December 4, 2021

Volume XI, Number 338

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Contributing authors from Ballard Spahr LLP:

Andrew Almand, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Real Estate and Finance Law Attorney
Andrew I. Almand concentrates his practice on real estate financing, including multifamily housing transactions financed conventionally and with tax-exempt bonds and loans, agency,...
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Joseph Anderson, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Atlanta, Intellectual Property Attorney
Joseph P. Anderson III is a member of the Mechanical Technologies (including Medical Device and Ornamental Design) Team in the firm's Patents Group. He has particular experience in advising...
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Richard J. Andreano, Jr. , Ballard Spahr Law Frim, Washington DC,  Business and Finance attorney, Mortgage Banking, Consumer Financial Services, Fair Lending
Richard J. Andreano, Jr., is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Mortgage Banking Group. He has devoted 30 years of practice to financial services, mortgage banking, and consumer finance...
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Wendy Angus-Anderson, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, business, finance, Consumer Financial Services, Attorney
Wendy Angus-Anderson is an associate in the Business and Finance Department and a member of the Consumer Financial Services Group. Her practice focuses on providing regulatory advice to...
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Nancy Anton Litigation Labor Employment Attorney
Nancy Anton has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on employment laws in the workplace. A strong and diversified client base—Nancy delivers sound, strategic and practical...
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Saba Ashraf, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Tax Law Attorney
Saba Ashraf is the Co-Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Tax Group. She advises clients worldwide on corporate and partnership taxation matters. Ms. Ashraf has managed the tax aspects of a...
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Katherine Atkinson, Employment, Litigator, Philadelphia, Ballard Spahr, Law Firm
Katherine J. Atkinson represents public and private employers in employment litigation involving claims under federal and state law. Her practice also focuses on counseling employers on a...
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David Axelrod Investigation Lawyer Philadelphia Ballard Spahr
David L. Axelrod is a former Supervisory Trial Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Philadelphia Regional Office and a former federal prosecutor. At the SEC, he...
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Pavitra Bacon, Ballard Spahr Washington DC office, consumer financial services, regulatory compliance  class action litigation, government enforcement matters attorney
Pavitra Bacon counsels providers of consumer financial services, including banks, on regulatory compliance matters, and has successfully represented such providers in class action...
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Chase Bales,Associate
Chase Bales is a litigator focusing his practice on media, constitutional, and election law. He represents media organizations and individuals in defamation, privacy, and First Amendment...
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Amy Bashore, Litigator, Employment Discrimination, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New Jersey
Amy L. Bashore represents employers in all aspects of employment law. Ms. Bashore regularly litigates employment discrimination claims, wage and hour lawsuits, common law claims, and...
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Kate A. Belinski Political and election lawyer Ballard Spahr
Kate Belinski practices political and election law with a focus on lobbying and public policy, campaign finance, government ethics, and matters involving administrative law. Kate's clients...
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Seth Berlin, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Media and Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney
Seth D. Berlin has represented clients in First Amendment, defamation, privacy, access, reporter’s privilege, copyright, and trademark disputes for more than 25 years. He has appeared on...
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Michael Berry, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Media and Entertainment Litigation Attorney
For more than 15 years, Michael Berry has represented news, entertainment, and other media clients in defamation and privacy suits, fought for the right of the press and public to access...
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Kimberly Betterton, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Baltimore, Tax Law Attorney
Kimberly C. Betterton focuses on federal tax laws and regulations involving tax-exempt bonds and exempt organizations. Ms. Betterton works on numerous types of tax-favored transactions,...
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Ethan Birnberg, Bankruptcy and Reorganization Lawyer Ballard Spahr
Ethan Birnberg represents clients across several industries, from middle market companies operating in the shale oil and energy industries, to RV park owners and luxury cruise tour...
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David J. Bodney, Partner, Ballard
David J. Bodney, a litigator focusing on media and constitutional law, is Co-Practice Leader of the firm's Media and Entertainment Law Group. David has defended print, broadcast, and...
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Jason Boren, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Salt Lake City, Labor and Employment Litigation Attorney
Jason D. Boren is an experienced litigator at both the trial and appellate levels. His litigation practice focuses on complex civil and business litigation disputes involving a wide variety...
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Sade Calin, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New Jersey, Litigation Attorney
Sadé Calin is a member of the Litigation Department. Her experience includes the handling of labor and employment disputes, including discrimination cases, and serving as a court-trained...
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Andrew "Buzz" Carobus litigation lawyer Ballard Spahr
Andrew "Buzz" Carobus is an attorney in the firm's Litigation Department who focuses his practice on matters pertaining to consumer financial services. Buzz regularly represents lenders and...
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Juliana Carter, Litigator, Civil, Criminal Disputes, Philadelphia, Ballard Spahr Law Firm
Juliana B. Carter is an associate in the Litigation Department. Ms. Carter has trial experience with a range of civil and criminal disputes. She has also defended clients in tort litigation...
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Brenda Ching, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Business, Finance, Labor and Employment Attorney
Brenda M. Ching has 15 years of experience advising clients on the design and operation of employer-sponsored programs including employee welfare benefit programs, retirement plans and...
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Louis Chodoff, Labor, Employment, Harassment, Discrimination, Ballard Spahr, Law FIrm
Louis L. Chodoff handles labor and employment law counseling and litigation associated with harassment, discrimination, wage and hour, whistleblower, wrongful discharge, and restrictive...
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Wendy Choi, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New York, Atlanta, Intellectual Property Attorney
Wendy A. Choi is a member of the biotechnology, chemical, pharmaceutical, and medical technology practice teams and Practice Leader of the firm's Patents Group. Ms. Choi focuses on complex...
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Michael Cianfichi, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Baltimore, Litigation Attorney
Michael P. Cianfichi litigates federal and state court matters across several practice areas, including housing, construction, employment, accessibility, real estate, and commercial law....
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Christopher Cognato, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Litigation Attorney
Christopher T. Cognato advises public and private employers on a range of labor and employment issues and represents them in litigation and administrative proceedings. His experience...
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Scott Coleman, Finance Attorney, Minneapolis, Mergers, Stock Transactions, Branch Purpose
For 25 years, Scott Coleman has represented banks and bank holding companies in connection with mergers, stock purchase transactions, branch purchase and assumption transactions, capital...
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Brendan Collins Manufacturing Attorney
Brendan K. Collins is Practice Leader of the firm's Manufacturing Group. He is an environmental lawyer who devotes his practice primarily to clients in the electric power sector and the oil...
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Andrew D'Aversa, Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia, Litigation White Collar Attorney
Andrew N. D'Aversa is an associate in the Litigation Department and was a summer associate with the firm in 2016. He focuses his practice on white collar defense. He has experience in...
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Emily J. Daher concentrates her practice on the representation of national, regional and local businesses in all aspects of labor and employment law. Her employment litigation experience...
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Tobey M. Daluz Ballard Spahr Partner
Tobey M. Daluz is a partner with Ballard Spahr LLP and handles corporate restructuring, workouts and general bankruptcy litigation. She represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors,...
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Kristin Daly-Barnes Corporate Attorney
Kristin D. Daly-Barnes is a corporate and transactional attorney who advises both publicly-traded and privately-held companies on mergers and acquisitions, entity formation, corporate...
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Meredith Dante, labor and employment lawyer, Ballard Spahr
Meredith S. Dante represents employers across industries including retail, consumer products, hospitality, financial services, technology, life sciences, health care, manufacturing, and...
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Gary Davenport Energy Resources Attorney
Gary Davenport focuses his practice on complex litigation in the commercial, oil, and gas, and securities fields. He has practiced for over forty years and has served as lead counsel in...
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Jeffrey R. Davine, Ballard Spahr, real estate lawyer
Jeffrey R. Davine focuses on federal and local taxation, tax planning, and estate planning issues, including pass-through entities, business transactions, real estate taxation, certain ...
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Franc Del Fosse Of Counsel Ballard Spahr Business and Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Capital Markets, Energy, Qualified Opportunity Zones, Project Finance
Franc Del Fosse has advised companies on transactional and business matters for nearly 20 years and has significant experience representing public and private companies in complex...
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Ashley E. DeLuca , Ballard Spahr, Real estate lawyer
Ashley E. DeLuca focuses her practice on all aspects of transactional real estate work, including the acquisition, disposition, and development of retail, industrial, office, multifamily,...
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DeMaree, Associate, BallardSpahr, Litigation, Commercial
Lindsay C. Demaree is an associate in the firm's Litigation Department focusing on consumer financial services litigation and commercial litigation involving real estate, insurance, and...
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Michael Fabius Gaming Attorney Ballard Spahr Philadelphia
Michael D. Fabius is an administrative law attorney with particular experience advising clients in the highly-regulated gaming and racing industries, and in litigating claims in front of...
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Fanaselle, Attorney, Real Estate, debt Collections
Daniel C. Fanaselle focuses his practice on consumer finance litigation, with particular experience in mortgage-related litigation. Mr. Fanaselle regularly represents lenders and servicers...
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Shannon Farmer, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Attorney
Shannon D. Farmer represents public and private employers in a broad range of labor and employment matters. She conducts collective bargaining negotiations and interest arbitrations,...
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Jessica Federico, attorney, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN
Jessica Federico is dedicated to providing advice to employers who are navigating the challenging and ever-changing landscape of employment law. She counsels employers on defense of...
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Leah Feinman, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Atlanta, Intellectual Property and Media Law Attorney
Leah W. Feinman represents clients in a wide range of areas involving intellectual property and media law, and prosecutes and defends cases involving trademark infringement, copyright...
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Kay Fitz-Patrick, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Los Angeles, Financial and Litigation Law Attorney
Kay Fitz-Patrick's practice focuses on consumer financial services litigation. Kay has experience with a range of consumer finance-related matters, including complex consumer class actions...
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Flo, Washington DC, Ballard Spahr
A client-focused litigator and enforcement attorney, with extensive experience in the financial-services, technology, and real estate industries. Theodore R. ("Teddy") Flo represents...
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Christopher Ford Cryptocurrency Blockchain Attorney
Chris Ford has led some of the country's largest and most innovative Fintech and payment systems transactions. Chris advises clients—among them Fortune 100 companies, merchants, and...
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David Fryman Litigation Labor Employment Attorney
David S. Fryman is a member of Ballard Spahr's Labor and Employment Group. David represents employers in all types of labor and employment matters, including labor arbitrations, employment...
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Mark Furletti, Partner, Ballard Spahr
Mark J. Furletti focuses on federal and state consumer lending and payments laws, including those that apply to payment cards, vehicle-secured loans, lines of credit, unsecured loans, and...
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Mara Gassman, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Media and Entertainment Litigation Attorney
Mara J. Gassmann’s practice focuses on litigating and counseling news, entertainment, and other media clients in a wide range of matters implicating their First Amendment and intellectual...
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Tiffany Gelott, Litigation lawyer, Ballard Spahr
Tiffany Gelott represents and advises clients in complex civil litigation as well as criminal and internal investigations for white collar, antitrust, and class action matters. She has...
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Juliana Gerrick, consumer finance law, finance associate, Ballard Spahr, Washington DC
Juliana Gerrick is an associate in the Business and Finance Department and a member of the Consumer Financial Services Group. Her practice focuses on providing regulatory advice to clients...
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Bradley Gershel, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New York, Securities and White Collar Litigation Attorney
Mr. Gershel's practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal and regulatory investigations, and complex civil litigation. He has represented corporate and individual clients in...
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Patrick R. Gillard Energy & Finance Attorney Ballard Spahr Law Firm
Patrick R. Gillard is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Energy and Project Finance Group. He represents corporate clients, underwriters, and lenders in connection with corporate and...
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Amy M Glassman, Washington, DC, real estate, housing, government assisted housing, Ballard Spahr, HUD, public housing authorities
Amy M. Glassman represents public housing authorities, developers, nonprofits, and other recipients of HUD funds in regulatory, administrative, transactional, and related matters. Ms....
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Norman Goldberger, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Corporate, Cybersecurity and Litigation Law Attorney
M. Norman Goldberger is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Securities Enforcement and Corporate Governance Litigation Group. Norman concentrates on complex commercial matters, including...
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Amber Gonzales Attorney Ballard Spahr Denver
Amber Gonzales, a former Ballard Spahr Summer Associate, worked in education before entering law school. As a program facilitator at a large urban high school in Dallas, she implemented a...
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Noah Goodman, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Attorney
Noah Goodman drafts federal court memoranda and position statements before administrative agencies. He also conducts research and advises employers on issues related to restrictive...
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Mary Cate Gordon, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New Jersey, Labor and Employment Litigation Attorney
Mary Cate Gordon represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Her employment litigation experience includes defending wage and hour, harassment, discrimination,...
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Paul D. Hallgren, Ballard Spahr, Corporate Lawyer
Paul D. Hallgren has experience in corporate and transactional matters, including securities law compliance and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the firm, Paul was a judicial...
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 Peter D. Hardy, Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia lawyer, White Collar Defense lawyer, Internal Investigations, Consumer Financial Services, Privacy and Data Security, Tax
Peter Hardy advises corporations and individuals in a range of industries against allegations of misconduct—including tax fraud, money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, mortgage fraud and...
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Paige A. Haughton Employment Lawyer Ballard Spahr Law Firm
Paige A. Haughton is an associate in the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. She advises corporate and nonprofit clients on employee benefit and executive...
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Thomas Havener, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Finance and Tax Law Attorney
Thomas G. Havener is a public finance tax attorney with 30 years of experience rendering legal opinions on the exemption of interest on governmental (and conduit) debt obligations from...
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Laura Heacock, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Finance, Labor and Employment Attorney
Laura P. Heacock focuses her practice on all areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She advises clients on issues relating to the design, administration, and taxation of...
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Jayne Mariotti Hebron, Ballard Spahr, real estate lawyer,
Jayne Mariotti Hebron is a member of the Public Finance Department. Her experiences include representing issuers, investors, developers, and trustees in Low Income Housing Tax Credit...
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Charles Henck, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Tax Law Attorney
Charles S. Henck counsels clients on the tax attributes related to a variety of capital infrastructure projects, including a range of tax credits, energy credits, and Treasury grants. Mr....
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Peter Hennesey, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Finance Law Attorney
Peter W. Hennessey is an experienced corporate and securities attorney who represents public and private companies, investment banks, and venture capital firms in a broad range of capital...
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Reid Herlihy, Consumer finance lawyer, Ballard Spahr
Reid F. Herlihy provides regulatory and transactional advice for clients on a range of issues involving state and federal consumer finance laws. Reid counsels mortgage companies, servicers...
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Shaina Hicks, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Employment Litigation Attorney
Shaina E. Hicks represents public and private employers in employment litigation involving claims under federal and state law. Her practice focuses on counseling employers on a wide range...
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Stefanie Jackman, Ballard Spahr law firm, Partner, financial services institutions lawyer
Stefanie H. Jackman devotes her practice to assisting financial services institutions facing government investigations and enforcement actions, as well as defending them in individual and...
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Stephanie Jackman, Ballard Spahr, Litigation attorney
Stefanie H. Jackman devotes her practice to assisting financial services institutions facing state and federal government investigations and examinations, counseling them on complex...
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Hara K. Jacobs Partner Ballard Spahr Philadelphia
Hara K. Jacobs is the Practice Leader of the Trademarks and Copyrights Groups. She is known for her work litigating intellectual property matters, including trademark, trade dress,...
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Peter Jaslow, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Corporate and Finance Law Attorney, Philadelphia
Peter Jaslow is a corporate and transactional attorney who advises publicly- and privately-held companies in corporate and commercial transactions. In particular, Peter represents companies...
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Timothy Jenkins Finance Attorney Ballard Spahr
Timothy Jenkins is nationally recognized for his work advising clients on all aspects of political law. He represents leading U.S. companies nationwide on federal, state, and local gift...
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Joanna Jiang, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Corporate and Finance Law Attorney, Washington DC
Joanna (Ying) Jiang works with investment companies and advisers, trust fund managers, brokers, hedge funds, and private equity funds in a variety of investment management matters. Joanna...
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Leslie John, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Antitrust Litigation Attorney
Leslie E. John is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Antitrust Group. Leslie concentrates on antitrust and complex litigation, and she has represented clients—many of them in the...
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Daniel Johns, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Attorney
Daniel V. Johns is the Leader of Ballard Spahr's Higher Education Group and is a member of the firm's Labor and Employment Group. Mr. Johns represents and advises employers and management...
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Steven Johnson, Ballard Spahr Law FIrm, Environment, Attorney
Steven Johnson is a litigator who focuses on environmental and land-use issues. He is the former Principal Counsel for the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Steve has...
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Christopher Jones Tax Attorney Ballard Spahr
Christopher A. Jones is a contract attorney who advises clients on a wide range of federal, state, and local tax matters. His practice includes advising clients regarding the tax...
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Odia Kagan, Attorney, Ballard Spahr law firm
Odia Kagan combines her in-depth knowledge of privacy and data security regulations and best practices with her keen understanding of emerging and information technologies, to provide...
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Joseph Kanefield Civil Law Lawyer Ballard
Joseph A. Kanefield is a litigator whose government-centric practice focuses on election and campaign finance law, constitutional law, civil and appellate litigation, government relations,...
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Robert Kaplan, Associate
Robert S. Kaplan advises corporate, nonprofit, and governmental employers on issues related to the design, drafting, implementation, and termination of retirement and health and wellness...
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Kaplinksy, partner, New York, finance
Alan S. Kaplinsky is Co-Practice Leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group, which has more than 115 lawyers. Mr. Kaplinsky devotes his practice exclusively to counseling...
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Anthony Kaye, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New York, Business Litigation Attorney
Anthony C. Kaye focuses on business litigation and complex civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Mr. Kaye has...
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Brian N. Kearney Litigation Lawyer Ballard Spahr Law Firm
Brian N. Kearney is an associate in the Litigation Department who assists corporate clients in white collar criminal and civil matters. His white collar practice includes providing advice...
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 Matthew E. Kelly Ballard Spahr Associate DC Litigation, Media and Entertainment Law
Matthew E. Kelley advises and represents media companies, journalists, filmmakers, bloggers, and other content creators in a wide range of legal issues. His experience in state and federal...
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Christopher Kelly, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Litigation Attorney
Christopher J. Kelly is an attorney in Ballard Spahr's Labor and Employment group. Chris has represented both public and private employers in a broad range of litigated matters, including...
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John Kerkorian, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Phoenix, Litigation Attorney
John G. Kerkorian is Managing Partner of the Phoenix office. He has wide-ranging civil litigation experience, with emphasis on disputes involving contract breaches, business torts,...
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Justin E. Kerner Ballard Spahr Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Appellate, Class Action Litigation, Environment and Natural Resources, Product Liability and Mass Tort
Justin Kerner is an associate in the Litigation Department. He handles complex commercial cases in state and federal courts, including class actions and single-plaintiff litigation...
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 Catherine M. LaGrange Ballard Spahr, Business and Transactions, Consumer Financial Services, Banking and Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Finance
Catherine LaGrange assists financial institutions and bank holding companies with mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, regulatory matters, and capital-raising transactions. She also...
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David Landau Retail Attorney
David H. Landau is the Practice Leader of the firm's Retail and Fashion Group. He represents clients both in the United States and abroad in industries including fashion and retail,...
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Paul Lantieri III, Partner
Paul Lantieri III counsels organizations and their leaders on avoiding or reducing litigation, regulatory, business, and public relations exposure. He defends companies and individuals in...
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Jason A. Leckerman Ballard Spahr Antitrust, Litigation, Product Liability and Mass Tort, Class Action Litigation, Health Care, Commercial Litigation, Loss Recovery
Jason A. Leckerman focuses on antitrust, product liability, and commercial litigation and regularly counsels clients on antitrust compliance and risk. In addition, he assists private and...
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Edward I. Leeds, Philadelphia attorney, Ballard Spahr Law firm, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensationattorney
Edward I. Leeds concentrates on issues relating to the design, administration, and taxation of health and other welfare benefit plans. His practice has evolved with the laws and market...
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Mark Levin, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Litigation Attorney
Mark J. Levin is known for his work in complex commercial, insurance, and class-action litigation, with particular experience in consumer finance litigation, the structuring and enforcement...
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Lee Levine, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Media Law Litigation Attorney
Lee Levine has represented media clients in libel, invasion of privacy, reporter’s privilege, access, copyright, and related First Amendment cases for more than 35 years. In the U.S....
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Jenna Loadman, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Media and Intellectual Property Attorney
Jenna M. Loadman concentrates her practice on trademark and copyright matters, including counseling, prosecution, enforcement, and portfolio management. Prior to joining Ballard, Ms....
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James Lockhart, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Minneapolis, Antitrust, Construction and Real Estate Litigation Attorney
Jim Lockhart represents businesses in complex litigation involving commercial disputes, real estate and construction, and antitrust cases. His trial practice experience in state and federal...
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Darin Lowder, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Finance, Energy and Real Estate Attorney
Darin Lowder focuses on energy, project finance, project development, and related tax and public financing tools. Darin has worked with lenders, utilities, energy project developers, tax...
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Adam D. Maarec, Ballard Spahr, finance lawyer
Adam D. Maarec is a member of the firm's Business and Finance Department and its Consumer Financial Services Group. He represents financial services companies of all sizes in complying with...
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Tyler Marandola Intellectual Property Lawyer Ballard Spahr
Tyler Marandola is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He prosecutes and defends cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, unfair competition, and...
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Vincent Marriot III, Attorney, Litigation, Ballard Spahr
Vincent J. Marriott III is Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Capital Recovery Group. Vince has lead teams of Ballard Spahr attorneys assisting in the...
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Sharon Marshall, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Employee Benefits Law Attorney
Sharon M. Marshall practices in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation law where she works with for-profit, tax-exempt, church, and governmental employers on a range of...
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Alejandro Rettig y Martinez Litigation Attorney
Alejandro Rettig y Martinez is an associate in the Litigation Department. While in law school, Alejandro served as a student attorney for the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, the only legal...
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Scott Marty, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Atlanta, Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney
Scott D. Marty focuses on various aspects of biotechnology patent prosecution and patent litigation, including Post-Grant Proceedings under the AIA. He is the leader of the Patent Group's...
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Edward McAndrew, Ballard Spahr, Philidelphia, Washington DC, Data Security, Privacy
Edward J. McAndrew is a counselor, investigator, and trial lawyer who helps clients navigate life in the digital world. He is the Co-Practice Leader of the firm's Privacy and Data Security...
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Amy McClain, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Baltimore, Real Estate and Tax Law Attorney
Amy M. McClain represents public housing authorities and affordable housing developers in the context of mixed-finance transactions. Amy closes affordable housing transactions involving a...
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Chantelle McClamb Associate Ballard Spahr
Chantelle McClamb concentrates on bankruptcy law and business reorganizations, including creditors' rights and preference defense. She represents creditors and assignees in actions filed in...
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Timothy McCormack, Partner
Timothy F. McCormack concentrates on commercial creditors in insolvency actions, particularly those involving distressed real estate, and on private-sector employment law on behalf of...
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Aileen Ng Associate Ballard Spahr Business and Transactions, Consumer Financial Services, Mortgage Banking
Aileen Ng researches, interprets, and applies federal and state laws relating to consumer financial services and mortgage banking. She advises non-depository and depository institutions on...
Emilie Ninan, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Delaware, Finance Law Attorney
Emilie R. Ninan is Chair of the firm's Public Finance Department and is a member of Ballard Spahr's Expanded Board. She oversees national strategy and administration for the firm’s Public...
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Katherine Noonan, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Real Estate Law Attorney
Katherine M. Noonan represents developers in mixed-use projects, including analyzing project structure and the drafting, negotiation, and recordation of condominium documents. Katie works...
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Mark Norell, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New York, Tax and Finance Law Attorney
Mark Norell has over two decades' experience in matters relating to public finance transactions. He has a broad range of experience on tax matters related to financings for numerous general...
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Ann Novachek Tax Attorney Ballard Spahr Minneapolis
Ann Novacheck represents established and emerging nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, providing practical legal counsel to private foundations, operating foundations, public charities,...
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Wendy Novotne, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Finance Law Attorney
Wendy T. Novotne handles a wide range of business and legal issues, including data protection and privacy, real estate, marketing, fair lending, and consumer financial matters. She...
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Mary M. O'Brien, Ballard Spahr, labor and employment lawyer
Mary O'Brien provides clients with strategic counsel and advice as they navigate through an ever-changing, always complex business environment. Her practical approach to business issues is...
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Olabisi Okubadejo, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Baltimore, Higher Education and Labor Employment Attorney
Olabisi "Bisi" Ladeji Okubadejo represents institutions of higher education and business entities in civil rights and employment matters, with a particular focus on matters arising from...
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Steve Park, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Atlanta, Business Immigration and Finance Law Attorney
Steve B. Park has experience in corporate, securities, and finance law with an emphasis on public and private offerings of securities, commercial lending transactions, mergers and...
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 Jean C. Hemphill, LAWYER at Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia, Health Care, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Exempt Organizations, Health Care Reform
Jean C. Hemphill is the Co-Leader of Ballard Spahr's Health Care Group. Ms. Hemphill has a general corporate and regulatory practice, specializing in health care, employee benefits, and...
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Roshni Patel, Attorney, Privacy, Data Security, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC
Roshni Patel advises clients on privacy and data security matters. She helps companies maintain compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, including the Fair Credit Reporting...
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Scott Pearson, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Los Angeles, Business Litigation Attorney
Scott Pearson focuses his practice on the defense of regulatory enforcement actions and class actions, other complex business litigation, and regulatory compliance counseling. Martindale-...
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Brain Pedrow, Ballard Spahr law firm, employment, labor, and employee benefit dispute lawyer
Brian D. Pedrow is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Labor and Employment Group. He represents employers and management in the full scope of matters related to employment, labor, and...
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Marjoree Peerce Litigator  Criminal Defense Ballard Law FIrm
Marjorie J. Peerce is a litigator, with a practice focus on white collar criminal defense, regulatory matters, and complex civil litigation. In her more than 30 years of practice, she has...
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Robert Penchina Intellectual Property Lawyer Ballard Spahr Law Firm
Robert Penchina concentrates his practice in intellectual property, media, sports, entertainment, and gambling law. He counsels news organizations, television networks, publishers, sports...
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Jenny Perkins, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Consumer Finance Litigation Attorney
Jenny N. Perkins regularly handles complex commercial litigation, with particular experience in consumer finance litigation and defending individual and class action lawsuits brought by...
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Kim Phan, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Business and Finance Law Attorney
Kim Phan writes and speaks frequently about privacy and data security issues for a variety of industries, including consumer financial services, retail, hospitality, higher education, and...
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Celeste Phillips has represented journalists for four decades, concentrating her practice in defamation, privacy, and related media litigation and counseling for daily newspapers, magazines...
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Bowen Ranney, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Finance Law Attorney
Bowen "Bo" Ranney is an associate in the Consumer Financial Services and Mortgage Banking Groups. Mr. Ranney helps clients implement compliance systems, and prepare for Consumer Financial...
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Sarah T Reise, civil litigation, consumer financial services, Ballard Spahr, Law FIrm, Atlanta, Georgia
Sarah T. Reise focuses on complex civil litigation in the area of consumer financial services. She represents clients in the financial services and mortgage banking industries in cases...
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Kristen Poetzel Ricci Privacy lawyer Ballard Spahr
Kristen Poetzel Ricci is an associate in the firm's Privacy and Data Security Group who concentrates on data privacy and cybersecurity matters, including breach response and investigation,...
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Maia Shanklin Roberts, Attorney, Ballard
Maia Shanklin Roberts represents housing authorities and private developers in a wide range of complex affordable housing development and real estate transactions. She has been involved in...
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Malia Rogers, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Denver, Finance Law Attorney
Malia K. Rogers is an associate in the firm's Public Finance Department. In addition to her focus in public finance, Malia has experience with privacy and cybersecurity matters. Before...
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Jeremy T Rosenblum, consumer financial services group, finance partner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ballard Spahr, UDAAP, TILA
Jeremy T. Rosenblum is Co-Practice Leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group. He has devoted the past 30 years in private practice to representing the consumer financial...
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Michele Rowland, Partner, Ballard Spahr
Michele J. Rowland is an experienced corporate attorney, having closed more than $1 billion in M&A and financing transactions in the last year. Michele represents large- and middle-...
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Priya Roy, Attorney, Ballard Spahr
Ms. Roy focuses her practice on white collar defense, regulatory compliance and complex civil litigation. She conducts internal investigations and advises and defends companies and...
Stacy H. Rubin represents financial institutions, creditors, and related entities on commercial litigation matters involving consumer finance, mortgage banking, bankruptcy, and real estate...
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Burt M. Rublin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ballard Spahr, litigation, appellate, antitrust, class action, consumer financial services
Burt M. Rublin is the Practice Leader of the firm's Appellate Group. Mr. Rublin has a diverse practice, and for more than 35 years, he has successfully handled numerous significant...
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Paul Safier, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Media and Litigation Law Attorney
Of Counsel
Paul J. Safier's practice focuses on representing news, entertainment, and other media clients in defamation, privacy, false advertising, copyright, and trademark lawsuits, as well as...
215-988-9146
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Jeremy Sairsingh, philadelphia office Ballard Spahr, business, lawyer
Associate
Jeremy C. Sairsingh is an associate in the Business and Finance Department and a member of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group. His practice focuses on providing regulatory advice...
215-864-8523
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Maya Salah, Associate
Associate
Maya Salah is a member of Ballard Spahr's Labor and Employment Group as well as its White Collar Defense/Internal Investigations practice. She advises national and international clients on...
612.371.3213
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Zaven Sargsian, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Salt Lake City, Real Estate, Commercial Litigation Attorney
Associate
Zaven A. Sargsian is an associate in the Commercial Litigation Group. Mr. Sargsian is a pro bono volunteer at the Street Law Clinic and Family Law Clinic. Judicial Externships Hon. David...
801-531-3036
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Marcos Sasso, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Los Angeles, Finance and Litigatio Law Attorney
Of Counsel
Marcos Sasso focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on the representation of financial services companies. Marcos advises large national banks, credit card issuers, and...
424-204-4324
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Linda Schakel, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Tax Law Attorney
Partner
Linda B. Schakel served as an attorney adviser in the Office of Tax Policy of the U.S. Treasury (May 1995 to August 1997) after practicing with Ballard Spahr for nine years. At the Treasury...
202-661-2228
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Jacquelyn Schell, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, New York, Media and Entertainment Litigation Attorney
Associate
Jacquelyn N. Schell is an associate in the firm's Litigation Department. She focuses on First Amendment litigation, representing media and non-media clients in matters including defamation...
646-346-8048
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David A. Schulz, Litigation, New York, Media & Entertainmnet
Senior Counsel
David A. Schulz has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 35 years, litigating libel, privacy, access, and newsgathering claims in 20 states. His regular...
212.850.6103
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From startup financing to public offerings, our Securities and Capital Markets Group advises private and public companies through all stages of development and capital-raising activities....
215-864-8625
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Elizabeth Seidlin-Bernstein, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney
Of Counsel
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Seidlin-Bernstein's practice focuses on defamation, privacy, and intellectual property counseling and litigation. She regularly provides prepublication and prebroadcast...
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Joel Tasca financial institutions lawyer,  consumer class action attorney Ballard Spahr
Joel E. Tasca has defended banks and other financial institutions in consumer class and individual actions for over twenty years. These cases have arisen out of residential mortgage loans,...
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Tanya Taylor Labor Employment Litigation Attorney
Tanya Taylor served as a law clerk to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she conducted legal research, attended Judiciary Committee hearings, and prepared...
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Anu Thomas, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Labor and Employment Litigation Attorney
Anu Susan Thomas is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. While in law school, Ms. Thomas was a summer associate at Ballard Spahr...
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Jere Thompson, Ballars Spahr, real estate lawyer
Jere G. Thompson focuses on affordable housing finance, with an emphasis on multifamily and single family tax-exempt private activity bonds, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) for...
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J. Matthew Thornton Cybersecurity Lawyer Ballard
J. Matthew Thornton is an associate in the Litigation Group and a former summer associate at the firm. Matt's practice focuses on commercial litigation, including individual actions and...
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Charles Tobin, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Entertainment Media Litigation Attorney
Charles D. Tobin is a litigator, former journalist, and the Co-Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Media and Entertainment Law Group. He defends the media in libel and privacy lawsuits in...
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Andrew Toftey, Financial Lawyer, Ballard Spahr
Andrew Toftey advises financial institutions, financial technology companies, merchant processors and other payment providers on legal and regulatory matters, including commercial and...
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Mary Treanor Lawyer Ballard Spahr
Mary Treanor focuses her practice on representing energy and commodity companies, financial institutions and trade associations in a variety of regulatory, compliance, litigation, and...
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Glen P. Trudel finance lawyer Ballard Spahr
Glen P. Trudel is a consumer financial services, banking, and business attorney who counsels financial institutions, marketplace lenders, "fintech" entities, and other companies on both...
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Vicky Tsilas, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Tax Law Attorney
Vicky Tsilas focuses on the tax aspects of tax-exempt and tax-credit bond transactions and issues related to tax exempt organizations. She represents nonprofit organizations as borrowers...
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Stacey Valerio, Of counsel
Stacey L. Valerio focuses her practice on the mortgage banking industry. Stacey has more than 20 years' experience, including nearly a decade at the State of Connecticut Department of...
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 Ronald M. Varnum Ballard Spahr Of Counsel Philadelphia Litigation, Climate Change and Sustainability, Environment and Natural Resources
Ronald M. Varnum assists clients in a variety of environmental litigation matters and provides counsel on regulatory and transactional matters. He has represented clients in litigation...
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Ronald Vaske, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Minneapolis, Finance Law Attorney
Ron Vaske focuses on matters involving banking, payment systems, and commercial transactions. He provides advice to banks, service providers, program managers and financial services...
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Shanellah Verna, Washington DC, Ballard Spahr, Real Estate Lawyer
Shanellah Verna is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Department, where she handles general real estate matters. She has experience with federal, state, and local housing laws as well as...
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Adam Wallwork, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Washington DC, Finance Law Attorney
Adam S. Wallwork is in the firm's Public Finance Department where he has acted as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, borrower's counsel, trustee's counsel, and counsel to banks providing...
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Neal Walters, Products Liability, New Jersey, Attorney, Lawyer, Ballard Spahr, Law Firm
Neal Walters is the Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Product Liability and Mass Tort Group, and a member of the firm's Manufacturing and Retail Industry Groups. Mr. Walters has a diverse...
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Kimberly Warshawsky, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Phoenix, Intellectual Property Attorney
Kimberly A. Warshawsky is the Practice Leader of the Trademarks and Copyrights Groups, and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Kim represents clients on transactional...
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Casey G Watkins, Product Liability Attorney, Class Action, Litigation, New Jersey, Ballard Spahr Law FIrm
Casey G. Watkins is an associate in the Litigation Department and Product Liability and Mass Tort Group. Mr. Watkins advises clients on complex regulatory and liability issues, class-action...
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Jessica Case Watt, Ballard Spahr, Deleware attorney, Commercial Litigation, Mortgage Banking, Securities Enforcement and Corporate Governance Litigation
Jessica Case Watt is an associate in the Litigation department. Ms. Watt practices complex commercial litigation, with experience in cases involving breach of contract, fraud, and disputes...
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Edward Wegerson, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Minneapolis, Corporate and Tax Law Attorney
Edward Wegerson is a leader in complex deferred compensation, stock based and executive compensation programs that incent managers of successful emerging and public companies. Ed provides...
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Harry Weiss, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Environmental Law Litigation Attorney
Harry Weiss is Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Environment and Natural Resources Group, and administers the group’s practice across the country. He provides an array of clients with...
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Alicia Went, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Tax Law Attorney
Alicia M. Went is an associate in Ballard Spahr's Tax Group. She advises clients on a wide range of tax issues, including the organization, operation, and reorganization of partnerships,...
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Jacob Westlund, Ballard Spahr, Business attorney
Jacob Westlund assists banks, bank holding companies, and financial institutions with a range of matters, including transactions, commercial lending, bank lifecycle developments, regulatory...
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John C Wheatley, Ballard Spahr, real estate, real estate financial transactions, lender counsel, affordable housing lenders, FHA, GSE, financing, tax credits, washington DC
John C. Wheatley represents banks and affordable housing lenders in real estate finance transactions. He acts as lender's counsel for complex multimillion-dollar multifamily new...
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Philip Yannella, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Data Security Attorney
As Co-Practice Leader of Ballard’s Privacy and Data Security Group, and Practice Leader of the firm’s E-Discovery and Data Management Group, Philip N. Yannella provides clients with 360-...
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Steven Zansberg, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Denver, Media and Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney
For more than two decades, Steven D. Zansberg has represented media companies, online publishers, and individuals in defending claims based on content, fighting subpoenas, and seeking...
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Alexander Ziccardi, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philaselphia, Media and Entertainment Litigation Attorney
Alexander I. Ziccardi represents journalists and other media clients in matters covering a wide variety of content-related issues, including defamation, right of publicity, reporter’s...
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Lindsey Zionts, Ballard Spahr Law Firm, Philadelphia, Litigation Intellectual Property Attorney
Lindsey Zionts is an associate in the Litigation Department. She advises clients on a number of commercial disputes, though her practice focuses mainly on media law and intellectual...
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