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CLEVELAND, OH—August 25, 2010—One hundred Baker Hostetler attorneys, from seven states and the District of Columbia, were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2011 (Copyright 2010 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 five attorneys have been listed for at least 20 years. New to the list this year are Cleveland partner Phillip Callesen and Denver partners Rebecca Alexander and Richard Mandelson.

The Best Lawyers list, representing over 80 specialties in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., is compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which the top attorneys in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition is based on more than 3 million evaluations by these attorneys of the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties. Of these, fewer than 40,000 lawyers were selected for The Best Lawyers in America® 2011.

Baker Hostetler has more listed lawyers in the 2011 Best Lawyers in the fields noted below than any other firm in the respective region.

• Top-Listed in New York in Technology Law *
• Top-Listed in Ohio in First Amendment Law *
• Top-Listed in Cleveland, OH in Employee Benefits Law *
• Top-Listed in Cleveland, OH in First Amendment Law
• Top-Listed in Cleveland, OH in Tax Law *
• Top-Listed in Houston, TX in Health Care Law
• Top-Listed in New York, NY in Technology Law *

* Denotes tie with 1 or more other firm(s).

Chicago

• John M. Touhy — Alternative Dispute Resolution

Cincinnati

• Bruce O. Baumgartner — Intellectual Property Law
• Eric J. Geppert — Corporate Law
• Thomas W. Kahle — Corporate Law and Health Care Law
• David A. Mancino — Intellectual Property Law
• Ted T. Martin — Commercial Litigation

Cleveland

• Albert T. Adams (10) — Corporate Law
• Oakley V. Andrews (20) — Trusts and Estates
• Elliot S. Azoff — Labor and Employment Law
• Brian A. Bash — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Maureen A. Brennan — Environmental Law
• Phillip M. Callesen — Project Finance Law
• Louis A. Colombo (10) — First Amendment Law
• Wayne C. Dabb Jr. — Commercial Litigation
• Steven A. Eisenberg — Health Care Law
• Jeffry J. Erney — Tax Law
• Robert R. Galloway — Trusts and Estates
• John M. Gherlein — Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Matthew R. Goldman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Suzanne K. Hanselman — Corporate Law
• Joseph F. Hutchinson Jr. — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Amy E. Kellogg — Real Estate Law
• Richard M. Knoth — Commercial Litigation
• Robert K. Lease (10) — Trusts and Estates
• John B. Lewis (10) — Labor and Employment Law
• Lawrence V. Lindberg — Real Estate Law
• James A. Loeb — Family Law
• Thomas R. Lucchesi — Commercial Litigation
• Raymond M. Malone (10) — Employee Benefits Law
• David L. Marburger (10) — Communications Law, First Amendment Law and Media Law
• John J. McGowan Jr. — Employee Benefits Law
• Gregory V. Mersol — Labor and Employment Law
• Patricia J. O’Donnell (10) — Real Estate Law
• William James Ollinger II (20) — Employee Benefits Law
• John D. Parker — Commercial Litigation
• Edward G. Ptaszek Jr. (10) — Corporate Law and Tax Law
• Kevin G. Robertson — Trusts and Estates
• Hewitt B. Shaw (10) — Tax Law
• Randall L. Solomon (10) — Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation
• David J. Strauss (10) — Real Estate Law
• Stephen C. Sutton — Labor and Employment Law
• Christopher J. Swift (10) — Health Care Law and Tax Law
• William M. Toomajian (20) — Tax Law
• Ernest E. Vargo — Commercial Litigation
• Daniel R. Warren — Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Thomas D. Warren — Appellate Law
• Martin T. Wymer — Labor and Employment Law

Columbus

• M.J. Asensio — Labor and Employment Law
• Jack A. Bjerke — Corporate Law
• Michael D. Bridges — Real Estate Law
• Daniel J. Gunsett — Environmental Law
• Robert M. Kincaid Jr. — Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation
• Ronald G. Linville (10) — Labor and Employment Law
• Thomas L. Long (10) — Commercial Litigation
• Harlan W. Robins — Real Estate Law
• Barry R. Robinson (10) — Trusts and Estates
• Amy M. Shepherd — Securities Law
• Alec Wightman (10) — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law

Denver

• Rebecca C. Alexander — Family Law
• Marc D. Flink — First Amendment Law
• Theodore Z. Gelt (20) — Tax Law
• James M. King (20) — Energy Law, Mining Law and Natural Resources Law
• Richard S. Mandelson — Labor and Employment Law
• David Starbuck — Trusts and Estates
• Raymond L. Sutton Jr. (10) — Tax Law and Trusts and Estates

Houston

• Donald White Brodsky (10) — Corporate Law and Securities Law
• Donna S. Clark — Health Care Law
• W. John English Jr. — Oil & Gas Law
• Gregory N. Etzel — Health Care Law
• Susan Feigin Harris — Health Care Law
• C. Thomas Kruse — Commercial Litigation
• B. Scott McBride — Health Care Law
• Lisa H. Pennington — Labor and Employment Law
• W. Ray Whitman — Natural Resources Law
• James C. Winton — Maritime Law

Los Angeles

• Thomas D. Warren — Appellate Law

New York

• Peter Brown — Information Technology Law and Technology Law
• Frank A. Pugliese — Technology Law
• Lauren J. Resnick — Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• David J. Sheehan — Commercial Litigation
• George A. Stamboulidis — Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Orlando

• Ted R. Brown — Environmental Law and Real Estate Law
• Joyce Ackerbaum Cox — Labor and Employment Law
• James Etscorn — Intellectual Property Law and Product Liability Litigation
• Richard T. Fulton — Real Estate Law
• Elizabeth A. Green — Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Jerry R. Linscott (10) — Legal Malpractice Law
• Patrick M. Muldowney — Labor and Employment Law
• Rosemary O’Shea — Real Estate Law
• William L. Pence — Environmental Law
• Joel H. Sharp Jr. (10) — Tax Law
• Kevin W. Shaughnessy — Labor and Employment Law
• Allison E. Turnbull — Land Use & Zoning Law

Washington

• Edward Jay Beckwith (10) — Non-Profit/Charities Law, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
• Bruce D. Brown — First Amendment Law
• Mark A. Cymrot — International Arbitration
• Jeffrey H. Paravano — Tax Law
• Bruce W. Sanford — First Amendment Law and Media Law
• Paul M. Schmidt — Tax Law
• William H. Schweitzer — Administrative 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 more than 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation’s 100 largest law firms with 650 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has offices in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its five primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Tax.

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