Heller Ehrman LLP announced today plans to open an office in Shanghai, China in January 2008. The expansion will allow Heller Ehrman to strengthen its overall presence in the region and extend one of its key core practices – intellectual property (IP) – further into Asia.

a former shop steward and Executive Delegate of Local 157 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (the “Carpenters Union”) -- pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge BARBARA S. JONES to one count of aiding and abetting the embezzlement of monies from employee benefit plans.

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