Cooley Godward Expands East Coast Litigation Practice

Market Wire, June, 2006

Cooley Godward LLP today announced that Douglas P. Lobel has joined the Firm as a partner in its Business Litigation practice group. He will be resident in Cooley's Reston, Va. office and will focus his practice on complex contract and commercial litigation matters. Lobel joins the Firm from Arnold & Porter LLP, where he was senior partner in that firm's litigation group. As a former federal and state prosecutor, he has significant trial experience representing clients from a wide range of industries in complex litigation, class action lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the country. In addition, he has extensive experience litigating in the "rocket docket" of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.

"We are delighted to add a lawyer of Doug's stature to our ranks and expect that he will add significant depth, breadth and experience to our already prominent East Coast litigation practice," said Joe Conroy, head of Cooley's Reston, Va. office.

"Doug is a seasoned and extremely talented litigator with a long record of success on behalf of major corporations in significant litigation matters," said John Dwyer, head of Cooley's Business Litigation practice group. "His arrival marks the continued expansion of Cooley's national business litigation capabilities, and he is joining a world-class team of litigators."

Lobel has a diverse practice involving complex commercial litigation, financial services and telecommunications litigation, economic crimes and fraud and class actions. He has represented individuals and large financial services firms in civil litigation, consumer class actions, NASD, NYSE and SEC proceedings, arbitrations and federal grand jury investigations. He has also represented local, long distance and international telecommunications carriers in high profile lawsuits and commercial arbitrations, including disputes over inter-carrier compensation, tariff and regulatory issues and consumer billing.

Prior to entering private practice 15 years ago, Lobel was a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In that position he investigated and prosecuted complex and high profile financial and securities fraud cases. Before that, he was an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, where he handled over 30 felony trials.

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