McCallion & Associates LLP Announces Formation.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2001

The formation of a new law firm, McCallion & Associates LLP was announced today.

With its main office located at 16 West 46th Street, New York, NY the firm will have regional branch offices in Long Island,

McCallion & Associates LLP, which is starting with approximately ten attorneys, will be specializing in complex commercial litigation and class actions with a strong emphasis in environmental and product liability matters. The firm is already involved in the Multi-District Litigation against most of the major oil companies arising from the ground-water pollution caused by MTBE, a highly soluble additive. The firm is also involved in cases against Dow Chemical and other arising from the environmental dangers and health risks associated with Dursban. The firm also represents a Columbia Graduate student who became severely ill when exposed to toxic mold in her University owned apartment.

McCallion & Associates LLP has also taken on a number of human rights cases including the Bhopal Gas Disaster, and a case on behalf of Larry Lee, a reporter employed by Bridge Financial News who was murdered while on assignment in Guatemala. The firm has commenced a case in New Mexico on behalf of Hispanic homesteaders in the Los Alamos area who were driven off their land and forced to work for below-subsistence wages under hazardous conditions involving exposure to radioactive materials during the construction and operation of facilities used the Manhattan Project.

The senior partner of the firm, Kenneth F. McCallion, has been a practicing attorney for over 28 years. Mr. McCallion worked as a prosecutor for over 15 years prior to entering private practice. His prosecutorial duties included service in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, The Organized Crime Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and the New York State Special Prosecutor's Office for Health and Social Services and the New York State Attorney General's office, where he was Deputy First Assistant Attorney General.

Since entering private practice, Mr. McCallion has handled several notable cases, including the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant case on behalf of Suffolk County, which resulted in a settlement of $400 million for Long Island ratepayers. He also represented certain Native Alaskan Corporations in the Exxon Valdez case, where he was a member of both the state and federal trial teams. The $5 billion punitive damages verdict is still on appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

More recently, Mr. McCallion was lead counsel in the French Bank Holocaust Litigation that was settled on January 18, 2001. Mr. McCallion also represented thousands of French laborers from Russia seeking restitution from Germany. These claims were settled as part of the recent negotiations with Germany and German industry.

Mr. McCallion and Rajan Sharma, who has also joined the new firm, were previously affiliated with Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, LLP, and Mr. McCallion continues to act "of counsel" for the Goodkind firm in certain matters, including the French Bank case and the Exxon Valdez appeal.

Also associated with the firm are Kevin Quill, a noted Long Island and New York labor lawyer and litigator, David Wise, a New Jersey and New York tax and litigation attorney with an expertise in electric utility matters; and Cheryl Mackell, an attorney who is supervising matters both in New Mexico and Washington, DC. Lucille Roussin, an attorney, who was Deputy Research Director of the Art and Cultural Property Team of the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US, is also affiliated with the New York office. Final arrangements are bring made for the location of an office in Los Angeles.