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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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