LOS ANGELES, August 23, 2007 - Miller Barondess, LLP announced today that Dr. Robert H. Freilich, one of the nation's leading experts in real estate, land use, environmental, state and local government law practice and related litigation, has joined the firm as a partner to augment its expanding real estate practice.

Dr. Freilich is a highly respected trial lawyer who has tried over 160 cases and argued more than 100 appeals throughout the country, including several before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is a specialist in entitling major development including new towns and master-planned communities, redevelopment and infill, historic preservation, zoning, subdivision, public/private joint development, financing of infrastructure, affordable housing, environmental and sustainable land use, and all related litigation including eminent domain and inverse condemnation.

"I am very excited that Bob Freilich is joining us," said Miller Barondess partner Louis R. (Skip) Miller. "He has major clients all over the country and in California, and he will be an integral part of our legal team. I and other attorneys on our staff look forward to working with him and learning from him."

Mr. Miller added, "Approximately 25% of our practice involves complex high-end real estate and land-use litigation, and Bob is a natural fit and extension of this."

Dr. Freilich said, "Miller Barondess will add an enormous dimension to my public and private litigation practice, including CEQA, eminent domain and land use constitutional cases. The firm will have the resources to handle the simplest to the most complex trials."

During his career, Dr. Freilich has developed and implemented land-use plans and smart growth sustainable systems, and defended them in court, for more than 250 cities, counties and states from San Diego to Boston and from Seattle/Tacoma to the Florida Keys. His current and immediate past projects include new towns in Barstow, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico; redevelopment of Alameda and El Toro Naval Air Stations in California; development of the master-planned communities of Centennial and Calimesa in Southern California; and realignment of the right of way for the California High Speed Rail Authority. He is a member of the California, Florida, Missouri, New York and Texas bars.

He holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and earned M.I.A, LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Chicago. He was the Hulen Professor of Law in Urban Affairs at the University of Missouri, and he has served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Miami School of Law.

Dr. Freilich is the national editor of the Urban Lawyer, the national journal of the American Bar Association on state and local government law and is past Chair of the Planning and Law division of the American Planning Association. His recent books include: the 21st Century Land Development Code (American Planning Association, 2007); Cases and Materials on Land Use (West, 4th ed. 2004); and From Sprawl to Smart Growth (American Bar Association, 1999).