FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Alfred D. Youngwood/212-373-3080

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Madelaine Miller/212-373-2716
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

FORMER SECOND IN COMMAND TO NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL

JOINS PAUL, WEISS AS PARTNER

NEW YORK, APRIL 10, 2007 – Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today
that Michele Hirshman will join Paul, Weiss as a partner in the firm’s litigation department, where she will
focus her practice on internal investigations and white collar defense matters. Ms. Hirshman will be
resident in the firm’s New York office.

Ms. Hirshman comes to Paul, Weiss from the Office of the Attorney General of New York where she
served as First Deputy Attorney General under then Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Prior to joining the
Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Hirshman served for eleven years as an Assistant United States Attorney
in the Southern District of New York. In the course of her tenure, she served as Chief of the Public
Corruption Unit, where she led major investigations and prosecutions of government fraud and political
and police corruption.

Alfred D. Youngwood, Chair of Paul, Weiss, stated, "Michele brings to Paul, Weiss a unique talent and
expertise in handling high-profile internal investigations and white collar defense matters, providing the
opportunity for us to expand our internationally renowned practice. Michele’s extraordinary integrity,
ability and reputation will be invaluable to Paul, Weiss. We are delighted that she has decided to join us
as a partner.”

Ms. Hirshman received her J.D. in 1983 from Yale Law School where she was articles editor of the Yale
Law Journal. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College in 1980, summa cum laude. Upon
completing law school, Ms. Hirshman clerked from 1983-1985 for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval, then on
the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Leval now sits on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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