ATLANTA, GA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/05/06 -- King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that John Harbin, a litigator with more than 20 years of experience handling intellectual property and complex business cases, has joined the firm as partner in its intellectual property practice group. Harbin's practice will focus on trying patent, trade secret and trademark cases for a broad spectrum of clients. He will practice from the firm's Atlanta office.

"John is an excellent lawyer and a natural leader, and we are pleased to welcome him to the firm's IP practice," said Courtland L. Reichman, head of the firm's intellectual property practice group. "John is a seasoned trial lawyer with a reputation for understanding his clients' businesses, so we look forward to the contributions he will make to the continued growth of our practice. His knowledge of the intellectual property issues biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients face will be particularly important as we continue to expand our reach in those industries."

Harbin is the fifth new partner to join King & Spalding's intellectual property practice in the past two weeks. Last week, the firm announced that partners Tony Askew, Steve Schaetzel and Jim Johnson had joined the firm's Atlanta office, and that it was establishing a patent prosecution capability in its New York office with the addition of partner Ken Sonnenfeld.

Harbin joins King & Spalding from Powell Goldstein LLP, where he was a partner. While there, he handled intellectual property and complex commercial cases for clients in several different industries, including medical devices, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, industrial equipment and processes, office equipment, and drug patents and biotechnology, among others. He has significant courtroom experience, having tried more than thirty jury and bench trials, and has handled numerous appeals and arbitrations.

Harbin earned a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a Board member of the Atlanta Bar Association and serves as a Member-At-Large of the Litigation Section Board.

"I am excited to be joining King & Spalding, a firm with an excellent national intellectual property practice that is experiencing great momentum," Harbin said. "I have known many of my new partners professionally and personally for many years, and I now look forward to working with them to serve the firm's clients."

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