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COSTA MESA, Calif., August 8, 2006 – According to Law & Politics Magazine, 10 of this region’s sharpest young legal minds are hard at work at Rutan & Tucker LLP, California’s largest full-service law firm based in Orange County. Recently named to the prestigious annual list of Rising Stars are attorneys Phillip Blanchard, John Bradley, Steven Goon, John Hamilton, Jr., Aron Hansen, Michael Houston, Jeffery Melching, John Ramirez, Brian Sinclair, and Karen Walter. Being voted onto the list places them among the top 2.5 percent of their peers in California. “We are pleased to see so many of our attorneys named to the list,” said Mike Hornak, the firm’s managing partner. “As Rising Stars, they are the next generation of talented attorneys who are the future of our firm. Our clients can rest assured that they will continue to be in good hands at Rutan & Tucker.” To identify Rising Stars, Law & Politics asked the most recent group of Super Lawyers in Southern California to vote for the best attorneys they have personally observed in action – whether as opposing counsel or co-counsel, or through other first-hand observations – who are either age 40 or under or who have been practicing 10 years or less. All of the Rutan & Tucker honorees are under 40 years of age.