Press Release

MIAMI—Jones Walker is pleased to announce that Stephanie Reed Traband has been selected by the South Florida Legal Guide as a "Top Up and Comer" for 2010 in the area of Banking Litigation. The list recognizes "the next generation of leaders in the South Florida legal community" and includes attorneys who have generally been practicing for around 10 years. Honorees were nominated by their peers for inclusion in the list.

Ms. Traband is a special counsel in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group, with a decade of dispute resolution experience in areas including arbitration, bankruptcy, real estate, and international law. She also has significant appellate experience. Ms. Traband is the United States national representative in the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and serves as vice-president of AIJA's litigation commission.

Ms. Traband received her juris doctor degree in 1998 from Tulane University Law School. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she received her bachelor of arts degree in 1995.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P. (www.joneswalker.com) provides a comprehensive range of legal services to a national and international corporate client base through offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.

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