Over 75% of Howard Rice Directors Recognized by Their Peers as Super Lawyers in 2004

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San Francisco, CA—August 24, 2004—Over 75% of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin's directors have been selected by their peers as Super Lawyers in the 2004 Northern California Super Lawyers Edition Magazine published in conjunction with Law and Politics and the San Francisco Magazine. Howard Rice also had the highest number of directors designated as being among the Top 100 Super Lawyers and among the Top 50 Female Super Lawyers of any firm in Northern California.

The 44 Howard Rice lawyers selected for this honor practice in a variety of legal areas underscoring the breadth and the depth of the firm's expertise: Appellate -Jerome Falk (Top 100 Super Lawyer), Steven Mayer, Ethan Schulman; Banking & Financial -Barry Abbott; Bankruptcy & Workout -Gary M. Kaplan, William Lafferty, James Lopes (Top 100 Super Lawyer), Jeffrey Schaffer; Business Litigation -Michael Baker, Jeffrey Faucette, Kenneth Hausman, Curt Holbreich, Patricia Medina, John O'Connor, Dirk Schenkkan, Steven Schon; Business, General -Raymond Haas; Civil Litigation Defense -Joseph Escher; Corporate Finance -Teresa Johnson; Employment Litigation -Linda Foy; Environmental/Land Use -Richard Jacobs; Intellectual Property Law -Carole Barrett (Top 50 Female Super Lawyer); Intellectual Property Litigation -John Eichhorst, Simon Frankel, Martin GlickDouglas Winthrop; Publicly Held Companies -André Brewster, Lawrence Rabkin; Real Estate -Thomas Larsen, Kenneth Neale; Securities & Venture Finance -Michael Sullivan, Denis Rice (Top 100 Super Lawyer), Ronald Star; Securities Litigation -Sarah Good (Top 100 Super Lawyer, Top 50 Female Super Lawyer), Gilbert Serota, Mark Sheft; and Tax -Benjamin Berk, Gary P. Kaplan, Stuart Lipton (Top 100 Super Lawyer).

"We are extremely honored to have so many of our directors from varied practice areas recognized as Super Lawyers by our peers in the legal field. We have always sought to hire and develop the finest lawyers in all areas of our practice and are gratified by this latest recognition," stated Stuart Lipton, Managing Director.

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Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin P.C. is a San Francisco-based law firm with leading national and international practices, representing entities and individuals across a comprehensive range of practice areas. Our clients are among the most sophisticated consumers of legal services and include: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.; Beverages & More!; The Charles Schwab Corporation; Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.; Digital River, Inc.; First Republic Bank; Genentech, Inc.; Google, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Co.; Morgan Stanley; The Oakland Raiders; PlanetOut Inc.; Sony Online Entertainment; United States Olympic Committee; and Wells Fargo & Company.