Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L. Launches FI&C University
Internal Coursework Promotes Continued Professional Development
among FI&C Attorneys
FI&C University Press Release

Our firm has received one award, and is a finalist for another.
Faruki Ireland & Cox was selected by the Dayton Business Journal to receive the Healthcare Heroes Award, as the employer being recognized for our innovative Employee Wellness Program. The firm has invested in an extensive array of health and wellness facilities and services, including a fitness facility in our building. The objective of this program is healthier employees, with all of the resultant benefits including better morale; decreased absenteeism with the consequent lessening of disruption to workflow; increased efficiencies; lower health insurance costs for both employees and the firm; and advantages in recruiting and retention of employees. The award was presented at a luncheon at Sinclair Community College.

In addition, our firm has been nominated for the 2006 Business of the Year, sponsored by the Dayton Business Journal, in the category of Community Supporter of the Year, and is one of the finalists for that award, to be announced next month.
Our firm has been a sponsor of the Business of the Year program for a number of years. The nomination of our firm for this award was based on the many community activities in which the firm's employees participate, and the extensive pro bono publico work performed by the firm's attorneys, especially in providing representation to those persons who are indigent or disadvantaged. That pro bono work includes our innovative partnership with the Public Defender's Office whereby our junior attorneys participate in representing indigent defendants while our firm continues to pay their salary; acceptance of criminal appointments; participation in the Dayton Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyer's Program; handling cases involving Civil Protective Stalking Orders in Common Pleas Court; and other efforts. The billable value of this time is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Our firm does the pro bono work that other law firms claim to do.

Jeff Ireland and Laura Sanom made a presentation at the Ohio State Bar Associations' 40th Annual Institute Symposium.
Jeff's and Laura's presentation was titled "Section 1 of the Sherman Act -- Roles for Playing with Suppliers and Customers: Laws Governing Beneficial Relationships," and addressed antitrust issues arising from vertical arrangements.

Jeff Cox will be presenting two CLE webcasts in December for NBI.
On December 8, he will be teaching as part of a one-hour webcast titled "Reputable Practice: Ethics for Litigation Attorneys." On December 11, he will be teaching for one hour on ethics issues as part of a webcast titled "Ethical Issues and Substance Abuse in Ohio."

Ron Raether and Brian Wright wrote an article entitled "Sarbanes-Oxley & Internal Controls: The Not So Hidden Implications for Information Technology and Information Security," which was published in the September 2006 edition of LexisNexis Mealey's Privacy Reports.
Ron and Brian discuss the broad language used in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the regulations enacted by the Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and how Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC regulations could be used as an avenue by the SEC to address lapses in information security or to prevent (or react to) data security breaches that occur in publicly-owned companies. The article is part of a series of articles that FI&C attorneys are writing for Mealey's Privacy Reports. Each FI&C article discusses current issues relating to technology and privacy law. Ron's and Brian's article can be found at http://www.ficlaw.com/publications/raether/sarbanes-oxley.pdf