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25 Jul 2007

Four DLA Piper Attorneys named "Top Attorneys" by San Diego Daily Transcript

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(SAN DIEGO) – DLA Piper US LLP today announced that four attorneys have been named among the Top Attorneys for 2007 by the San Diego Daily Transcript. They are John Allcock, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Technology, Media and Communication practice; Lisa Haile, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences practice; Cameron Jay Rains, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate and Securities practice; and Karen ZoBell, partner in the firm’s Real Estate practice.

“It comes as no surprise to us that the San Diego Daily Transcript has cited these outstanding partners," said Michael Tracy, managing partner for the firm’s San Diego office. “We are delighted that these attorneys have been recognized for their superb work and professional experience, their achievements as lawyers and their dedication to our clients."

The list of San Diego County's Top Attorneys for 2007 is the culmination of a voting process in which San Diego County lawyers were asked to nominate and then vote for their peers, “the best and brightest in San Diego’s legal arena,” in key categories that reflect the county’s primary practice areas: Corporate Litigation, Corporate Transactional, Criminal, Family Law, IP Litigation, IP Transactional, Real Estate Litigation, Real Estate Transactional, Insurance, Labor-Employment, and Academic.

The names of these top attorneys and their profiles were published in the San Diego Daily Transcript’s Top Attorneys special section on July 18.

About the Top Attorneys

John Allcock is partner and co-chair of the firm’s Technology, Media and Communication practice. He concentrates on patent litigation and has extensive experience handling patent cases through trial and appeal to the Federal Circuit.

In his general litigation practice, Allcock has extensive jury trial experience (lead counsel in excess of 50 cases tried to juries to verdict) and arbitration experience (lead counsel in excess of 100 arbitrations), as well as extensive experience in court trials, International Trade Commission (ITC) hearings, various forms of alternative dispute resolution and management of complex litigation.

Regarding his intellectual property litigation experience, Allcock has tried 23 patent cases, which include a $26 million dollar jury verdict in a patent and Semiconductor Chip Act case (Brooktree v. AMD); trial of a semiconductor patent case in the International Trade Commission (Fujitsu v. Samsung); defense of a multiple patent case (Finnigan v. Hewlett-Packard Company); a finding of infringement and validity and an exclusion order, in a six-patent case (Hewlett-Packard Company v. Gateway); and a multimillion-dollar verdict in a software patent case (Adobe v. Macromedia).

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites Allcock in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, calling him an "excellent litigator" with "wide-ranging trial expertise." The San Diego Daily Transcript first named him among San Diego County's Top Attorneys in 2006. Allcock also has been named a SuperLawyer, as the result of a joint research project by Law & Politics magazine and The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Lisa Haile is a partner and co-chair of the firm’s global Life Sciences practice. Haile focuses on strategic counseling relating to all areas of biotechnology and life sciences intellectual property law. She has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications, both in the United States and worldwide, involving many different technologies, including diagnostics and therapeutics. In addition, Haile has particular experience in patentability, non-infringement and validity opinions, due diligence work in connection with venture capital, private and public financing, mergers and acquisitions in the biotechnology industry and strategic counseling for comprehensive life sciences patent portfolio management.

Haile lectures regularly at industry conferences, academic and nonprofit institutes and seminars, and internally for companies to update and train personnel on biotech patent matters. She was named one of the country’s top 45 Lawyers Under 45 by American Lawyer magazine in January 2003--the only San Diego lawyer named to the list and one of only seven women. In August 2005, she was named one of the Top Attorneys in San Diego and cited in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2007, she was named a Southern California SuperLawyer. Haile is a recipient of the 2005 San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award.

Cameron Jay Rains is partner and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate and Securities practice. He concentrates his practice in corporate finance, venture capital, strategic partnering, SEC registered public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

His representative clients are both retail and consumer and include QUALCOMM Inc., P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc., Jack in the Box, Jamba Juice, Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. (Souplantation), Daphne's Greek Café, Accredited Home Lenders, Invitrogen Corp., SeQual Technologies Inc., Rincon Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Investment Science Corp.

Rains was selected to appear in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The San Diego Daily Transcript also named him among San Diego County's Top Attorneys in 2006.

Karen ZoBell is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate practice. She concentrates in real estate acquisition and development, land use, permitting, entitlement and resolving environmental and hazardous materials issues relating to real estate transactions.

She has represented land developers in obtaining land use entitlements and negotiating obligations for infrastructure from various governmental agencies for master planned communities. She has also been extensively involved in the approval of statutory development agreements conferring vested rights for development in seven cities and counties, having drafted, negotiated and obtained several agreements. ZoBell has also represented landowners and developers in preparing and obtaining certification by governmental agencies, and in defense of environmental documents under the California Environmental Quality Act.

ZoBell has also negotiated a remedial action plan with relevant governmental agencies and resolved allocation of responsibility among potentially responsible parties for a former burn landfill. ZoBell is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and was also named a San Diego Super Lawyer, in a joint project of Law & Politics magazine and the San Diego Union-Tribune.


About DLA Piper
DLA Piper has 3,400 lawyers in 25 countries and 63 offices throughout the U.S., U.K., Continental Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has leading practices in corporate, finance, human resources, litigation, real estate, regulatory and legislative, tax, and technology, media and communications. In certain jurisdictions, this information may be considered attorney advertising.

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CONTACTS:
Michael S. Tracy, Managing Partner, San Diego office, DLA Piper, 619. 699.3620
John Allcock, Co-Chair, Technology, Media and Communication practice, DLA Piper, 619. 699.2828
Lisa A. Haile, Co-Chair, Life Sciences practice, DLA Piper, 858. 677.1456
Jay Rains, Co-Chair, Corporate and Securities practice, DLA Piper, 858.677.1476
Karen ZoBell, Partner, Real Estate practice, DLA Piper, 619. 699.3474
Eva Van Brunt, West Coast media relations manager, DLA Piper, 213.330.7730
Ted Mills, Media Relations, GreenTarget Global Group, 310-231-9785