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CLEVELAND, OH – August 10, 2009– Ninety-four Baker Hostetler attorneys, from six states and the District of Columbia, were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Twenty-one of the firm's attorneys have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years and four attorneys have been listed for at least 20 years.

The Best Lawyers list, representing over 75 specialties in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., is compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which over 24,000 of the top attorneys in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition is based on more 2.8 million votes by these attorneys on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.

New to the list this year are: Cincinnati partners Eric Geppert and Ted Martin; Cleveland partners John Gherlein (Firmwide Chair of the Business Group) and Amy Kellogg; Columbus partners Mike Asensio, Daniel Gunsett (Managing Partner of the Columbus office) and Amy Shepherd; Denver partner David Starbuck; Houston partners John English, C. Thomas Kruse and Ray Whitman; New York partners Lauren Resnick and George Stamboulidis (Managing Partner of the New York office); Orlando partners James Etscorn and Allison Turnbull; and Washington, D.C., partners Mark Cymrot and William Schweitzer (Managing Partner of the DC office).

Baker Hostetler was also ranked in various practice areas, based on the number of lawyers on the 2010 Best Lawyers roster, including:

• Appellate — Cleveland*
• Communications Law — Cleveland
• Employee Benefits — Cleveland*
• Family Law — Cleveland*
• First Amendment — Cleveland and Ohio*
• Healthcare — Houston
• Legal Malpractice — Orlando*
• Media Law — Cleveland
• Non-Profit/Charities — Washington, DC*
• Securities — Columbus*
• Tax — Cleveland

_{*Denotes tie with one or more other firm(s).}

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

• Albert T. Adams (10) — Corporate Law
• Oakley V. Andrews (20) — Trusts and Estates
• M.J. ("Mike") Asensio — Labor and Employment Law
• Elliot S. Azoff — Labor and Employment 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
• Peter Brown — Information Technology Law
• Ted R. Brown — Environmental Law
• Donna S. Clark — Health Care Law
• Louis A. Colombo (10) — First Amendment Law
• Joyce Ackerbaum Cox — Labor and Employment Law
• Mark A. Cymrot — International Arbitration
• Wayne C. Dabb — Commercial Litigation
• Steven A. Eisenberg — Health Care Law
• John W. English — Oil & Gas Law
• Jeffry J. Erney — Tax Law
• James Etscorn — Intellectual Property 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
• Theodore Z. Gelt (20)— Tax Law
• Eric J. Geppert — Corporate Law
• John M. Gherlein — Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Matthew R. Goldman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Daniel J. Gunsett — Environmental 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
• Amy E. Kellogg — Real Estate Law
• Robert M. Kincaid, Jr. — Bet-the-Company Litigation
• James M. King (10) — Energy Law
• C. Thomas Kruse — Commercial Litigation
• Robert K. Lease (10) — Trusts and Estates
• 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
• Ted T. Martin — Commercial Litigation
• 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 
• William L. Pence — Environmental Law
• John D. Parker — Commercial Litigation 
• Lisa H. Pennington — Labor and Employment Law 
• Edward Ptaszek (10) — Corporate Law 
• Frank A. Pugliese — Technology Law
• Lauren J. Resnick — Criminal Defense: White Collar
• Kevin G. Robertson — Trusts and Estates 
• Harlan Robins — Real Estate Law 
• Barry R. Robinson (10) — Trusts and Estates
• Bruce W. Sanford — First Amendment Law
• Paul M. Schmidt — Tax Law
• William H. Schweitzer — Administrative 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
• Amy M. Shepherd — Securities Law
• Randall L. Solomon (10) — Commercial Litigation
• George A. Stamboulidis — Criminal Defense: White Collar
• David Starbuck — Trusts and Estates 
• 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
• Allison E. Turnbull — Land Use & Zoning Law
• Ernest E. Vargo — Commercial Litigation
• Daniel R. Warren — Commercial Litigation
• Thomas D. Warren — Appellate Law
• W. Breck Weigel — Commercial Litigation
• W. Ray Whitman — Natural Resources Law
• Alec Wightman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• James C. Winton — Maritime Law  
• 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 over 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 10 offices nationwide: New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its five primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Tax.
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