San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Darren S. Weingard has joined Reed
 Smith LLP as Of Counsel in the Market Trial Practice Group in the firm’s
 San Francisco office, effective immediately.
The 1990 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law has been
 a Senior Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Department of Sprint
 Communications Company L.P. for the past eight and one-half years,
 supervising commercial litigation matters for several Sprint business
 units, and coordinating nationwide litigation under the federal
 Telecommunications Act of 1996 for Sprint PCS site development.  Mr.
 Weingard has also practiced in Sprint’s State External Affairs
 Department, litigating administrative actions before various state
 regulatory commissions and related appeals.
Mr. Weingard’s experience includes complex commercial litigation,
 special expertise in unfair competition, antitrust law, deceptive trade
 practices, and telecommunications law.  Mr. Weingard was formerly a
 judicial law clerk to the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber of the United
 States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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