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DECEMBER 7, 2010 BALLROOM, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM: Adams Holcomb specializes in representing groups of clients that are among the primary purchasers of products from suppliers that participated in unlawful cartels. Our clients opt out of class actions and file their own cases directly against the defendants. By sharing the risks and rewards of the litigation through (partial or wholly) contingent fee arrangements, we have consistently generated much larger recoveries for clients than they would have received had they remained as members of a plaintiffs' class. By sharing risk our clients receive the benefit of having their claim litigated at minimal cost by experienced counsel. They also avoid the burden of paying by the billable hour while risking an unfavorable outcome in court. Under our model, clients spread their litigation risks and costs while incentivizing their lawyers to aggressively prosecute their claim. We help our clients evaluate whether to opt out of the class and pursue their claims directly against the defendants. We are aided in this analysis by economists who are among the best in the business. If litigation is necessary, we co-counsel with top plaintiff-side litigators to press the litigation with maximum effort. Learn more at www.adamsholcomb.com. Berger & Montague has been engaged in the practice of complex and class action litigation from its Center City Philadelphia office since 1970. The firm has been recognized by courts throughout the country for its ability and experience in handling major complex litigation, particularly in the fields of antitrust, securities, mass torts, environmental, civil and human rights. Berger & Montague pioneered the use of class actions in antitrust litigation and was instrumental in extending the use of the class action procedure to other litigation areas, having recovered billions of dollars for its clients. In the area of antitrust litigation, the firm has served as lead or co-lead counsel on many of the most significant civil antitrust cases over the last forty years, including the Infant Formula case (recovery of $125 million), the Retail Drug price fixing case (settlement of more than $700 million), the High Fructose Corn Syrup price-fixing case (settlement of more than $500 million), and the State of Connecticut tobacco litigation (settlement of $3.6 billion). The firm has also played a leading role in cases in the pharmaceutical arena, especially in cases involving the delayed entry of generic or other

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DECEMBER 7, 2010 BALLROOM, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC

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Adams Holcomb specializes in representing groups of clients that are among the primary purchasers of products from suppliers that participated in unlawful cartels. Our clients opt out of class actions and file their own cases directly against the defendants. By sharing the risks and rewards of the litigation through (partial or wholly) contingent fee arrangements, we have consistently generated much larger recoveries for clients than they would have received had they remained as members of a plaintiffs' class. By sharing risk our clients receive the benefit of having their claim litigated at minimal cost by experienced counsel. They also avoid the burden of paying by the billable hour while risking an unfavorable outcome in court. Under our model, clients spread their litigation risks and costs while incentivizing their lawyers to aggressively prosecute their claim. We help our clients evaluate whether to opt out of the class and pursue their claims directly against the defendants. We are aided in this analysis by economists who are among the best in the business. If litigation is necessary, we co-counsel with top plaintiff-side litigators to press the litigation with maximum effort. Learn more at www.adamsholcomb.com. Berger & Montague has been engaged in the practice of complex and class action litigation from its Center City Philadelphia office since 1970. The firm has been recognized by courts throughout the country for its ability and experience in handling major complex litigation, particularly in the fields of antitrust, securities, mass torts, environmental, civil and human rights. Berger & Montague pioneered the use of class actions in antitrust litigation and was instrumental in extending the use of the class action procedure to other litigation areas, having recovered billions of dollars for its clients. In the area of antitrust litigation, the firm has served as lead or co-lead counsel on many of the most significant civil antitrust cases over the last forty years, including the Infant Formula case (recovery of $125 million), the Retail Drug price fixing case (settlement of more than $700 million), the High Fructose Corn Syrup price-fixing case (settlement of more than $500 million), and the State of Connecticut tobacco litigation (settlement of $3.6 billion). The firm has also played a leading role in cases in the pharmaceutical arena, especially in cases involving the delayed entry of generic or other

rival drug competition, having achieved nearly $1 billion in settlements in such cases over the past decade. Berger & Montague has prevailed in a series of notable cases in other areas. For example, the firm was among the principal trial counsel in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill litigation and in a case brought on behalf of a class of property owners outside of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility in Colorado. Both cases yielded record jury awards, and both resulted in the firm winning the prestigious “Trial Lawyers of the Year” award from the non-profit Public Justice Foundation (formerly known as Trial Lawyers for Public Justice). For five of the last six years, the National Law Journal has selected Berger & Montague as one of the top plaintiffs’ litigation firms in the U.S. The firm has repeatedly been recognized in Chambers & Partners as one of the top antitrust firms in Pennsylvania, and many of its attorneys have been identified as leaders in their respective fields by Chambers & Partners, Lawdragon, Legal 500 and other legal publications.

Based in Los Angeles, California, Blecher & Collins is recognized as one of the premier antitrust and complex litigation law firms in the country. Founded in 1971, our firm excels in handling complex business and commercial litigation. Led by Maxwell Blecher, one of the nation’s preeminent litigators, we have successfully represented small, medium-sized and major companies across a broad spectrum of industries. Our lawyers are seasoned professionals with sterling academic credentials and diverse backgrounds. We operate as a team in the type of open atmosphere that promotes progressive thinking and creative problem-solving. Blecher & Collins is known for undertaking cutting-edge cases with far-reaching implications, and the results we have achieved speak for themselves. When facing a major legal crisis, businesses need the advantage of a sophisticated legal team encompassing the experience and knowledge that we offer. Visit www.blechercollins.com

Cafferty Faucher LLP combines the talents of attorneys with a wide range of experience in complex civil litigation. The firm has offices in Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cafferty Faucher’s primary expertise is in the area of federal and state antitrust, securities, commodities, employee benefits and consumer protection litigation. The skill and experience of Cafferty Faucher attorneys has been recognized on repeated occasions by courts, which have appointed these attorneys to major positions in complex multidistrict or consolidated litigation. In the antitrust arena, Cafferty Faucher attorneys have been responsible for a number of outstanding recoveries and important decisions, including in In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litig., 618 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2010), where the Third Circuit reversed in part the district court’s dismissal of the case in a precedential opinion and in which Cafferty Faucher attorneys obtained settlements for class members in amounts exceeding $200 million in the aggregate. See In re Ins. Brokerage Antitrust Litig., 579 F.3d 241(3d Cir. 2009). Cafferty Faucher attorneys also achieved recoveries for the class in numerous other antitrust actions, including In re TriCor Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litig., No. 05-360 (D. Del); Nichols v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., No. Civ.A.00-6222 (E.D. Pa.); and In re Relafen Antitrust Litig., No. 01-12239 (D. Mass.).

For over forty years, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has been at the forefront challenging price-fixing conspiracies, market-allocation agreements, monopolization schemes and other antitrust violations in the United States. During this time, our antitrust group has grown to become one of the largest Plaintiffs’-side antitrust practices in the country, with our attorneys recovering billions of dollars for our clients. Our work has improved the quality and availability of legal recourse for aggrieved businesses and individuals throughout the country. Tenaciously pursuing our clients’ interests, our attorneys are prepared to take – and have taken – antitrust cases to trial and to the United States Supreme Court. As one of the premier firms in the country handling major complex class actions, Cohen Milstein, with more than 50 attorneys and offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, is a firm that specializes in cases concerning Antitrust, Securities Fraud/Investor Protection, Civil & Human Rights, Consumer and Unsafe Products and Employee Benefits. For more information, contact us at [email protected].

Our firm has brought together a team of highly skilled lawyers with a diversity of experience matched by few other law firms of our size. Our lawyers have worked in large international law firms, in high-caliber specialized boutique law firms, on Congressional committee staffs, in the U.S. Department of Justice, in federal regulatory agencies, in public interest organizations, in legal academia, and in the public defender’s office. What unites all of our lawyers is an uncompromising commitment to excellence. We practice advocacy—and only advocacy. We bring our extensive experience and formidable skills into trial and appellate courtrooms, Congressional committee hearings, the halls of the executive branch and independent government agencies, and the arena of public opinion on legal and policy matters of national importance. We represent our clients—effectively and efficiently—as only a firm our size can. Whatever the forum to which we bring our skills and experience, we are committed to creative and tireless advocacy to advance the interests of each of our clients. We have an outstanding record of delivering winning results. Please visit www.cuneolaw.com to learn more about our lawyers, our practice, and our accomplishments.

Dickstein Shapiro LLP, founded in 1953, is a multiservice law firm with more than 400 attorneys in Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles. The Firm's clients include more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies, start-up ventures and entrepreneurs, multinational corporations, leading financial institutions, charitable organizations, and government officials. Dickstein Shapiro's core practice groups-Antitrust & Dispute Resolution, Business & Securities Law, Corporate & Finance, Energy, Government Law & Strategy, Insurance Coverage, and Intellectual Property-involve the Firm in virtually every major form of counseling, litigation, and advocacy. For additional information, please visit dicksteinshapiro.com.

Econ One provides economic research and consulting relating to markets, competitive analysis, pricing, and valuation. We have experienced testifying experts at our offices across the U.S. We are expert in using qualitative and quantitative evidence to explain market results. We offer in-house expertise in applied economic theory, econometrics, statistics, and electronic data collection/manipulation. Antitrust matters comprise a large segment of our work--including class issues, market definition, market power, conspiracy effects, and damages across many industries (air cargo, auctions, baby products, car lights, computers, flat glass, ice, insulation, HFCS, and pharmaceuticals). For more information, visit our website at www.econone.com.

The leader in complex claims administration, Epiq Systems has been engaged to work on some of the largest antitrust cases to date including Bradburn Parent/Teacher Store, Inc. v. 3M, In re Lorazepam and Clorazepate Antitrust Litigation, In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation and In Re Linens Antitrust Litigation. Clients choose Epiq because we have proven experience in delivering flawless execution, expert support, and process transparency, from initial project planning and notification to tax services and award distribution. We also provide eDiscovery services should the case require us to manage all client needs from discovery through settlement administration. Following proven best practices, we provide successful outcomes every step of the way. As client needs evolve, we regularly enhance our case management technology and project management methodology to deliver the right solution. Learn more at www.epiqsystems.com.

Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP is a New York City law firm whose practice is focused on complex civil and class action litigation, including securities litigation, antitrust litigation, and consumer class actions as well as shareholder derivative suits involving issues of corporate governance. The attorneys at Faruqi & Faruqi represent direct purchasers, third-party payors, end payors, and competitors in a variety of individual and class action antitrust cases brought under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. These actions, which seek treble damages under Section 4 of the Clayton Act, have been commenced by businesses and consumers who have been injured by anticompetitive agreements to fix prices or allocate markets, conduct that excludes or delays competition, and other monopolistic or conspiratorial conduct that harms competition. Learn more at faruqilaw.com.

Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. is a national litigation boutique that concentrates on corporate governance and securities litigation and other complex class actions. G&E represents public and private institutional investors across the globe who have been damaged by corporate fraud, greed and mismanagement. In over ten years representing institutional investors in over one hundred cases, the firm has achieved stellar results for its clients. Attorneys at G&E have decades of experience prosecuting complex individual and class actions on behalf of individuals and corporations of all sizes that have suffered from wrongdoing or fraud, or are aware of government fraud. The Firm also concentrates on complex antitrust litigation, both on a class and an individual basis. G&E's antitrust attorneys are active in the bar and are regularly asked to speak at major conferences and contribute materials to academic and other publications. G&E offers clients top-flight talent and personalized attention.

Gustafson Gluek PLLC is a Minneapolis law firm with a national practice, with emphasis in antitrust, consumer protection and class action litigation. The five partners of the firm have over eighty years of experience in these areas, as well as in the areas of intellectual property litigation involving patents, trademarks and trade dress, complex business litigation, and securities fraud litigation.

For more than 30 years, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP has represented businesses and individuals who have been injured as a result of price-fixing, customer allocation, or other anticompetitive behavior by sellers of a broad array of products and services. Kaplan Fox is frequently at the forefront of significant private antitrust actions, and we have been appointed by courts as lead counsel or member of an executive committee for plaintiffs in some of the largest antitrust cases throughout the country. We have, over the years, recovered more than $1 billion for our clients. We attribute our high rate of success in the antitrust arena to a variety of unique factors. At the outset of every action, we devote significant time considering our approach to the case. We tailor our plan for litigating each matter to the facts of the case, because we know that charting a proper course at the start is likely to pay off in the end. Once we have developed our plan, we draw upon all of the firm’s resources to see the case through to the best possible result. Our most experienced antitrust attorneys become thoroughly familiar with the details of each matter, providing a type of hands-on involvement designed to foster success. Finally, we utilize the significant expertise of specialists skilled in evaluating the economic damages resulting from the defendants’ anticompetitive actions. Learn more at www.KaplanFox.com.

Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC (KCC) www.kccllc.com, a Computershare company, provides administrative-support services that help legal professionals realize time and cost efficiencies. With an integrated suite of corporate restructuring, class action and legal document management solutions, KCC alleviates the administrative challenges of today’s legal processes and procedures. KCC has gained client and industry recognition for its industry expertise, professional-level client service and proprietary technologies.

Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. has extensive experience in government relations and antitrust, business, health care, employment, environmental, intellectual property, real estate, securities and utilities and technology law. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Washington, D.C. For more than 20 years, we have successfully prosecuted antitrust cases on behalf of businesses that have been injured by the price-fixing of products through illegal agreements among national and international manufacturers, shippers, distributors, and traders. In the last five years alone, LGN and its co-counsel have obtained more than $2 billion in settlements and verdicts in antitrust cases. Many

of our antitrust clients are local or Midwest businesses who have been harmed by national or international price-fixing schemes. Litigation partners Richard A. Lockridge, W. Joseph Bruckner, Robert J. Schmit, Heidi M. Silton and Karen Hanson Riebel practice extensively in the antitrust arena and have litigated cases including major price-fixing, predatory pricing, price discrimination and other antitrust and trade regulation cases in state and federal courts across the nation. We also counsel and advise our commercial and health care clients on a wide variety of antitrust and trade regulation matters.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is a 180-lawyer law firm with offices in San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Boca Raton, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Atlanta. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is actively engaged in complex litigation, emphasizing securities, consumer, insurance, healthcare, human rights, employment discrimination and antitrust class actions. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s unparalleled experience and capabilities in these fields are based upon the talents of its attorneys who have successfully prosecuted thousands of class-action lawsuits. Visit us at www.rgrdlaw.com.

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. is one of the nation’s premier trial firms. With over 250 attorneys in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston and Naples, FL, we represent some of the world’s largest companies, most innovative start-ups, and individuals from virtually every industry and walk of life, both in and out of the courtroom. Our diverse and divergent backgrounds and experience with both plaintiff and defense strategies allow our attorneys to bring valuable perspective and insight to our clients' sophisticated and challenging issues. Our proven creativity in analyzing and proposing solutions to complex legal and business challenges is at the core of our legal strategy, and a key part of what we bring into the courtroom, and the boardroom. We strive to collaborate with clients to help them conquer their most critical legal challenges and achieve their specific business goals. It is our firm’s foundational belief that everyone should have equal access to the civil justice system, regardless of their personal or economic situation. We recognize both the professional obligation of our firm and the personal obligation of our lawyers to serve our community. For this reason, we offer creative fee arrangements and share risk with our clients when needed.

Clients in the class action, mass tort, public, and business sectors trust Rust to design, implement, and manage complex and time-sensitive projects. With experience on more than 2,500 cases worth billions of dollars, Rust is the national leader in class action settlement administration. Rust and its partner, Kinsella Media, LLC (Washington, D.C.) offer a full complement of services including claimant location, data management, notification, claims processing, call center services, distribution and tax reporting. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Rust also has offices in Faribault, Minn., Melville, N.Y., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis, P.C. uses litigation to empower its clients. Whether they are investors who lost money due to corporate wrongdoing, businesses that overpaid for products due to price fixing or end-payers who overpaid for healthcare, SRKW works to recover monies its clients have lost and to build better governance going forward. SRKW has played a prominent role in prosecuting many significant antitrust actions. For example, the Firm co-led the In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation (E.D.Pa.), which settled for $ 202 million, the largest antitrust settlement in the Third Circuit. SRKW also led the In re OSB Antitrust Litigation (E.D.Pa.), which was one of the first antitrust cases to survive a motion to dismiss following the Supreme Court’s Twombly decision, and which settled for $ 120 million. In addition the Firm is currently lead counsel in McDonough, et al, v. Toys R Us, et al. (E.D.Pa.), one of the rare cases in which a class of purchasers damaged as a result of resale price maintenance has been certified. That case also survived motions to dismiss based upon the recent Supreme Court opinion in Leegin Creative Products. SRKW has been at the vanguard of the development of legal theories on behalf of its clients. Learn more about us at www.srkw-law.com.