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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL (MARKET WIRE) The Florida Community Association Journal today announced the call for entries in the 2008 "Florida Communities of Excellence Awards," a new statewide recognition program for Florida condominium and homeowners associations designed to identify and promote innovative solutions and best practices in maintaining and improving the quality of life for residents of community associations throughout the State.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Rimon Law Group, Inc., Loxodrome Solutions, Inc. and IFindPro.com hosted a forum on outsourcing at San Francisco's Himmelberger Art Gallery on november 5, 2008. With Professor Rafiq Dossani (senior research scholar and director of the South Asia initiative at Stanford University) delivering the keynote address, the event drew approximately 75 local attorneys, corporate counsel, executives and other professionals.

PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) The latest study by The Radicati Group, Inc. "eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention market 2008 - 2012" provides market size, four-year forecasts, and discusses legislative and technology issues of the eDiscovery and DLP market. The study also provides an analysis of the leading market players.

PHOENIX, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Chris Hallgren, president of Helios Data Forensics, is one of Greater Phoenix's most highly trained computer forensics experts.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) When Martin Scorcese directed the film "Mean Streets" back in 1973, the Academy Award winning filmmaker described the movie as the tale of a small-time hood who struggles to succeed on the mean streets of New York. But unlike Scorcese, when David Perecman, the New York City pedestrian accident lawyer, describes the city's "mean streets," he's talking about some of the meanest places in the country for those on foot.

Imagine Nation Books Ltd. of Boulder will pay $17.5 million to the publisher of Reader’s Digest to buy a rival company.

Two out-of-town law firms said Wednesday that they had picked up a combined 54 attorneys from failed Thelen LLP.

Warehouse developer ProLogis, Atlanta’s largest industrial real estate investment trust, said Nov. 12 that its CEO Jeffrey Schwartz resigned and that it will cut jobs and delay future projects in response to the economy. (PLD)

L’Tryce Slade, managing partner of Slade Land Use Environmental & Transportation Planning LLC, was elected chair the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce’s African-American Business Council.

Howrey LLP said Wednesday it snared most of the highly-prized construction practice from Thelen LLP, a San Francisco law firm expected to wind down operations by Dec. 1.