MARTIN GARBUS TO SERVE AS PANELIST FOR "C-SPAN AND THE JUDICIARY"

NEW YORK, May 19, 2005 — Davis & Gilbert announced today that litigation partner Martin Garbus would participate as a panelist for C-SPAN and the Judiciary, a seminar that will evaluate the arguments for and against cameras in the federal court and will imagine the impact that C-SPAN could have on the nation's judicial process if it were allowed to adapt its legislative model to the judicial system. The seminar is part of the Museum of Television and Radio's "Adventures in Democracy" series and is scheduled for Thursday, June 2, 2005. The 90 minute seminar begins at 6 p.m. and will be held before a public audience at the Museum in the MT&R Theatre, 25 West 52nd Street. Tickets are $15.00. For additional information, visit www.mtr.org.

Mr. Garbus is a partner in the Litigation Department of Davis & Gilbert LLP and one of the country's leading trial lawyers. He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court as well as the highest state and federal courts in the nation. His devotion to ethics, justice and the law has garnered respect among the legal community and beyond. Time Magazine has named him "legendary... one of the best trial lawyers in the country," while Newsweek, the National Law Journal and other media agree that Mr. Garbus is America's "most prominent First Amendment lawyer" with an "extraordinarily diverse practice."

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