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#18 (tie) - Hogan & Hartson

8300 Greensboro Drive
Suite 1100
McLean, VA 22201

(703) 610-6107
(703) 610-6200 (fax)

50 Lawyers

Partners: 26

Associates/Of Counsel: 24

Offices: More than 1,000 lawyers in 22 offices worldwide

Annual billable hours expected of associates:
1800

Starting pay for a new associate, fall 2007:
$120,000

Web site address: www.hhlaw.com

Founded: 1985

Managing partners: Emily Yinger

Important firm contacts:

Emily M. Yinger, Managing Partner
(703) 610-6161
emyinger@hhlaw.com

Richard T. Horan Jr., Partner
(703) 610-6111
rthoran@hhlaw.com

William P. Flanagan, Partner
(703) 610-6179
wpflanagan@hhlaw.com

Richard K.A. Becker, Administrative Partner
(703) 610-6123
rkbecker@hhlaw.com

Philip D. Porter, Partner
(703) 610-6108
pdporter@hhlaw.com

Lee E. Berner, Partner
(703) 610-6137
leberner@hhlaw.com

Marketing Director:

Paul Liu
(703) 610-6107
pdliu@hhlaw.com

Areas of practice: Mergers and acquisitions; private equity; capital markets; corporate and securities; corporate governance; real estate; commercial litigation; intellectual property; telecommunication; media and entertainment; labor and employment; tax, estate planning and administration; antitrust

Representative clients: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Graceway Pharmaceuticals Inc., XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Sunrise Senior Living Inc., ITC Deltacom Inc., ACON Investments, General Electric, Accenture LLP

Lifestyle benefits: Hogan & Hartson provides its lawyers with access to technology that permits remote retrieval of e-mail (by way of both laptops and Blackberries), VOIP voice mail with e-mail alerts, research sites, documents, and individualized telephone conferencing capability. Associates in the Northern Virginia office can choose between two billable hour tracks – 1800 and 1950 – allowing for greater individual flexibility. For more than 40 years, Hogan & Hartson has institutionalized programs to provide its lawyers with opportunities to take breaks from their practices, including the Sabbatical Program, alternate career tracks and part-time options. In addition, the Northern Virginia office has emergency off-site child care services for its lawyers and staff.

Significant changes in 2007: In 2007, the mergers and acquisitions practice worked on more than 16 transactions with a total value exceeding $4.9 billion. In addition to continued work on IP litigation, IP transactions and licensing and outsourcing; the Northern Virginia IP team has experienced significant growth in the areas of new media transactions and life sciences transactions and related intellectual property issues. In addition to continued work on nationwide healthcare class action litigation, the Northern Virginia litigation team obtained significant victories in major shareholder derivative litigation, significant contract disputes and appeals before the D.C. Circuit and Virginia Supreme Court, as well as winning a high-profile jury verdict on behalf of a pro bono client victimized in a pre-foreclosure scam.

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