of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review.

05-31-2007

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Covington & Burling, P.C.

Covington Represents Greenhill in Ceridian Acquisition
Ceridian Corporation, Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. ("THL Partners") and Fidelity National Financial, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Ceridian will be jointly acquired by THL Partners and FNF in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $5.3 billion. Covington & Burling LLP represented Greenhill & Co. LLC, the financial advisor to Ceridian, in the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007.

Ceridian is a leading provider of human resources, transportation and retail information management services, serving businesses and employees in the US, Canada and Europe. Greenhill & Co., Inc. is an investment bank that provides financial advice on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and manages merchant banking funds.

The Covington team included corporate partners Stephen Infante and Scott Smith as well as associates Andrew Ment and Donald Saelinger. In the first quarter of 2007, Covington was ranked among the top 25 M&A legal advisors in US-announced transactions by Thomson Financial, Bloomberg, and Mergermarket.

05-31-2007

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Carlton Fields

Carlton Fields Shareholder, Robert S. Freedman, Inducted into The American College of Real Estate Lawyers
Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Robert S. Freedman was recently inducted into the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

The American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) is a premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers. Admission to this organization is by invitation only after a rigorous screening process. ACREL’s distinguished, nationally-known lawyers have been elected to membership not only for their outstanding legal ability, experience and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law, but also for their contributions to the real estate and legal professions through their practices, their legal writings, and their public speaking.

Freedman is a member of the Firm’s Real Estate & Finance and Corporate & Tax Practice Groups. He practices in the area of real estate law, primarily practicing in the area of condominium, timeshare, and subdivision development and management, having provided legal counsel to numerous developers throughout the state. Freedman has extensive experience in the design and operation of master planned and resort communities, obtaining regulatory approvals for the sale and marketing of projects, working on property management arrangements, preparing the various documents and instruments of record needed to ensure the proper creation of a community, preparing documentation pertaining to various types of mixed-use projects and resort and advising clients on all matters that might arise prior to completing a community following its creation. He also handles general real estate transactions. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1987 and his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 1990.

05-31-2007

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Forty-nine Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC is proud to announce that 49 of the firm's attorneys have been honored by their peers and selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. More than 39,000 attorneys across the state were asked to nominate lawyers, and only the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania lawyers received this distinction.

Those honored from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney were Lynn Alstadt, Ronald Basso, Peter Beaman, Thomas Boyle, Samuel Braver, George Cass, Christine Donohue, Mary Ann Dunham, Peter Ennis, David Fawcett, Charles Gibbons, Thomas Giotto, Robert Harper, Calvin Harvey, Mark Hornak, Robert Johnson, Edwin Klett, John Leathers, Francis Muracca II, Terrence Murphy, Wendy Newton, Larry Phillips, Thomas Thompson, Howard Wein and Susan Yohe from the Pittsburgh office; Steven Bizar, Gerald Burns, Douglas Coopersmith, Alfred D'Angelo, William DeStefano, Joseph Dougherty, Rudolph Garcia, Elizabeth Malloy, Joseph Mancano, Frank Mayer III, Craig Mills, Howard Scher, William Schorling, Richard Simins, Thomas Tammany and H. Marc Tepper from the Philadelphia office; and, in Harrisburg, Brian Clark, Andrew Giorgione, Bradley Gunnison, Jack Stover and Jonathan Vipond III.

The criteria reviewed for the award include: noteworthy verdicts or settlements; creativity or innovation within the legal process; number of cases tried or transactions handled; years in practice; position within firm; professional activities; writings and lectures; community involvement and volunteer work; professional degrees or training; and academic background, including honors and clerkships.

The results of the survey will be published by Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics Media, Inc. in its annual publication Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

05-31-2007

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Team of Seven Attorneys Joins Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in California
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP announced today that the lawyers of Alhadeff & Solar LLP (A&S) are joining Buchanan in California. The A&S name partners — Sam Alhadeff and Keith Solar — lead the team of seven lawyers to Buchanan. Adding to the firm's existing San Diego office in Del Mar, A&S brings two new offices to Buchanan, one in downtown San Diego and a second office that serves the Inland Empire from Temecula.

Tom VanKirk, Buchanan's CEO, said, "We expect that Sam and Keith will help us to continue to grow our offices in California. Their reputations in the markets they serve are unsurpassed, and we look forward to working with them to represent new and existing clients in and around Southern California."

In the San Diego market, A&S handles business law, litigation and water law matters, among others. Solar is well-known for his work in water law and in the tuna industry. He and his team have assisted clients such as Basin Water, Inc., South Pacific Tuna Corporation, Chicken of the Sea International and FCF Fishery Company, Ltd.

A&S's strong reputation in the Inland Empire (in Riverside County) is primarily for its land-use and environmental law experience. Alhadeff in particular has spent the last 24 years assisting major developers and other clients on a range of issues in the Inland Empire. Some of those clients include local, regional and national developers such as Beazer Homes, Lennar Corporation, D.R. Horton. Inc., Standard Pacific Homes, Pulte Homes, Inc./Del Webb and Meritage Homes Corporation.

A&S's clients also include AccentCare, one of the country's largest in-home health care providers. The firm also serves as water counsel to the City of Carlsbad in its desalination matters.

Alhadeff and Solar said that what drew them to Buchanan first were the people at the firm and the fact that Buchanan's areas of practice were particularly relevant to clients in Southern California.

"Honestly, the people we met here were as talented as they were nice," said Alhadeff. "We clearly recognized the excellent credentials Buchanan had with regard to academic medical centers, health care and stadium and stadium financing matters, among many others. We also realized the tremendous opportunities for our clients in terms of being able to introduce them to various institutions Buchanan already represented," he said.

"And best of all," Solar added, "we can continue doing what we've been doing for clients, plus we can offer them access to 550 other lawyers and their respective areas of expertise."

In addition to shareholders Alhadeff and Solar, two senior attorneys, three associates and eight staff members will be joining the firm. The attorneys making the move to Buchanan are:

* Robert K. Edmunds, Senior Attorney
* S. Douglas Kerner, Senior Attorney
* Kelly M. Alhadeff-Black, Associate
* Richard J. Bayless, Associate
* Cyril Dantchev, Associate

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The A&S combination comes on the heels of two other announcements that increase Buchanan's presence in San Diego. Charles Knox, who re-joined the firm last week, is a real estate lawyer who will spend time in California and Las Vegas growing that practice. Earlier this month, the firm also announced that former U.S. Congressman Bill Thomas from Bakersfield, California, joined the firm as a senior adviser in the firm's Federal Government Relations Section. Thomas — who spent 24 years on the Ways and Means Committee, the last six as its chair — will also spend considerable time in the San Diego market.

About Alhadeff

Sam Alhadeff is a shareholder in the firm's Inland Empire (Temecula) office. He represents clients ranging from national real estate developers and municipalities to cable television stations and start-up businesses.

With regard to real estate, Alhadeff's primary focus is in handling land use, entitlement, conservation work and the vast range of legal issues involved in the process of planning and executing the development of land for national and regional developers of residential, commercial and mixed use property. He is currently involved in three multibillion-dollar projects that involve the development of residential property in the Inland Empire. He has also represented developers with real estate projects in Arizona, Nevada and Texas, and has served as counsel for all of the Kaiser properties in Hawaii. Alhadeff has also represented municipalities, agencies and joint power authorities in real estate matters. He has served as counsel for a number of cities, counties and municipalities in California.

With more than 30 years representing companies and individuals engaged in the United States tuna industry, Alhadeff has handled the negotiation and documentation of: agreements for the purchase and sale of tuna purse seine vessels; bareboat charter agreements; vessel management agreements; joint venture agreements; and tuna fishing agreements between sellers of tuna and buyers engaged in the business of purchasing, processing and selling tuna.

Alhadeff has also represented professional athletes, television personalities, sports stations and radio stations involved in acquisitions or divestitures.

About Solar

Keith Solar is a shareholder in the firm's downtown San Diego office. He represents both public and private clients primarily in connection with water rights and water-related issues, matters involving the United States tuna industry, real estate matters and commercial law issues.

With respect to water rights and water-related issues, he has experience negotiating and documenting the purchase, sale or lease of adjudicated groundwater rights, groundwater, privately owned water systems, shares in mutual water companies, and public/private partnerships for municipal water systems.

From 2002 through 2004, Solar served as a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Association of California Water Agencies. He currently serves as general counsel and as a member of the board of directors of Basin Water, Inc., a leading provider of proven, cost-effective turnkey solutions for treating contaminated groundwater to drinking water standards. He also serves as the chair of Basin Water's Compensation and Nominating and Governance committees.

In addition to water law, Solar has more than 20 years of experience in legal representation of companies and individuals engaged in the United States tuna industry, including the negotiation and documentation of: agreements for the purchase and sale of tuna purse seine vessels; bareboat charter agreements; vessel management agreements; joint venture agreements; and tuna fishing agreements between sellers of tuna and buyers engaged in the business of purchasing, processing and selling tuna.

Solar also has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and business matters.

05-31-2007

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