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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week halted deportation proceedings against Ascencion Ortega-Gamboa, who had suffered severe political persecution in his village in Mexico.  He suffered beatings, and had his house burned down.  He moved to another village, but the persecution continued.  Ultimately, he took refuge in the United States, where he was able to form a new life.  Due, in part, to his inability to navigate the maze of immigration proceedings, Ortega-Gamboa was ordered to be deported and his relief requests were summarily denied by the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Through the Ninth Circuit’s pro bono program, SHB San Francisco Partner 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=620"&gt;Patrick Gregory&lt;/a&gt;, and SHB San Francisco Associates 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=835"&gt;Mia Hernandez&lt;/a&gt; and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=725"&gt;Amir Nassihi&lt;/a&gt; handled the appeal as amicus pro bono counsel for the petitioner and submitted the opening and reply briefs.  SHB developed and presented arguments to reverse the BIA and give Ortega-Gamboa a fair shake, and Pat Gregory argued the matter to a Ninth Circuit panel.  As a result, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion directing the BIA to reconsider Ortega-Gamboa’s requests for asylum and relief under the Convention Against Torture and, if necessary, to consider a voluntary departure request.&lt;/p&gt;



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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The National LGBT Bar Association has named SHB Director of Pro Bono Services &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=328"&gt;Jolie Justus&lt;/a&gt; to its inaugural class of Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.  The award recognizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal professionals who have distinguished themselves in their fields and demonstrated unwavering dedication to the achievement of LGBT equality.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The LGBT community is very diverse, and LGBT attorneys can be found in every corner of the legal profession,” D’Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National LGBT Bar Association, was quoted as saying.  “It makes perfect sense that our members would be among the leaders shaping the future of the legal profession.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Justus will be recognized at the Lavender Law Conference in Miami, Florida, on August 26, 2010.  Other awardees include in-house counsel, partners and associates from law firms of all sizes, attorneys working at non-profit organizations, government attorneys, and legal scholars.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The National LGBT Bar Association is an affiliate of the ABA that “promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBT community in all its diversity.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; has recognized SHB Partners 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=394"&gt;Tony Andrade&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=373"&gt;Simon Castley&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=401"&gt;Walt Cofer&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=405"&gt;Bill Crampton&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=413"&gt;Greg Fowler&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=40"&gt;Michelle Fujimoto&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=424"&gt;Gary Long&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=39"&gt;Ken Reilly&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=95"&gt;Frank Rothrock&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=167"&gt;Bill Sampson&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt;, and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=875"&gt;Mark Tyler&lt;/a&gt; in its 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers.&lt;/em&gt; Honorees are selected based on comprehensive, independent research with general counsel and private practice attorneys worldwide. SHB increased its recognition by two partners since the firm’s recent &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; Global Product Liability Law Firm of the Year honor.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Who’s Who Legal Recognizes 14 SHB Product Liability Lawyers</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=249"&gt;Dave Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=160"&gt;Jim Murphy&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=605"&gt;Dan Rogers&lt;/a&gt; have been named to Florida Trend’s 2010 &lt;em&gt;Legal Elite&lt;/em&gt; listing, which highlights the top attorneys in Florida. Moss, Murphy and Rogers were recognized in the commercial litigation category and Johnson in the civil trial category.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This seventh annual Legal Elite list recognizes less than 2 percent of Florida Bar members. Attorneys were selected by votes cast by their Florida Bar peers. The final list was reviewed by a panel of previous Legal Elite honorees representing different practice areas and cities across the state.&lt;/p&gt; 


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=19"&gt;Jim Eiszner&lt;/a&gt; has been appointed to the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law’s Editorial Board focusing on &lt;em&gt;Antitrust Law Developments 2011 Update.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; will participate in a September 14, 2010, Web conference hosted by the American and Canadian bar associations.  Titled “From Kyoto to Copenhagen, and Beyond: Developments on the West Coast,” the program will focus on regional solutions for reducing and regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Casto will provide insight on U.S. federal regulations and other issues.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To register for the event, please click &lt;a href="http://www.cba.org/pd/details.aspx?id=NA_ONSEP110" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=443"&gt;Denise Talbert&lt;/a&gt; will co-present a session titled “E-Discovery Roadmap – 2010 and Beyond” at The Missouri Bar/Missouri Judicial Conference 2010 Annual Meeting.  Slated for September 29 – October 1 in Columbia, Missouri, the meeting will offer CLE track programs on business and government law; emerging issues; family law; probate, trust and elder law; and trial practice skills.  Talbert will discuss emerging best practices, cost efficiencies, and competencies in managing and conducting e-discovery. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the agenda and register for the event, please click &lt;a href="http://www.mobar.org/data/am2010/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article, “Asbestos Litigation Screening Challenges:  An Update,” published in the most recent issue of the &lt;em&gt;Thomas M. Cooley Law Review.&lt;/em&gt;  Behrens details how defendants have finally begun to turn the asbestos litigation tide with a persistent effort to expose the unreliable diagnoses underlying the claims of thousands of nonmalignant injury claims currently clogging court dockets across the nation.  Describing several specific “litigation physicians and screening companies” whose diagnoses have been discredited in state and federal courts, Behrens notes how they have “set a precedent that will help end the mass-screening abuses of the past.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/AsbestosLitigationScreening.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=847"&gt;Chris Appel&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article appearing in the most recent issue of the &lt;em&gt;Harvard Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “Rational Pleading in the Modern World of Civil Litigation:  The Lessons and Public Policy Benefits of &lt;em&gt;Twombly&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iqbal&lt;/em&gt;,” the article provides an in-depth analysis of U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings that have effectively changed the “notice pleading” standard of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure into a “plausibility” standard.  They provide rational principles for the standard’s application and suggest that the new standard be adopted in state courts as well so that both federal and state judges will “faithfully fulfill their gatekeeping role and ensure the sufficiency of the pleadings.”  To read the article, please click &lt;span class="view"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Director of Strategic Diversity Initiatives &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=925"&gt;Michelle Wimes&lt;/a&gt; will co-present a CLE seminar at the National Bar Association’s (NBA’s) 85th Annual Convention scheduled for August 9–13, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Titled “A Wake Up Moment: Why Conducting a ‘Success Profile’ Can Help Diverse Lawyers Win in the New Normal,” the seminar will explore “the proven work habits, relationship development practices, opportunities and self investments that contribute to the development, growth and top performance of diverse lawyers.”  It will also identify specific action steps for  ensuring that competency frameworks become “the next diversity breakthrough instead of the next diversity barrier.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the convention agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://www.nationalbar.org/85thhome.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon Foundation recently awarded $90,000 in scholarship grants to three law schools to support students with diverse backgrounds at each institution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The grants were awarded to the University of California Hastings College of the Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law and University of Iowa College of Law. Each institution received a scholarship grant of $30,000 to assist in enhancing diversity at the schools.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;“The mission of the SHB Foundation is to increase diversity in the legal workforce,” said SHB Foundation President &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=348"&gt;Jay Simpson&lt;/a&gt;.  “The goal of these scholarships is to provide students from varied backgrounds the opportunity to study and practice law.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In recent years, the SHB Foundation has committed more than $300,000 to fund diversity-related scholarships and grants to support students at the University of Kansas School of Law, University of Missouri–Columbia School of Law, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, University of Miami (Florida) School of Law, and University of San Francisco School of Law. The recent grants add to that list. The Foundation hopes to continue to expand the geographic scope of its scholarship and grant activities in the future.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon is recognized as a national leader among law firms for its diversity efforts. The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) presented the firm its 2010 Thomas L. Sager Award, and SHB was the inaugural recipient of The Coca-Cola Company’s 2008 Living the Values Award.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Houston Managing Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=646"&gt;Gene Williams&lt;/a&gt; will serve as a faculty member of the International Association of Defense Counsel’s (IADC’s) 38th Annual Trial Academy on July 31-August 6, 2010, at Stanford Law School in Stanford, California. The IADC Trial Academy is “the preeminent defense trial advocacy training program and is a career-changing opportunity for lawyers both looking to practice fundamental trial skills and seeking to take their techniques and tactics to the next level.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.iadclaw.org/UserFiles/file/Trial%20Academy%20brochure%20(web).pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon Agribusiness &amp; Food Safety Co-Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=91"&gt;Madeleine McDonough&lt;/a&gt; will discuss “Risks and Threats Added Along with the Ingredients” during a symposium on “‘Ingredient’ is a Ten-Letter Word for Financial Disaster,” at the International Association for Food Protection 2010 Annual Meeting scheduled for August 1-4, 2010, in Anaheim, California. The meeting is expected to be attended by more than 1,800 top industry, academic and government food safety professionals. &lt;span class="view"&gt;For more information, please click &lt;a href="http://www.foodprotection.org/files/annual_meeting/iafp-2010-program-2010.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=1018"&gt;Therese Miller&lt;/a&gt;  recently served as a panelist for an ESI Bytes podcast titled "100th Judge Signs The Cooperation Proclamation." Miller discusses the practicing attorney perspective on The Sedona Conference® Cooperation Proclamation. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To listen to the podcast, please click &lt;a href="http://www.esibytes.com/?p=1347" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=150"&gt;Gene Balloun&lt;/a&gt; has been featured in the July 2010 issue of the &lt;em&gt;ABA Journal.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “29 Is Not Enough,” the article highlights Balloun and his wife, Sheila Wombles, dedication to foster parenting and adoption advocacy. The couple has shared their home with 29 foster children over the years and adopted two children.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since 1987, Balloun has provided pro bono legal representation for foster parents in adoption proceedings. With state paid fees generated from pro bono adoptions, Balloun, Wombles and SHB created the Kansas Foster and Adoptive Children Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships to children who have been in Kansas foster care as they continue their education following high school. Since its creation, the fund has provided more than $218,000 to support more than 151 scholarships through 2009.  This year, $65,000 has been awarded to 45 students. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please &lt;a href="http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/29_is_not_enough/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=815"&gt;Shannon Vestal&lt;/a&gt; has been named to &lt;em&gt;Ingram’s&lt;/em&gt; “20 in Their Twenties” listing. Honorees are recognized as “entrepreneurial go-getters who are bringing a new vitality to the Kansas City business scene.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the June 2010 &lt;em&gt;Ingram’s&lt;/em&gt; article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.ingramsonline.com" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers&lt;/em&gt; has named Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon the Product Liability Law Firm of the Year and Partner &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; the Product Liability Lawyer of the Year.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;The firm has won the award for six consecutive years–every year since its inception–and this is the third consecutive year Kaplan has been named Product Liability Lawyer of the Year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The high esteem in which the firm is held is reflected by the exceptional levels of positive feedback its lawyers received from our sources in a range of countries worldwide,” said Callum Campbell, &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; Editor in Chief. “Shook Hardy &amp; Bacon LLP is one of an elite group of firms to have won one of our awards every year since its inception, and we are delighted to recognize them as the world’s leading Product Liability law firm once again.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In commenting on the support Kaplan received as a candidate for the Product Liability Lawyer of the Year award, Campbell said, “In a highly competitive field, retaining the &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; Product Liability Lawyer of the Year Award is an outstanding achievement. Harvey Kaplan received more votes from clients and peers worldwide than any other lawyer in our research. This is the third time he has won the award, and the consistently positive feedback we received from our sources across the globe reflect his exceptional talent and pre-eminence in the field. We have no hesitation in declaring him the leading lawyer in the world for Product Liability expertise once more.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In addition to Kaplan, 11 other SHB partners were recognized as leading individual product liability practitioners, including 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=394"&gt;Tony Andrade&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=373"&gt;Simon Castley&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=401"&gt;Walt Cofer&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=413"&gt;Greg Fowler&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=424"&gt;Gary Long&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=39"&gt;Ken Reilly&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=95"&gt;Frank Rothrock&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=167"&gt;Bill Sampson&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt;, and 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=875"&gt;Mark Tyler&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; will publish the new rankings in the 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers,&lt;/em&gt; which features all of the individual Who’s Who Legal publications from the previous year, covering 31 practice areas in more than 100 countries. Additional SHB attorneys who will be recognized in the publication include 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=406"&gt;Sarah Croft&lt;/a&gt; (Life Sciences), 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; (Life Sciences, Commercial Litigation), 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=96"&gt;Scott Sayler&lt;/a&gt; (Life Sciences), 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=99"&gt;Marie Woodbury&lt;/a&gt; (Life Sciences), 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; (Environmental), 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;Bill Martucci&lt;/a&gt; (Employment), and 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=304"&gt;Trent Webb&lt;/a&gt; (Patents).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span class="view"&gt;&lt;p&gt;To view the &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; press release announcing SHB as the Global Product Liability Law Firm of the Year, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/WhosWhoLegal_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. To view the &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; press release announcing Kaplan as the Product Liability Lawyer of the Year, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/WhosWhoLegal_Kaplan_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Director of Pro Bono Services &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=328"&gt;Jolie Justus&lt;/a&gt; (KC) was recognized on June 18, 2010, with the &lt;em&gt;St. Louis Business Journal’s&lt;/em&gt; annual Legislative Award for her service as a Missouri state senator.  The award recognizes legislators for their work during the previous session in Jefferson City; Justus was cited for leading the effort to modify child-care subsidy provisions.  An initiative supported by the state chambers of commerce, the effort was characterized by the journal as an investment in Missouri’s urban communities, one of which Justus represents (District 10—including Kansas City’s Central Business District).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In its June 22 article announcing the award, the journal posed several questions.  Justus answered by calling jobs the most important issue not addressed during this legislative session.  She also indicated that eliminating some state holidays would save the state $3 million a year.  A bill to this effect that Justus sponsored passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, but died in the House.  Justus also called for taking a fiscally responsible but competitive approach to state employee retirement benefits.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel has dismissed the first amended complaint in &lt;em&gt;Chubb Custom Insurance Co. v. Space Systems/Loral, Inc., et al.,&lt;/em&gt; No. C 09-04485 JF (PVT) (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2010) (&lt;em&gt;Chubb II&lt;/em&gt;), addressing in part the rights of insurance companies to seek subrogation of environmental claims under CERCLA section 112(c).  This is the second time in four months that Judge Fogel has granted motions to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint under FRCP Rule 12(b)(6) and the federal pleading standards articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in &lt;em&gt;Twombly&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iqbal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=1019"&gt;Kate Wolf&lt;/a&gt; are representing Ford Motor Co., one of the defendants and moving parties, in this case.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the court’s decision, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/ChubbCustomInsuranceCompanyvSpaceSystems2.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; has authored a June 21, 2010, commentary appearing in &lt;em&gt;The Washington Times.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “Drain Gulf litigation gusher,” the article discusses the Gulf oil spill and the potential of plaintiff’s lawyers and class-action suits draining money away from legitimate victims.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to Schwartz, “The $20 billion victims fund, recently announced by the president and paid for by BP, has the potential to provide a solution to this developing problem, but only if the fund is set up to draw clear liability lines and reduce litigation costs.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/21/drain-gulf-litigation-gusher/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that previously upheld the imposition of a nationwide injunction against the marketing of genetically modified seeds in the absence of a full environmental impact statement.  In &lt;em&gt;Monsanto v. Geertson Seed,&lt;/em&gt; No. 09-475 (June 21, 2010), the Supreme Court confirmed the importance of using a traditional judicial balancing test when deciding requests for injunctive relief under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  The decision comes in the most significant environmental law case considered by the Court this term.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; appeared as counsel of record for the Washington Legal Foundation as &lt;em&gt;amicus curiae&lt;/em&gt; in support of the petition for review  in the case. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the Supreme Court’s decision, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/09-475.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Legalease has released the 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;The Legal 500 United States,&lt;/em&gt; recognizing Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon as a nationally recommended firm in litigation. The firm’s product liability expertise is highlighted in the areas of automotive/transport; consumer products; and pharmaceuticals and medical devices.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;“With global renown in the product liability litigation space, Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon LLP’s expertise encompasses many different product sectors,” &lt;em&gt;The Legal 500 US&lt;/em&gt; reports.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In addition to the firmwide recognition, the guide features SHB Partners 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=47"&gt;Rob Adams&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=65"&gt;Mark Hegarty&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=66"&gt;Matt Keenan&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=218"&gt;Frank Kelly&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=67"&gt;Mike Koon&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=219"&gt;Grant Law&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=424"&gt;Gary Long&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=39"&gt;Ken Reilly&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=267"&gt;Doug Robinson&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=96"&gt;Scott Sayler&lt;/a&gt;, 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=646"&gt;Gene Williams&lt;/a&gt;, and 

&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=99"&gt;Marie Woodbury&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;span class="view"&gt;&lt;p&gt;To read &lt;em&gt;The Legal 500 US&lt;/em&gt; review of SHB, please click &lt;a href="http://www.legal500.com/firms/51262/offices/54109" target="_blank"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=998"&gt;Bill Gillen&lt;/a&gt; has been appointed 2010-2011 chair of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, an organization dedicated to improving the downtown community. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the Tampa Downtown Partnership’s leadership announcement, please click &lt;a href="http://www.tampasdowntown.com/the-partnership/leadership.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Chambers and Partners has launched its 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Chambers USA,&lt;/em&gt; recognizing Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon’s product liability, environmental, and labor and employment practices. &lt;em&gt;Chambers&lt;/em&gt; reports that the firm is a “well-oiled yet creative machine” and the “attorneys have tremendous expertise and responsiveness.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The firm’s product liability practice was again ranked in the top tier, or Band One, nationwide. SHB’s litigation practice received a Band One ranking in Missouri and a Band Three ranking in Florida. The firm’s environmental practice received a Band One ranking in Missouri and Band Two ranking in Florida, and the firm’s labor and employment practice received a Band Two ranking in Missouri.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Along with the firmwide recognitions, the guide recognizes Partners 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=47"&gt;Rob Adams&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=50"&gt;Mark Anstoetter&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=150"&gt;Gene Balloun&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=32"&gt;Dave Erickson&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=826"&gt;Amor Esteban&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=417"&gt;Bill Geraghty&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=797"&gt;Tom Grever&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=1006"&gt;Ethel Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;Bill Martucci&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=280"&gt;John McNally&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=18"&gt;Joe Rebein&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=39"&gt;Ken Reilly&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=166"&gt;Todd Ruskamp&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=167"&gt;Bill Sampson&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=799"&gt;Terry Satterlee&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=96"&gt;Scott Sayler&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=733"&gt;Lori Schultz&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=97"&gt;Andy See&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=335"&gt;Gene Voigts&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=304"&gt;Trent Webb&lt;/a&gt;, and 
&lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=273"&gt;Paul Williams&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=273"&gt;Paul Williams&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article appearing in the June 7, 2010, issue of &lt;em&gt;Corporate Counsel.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “Wouldn't You Rather Be Partners?,” the article addresses the advantages of alternative fee arrangements focusing on SHB’s relationship with Tyco International.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB has been Tyco International’s national counsel for product liability litigation since 2004. In 2010, Tyco also named SHB its national counsel for automotive and general liability litigation. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/WouldntYouRatherBePartners.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman&lt;/a&gt; commented on federal preemption in a June 11, 2010, article in &lt;em&gt;The Louisiana Record&lt;/em&gt; titled “Legal observers decry proposal to overhaul federal preemption.” The article highlights a &lt;em&gt;Tulane Law Review&lt;/em&gt; article co-authored by Silverman and SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; titled "Preemption of State Common Law by Federal Agency Action: Striking the Appropriate Balance that Protects Public Safety."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to Silverman, elimination of preemption may make cases more likely to proceed to trial, “[b]ut at the end of the day, if that case goes before a jury, that jury can still consider a company's compliance following federal regulations and whether or not they should be held liable."  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.louisianarecord.com/news/227510-legal-observers-decry-proposal-to-overhaul-federal-preemption" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; will serve as a moderator and panelist for a Strafford Publications CLE Webinar titled "Renewable Energy Certificates and Carbon Offsets" on July 8, 2010, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. (PDT). The program will provide “guidance for counsel to energy users for trading and negotiating renewable energy certifications and offsets to reduce and manage carbon emissions.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;For additional information or to register for this program, please click &lt;a href="http://www.straffordpub.com/products/tluyfa?trk=ZDFCT" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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P: 816-559-2083&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Miami Managing Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=233"&gt;Lea Souza-Rasile&lt;/a&gt; has been honored as a 2010 Business Leader of the Year for South Florida finalist in the legal category. Honorees were recognized at an awards dinner on June 14, 2010, at The Bankers Club in Miami. Business Leaders of the Year honorees are South Florida’s most outstanding leaders in banking, financial, franchising, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, legal, retail, real estate, and technology. Souza-Rasile was one of only five legal leaders in South Florida to be recognized.&lt;/p&gt;



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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <title>Lea Souza-Rasile Recognized as South Florida Business Leader of the Year Honoree</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=474"&gt;Kevin Underhill&lt;/a&gt; has been asked to write a weekly column for Forbes.com called “Lowering the Bar,” which not coincidentally is also the title of his legal-humor blog.   His first column, “Are Englishmen Still Required to Show Up for Longbow Practice?” was posted on June 16, 2010, and future columns will appear every Thursday.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read Underhill’s Forbes.com column, please click &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/16/legal-humor-archery-opinions-columnists-kevin-underhill.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; commented on SHB’s alternative fee arrangement with Tyco International in a June 14, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “Portfolio Billing Gains Steam as Firms Reap Profits,” the article discusses the pros and cons of portfolio fee arrangements.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The amount of our flat fee has gone down, but year after year our profitability has gone up,” Murphy said, making the arrangement a win-win for both the client and firm.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=658"&gt;
Jim Andreasen&lt;/a&gt; has been appointed by the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources leadership to chair the section’s Agricultural Management Committee.  His one-year term will begin at the conclusion of the section’s 2010 annual business meeting to be held August 8 during the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco.  As committee chair, Andreasen will be responsible for appointing committee vice chairs, developing a committee action plan and leading the vice chairs in implementing the plan.  He previously served as the committee’s programs vice chair.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the committee’s Web page, please click &lt;a href="http://www.abanet.org/environ/committees/agricult/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=443"&gt;Denise Talbert&lt;/a&gt; has been invited to co-chair the drafting committee for The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics and Metadata.  The Sedona Conference provides an ongoing forum for leading academics, attorneys, jurists, and other experts to discuss cutting-edge issues in the areas of antitrust law, complex litigation, and intellectual property rights.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To visit the group’s Website, please click &lt;a href="http://www.thesedonaconference.org/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=65"&gt;Mark Hegarty&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=133"&gt;Doug Schreiner&lt;/a&gt; will present sessions at the 46th DIA Annual Meeting to be held June 13-17, 2010, in Washington, D.C., where they will discuss potential civil and legal liability arising from clinical trials.  Providing a forum for those involved in the discovery, development and life cycle management of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, the meeting will include representatives from industry, academia, patient organizations, and regulators from more than 20 global agencies.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the meeting agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://www.diahome.org/DIAHome/resources/content.aspx?type=eopdf&amp;file=/productfiles/20751/10001.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The industry newspaper &lt;em&gt;Feedstuffs&lt;/em&gt; has profiled Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon’s Agribusiness &amp; Food Safety Practice in a June 7, 2010, special report on supply chain management and front-of-package (FOP) labeling.  &lt;em&gt;Feedstuffs&lt;/em&gt; writer Rod Smith interviewed attorneys &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=50"&gt;Mark Anstoetter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=279"&gt;Christopher McDonald&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=91"&gt;Madeleine McDonough&lt;/a&gt;, and Sarah Sunday about the firm’s litigation background and “considerable expertise in areas critical to the food supply chain, like agroterrorism/crisis management, biotechnology, environmental sustainability, food safety and compliance, legislative and regulatory work.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The article particularly notes the arsenal of engineers, biologists, toxicologists, and other professionals who track these issues on behalf of clients at every link in the food supply chain.  “[W]e attempt to help them manage risk from the time a food product is produced until it’s consumed,” McDonough was quoted as saying.  “We connect all the dots—all the expertise.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sunday discussed regulatory developments in FOP labeling, which has recently come under Food and Drug Administration scrutiny. She suggested “that better models could focus more on calories and serving sizes,” according to Smith.  “Sunday said FOP labels would be positive for fresh meat and poultry because meat and poultry have positive nutritional profiles—low in carbohydrates, fat and sodium, etc.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;An article on soft drink taxes appearing in SHB’s &lt;em&gt;Food &amp; Beverage Litigation Update&lt;/em&gt; has been reprinted in a May 2010 BNA publication, “Tax Planning International: Indirect Taxes.”  SHB Agribusiness &amp; Food Safety Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=50"&gt;Mark Anstoetter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=91"&gt;Madeleine McDonough&lt;/a&gt;, who co-chair the practice, are identified as contacts for the article, “Battle over soft drinks taxes gains momentum,” which discusses recent legislative initiatives to tax sugar-sweetened beverages and debates over the efficacy of such taxes to reduce the incidence of obesity.&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=407"&gt;Alicia Donahue&lt;/a&gt; will serve as a panelist during the American Bar Association’s “36th National Conference on Professional Responsibility” on June 4, 2010, in Seattle.  Donahue will discuss “Disaggregated Legal Work: Ethical and Risk Management Issues” and focus on joint defense expert agreements. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the conference agenda, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/DisaggregatedLegalWork.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Director of Strategic Diversity Initiatives &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=925"&gt;Michelle Wimes&lt;/a&gt; will discuss the best ways to mentor, develop and promote diverse attorneys at DRI’s Fifth Annual Diversity for Success Seminar, to be held June 10-11, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois.   Co-sponsored by Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon, the seminar aims to keep lawyers, in-house counsel and law firm management up-to-date on current diversity trends.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To register for the event, please click &lt;a href="http://www.dri.org/open/event_brochures/20100440.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; and Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman&lt;/a&gt; have published an article, based on a white paper issued by the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., in the most recent issue of the &lt;em&gt;Tulane Law Review.&lt;/em&gt;  Titled “Preemption of State Common Law by Federal Agency Action:  Striking the Appropriate Balance that Protects Public Safety,” the article explores public policy and recent case law on the issue.  The authors conclude that product safety goals would best be served by giving deference to the reasoned decisions of government agencies rather than via individual lawsuits that consider the interests of a single plaintiff seeking compensation for an injury.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/PreemptionofStateCommonLaw.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/em&gt; has recognized SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=304"&gt;Trent Webb&lt;/a&gt; as one of the world's leading patent lawyers in the 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers.&lt;/em&gt; Webb has also been named to the 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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      <title>Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Patent Lawyers Recognizes Trent Webb</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nine Florida attorneys have been singled out by Thomson Reuters for special recognition in &lt;em&gt;Florida Super Lawyers 2010&lt;/em&gt;. In addition, eight attorneys were named “Rising Stars.” Attorneys named to &lt;em&gt;Florida Super Lawyers&lt;/em&gt; from SHB Miami include Partners 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; (Tort), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=417"&gt;Bill Geraghty&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt; (Tort), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=234"&gt;Eileen Moss&lt;/a&gt; (Tort), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=227"&gt;Paul Reid&lt;/a&gt; (Tort), and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=170"&gt;Dick Smith&lt;/a&gt; (Business Litigation). Partners 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=44"&gt;Dan Molony&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation) and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=160"&gt;Jim Murphy&lt;/a&gt; (Business Litigation) and Of Counsel 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=998"&gt;Bill Gillen&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation) were selected from SHB Tampa.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;“Rising Stars” include Miami Partners 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=493"&gt;Frank Cruz-Alvarez&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation) and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=726"&gt;Al Saikali&lt;/a&gt; (Tort) and Associates 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=806"&gt;Alexandra Bach Lagos&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=756"&gt;Hassia Diolombi&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation), 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=764"&gt;Tara Elfering&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation), and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=678"&gt;Lisa Leontiev&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation). Associates 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=783"&gt;Terri Parker&lt;/a&gt; (Tort) and 
&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=758"&gt;Jennifer Voss&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation) were selected from SHB Tampa.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Peer-recognition ballots are used to nominate attorneys and additional candidates are identified through an independent search. Final candidates are selected based on experience, professional achievements, bar activities, pro bono and community service, and scholarly lectures and writings.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=66"&gt;Matt Keenan&lt;/a&gt; will chair a roundtable discussion on the state of civility and professionalism at the Kansas Bar Association Annual Meeting to be held June 9-11, 2010, in Wichita. The CLE will include the perspectives of federal Judge John Lungstrum, federal Magistrate Karen Humphries and state court Judge Kim Schroeder, among others. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read more about the roundtable, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/TheStateofCivilityintheKansasBar.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=474"&gt;Kevin Underhill&lt;/a&gt; commented on how Facebook® can be a resource for litigation in a March 24, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article titled “Facebook A 'Treasure Trove' For Product Litigators.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“People will say things in that informal environment that they might not say in everyday life, and certainly not in a courtroom,” Underhill is quoted as saying.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Underhill also recently provided commentary during a National Public Radio program that focused on “Protecting Your Privacy on Social Networking Sites.” He discussed how lawyers use online networking sites, such as Facebook®, to find evidence about opposing parties that can be used to defend their clients’ cases and to research potential jurors who may not reveal all their potential biases on juror questionnaires. Underhill noted that at least one bar association has issued a formal opinion indicating that it is unethical for lawyers to become a person’s Facebook® friend to view private information to which only Facebook® friends have access. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view a transcript of the interview, please click &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127037413" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=983"&gt;Tom Moga&lt;/a&gt; recently participated in an “IP and Innovation Roundtable Discussion” hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. As the only attorney on the panel, Moga addressed the challenges faced by industry in obtaining effective patent protection from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO). The roundtable also featured the remarks of SIPO Commissioner Tian Lipu and was attended by representatives from the computer, pharmaceutical and medical device, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=66"&gt;Matt Keenan&lt;/a&gt; will join Baltimore attorney Peggy Fonshell Ward as a presenter for the fourth installment of the International Association of Defense Counsel’s Deposition 101 Webinar Series.  Slated for May 26, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT, the Webinar will provide useful strategies and techniques for preparing corporate executives to be responsive, accountable and knowledgeable about a wide variety of issues subject to a particular case.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To register for the Webinar, please click &lt;a href="https://www.iadclaw.org/registration/registrant.aspx?meeting=WEB052610" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partners &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=47"&gt;Rob Adams,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=424"&gt;Gary Long,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss,&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; have been recognized on the latest Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America list.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Those honored are identified through a combination of law firm submissions, online ballots and &lt;i&gt;Lawdragon&lt;/i&gt; editorial staff research. The fifth annual guide includes corporate attorneys, litigators, in-house counsel, law professors, judges and neutrals, government attorneys, and public interest lawyers. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the complete guide, please click &lt;a href="http://www.lawdragon.com/index.php/newdragon/ld_500_10"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Educate Tomorrow has recognized SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=510"&gt;Stacey Koch Lieberman&lt;/a&gt; as its first Mentor of Excellence for the new year. Koch Lieberman mentored a high school student striving to attend college while faced with the added challenges associated with being in foster care.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Educate Tomorrow aims to “make education an attainable goal for the most disadvantaged, so that all may be afforded the possibilities that can be achieved through learning.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read Koch Lieberman’s mentorship success story, please click &lt;a href="http://educatetomorrow.org/index.php?src=directory&amp;view=successstories&amp;srctype=detail&amp;back=successstories&amp;refno=56"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=1018"&gt;Therese Miller&lt;/a&gt; recently served as a panelist for an ESI Bytes podcast titled "E-Discovery Lawyers Training Other Lawyers." Law firm panelists presented varying viewpoints and discussed how to handle the nuances of e-discovery law as they related to their respective practices. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To listen to the podcast, please click &lt;a href="http://www.esibytes.com/?p=1310"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;DC Public Policy Partner &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz,&lt;/a&gt; Of Counsel &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman,&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="attorney_detail.aspx?id=847"&gt;Christopher Appel&lt;/a&gt; have published an article in the most recent issue of the &lt;i&gt;American Journal of Trial Advocacy.&lt;/i&gt; Titled, “Respirators to the Rescue:  Why Tort Law Should Encourage, Not Deter, the Manufacture of Products that Make Us Safer,” the article explores the policy and legal issues concerning regulated products that are subject to products liability litigation.&lt;/p&gt;  

&lt;p&gt;Focusing on respirators used in occupational settings to protect workers from inhaling a variety of substances, the authors show how regulators take numerous factors, such as comfort and effective communication, into account when imposing design and labeling requirements on their manufacture.  They contend that such “comprehensive regulation . . . should give courts pause and sound guidance in determining whether [design defect and labeling] claims are sustainable under common law principles of regulatory compliance and federal preemption, particularly in light of tort law’s encouragement of rescue and safety and sound public policy.”&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=901"&gt;Peter Cownan&lt;/a&gt; have published an article in the May 5, 2010, issue of &lt;em&gt;The Voice,&lt;/em&gt; a DRI publication.  Titled “Climate Change and Financial Disclosures:  How the Recent SEC Guideline and ASTM International Standards Will Affect Environmental Disclosures,” the article discusses a recently published Securities and Exchange Commission Guideline and an ASTM International standard that have changed the landscape for financial disclosures by implying that investors are entitled to information from reporting entities about “the possible effect of climate change on their investments.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Casto and Cownan explain the goals of these documents to shed some light on what materials reporting entities should examine, “the categories of climate change impacts that should be considered and disclosed” and the appropriate format for disclosure. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.imakenews.com/dri/e_article001746816.cfm?x=bgSwv0k,b208GLpw" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;
Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; will serve as a panelist for an American Bar Association teleconference titled “The Current State of Carbon Trading” on June 7, 2010, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (EST). Co-hosted by Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon’s San Francisco office, the conference will feature expert views from three countries on the types of transactions occurring, where the market in this space is headed, and the challenges currently confronting this area.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Casto will specifically address the potential impact of carbon credits on California, including “whether credits from California will be recognized internationally, what the future for carbon trading in California looks like in the absence of federal legislation, and the more robust cap and trade system expected to be in place by January 2011.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the agenda and register for the event, please click &lt;a href="http://www.abanet.org/environ/programs/teleconference/0910/0607/Final_Flyer.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=963"&gt;Corey Schaecher&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article appearing in the most recent issue of the &lt;em&gt;Albany Law Review.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “RAND Institute for Civil Justice Report on the Abuse of Medical Diagnostic Practices in Mass Tort Litigation: Lessons Learned from the ‘Phantom’ Silica Epidemic That May Deter Litigation Screening Abuse,” the article explains what led a U.S. district court judge to question the silicosis diagnoses used to support thousands of claims aggregated in her courtroom as MDL No. 1553.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The court’s action quickly shut down a new mass tort that threatened to overwhelm the judiciary much as asbestos-related cases have. The RAND report cited in the article’s title similarly analyzed MDL No. 1553 and, according to the authors, used the case to identify procedural and practice changes that could prevent such litigation abuses from occurring again. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/RANDInstituteforCivilJusticeReport_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article in the May 2010 issue of &lt;em&gt;Class Action Watch,&lt;/em&gt; a publication of the Federalist Society for Law &amp; Public Policy Studies.  Titled “Alabama High Court Issues Landmark Drug Pricing Decision,” the article discusses “one of the year’s most significant state court rulings, reversing verdicts against three prescription drug makers totaling over a quarter billion dollars.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The litigation, brought by outside contingency fee counsel partnering with the state attorney general, is similar to claims pending in state and federal courts across the nation.  They allege that the states were defrauded in their reliance on published prices for prescription drugs to reimburse doctors and pharmacies for the costs of drugs disbursed to Medicaid recipients, since these prices, supplied by manufacturers, did not include rebates, discounts or other price cuts.  The Alabama Supreme Court, calling the lawsuit “regulation through litigation,” held that the state’s argument that it believed the published prices represented actual prices “is simply untenable” in light of numerous government publications and other reports making it clear that Medicaid regulators understood that these were undiscounted “list prices.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/AlabamaHighCourtIssuesLandmarkDrugPricingDecision.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Litigation Counsel of America has published a Q&amp;A interview with SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; in the March 2010 online issue of &lt;em&gt;Litigation Commentary &amp; Review.&lt;/em&gt; LCA features Kaplan as the “Defender of Big Pharma's Big Cases” and addresses an array of topics, including his toughest case, fondest trial memory and perspective on law firm diversity. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the interview, please click &lt;a href="http://www.litigationcommentary.org/interview/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; addressed the April 28-29, 2010, ACI Conference on Chemical Products and Environmental Litigation in Chicago, Illinois, as part of a panel discussion on “Changes in Pleading Requirements: Bolstering Defense Advantages by Using Potential Plaintiff Problems with the Iqbal-Twombly Standard.”  The panel focused on developments in case law applying recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on federal pleading standards and current efforts in Congress to modify those standards through federal legislation.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view Haroff’s presentation, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/ChangesinPleadingRequirements.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=137"&gt;Jon Strongman&lt;/a&gt; will be honored for Excellence in Legal Writing during the 11th Annual Burton Awards for Legal Achievement ceremony at the Library of Congress on June 14, 2010.  Their article, “Developments in U.S. Product Liability Law and the Issues Relevant to Foreign Manufacturers,” was one of 30 that a distinguished panel of legal writing experts selected from entries submitted by the nation’s largest 1,000 law firms.  Guest speakers during the awards event will include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, author and editor Bryan Garner and CNN Worldwide Senior Analyst Jeffrey Toobin.&lt;/p&gt;  

&lt;p&gt;Kaplan and Strongman prepared their winning entry as a chapter in a dispute resolution handbook, and it was then reprinted in the December 2009 issue of the &lt;em&gt;Australian Product Liability Reporter.&lt;/em&gt;  It provides a detailed overview of the American legal system for the benefit of foreign product manufacturers who need to understand how best to minimize their liability risks when exporting goods to the United States.  Among other matters, the authors address the types of claims available to injured plaintiffs, potential defenses, tort reform initiatives, personal jurisdiction, and discovery issues.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Burton Awards were established to recognize the finest law firm and law school authors as part of an effort to promote the refinement and enrichment of legal writing.  Previous SHB winners of the award include Christopher Appel, Mark Behrens, Simon Castley, Greg Fowler, Victor Schwartz, and Cary Silverman. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read Kaplan and Strongman’s article, please click &lt;a href="attorneys/Strongman/DevelopmentsinUSProductLiabilityLaw2009_APLR.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; has contributed to a new book published by Thomson Reuters and Aspatore Books. Titled &lt;em&gt;The Legal Impact of Climate Change – Leading Lawyers on Navigating New Laws, Avoiding Liability, and Anticipating Future Challenges for Clients&lt;/em&gt; (2010 Ed.), the volume is part of Aspatore’s “Inside the Minds” series.  Haroff’s chapter, “The New Environmental Paradigm: Trends and Strategies for Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change,” reviews developments in some of the more significant climate change cases over the last year, as well as the implications to clients facing potential liabilities (and opportunities) under evolving climate change policies and legal principles.&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;p&gt;The Midwestern Christian Counseling Center’s awards recognize Kansas City individuals, businesses and not-for-profit organizations that “demonstrate business excellence and the highest standards of ethical conduct, integrity, and civic and social responsibility.”&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; will speak on “Civil Justice Reform – Key Suggestions” during the Brookings Institution’s State Farm Public Policy Symposium on April 21, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Schwartz will focus on defining goals, understanding the plaintiffs’ bar, federal defense, and state level offense and defense.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Brooking Institution’s Symposium provides State Farm executives and emerging leaders with an inside view of the policy-making process and its impact on the insurance and financial services industry. In addition, the program explores the frameworks for understanding and navigating the legislative and regulatory environments, helping participants develop the mindset and skills needed to interact with decision-makers.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=762"&gt;Joel Mosher&lt;/a&gt; commented on a recent Chinese drywall multidistrict litigation judgment in an April 16, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “Insurance Suit Numbers Hold Steady In 1st Quarter,” the article presents findings that show “almost no increase” in insurance lawsuit filings in the first quarter of 2010. The article notes, however, a rise in Chinese drywall litigation, prompted by a recent court ruling.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“This is going to make those cases all a lot more expensive to deal with,” Mosher is quoted as saying. “Because the stakes got raised by this ruling, I expect more insurance coverage suits to follow, as coverage for drywall claims is still a novel issue.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB National Employment Litigation Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;William Martucci&lt;/a&gt; will lead a team of SHB employment lawyers for a May 14, 2010, Lorman CLE teleconference titled “When Employee Bloggers Attack: Responding to Negative Employee Comments on the Web.” Joining Martucci will be &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=201"&gt;Manuel Lopez&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=85"&gt;Kevin Smith&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=984"&gt;Jennifer Oldvader&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://les.brochure.s3.amazonaws.com/386153.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon National Employment Litigation Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;William Martucci&lt;/a&gt; will participate in a Second Annual Marcus Evans Employment &amp; Labor Law CLE conference scheduled for June 7-8, 2010, in Arlington, Virginia.  Co-sponsored by Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon, the conference brings together an experienced panel of in-house and outside counsel to discuss “Insights on Navigating Newly Enacted and Emerging Employment and Labor Laws.”  Martucci will provide key insights on “Effective Litigation Defense Strategies in Wage &amp; Hour Litigation.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/SecondAnnualMarcusEvansEmploymentLaborLawCLE.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Houston Business Journal&lt;/em&gt; will honor SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=772"&gt;Jennise Walker Stubbs&lt;/a&gt; with a 40 Under 40 Award at its awards ceremony on May 20, 2010, at the House of Blues in Houston. The 40 Under 40 Awards recognize up-and-coming Houston business leaders who excel in their professions and in the community.&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <title>Jennise Walker Stubbs Recognized Among Houston’s “40 Under 40”</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; and Director of Pharmaceutical Administration Matt Bohnen were quoted in an April 12, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article titled “5 Management Strategies Law Firms Should Adopt.” The article suggests that law firms consider the following management strategies: understanding the project; developing a detailed plan; taking advantage of technology; documenting everything; and discussing post-engagement takeaway.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to Murphy, “As the billable hour has fallen into more disfavor, clients will look for a certain degree of predictability as to what their future legal costs will be.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“There are so many ways to use technology and to leverage technology to increase the efficiency of how we do our work &amp;mdash; it's a great communication tool for clients,” Bohnen was quoted as saying.&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association will honor SHB Staff Attorney &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=845"&gt;Amanda Smith&lt;/a&gt; with its Robert C. Welch Volunteer Attorney Project Award during the KCMBA 37th Annual Bench-Bar &amp; Boardroom Conference Awards Luncheon on May 21, 2010, at the Lake of the Ozarks.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The award recognizes Smith for her exemplary delivery and outstanding commitment to the Volunteer Attorney Project, which provides pro bono legal services for the underprivileged in the Kansas City community.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Children’s Place recognized SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=150"&gt;Gene Balloun&lt;/a&gt; as an honorary hero at The Angels of The Children’s Place 9th Annual Luncheon on April 7, 2010, at the Downtown Marriott in Kansas City. Balloun was honored for his continued commitment to providing pro bono legal services and advocating for foster and adopted children in the community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Children’s Place strives to “promote positive mental health and developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment and family support for young children who have experienced abuse, neglect or trauma.” For more information, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.tcpkc.org/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.tcpkc.org/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=658"&gt;James Andreasen&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article in the Spring 2010 issue of &lt;em&gt;Natural Resources &amp; Environment,&lt;/em&gt; a publication of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.  Titled “Still Defining ‘Discharge of a Pollutant’ after Thirty Years,” the article discusses two recent cases in which courts grappled with whether a specific activity constituted the “discharge of a pollutant” under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and thus was subject to Environmental Protection Agency permitting requirements.  Andreasen concludes, “The bottom line is that, whether through historical practice or other circumstances, key jurisdictional definitions of the CWA may remain open to question.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/StillDefiningDischargeofaPollutant.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; joins a distinguished faculty of speakers for the 6th Annual Drug &amp; Medical Device Litigation Forum on April 15-16, 2010, in Philadelphia.  Co-sponsored by Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon, this Marcus Evans CLE conference will focus on “Effective Strategies to Prepare, Respond and Litigate Drug and Medical Device Cases in a Cost Efficient Manner.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Kaplan will serve on a panel with in-house counsel for major pharmaceutical companies to discuss “Pursuing Settlement or ADR Strategies for Early Resolution of Drug and Medical Device Cases.”  To view the conference brochure, &lt;span class="view"&gt;please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/6thDrugMedicalDeviceLitigationForum.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; will address a Law Seminars International program titled &lt;em&gt;California Water Quality &amp; Its Impact on Supply,&lt;/em&gt; slated for July 19-20, 2010, in San Francisco. As co-chair of the program, Haroff will discuss California water law and its interplay with water quality. Casto will present on “Regional Storm Water Management Control: New Requirements for Municipal Discharges.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the program agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://www.lawseminars.com/detail.php?SeminarCode=10CLCA" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=273"&gt;Paul Williams&lt;/a&gt; participated in an April 5, 2010, roundtable discussion titled “Alternative Billing: Who’s Actually Doing It?,” moderated by the &lt;em&gt;ABA Journal.&lt;/em&gt; Williams was joined by in-house leaders and private practice attorneys to discuss successes and challenges with alternative billing. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To listen to a recording of the discussion (approximately 60 minutes), please click &lt;a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/alternative_billing_whos_actually_doing_it/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; will speak during the International Association of Defense Counsel’s 2010 Annual Meeting on July 10-15, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain. Barkett will discuss “Searching Solutions to the Data Explosion” and address electronic data challenges in North America and European jurisdictions. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.iadclaw.org/UserFiles/file/Annual%20Meeting%20Promo%20Brochure-web.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; addressed a March 30, 2010, session on &lt;em&gt;Law, Science and Sustainability&lt;/em&gt; at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.  Titled “Environmental and Regulatory Challenges to Developing Energy Alternatives – a Case Study,” the presentation focused on some of the difficulties companies face when seeking regulatory approvals for proposed solar thermal energy projects in Southern California. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the presentation, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/CLALawScienceSustainability.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=92"&gt;Lori McGroder&lt;/a&gt; and Associate Brigette Willauer have co-authored an article appearing in the Marcah/April 2010 issue of &lt;em&gt;Pharma&lt;/em&gt; magazine. Titled “A New Way to Keep Junk Science Out of the Courtroom,” the article discusses why plaintiffs should be required to prove general causation through pharmacoepidemiologic evidence to survive a &lt;em&gt;Daubert&lt;/em&gt; challenge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to McGroder and Willauer, “As federal courts continue to struggle with the proper parameters for admissibility of expert testimony on technical and scientific issues, a requirement that plaintiffs come forward with pharmacoepidemiologic evidence to support their claims will go far toward resolving &lt;em&gt;Daubert&lt;/em&gt; challenges and, ultimately, eliminating meritless claims.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/ANewWaytoKeepJunkScienceOutoftheCourtroom.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=997"&gt;Nate Muyskens&lt;/a&gt; commented on banking “co-conspirators” in a March 26, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Bid-Rigging Conspiracy,” the article discusses the conspiracy involving more than two dozen bankers and a dozen Wall Street firms to pay below-market interest rates to U.S. governments on investments. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-26/jpmorgan-lehman-ubs-named-in-bid-rigging-conspiracy-update1-.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network recently honored SHB Miami Managing Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=233"&gt;Lea Souza-Rasile&lt;/a&gt; with its 2010 Themis Award during the DuPont Legal/Primary Law Firm-Service Providers Annual Meeting in Wilmington, Delaware.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Named for the goddess of justice in Greek mythology, the Themis Award recognizes a woman who positively affects “the business of DuPont by promoting legal excellence through the success, development and professional advancement of the women lawyers representing DuPont.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=852"&gt;David Douglass&lt;/a&gt; recently appeared as a legal commentator on “Nightly Business Report,” a PBS news program. Douglass discussed health care fraud during the March 19, 2010, program titled “A Final Push for Health Care Reform.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the video and transcript, please click &lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/nbr_transcripts_100319/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=963"&gt;Corey Schaecher&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article appearing in the most recently published issue of &lt;em&gt;Engage,&lt;/em&gt; the journal of The Federalist Society’s practice groups.  Titled “Litigation:  RAND Issues Report on Abuse of Medical Diagnostic Practices in Mass Litigation,” the article summarizes the RAND Institute for Civil Justice’s study of the MDL silica litigation in which a federal district court found all but one of the 10,000 cases based on “fatally unreliable diagnoses.”  According to the authors, RAND recommends several changes to judicial practices and procedures and changes to the conduct of plaintiff and defense bars to ensure these litigation abuses to not reoccur.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/RANDReport_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=220"&gt;Derek Lisk&lt;/a&gt; participated in the Council on Litigation Management’s Annual Conference held March 25-26, 2010, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Lisk co-authored and presented a case study as part of a roundtable on "Managing Litigation - A Corporate Approach,” which discussed how companies can increase the value of litigation services, enhance efficiency, reduce costs and  improve cooperation in the defense relationship.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers&lt;/em&gt; has singled out SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=852"&gt;David Douglass&lt;/a&gt; (Criminal Defense: White Collar) and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; (Political Law). Peer-recognition ballots are used to nominate attorneys and additional candidates are identified through an independent search. Final candidates are selected based on experience, professional achievements, bar activities, pro bono and community service, and scholarly lectures and writings. Only 5 percent of Washington, D.C. lawyers were named to the list.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;em&gt;Food &amp; Beverage Law: News &amp; Analysis&lt;/em&gt; alert, we discuss in detail the menu labeling provisions that were tucked into the health care reform legislation just signed into law by President Barack Obama.  We explore which food service businesses are likely to be affected, explain what the law will require and describe the process that will lead to the law’s implementation by the Food and Drug Administration.&lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the alert, please click &lt;a href="newsletters/FBLU/FBLaw032510.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; is featured in a new collection of articles titled &lt;em&gt;Liability for Climate Change? – Experts' Views on a Potential Emerging Risk,&lt;/em&gt; which has just been published by Munich RE’s GeoRisksResearch/Corporate Climate Centre.  Munich RE is an international reinsurance company based in Munich, Germany, and Princeton, New Jersey.  The publication includes contributions from leading academics at New York University and the University of Oxford, and from lawyers at firms in both the United States and Europe.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the publication, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/LiabilityforClimateChange.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Featuring comments from SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=785"&gt;Ed Bullard&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Heartland Real Estate Business&lt;/em&gt; published a report on its Midwest Legal Roundtable in the publication’s March 2010 edition. Bullard participated on an expert panel discussing the current economic and legal environment for commercial real estate. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the Midwest Legal Roundtable report, please click &lt;a href="http://www.heartlandrebusiness.com/articles/MAR10/cover1.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=852"&gt;David Douglass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;Bill Martucci&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=982"&gt;Jonathan Rosen&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=875"&gt;Mark Tyler&lt;/a&gt; will present at IPOA EuroConference 2010: Risk Management in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones, to be held April 8-9, 2010, in London, England.  Douglass, Martucci and Tyler will discuss key issues in establishing compliance protocols to manage risk in volatile environments, while Rosen will speak on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?e=a5de067e-3be6-4901-8ad2-5e098915b3db" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thomson Reuters, publisher of &lt;em&gt;Super Lawyers,&lt;/em&gt; recently published &lt;em&gt;Texas Rising Stars 2010,&lt;/em&gt; recognizing SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=185"&gt;Kristi Belt&lt;/a&gt; (Business Litigation), &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=129"&gt;Scott Michelman&lt;/a&gt; (Personal Injury Defense: Products),  &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=135"&gt;James Shepherd&lt;/a&gt; (Personal Injury Defense: Products), and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=772"&gt;Jennise Stubbs&lt;/a&gt; (Civil Litigation Defense); and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=643"&gt;Christy Martin&lt;/a&gt; (Personal Injury Defense: Products).&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=267"&gt;Doug Robinson&lt;/a&gt; will discuss automotive litigation during a workshop on the “Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving,” hosted by Stanford University’s Center for Automotive Research and the Law Science and Technology Program on March 25-26, 2010, in Stanford, California. The workshop will aim to “discuss and define the process towards a legal infrastructure that permits autonomous driving in public to maximize safety and consumer benefit.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; will join a roster of distinguished scholars, both domestic and international, at a &lt;em&gt;Pepperdine Law Review&lt;/em&gt; symposium titled “Does the World Still Need United States Tort Law? Or Did It Ever?” Scheduled for April 16, 2010, in Malibu, California, the symposium will present views on a variety of tort law topics, including the current state of American tort law, damages in personal injury cases, tort law’s function, international tobacco litigation, and tort law limitations. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the symposium brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://law.pepperdine.edu/news-events/events/tort-law/tort-law.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Litigation Counsel of America has featured SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; in the January/February 2010 online issue of &lt;em&gt;Litigation Commentary &amp; Review.&lt;/em&gt; The article highlights &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal’s&lt;/em&gt; selection of Kaplan for its Global Product Liability Lawyer of the Year Award, along with other recent accolades he has received for his contributions to the legal industry. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.litigationcommentary.org/kaplan0110.htm" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;KC Business&lt;/em&gt; magazine has recognized &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=51"&gt;Mischa Buford Epps&lt;/a&gt; as a 2010 Influential Woman. Epps is featured in the March 2010 issue of the magazine, along with other leading businesswomen in the Kansas City community. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/KCBusinessMarch2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=963"&gt;Corey Schaecher&lt;/a&gt;have co-authored a &lt;am&gt;Washington Legal Foundation&lt;/am&gt; legal opinion letter titled “RAND Report Highlights Abuse of Medical Diagnostics in Mass Torts.”  The March 12, 2010, opinion letter discusses how the RAND Institute for Civil Justice examines lessons learned from the short-lived silica litigation, which exposed “gross abuses in the diagnosing of silica-related injuries,” and recommends how the legal system can prevent future abuses in mass personal injury cases.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the opinion letter, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/RANDReportHighlightsAbuse.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; will moderate a program during the Fifth Annual Fordham Law Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation on June 14-15, 2010, in New York City. Barkett will discuss “Arbitration Cost Avoidance: Is International Mediation the Solution?” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the conference agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://law2.fordham.edu/ihtml/cal-2uwcp-calendar_viewitem.ihtml?idc=10727" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; will speak during the Bay Area Council’s Energy and Climate Change Committee Meeting to be held March 23, 2010, in San Francisco, California.  Casto will provide an update on energy and climate change policy at the state, federal and international level following the December 2009 Copenhagen Accord. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read more about the committee, please click &lt;a href="http://www.bayareacouncil.org/takeaction_com_climate_change.php" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The SHB Government Enforcement &amp; Compliance Practice has issued a March 11, 2010, update alerting clients to “an emerging and troubling trend… related to patents listed on product labels.”  According to the newsletter, “more than 100 &lt;em&gt;qui tam&lt;/em&gt; actions have been filed against a variety of companies alleging ‘false patent marking’ in violation of 35 U.S.C. §292, which prohibits inten­tionally marking an item with a patent number that has expired or that does not protect the item.”  These actions have targeted the pharmaceutical, medical device and cosmetic industries, as well as consumer product companies, “in part because their labels or products often contain patent information and also because of the high volume of units being sold.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read more about this costly litigation wave in the latest edition of &lt;em&gt;Under Scrutiny: SHB’s Government Enforcement &amp; Compliance Update,&lt;/em&gt; please click &lt;a href="newsletters/GECU/GECU031110.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; will moderate a panel on international oceans policy during the WorldAffairs 2010 Conference on March 11-12, 2010, in San Francisco. The panel discussion, titled "Managing the Marine Environment,” will feature speakers from Stanford Law School, the University of British Columbia, and the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view a conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.itsyourworld.org/images/wac/Documents/DraftAgenda.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=669"&gt;Marc Shelley&lt;/a&gt; will participate in the “Food Law Seminar” of the International Association of Young Lawyers, scheduled to take place in Parma, Italy, May 6-8, 2010.  Shelley will join a panel of speakers addressing the topic “Concise worldwide survey about the class action regime particularly with respect to food legislation.” He will focus his remarks on class action trends in Europe and the United States and their impact on the new Italian class action law.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.aija.org/modules/events/index.php?id=270" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=386"&gt;Carol Poindexter&lt;/a&gt; will speak during the University of Texas School of Law’s 22nd Annual Health Law Conference to be held in Houston, April 8-9, 2010.  She will discuss “Self-Disclosure of Health Care Fraud and Abuse:  Risks, Benefits and Pitfalls.”  Co-sponsored by Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon, the conference will provide CLE and ethics credits. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.utcle.org/conference_programs/2010/HL10.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Featuring comments from Orange County Managing Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=95"&gt;Frank Rothrock&lt;/a&gt; and Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=246"&gt;Randall Haimovici&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;California Lawyer&lt;/em&gt; published a report on its Product Liability Roundtable in the magazine’s March 2010 edition. Rothrock and Haimovici participated on an expert panel discussing issues resulting from consumer class actions against the tobacco industry in California, including class certification, California's Unfair Competition Law and Proposition 64, among other topics. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the &lt;em&gt;California Lawyer’s&lt;/em&gt; Product Liability Roundtable report, please click &lt;a href="http://www.callawyer.com/roundtable.cfm?eid=908039&amp;evid=1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=997"&gt;Nate Muyskens&lt;/a&gt; commented on the disadvantages of outside compliance monitors in a March 4, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “Attorneys Fear Return of Outside Compliance Monitors,” the article discusses a proposal to change U.S. sentencing guidelines that will require an independent compliance monitor for companies sentenced to probation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The suggested amendment marks a puzzling departure from what was thought to be a growing consensus about compliance monitors' value, or lack thereof,” Muyskens told &lt;em&gt;Law360.&lt;/em&gt;  “The [U.S. Department of Justice] caught on to the fact that it's in the company's interest to be in compliance. It makes you wonder about the people on the sentencing commission. Have they read the papers for the last five years?”&lt;/p&gt;


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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; and Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article in the March 2010 issue of LJN’s &lt;em&gt;Product Liability Law &amp; Strategy.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “CPSC Poised to Implement Online Product Hazard Database,” the article explains that without reasonable limits the new CPSC public database can become a piñata for baseless lawsuits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The database concept is intended to protect the public and be a positive instrument for product safety,” according to Schwartz and Silverman. “But like any other instrument, it should be tailored to do public good and not unfair and irreparable harm to manufacturers, consumers, or public confidence in the CPSC.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; will serve as faculty for a live audio Webcast presented by the American Bar Association on March 3, 2010, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST. Barkett will discuss “Head in the Cloud, Feet in the Rules of Professional Conduct: Managing the Ethical Risks to Lawyers from Web 2.0 Technologies, Portable Devices, and Cloud Computing.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;For more information or to register, please click &lt;a href="http://www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t10hcf1.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Bar Association of San Francisco Foundation. The Foundation is the charitable branch of The Bar Association of San Francisco. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view a press release announcing the BASF Foundation board members, please click &lt;a href="http://www.sfbar.org/newsroom/20100226.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon has won the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2010 Thomas L. Sager Award for the Midwest Region. The award honors Thomas L. Sager, Vice President and General Counsel of DuPont, who has long championed the cause of diversity in the legal profession.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Sager Award is presented to firms that have demonstrated a sustained commitment to improve the hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys. SHB will be honored at the upcoming MCCA Midwest Diversity Dinner on March 17, 2010, at the Marriott Downtown in Chicago.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“Our firm is humbled to be recognized with an MCCA award created in the name of Tom Sager – his leadership in making diversity a corporate value at DuPont has been invaluable to the whole of our profession,” SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; said. “While we strive to bring innovation to our diversity programming, the principles that guide our efforts follow examples set by Tom and others who have demonstrated a similar commitment to bringing an equitable balance to the legal industry. We won’t rest on our laurels, but continue in our own commitment to making SHB and the legal industry a diverse place to work and do business.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB’s diversity best practices were recently featured in the MCCA’s &lt;em&gt;Diversity &amp; The Bar&lt;/em&gt; magazine. Now a three-time Sager Award recipient, SHB is well recognized as a national leader among law firms for its diversity efforts.  The firm’s other awards include the inaugural 2008 Living the Values Award, presented by The Coca-Cola Company to its outside law firm that best shares the company’s diversity values.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon Foundation recently awarded over $30,000 in grants to law schools in four states to support diversity programs at each institution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The grants were awarded to the University of Kansas School of Law, the University of Miami (Florida) School of Law, the University of Missouri–Columbia School of Law, and the University of San Francisco School of Law. Each institution received a grant of up to $10,000 to promote diversity programs that provide tutoring and summer judicial internships, among other forms of support.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“The mission of the SHB Foundation is to increase diversity in the legal workforce,” said SHB Foundation Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=348"&gt;Jay Simpson&lt;/a&gt;.  “This new grant program should further that goal by making sure that the law students are prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation.  The foundation also intends to continue its program of funding diversity-related scholarships at the law schools.”
In recent years, the SHB Foundation has committed to fund nearly $300,000 in diversity-related scholarships to support students at the University of Kansas School of Law, University of Missouri–Columbia School of Law, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law and University of Florida Levin College of Law. The Foundation hopes to expand the geographic scope of its grant activities in coming years.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon is well recognized as a national leader among law firms for its diversity efforts.  The firm has won several national and regional awards for its commitment to diversity, including the inaugural 2008 Living the Values Award, presented by The Coca-Cola Company to its outside law firm that best shares the company’s diversity values.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article in the February 22, 2010, issue of the &lt;em&gt;Miami Daily Business Review.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “Look Out — Duty to Preserve Can Come Before Suit Is Filed,” the article explains that service of a lawsuit is not necessarily the only trigger for the duty to preserve, a legal requirement to retain important records.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB’s alternative fee arrangement with Tyco International was featured in the February 2010 issue of &lt;em&gt;InsideCounsel.&lt;/em&gt; Titled “A Matter of Time,” the article addresses the increasing trend of alternative fee arrangements and highlights the relationship between SHB and Tyco.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"There are a lot of benefits," Tyco Senior Litigation Counsel Dave Nicholas says of Tyco’s relationship with SHB. "… when you partner with a firm like SHB, it becomes a partnership between client and law firm. The fixed fee makes the goals of both parties congruent."&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Legal Media Group has announced that SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=35"&gt;Harvey Kaplan&lt;/a&gt; will be recognized in &lt;em&gt;Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers - Best of the Best 2010.&lt;/em&gt; The guide will highlight the top 25 preeminent product liability attorneys in the world. Honorees are chosen after extensive research based on in-house counsel and peer nominations. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 2009, Legal Media Group named Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon the World’s Leading Product Liability Law Firm and Kaplan the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyer in its &lt;em&gt;Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;Bill Martucci&lt;/a&gt;  commented on employment class action motions in a February 17, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article titled “Top 5 Employment Motions and How to Win Them.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“In order to successfully oppose a plaintiff's motion for class certification, defense counsel must demonstrate that the members of the proposed class are not similarly situated by using a full understanding of the facts of the case and of class action law,” Martucci said. “It is somewhat easier to oppose a proposed discrimination class action by arguing that the situation of each employee is too unique for them to constitute a class, but wage-and-hour suits have a lesser standard and can be trickier.” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="http://employment.law360.com/articles/149500"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;KC Business&lt;/em&gt; magazine has recognized SHB Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=873"&gt;Dan Devers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=273"&gt;Paul Williams&lt;/a&gt; as 2010 Rising Stars. Honorees are individuals under the age of 40 who are impacting Kansas City businesses and the community. Rising Stars will be honored on Thursday, February 18, 2010, at the Ritz Charles in Overland Park, Kansas.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Daily Journal&lt;/em&gt; has recognized Orange County Managing Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=95"&gt;Frank Rothrock&lt;/a&gt; along with Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=21"&gt;Mark Moedritzer&lt;/a&gt;, Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=183"&gt;Kay Whittaker&lt;/a&gt;, and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=690"&gt;Eva Weiler&lt;/a&gt; on its Top Plaintiff Verdicts of 2009 list. The &lt;em&gt;Daily Journal&lt;/em&gt; highlights the trial team’s win in &lt;em&gt;Hubei Gezhouba Sanlian Indus. Co and Hubei Pinghu Cruis Co. v. Robinson Helicopter Co. Inc.&lt;/em&gt; as a top-impact verdict. SHB represented the interests of two Chinese companies in obtaining a federal trial court ruling enforcing a $6.4 million foreign judgment, which might be the first time an American court has enforced a Chinese court judgment. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the &lt;em&gt;Daily Journal&lt;/em&gt; supplement, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/DailyJournalRothrock.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; has recognized Lucy Mason’s return to SHB as a partner in the Global Product Liability Practice. Titled “Former Partner Rejoins Shook Hardy From Altria,” the February 5, 2010, article highlights Mason’s product liability expertise and her experience managing mass tort litigation at Altria Client Services, Inc., where she served as vice president and associate general counsel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Lucy's combined knowledge of Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon and her awareness of the objectives that drive in-house counsel will be a tremendous strength," SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; was quoted as saying.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Missouri Lawyers Media&lt;/em&gt; has announced its Women’s Justice Award winners for 2010 and will be honoring Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=51"&gt;Mischa Buford Epps&lt;/a&gt; as a “Rising Star” and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=799"&gt;Terry Satterlee&lt;/a&gt; as an outstanding “Business Practitioner” during an April 22, 2010, ceremony in St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The awards were first given to outstanding women lawyers in the St. Louis area beginning in 1999, but they now have a statewide scope.  They honor practitioners who excel in their areas of expertise and are committed to community outreach.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Buford Epps, who was nominated for this honor from the floor by the &lt;em&gt;Missouri Lawyers Media&lt;/em&gt; selection committee, has a broad range of corporate and non-profit clients.  She has been the recipient of numerous recognitions for her skills as a practitioner and the extra mile she has gone within bar associations and on behalf of the indigent.  Buford Epps has worked diligently to advance the interests of women and attorneys of color in the legal profession.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Satterlee is well-known among those primarily focusing on environmental law.  She has led teams of lawyers dealing with the most complex environmental enforcement matters.  Satterlee has also taken the time to mentor younger attorneys, share her knowledge in presentations and articles addressed to her peers, and devote considerable time to helping the indigent and advancing women’s careers.  Among those nominating her for this recognition were Senator Claire McCaskill and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=386"&gt;Carol Poindexter&lt;/a&gt; will participate in the American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Section’s “11th Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law,” scheduled for February 17-19, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona.  She will join a panel of speakers to discuss “How Will Investigations and Lawsuits Arising Under the Qui Tam Provisions of the False Claims Act Affect You and Your Company?”  Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon is co-sponsoring this event, which will provide CLE credit and be followed by the section’s open council meeting.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference program, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/EMI_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;William Martucci&lt;/a&gt; will join a distinguished panel of speakers for the Kansas Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy’s 2009-2010 Symposium, “Employment Law in Recessionary Times.”  Scheduled for February 19, 2010, the symposium, which offers CLE credit, will be held at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas.  Martucci’s topic is “Employer Strategies for Preventing and Dealing with Wage and Hour Claims.”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the program agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://www.kuconnection.org/htmlemail/law_event_2010_01_26/index.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=130"&gt;Adam Moore&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=1016"&gt;Devin Ross&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article appearing in the January/February 2010 issue of &lt;em&gt;Pharma&lt;/em&gt; magazine, the global magazine of the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical industry. Titled “Risky Business,” the article addresses FDA's Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) process and its potential significance in future litigation.  The article provides a background on the recent FDA guidance on the REMS process and discusses the potential litigation risks associated with the relatively new option of voluntary submission of REMS. "At first glance, this may look like a great opportunity to stave off future litigation [through more comprehensive warnings], but it may turn out to be a double-edged sword," because the standard is that the manufacturer should submit a voluntary REMS when it believes that the risks of the drug outweigh its benefits.  Given the importance of the risk/benefit analysis in future litigation and the potential admissions involved in the REMS process, the authors suggest that in-house counsel and senior management should adopt responsible document-creation practices to avoid the creation of bad documents during the internal REMS evaluation process.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=219"&gt;Grant Law&lt;/a&gt; will serve as program co-chair during the American Bar Association’s “2010 Emerging Issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation” on April 7-9, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona. Law will also serve as moderator of the panel discussion “How Not to Settle Your Case: Mistakes Plaintiffs’ and Defense Lawyers Make Leading up to and at Mediation.” SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; will serve on a panel addressing “Products Liability in Transition: Is There a Sea Change or Steady as She Goes?” &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the conference agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://www.abanet.org/tips/market/10MVBrochure.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=284"&gt;Steve Darmody&lt;/a&gt; commented on launching SHB’s land use litigation practice in a January 28, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “Launching Your New Practice Group: 5, 4, 3...,” the article highlights legal expert opinions on how to launch and build successful and enduring practice groups.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;“I came to the realization that we had a particular skill set in our environmental litigation group that was a perfect match for that complicated trade-off between real estate development and environmental protection,” Darmody is quoted as saying. “So, we started a group to try and take advantage of our skills and what at the time was a real estate boom in Florida.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Darmody’s advice to others is, “Try to position yourself a step ahead of where the world is going so that when legal issues come up, you are positioned to be there and help people wrestle with those issues.”&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=997"&gt;Nate Muyskens&lt;/a&gt; commented on new merger guidelines in a January 28, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; article. Titled “Merger Effects Guidelines Will Help Cos. With Reviews,” the article discusses new unilateral merger guidance from U.S. regulators as part of an extensive revision of the existing merger review guidelines used by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Muyskens told &lt;em&gt;Law360,&lt;/em&gt; “that while the new guidelines probably won't change what mergers the agencies try to block, they might affect when they issue second requests for information. That can be important to companies as they plan a merger.”&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The BTI Consulting Group, a provider of strategic research to law firms and general counsel, has recognized SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=99"&gt;Marie Woodbury&lt;/a&gt; as a BTI Client Service All-Star for her “commitment to client service excellence.” She is one of only 165 individual attorneys nominated to The BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law Firms 2010.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BTI Client Service All-Stars were identified as a result of interviews with 250 corporate counsel from large and &lt;em&gt;Fortune&lt;/em&gt; 1000 companies. Attorneys named to the listing were singled out not only for their superior legal skills but also for their client focus, demonstrating an exceptional understanding of their clients’ business, delivering efficient, value-added service and achieving outstanding results.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In addition to their “proactive outreach, counseling and a healthy dose of practicality with their deep understanding of clients’ business,” BTI recognized All-Stars as the “first to define new tactics to reduce costs, revisit staffing and billing strategies at their firms, and even analyze litigation portfolios with an eye towards risk and cost reduction.”&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; was quoted in a January 26, 2010, &lt;em&gt;Daily Journal&lt;/em&gt; article discussing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new limit on the amount of smog-forming nitrogen dioxide allowed in the air during short periods of time.  EPA's regulation will require state authorities to put emission-monitoring equipment in place by 2013 to measure the level of nitrogen dioxide in urban areas near roads with heavy vehicular traffic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While the new rule may not have a significant practical effect for some time, "it's a reflection of a renewed vigor on part of the EPA to tackle traditional environmental air quality problems,” Haroff was quoted as saying.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diversity &amp; the Bar&lt;/em&gt; features Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon in its January/February 2010 issue. Titled “Getting Everyone Involved in Diversity,” the article highlights the Diversity Checklist, the firm’s recruiting efforts and the Women’s Management Council. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="diversity/DiversityandtheBarJanFeb10.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in &lt;em&gt;Geertson Seed v. Johanns,&lt;/em&gt; which upheld the imposition of a nationwide injunction against the marketing of genetically modified seeds in the absence of a full environmental impact statement.  &lt;em&gt;Monsanto v. Geertson Seed,&lt;/em&gt; No. 09-475 (January 15, 2010).  The case addresses the availability of broad remedies under the National Environmental Policy Act, and it could be the most significant environmental law case considered by the Court this term.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; submitted an &lt;em&gt;amicus&lt;/em&gt; brief on behalf of the Washington Legal Foundation in support of Monsanto Company's petition to the Court for issuance of a writ of certiorari in the case.  
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=65"&gt;Mark Hegarty&lt;/a&gt; joins a distinguished faculty presenting during DRI’s 26th annual “Drug and Medical Device Seminar,” scheduled for May 20-21, 2010, in San Francisco.  Hegarty will serve on a panel with in-house counsel to discuss “Potential Civil and Criminal Liability Arising from Clinical Trials.”  Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon is a co-sponsor of this conference for which CLE credit is available.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the conference brochure, please click &lt;a href="http://www.dri.org/open/event_brochures/20100070.pdf "&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=852"&gt;David Douglass&lt;/a&gt; will discuss “Litigating Civil Cases in the Shadow of a Criminal Investigation” during an April 15-16, 2010, DRI conference in New York City.  Titled “Business Litigation and Intellectual Property Seminar—What Smart Companies and Their Lawyers Need to Know in the Next Decade,” this CLE program features a distinguished faculty including &lt;em&gt;Fortune&lt;/em&gt; 500 in-house attorneys and seasoned practitioners.  Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon is a conference co-sponsor.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;The conference brochure can be accessed by clicking &lt;a href="http://www.dri.org/open/event_brochures/20100036.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; and Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored a Washington Legal Foundation &lt;em&gt;Legal Opinion Letter&lt;/em&gt; titled “Alabama Supreme Court Rejects Pharmaceutical Pricing ‘Regulation Through Litigation.’” They discuss the court’s recent decision rejecting the state’s claims that “the nationwide pricing policies of pharmaceutical manufacturers caused states to overpay Medicaid recipients’ prescription drugs.”  &lt;em&gt;AstraZeneca LP v. State of Alabama,&lt;/em&gt; 2009 WL 3335904 (Ala., Oct. 16, 2009).  Behrens and Silverman co-authored an &lt;em&gt;amici&lt;/em&gt; brief in the case on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, National Association of Manufacturers and American Petroleum Institute.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the opinion letter, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/AlabamaSupremeCourtRejectsRegulationThroughLitigation.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13"&gt;Mark Behrens&lt;/a&gt; will be participating on a panel during an HB Litigation Conference, March 3-5, 2010, in Marina del Rey, California, to discuss “The Role of the Bankruptcy Trusts in Civil Asbestos.”  His session is part of the “3rd Annual Emerging Trends in Asbestos Litigation Conference:   What You Need to Know to Survive the Litigation Throughout the Next Decade.”  To view the conference agenda, please click &lt;a href="http://litigationconferences.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/03.2010ASBCON1.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=65"&gt;Mark Hegarty&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=92"&gt;Lori McGroder&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=386"&gt;Carol Poindexter&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=133"&gt;Douglas Schreiner&lt;/a&gt; have created and will present during a Drug Information Association (DIA) continuing education program to be held in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2010.  Titled “Liability Risks in Clinical Trials,” the program will include sessions on (i) “Who’s Watching You:  Government Enforcement in Clinical Trials”; (ii) “Litigation Update:  What Can Happen with Clinical Trials”; (iii) “Avoiding Liability, ‘Bad’ Documents and Bad Press”; (iv) and “Clinical Trials on Trial:  Potential Legal Liability Arising from Clinical Trials (Mock Trial).”  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To review the event brochure, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/LiabilityRisksinClinicalTrials_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=31"&gt;Bill Martucci&lt;/a&gt; and Of Counsels &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=872"&gt;David Fischer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=762"&gt;Joel Mosher&lt;/a&gt; have been named to various &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; editorial advisory boards for 2010. Martucci will serve on the Employment Editorial Advisory Board, Fischer on the Competition Editorial Advisory Board, and Mosher on the Insurance Editorial Advisory Board.&lt;/p



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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16"&gt;Victor Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=847"&gt;Christopher Appel&lt;/a&gt; have co-authored an article appearing in the November/December 2009 issue of &lt;em&gt;Inside ALEC.&lt;/em&gt; ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, where Schwartz serves as co-chair of the Civil Justice Task Force.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Titled “How ‘Bad Faith’ Becomes Bad Law,” the article discusses efforts underway before state legislatures to expand the liability of insurance companies by heightening penalties for the unjust delay or denial of a claim, giving individuals a private right of action for bad-faith conduct, removing any intentional conduct standard, and enumerating criteria that purport to show bad faith.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The article outlines the varying approaches that state courts and legislatures use in cases alleging bad faith and contends that new proposals brought by plaintiffs’ lawyers have “sought to take advantage of the muddled state of the law and unreasonably expand and distort the core principles of bad-faith law.”  The authors argue that such expansion is bad public policy and will, if enacted, result in small business owners and individuals paying higher premiums for their insurance.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=658"&gt;Jim Andreasen&lt;/a&gt; has co-authored an article providing an update on the American National Standards Institute’s draft national standard for sustainable agriculture.  The article appears in the January 2010 issue of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) &lt;em&gt;Agricultural Management Committee Newsletter.&lt;/em&gt;  This committee is part of the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The article outlines the draft standard’s development to date and the potential impact it could have once finalized, discusses the appeals that various interested stakeholders have filed, mostly challenging the composition of the standards development committee, and reports that the draft will be further refined in March 2010 during  a meeting at the University of Arkansas.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the article, please click &lt;a href="http://www.abanet.org/environ/committees/agricult/newsletter/jan10/AgMgmt_Jan10.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; has recognized Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon as one of its Product Liability Defense Firms of the Year in an article quoting SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; who attributes the successes, in part, to the “Midwestern work ethic that pervades” the firm. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon “stood out for their work on some of the most high-profile liability cases of the year,” &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; reported. The legal newswire also remarked that SHB “boasts more than 100 experts on staff with master’s degrees and doctorates in areas useful to product liability law.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span class="view"&gt;&lt;p&gt;To view the Law360 article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2010/SHBLaw360_2010.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon Chair John Murphy has announced the promotion of 10 attorneys to the level of partner in the law firm’s Houston, Kansas City, Miami and Washington, D.C. offices.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=495"&gt;Stacey Deere&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=312"&gt;Jean Dickman&lt;/a&gt; (Intellectual Property, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=124"&gt;Laurie Henry&lt;/a&gt; (Pharmaceutical &amp; Medical Device Litigation, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=579"&gt;Kristen Page&lt;/a&gt; (Employment Litigation &amp; Policy, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=726"&gt;Alfred Saikali&lt;/a&gt; (Tort, Miami)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=325"&gt;Adam Seitz&lt;/a&gt; (Intellectual Property, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=137"&gt;Jon Strongman&lt;/a&gt; (Pharmaceutical &amp; Medical Device Litigation, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=772"&gt;Jennise Walker Stubbs&lt;/a&gt; (Pharmaceutical &amp; Medical Device Litigation, Houston)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=546"&gt;Michael Walden&lt;/a&gt; (Product Liability Litigation, Kansas City)&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; has named Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon a finalist in its 
fifth biennial 2010 Product Liability Litigation Department of the Year 
competition.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;“Shook is a finalist in the product liability division of our Litigation 
Department of the Year contest for the breadth of its work,” &lt;i&gt;The American 
Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; reported in its January 2010 issue. “Shook is also a finalist because 
more than any other firm in the product liability competition, it tries and wins 
cases.” The magazine noted Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon’s record of trying 32 cases over 
the last two years, winning 27 of them on behalf of its clients.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;In its latest round of evaluating the nation’s largest litigation firms, &lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; highlighted Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon’s expertise and efficiencies in managing one-off cases and massive litigation alike. “It 
approaches potential new clients with an underdog’s attitude,” the magazine 
reported, calling attention to “the firm’s experience handling litigation as 
effectively as the New York firm next door, but for less money.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bausch &amp;amp; Lomb General Counsel A. Bob Bailey told &lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; that in hiring Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon, “it was important to find a firm that could support the defense of multiple actions in multiple jurisdictions” and be “more cost-efficient” than its competitors.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;And while &lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; recognized Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon’s 
winning trial record, Tyco International Ltd. Senior Litigation Counsel Dave 
Nicholas added that “because of Shook, Hardy’s presence, we don’t have to try 
that many cases anymore.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; evaluated firms based on results achieved from 
January 1, 2008, to July 31, 2009. During that period, Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon 
handled an array of product liability matters for “an impressive roster of 
institutional clients,” &lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; noted. In addition to its 
work for Bausch &amp;amp; Lomb and Tyco International Ltd., SHB achieved success on 
behalf of many other multinational companies in the pharmaceutical and medical 
device, tobacco, automotive, chemical, electronics, health care, construction 
and design, consumer goods, and food industries.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer&lt;/i&gt; recognition is the second consecutive accolade SHB 
has received from the magazine in its Litigation Department of the Year 
competitions. In 2008, Shook, Hardy &amp;amp; Bacon was named Winner of the Litigation 
Department of the Year in the Product Liability category.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;SHB has also been named Global Product Liability Law Firm of the Year for the 
fifth consecutive year by &lt;i&gt;Who’s Who Legal&lt;/i&gt;; listed in &lt;i&gt;Chambers USA&lt;/i&gt; 
as one of five elite “Band One” firms for national product liability defense, 
and named by &lt;i&gt;Law360&lt;/i&gt; as one of five Product Liability Defense Firms of the 
Year.&lt;/p&gt; 

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; recently reported that Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon has “stayed on top in the recession, leveraging its Midwestern roots to provide unbeatable value to clients.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In researching firms for its annual survey, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; named Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon’s product liability practice the largest of its kind in the United States. Additionally, &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; recognized the firm’s environmental and intellectual property practices as among the largest in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Law360&lt;/em&gt; survey is based primarily on overall headcounts, but SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; commented that the firm is not as focused on numbers relating to attorneys.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;“We have never approached growth in terms of numbers,” Murphy said in the report. “It’s far better to be creative in things like your approach to cases and your billing strategies. My belief is that if you stick to your knitting, the numbers take care of themselves.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SHB’s previous accolades include recognition as &lt;em&gt;Who’s Who Legal’s&lt;/em&gt; Global Product Liability Law Firm of the Year and The American Lawyer Product Liability Litigation Department of the Year. &lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=994"&gt;Keith Casto&lt;/a&gt; recently attended the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as an official credentialed observer for a non-governmental organization delegation representing a consortium of companies.  According to Casto, officials at Copenhagen reached a climate change agreement that will set the stage for an international system to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.  Further details will be posted on Shook, Hardy and Bacon’s &lt;a href="http://climatechange.shbnewsmonitor.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Climate Change &amp; Sustainability News Monitor.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The 2010 edition of the &lt;em&gt;South Florida Legal Guide&lt;/em&gt; recognizes seven SHB Miami attorneys as “Top Lawyers” and “Top Up and Comers” in the profession. Top Lawyers include Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=276"&gt;John Barkett&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=280"&gt;John McNally&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=222"&gt;Ed Moss&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=227"&gt;Paul Reid&lt;/a&gt;. Top Up and Comers include Partners &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=271"&gt;Todd Wallen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=605"&gt;Dan Rogers&lt;/a&gt; and Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=726"&gt;Al Saikali&lt;/a&gt;. The guide also recognizes SHB on its list of “Top Law Firms” in South Florida.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;South Florida Legal Guide&lt;/em&gt; provides an original and definitive list of "lawyers’ lawyers" in South Florida and recognizes attorneys who have several years of experience and distinguished records of achievement. Top Up and Comers are those attorneys considered to be the next generation of legal leaders in South Florida.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=658"&gt;James Andreasen&lt;/a&gt; has joined the editorial board of &lt;em&gt;Natural Resources &amp; Environment&lt;/em&gt;, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.  Published quarterly, &lt;em&gt;Natural Resources &amp; Environment&lt;/em&gt; features articles reflecting the theme of a given issue, as well as regular columns on hot topics in environmental, energy and resources law; reviews of books and periodicals of interest; and interviews with leaders in the environment, energy and resources fields.   
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=891"&gt;Antwaun Smith&lt;/a&gt;, representing the Missouri Public Defender Commission pro bono before the Missouri Supreme Court, argued in November 2009 that the commission has the authority to adopt rules allowing public defenders to refuse certain cases when their maximum caseloads have been exceeded.  Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=201"&gt;Manuel Lopez&lt;/a&gt; assisted with the briefing and development of case strategy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In a 7-0 decision authored by Judge Wolff and issued December 8, 2009, the court acknowledged the serious tension between limited public defender resources and the duty to comply with ethical obligations to clients, and the constitutional right of indigent criminal defendants to legal representation.  The court determined that the commission exceeded its statutory authority by issuing rules allowing public defender offices to control their caseloads by declining representation in categories of cases, such as those involving probation violations.  In a significant win for the public defender, however, the court upheld commission rules that allow overburdened public defender offices to be certified as having “limited availability” once their maximum caseloads are exceeded for three consecutive months.  In this situation, if no agreement can be reached with presiding judges and prosecutors in an affected area to reduce the caseload, the court stated that the public defender is authorized by the rule "to make the office unavailable for any appointments until the caseload falls below the commission standard."&lt;/p&gt;
   
&lt;p&gt;The court also agreed with Smith that a Boone County judge improperly appointed a public defender in his “private capacity” to represent an indigent defendant.  The court determined that state law prohibits public defenders from practicing law except in their official capacity as public defenders and, thus, while trial judges may appoint “almost any lawyer from The Missouri Bar to represent indigent defendants,” they may not appoint someone who also happens to be a public defender.  The court thanked "the local prosecutors, public defender staff attorneys and members of the private bar who served without fee for their work on these cases, which involve issues of such great importance to the public, the courts and the criminal justice system."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Smith responded to the court's ruling by saying, "Under this decision, the public defender can't decline a specific category of cases but now has the even greater authority to decline &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; cases until the office's caseload comes down to a level that allows for effective representation. Our client lost the battle but won the war."  &lt;span class="view"&gt;To read the court's opinion, please click &lt;a href="http://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=35935" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shook, Hardy &amp; Bacon Agribusiness &amp; Food Safety Co-Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=91"&gt;Madeleine McDonough&lt;/a&gt; will discuss “Pre-Litigation Risk Management Strategies” at the GMA Consumer Complaints Conference slated for April 7-9, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The conference is designed specifically for food industry staff working in the areas of consumer affairs, call center management, consumer complaints, product liability claims, and quality assurance. &lt;span class="view"&gt;For more information, please click &lt;a href="http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=977ca73f-984a-483d-8080-5851baa1da28" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=658"&gt;James Andreasen&lt;/a&gt; has co-authored a chapter titled "Nanotechnology and the National Environmental Policy Act" in Nanotechnology: Environmental Law, Policy, and Business Considerations, just published by the American Bar Association.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Washingtonian&lt;/em&gt; has named SHB’s &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=90"&gt;Michelle Mangrum&lt;/a&gt; to its “800 of Washington’s Top Lawyers” list. The magazine listing recognizes the “best legal minds” in the District of Columbia.&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=57"&gt;Scott McCandless&lt;/a&gt; has authored an article titled “Thinking sublease? Be sure to think it through” in the November 2009 issue of &lt;em&gt;Ingram’s magazine.&lt;/em&gt; He addresses 10 “Gotchas” that a prospective subtenant should consider before subleasing. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the article, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2009/Thinkingsublease.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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E: bgtaylor@shb.com&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=999"&gt;Kevin Haroff&lt;/a&gt; took the lead drafting an &lt;em&gt;amicus&lt;/em&gt; brief on behalf of the Washington Legal Foundation in support of Monsanto Company's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for issuance of a writ of certiorari in the Geertson Seed litigation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Filed November 23, 2009, the brief encourages the Court to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision allowing the imposition of broad injunctive relief in a case under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) without first holding an evidentiary hearing, among other things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Associate &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=1019"&gt;Kate Wolf&lt;/a&gt; helped research and draft the brief.  SHB Of Counsel &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=17"&gt;Cary Silverman&lt;/a&gt; conducted a final review of the brief for form and content. &lt;span class="view"&gt;To view the &lt;em&gt;amicus&lt;/em&gt; brief, please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2009/MonsantovGeertsonSeedWLFAmicus.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Chair &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=34"&gt;John Murphy&lt;/a&gt; along with in-house counsel from Freddie Mac, Microsoft Corporation, and Prudential Financial, Inc. led an interactive workshop, "White Men and Diversity: Achieving Higher Levels of Engagement," for attendees of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's (MCCA’s) annual Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference.  Founded in 1997, MCCA is a national organization dedicated to the expanded hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys in corporate law departments and law firms that serve them.  The Creating Pathways Conference is the premiere national conference for providing diversity best practices in the legal profession.  &lt;span class="view"&gt;Please click &lt;a href="newsevents/2009/MurphyMCCAMaterials2009.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to review a copy of Murphy’s written materials for the conference.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;SHB Partner &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=150"&gt;Gene Balloun&lt;/a&gt; celebrated National Adoption Day by aiding a number of Kansas foster families in the completion of what can sometimes be a long and complex adoption process. On Saturday, November, 21, 2009, Balloun led an SHB effort to permanently place nearly 20 area foster children with loving families in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Balloun represented the families before Johnson County, Kansas, District Court Judge Kathleen Sloan in the final steps of making their adoptions “official.” At the same time, SHB Staff Attorney &lt;a href="/attorney_detail.aspx?id=789"&gt;Joy Springfield&lt;/a