Paul Hastings Honored With CIO 100 Award

August 18, 2005

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized by CIO magazine as a recipient of the 2005 CIO 100, Award. The firm was chosen to receive the award in recognition of its bold and innovative use of technology (IT).

"Paul Hastings is committed to the aggressive pursuit of technologies that allow us to provide clients with the highest level of service," said Stova Wong, Paul Hastings' CIO. "We are proud that CIO has recognized Paul Hastings industry leading use of technology which helps gives us a competitive advantage and creates an industry standard for other companies.”

To provide a vision of ever-changing business trends, the focus of the CIO 100 changes annually. This year, the 18th annual award has recognized Paul Hastings among 100 other executives and companies that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT) and that embrace great risk for the sake of great reward.

Recipients were selected through a three-step process. CIO magazine editors and writers reviewed over 300 company applications detailing their bold practices in both business and IT, looking for unique practices and substantial results. Teams met for a day-long meeting to debate the merits of each nominee and to vote on the final 100.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, founded in 1951, is an international law firm, representing Fortune 500 companies with more than 1,000 attorneys located in 17 offices: Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Stamford, Tokyo and Washington, DC.