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NEW YORK, June 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Kirkpatrick & Lockhart’s Second National Survey of FORTUNE 500 and FORTUNE 1000 In-house Counsel Captures Trends and Opinions Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) continues its research into the concerns of larger corporate legal departments by releasing its survey findings on the pressing issues facing in-house attorneys. The

NEW YORK-June 2, 2004- LAWFUEL -Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed on June 2, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on behalf of all purchasers of the common stock of Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (“LQMT” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:LQMTE) between May 22, 2002 and

2 June 2004 – LAWFUEL – International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer today announced that Robert S. Schlossberg will join its Washington office as a partner in the antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group. Mr Schlossberg joins from Morgan Lewis & Bockius where he has been one of the leaders of that firm’s antitrust department.

28 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – Clifford Chance advised BASF, Bayer and Hoechst on the sale of DyStar, the Frankfurt-based manufacturer of textile dyes, to global investment firm Platinum Equity. A corresponding agreement has been signed with the current owners BASF (30 percent share), Bayer (35 percent share) and Hoechst (35 percent share), a subsidiary

June 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Douglas Colon, Special Agent in Charge, of the United States Department of Labor, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, announced today that Walter J. Browne, President of the National Federation of Public and Private Employees

May 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Robert Triffin, the most litigious plaintiff in New Jersey history, has been adjudicated a fraud by an Essex County jury through the work of Pitney Hardin LLP partner, Dennis Kearney. Triffin has made a 15 year career of buying bad checks, then suing major New Jersey companies in the

London, 1 June 2004 – LAWFUEL – In an astonishing court room reversal, global law firm Linklaters has turned claims of around US$245 million against their client Petrobras into a US$105 million win. The two related London court cases concern the P36 oil and gas rig, which tragically exploded and sank 190km off Rio de

28 May 2004, New York – LAWFUEL – A New Jersey Superior Court trial judge has dismissed a $1.5 billion contract suit against Starwood Hotels, ITT Corporation, and Sheraton brought by a New Jersey company that claimed it had an exclusive worldwide telecommunications contract with Sheraton Hotels and Caesars casinos. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

WASHINGTON, DC – June 2, 2004– LAWFUEL – Continuing the expansion of its intellectual property practice, international law firm Crowell & Moring LLP has added two partners to its more than 40-lawyer roster of IP lawyers. Michael J. Songer, a former partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, and Mark M. Supko, a former partner at

PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – GlaxoSmithKline has acted responsibly in conducting clinical studies in pediatric patients and disseminating data from those studies. All pediatric studies have been made available to the FDA and regulatory agencies worldwide. We have publicly communicated data from all pediatric studies. As for the 1998 memo, it is inconsistent