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1, 1999 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arent Fox and Los Angeles-based O’Brien Abeles announced today they will combine their firms on January 1, 2007. The resulting entity will be called Arent Fox LLP. The merger is spurred, in part, by the firms’ common client relationships as well as by Arent Fox clients expressing a desire for the firm to have a West Coast presence. “We have been searching for a merger candidate in LA with an excellence and a culture that are compatible with ours,” said Marc Fleischaker, chairman of Arent Fox. “The quality of the lawyering at O’Brien Abeles, their outstanding ethics, and the commitment they have demonstrated to both their clients and the individuals in the firm convinced us that this would be a successful merger. We are ecstatic about this combination and look forward to significant growth in California.” Robert O’Brien, the founding partner at O’Brien Abeles, echoed Fleischaker’s comments: “Arent Fox has a terrific reputation as a leading firm with seasoned lawyers. After getting to know the principals of the firm, we are excited by the potential. This is a win-win situation.” “Our clients have always come first,” said Jerry Abeles, an O’Brien Abeles partner. “But this merger will only increase our responsiveness and allow us to expand our menu of services.” The LA office will see immediate growth with the addition of four lawyers to O’Brien Abeles’s current roster of nine. Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, former U.S. ambassador-at-large, will join Arent Fox LLP on January 1. While with the State Department, Prosper was a presidential adviser who formulated U.S. policy responses to atrocities, conflicts and the War on Terror; additionally, he managed and coordinated the U.S. interagency and U.S. embassies on policy. In addition to his focus on the firm’s international practice in areas such as trade regulation, intellectual property protection and arbitration, Prosper, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in LA before joining the State Department, will counsel corporate clients on internal investigations and compliance issues. Also joining the newly merged firm will be Steven Bledsoe. Bledsoe, formerly a share partner with Kirkland & Ellis’s LA office, represents clients from a variety of industries in high-stakes litigation matters. His arrival will add further depth to a litigation team that includes O’Brien, Abeles, and well-known entertainment and IP litigator Bela Lugosi Jr. Two current Arent Fox partners, Wayne Matelski and Michael Cryan, complete the foursome. Matelski is a Washington partner who co-chairs the firm’s regulatory department and is the senior pharmaceutical and medical device attorney in Arent Fox’s food and drug practice. Cryan, a litigator whose practice focuses on intellectual property and general business, is relocating from the New York office. Arent Fox is a full-service law firm with offices in Washington, DC, and New York. O’Brien Abeles—which focuses on litigation and counseling for a variety of industries, including media and entertainment —is based in LA. About Arent Fox About O’Brien Abeles Media Contact: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR
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The Million Dollar Advocates Forum announced today in the accompanying
press releases that Robert C. O'Brien and Bela G. Lugosi of O'Brien
Abeles LLP had been named members of the Forum. Jerry Abeles,
a named partner at the firm, noted that "O'Brien Abeles has been
successful in obtaining significant verdicts and settlements because
our opponents know that we regularly take cases to trial and have
a record of success in the courtroom." FOR
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Last month, privately-held Premavision, Inc. finalized a co-venture
agreement with Classic Media, Inc. to license the rights to the
Gumby and Pokey names and characters, subject to Premavision's
approval rights, for the production of a new made-for-video movie,
merchandising and advertising, and exploitation of the existing
library of Gumby and Pokey episodes. Premavision was represented
by Bela G. Lugosi of O'Brien Abeles LLP in Los Angeles.
Classic Media was represented by its Director of Business and
Legal Affairs, John Ruzich and by M. Graham Coleman in the New
York office of Davis Writght & Termaine LLP. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR
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O'Brien Abeles LLP announced today that Jon Holdaway has
joined the law firm as an associate. Mr. Holdaway's practice
focuses on the resolution of complex business disputes, representing
and counseling clients in litigation and pre-litigation contexts
involving a wide range of matters such as contract claims, business
torts, insurance coverage and criminal matters. Mr. Holdaway
represents clients at both the trial and appellate levels in state
and federal courts. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR
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May 11, 2006, Cardinal Newman High School awarded Robert C.
O’Brien its Alumni Scholarship/Leadership Award for Public
Service. The award was presented at a gala dinner in Sonoma County
at which Mr. O’Brien gave the keynote address. Mr. O’Brien, who
graduated from Cardinal Newman in 1984, is the managing partner
of O’Brien Abeles LLP in Los Angeles. Mr. O’Brien’s address to
the 200 attendees at the dinner focused on the United States’
leadership role in the advance of freedom around the world and
the protection of human rights in regions such as Darfur, Sudan.
In November, 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Mr. O'Brien
to serve as the United States Alternate Representative to the
60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which met
in New York from September 3 to December 23, 2005. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR
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