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For Immediate Release
February 21, 2000

Contact:

Beryl Wolfe
(207) 775-5115

Web Site: http://www.bernsteinshur.com

John Paterson Appointed Chair of Professional Ethics Commission

John M.R. Paterson, a leading health care and media litigator in Maine and a shareholder at the statewide firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, has been appointed by the Board of Overseers of the Bar to the Professional Ethics Commission.

The Professional Ethics Commission is part of the Board of Overseers of the Bar, which was created by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to help monitor the legal profession in the state. The Professional Ethics Commission receives requests for official interpretation of the Maine Bar Rules adopted and amended by the state supreme court to govern the ethics of the legal profession. Paterson, who has served on the commission since 1983, becomes chair this month. Other commissions of the board include a Grievance Commission and Fee Arbitration panels.

A resident of Freeport, Paterson joined Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson in 1981 and practices in the areas of business litigation, administrative and regulatory law, antitrust, media law, communications, First Amendment and health care.

Paterson is a 1966 graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, and received his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1969. In addition to the Board of Bar Overseers, he is also a member of the Maine State and American Bar Associations, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and is the Maine chair of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys. Paterson is listed in the "Best Lawyers of America" for his First Amendment practice.

Paterson serves on the board of directors of PCA Great Performances, and from 1993 to 1998 served on the board of the Tedford Shelter in Brunswick. He was president of the board of the Chocolate Church Arts Center from 1991 to 1993 and on the board from 1988 to 1994. In addition, Paterson was on the Freeport School Committee from 1982 to 1987 and on the Freeport Town Council from 1987 to 1990.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson is one of Northern New England's largest law firms with 60 attorneys in offices in Portland and Augusta. The firm provides legal services in all major subject areas, including corporate and commercial law, litigation and trials, municipal and governmental affairs, and tax and estate planning. BSSN also has an active practice in health law, environmental law, technology and e-commerce, employment law, legislative law, intellectual property, international law, public utilities and other regulated industries. For more information, log on to the firm's web site at www.mainelaw.com.

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