ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ATTORNEYS LEONARD A. MILLER AND LYNN M. GALLAGHER JOIN CARTER LEDYARD & MILBURN LLP

NEW YORK, January 14, 2008 – Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP announced today that Leonard A. Miller joined the firm as a partner effective January 1, 2008. He will reside in the firm's DC office. Mr. Miller was one of the founding partners of Swidler Berlin, and became a partner in Bingham McCutchen when the firms merged in 2006. Mr. Miller is a well-known environmental attorney who will join the Litigation Department's Environmental Practice Group. Lynn Monk Gallagher, who practiced environmental law and energy law at Swidler Berlin, joins the firm as counsel.

“Leonard Miller is, without question, one of the leading environmental attorneys in the United States. He was a pioneer in the environmental movement, both as a citizen advocate and as a charter member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For 15 years Mr. Miller was a government attorney, and one of the first employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For the past 25 years he has represented some of the largest companies in the world on some of their most challenging environmental problems, and has helped new market entries prosper in the US regulatory system. Mr. Miller is considered a ‘trusted advisor’ by major companies and venture capital investors and is respected by the environmental community as well as industry,” said Lawrence F. Carnevale, member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. “His arrival, along with that of Ms. Gallagher, one of the leading women environmental attorneys, who worked closely with Mr. Miller for 20 years, marks a leap forward for the firm’s ability to handle both complex, big ticket cases and assist new market entries. Mr. Miller and Ms. Gallagher's personal style of understanding and caring for clients fits the Carter Ledyard approach of being Partners for Your Business®”

Leonard A. Miller

Leonard Miller's practice is focused on complex litigation (including patent infringement actions and insurance coverage) and environmental law, with an emphasis on cutting edge problems with major commercial implications. In his 40 years of practice Mr. Miller has represented major companies such as General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, LG Corporation, Allied Chemical (now Honeywell), and governmental entities and utilities such as East Bay Municipal Utility District, Niagara Mohawk (now part of National Grid), and Santee Cooper (the South Carolina state utility), a Swiss banking group, and many others on issues of crucial significance to them. As a pesticide attorney, he brought into the US the first company from India and the first company from South Korea to register a technical grade pesticide with the USEPA. He represents US asphalt pavement contractors on issues involving worker exposure. He has also represented an Intellectual Property Merchant Bank in a patent infringement case. As an attorney with the EPA, Mr. Miller handled matters involving pulp and paper companies in the Northwest and Alaska, smelters in Washington State and Idaho, and rum distilleries in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

A key part of Mr. Miller's practice has been his focus on solving problems by involving all parties and seeking consensus, and he is admired for his tireless energy on behalf of his clients. His insurance coverage practice involved a "settlement first" approach that often avoided litigation. He has settled most of the pesticide data compensation cases he has handled. He has become a trusted advisor and confidant to many clients because of his facility in seeking common ground among warring factions, and his reputation as a fair and honest intermediary.

Mr. Miller received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1964 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1967. He was one of the first environmental lawyers in the Federal government, starting at what was then the National Air Pollution Control Administration in 1968 and helping to launch the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. During his government career, he received two Bronze Medals, a Silver Medal and the EPA Distinguished Career Award. Mr. Miller was a lieutenant commander in the US Public Health Service from 1968 to 1972. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He has written several environmental law books (co-authored by Lynn Gallagher). More recently, he has been named in the Super Lawyer magazine for 2007 and 2008, and the Best Lawyers in America for 2006, 2007 and 2008. Mr. Miller recently became a member of the Environmental Law Institute's Council of Partners. Mr. Miller, age 65, is a hiker and a resident of Potomac, Maryland, where he lives with his wife Susan.

Lynn Monk Gallagher

Ms. Gallagher’s legal practice focuses on environmental law, and complex technical and regulatory issues. Mr. Miller and Ms. Gallagher have worked together on many cases, developing a close working relationship that delivers effective representation in an efficient and economical manner. Ms. Gallagher is particularly skillful on the evaluation of document-intensive cases and in dealing with technical, engineering and economic issues. She excels at translating complex issues into simple language that can be understood by regulators and the public. She is an expert in water pollution law and pesticides law.

Ms. Gallagher earned a B.A. degree, with high honors, from the University of Florida in 1979, and a J.D. , magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. Ms. Gallagher has co-authored several books with Mr. Miller, including the Clean Water Handbook and the NPDES Permit Handbook, and she authored the Clean Water Act chapter of the Environmental Law Handbook for five consecutive editions. She is a member of the District of Columbia bar and resides in the District.

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP (www.clm.com), established in 1854, has approximately 104 attorneys and has been headquartered on Wall Street since its founding and has additional offices in midtown Manhattan and Washington, DC. Carter Ledyard's general practice includes corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, litigation, intellectual property, environmental, employment, media and technology, immigration, investment regulation, antitrust, trusts and estates, maritime, ERISA, exempt organizations, real estate, tax and bankruptcy. A significant part of the firm's practice involves representing overseas-based clients and their U.S. affiliates, financial institutions and other financial services providers, governmental entities and media and technology clients.