WASHINGTON—SEPTEMBER 13, 2005— Eleven Arent Fox attorneys have been selected as The Best Lawyers in America. Though an extensive peer-review evaluation process in which nearly half a million votes were cast by the nation’s leading attorneys, eleven Arent Fox partners were awarded this prestigious honor.

In our Washington, D.C. office, the honorees are: Stanley Abramson, Environmental; William Charyk, Employee Benefits and Tax; Earl M. Colson, Real Estate, Tax, and Trusts and Estates; Mary Joanne Dowd, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights; Carol Connor Flowe, Employee Benefits; Joseph M. Fries, Real Estate; Richard A. Newman, Real Estate; David M. Osnos, Real Estate; Lynn K. Pearle, Trusts and Estates; Joel N. Simon, Real Estate.

In our New York office, Rochelle K. Seide was honored in the area of Intellectual Property law.

About Arent Fox

Arent Fox, a full-service law firm with offices in Washington, DC, 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.