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(BATON ROUGE, La.) – Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that energy, construction and tax attorney Michael T. Durham has joined the firm’s Baton Rouge office as Special Counsel. Durham was formerly an attorney with Crawford Lewis in Baton Rouge. Practicing law since 2002, Durham has experience in energy, construction, economic development, litigation, and

CHICAGO (June 19, 2012) — James F. Goedken has joined Faegre Baker Daniels LLP as a partner with the intellectual property group. He will practice from the law firm’s Chicago office. Goedken focuses his intellectual property practice on patents. His expertise includes preparation, prosecution, litigation and licensing of software, electrical and business method inventions. Goedken

June 2012 – LawFuel.com Ed Shapiro Brings Deep Experience and Industry Relationships to New York Office (June 26, 2012, New York City) – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Edward H. Shapiro as a partner in the firm’s New York office, joining Reed Smith’s growing Music Industry Practice. Mr. Shapiro joins Reed Smith

LawFuel.com – Will the US House of Represetnatives cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt, in a history-making move that the House Oversight Committee has recommended? The Oversight Committee recommended the vote against Attorney General Holder last week after he refused to hand over all of the requested documents in its investigation of the Bureau

19 June 2012 – LawFuel.com Law Firm Newswire Service – Slaughter and May is advising Psion plc, a designer and manufacturer of rugged mobile handheld computers, on the recommended cash offer by Motorola Solutions, Inc. which values Psion plc at approximately £129.3 million. The offer, that was announced on 15 June 2012, will be subject

17 June 2012 Global, 17 June 2012 – LawFuel.com – Baker & McKenzie has acted for The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and certain Dow subsidiaries in relation to the USD 1.4 billion Islamic finance facilities made available to Saudi Acrylic Acid Company (SAAC), Saudi Acrylic Monomers Company (SAMCO) and Saudi Acrylic Polymers Company (SAPCO) to

Philadelphia, PA – June 19, 2012 – Pepper Hamilton LLP has earned Gold Standard Certification from the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a designation based on how firms compensate women and integrate them in top leadership positions. Pepper is one of only 50 firms to receive the certification from WILEF. Firms with over 100

There has been trouble, or at least bad publicity aplenty in the law school arena in recent times and now the ABA Journal reports that the number of applicants has jumped with law students extending their studies at school rather than look for jobs in a depressed legal jobs market. The ABA Journal reports that