February 4, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) - Fifteen lawyers from Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 770 lawyers worldwide, have been named to Southern California Super Lawyers 2008, an annual guide to the top lawyers in the region. The firm was represented in 10 different practice areas.

Selections for Southern California Super Lawyers are based on peer nominations and independent research by the editors of Law & Politics magazine. The list appeared as a special advertising section in the February issue of Los Angeles magazine and in the February 3 Orange County and Los Angeles editions of The New York Times.

"We are very proud of the achievements of each lawyer named to this year's list and we congratulate all of them," said Allen I. Fagin, chairman of Proskauer. "As we continue to grow across a range of practices in California, we are also expanding our top-tier roster of practitioners and as we do so, it is gratifying to receive the recognition of our peers."

Proskauer's Southern California-based lawyers named in this year's Super Lawyers are:

Banking
Neil Cummings

Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Martin Zohn

Business Litigation
Scott Cooper
Bert Deixler
Michael Firestein

Criminal Defense: White Collar
Anthony Pacheco

Employment & Labor
Harold Brody
Anthony Oncidi
Mark Theodore

Employment Litigation: Defense
Arthur Silbergeld

Entertainment & Sports
Fredric Bernstein

Mergers & Acquisitions
Michael Woronoff

Real Estate
Louis Eatman

Tax
Mitchell Gaswirth
Raj Tanden

The Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose delivers a full range of sophisticated legal services on matters arising in California, throughout the country and abroad. Drawing on the breadth of the firm's expertise, the office accesses the resources of lawyers throughout Proskauer to provide the highest quality legal services to clients in the most efficient manner.

In recent months Proskauer has made a number of significant additions to its Los Angeles office, most recently James Williams, a veteran employee benefits and executive compensation lawyer who joined as partner. The firm has also welcomed D. Eric Remensperger as head of the West Coast Real Estate Department, Louis Eatman and Douglas Frank, who joined as partners in the Real Estate Department, Raj Tanden, who joined as partner in the Tax Department, and Ronald Wood, who joined as senior counsel in the firm's securities litigation and financial services practices.