Duane Morris Names Mark Messing New Chief Marketing Officer

September 22, 2009

PHILADELPHIA, September 22, 2009—Duane Morris LLP today announced the appointment of Mark Messing to the position of Chief Marketing Officer. Messing will oversee all of the marketing and business development efforts of the 700-lawyer international law firm. Messing was formerly Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

In his role as CMO, Messing will focus on Duane Morris' business development and strategic planning in close collaboration with Chairman John Soroko and Chief Operating Officer Charles O'Donnell.

"We are thrilled to have Mark lead the Marketing and Business Development Department at Duane Morris," said Soroko. "At a time when many law firms have put marketing efforts on the back burner, Duane Morris is continuing to invest in an area in which we believe the firm is a leader and which had helped us reach and serve our clients. We have an excellent team in place here, and I am excited to have Mark joining Duane Morris as our CMO."

The innovations in Duane Morris' marketing department have led to the firm's being consistently named among the top five best-marketed law firms in the United States by Incisive Media's Marketing the Law Firm newsletter.