HOUSTON, JULY 6, 2009—The American Arbitration Association, a world leader in providing conflict management and dispute resolution services, appointed Beirne, Maynard & Parsons partner Scott D. Marrs to its Commercial Panel of Arbitrators.

Marrs has more than 20 years of experience providing pre-dispute, pretrial, trial, post-trial, and arbitration counseling to clients on intellectual property, energy, construction, international, and other commercial matters. He is nationally known as an authority on matters of intellectual property and commercial arbitration and litigation.

“I am honored to have been appointed to such an esteemed panel of my peers, and I look forward to working with the panel to assist parties in timely and efficiently resolving their disputes out of court,” Marrs says of his recent appointment.

The global leader in conflict management since 1926, the American Arbitration Association is a not-for-profit, public service organization committed to the resolution of disputes through the use of arbitration, mediation, conciliation, negotiation, democratic elections and other voluntary procedures. Through 30 offices in the United States, Ireland, Mexico, and Singapore, the AAA provides a forum for the hearing of disputes, rules and procedures and a roster of impartial experts to resolve cases. Find more information online at www.adr.org.

Beirne, Maynard & Parsons is one of Texas’ largest civil litigation-only law firm, representing companies in trials, appeals, arbitrations, and other proceedings throughout Texas, the nation, and the world. The firm focuses on the needs of corporate clients who know the value of extensive trial experience, solid case preparation, and insightful strategic planning. Because civil litigation is all they do, they have a history of providing exceptional results for clients with the highest expectations.
For additional information, visit www.bmpllp.com.

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Contact:
Morgan Feldman
Manager of Client Relations
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P.
713.968.3811
mfeldman@bmpllp.com

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, October 26, 2009 -- Arnstein & Lehr LLP’s Robert E. McKenzie, a noted authority concentrating his practice in representation before the Internal Revenue Service and state tax agencies, was featured in several national and international news stories in 2009 regarding the IRS’ efforts to uncover the identities of approximately 52,000 UBS bank account holders in which Americans may be holding $15 billion in an effort to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Miller Samuel LLP is delighted to announce that Marie and the employment team won the prestigious Employment Firm of the Year award at the Law Awards of Scotland on 17th September 2009.

Thomas Brett joins Fogler, Rubinoff LLP. Tom's practice is focused in energy law, both the regulatory and transactional aspects. He has had a lengthy career in public service, private industry and as a practicing lawyer, most recently with a large downtown Toronto law firm.

Tom represents clients before the Ontario Energy Board and the National Energy Board. He provides strategic and policy advice to clients on energy matters. His transactional work includes power purchase agreements, gas and electricity procurement, energy project development, construction and operating agreements, energy savings performance contracts and electricity connection agreements. He represents clients in the oil and gas, nuclear, electricity and renewables sectors, and in all phases of the business, including producers, pipelines, transmission and distribution utilities and end use consumers.