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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:51:11 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Polsinelli Shugart Acquires Missouri Government Relations Boutique]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Polsinelli Shughart PC plans to acquire a seven-lawyer law firm in Jefferson City. The Kansas City, Mo.-based law firm announced that, by April 1, Hendren Andrae LLC will become part of Polsinelli, marking its second merger in little more than a year.<br>
Hendren Andrae largely is a government relations practice in Missouri's capital but also does business litigation.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Ward Norris and Daller Greenberg To Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Litigation law firm Daller Greenberg & Dietrich said Monday it will merge with Rochester, N.Y.-based Ward Norris Heller & Reidy and relocate its main office from Conshohocken PA to Philadelphia. The merger, effective April 1, will create a newly combined firm named Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Benesch Friedlander Acquires Indianapolis Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Cleveland-based law firm of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff has merged with an Indianapolis firm, Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman. <br>
Ira Kaplan, Benesch's managing partner, will remain in that role, and Cleveland will remain the headquarters for the merged firm.

Benesch had 145 attorneys before the merger with the 26-attorney Indianapolis firm.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Chartwell Law Offices Aquires NYC Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Chartwell Law Offices, LLP, has announced the expansion of the New York City office that it opened in July 2009 with the acquisition of the law firm of Kenneth Goldberg and Associates.  Chartwell, now comprised of 57 lawyers, has Pennsylvania offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Scranton, Valley Forge, and Philadelphia, as well as offices in New York City, NY, Wilmington, DE, Melbourne, FL and Medford, NJ.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Two Small NY State Firms Combine]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The father-and-son legal team, the only remaining partners in the Norton Radin Hoover & Freedman law firm, are joining Syracuse-based Ferrara Fiorenza Larrison Barrett & Reitz PC. The merger of practices, which took effect Jan. 1, unites two firms that focus their respective practices on education law - specifically, representing school districts.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Rogers Townsend Acquires Charlotte Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rogers Townsend & Thomas, the Midland's fifth-largest law firm, has merged with the Charlotte firm of Kellam & Pettit.  The combined firm will operate as Rogers Townsend & Thomas. The merger is part of the long-term growth strategy, the firms said in a statement.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Hogan & Hartson, Lovells To Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hogan & Hartson LLP and Lovells have jointly announced that their respective partnerships have approved the merger of their firms. The combined firms will be known as Hogan Lovells, effective May 1, 2010.  Hogan Lovells will have total revenues of approximately US$1.8 billion and 2,500 lawyers in more than 40 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Hamburger Law Firm Acquires Kupfer & Associates]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hamburger Law Firm, a boutique firm practicing in the areas pertaining to investment and securities law as well as relevant corporate and employment matters, are pleased to announce the acquisition of Kupfer & Associates, PLLC with offices in New York City and Brooklyn, NY.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[NJ Personal Injury Firms Merge]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Javerbaum and Gerald Baker are among New Jersey's leading litigators and teachers in the field of personal injury law, and now they are going to practice together in a 22-lawyer operation with offices in four counties. As of next month, Baker and his two partners will be of counsel to 19-lawyer Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, giving the Springfield firm its first substantial presence in Hudson County.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Howard & Howard Acquires Chicago Firm]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chicago business law firm Defrees & Fiske, LLC, has joined Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, effective Nov. 1, 2009. Howard & Howard, founded in 1869, and Defrees & Fiske, founded in 1884, will carry on under the Howard & Howard name, operating out of the Defrees & Fiske office at 200 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.  Howard & Howard had been looking for an opportunity to break into the Chicago market.]]></description>
					<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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