Jenner & Block Names Michael DeSanctis Washington, D.C. Office Managing Partner

WASHINGTON, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Jenner & Block has named Partner Michael
B. DeSanctis the Managing Partner of the Firm's Washington, D.C. office. Mr.
DeSanctis is a highly regarded litigator who has practiced his entire
professional career at Jenner & Block.

"I'm honored to assume this leadership role and to facilitate the continued
growth of our Washington office," said Mr. DeSanctis.

"In my years at Jenner & Block, I have worked with three managing partners.
Each not only was, and remains, a consummate lawyer but also a consummate
human being who inspired all of us to strive to be both. That I now am in a
position to continue that tradition is a profound honor and an exciting
challenge," added Mr. DeSanctis. "It is my goal to continue doing everything
I can to make our office one of a kind ... a place where our extraordinarily
talented professionals can continue to provide the best and most innovative
advice to our clients on their most cutting edge matters while finding new
ways to serve our community."

"Michael's leadership skills, dedication to his clients, and values make him
the ideal choice to lead our Washington, D.C. office," said Susan C. Levy,
Jenner & Block's Managing Partner. "We are thrilled to have such a seamless
transition at all levels in our Washington, D.C. office."

Mr. DeSanctis assumes the role of the Washington, D.C. Managing Partner
following the departure of Thomas J. Perrelli, who recently was confirmed by
the U.S. Senate as Associate Attorney General, the third-ranking official in
the U.S. Department of Justice. In this role, Mr. Perrelli will oversee all
civil litigation at the Department. Along with Mr. Perrelli, a number of
other Washington, D.C.-based Jenner & Block attorneys have joined the senior
ranks of the Obama administration, including Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. who
recently joined the DOJ as Associate Deputy Attorney General; Sam Hirsch, who
joined the DOJ as Deputy Associate Attorney General; Brian Hauck, a recently
elevated litigation partner who will be Counsel to the Associate Attorney
General; and Ginger Anders, who is now an Assistant to the Solicitor General.

"Jenner & Block has a long and proud history of attorneys in public service,"
said Mr. DeSanctis, who noted that the D.C. office is home to six partners who
are former senior-level DOJ or SEC attorneys, two who held high ranking
positions in the FCC, four who are former public defenders, and one who is the
former General Counsel and Deputy Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee.

The Firm's Washington, D.C. office was at the heart of a number of notable
client victories over the last 12 months. Attorneys in Jenner & Block's D.C.
office secured a major win for the Firm's entertainment industry clients in
May 2008 when a federal judge in Los Angeles found the operators of the
TorrentSpy website to have willfully infringed copyrights owned by the major
motion picture studios and ordered the website operators to pay over $110
million in damages. In June, Jenner & Block's D.C. appellate attorneys
successfully represented L-3 Communications before the Second Circuit, which
unanimously reversed a $126 million verdict against L-3 Communications Corp.
Several other recent litigation successes were obtained by partners in the
D.C. office on behalf of clients such as General Dynamics, Marriott
International, Honeywell and SoundExchange.

In addition, the office's high-profile Supreme Court practice continues to be
active, with multiple arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. The
practice has argued 20 cases before the Court in the past seven terms alone.

About Michael DeSanctis:

Mr. DeSanctis maintains a diverse litigation practice. He regularly
represents clients in the music, television and other sectors of the
entertainment industry, focusing on copyright issues involving the
intersection of creative content and new technologies and the Internet, as
well as on more traditional copyright infringement matters. He currently is
representing Viacom, Inc. in its high-profile copyright infringement suit
against YouTube and Google. His work in this area has involved
precedent-setting litigation in federal courts, industry-wide royalty
rate-setting proceedings concerning satellite radio and other digital
distribution channels before the Copyright Royalty Board, and pre-litigation
counseling to clients on a broad range of novel copyright and digital
technology law issues.

In the field of communications, Mr. DeSanctis represents leading telecom
companies in the federal courts and before the FCC in a wide range of
litigation, enforcement and regulatory issues. He also maintains an active
commercial litigation practice.

Throughout his career, Mr. DeSanctis has continued the Firm's proud tradition
of pro bono work, representing prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay in
numerous matters, as well as a death row inmate whose sentence was
successfully appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Before clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Mr. DeSanctis received his J.D. cum laude from New York University School of
Law and his B.A. summa cum laude from Boston College.

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Kevin Blasko of Jenner & Block, +1-312-923-2635, fax, +1-312-923-2703,
kblasko@jenner.com