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The Florida Supreme Court disciplined 24 attorneys, including four in Tampa Bay.

InBev, the Belgian brewer battling for Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., appealed directly to the St. Louis community in a full-page advertisement in Tuesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, promising to create jobs and preserve existing ones. (BUD)

PHOENIX, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Encore Discovery Solutions, a knowledge-based provider of electronic discovery and related services, announced today that it has expanded its national Discovery Consultants team. Matthew Byrne of Bethesda, Maryland; Donna Drumm of Phoenix, AZ and Rhonda Reid of Redondo Beach, California joined the company as Senior Discovery Consultants. In their new roles, each consultant will be responsible for advising Encore's clients on best practices and effective solutions in electronic discovery, Web hosting, and related services.

Law firms Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy PC, which has offices in Phoenix, are considering a merger.

HOUSTON, TX (MARKET WIRE) NextPage, a leader in proactive information risk management, announced today that the NextPage Information Tracking Platform extends Microsoft SharePoint information control to the unmanaged and uncontrolled documents at the edge. By extending control to the edge, efficiently disposing of documents that enterprises don't need becomes a reality. In an average enterprise, 80 percent of its documents should be properly disposed of based on policy. In complementary fashion NextPage tracks the dissemination and evolution of documents beyond SharePoint to include email attachments and document

AUGUSTA, GA (MARKET WIRE) Ipswitch Messaging Division, a leading developer of messaging solutions, today introduced MailArchiva and Sonian Hosted Archival systems, two solutions to email archival. MailArchiva is an installed email archiving system for companies of all sizes. It works in conjunction with the award-winning IMail Server to archive all incoming, outgoing and internal emails. Sonian Hosted Archival systems is Ipswitch's archival solution for the industry that requires a hosted provider. Sonian, an archiving technology pioneer, provides an affordable, scalable, reliable and secure hosted email archiving

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (MARKET WIRE) Jacob Silver (www.silverbankruptcy.com) has built his reputation by providing sound counsel to individuals and small businesses going through the challenging, emotional process of filing for bankruptcy. With a fast-growing practice, Silver needed a better way to manage all of his daily communications whether he's in the office, at home, at court or on the road. After reading an article about the PhoneFusion One service (www.phonefusionone.com), Silver was initially drawn to the idea of the find me/follow me feature. And once he put the service to use in his day-to-day routine, Silver found a

Los angeles, CA (MARKET WIRE) Mitratech, a leading provider of software solutions for organizations to manage legal, compliance, and security risks, today announced a panel discussion entitled, "Know When To Hold 'Em," to be presented at Mitratech's Interact 2008: The Legal and Compliance technology Forum. The session is designed to help corporate legal departments implement a repeatable and defensible litigation hold strategy and improve responses to litigation requests.

LONDON (MARKET WIRE) Financial Communications provider, Imprima, is striding out with a significant investment to move its London HQ from Waterloo to the heart of the City of London. Introducing a raft of improved facilities, including the iZone, Imprima plans to use the move to cement its existing relationships and secure business with potential clients.

Lexvista LLC and The Vallex Fund announced today a new seminar series tracking change and change agents in the legal industry.