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PORTLAND, OR (MARKET WIRE) Law & Politics magazine has named 32 Miller Nash LLP attorneys to its 2008 Oregon Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. The annual award recognizes the top five percent of attorneys in Oregon who have received a high degree of peer recognition for their professional achievement. Miller Nash partner Tom Sand is recognized as one of the top 10 attorneys in Oregon, and partners Dennis Rawlinson and Peter Richter are listed in the top 50. Miller Nash is one of two law firms in Oregon to have three litigators listed in the top 50.

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Patrick J. Haraden, director of employee benefit services at Longfellow Benefits, will discuss employee benefits on "McNamara On Money" on WATD 95.9 FM in Marshfield, Mass., on Saturday, Nov. 22 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Lathrop & Gage LC agreed to merge with a law firm in Los Angeles, a move that will add some of Hollywood’s big-name entertainment clients to the Kansas City-based firm’s fold.

Nixon Peabody LLP has bulked up its energy and environmental practice with nearly a dozen attorneys coming from a dissolving Thelen LLP -- three of which are D.C. attorneys.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) ViRexx Medical Corp. ("ViRexx and/or "the Company") (TSX: VIR) (AMEX: REX) today announced the appointment of two new directors to its board and that on October 16, 2008 the Company filed a Notice of Intention ("NOI") to make a proposal to its creditors pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) ("BIA").

Lathrop & Gage LC agreed to merge with a law firm in Los Angeles, a move that will add some of Hollywood’s big-name entertainment clients to the Kansas City firm’s fold.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) According to Balestriere Lanza PLLC, the Gameologist Group LLC (Gameologist), a New Jersey based and minority-owned small business, filed a complaint in New Jersey Federal District Court, suing the New York Lottery (the Lottery) and Scientific Games, Inc. (Scientific Games), for infringing on its trademark.