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Hodgson Russ attorneys chair Bar Association of Erie County committees

October 25, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lisa Kane
716.848.1335
lkane@hodgsonruss.com

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two Hodgson Russ LLP attorneys are 2005-06 committee chairpersons of the Bar Association of Erie County.

Garry M. Graber is the chair of the Bylaws Committee and Jeffrey W. Stone is the chair of the Municipal & School Law Committee.

Mr. Graber, leader of the Firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Commercial Litigation Practice Group, has more than 25 years of experience practicing bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, creditors' rights, financial services, and commercial and corporate litigation and general business law.

Mr. Stone is a partner in the Real Estate & Finance Practice Group. Mr. Stone represents counties, cities, towns, villages, school districts, underwriters and corporate trustees as bond counsel or special counsel on a wide range of general obligation, revenue bond, and securitized lease and asset-backed financings.

With more than 220 attorneys practicing in all major areas of law, Hodgson Russ is among the 200 largest law firms headquartered in the United States. It is one of approximately 100 firms in the country listed in America's Greatest Places to Work With a Law Degree. In June 2005, Hodgson Russ received the Carol S. Knox Family-Friendly Employer Award from the Capital District Women's Bar Association. The Firm, which was established in 1817 and is among the oldest law firms in the United States, is the only law firm that can count two former U.S. presidents, Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland, among its alumni. Hodgson Russ has seven offices: Albany, Buffalo, and Johnstown, and two in New York, New York; Boca Raton, Florida; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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