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24 Percent Increase in Individual Rankings, 8 Percent Increase in Practice Rankings
June 13, 2008 (New York, NY) - Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers worldwide, has been widely recognized in the 2008 edition of Chambers USA, an annual directory of America's leading business lawyers.
The firm received 82 individual lawyer rankings, an increase of 24 percent over 2007, and 27 practice rankings, an eight percent increase over 2007. Proskauer has experienced a 91 percent increase in individual rankings and a 35 percent increase in practice rankings since 2006.
The firm experienced its largest increase in individual and practice rankings in the national category, with eight new individuals listed, a 62 percent increase, and three new practices listed, a 60 percent increase. The firm's Boston office also experienced a significant increase, with five new individual rankings, up 42 percent from last year.
Proskauer is recognized across all of its national offices and departments and important practice areas in this year's Chambers, with its national sports law and ERISA litigation practices receiving top rankings in addition to its New York-based labor and employment, health care, and false advertising practices and its Boston-based private investment funds practice.
Proskauer's practices recognized in the 2008 Chambers USA also include its: national fund formation, buyouts, labor and employment, lodging and gaming, privacy, and wealth management practices; New York-based corporate/M&A, employee benefits and executive compensation, environment, immigration, insurance, litigation, and real estate practices; Boston-based banking and finance, intellectual property, and tax practices; Los Angeles-based labor and employment practice; and Newark-based labor and employment and immigration practices. Chambers' practice-based rankings reflect Proskauer's established prominence in these fields, based on the firm's handling of a wide range of matters throughout the year.
"It's enormously gratifying that our success and growth as a firm in the last year has been so widely recognized by our clients, colleagues and peers, whose input determine the Chambers rankings. I would like to congratulate all of our lawyers," said Allen I. Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer Rose.
The annual Chambers USA rankings are determined from interviews with clients and lawyers across the country. The results are independently audited and based on a number of criteria including technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by clients.
The Proskauer Rose practice areas and lawyers included in this year's Chambers USA are:
National - Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Julie Allen
Arnold Jacobs
National - ERISA Litigation
Myron Rumeld
Howard Shapiro
National - International Arbitration
Bradley Ruskin
National - Investment Funds: Private Equity: Buyouts
Michael Woronoff
Stephen Rubin
National - Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
Robin Painter
National - Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
Christopher Wells
National - Leisure & Hospitality
Michael Feldman
Andrew Robins
National - Privacy & Data Security
Christopher Wolf
National - Sports Law
Robert Batterman
Howard Ganz
Wayne Katz
Joseph Leccese
Jon Oram
Bradley Ruskin
National - Wealth Management: Eastern Region
Albert Gortz
David Pratt
Jay Waxenberg
California - Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Martin Zohn
California - Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Michael Woronoff
California - Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
Michael Woronoff
California - Labor & Employment
Anthony Oncidi
California - Real Estate
Louis Eatman
District of Columbia - Intellectual Property
Jon Baumgarten
Florida - Labor & Employment
Allan Weitzman
Florida - Tax: Estate Planning
Albert Gortz
David Pratt
Illinois - Insurance: Coverage Litigation
Steven Gilford
Marc Rosenthal
Illinois - Insurance: Reinsurance Litigation
Steven Gilford
Massachusetts - Banking & Finance
Stephen Boyko
Steven Ellis
Massachusetts - Intellectual Property
Steven Bauer
Joseph Capraro, Jr.
Massachusetts - Intellectual Property: Licensing
Daniel Bernstein
Massachusetts - Labor & Employment
Mark Batten
Massachusetts - Private Equity: Buyouts
Alexander Temel
Massachusetts - Private Equity: Fund Formation
Daniel Finkelman
Malcolm Nicholls III
Robin Painter
David Tegeler
Arnold May
Mary Kuusisto
Sean Hill
Stephen Mears
Massachusetts - Tax
Mary Kuusisto
Arnold May
New Jersey - Labor & Employment
Marvin Goldstein
Lawrence Sandak
New York - Corporate/M&A
Steven Kirshenbaum
Ronald Papa
New York - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Rory Albert
Michael Sirkin
New York - Environment
Robert Kafin
New York - Environment: Mainly Transactional
Gail Port
New York - Healthcare
Edward Kornreich
Richard Zall
New York - Immigration
David Grunblatt
Avram Morell
New York - Insurance: Dispute Resolution
John Gross
New York - Labor & Employment
Elise Bloom
Allen Fagin
Howard Ganz
Kathleen McKenna
Bettina Plevan
Bernard Plum
Paul Salvatore
New York - Litigation: General Commercial
Bruce Fader
Louis Solomon
Bradley Ruskin
New York - Litigation: Securities
Harry Frischer
New York - Media & Entertainment: Advertising
Brendan O'Rourke
Lawrence Weinstein
New York - Media & Entertainment: Copyright & Contract Disputes
Charles Ortner
Charles Sims
Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks
New York - Real Estate
Ronald Sernau
New York - Real Estate: Corporate
Steven Lichtenfeld
New York - Real Estate: Finance
David Weinberger
Peter Fass
About Proskauer Rose
Proskauer Rose, founded in 1875, is an international law firm providing a wide variety of legal services to clients worldwide from offices in Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Paris, São Paulo, and Washington, D.C. The firm has wide experience in all areas of practice important to businesses and individuals including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, general commercial litigation, corporate governance matters, conducting internal corporate investigations, white collar criminal defense, private equity and fund formation, patent and intellectual property litigation and prosecution, labor and employment law, real estate transactions, bankruptcy and reorganizations, trusts and estates, and taxation. Its clients span industries including chemicals, entertainment, financial services, health care, information technology, insurance, internet, lodging and gaming, manufacturing, media and communications, pharmaceuticals, real estate investment, sports, and transportation. The firm can be found online at http://www.proskauer.com.
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