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Firm Serves As Signatory For Chicago Bar Association's Call To Action For Women

January 25, 2005

CHICAGO – Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman is pleased to announce that it is serving as a leadership signatory for the Chicago Bar Association’s Alliance for Women Call to Action. The Call to Action invites all Chicago law firms to promote gender diversity in the legal profession. The Firm is one of nine Chicago law firms serving as a signatory.

"In support of our continued diversity initiatives aimed at increasing the participation and fostering of the leadership of women and minorities within our Firm and in the legal profession overall, I am pleased that we have taken a leadership role in this important initiative," said Vincent A.F. Sergi, managing partner of the Firm.

The Call to Action was approved by the CBA’s Board of Managers in November, 2004 and officially adopted and announced today. It sets forth five goals for Chicago law firms and legal departments to attain by 2007, including increasing the percent of its women partners by 3 percent and increasing the number of women practice group leaders.

Leslie D. Dent, a corporate partner at KMZ Rosenman, represents the Firm in the Call to Action. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women and is also the Firm's Diversity Committee Chair.

Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman (www.kmzr.com) is a national, full-service law firm with offices in the nation's largest centers of business, government, finance and technology. The Firm’s 600 attorneys in more than 50 practice areas provide timely and cost-effective counsel to clients in numerous industries. They serve as business advisors and advocates for a wide range of public and private companies - from entrepreneurial, emerging-growth, and middle market firms to global Fortune 100 corporations - as well as government entities, non-profits, and charitable and cultural organizations.