The Best Lawyers in America 2010

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1 The Best Lawyers in America 2010 Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak Minneapolis Ronald J. Barczak (1995) (10) Robert T. Dolan (2007) Louis E. Jungbauer (2007) William G. Jungbauer (1995) (10) Michael L. Weiner (2007) Gregory T. Yaeger (2007) (Year) First year the lawyer was listed. (10) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years. (20) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years. (25) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 25 years.

2 The Best Lawyers in America 2010 Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak Ranked #1 in Minnesota in with 6 attorneys. Ranked #1 in Minneapolis, MN in with 6 attorneys.

3 Best Lawyers is not only the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, it also reaches the largest and most targeted audience. In the print media, our lists appear in more than 60 major metropolitan magazines, business journals, and newspapers worldwide, reaching more than 16 million high-net-worth individuals. Online, our lists reach many millions of viewers in the form of The Best Lawyers Search Engine, which appears on prominent legal and other media websites throughout the world. Our search engine now appears as the exclusive lawyer list on USNews.com, the website of U.S. News & World Report, which receives several million unique visitors every month. In 2010, Best Lawyers and U.S. News will unveil the latest additions to the powerful America s Best Series: Best Law Firms in America, and Best Law Firms to Work For, making U.S.News.com an essential venue for the information about your firm and your lawyers that the Best Lawyers Search Engine provides. The Best Lawyers Search Engine now also appears on both the home page and the Surveys and Rankings page of Law.com, the most important legal portal in the world, w ith over six million unique visitors a year. Covering the World The Best Lawyers Search Engine appears on the websites of prominent U.S.-based publications such as New York Magazine, Corporate Counsel, and The Boston Globe. It is also featured on major international media websites, including Handelsblatt (Germany), Expansion (Spain), Australian Financial Review (Australia), National Post (Canada), IDCOnline.com.mx (Mexico), and The Lawyers (Japan). Because of these prominent, targeted placements of its search engine, Best Lawyers web traffic has doubled to one million hits per month in the first half of With placements on USNews.com and Law.com, that level of traffic should triple by the end of For law yers w ho have Best Law yers Deep Links, that will translate into more than three million opportunities every month for a targeted visitor to see their listings in Best Lawyers.

4 Number of listed lawyers in firm: 6 Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak From 8/1/2008 to 8/1/2009 Number of page views for listed lawyers in firm: 144 Average number of page views per lawyer in firm: 24 Total number of page views for your firm*: 163 [*Firms that purchase links for listed lawyers receive a free link from the Linked Firms section of the BESTLAWYERS.COM homepage to the firm website.] Number of times your firm was featured on BESTLAWYERS.COM homepage since 4/1: 85 Total page views to BESTLAWYERS.COM: 9,482,266 (48% increase over the previous year) Number of lawyers returned in search results: 7,387,848 Number of firms returned in search results: 2,646,537 Total linked lawyers on BESTLAWYERS.COM: 14,161 Total linked firms: 1,830 (with 3,726 locations) BestLawyers.com reaches a vast number of in-house counsel and referring lawyers. Last year, our site received over 9.4 million page views, an increase of 48%. In the last six months, our web traffic doubled to one million page views per month. We anticipate that our new placements on USNews.com and Law.com, as well as dozens of additional major publication websites world-wide, will increase our web traffic to around 30 million page views annually a number of targeted visitors that makes Best Lawyers links more valuable than ever before. Although everyone who searches for a lawyer on BestLawyers.com (or uses the Best Lawyers Search Engine on another site) is given the opportunity to purchase a subscription in order to see our entire list, only lawyers with deep links will be automatically visible to all these visitors, whether or not they purchase subscriptions.

5 By purchasing Deep Links, you can ensure that your listed lawyers and your firm are visible to every visitor to USNews.com, Law.com, and other prominent sites not just subscribers to BestLawyers.com. When a lawyer with a Deep Link appears on a search results page, a clickable icon next to his or her name directs visitors to the lawyer s bio on your firm website. The results page also lists the lawyer s areas of specialization and alerts users to any client comments or articles that your lawyer has posted on BestLawyers.com (see below). Included with Deep Links A free firm profile (to view or edit your current firm profile click here) A listing in the Search Firms section of BestLawyers.com, including a link to your firm's homepage A free subscription to BestLawyers.com for all members of your firm Placement of your firm URL on over 350,000 Bloomberg professional terminals worldwide Unlimited access to the Article Roundtable for articles written by listed lawyers Unlimited postings of client comments (accessible from search-results page) Regular traffic reporting (not only click-throughs to your attorney bios and firm profile, but also appearances on search results pages) Featured Firm on BestLawyers.com Homepage Firm profiles are displayed prominently on the BestLawyers.com home page on a rotating basis. By identifying the geographic region associated with each visitor s ISP, we can assure extra exposure in the regions where your firm has offices. The Featured Firm box displays (1) your firm logo, (2) a portion of your firm profile with a link to the full profile), and (3) a scrolling list of your listed lawyers with selected client comments. Click here to view your firm as the featured firm. Customized Logos We have created special customized logos for your firm and for your individual listed lawyers. The firm logo directs visitors to the BestLawyers.com homepage where your firm profile will be displayed in the Featured Firm box. The individual lawyer logo directs visitors to your BestLawyers.com profile, with information about your firm rankings and contact information for all of your firm s departments and their principals. To see the firm logo and lawyer logos for your firm and to access the code that your web manager or IT department will need to upload the logos, click here.

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7 The Best Lawyers in America 2010 THIS IS A PRICING SHEET THIS IS NOT AN INVOICE Woodward/White, Inc. 129 First Avenue, SW Aiken, SC Fax: Voice: Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak 4601 Weston Woods Way St Paul, MN Customer ID Phone Listed Lawyers In Firm: 6 Item Description Price 6 Listed $125 each Deep Links $ Total $ Renewal Date: 9/24/2009

8 If you wish to issue a press release concerning the lawyer or lawyers selected from your firm for the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers, we have provided some sample text for such a release below. To see our guidelines for publicizing listings in Best Lawyers, please click here. Sample Press Release (Available for immediate release) Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak is proud to announce that 6 of its attorneys have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties. Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice. Steven Naifeh, Managing Editor of Best Lawyers, says, We continue to believe as we have believed for 26 years that recognition by one s peers is the most meaningful form of recognition in the legal profession.

9 Selection and Peer Review Process Inclusion in Best Law yers is based on peer review, as it has been for the past 26 years, and the voting pool for existing categories consists of all law yers who are currently listed. These listed lawyers are asked to vote on both current listees and new nominees in their specialties and metropolitan areas and/or states, as well as to nominate additional lawyers. Voting takes place either by phone or by electronic ballot. Each listed lawyer is asked If you could not handle a case, who would you refer it to? Law yers are asked to give letter grades (1-5) to the nominees: 5 for someone the voter would definitely refer a case to, 4 for someone the voter would probably refer a case to, 3 for someone the lawyer would be hesitant to refer a case to, etc. Voters are allowed to provide comments as well as grades and are asked to vote only on lawyers whose work they know personally. Votes that are clearly aberrational or politically motivated are ignored. Once selections have been finalized, they are checked against state bar sanction lists to make sure that each law yer is in good standing with his or her state bar. Once this process is completed, announcements are sent to firms marketing departments and letters of inclusion are then sent to the individual attorneys. Please click here for more information about our selection process. Nomination Process: Every lawyer in the previous edition is nominated for inclusion in the next edition. Nominees from the previous year who were not selected for inclusion are automatically re-nominated for the next two editions. When voting, listed law yers are asked to nominate other exceptional lawyers who have not been previously nominated. Marketing officers are allowed to nominate lawyers from their own firm although we urge them to exercise prudence since nominating too many and/or under-qualified lawyers can undermine the chances of the firm s best candidates. Nomination Tips Please make sure all nominations for the 2011 edition are sent to us by December 31, We do accept nominations year round, but by sending them to us by the end of the year, this will ensure that their information is on the ballots for the full voting process. The current list of 80 legal specialties can be found by clicking here. If you would like to suggest an additional category, please send the names of the attorneys you would nominate for inclusion in it. Most, but not all, nominees have been practicing ten or more years and are partners in their firms. Please keep the number of nominees within reason. Nominating an excessive number of lawyers or lawyers who are not qualified may damage the chances of strong candidates from the same firm.

10 The Best Lawyers in America 2011 First Name: Last Name: Suffix: Specialty: Subspecialty: Firm Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: Fax: First Name: Last Name: Suffix: Specialty: Subspecialty: Firm Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: Fax: First Name: Last Name: Suffix: Specialty: Subspecialty: Firm Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: Fax: Nominator: Phone: Firm: Location: Title: You may fax your nominations to: Woodward White, Inc. Attention Best Lawyers Nominations Phone: (803) Fax: (803)