Howard Rice's Newest Directors

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San Francisco, CA—January 23, 2004—Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, announced today that Jeffrey E. Faucette and Jonathan W. Hughes have been elected to membership on the firm's board of directors, effective March 1, 2004.

In announcing the new directors, Stuart Lipton, Managing Director of Howard, Rice said, "Each of our new directors exhibit an unwavering dedication to our professional mission: the delivery of the highest quality service to our clients. Each of them has shown a strong commitment to the Firm and its employees. I am highly confident that they will continue to contribute greatly to the success of Howard Rice."

The new directors are:

Jeffrey E. Faucette joined the firm in 1997. He has a broad commercial and civil litigation practice encompassing intellectual property disputes, all forms of commercial disputes, director and officer liability, defamation and professional liability claims. His current clients include Ariba, Inc, Hewlett-Packard, Oakland Raiders, and Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.

Mr. Faucette received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law (High Honors) in 1996 and his A.B. from Stanford University in 1991.

Jonathan W. Hughes joined the firm following his clerkship for Ninth Circuit Judge Melvin Brunetti. In 2003, he was trial counsel for the Oakland Raiders in a four-month jury trial resulting in a verdict of more than $34 million for the Raiders. He has litigated land use, environmental and securities cases before regulatory agencies and in federal and state courts. He is committed to his frequent pro bono representations on behalf of school children, immigrants, tenants and those diagnosed with AIDS.

Mr. Hughes received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1996 and his B.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1993.

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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.