News Release

Capehart Scatchard Named As A "Go To Law Firm" By Fortune 500 General Counsel

Mt. Laurel, NJ - - Norfolk Southern has selected Capehart Scatchard as a "Go To Law Firm®" in a recent survey of the Top 500 U.S. Companies by Corporate Counsel® magazine. Norfolk Southern named Capehart Scatchard as an outside law firm to which they turn to for assistance in the area of Litigation.

The survey, administered by American Lawyer Media, allowed Fortune 500 General Counsel to identify Go To Law Firms in seven different practice areas that include, Litigation, Corporate Transactions/Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property,
Labor & Employment, Canada, International and Securities.

Capehart Scatchard's Transportation Group has been providing comprehensive legal services to management at all levels of Class I, Class II and Short Line railroads across the United States and in Canada. The Group represents railroads in the areas of real estate, environmental and commercial issues, railroad safety regulations, safety performance standards, prosecution of loss and damage claims and highway-rail grade crossing safety issues.

The Transportation Group is headed by veteran railroad counsel, John K. Fiorilla, and includes attorneys Peter Bejsiuk, Betsy Ramos, Mary Ellen Schetter, Robert Muccilli, Alan Fox, Carol Jennings, LaTonya Bland, and Michelle Corea, with paralegals Patricia Beringer and Beverly Bogdan.

Mr. Fiorilla, a Cinnaminson resident, focuses his practice in the railroad industry. For more than twenty five years he has been helping to create and present railroad management policy and positions with diversified management and litigation experience as both in-house counsel and local counsel for Class I, Class II, and Short Line Railroads. He has specific experience in presenting finance, real estate, operations, engineering, government affairs, and customer service positions.

Among his professional activities, Mr. Fiorilla is a member of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel; the American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association; the Association of Transportation Professionals; the Conference of Freight Counsel; the American and New Jersey State (Federal Practice and Procedure Section) Bar Associations.