31 /PRNewswire/ -- Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, a national leader in construction, energy, and project finance, and Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, a pioneer in technology law and a firm with one of the country's premier real estate finance practices, have agreed to merge, forming a firm with more than 615 lawyers. The name of the combined firm will be Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, and the merger will take effect December 1, 2006. The merger will combine Thelen Reid's unparalleled reputation in such traditional areas as construction, energy, and litigation with Brown Raysman's nationally recognized practices in technology, outsourcing, intellectual property, e-commerce, media, and communications. The merger will also provide clients with access to a broad base of integrated services, including the combination of Thelen Reid's leading finance practices in the areas of energy, infrastructure, and project finance, together with Brown Raysman's real estate finance practice, which closed $25 billion in loans in the past several years for leading Wall Street financial institutions, money center banks, and hedge funds....