NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/01/07 -- Further expanding its highly renowned antitrust practice, LINDA P. NUSSBAUM has joined KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP as a partner in its New York office. In addition, Susan R. Schwaiger has joined the firm as counsel. Both attorneys were formerly with the New York office of Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C.

Ms. Nussbaum had been the resident partner at Cohen Milstein's New York office from its inception in 2001 until joining Kaplan Fox. Ms. Nussbaum practices antitrust law, with a specialty in pharmaceutical antitrust litigation.

In the past 5 years alone, Ms. Nussbaum has served as lead counsel in antitrust litigations that have yielded hundreds of millions of dollars in recovery for her clients and the classes she represents, including, In re Microcrystalline Cellulose Antitrust Litigation; In re Relafen Antitrust Litigation; In re Taxol Antitrust Litigation; In re Platinol Antitrust Litigation; In re Remeron Antitrust Litigation; In re Children's Ibuprofen Oral Suspension Antitrust Litigation; and In re Lorazepam & Clorazepate Antitrust Litigation. She is also presently serving as lead counsel in a number of significant antitrust class actions. Ms. Nussbaum is a frequent lecturer on complex antitrust issues and will be a third time panelist at the upcoming spring meeting of the Antitrust Law section of the American Bar Association.

On joining Kaplan Fox, Ms. Nussbaum stated, "[I] was looking for a firm that possessed the intellectual and financial resources to support my clients and the types of cases which I am in involved in. For me, Kaplan Fox, one of the preeminent antitrust firms in the country, possessed those resources and was the right choice."

Robert Kaplan, Senior Partner at Kaplan Fox stated: "We are thrilled that Linda Nussbaum and Susan Schwaiger have joined Kaplan Fox. Their wealth of experience and knowledge, as well as their reputation, will greatly enhance our extensive antitrust practice and our firm."

Ms. Nussbaum received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Journalism, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1974, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from the National Law Center at George Washington University, where she graduated with honors in 1977. She received an L.L.M. degree in Taxation from the New York University School of Law in 1984.

Susan Schwaiger has been counsel in Cohen Milstein's New York office since 2001, where she has worked extensively on complex antitrust litigation. Ms. Schwaiger received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, a Master's Degree from the University of Kentucky, and her law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she graduated with honors.

About Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP

Founded in 1955, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, is a national law firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, and Morristown, New Jersey and currently consists of 26 attorneys. Kaplan Fox possesses substantial experience representing investors, businesses, consumers and others victimized by fraud, price-fixing and other unlawful business practices. The firm also maintains active practices in general litigation, real estate, and trusts and estates. The firm is regularly appointed by federal and state courts nationwide to serve as lead or co-lead counsel on behalf of plaintiffs in complex securities, antitrust and consumer product class actions. Kaplan Fox has recovered well in excess of a billion dollars for our clients. To learn about the firm, please visit the firm's website at www.kaplanfox.com.

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