Nelson Mullins
Nelson Mullins is a diversified law firm of more than 800 attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals across 25 offices serving clients in more than 100 practice areas.
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Our litigators are trial lawyers, serving Fortune 200 clients, litigating high-stakes matters, and participating on national and virtual trial teams.
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Our corporate and transactional teams provide high quality corporate, securities, finance, venture capital, commercial real estate, real estate capital markets, and technology services.
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Our government relations team serves clients at the federal, state and local levels and includes former high-ranking government officials.
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Our intellectual property group has been recognized nationally for IP litigation and provides a full-range of IP services for clients across industry sectors.
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Our Nelson Mullins Encompass team is a dedicated practice group that provides integrated e-discovery and information governance services to clients on a flexible and scalable basis, serving as Enterprise E-Discovery Counsel for Fortune 200 clients and empowering focused and defensible strategies with law firm accountability
Together, we serve as trusted advisors to clients across a range of business sectors with client relationship fundamentals of quality, dependability, solution-oriented service and value.
Flexibility, practical business sense, and tireless advocacy are among Nelson Mullins’ service hallmarks. Our growth over the past 120 years continues to be client-focused.
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Matt practices in tax lien, escrow, lost property, and redemption law. He also works in the areas of appellate, business litigation, consumer financial services litigation, and employment...
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Weston co-chairs the Energy Industry Group and practices energy, environmental, and appellate law.
Experience
Acted as lead counsel in three avoided cost trials on solar energy pricing and...
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Kristin has been practicing law in Florida for over 20 years and focuses her practice on employment litigation and compliance and commercial litigation. She serves as counsel to a broad...
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Ashley practices in the areas of education law and insurance defense litigation. She represents and provides advice to large school districts in workers' compensation litigation, risk...
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Robert focuses his practice in the areas of commercial finance and real estate capital markets. Robert represents national CMBS lenders, commercial banks, and other fixed-income lenders in...
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Matt focuses his practice on healthcare and white-collar litigation, using his experience as both an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office, where he was cross–...
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Katherine Baker represents businesses and individuals in a wide variety of complex civil litigation and is a trusted advisor in the areas of gaming law, higher education law, and public...
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Romain Balard advises clients on a range of health care transactional and regulatory matters. He represents clients in corporate transactions, including but not limited to, complex...
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Chelsea focuses her practice in the area of healthcare law and has experience with a variety of matters in the healthcare space, including antitrust and certificate of need. She also has...
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David is a member of the Banking, Bankruptcy, & Creditor’s Rights group.
Previous Professional Experience
Legal Aid Justice Center; post-grad fellow (2013–2014), intern (2010–2013)...
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John focuses his practice on bankruptcy law and consumer financial litigation. He has experience representing both debtors and creditors in chapter 11 proceedings touching on a diverse set...
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Jody focuses his practice in the areas of banking, creditors' rights, and bankruptcy.
Jody represents banks in connection with regulatory and compliance issues, vendor relationships and...
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Kate focuses her practice primarily on civil litigation. Kate has represented clients in state and federal courts throughout the Northeast and has appeared pro hac vice in several other...
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Blake's practice primarily focuses on estate planning and asset protection planning for a wide array of affluent individuals and their businesses. He advises individuals owning family...
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Erika focuses on helping companies protect their businesses before, during, and after litigation, with experience in resolving business–to–business disputes through litigation, alternative...
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Cynthia works with families and individuals to create and execute plans that protect assets and plan for the future. Her practice focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration...
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George practices in the area of creditor bankruptcy law. He is a member of the South Carolina and Florida Bars, and he is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the Supreme Court of...
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Bret Cohen chairs the Labor and Employment Practice. His practice covers a range of industries in the drafting and enforcement of non-compete, confidentiality, and other employment-related...
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Dan's practice encompasses decades of experience working with educational institutions and their athletics departments.
Dan has counseled universities, colleges, medical institutions, and...
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Axton focuses his practice on products liability and business litigation.
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Hannah Levinson Cross focuses her practice in the area of healthcare law and has experience advising and counseling hospital systems, physician practice groups, pharmacies, and other...
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Sherry practices in the areas of education law, employment law, and general litigation. She has represented numerous school districts throughout Georgia, ranging from several large urban...
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Bart is a first–chair veteran trial lawyer and is past president for the National Association of Former United States Attorneys. His practice focuses on both complex commercial and white...
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Elizabeth advises a variety of entities with regulatory and compliance matters related to the consumer finance industry, including state and federal consumer protection laws, regulation and...
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Lianna Donovan practices in the areas of electronic discovery, records and information governance, cybersecurity and data privacy, and business litigation. Ms. Donovan has experience...
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Debbie practices in the areas of labor and employment law, ERISA, ADA compliance, trade secrets, and business litigation.
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Nate focuses his practice on various types of business transactions, as well as the U.S. federal income tax laws and consequences related to these business transactions, with special...
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John practices corporate law with an emphasis on early and growth-stage technology companies and venture capital investments. John also has experience in M&A transactions and company...
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Craig advises clients on reorganization and bankruptcy strategies. His client base includes national financial institutions, asset managers, portfolio managers, international shipping...
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Geoffrey has experience advising all types of employers on a variety of benefits matters, including design, implementation, and administration of employee benefit plans such as defined...
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Rusty represents traditional and non-traditional lenders in a variety of transactions, including syndicated and single-lender corporate and ABL credit facilities, CMBS loans, bridge loans,...
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Jack focuses his practice in the area of litigation.
Experience
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Gary is co-chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring, receiverships, complex business litigation,...
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Candace practices in the areas of healthcare, business litigation, and employment litigation. She has served as trial counsel in employment and healthcare related matters. Candace has...
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Franco focuses on representing companies and their principals in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, strategic investments, corporate restructuring, and...
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Mark focuses his practice on matters related to debt, real estate workout and commercial restructuring. During law school Mark served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Emory Bankruptcy...
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Jason is the Chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. Named as one of Washington, DC’s “Top 100 Lawyers” (2011–2013), Jason has more than 30 years of...
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Jahmy represents clients in cases that involve many industries and issues, including the automotive industry, healthcare, retail, technology, contract, warranty, tort, securities, false...
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Chip Gray is a member of the Corporate Group and focuses his practice on finance and taxation.
Mr. Gray has experience with the legal process, from drafting complaints, briefs, memoranda,...
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Neil heads the firm's financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice group, representing primarily financial institutions, fintech companies, and alternative financial services...
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Denise is managing partner of the Winston–Salem office and serves as one of two Chief Diversity Partners. She has more than two decades of experience representing clients in a variety of...
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Nina focuses her practice on education law, representing public and private educational entities, vendors, and professionals. She works directly with governing boards regarding effective...
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Wells Hall advises clients on the federal, state, and multi-state tax aspects of acquisitions, reorganizations, restructuring of business entities, and private equity transactions, and...
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Carrie is a seasoned healthcare law, biosciences, and antitrust attorney. In her healthcare law and biosciences practice, she assists healthcare systems, surgical centers, physician groups...
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Christopher assists clients in tackling their most sophisticated and high-stakes regulatory issues involving medical devices, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), clinical laboratories, human and...
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Lee focuses on restructuring, workouts, bankruptcy, and finance. Lee’s practice primarily includes the representation of lenders, finance companies, and national corporations in connection...
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Angela Hart-Edwards focuses her practice in all aspects of employment law with an emphasis on representation of employers in individual and class and collective litigation matters in state...
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Drew Hermiller practices with the tax and benefits group and has experience counseling clients on complex domestic and cross border transactional tax matters, including all manner of...
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A member of the Financial Services Corporate and Regulatory (FinCorpReg) practice group, Adele Hogan represents clients in mergers, securities offerings, restructuring/bankruptcies, and...
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Kelly is a member of the litigation group and has experience in litigation from intake to disposition, including a number of jury and bench trials.
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Maurice Holloway practices in the areas of corporate and business entity law, taxation, estate planning, and business law.
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Charles litigates commercial, employment, and labor issues, drafts employment agreements and restrictive covenants, and conducts training on preventing discrimination and harassment and...
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Ken practices in the areas of executive compensation, taxation, ERISA and employee benefits, and corporate law. He is certified by the Supreme Court of South Carolina as a tax specialist.
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Jessica is a member of the litigation team and concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, products liability, and employment matters. She has experience in all aspects...
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Stan practices in the areas of healthcare law, governmental relations and public policy, and administrative law.
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Jeffrey focuses his practice in the areas of complex litigation, emerging technology, and outside corporate counsel services. He advocates for companies and individuals faced with...
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Megan’s practice includes representing clients in commercial litigation and securities matters.
Previous Professional Experience
Summer associate and law clerk at Nelson Mullins (2018-2019...
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As a former professional chef, Nick serves his clients with the highest standards and a sense of hospitality. He uses his knowledge of his clients’ industries to provide solutions that...
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Laura serves as senior counsel in the education practice and focuses her practice in education law and policy, focusing on charter schools, special education, student rights, and employment...
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Richard is chair of the FinTech and Regulation Practice and was one of the first lawyers to focus on the regulation of blockchain and digital assets. He is considered a thought leader in...
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Joshua focuses his practice in the area of litigation.
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Matthew represents companies in high-stakes litigation with an emphasis on class action defense in the automotive and financial services industries, including the emerging crypto-currency...
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Rob focuses his practice on government investigations and white collar defense, high stakes business litigation and class action defense, and e-discovery and litigation readiness. He...
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Bob represents business entities and individuals in government enforcement, white collar criminal defense, and high-exposure civil litigation matters. A former federal prosecutor and...
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Mark has extensive experience in financial institution regulation, the acquisition and sale of financial institutions and other entities, formation of de novo community banks, and corporate...
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Graham focuses his practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights, consumer financial services litigation, and financial institutions.
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Brandon draws on his broad experience in education law to represent K-12 school districts, colleges and universities, private schools, charter schools, and education vendors. He focuses his...
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Ann practices in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She previously served as in–house benefits counsel for a publicly–traded company, so she is able to provide...
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Lauren practices in the areas of employment and labor, employee benefits, and executive compensation. She assists clients with all types of HR and benefits-related matters, including those...
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Craig Nazzaro advises a variety of entities on all regulatory and compliance issues that impact the financial services industry including banks, non-bank lenders, servicers, investors,...
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Brandon focuses his practice on advising businesses and individuals on complex issues, ranging from strategic and risk management advice, crises management, regulatory and internal...
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Daniel is an experienced litigator of complex commercial, securities, and construction matters in state and federal courts and before various arbitration forums.
Daniel represents both...
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Larry Ostema co-chairs the Energy Industry Group.
He has served as counsel in a range of domestic and international project and corporate financings and mergers and acquisitions in the...
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Konnor focuses her practice in the areas of corporate and healthcare law with an emphasis on healthcare compliance and operations.
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Lester Perling is a board-certified health law attorney and is certified in healthcare compliance. He has extensive experience in compliance, enforcement, and reimbursement matters. Mr....
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Don's areas of practice include business litigation, construction law, creditor’s rights and insolvency litigation, and consumer financial services litigation.
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Keith practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, consumer financial services litigation and financial institutions. He regularly represents committees of unsecured...
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Shane is a Vice Chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. He regularly represents committees of unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, secured creditors,...
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George focuses his practice on Georgia government relations, state and local administrative law and regulatory proceedings, and business litigation. Representing education, healthcare,...
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Alyssa focuses her practice on employment and labor matters, with experience in litigation. She has routinely counseled companies, including one in the Fortune 500, on RIF, OWBPA, and WARN...
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Carl Rosen’s practice primarily focuses on probate, asset protection, business planning, and estate and family “generational” planning for a wide array of affluent individuals and their...
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Samer concentrates his practice on corporate and financial regulatory matters. He advises depository institutions, bank holding companies, FinTech companies, and non-bank financial services...
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Paul’s practice focuses representing emerging and growth stage companies in corporate and financing matters, with a particular emphasis on venture capital and mergers and acquisitions...
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Brian focuses his practice on banking and financial services and advises banks, broker–dealers, financial tech companies and other investment companies on regulatory, compliance, and...
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Stuart Russell practices with the litigation group where he focuses his practice on commercial litigation, including matters before the North Carolina Business Court. He also handles...
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Brad chairs the firm’s Financial Services Regulatory Practice. His career began as a litigator focusing on consumer financial services litigation and defense of regulatory claims against...
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Brennan practices with the Financial Regulatory and Corporate team where he focuses in the areas of banking law and corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on corporate finance-...
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Partner Adam regularly represents companies and individuals before the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in investigations and compliance-related matters. His...
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Partner In addition to chairing the tax lien and litigation group at Nelson Mullins, his practice focuses on banking, financial services, business, taxation, and real estate matters. He routinely...
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Partner Cheryl is a transactional attorney who practices in both the public and private sector. She is experienced in a broad range of business transactions, including all areas of commercial real...
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Partner Rob's practice encompasses a variety of litigation matters, with an emphasis on litigation and counseling on federal and state labor and employment issues.
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Partner Scott practices in complex business and securities litigation. He represents public companies, directors, and officers in securities class actions and derivative lawsuits and represents...
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Partner Woojin Shin serves Korean companies primarily in the infrastructure, automotive, defense, and consumer goods industries. Mr. Shin regularly counsels Korean multinational companies on their...
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Associate Shaniqua represents clients on a broad range of employment, commercial, and business litigation matters. She is also experienced in pre-trial aspects of litigation including deposing...
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Legislative Consultant Helen is a legislative consultant and Georgia Registered Lobbyist. She is an advocate for various clients including healthcare providers, insurers, and child welfare providers. Helen tracks...
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Of Counsel Kathy focuses her practice on executive compensation, employee benefits, and ERISA law. She works with public and private companies and their employee benefits needs and has worked as in-...
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Partner Sue practices in executive compensation and employee benefits law. Sue has spent more than 25 years, including many years with a large international law firm based in New York, counseling...
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Greg primarily represents creditors in disputes with debtors arising from both commercial and consumer loans, leases, and other credit relationships. He also regularly represents...
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Frank's practice is devoted to a wide range of insolvency matters, including representation of corporate and consumer clients in complex workouts, bankruptcies, assignment for the benefit...
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Melanie focuses her practice on internal and governmental inquiries and investigations, high-stakes litigation, and risk counseling and assessments, focusing on the life sciences and...
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Dylan focuses his practice in bankruptcy and financial restructuring. He has experience representing Chapter 11 debtors, bankruptcy trustees, major creditors, and other parties in business...
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Kevin assists clients in matters related to financial regulatory, FinTech, corporate and securities issues. He gained experience at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., where he...
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Alexis “Lexi” Trumble is a member of the school & college law practice and focuses on a variety of aspects of litigation and education law, with an emphasis on the myriad areas of...
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John maintains a national practice focused primarily on business litigation and labor and employment law. He has experience litigating complex matters in state, federal, and MDL venues...
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Megan Ware-Fitzgerald is a member of the litigation team and focuses her practice on commercial litigation, financial services litigation and tax lien resolution.
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Suzann Wilcox focuses her practice on education law. Ms. Wilcox is committed to developing strong relationships with public school districts and educational professionals in order to assist...
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Matt represents healthcare organizations and providers of all types. He counsels clients on regulatory and compliance issues, including institutional compliance, fraud and abuse, HIPAA,...
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Solomon L. Wisenberg is a nationally renowned white-collar attorney who defends business executives, public officials, and everyday people in sensitive legal matters throughout the United...
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Kyla focuses her practice on assisting healthcare providers with healthcare regulatory compliance in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry and a variety of transactional matters,...
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Elaine Yap focuses her practice in the areas of product liability, including pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and e-discovery.
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Matt Zischke has experience advising all types of employers on a variety of benefits matters, including design, implementation, and administration of employee benefit plans such as defined...
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