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07/22/04 3:24 PM

#75821 RE: Corp_Buyer #75779

Corp_Buyer: Couldn't find too much on Lois Abraham. She is a retired lawyer, who now lives in New Mexico and works as an arbitrator. She also is involved in social reform work. Here are a couple of snips.

<<Clients also helped Lois Abraham, one of the first women to handle IP litigation in Silicon Valley, get her first technology case in 1975 representing IBM Corp. in antitrust litigation with the Justice Department.


"IBM was willing to teach lawyers like myself who were not engineers about computer products and how they worked," said Abraham, who retired from Phoenix-based Brown & Bain in the mid-1990s and now serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.>>


<<What Roberts didn't know when she sent out that first letter was that over 850 miles away, in Taos, New Mexico, another committed reformer was initiating her own grassroots campaign. Lois Abraham, a lawyer, mediator and arbitrator, was busily e-mailing friends and contacts, urging them to help fill the $34 million hole that the Bush Administration created. "In the context of our national budget, the context of our military budget, it's a rounding error. But in the context of the suffering of this human family, it's enormous," Abraham says.>>