Paul M. Frank joins Hodgson Russ

Paul M. Frank has joined Hodgson Russ LLP as a partner in the Corporate & Securities and International/Cross-Border Practice Groups. He practices from the firm's New York office.

Mr. Frank counsels manufacturing, mining, cement, and other corporations on a wide range of corporate matters. His clients include major Latin American and European corporations operating in the United States, as well as American corporations. His experience includes representing U.S. companies in the mining and metals and food processing industries in Peru, Chile, and Honduras, and he served as counsel to the trade association of the tire and rubber industry and to several rubber industry shippers associations.

Mr. Frank also represents major nonprofit corporations, foundations, and tax-exempt organizations, and he advises fiduciaries, individuals, families, and charitable organizations on estates and trusts and wealth-planning issues.

He received an A.B. from Fordham University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Frank also studied at L'Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.

With more than 220 attorneys practicing in all major areas of law, Hodgson Russ is among the 200 largest law firms headquartered in the United States. It is one of approximately 100 firms in the country listed in America's Greatest Places to Work With a Law Degree. In June 2005, Hodgson Russ received the Carol S. Knox Family-Friendly Employer Award from the Capital District Women's Bar Association. The Firm, which was established in 1817 and is among the oldest law firms in the United States, is the only law firm that can count two former U.S. presidents, Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland, among its alumni. Hodgson Russ has offices in Albany, Buffalo, Johnstown, and New York, New York; Boca Raton, Florida; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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