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CLEVELAND, OH – September 25, 2008 – Seventy-seven Baker Hostetler attorneys, from five states and the District of Columbia, were selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

The Best Lawyers lists, representing 78 specialties in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., are compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which tens of thousands of the top attorneys in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition is based on more than two million detailed evaluations of attorneys by other attorneys.

New to the list this year are Cleveland partners Robert Galloway, Suzanne Hanselman and Thomas Warren, Orlando partner Rosemary O'Shea, and Houston partner James Winton. Twenty-one of the firm's attorneys have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years and three attorneys have been listed for at least 20 years.

Baker Hostetler also registered more lawyers on the 2009 Best Lawyers roster than any other firm, including:

• First Amendment — Cleveland and Ohio
• White-Collar Criminal Defense — Cleveland and Ohio
• Alternative Dispute Resolution — Cleveland
• Appellate Law — Cleveland
• Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights — Cleveland
• Communications Law — Cleveland
• Employee Benefits Law — Cleveland
• Family Law — Cleveland
• Media Law — Cleveland
• Tax Law — Cleveland
• Health Care Law — Houston
• Legal Malpractice Law — Orlando

Baker Hostetler attorneys listed as leaders in their practice areas include:

• Albert T. Adams (10) — Corporate Law
• Oakley V. Andrews (20) — Trusts and Estates
• Elliot S. Azoff — Labor and Employment Law
• Jeffrey Baddeley — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Brian Bash — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Bruce O. Baumgartner — Intellectual Property Law
• Edward J. Beckwith (10) — Non-Profit/Charities Law
• Jack A. Bjerke — Corporate Law
• Maureen A. Brennan — Environmental Law
• Michael D. Bridges — Real Estate Law
• Donald W. Brodsky — Corporate Law
• Bruce D, Brown — First Amendment Law
• Ted R. Brown — Environmental Law
• Peter Brown — Information Technology Law
• Donna S. Clark — Health Care Law
• Louis A. Colombo (10) — First Amendment Law
• Joyce Ackerbaum Cox — Labor and Employment Law
• Wayne C. Dabb — Commercial Litigation
• Steven A. Eisenberg — Health Care Law
• Jeffry J. Erney — Tax Law
• Gregory N. Etzel — Health Care Law
• Marc D. Flink — First Amendment Law
• Richard T. Fulton — Real Estate Law
• Robert R. Galloway — Trusts and Estates
• Matthew R. Goldman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Suzanne K. Hanselman — Corporate Law
• Susan Feigin Harris — Health Care Law
• Joseph F. Hutchinson, Jr. — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Thomas W. Kahle — Corporate Law
• Robert M. Kincaid, Jr. — Commercial Litigation
• James M. King (10) — Energy Law
• Robert K. Lease (10) — Trusts and Estates
• Richard H. Leukart — Labor and Employment Law
• Laurie J. Levin — Health Care Law
• John B. Lewis (10) — Labor and Employment Law
• Larry V. Lindberg — Real Estate Law
• Jerry R. Linscott (10) — Legal Malpractice Law
• Ronald G. Linville (10) — Labor and Employment Law
• James A. Loeb — Family Law
• Thomas L. Long (10) — Commercial Litigation
• Thomas R. Lucchesi — Commercial Litigation
• Raymond M. Malone — Employee Benefits Law
• David L. Marburger (10) — Communications Law
• B. Scott McBride — Health Care Law 
• John J. McGowan, Jr. — Employee Benefits Law 
• Greg Mersol — Labor and Employment Law 
• Patrick M. Muldowney — Labor and Employment Law
• Patricia J. O'Donnell (10) — Real Estate Law 
• David S. Oliver — Commercial Litigation 
• W. James Ollinger (20) — Employee Benefits Law 
• Rosemary O'Shea — Real Estate Law 
• Jeffrey Paravano — Tax Law 
• John D. Parker — Commercial Litigation 
• Lisa H. Pennington — Labor and Employment Law 
• Frank A. Pugliese — Technology Law
• Edward Ptaszek (10) — Corporate Law 
• Kevin G. Robertson — Trusts and Estates 
• Harlan Robins — Real Estate Law 
• Barry R. Robinson (10) — Trusts and Estates
• Paul M. Schmidt — Tax Law
• Joel H. Sharp, Jr. (10) — Tax Law
• Kevin W. Shaughnessy — Labor and Employment Law
• Hewitt B. Shaw, Jr. (10) — Tax Law
• David J. Sheehan — Commercial Litigation
• Randall L. Solomon (10) — Commercial Litigation
• David J. Strauss (10) — Real Estate Law
• Stephen Sutton — Labor and Employment Law
• Raymond L. Sutton, Jr. (10) — Tax Law
• Christopher J. Swift (10) — Health Care Law
• William M. Toomajian (20) — Tax Law
• Ernest E. Vargo — Commercial Litigation
• Daniel R. Warren — Commercial Litigation
• Thomas D. Warren — Appellate Law
• Alec Wightman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• James C. Winton — Maritime Law
• James R. Wooley — Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Martin T. Wymer — Labor and Employment Law

(10) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years.
(20) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years.

For more information, visit: www.bestlawyers.com

About Baker Hostetler
Founded 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation's 100 largest law firms with 600 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its four primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Litigation and Tax.
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Contact: Christine Gill
Communications Manager
216.861.7852
cgill@bakerlaw.com