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		<pubDate>Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[K&L Gates Acquires Milan Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[K&L Gates has continued its geographic expansion, merging with an Italian firm to launch a new office in Milan and the firm's first in the European country,  The acquisition of Marini Salsi Picciau Studio Legale starts off K&L Gates' presence in the city with three partners, three associates and three trainees.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Baker Donelson Acquires Another Houston Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has acquired its second firm in the Houston market.  The Memphis-based law firm acquired Drucker, Rutledge & Smith LLP, a seven-lawyer civil litigation firm.  Baker Donelson acquired Spain Chambers in Houston last October.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Womble Carlyle Acquires Columbia SC Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP said today it is expanding its presence in South Carolina by acquiring the law firm of Hall and Bowers LLC in Columbia.  The Columbia office will focus on campaign finance and election law, public policy, administrative and regulatory law, constitutional litigation and business litigation.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Littler Mendelson Acquires Memphis Labor & Employment Boutique]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Memphis labor and employment law firm Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Prather PLC is merging with Littler Mendelson PC. San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson established its first Tennessee office in Nashville in early 2011 and this will be its first in Memphis.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Jackson Lewis Acquires Milwaukee Labor & Employment Boutique]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jackson Lewis announced that it has acquired  Milwaukee firm Simandl & Prentice, taking on six attorneys in the process.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[McKenna Long and Luce Forward To Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge will merge with San Diego-based Luce, Forward Hamilton & Scripps. The merger, which will expand its roster of attorneys and public policy advisers to more than 600, is expected to close March 1.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Lim Ruger Acquires Wang & Chang]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles minority-owned firm Lim Ruger has opened a San Francisco office by merging with Wang & Chang, a local four-attorney shop. The combined 23-attorney litigation and transactions boutique will continue to carry the Lim Ruger name. The merger was effective January 3rd.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Small Philadelphia-Area Firms Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sacks & Weston in Jenkintown Pennsylvania merged with Petrelli Law in Philadelphia on Jan. 1. The new firm, Sacks Weston & Petrelli, has lawyers admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Moore & Van Allen Adds South Carolina Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Moore & Van Allen PLLC is absorbing Hagood & Kerr PA, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and will bring on all four of its shareholder attorneys, five associate attorneys and a few paralegals and assistants in January. The move enlarges Moore & Van Allen's Charleston office to about 75 people.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Madison Wisconsin Firms Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field will join with Lathrop & Clark to become the Boardman & Clark law firm, one of the biggest in Madison with nearly 70 attorneys.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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