ADMITTED TO

PRACTICE

Illinois Bar

Florida Bar

California Bar

Ninth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Florida, and Western District ofMichigan

                   1977

                   1978

                   1989

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (formerly West Coast Offices of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP)

San Francisco, California

Partner

Representing indiviuals and instirutions in securities fraud and consumer class actions.

June 1994 -

              February 15, 2007

Law Offices of Reed R. Kathrein

San Francisco, California

Litigation of securities fraud and consumer class actions.

       April 1994 -

          June 1994

Gold & Bennett, A Professional Law Corporation,

San Francisco, California

Senior Attorney

Litigation of securities fraud and consumer class actions.

          1988-1994

Arnstein, Gluck, Lehr & Milligan

Chicago, Illinois

Partner

Associate

Representation of local, national and international corporations, such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Whirlpool Corporation, Navistar International Transportation Corp., and DeSoto Corporation. Practice included civil litigation, international legal matters, shareholder derivative actions, trade regulation, commercial and consumer law, antitrust law, sales contracts, non-competition agreements, RICO, government acquisition regulations, ERISA, products liability, foreclosures, medical malpractice, labor and employment law, trademark infringement.

          1985-1988

          1979-1985

W. Yale Matheson and Associates

Chicago, Illinois

Law firm specializing in class action, antitrust, franchise and entertainment law.

          1977-1979

           EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Miami, Florida

Juris Doctorate

Editor-in-Chief,University of Miami Inter-American Law Review; Director,Regional Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition; President, International Law Society;

Moot Court Board; Omicon Delta Kappa

                   1977

B.S. in Economics and Politics of Latin America

Cum Laude, Phi Kappa Phi (National Scholastic Fraternity); Delta Theta Mu (Scholastic Fraternity); Order of Omega (Leadership Fraternity); President, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Social Fraternity); Justice, Student Government Supreme Court

                   1974

PROFESSIONAL

ACTIVITIES

Board of Governors, Consumer Attorneys ofCalifornia.              (1998B2003) Legislative Committee.

Executive Committee, National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys.  (1991B2003) Assist on legislative issues involving securities and class action practice.

Member, American Bar Association,San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, California Bar Association, American Business Trial Lawyers Association (Current).

Chairman, Private International Law Committee, Section on International Law and Practice, American Bar Association (1984-1988).  DevelopedABA positions, coordinated lobbying efforts and created educational programs relating to private international law conventions (e.g., U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods).  Established and directed numerous subcommittees on private international law efforts in such areas as financial transactions, sales, transportation and bankruptcy.

Advisor, U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law (1984-1989).

Chairman, International and Foreign Law Committee, Chicago Bar Association (1983-1984).

Governing Council Member, International and Immigration Law Section, Illinois State Bar Association (1986-1988).

International Business Council Mid-America.  Board of Directors (1983-1988); Vice-President (1987-1988); Secretary (1985-1987); Vice-Chair, Policy and Legislative Action Committee (1982-1986).  Authored policy papers on the Export Administration Action; Taxation under the Foreign Sales Corporation Act; Taxation of Worldwide Income Under the Unitary Tax; Value Added Taxes and the GATT.  Directed research project on increasing Illinois share of AID funded agricultural exports.

Co-Chair, Securities Rules Working Committee, United States District Court, Northern District of California. Working with Court on revising local rules as they apply to securities fraud class actions and other case. 2004-2005

LECTURES

Frequent speaker on complex litigation, class actions, securities and consumer laws.  ABA, CAOC, ABTLA, Mealy's.

PUBLICATIONS

Class Actions In Year 2000 Defective Software and Hardware Litigation, 18 U.Tex.Rev.Litg. 487 (1999).

R. Kathrein & D. Magraw, THE CONVENTION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS: A HANDBOOK OF BASIC MATERIALS (ABA Chicago, 1987)

Criminal Enforcement of the Export Administration Act, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, (ABA/PLI, V. Nanda and C. Bassiouni eds. 1987)

International Update, International Business Council Mid-America, 1982-1988 (Newsletter on federal laws and regulations affecting international business)

Book Review, International Judicial Assistance, 20 Int'l Law. 1413 (1986)

Book Review, Hague Conference Handbooks, 19 Int'l Law. 1049 (1985)

Report, Latin America Economic Integration, 8 Law Am. 150 (1976)

TESTIMONY

Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  In support of advice and consent to the Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Child Abduction Treaty, and the Latin American Evidence and Service of Process Conventions.  (1986)

California Law Revision Commission.  In opposition to changes to Business Judgement Rule.  (1997-98)

California Legislative.  In opposition to Year 2000 and Unfair Trade Practices Legislation (1999-2001)

Advisory Committee on Civil Rules.  Panelist/Participant in Conference of Discovery Subcommittee on Discovery of Computerized Information.  (March 2000).