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EPA Rulemaking Hotline: 3/3/2010; Author: Paul Bohannon, Lisa Montgomery Shelton and Max Williamson

"How Significant is Carbon Financing for Latin America?": Inter-American Dialogue's Latin America Energy Advisor; March 2010; Author: Max Williamson

SEC Proposes Amendments to Issuer Repurchase Rule: Rule 10b-18: Safe Harbor from Liability for Market Manipulation; 2/16/2010; Author: Ashley E. Burns and G. Michael O'Leary

EPA Issues New Renewable Fuels Standard: 2/12/2010; Author: Max Williamson and Alan Bickerstaff

"PD Vital to the New Way Forward: Insights from Five Managing Partners": NALP Bulletin; February 2010; Author: Amy S. Hancock

"Purchasing Loans? Ten Warning Signs for Investors,": Private Mortgage Finance Association; February 2010; Author: Brigitte G. Kimichik

"5 Things You Should Never Say To A Client": Law360.com; 1/29/2010

Stricter Smog Standards to Burden Municipalities and Industry: 1/26/2010; Author: Lisa Montgomery Shelton, Paul Bohannon and Max Williamson

Estate and Generation-Skipping Tax Repeal for 2010: 1/13/2010

Increased Governmental Scrutiny on Oil and Gas Development: 1/11/2010; Author: Lisa Montgomery Shelton

Establishing Bank Holding Company Insolvency: Lessons Learned from The Bank of New England Corporation Bankruptcy: Banking & Financial Services Policy Report; January 2010; Author: Ben S. Branch and James D. Higgason, Jr.

Fraudulent Transfer Remedies Available to Bank Holding Company Bankruptcy Trustees After Gramm-Leach-Bliley: The Banking Law Journal; January 2010; Author: James D. Higgason, Jr.

"Inside the Minds: Emerging Applications for ADR," author of chapter: "International ADR Developments: Innovative Approaches to Resolving New Types of Disputes": January 2010; Author: Richard D. Deutsch and Arthur D. Felsenfeld

SEC Approves Proposal Regarding Enhanced Proxy Disclosure: 12/17/2009; Author: Courtney P. Cochran

Constructing a Bank Holding Company Insolvency Model: Part II: American Bankruptcy Institute Journal; December 2009; Author: Ben S. Branch and James D. Higgason Jr.

"From Shovel Ready Projects to Sustainable Partnerships": EnergyPulse; 12/2/2009; Author: Roger Feldman

"Controversial Uses of the "Clawback" Remedy in the Current Financial Crisis": Texas Bar Journal; December 2009; Author: Spencer C. Barasch and Sara J. Chesnut

EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Starts January 2010: 11/16/2009

Constructing a Bank Holding Company Insolvency Model: Part I: American Bankruptcy Institute Journal; November 2009; Author: Ben S. Branch and James D. Higgason, Jr.

"OUP Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen, and beyond," co-author of chapter: "Emissions Trading in the US: Legal Issues": Oxford University Press; October 2009; Author: Max Williamson

"Offsetting the Invisible Hand: Flaws in the GHG Offset Regime Under the Waxman-Markey Bill": Bloomberg Law Reports; October 2009; Author: Roger Feldman

"Finding 'The One'": Women's Council on Energy and the Environment's Webzine; 10/4/2009; Author: Allison Estin Hull

"12 Ways to Get Lenders to Call Back,": Scotsman Guide; October 2009; Author: Brigitte G. Kimichik

"What's Keeping Managing Partners Up at Night? Five Managing Partners to Respond at PDI": NALP Bulletin; October 2009; Author: Amy Hancock (co-author)

General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: SPE Structure Survives, but Consideration of Corporate Group Permitted,: Real Estate Finance; October 2009; Author: Patrick C. Sargent, Charles T. Marshall and Peter K. McKee, Jr.

EPA Moving Ahead with Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: 9/25/2009; Author: Max Williamson, Sid Sethy and Paul Bohannon

"Pleading the Case for Working Together": Peer to Peer, The Quarterly Magazine of ILTA; September 2009; Author: Amy Hancock (co-author)

Impact of the Obama Administration’s Financial Regulatory Overhaul on the Securitization Markets: 9/8/2009; Author: Mark Harris, Pat Sargent and Mike Jewesson

"Texas Legislature Passes Certificate of Title Bill Negating Effect of Clark Contracting Decision,": LJN's Equipment Leasing Newsletter; September 2009; Author: Michael D. Jewesson

"FCPA Prosecution: Lessons Learned From Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements," (co-author): White-Collar Crime Andrews Litigation Reporter; August 2009; Author: Richard Deutsch and Kara Altenbaumer-Price

Administration Unveils Over-The-Counter Derivatives Reform: 8/28/2009; Author: G. Michael O'Leary, Jeff C. Dodd, Melinda Brunger, and Peter Bogdanow

Round 2 of General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: Motions to Dismiss SPE Bankruptcies Denied, No Bad Faith, Corporate Group Considered: 8/27/2009; Author: Patrick C. Sargent, Peter K. McKee, Charles T. Marshall and Michael Jewesson

Congress Pushes Forward Executive Compensation Regulation and Say on Pay Legislation: 8/18/2009; Author: G. Michael O'Leary and Peter Bogdanow

"Offsetting the Invisible Hand": The Power Marketing Association OnLine; July 2009; Author: Roger D. Feldman

"Cooperative Federalism": EnergyPulse; 7/6/2009; Author: Roger Feldman

"Cooperative Federalism": EnergyPulse Weekly; 7/6/2009; Author: Roger D. Feldman

Resolution of Claims involving Medicare Beneficiaries under the MMSEA: New Reporting Requirements and Significant Penalties for Failing to Protect Medicare’s Interests; 7/1/2009; Author: Jeffrey B. McClure and Christine N. York

“Diversity in a Downturn: Can we afford to continue to support diversity and inclusion in this economy? Can we afford not to?”: The Lonestar Administrator; July 2009; Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell

"Obama Administration Announces Financial Regulatory Overhaul": 6/24/2009; Author: G. Michael O'Leary, Jeff C. Dodd, Melinda Brunger & Peter Bogdanow

Round 1 of General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: SPE Structure Survives: 6/24/2009; Author: Patrick C. Sargent, Charles T. Marshall & Peter K. McKee, Jr.

A New Kind of Cybersquatting: Facebook, Twitter and Online Social Media Sites; 6/12/2009; Author: Nicholas F. Ducoff & Michele P. Schwartz

Ups and Downs for Legacy CMBS: TALF Expands, but S&P Signals Downgrades: 5/29/2009; Author: Peter K. McKee, Jr., Charles T. Marshall, Patrick C. Sargent & Peter Bogdanow

"Stimulus Bill Opportunities: Solar, Efficiency and Their Convergence": 5/14/2009; Author: Roger D. Feldman, Andrew M. Tucker, Alan Bickerstaff, Mark Farber (Photon Consulting) and Mark White (Bostonia Partners LLC)

"President Obama’s Proposal Regarding U.S. Federal Income Tax Deferral and Enforcement against Tax Havens": 5/5/2009; Author: Will S. Becker, Andrew Feiner, Thomas W. Ford Jr., Robert J. McNamara and Thomas R. Popplewell

"Family and Medical Leave, Military Family Leave, and Updates to Regulations": 5/4/2009; Author: Bennee B. Jones

"Clark Contracting: Texas Lien Assignees Unperfected?": Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law; May 2009; Author: Michael D. Jewesson

"Lone Star State Wrestles with Car Loan Fate,": American Securitization Forum; Spring 2009; Author: Michael D. Jewesson

Treasury Expands Opportunities for Fund Managers in the Legacy Securities Program: 4/13/2009

"Is 'Microenergy' a Viable Strategy for Rural Electrification?": Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Advisor: Energy; April 2009

Treasury Announces Public-Private Investment Program: 3/30/2009; Author: Patrick C. Sargent, Charles T. Marshall, Peter K. McKee, Jr. & Peter Bogdanow

"Clark Contracting: Texas Lien Assignees Unperfected?": 3/16/2009; Author: Michael D. Jewesson

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9. Named one of best law firms in the nation for women, 2008 and 2009 by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC.

10. Created first MLP—master limited partnerships—to help energy clients grow.

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12. Counselors in project financing of second largest wind project in U.S., Sweetwater Wind Farm.

13. Andrews Kurth is the seventh largest bankruptcy law firm in the nation.

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