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Gordon Brings a Broad Base of Business Litigation Experience To Firm's 180-Lawyer New York Office

NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- King & Spalding LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that Michael M. Gordon, a business litigator with extensive experience in a broad range of litigation matters, has joined the firm as partner. Gordon brings an extensive background handling financial, toxic tort, products liability, employment and contract dispute
matters to the firm's 180-lawyer New York office.

"In addition to further increasing our expertise in representing financial services clients in high-profile matters, Mike enhances our overall ability to provide clients strategic counsel on a wide variety of other litigation matters," said Michael J. O'Brien, managing partner of King & Spalding's New York office. "We are pleased to have a lawyer of Mike's caliber on board to
help serve the growing client demand for our counsel."

Gordon joins King & Spalding from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he was a partner in the litigation group. Two of the most high-profile lawsuits he has handled include the "Agent Orange" product liability litigation and the New York City Landfills Superfund case. He earned a B.A. with honors from Vassar College and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

King & Spalding's litigators handle critical battles for a variety of Fortune 500 clients. The firm represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation throughout the country involving issues of antitrust, product liability, mass tort, patents and trademarks, class action certification, securities law, franchise law, white collar defense and consumer fraud, among
others. The firm has 40 litigators based in its New York office.

"I am delighted to join King & Spalding and to be part of its growing New York presence," Gordon said. "The firm's track record of litigation successesfor clients is very impressive, and I look forward to adding to that record by helping the firm's clients successfully resolve their complex litigation challenges."

King & Spalding's New York office employs 180 attorneys practicing in a variety of areas including banking, business litigation, corporate finance, energy, financial restructuring, intellectual property, Islamic finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and tax, among others.

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