Seyfarth Shaw Welcomes Robert C. Stevens and Benjamin D. Briggs to Atlanta Office as Partners in the Labor & Employment Department

ATLANTA--(Business Wire)--
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America`s leading full-service law firms, today
announced that Robert ("Bob") C. Stevens and Benjamin ("Ben") D. Briggs have
joined the firm`s Atlanta office as partners in the Labor & Employment
Department. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, both were partners at Troutman
Sanders LLP.

Stevens brings over 12 years of experience representing public and privately
held companies throughout the United States in employment-related litigation. He
concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling matters involving
employment discrimination, restrictive covenant, trade secret, and wage and hour
issues. He has extensive litigation experience, having represented clients in
bench and jury trials in state and federal tribunals and before administrative
agencies. Outside the courtroom, Stevens regularly counsels clients in complying
with federal and state employment laws and in litigation avoidance.

Briggs` practice focuses on a wide-variety of labor and employment matters
arising under state and federal law. Areas of significant experience, include:
representation of clients in employment discrimination cases, wage and hour
litigation (including collective actions), OSHA matters, restrictive covenant
and trade secret disputes, union campaigns, collective bargaining, unfair labor
practice charges, whistleblower claims and agency proceedings. In addition,
Briggs has significant experience providing training, advice and preventative
counseling in all areas of labor and employment law.

"Bob and Ben are excellent additions to our deep bench of talented labor and
employment attorneys in Atlanta," said Jeremy P. Sherman, Chair of Seyfarth
Shaw's Labor & Employment Department. "Bob and Ben's arrival adds to the growing
number of highly regarded and experienced employment litigators across the
country who have been attracted this year to join Seyfarth's strong national
employment department."

Seyfarth Shaw`s Labor & Employment Department consists of roughly 350 employment
attorneys nationally at all levels of experience, allowing seamless
representation of the firm`s clients across jurisdictions. The firm`s labor and
employment lawyers are organized to leverage their knowledge of specific
industry experience and key workplace subspecialties, such as: Affirmative
Action/Diversity, Business Immigration, California Labor Code Litigation,
Complex Discrimination Litigation, ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation,
Employment Law Training, International Labor and Employment, Single-Plaintiff
Litigation, Wage and Hour Litigation, and Workplace Counseling and Compliance
Solutions.

"We are very excited to welcome Bob and Ben to our Atlanta office," said Paul P.
Mattingly, Managing Partner of Seyfarth Shaw`s Atlanta office. "They are both
accomplished attorneys who share our firm`s commitment to client service and
teamwork; we look forward to their long careers at Seyfarth."

The Atlanta office opened in 1996 and is regularly a leader in associate and
employee satisfaction surveys. The office was recently recognized in the Atlanta
Business Chronicle for being the third-fastest growing Atlanta law firm in terms
of revenue over the last five years. As a reflection of this growth, the Atlanta
office will be moving from its current 50,000 square-feet of space to a new
location with 82,000 square-feet that will be able to accommodate 130 attorneys.
The office is well represented in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America`s
Leading Lawyers for Business rankings of law firms, fielding three ranked
practice groups (Immigration, Labor & Employment, and Real Estate) and eight
individually ranked attorneys (Construction, Environment, Immigration, Labor &
Employment, Litigation, and Real Estate).

"Ben and I are delighted to join Seyfarth`s esteemed national Labor & Employment
Department," said Stevens. "We look forward to continuing to deliver
high-quality service to our clients and drawing on the resources of our
impressive new colleagues in Atlanta and throughout the firm."

Stevens earned his B.S. from the University of Alabama and his J.D. (magna cum
laude) from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for the Alabama Law Review
and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was also a member of the Jessup
International Moot Court Team and the Moot Court Board. He is a member of the
American Bar Association`s Labor and Employment Section, the Labor and
Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and the Atlanta Bar. Stevens
is admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia.

Briggs received his B.B.A. from the University of Miami and his J.D. (with
honors) from Georgia State University, where he was a member of the Georgia
State Law Review. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

Seyfarth Shaw has over 775 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the
United States including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New
York, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as Brussels,
Belgium. Seyfarth Shaw provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of
labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation and business services. The
firm`s practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country`s
business and social fabric. Clients include over 300 of the Fortune 500
companies, financial institutions, newspapers and other media, hotels, health
care organizations, airlines and railroads. The firm also represents a number of
federal, state, and local governmental and educational entities. For more
information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Mark S. Roy, 212-218-5272
Public Relations Manager
mroy@seyfarth.com
or
Elisa Marks, 212-218-5273
SeniorPublic Relations Associate
emarks@seyfarth.com

Copyright Business Wire 2009