Robbins Umeda & Fink, LLP

            Mr. Umeda is Co-Founder and a Principal of the Firm. Mr. Umeda earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994 and his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1998 where he was a member of the San Diego Law Review. Mr. Umeda is licensed to practice law in the State of California, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California, the District of Colorado and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits.

            Mr. Umeda has practiced complex litigation throughout his legal career and devotes all of his time to the area of complex shareholder litigation, focusing on shareholder derivative actions and class actions. Mr. Umeda is the lead attorney responsible for the day-to-day management and prosecution of many complex shareholder derivative actions. Recently, Mr. Umeda led a team of lawyers in the prosecution of In re Cardinal Health Derivative Litigation, Case No. 02-CVG-11-639 in the Common Please Court of Delaware County, Ohio. After defeating numerous motions to dismiss and conducting extensive discovery, Mr. Umeda negotiated a resolution that provided for, inter alia, $70 million to be paid the company. This settlement is one of the largest of its type.

             Mr. Umeda has also prosecuted numerous other actions to resolution. For example, Mr. Umeda was one of the lead counsel in the In re Nicor, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Case No. 02 CH 15499, a shareholder derivative action in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. His efforts helped to secure $33 million for the company and were a meaningful factor in the personnel changes among the company's executive officers and Board members. In recognition of the hard work and significant benefits conferred during the litigation, the Honorable Sophia H. Hall, Presiding Judge for the court, stated "Thank you very much for the good work that you all did. And I think that your stockholders will appreciate it, too. Thank you very much." Mr. Umeda was also described as "an excellent lawyer" who is "trying to do the best possible job he can for [his client]" by the Honorable Mark R. Forcum of the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo.

                Mr. Umeda is also the only lawyer in America that has prevailed in a District Court on the issue of whether Sarbanes-Oxley Section 304 provides for a private right of action, enforceable by individual shareholders in a derivative action. This complicated legal issue is currently pending in various Circuit Courts and is a very important tool in making companies whole when their officers are engaged in misconduct that leads to a financial restatement.