RACHLIN DESIGN SERVICES WINS ANOTHER NATIONAL AWARD

MIAMI, FL—Rachlin Design Services, a division of Rachlin LLP, recently received an Association of Accounting Marketing-Marketing Achievement Awards in the greeting card category: one for a Thanksgiving card and another for a Valentine's Day card.

The award was presented at the Association for Accounting Marketing annual meeting on June 7. The Marketing Achievement Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the areas of accounting marketing, professional services and communications. Accounting firms across the United States and Canada competed.

"Once again, Rachlin Design Services is being recognized for their hard work and effort in producing marketing material for the firm that is of top quality and extremely unique," said Lawrence Blum, managing partner of Rachlin LLP.

Earlier this year, Rachlin Design Services won three 2007 American Inhouse Design Awards: one for a printed newsletter, one for an internal electronic newsletter and another for the aforementioned Thanksgiving card.

About Rachlin Design Services
Rachlin Design Services, a division of Rachlin LLP, was originally created to meet the demand for professional marketing services for clients of the firm. Through creative design and innovative thinking, Rachlin Design Services offers clients both within and outside the firm an effective, cost-efficient approach to promoting their products and services. The team consists of seven full-time employees and currently provides graphic design, branding, collateral, website design and online marketing services.

About Rachlin LLP
For more than 50 years, Rachlin LLP has offered traditional audit and tax services and a wide range of specialized business advisory service. The firm also offers two nontraditional services: staffing and design. Rachlin provides these services to public- and private-sector clients, including publicly traded companies, closely held businesses,governmental entities, local municipalities and not-for-profit organizations. Rachlin has more than 200 employees in three locations: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.

According to the recent Bowman Accounting Report, Rachlin is considered the fastest-growing audit firm and is ranked 33 out of the top 100 firms in the nation. Rachlin is also one of the largest public accounting firms in the Southeast. In addition, according to the Vault Guide to the Top Accounting Firms, the firm was voted by its peers as the 37th most prestigious accounting firm in the country—and the only Florida-based firm to make Vault’s top 40 list. Rachlin is the only firm to win South Florida Business Journal Key Partner Awards in three out of five accounting categories and the only accounting firm to have a charitable foundation. The firm’s managing partner, Lawrence Blum, was chosen as a 2007 Miami Ultimate CEO honoree.