June 15, 2007--Chambers & Partners Publishing announced today that 56 of the firm's attorneys and 22 of its practice areas have been recommended in its just released Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007 directory.

Attorneys and practice area rankings in a Chambers guide come from extensive independently-conducted research and interviews with in-house counsel, peers, and competitors in the respective practice field. Chambers’ researchers spend almost a year canvassing clients and attorneys throughout America to obtain a consistent market view of which firms and attorneys are considered leaders in their field. No firm or individual attorney can purchase a recommendation in a Chambers Guide.

Chambers USA recognized the following practice areas of the firm:

Antitrust
Banking & Finance
Business Process Outsourcing
Capital Markets (includes Debt & Equity and Derivatives)
Corporate/M&A
Energy
Energy: Oil & Gas
Environment
Financial Services Regulation (includes Consumer Financial Services, Banking & Securities, Asset Management Regulation, Banking, and Financial Institutions M&A)
Government Contracts
Insurance
Intellectual Property
International Arbitration
IT & IT Outsourcing / Technology & IT Outsourcing
Labor & Employment
Life Sciences
Litigation (includes Appellate, General Commercial, SLEW, and White-Collar Crime)
Real Estate
REITs
Tax
Tax-ERISA
Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite

Chambers also recognized the following Morrison & Foerster attorneys:

Antitrust
Melvin R. Goldman
Dennis P. Orr
Penelope A. Preovolos

Banking & Finance
Henry M. Fields
Pauline M. Stevens

Business Process Outsourcing
John F. Delaney
Vivian L. Hanson

Capital Markets

Debt & Equity
James R. Tanenbaum

Derivatives
David H. Kaufmann
Anna T. Pinedo

Corporate/M&A
Whitney Holmes
Charles W. Katz
Thomas J. Knox
Jack L. Lewis
Robert S. Townsend
Warren L. Troupe
Lawrence T. Yanowitch

Energy
Gordon P. Erspamer
Peter W. Hanschen

Energy: Oil & Gas
Robert H. Loeffler

Environment
Michele B. Corash

Financial Services Regulation
Marco E. Adelfio
Roland E. Brandel
Henry M. Fields
Rick Fischer
Joseph Gabai
Oliver I. Ireland

Government Contracts
Richard J. Vacura

Insurance
David B. Babbe

Intellectual Property
Barry E. Bretschneider
Gerald P. Dodson
David C. Doyle
Michael A. Jacobs
Rachel Krevans
Harold J. McElhinny

International Arbitration
Cedric C. Chao

IT & IT Outsourcing / Technology & IT Outsourcing
John F. Delaney
Vivian L. Hanson
Paul E. Jahn
William Schwartz

Labor & Employment
Raymond L. Wheeler

Life Sciences
John W. Campbell
Thomas E. Ciotti
Jonathan S. Dickstein
Kate H. Murashige

Litigation

Appellate
Beth S. Brinkmann

General Commercial
James P. Bennett
James J. Brosnahan
Grant J. Esposito
Dennis P. Orr
Lori A. Schechter

Securities Litigation
Jack C. Auspitz
Melvin R. Goldman
Jordan Eth

White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
James J. Brosnahan

Real Estate
Mark S. Edelstein
Thomas T Fileti
Carl (Kim) J. Seneker

REITs
Warren L. Troupe

Tax
Eric J. Coffill
Carley A. Roberts

Tax-ERISA
Patrick R. McCabe

Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite
Cheryl A. Tritt