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With the bribery conviction of former Justice Gerald P. Garson in hand, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said Friday that "the end game" of his office's four-year probe into the buying and selling of judgeships is about to begin.

Hynes said Garson and former Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic county Chairman Clarence Norman hold the "keys" to proving allegations that candidates have had to pay $50,000 or more to obtain judgeships, stories that "have been around longer than you or me." Dewey Ballantine has recruited two more corporate partners from the New York office of Reed Smith. Patrick de Carbuccia and Alexander G. Fraser are joining Dewey as partners in the structured finance group. Their move comes a few weeks after two other Reed Smith lawyers, John J. Altorelli and Jeffrey A. Potash, also became Dewey structured finance partners. Both de Carbuccia and Fraser specialize in general corporate transactions, with a particular emphasis on private equity funds. Dewey has said it is building its structured finance practice in anticipation of the increased use by private equity groups of so-called "asset-backed buyouts" as opposed to more traditional leveraged buyouts. The further expansion of the structured finance group follows the departure in the last two weeks of four other U.S. partners. The firm has seen a number of such departures in the past few months, during which it announced, then abandoned, plans to merge with San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

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Join us for the 2006 Installation of President Charles Michaels and the Officers and Board of Trustees. We are pleased to announce that Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General, will give our keynote address. We will also be installing Gavin Wasserman as the Barristers President and the Barristers Officers, Executive Committee and leadership. We will be awarding the Hon. Benjamin Aranda III Outstanding Public Service Awards for the Barristers Aids Legal Services Project/HALSA, the Barristers Domestic Violence Project and the Immigration Legal Assistance Project. This year's installation will be a dinner. The dinner will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Presentations will begin at 7:00 p.m. Location: Omni New York Hotel, 251 South Olive Street , New York On the same day the new rules were implemented, Alexander & Catalano, with offices in Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y., and Public Citizen Inc. filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District alleging the restrictions violate the constitutional right to free speech and impose anti-consumer limits on lawyers' ads. The suit, filed Feb. 1 in Albany, N.Y., seeks injunctive and declaratory relief in an attempt to prevent enforcement of the new rules by the disciplinary committees. (The rules are posted at http://www.courts.state.ny.us/rules/attorney_ads_amendments.shtml). "The rules overall are a restriction on free speech," Gregory A. Beck of the Public Citizen Litigation Group said in an interview. "They are not based on a concern that what is said is false, but on a concern of what some people think is poor taste. The [U.S.] Supreme Court has made clear you cannot regulate speech based on taste." Rick Werder — experienced trial lawyer and former head of Jones Day’s New York litigation practice — has joined Quinn Emanuel in New York. Rick has experience in all kinds of complex litigation, including cases involving shareholder class and derivative litigation, product liability, toxic torts, consumer class actions, corporate control contests, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and general business and commercial litigation. He has served as lead trial counsel in a number of significant bench and jury trials, including a class action in Illinois in which plaintiffs sought more than $50 million, a consumer protection and product liability action in California in which plaintiffs sought more than $800 million, and a breach of contract action in which he obtained a $47 million judgment on a jury verdict for his client. He has been profiled in the Chambers USA directory of America’s Leading Business Lawyers.

Seven years after Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom vacated 919 Third Ave. for 4 Times Square in New York City, the trend to move westward continues, but primarily for small and midsized non-New York City-based firms in need of bigger and more customized office space.

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