FROM: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP www.weil.com Contact: Terri Young Rubenstein Associates, Inc. 212-843-8018 tyoung@rubenstein.com _________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES ADVISES THOMAS H. LEE PARTNERS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT IN AGREEMENT TO SELL EYE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA Transaction Valued at $450 Million New York, December 3, 2004 – Weil, Gotshal & Manges […]

2 December – LAWFUEL – First for law, attorney, law firm news – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced today that Polymedica Corporation, a company based in Woburn,Massachusetts, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Liberty Medical Supply, Inc. and Liberty Home Pharmacy Corporation, which operate out of Port-St.-Lucie, Florida, have

Philadelphia, PA – December 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law, legal, attorney news – Henry C. Fader, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the Commonwealth’s leading advocate for business. “The Chamber represents the economic, political and

REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 2 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for lawsuit, law, legal news — Microsoft Corp. today announced the filing of seven lawsuits against defendants who allegedly sent spam e-mail that violated the CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) U.S. anti-spam law. Spam that contains sexually oriented content that is initially

GREENVILLE, S.C., Dec. 2 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law firm, attorney news — In the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 18 shareholders from Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins) in the Carolinas have been included in the prestigious list, more than any other labor and employment specialty

Los Angeles – December 1, 2004 – LAWFUEL – First with law, legal, attorney news – Loeb & Loeb LLP announced Joseph G. (Gray) Davis, former Governor of the State of California, has become Of Counsel to the Firm, resident in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Davis has a long and distinguished career in public

1 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law, legal, attorney, criminal law news – A federal grand jury in Santa Ana today indicted eight defendants in a complex scheme in which they fraudulently converted Huntington Beach apartments to condominiums, which allowed them to sell the properties at substantial profits. In addition to the real

LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – First for law, legal, attorney news – Piper Rudnick, an international law firm whose real estate group is ranked number one in the world, announced that Alan Wayte, one of the country’s foremost real estate attorneys, has joined the firm’s Los Angeles real estate practice. The addition of Mr. Wayte

1 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law, attorney, law firm news – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension of trading of the securities of the following issuers, commencing at 9:30 a.m. EST on December 1, 2004, and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 14, 2004: * Abacan Resources Corp.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Fogerty Rubenstein Associates 212-843-8071 efogerty@rubenstein.com Kathleen Larrison Holland & Knight 813-769-4330 kathleen.larrison@hklaw.com Maureen Bateman Joins Holland & Knight’s Private Wealth Services Practice New York, NY – December 1, 2004 – Holland & Knight LLP today announced that Maureen Bateman, who was executive vice president and general counsel at State Street