[ Press Release ]

Duane Morris Announces Trial Practice Group Leadership

April 25, 2008

PHILADELPHIA, April 25, 2008 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that 11 partners in its Trial Practice Group have been named to leadership positions in the seven distinct practice divisions within the group. The move is another significant step for the 275-lawyer practice, the firm's largest, as it anticipates continued growth in the future and signals the areas in which growth will be targeted. In January 2008, the firm named partner Matthew Taylor of its Philadelphia office to the chairmanship of the practice group.

Taylor has asked the following partners, who reside in various offices around the country, to serve as heads of the key divisions within the Trial Practice Group:

• Former Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Byer in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia will lead the Appellate Litigation Practice.
• Wayne Mack in Philadelphia and Richard Seabolt in San Francisco will lead the Commercial, Securities and Antitrust Litigation Practice.
• Robert Prentice in Philadelphia will lead the Construction Practice.
• Max Stern and Peter Whalen in San Francisco will lead the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice.
• Woody Jameson in Atlanta will lead the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
• Sharon Caffrey in Philadelphia and Karen Crawford in San Diego will lead the Products Liability and Toxic Torts Practice.
• George Niespolo in San Francisco will lead the White-Collar Criminal Defense, Corporate Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Practice. Joseph Aronica in Washington, D.C. will serve as vice-chair of the practice.

"We are very pleased to have lawyers of such high quality and accomplishment leading these important practice areas," said Taylor. "The group and the whole firm benefit from targeting these areas of litigation, with these outstanding lawyers working to better serve our clients and to build upon our successes."

Intellectual Property Litigation

L. Norwood "Woody" Jameson practices in the area of intellectual property law and litigation with emphasis on patents, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising, licensing and unfair competition. Jameson has represented several well-known companies in complex patent litigation involving such technologies as cable television technology, Internet technology, MPEG decoding technology, telecommunications and computer hardware and software applications.

He is a member of the Litigation and Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law sections of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association. He has served on the Federal Trial Practice and Procedure Committee of the American Bar Association and on numerous committees of the International Trademark Association, and has been a speaker at seminars on many patent and trademark topics.

Jameson is a 1988magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina.