International law firm Proskauer Rose is proud to announce it has named a number of lawyers to leadership positions in the firm. They are:

• Bruce Lieb and Robin Painter, who will serve as co-chairs of the Corporate Department

• Elise Bloom, who joins Paul Salvatore as co-chair of the firm's Labor & Employment Law Department

• Robert Cleary, who joins Bradley Ruskin as co-chair of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department

• Louis Eatman, who has been named head of the Los Angeles office

• David Pratt, who joins Albert Gortz as co-head of the Boca Raton office

"We are extremely fortunate to have such a deep pool of talent to choose from in naming our firm leaders and we are grateful to those who have assumed these important leadership positions as well as those they are replacing," said Allen Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer Rose.

Ms. Painter is co-chair of the firm's Private Investment Funds Practice Group, a key component of its Corporate Department. One of the only lawyers to be ranked as a "star" by Chambers USA in the area of private equity, she has also been named one of the "30 Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers" in the world by Private Equity International magazine.

Mr. Lieb concentrates his practice on private equity transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, the formation of private investment funds and equity and debt financings. Many of his clients are leading financial institutions. Mr. Lieb recently completed a three-year term as a member of Proskauer's seven-person Executive Committee.

Together they replace Ronald Papa, the former chair of the Corporate Department.

Ms. Bloom is the co-head of Proskauer's Employment Law Class and Collective Action Practice Group. An experienced jury trial lawyer, she regularly defends employers in individual and class action lawsuits brought under the employment discrimination laws as well as under federal and state wage and hours laws and ERISA. She replaces Howard Ganz as co-chair.

Mr. Cleary is a former federal prosecutor well known for his prosecution of the Unabomber case. He currently serves as co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Defense and Investigations Practice Group, concentrating on SEC and related enforcement matters, white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, complex civil litigation, tax controversies and internal investigations. For each of the past three years, he has been named one of the "500 Leading Lawyers in America" by Lawdragon magazine.

Mr. Eatman was recently named Best Lawyers' "Los Angeles Real Estate Lawyer of the Year" for 2009. He has over three decades of experience advising clients on a wide range of real estate matters, including financings, joint ventures, acquisitions and sales, foreclosure issues and workouts and restructurings. He replaces Bert Deixler as head of the office.

Mr. Pratt, who has been named to Worth Magazine's list of the top 100 lawyers in the US, devotes his practice to the areas of trusts and estates, estate planning, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfers, fiduciary and individual income taxation and post-mortem tax planning and asset protection. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and is Florida board certified in both taxation and wills, trusts and estates.

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, which has wide experience in all areas of practice important to businesses, not-for-profit institutions and individuals, can be found online at www.proskauer.com.