"Bryan, Chuck and Peter bring an incredible collective litigationbackground that includes a significant amount of federal prosecution aswell as private practice experience. The group's knowledge and expertisewill significantly enhance our White Collar Defense practice and expand ourcivil litigation capabilities to better serve client needs," said GuyHalgren, chairman of the firm.

"We look forward to growing the firm's White Collar Defense practice,specifically in Los Angeles," Daly said. "Sheppard Mullin is a top-notchfirm with an impressive litigation group. We have worked with the firm formore than a decade on various matters and are now thrilled to be joiningthem."

Daly has represented businesses and executives under investigation orcharged with white collar criminal offenses. He has also conductedinternal investigations and compliance inquiries for a number of majorcorporations, has investigated fraud and other allegations of misconduct onbehalf of these companies, and has coordinated voluntary disclosures andcase referrals to the Department of Justice and other impacted agencies.Daly is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Central Districtof California, Criminal Division, Public Corruption and Government FraudSection. As a federal prosecutor, he was responsible for the investigationand prosecution of a wide variety of government fraud cases, includinghealth care fraud, bank and mail fraud, defense contractor fraud,environmental violations, and criminal tax cases.

Kreindler was a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles from 1989-1997. In thatrole, he investigated and prosecuted a variety of criminal offensesincluding health care fraud, defense procurement fraud, tax evasion, bankfraud, money laundering, international theft, murder, and counterfeiting.In private practice, Kreindler has successfully represented numerousindividuals and companies in relation to federal criminal investigations.He is also an accomplished civil trial attorney with several multi-milliondollar verdicts to his credit on behalf of plaintiffs as well as severaldefense verdicts on behalf of defendants.

In addition to white collar defense and complex business litigation, Morrisspecializes in healthcare matters and securities litigation. He served asan Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S.Attorney's Office from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 to 1996, Morris held afull-time faculty appointment with the School of Law of the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles.

Representative clients include Millberg Weiss, Northrop GrummanCorporation, Tyco International, and Hughes Aircraft.

Daly received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1985 and aB.A. from Ramapo College in 1982. Kreindler received a J.D. from BostonUniversity School of Law in 1985 and a B.A. from State University of NewYork at Albany in 1982. Morris received a J.D., cum laude, from HarvardLaw School in 1986 and an A.B., cum laude, with distinction, from CornellUniversity in 1983.

Sheppard Mullin has 220 attorneys based in its Los Angeles offices. Thefirm's Business Trial practice group includes more than 200 attorneysfirmwide.

About Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Sheppard Mullin is a full service AmLaw 100 firm with more than 560attorneys in 11 offices located throughout California and in New York,Washington, D.C. and Shanghai. The firm's California offices are locatedin Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Santa Barbara, Century City,Orange County, Del Mar Heights and San Diego. Founded in 1927 on theprinciple that the firm would succeed only if its attorneys deliveredprompt, high quality and cost-effective legal services, Sheppard Mullinprovides legal counsel to U.S. and international clients. Companies turnto Sheppard Mullin to handle a full range of corporate and technologymatters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In theU.S., the firm's clients include more than half of the Fortune 100companies. For more information, please visit www.sheppardmullin.com.

Contact:Bryan Daly(213) 617-5466Ralph Richardson(213) 617-5542