Crowell & Moring Elects Seven New Partners and Promotes 14 Attorneys to Counsel Positions

"We extend a hearty congratulations to our new partners and counsel, whose remarkable service to our clients and commitment to their communities exemplifies our vision for the future of Crowell & Moring. We are proud of our home-grown talent, and we continue to strive to be known best for the extraordinary quality of our people," said Kent A. Gardiner, Crowell & Moring chairman.

The new partners are as follows:

    --  Jennifer R. Devery is a member of the firm's Insurance/Reinsurance
        Group and a resident in the Washington, D.C. office. She concentrates
        her practice on litigating and arbitrating insurance and reinsurance
        disputes involving a broad spectrum of issues. With respect to
        reinsurance disputes, she has represented both cedents and reinsurers in
        matters involving allocation issues, non-products claims, contract
        interpretation, declaratory judgment expenses, agency issues, utmost
        good faith, and claims of misrepresentation and fraud. She also has
        extensive experience litigating complex insurance coverage matters over
        products liability, asbestos and environmental claims.
    --  Richard B. Holbrook Jr. is a member of the firm's Corporate Group
        and a resident in the Washington, D.C. office. He concentrates his
        practice on mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures,
        corporate finance and transactions involving intellectual property and
        high technology. He also has extensive experience with a wide variety of
        commercial and corporate agreements, including joint venture agreements,
        supply agreements and trademark licenses and negotiated restructurings,
        and with respect to commodity futures law.
    --  Brian M. Koide is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property
        Group and a resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Focusing on patent
        litigation, he has litigated patent infringement cases involving a wide
        range of technologies, including software, commercial graphics, consumer
        electronics, electronic commerce, on-line auctions, network security,
        digital-image processing, text messaging, speech compression, wireless
        communication systems, and consumer apparel. As a registered patent
        attorney with an engineering degree, he combines his patent, litigation,
        and technical expertise to effectively represent his clients.
    --  Beth M. Kramer is a member of the firm's Torts Group and a resident
        in the Washington, D.C. office. She has litigated putative class and
        mass actions in courts across the country, and she is actively defending
        such actions in a range of industry sectors including chemical, rail,
        and defense technology. Her litigation and trial practice focuses
        primarily on environmental and toxic tort cases, and she also has
        extensive experience representing clients in complex matters ranging
        from insurance and commercial contract disputes to government
        investigations and civil fraud actions.
    --  Jonathan M. Lindsay is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property
        Group and a resident in the Orange County office. He specializes in
        representing high-tech clients in a wide range of industries, including
        computer software and hardware, medical devices, wireless
        communications, and in the electrical and electromechanical arts. He has
        extensive experience in all facets of patent procurement and offers
        legal counsel in the context of technology-related business
        transactions, including negotiating and drafting an array of
        intellectual property related agreements. In addition to a robust
        transactional practice, he maintains an active patent litigation
        practice.
    --  Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan is a member of the firm's Government
        Contracts Group and a resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Her
        practice involves a mix of litigation and counseling for corporate
        clients of all sizes and levels of experience as government contractors.
        She has represented clients in bid protests, protests before the Small
        Business Administration, claims litigation before the various Boards of
        Contract Appeals, Defense Base Act claims litigation, and civil and
        criminal investigations. Her counseling practice ranges from the
        day-to-day survival issues facing small business to reviewing and
        negotiating agreements, ethics and compliance issues and training, and
        the unique risks associated with Iraq contracting and the Defense Base
        Act.
    --  Michael W. Paddock is a member of the firm's Health Care Group and
        a resident in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice primarily
        involves health care fraud and abuse matters, particularly those
        relating to federal false claims, physician self-referral (Stark Law),
        and anti-kickback issues. He often advises clients on compliance
        matters, the conduct of internal investigations related to potential
        fraud and abuse issues, and responding to and defending against
        government anti-fraud and abuse enforcement efforts and regulatory
        inquiries, including qui tam and government allegations of False Claims
        Act violations.

Firm associates promoted to counsel are: David E. Bell (Washington, D.C.); Jennifer H. Burdman (Washington, D.C.); Clyde E. Findley (Washington, D.C.); Carrie F. Fletcher (Washington, D.C.); Jody Goodman (Washington, D.C.); Shawn R. Johnson (Washington, D.C.); Kerry Malloy (Washington, D.C.); Ann M. Mason (Washington, D.C.); Matthew J. McBurney (Washington, D.C.); Jonathan A. Moskowitz (New York); John L. Murino (Washington, D.C.); Thomas L. Simek (Washington, D.C.); and Bethany M. Wimsatt (Washington, D.C.).

Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with more than 450 lawyers practicing in litigation, antitrust, government contracts, health care, corporate, intellectual property and a variety of other practice areas. More than two-thirds of the firm's attorneys regularly litigate disputes on behalf of domestic and international corporations, start-up businesses, and individuals. Crowell & Moring's extensive client work ranges from advising on one of the world's largest telecommunications mergers to representing governments and corporations on international arbitration matters. Based inWashington, D.C., the firm also has offices inNew York,Los Angeles,Orange County,London, andBrussels. Visit Crowell & Moring online at http://www.crowell.com.

    Contact:   Jessica O'Neil
               (202) 508-8750
               joneil@crowell.com

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