Majority of Howard Rice's Directors Selected as Super Lawyers

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San Francisco, CA—July 29, 2005—More than 50 percent of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin’s directors have been selected by their peers as Super Lawyers in the 2005 Northern California Super Lawyers survey, published in conjunction with Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines.  Howard Rice had the highest percentage of its directorship (partnership) recognized as Super Lawyers of any Bay Area-based full-service law firm.  In addition, three directors, Jerome Falk, Martin Glick, and Kenneth Hausman, were selected as Top 100 Super Lawyers.

The 34 Howard Rice attorneys selected for this honor practice in 14 legal areas, underscoring the breadth and the depth of the firm’s expertise: Appellate- Jerome Falk, Ethan Schulman, Steven Mayer; Banking- Barry Abbott, Bankruptcy- Gary M. Kaplan, William Lafferty, James Lopes, Janet Nexon, Jeffrey Schaffer; Business/Corporate- Lawrence Rabkin; Business Litigation- Michael Baker, Kenneth Hausman, Dirk Schenkkan; Civil Litigation Defense- Joseph Escher; Employment Litigation- Linda Foy; Environmental/Land Use- Richard Jacobs; Intellectual Property Litigation- John Eichhorst, Simon Frankel, Martin Glick, Steven Sherr, Bobbie Wilson, Douglas Winthrop; Mergers & Acquisitions- Richard Canady, Edward Deibert; Real Estate Transactions- Thomas Larsen; Securities & Corporate Finance- Deborah Marshall, Denis RiceRonald Star, Mark Whatley; Securities Litigation- Sarah Good, Gilbert Serota, Mark Sheft; and Tax- Benjamin Berk, Stuart Lipton

“Our goal has always been to practice at the highest levels of the profession, and we are proud to have been recognized by our colleagues for our professional achievements," said Managing Director Stuart Lipton.

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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.