JEFFREY NEWMAN

               Jeffrey Newman was graduated from Columbia College in 1967 and Columbia Law School in 1971.  From 1971 to 1979, he was an associate at Marshall, Bratter, Greene, Allison & Tucker where he did principally commercial litigation.

                In recent years, Jeff has represented numerous clients confronted with the full gamut of litigation needs.  He has represented, for example, advertising agencies and their accounts in false advertising disputes with competing agencies and advertisers in federal court, before the Federal Trade Commission and the National Advertising Division, and in network clearance and challenge proceedings.  He has also represented such agencies in copyright litigation (including applications for temporary restraining orders) and trademark disputes.  He has represented various businesses in disputes with former employees (in litigations and administrative proceedings ranging from breach of contract to age discrimination), with current shareholders and executives (suspected of defalcation and other breaches of trust), with vendors and lessors, and with non-paying accounts.  He has also managed and overseen litigations for such businesses throughout the country -- from the selection of local counsel to the entry of final judgment.

                Jeff has also represented individuals embroiled in a wide variety of court proceedings -- accused of federal securities violations; sued on personal guarantees and tax shelter investment notes (and possessing lender liability and other counterclaims); in disputes with residential cooperative boards; in lawsuits with limited partners and with family members embroiled in an intra-corporate disagreement; and lodging complaints against lawyers who have acted unethically and illegally.  In litigation arising in the midst of a homicide case that gained national prominence, he also secured a privacy ruling that extended th rights of crime victims and their families.

                In addition, he has done extensive appellate work; while at Marshall Bratter, he drafted, on behalf of the American Bar Association, the firm's amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in a major securities law-labor case (Teamsters v. Daniel).  Jeff has also lectured on substantive advertising matters before the American Association of Advertising Agencies, co-authored (with partner Gene Cronin) a guide to legal considerations in advertising copy clearance, and has appeared several times on CNN and various other television news shows.  Jeff has also served as a legal writing instructor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and as an arbitrator for the American Bar Association.

                Eugene M. Cronin was graduated from City College of New York in 1971 and from Fordham Law School in 1977 where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review.  He was previously associated with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

                Gene has worked primarily in the corporate area and has handled mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions.  Gene has extensive experience in the negotiation and drafting of all types of commercial agreements, including shareholder, partnership, employment and loan agreements. 

                Gene has represented clients in acquiring and selling public and private companies involved in several industries, including advertising, cement and paper companies.  In several cases, Gene has continued to represent the acquired companies after the acquisition or sale.  Within the past three years, Gene has represented a major international cement company based in Switzerland in selling interests in North American joint ventures and in selling control of a U.S. public company.  He also represented a U.S. public company in acquiring an Italian apparel group through a share for share exchange.  More recently, Gene represented investors in acquiring shares in a U.S. public company that is engaged in the clinical laboratory business.

                Over the past decade, Gene has also represented advertising agencies, including several large international groups, in negotiating and drafting the variety of agreements required in the industry, ranging from client and license agreements to employment and talent agreements.  He has extensively counseled agencies in copy and network clearance and in weighing the many risks that can arise from advertising and publicity, taking into consideration, among other things, copyrights, trademarks and rights of privacy and publicity.