WASHINGTON—“Best Lawyers in America” recently completed its poll of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area legal community, and 12 Arent Fox attorneys have been selected. Five of the attorneys have been named “Best Lawyers” for at least 10 or 20 years, indicated by the (10) and (20) next to their names.

Attorneys selected are:

• Stanley Abramson
  Environmental law
• Holly M. Bastian
  Trusts and estates
• William R. Charyk
  Employee benefits law
  Tax law
• Earl M. Colson (10)
  Real estate law
  Tax law
  Trusts and estates
• Mary Joanne Dowd
  Bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law
• Carol Connor Flowe
  Employee benefits law
• Joseph M. Fries (20)
  Real estate law
• Anthony V. Lupo
  Intellectual property law
• Richard A. Newman
  Public finance law
  Real estate law
• David M. Osnos (10)
  Real estate law
• Lynn K. Pearle (10)
  Trusts and estates
• Joel N. Simon (10)
  Real estate law

Lawyers were selected based on a rigorous peer-review and are not allowed to pay a fee to be listed. The lawyers’ names will appear immediately in the online edition of the directory at www.BestLawyers.com and will be included in 2007 edition of Best Lawyers, to be published in the fall of 2006. The current edition of Best Lawyers is based on 1.8 million confidential evaluations by only the top attorneys in the country. Best Lawyers also conducts thousands of extensive telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process.

About Arent Fox

Arent Fox, a full-service law firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York, is recognized as a leader in areas including international trade, intellectual property, real estate, health care/life sciences, and litigation. The firm has a wide range of expertise in corporate securities and transactions, financial restructuring and bankruptcy, government relations and regulation, labor and employment law, finance, tax, corporate compliance and the global business market.

Arent Fox provides services to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, trade associations, foreign governments, long-term care facilities, start-up companies and other entities.