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Dominica C. Anderson

Dominica C. Anderson, managing partner of Duane Morris' Las Vegas office, practices in both the firm's Las Vegas and San Francisco offices. She also is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Anderson has over 30 years of experience in high stakes commercial litigation, including representing insurance companies in complex insurance coverage cases, CGL and D&O throughout the U.S., and works with numerous clients to resolve issues abroad. Most recently, Ms. Anderson founded the firm’s COVID-19 working group and focuses a significant amount of time on COVID-19 related legal issues, including risk management advice. She often represents businesses in complex contract disputes; unfair competition; business interference; false advertising; securities; antitrust; defamation; e-commerce and intellectual property issues. She began her legal career doing direct defense of personal injury suits.

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Dana Ash

Dana J. Ash is Co-Chair of the Products Liability and Toxic Torts Division of Duane Morris' Trial Practice Group and serves as a Team Lead for the Duane Morris Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Industry Group. Mr. Ash practices in the areas of products liability and business litigation and has conducted trials in state and federal courts across the United States. In addition to numerous court trials, Mr. Ash has handled mediations and litigated arbitration claims through the American Arbitration Association. He represents medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors nationally in products liability matters, and in commercial disputes with suppliers and customers. Mr. Ash has served as lead trial counsel and lead national coordinating counsel for clients in consolidated products liability claims involving medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including human tissue products and other biologics, in both federal (multidistrict litigation ("MDL")) and state court venues. Mr. Ash also employs his medicolegal experience defending physicians, hospitals and health maintenance organizations in medical malpractice and other licensing claims. Mr. Ash also represents transportation companies in claims involving catastrophic injuries with complex medical issues, and in claims involving products liability theories. Mr. Ash also handles matters involving complex commercial disputes (including asset purchase agreement and partnership agreement disputes) and other business-related disputes.

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Courtney Baird

Courtney L. Baird is co-chair of the Commercial Litigation Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group and a member of the Firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Baird serves as outside counsel to businesses handling prosecution and defense of litigation and compliance and risk management issues. She has extensive experience in complex litigation, including defense of class actions, consumer claims (Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Competition and False Advertising Law), business to business disputes, trade secret misappropriation, anti-SLAPP, products liability, contract and tort. Her strategic approach, substantive experience and ability to cost-effectively optimize her clients' business and legal objectives has led to her representation of companies across the United States and internationally.

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Maxine Bayley

Maxine D. Bayley practices in the area of immigration law, representing clients in matters involving the employment of foreign nationals in a variety of industries, as well as individual matters including family-based permanent residence and naturalization. She has in-depth experience representing individual and corporate clients with regard to H, L, O, E-3, and TN non-immigrant matters, as well as EB-1 immigrant visas. She also represents clients in complex immigration cases, including immigrant and non-immigrant waivers of inadmissibility, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions, consular processing and immigration ramifications of criminal charges. She also has experience with asylum and federal court litigation pertaining to immigration matters. She is a frequently featured speaker at national, state and local conferences.

Neville Bilimoria

Neville M. Bilimoria is managing partner of Duane Morris' Chicago office. He is a Chambers USA ranked healthcare law partner with Duane Morris LLP’s Health Law Practice Group and the Cannabis Law Industry Group. Mr. Bilimoria advises health care clients on corporate and litigation matters and counsels hospitals, health systems, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, physicians, physician groups, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies on a variety of issues, including health care corporate transactions, healthcare fraud and abuse, compliance issues, telemedicine and telehealth, HIPAA and state health privacy law issues, regulatory compliance, and resulting litigation. Mr. Bilimoria is the chair of Duane Morris’ Physician Services Group nationally and the Telehealth Group nationally. Mr. Bilimoria is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2019-2024 editions. Mr. Bilimoria's corporate work includes representation of clients in transactions for the purchase and sale of healthcare facilities, health clinics and physician practices, as well as counseling on various healthcare contracting issues. He has represented healthcare providers in administrative law matters and disciplinary actions. He has counseled pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies on state and federal regulatory issues. Mr. Bilimoria is a member of the firm’s multidisciplinary AI group, advising clients on emerging technologies.

Pierre Bonnefil

Pierre Georges Bonnefil has extensive experience representing companies in a wide range of immigration matters. He represents private and publicly held organizations in a variety of areas, with significant involvement in the online commerce, manufacturing, technology, finance, retail and fashion industries. Mr. Bonnefil represents clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, various offices of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice and before local departments of labor. He currently acts as Immigration Counsel for the French Consulate General in New York and has served as an Attorney General Honors Attorney with the USCIS.

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Katherine Brodie

Katherine D. Brodie leads the Washington, D.C., team of the firm’s national education law and policy practice and serves as a Team Lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. She is one of a small number of attorneys in the United States with a daily practice devoted primarily to the needs of educational institutions (nonprofit, public and proprietary), education associations, education companies and investors in education. She has a strong interest in supporting mission-driven educational institutions and their partners to effectively lead and adapt to the rapid pace of change in the U.S. education sector while maintaining high quality educational services as measured in cost, accessibility and student outcomes. Ms. Brodie’s experience includes, among other areas of the law, those laws and regulations that directly impact educational institutions, including U.S. Department of Education regulations (Title IV student financial aid); Title IX compliance and response; Clery Act/campus safety; privacy and data security; accrediting agency standards including substantive change (ownership and governance, program, location and other changes); state licensing and authorization; admissions and marketing; online and hybrid education; foreign school and overseas operations including study abroad programs; OPM and partnership agreements; income share agreements; and skills-based, non-degree short term programs. Her advice also includes compliance with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), U.S. Department of Veterans (VA)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) education benefits, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) participation and funding, state education grant programs, and other federal and state regulations and programs relevant to institutional operations. Because the needs of institutions are so diverse, she is often aided in her work by subject matter professionals in the firm’s other disciplines including tax, employment, real estate, immigration, corporate and trial. She is a frequent speaker and writer on higher education topics and trends and,

Sharon Caffrey

Sharon Caffrey, a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, focuses her practice on products liability and toxic tort cases. She is sought after to try large exposure cases in the most difficult jurisdictions, often referred to as “judicial hellholes.” Ms. Caffrey has a distinguished record of success at trial; of the past ten cases she has tried, she obtained eight defense verdicts and two low-value verdicts. She has tried dozens of mass tort, toxic tort, health effects and medical negligence cases, the vast majority to defense verdicts. In 2024 she obtained a defense verdict in an alleged cancer arising from exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO). Ms. Caffrey is also able to leverage her deep experience to serve as national coordinating counsel for clients looking to guide the management of voluminous litigation consistent with their legal and business priorities. Ms. Caffrey's background includes defending pharmaceutical, medical device and biologics, automotive and industrial equipment products liability claims, as well as toxic tort claims involving EtO, diesel exhaust, PAHs, pesticides, asbestos, talc, microsilica, silica and benzene. She has also represented several clients in MDL proceedings and clients in a variety of industries in product defect claims. As a result, Ms. Caffrey has a deep understanding of defending a wide array of machinery, tools, equipment and related applications, as well as hazardous exposure claims. Her automotive experience includes investigating failures of electric powered vehicles and other equipment, such as gantries and forklifts. Ms. Caffrey also represents two Class I railroads in their Pennsylvania-area litigation, ranging from complex preemption issues and the defense of significant third-party personal injury claims. A testament to her tenacity and results, Ms. Caffrey was twice presented with an "Excellence in Trial Advocacy" award by CSX Transportation, Inc., is a fellow in the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, and has been twice listed in Chambers USA in the category of Product Liability and Mass Torts – Nationwide.

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John C. (Clint) Callan, Jr. advises clients on real estate transactions and land use matters for commercial, residential, retail and industrial projects. He focuses on land acquisition, disposition and development, along with the purchase, sale, finance and exchange of investment properties. In addition, Mr. Callan represents clients in matters related to commercial, office, retail and ground lease developments. His scope of services include representing educational institutions and nonprofits in their real estate concerns; and leasing, title and loan review for shopping centers in California and Nevada. Mr. Callan has represented clients in the purchase and sale of farmland, vineyards and wineries, and has counseled ranchland owners concerning easement and boundary disputes. He also provides advice on loan workouts involving distressed real estate assets; San Francisco Bay Area land use matters; entitling and selling transferable development rights; easement, boundary and encroachment disputes; pre-construction matters involving contracts; and shoring and excavation issues.

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Mark Canizio

Mark A. Canizio practices in the area of construction and commercial litigation. Mr. Canizio has litigated numerous complex construction cases involving multimillion-dollar disputes. He has extensive experience in both large scale trials and arbitrations and the use of cutting-edge computer technology to organize and manage documents and testimony and present evidence in the courtroom. He has also successfully employed jury consultants and conducted mock trials to help clients assess the reaction of potential jurors to their cases. In the course of his career, Mr. Canizio has litigated numerous cases resulting in reported decisions and has served some of the industry's largest construction clients.

Cyndie Chang

Cyndie M. Chang is the Managing Partner of the firm's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Chang manages risks and resolves complex business challenges. She advises and partners with clients to defend and litigate their commercial disputes, enforce their rights, and mitigate potential exposure. She has extensive experience handling corporate litigation involving mergers & acquisitions, asset or stock sales, fraud, securities, purchase and sale agreements, and business or partner break-ups. In addition, she has handled complex or class action disputes involving contracts, trademarks, licensing, products liability, product safety and recall, construction defect, trade secrets, California Proposition 65, and real estate. She also defends insurance companies in matters concerning environmental, asbestos, and toxic tort claims, as well as commercial general liability insurance coverage, contribution, bad faith, and reinsurance disputes. Her services have spanned various industries, including manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, healthcare, insurance, cannabis, education, energy, utilities, transportation, auto, telecommunications, financial services and banks. Ms. Chang has represented many public and private businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. She has obtained favorable results serving as first chair in state and federal bench trials, jury trials and arbitration, and has led joint defense groups in complex cases, and resolved cases through creative settlements, confidential proceedings, and dispositive motions.

Ted Chiappari

Ted J. Chiappari is the head of the firm's Immigration Law Group. He represents companies seeking to acquire temporary work permits or permanent resident status for their foreign employees, and also represents individuals on maintenance of U.S. resident status while abroad and on citizenship matters, including dual citizenship and loss of citizenship. He also advises on tax aspects of international transfer of personnel.

Marcus O. Colabianchi

Marcus O. Colabianchi practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and real estate law in the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Duane Morris. He also serves on the firm's Professional Standards Committee, which, among other tasks, evaluates and presents candidates for elevation to partnership. Mr. Colabianchi's bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice includes representing secured and unsecured creditors, financial institutions, business debtors, chapter 7 and chapter 11 trustees, committees, leasing companies, and receivers in all facets of corporate bankruptcy cases and litigation. He handles a variety of complex litigation, workout, restructuring and insolvency matters for lenders and special servicers for REMIC trusts involving Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loans. Mr. Colabianchi also serves as oversight counsel for special servicers in bankruptcy cases in multiple jurisdictions and states. Mr. Colabianchi's real estate practice includes representation of commercial developers, owners, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in all aspects of disputes concerning commercial properties. His practice includes resolving disputes involving complex commercial lease defaults, breaches of guaranties, mortgage fraud, real estate secured transaction issues, lender liability issues, easements, eminent domain issues and other real estate-related issues.

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Edward Cramp

Edward M. Cramp represents institutions of higher education around the United States in accreditation, regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. He is a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. He also serves as the managing partner of the firm’s San Diego office. Mr. Cramp is active in the higher education community. He regularly speaks at conferences and events throughout the country on a variety of issues. Mr. Cramp also teaches higher education law and compliance as an adjunct faculty member at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and College of Education. Mr. Cramp served as a judge advocate in the United States Navy, where he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. During his time in the naval service, he defended numerous matters before courts-martial and administrative boards. He also represented the interests of the United States in claims brought against and on behalf of the Navy.

Stephen DiBonaventura

Stephen DiBonaventura is chair of the firm's Tax Practice Group and practices in the area of federal and corporate taxation, with a concentration in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, corporate restructurings and consolidated returns. He has extensive experience in structuring acquisitions, mergers, and spin-off transactions for large public corporations, as well as closely held businesses and subchapter S corporations. He also has extensive experience in the restructuring of financially troubled businesses.

Kirk Domescik

G. Kirk Domescik is the managing partner of the firm's Atlanta office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of healthcare and corporate law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, company organization and governance, including preparation of operating agreements and shareholder agreements, general corporate counseling and other transactional matters. Mr. Domescik has particular experience in healthcare transactions, having advised on multiple acquisitions and dispositions involving various healthcare providers, including hospitals and physician practice groups. Mr. Domescik also has substantial experience assisting owners and operators of long-term care communities on federal and state regulatory and licensing matters in connection with multi-state acquisitions. He also frequently advises privately-held companies on corporate governance matters. Mr. Domescik also has substantial experience in advising physician practice groups and other healthcare providers on operational issues affecting their businesses and a variety of healthcare transactional and regulatory matters.

Erin Duffy

Erin M. Duffy is chair of the Duane Morris Health Law Practice Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Duffy concentrates her practice on corporate healthcare regulatory matters. She advises clients, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, medical practices, pharmacies, long-term care facilities and developmental disabilities facilities, on a wide range of issues, including fraud and abuse, privacy, medical staff relations, EMTALA, self-referral, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, and certificate of need and licensure issues. Ms. Duffy has worked extensively with healthcare providers on corporate transactions and administrative agency matters.

Joel Ephross

Joel N. Ephross, P.C. practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and energy. He has structured debt transactions, including project finance; real estate lending; leveraged and non-leveraged lease financings; structured finance; asset securitization; bankruptcies and reorganizations; letters of credit; and credit enhanced transactions. He has worked in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leases, acquisitions and divestitures, mortgages and easements. Mr. Ephross has substantial experience in all aspects of energy and natural resources, including transactions involving mining, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas assets; merchant electric generation facilities; and energy commodity trading, and include acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint venture arrangements, structured finance, leveraged finance, project development and project finance. He has experience in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including advising buyers and sellers on CFIUS-related issues.

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Anthony Fitzpatrick

Gina Foran

Gina Foran is a Senior Associate practicing in the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She has nearly a decade of experience handling complex, high-stakes commercial litigation, with a primary focus on insurance coverage and bad faith matters. Ms. Foran represents domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes involving environmental liability, toxic torts, personal injury, and product liability claims. Her practice includes providing strategic coverage analysis and opinions, advising on claims handling and risk exposure, and litigating coverage and extra-contractual disputes in state and federal courts across the country. In addition to her insurance practice, Ms. Foran has experience in bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation, including asbestos and mass tort bankruptcies and state receivership proceedings involving complex claims administration and insurance recovery issues.

Michael Fox

Michael L. Fox is managing partner of Duane Morris' San Francisco office and co-chair of the Products Liability and Toxic Torts Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group. Mr. Fox represents energy producers, chemical and equipment manufacturers, construction and pharmaceutical companies, and public entities in toxic tort, environmental release, general liability and serious personal injury matters. He has extensive experience litigating complex, multiparty disputes involving alleged exposure to airborne and groundwater contaminants, as well as commercial disputes involving anti-trust claims, trade secrets, corporate governance, and insurance.

Tracy Gallegos

Tracy A. Gallegos serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Cannabis industry group. Tracy has a multifaceted corporate and real estate practice that focuses on the cannabis, consumer packaged goods/services, and hospitality industries. Her clients, from startups to established businesses, include retail shopping centers, restaurants, online retailers and both plant-touching and ancillary cannabis companies in both California and Nevada. Tracy's corporate practice focuses heavily on mergers and acquisitions, governance and restructuring, debt financing, commercial contracts, and other general corporate matters. In the cannabis industry, Tracy has served as lead transaction counsel on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, and has been involved in deals with an aggregate value exceeding several billion dollars. She also frequently handles ownership disputes and rollups/securities exchanges for commercial cannabis businesses. Moreover, she serves as regulatory and compliance counsel and advises clients regarding the licensing process and other regulatory issues at both the state and local levels in California and Nevada. Having been involved in the cannabis space since 2010 when only medicinal cannabis use was permitted in California, Tracy's knowledge of and experience with the cannabis space and its rapidly evolving regulations is expansive. Her regulatory knowledge, combined with her corporate and real estate background, make her particularly adept at serving the many needs of both startup and large companies in the cannabis industry. Tracy also represents both commercial and residential developers, as well as commercial landlords. She handles transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of multimillion-dollar commercial properties and residential subdivisions and has served as lead counsel on transactions with purchase prices in the hundreds of millions of dollars. She also handles real estate financing transactions and has served as lead counsel on deals in excess of a half billion dollars.

Matthew Gaudet

Matthew C. Gaudet is a trial lawyer who focuses on patent infringement cases. He is Vice Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, and he is the leader of the firm's IP Litigation Division that Law360 named Intellectual Property Group of the Year in 2024. He also was named Litigator of the Year in Georgia at the 2025 Managing IP Americas Awards. In the past few years alone, Mr. Gaudet has defeated almost $4 billion of patent infringement claims by winning: A complete defense verdict in December 2023 for Cisco Systems, Inc. in the re-trial of the $2.7 billion claim brought by plaintiff Centripetal Networks against Cisco in the Eastern District of Virginia, resulting in a total victory for Cisco in what has been reported as the largest patent defense victory on record; A complete defense verdict in a jury trial for Roku Inc. in April 2024 in the Western District of Texas before Judge Alan Albright, defeating allegations that Roku’s streaming video players infringe two IOEngine LLC patents, for which IOEngine sought $318 million from the jury (IOEngine was backed by litigation financiers and had won two previous jury verdicts against other defendants who were represented by other law firms); A complete defense judgment in November 2025 for Cisco Systems, Inc. against a $600 million claim of patent infringement brought by Tel Aviv University against Cisco in the District of Delaware, defeating the University’s claims via a fully dispositive summary judgment ruling that has been described as a first-of-its-kind outcome; An affirmance by the Federal Circuit in October 2023 of a complete defense victory for SonicWall, Inc. against plaintiff Finjan, Inc., after Mr. Gaudet led the team that defeated all 10 asserted patents in the Northern District of California through a combination of summary judgment and Daubert rulings (Finjan had collected approximately $300 million in prior litigation against other defendants); and A complete defense victory through summary judgment in October 2023 for Fortinet, Inc. in the Northern District of California in a case brought by plaintiff 1440 Sports Management against Fortinet and the PGA TOUR, relating to Fortinet’s sponsorship of a PGA tournament event. Mr. Gaudet is also serving as lead trial counsel for other major technology companies, including Verizon, Comcast, and Cox Communications. On the plaintiff’s side, he has collected over $100 million for patent holders. Mr. Gaudet was previously recognized as one of the top five IP lawyers under 40 in the country by Law360 (in which he was described as a “deadly cross-examiner”). The honor followed a year when two different district courts―one in East Texas, one in Delaware―cited his cross-examinations of opposing experts in rulings that sustained winning jury verdicts, with one judge describing his cross-examination as "brilliant." Likewise, in the middle of trial for Verizon in the Northern District of California in 2022, the district court judge stated on the record that Mr. Gaudet’s cross-examination of plaintiff’s expert witness was “a great day in the trial.” For each of the last several years, Mr. Gaudet has been listed amongst the top 500 litigators in the country in Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America. Every year since 2009, he has been included in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in its listing of leading IP lawyers in Georgia. Mr. Gaudet is also listed in Best Lawyers in America and the "Top 100" of Georgia Super Lawyers.

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Michael Grant

Anthony J. Guida Jr.

Tony Guida focuses his practice on the PreK-12, postsecondary, EdTech and corporate training education sectors handling issues relating to federal and state education law, licensing and accreditation, mergers, acquisitions and other substantive changes; institutional governance; government response and crisis management, federal and state education policy; and government affairs. An experienced senior executive in the field of higher education, Mr. Guida brings a unique business side perspective to his engagement with clients. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group and previously served as a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. The Legal 500 US 2024 Guide, which has ranked Duane Morris’ Education Industry Group, notes that Mr. Guida “consistently provides solid guidance and perspective” according to his clients and they “have complete trust in his counsel. He’s invaluable for keeping [clients] abreast of developments in higher education.” Mr. Guida was also ranked in Chambers USA for Higher Education – Nationwide for 2024, the first year Chambers issued rankings for Higher Education in the U.S.

David Haas

Jeffrey Hamera

Jeffrey L. Hamera provides legal services focused on the construction industry. He is a co-chair for the Chicago Bar Association’s Construction Law and Mechanics Lien Subcommittee and a past member of the CBA Nominating Committee. Mr. Hamera's clients include project owners, general contractors, design/builders, construction managers, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, engineers and sureties. He negotiates and drafts the full range of contracts for construction projects, including design agreements, construction contracts, construction management agreements, EPC contracts and design/build agreements. He also represents clients in preparation of claims and dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and litigation, of claims for breach of contract, delay, disruption, loss of productivity, change orders, mechanics liens, errors and omissions, construction defects and insurance claims under professional liability, general liability and builder’s risk policies.

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Woody Jameson

Louis Norwood (Woody) Jameson is chair of Duane Morris' Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mr. Jameson practices in the area of intellectual property law and litigation with particular emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Jameson also litigates a broad range of intellectual property disputes, including trademark and trade dress litigation, copyright litigation and false advertising disputes. Over the past 35 years, Mr. Jameson has been lead counsel in over one hundred patent cases in federal district courts, has tried numerous bench and jury trials, and has successfully argued numerous cases in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Jameson regularly represents Fortune 500 companies in the defense of patent litigation involving myriad of technologies such as network security, fiber optics, cybersecurity, online banking transactions, wireless networking, semiconductors, medical devices, data storage, MPEG decoding, Internet infrastructure, and computer hardware and software. He likewise has had lead responsibility for trademark and false advertising litigation for Fortune 500 companies, and anti-counterfeiting activities. Clients describe Mr. Jameson as "[He] values our specific business goals and ensures our legal needs are met in a way that aligns with our overall business objectives."

Robert Kadlec

Robert W. Kadlec has more than 35 years of experience representing clients in a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing transactions, corporate governance and securities law matters. Mr. Kadlec has extensive experience advising both private equity and corporate clients with leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, minority investments, joint ventures and public company acquisitions and SEC reporting, among other matters. Mr. Kadlec serves as a team lead for Duane Morris’ Fintech industry group, and advises clients in a wide range of transactions in many technology-driven industries, such as financial services, solar and renewable energy, aerospace and healthcare.

Anastasios Kastrinakis

Anastasios G. Kastrinakis practices in the areas of international, corporate and partnership taxation. His practice focuses on cross-border tax planning and taxation of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions and related issues, including investment fund formation and private equity transactions. Mr. Kastrinakis is vice chair of the Tax Practice. Mr. Kastrinakis advises individuals, corporations, partnerships, family offices and investment funds on the structure and tax aspects of various cross border transactions, particularly inbound transactions. He also advises non-U.S. persons and investment funds on the tax aspects of investing in U.S. real estate, including tax issues pertaining to Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act ("FIRPTA"). Mr. Kastrinakis also advises businesses on tax aspects of cross border operations and cross-border tax optimization strategies and planning. He represents numerous foreign family offices, companies and investment funds, particularly based in Latin America, on U.S. tax issues. On the domestic side, Kastrinakis provides tax advice to buyers and sellers in private transactions, including purchases and sales of partnerships and S corporations. In addition, he advises non-U.S. individuals and families on pre-immigration tax planning. He represents numerous family offices and private equity funds based in Latin America and China on U.S. tax issues related to real estate and other private equity investments in the U.S.

Brian A. Kelly

Brian A. Kelly represents clients in connection with commercial, environmental and insurance matters. Mr. Kelly is a trial attorney with extensive jury and court trial experience. His practice involves counseling clients in all stages of risk, and he is frequently retained before a lawsuit is filed in an effort to manage risk. Mr. Kelly has extensive experience representing clients in arbitrations, mediations and all other types of alternative dispute resolution. In all engagements, Mr. Kelly works closely with his clients to achieve defined goals in the most cost-effective manner. Mr. Kelly advises and represents clients in a wide range of issues and lawsuits from contractual issues and insurance coverage to toxic torts and environmental claims. He is regularly retained as trial and appellate counsel in complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. Mr. Kelly also represents product manufacturers, industry groups and their associations in administrative, state and federal court proceedings relating to environmental impacts, product use restrictions and compliance with state and federal environmental regulations, including NEPA, CEQA, Clean Water Act and CERCLA, among others.

Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin is a partner in Duane Morris' Corporate Practice Group, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s national governing Partners Board. Brian served as chairman of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, consisting of 200 plus attorneys in 16 offices, for more than a decade. Brian has extensive experience representing business entities, lenders, private equity funds and entrepreneurs in various business and financing transactions, including the buying and selling of companies, acquisition financings, syndicated secured loan transactions, asset-based financings, venture debt financings, capital raises, fund formations and equity investments. Brian prides himself on delivering high quality legal work, efficiently and responsively. Brian has led more than 1,000 financing transactions and over 200 company sale/purchase transactions. His clients have been located across the United States and have been involved in a myriad of businesses, including manufacturing, distribution, fintech, banking, healthcare, education, defense/military, fashion/retail, plastics, packaging, food and beverage, nutrition, pharmaceutical, technology, transportation logistics, automotive, lodging, gaming, home improvement, outsourcing and human resources, safety/test engineering and product safety, software, telecommunications, home and lawn care, investment management, private equity, among others.

Karen Chuang Kline

Karen Kline practices in the area of intellectual property ("IP") and technology transactions and licensing, providing strategic guidance in protecting and monetizing companies' intellectual assets. With over fifteen years of legal practice, she has established herself as a trusted advisor to clients in matters of trademark, copyright and technology law, data protection and privacy, artificial intelligence, and commercial transactions involving IP or proprietary information. Ms. Kline works with clients that range in size from start-ups to established national and multinational corporations, and across a wide range of industries including software, medical technology, immersive (VR/AR/MR) technologies, computer vision, engineering, hospitality, media, cosmetics and personal care products. Intellectual Property Ms. Kline counsels clients in all aspects of their domestic and international trademark, copyright and patent portfolios. This includes strategic planning, clearance and prosecution, and enforcement of rights. She also assists clients with intellectual property due diligence in connection with the acquisition or sale of IP assets. In the emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI), she advises clients on IP and privacy issues related to training data and model development, diligence and procurement of third party models and products, and organizational policies and procedures related to use of AI in business operations. She has also provided product counsel support to tech clients, working closely with product teams and company stakeholders to advise on IP issues and privacy-first approaches in all stages of research and development. Technology Transactions, Licensing and Commercial Contracts Ms. Kline also counsels clients in technology-related transactional matters, including structuring, drafting, negotiating, and providing legal advice regarding in-bound and out-bound data licensing, content and brand licensing, collaboration and development agreements, consulting and professional services agreements. In this respect, she has drafted and negotiated agreements directed to a range of intellectual property issues, including software licenses, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and service level agreements, patent and related know-how licenses, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, joint development, trademark licenses and publicity rights.

Gosia Kosturek

Gosia Kosturek focuses her practice on representing real estate development companies, investors, lenders and hotel management companies in all aspects of acquisition, disposition, development, management, licensing and finance of real estate and hotel assets in the U.S. and throughout the world. On behalf of these clients, Ms. Kosturek handles the drafting, review and negotiation of various agreements, including hotel management agreements (third party and brand managed), residential agreements, asset management agreements, franchise agreements, various financing documents, technical services agreements, consulting services agreements and purchase and sale agreements. In addition, she regularly advises hotel clients on operational matters and property-level agreements.

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Jessica LaLonde

Jessica E. La Londe serves as a team lead for Duane Morris' Insurance/Reinsurance industry group, is co-chair of the Duane Morris Insurance and Reinsurance Division of the Trial Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Partners Board. Jessica’s practice focuses on civil litigation and appeals, with an emphasis on insurance coverage and commercial litigation and appeals. She has counseled and represented insurance companies in complex disputes for over 20 years. This includes counseling and representing insurance companies throughout the life of a claim – including advice with respect to coverage issues, claims handling, bad faith risks (including policy limits settlement demands), and contribution and subrogation opportunities or risks, and any necessary litigation on these issues. She has experience with several lines of insurance, including general liability, environmental pollution, various forms of professional liability, excess liability, auto liability, project liability, and directors and officers liability. These matters have involved a wide array of claims, including pollution, sexual abuse, asbestos, health hazards, construction defects, and medical malpractice. Jessica also has litigated cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets, business contracts, employment disputes, products liability, California Proposition 65, environmental law, and consumer class actions.

Jennifer Lantz

Jennifer M. Lantz has more than 20 years of experience helping clients at all stages protect their brands and other intellectual property. Ms. Lantz focuses on helping companies develop brands through enforcement policies, clearing marks for use, registering marks in the United States and abroad, commercializing marks through licenses and merchandising agreements, assessing infringement risks, enforcing trademark rights and defending against allegations of infringement. She represents clients of all sizes—from new startups to multinationals—and across all industries, including those in the artificial intelligence space.

Kenneth Lazaruk

Kenneth H. Lazaruk practices in the area of construction law. Mr. Lazaruk has more than 40 years' experience in the construction industry, 30 of which has been as an attorney exclusively practicing in the field of construction law. Mr. Lazaruk's experience as an attorney includes all aspects of construction law with an emphasis on representing owners and developers in the drafting and negotiation of design and construction agreements. Mr. Lazaruk also represents owners and developers in construction disputes resolved through either mediation, arbitration and/or litigation. He also has experience representing other parties involved in construction projects including design professionals, architects, engineers, contractors, construction managers, suppliers and vendors. Mr. Lazaruk has a diverse background that includes experience in the fields of law, design, construction, engineering and tax/finance. In addition to his experience as a practicing attorney, he has worked for major engineering, consulting and construction management firms. Mr. Lazaruk has drafted and negotiated contracts for all types of projects including office buildings, affordable and high end residential towers, stadiums and public works/infrastructure. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the states of New York and New Jersey.

Meagen E. Leary

Meagen E. Leary is co-chair of the firm's Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group and serves on the firm's Executive Committee. Ms. Leary maintains a national creditors' rights, commercial real estate finance and bankruptcy practice. Her clients include institutional lenders, CMBS servicers, REITs, debt funds and other diverse businesses. Ms. Leary and her team handle all aspects of commercial loan workouts, bankruptcies, real estate finance and lender liability litigation, and commercial loan and real estate transactions. In addition, she provides national, coordinating counsel and general counsel services to several clients. She is a frequent speaker and writer on legal and practical issues that impact her clients and an active member of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, as well as a member of the Council's Women's Network Advisory Board.

Mark Lerner

Mark Lerner is Chair of the Trademark, Copyright, Entertainment and Advertising Division of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. He practices in the area of intellectual property law. Mr. Lerner counsels clients on all facets of trademark selection, protection, enforcement and portfolio management, including clearance searches, prosecution of applications, licensing, working with ecommerce and social media platforms, and protecting client’s rights. He regularly assists clients in transactions involving intellectual property, including licenses, sponsorship agreements, work-for-hire agreements, co-branding agreements, and sale and acquisition of IP. Mr. Lerner has represented an array of clients from startups to multinational corporations in a wide range of industries, including, publishing, advertising, consumer products, fashion, gaming, financial and insurance services, education and food services, among others. Mr. Lerner has guided clients through litigation matters involving claims of trademark, trade dress and copyright infringement, false advertising, unfair competition, defamation, and breach of contract. He practices in federal and state courts, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in both ex parte and inter partes proceedings, and before WIPO and the NAF in domain name disputes under the UDRP. In addition, Mr. Lerner has experience in pre-publication and pre-broadcast review, sweepstakes administration, as well as website policies. Mr. Lerner’s clients laud him for his practical advice that “focuses on commercial realities” and his ability to educate his clients on both basic and complex concepts related to trademarks and copyrights. He has been called a “true mentor when it comes to the world of trademarks.”

Patrick Loftus

Jonathan Lourie

Joseph J. Machi

Joseph Machi is a partner in Duane Morris’ Corporate Practice Group and a vice-chair of the firm’s Private Equity Division within the Corporate Practice Group. He also serves as a team lead for the firm’s Private Equity Industry Group and is a member of the firm’s Education and Cannabis Industry Groups. He is based in the firm’s San Diego office. Mr. Machi represents clients across the country in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other complex transactions and general corporate matters. He advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies, public and private companies, family business owners and founders in buy-side and sell-side transactions. He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, life sciences and telecommunications, and, in particular, Mr. Machi is a well-established deal attorney in the education/education technology sector. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Machi represents investors and venture capital firms in securities offerings and other sophisticated transactions. He also represents growth companies and established private companies in securities offerings and other intricate transactions and general corporate and regulatory issues in numerous industries, including education, cannabis, life sciences and technology. He advises directors, management and founders on exit strategies, corporate governance matters and day to day operational needs.

Philip R. Matthews

Philip R. Matthews practices in the area of general civil litigation and insurance counseling and litigation with an emphasis on complex cases. He has been involved in some of the largest trials and appeals in California, including the trial and appeal of Shell Oil Co. vs. Accident and Casualty Co. of Winterthur (Rocky Mountain Arsenal case) and In Re Coordinated Asbestos Litigation (Manville, Fibreboard, Armstrong and GAF Coverage cases.) He also has been liaison and trial counsel in numerous complex cases such as Flintkote v. American Mutual, Four Star Oil & Gas Co. vs. Allianz (Texaco Environmental Coverage Litigation), Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc. vs. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Texaco Toxic Tort), Exxon vs. Insurance Company of North America (Exxon Environmental Coverage Litigation), and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London. He also has experience in bankruptcy law, asbestos and mass tort bankruptcies, state receiverships involving asbestos claims and corporate transactions. In addition to extensive litigation experience, Mr. Matthews has been involved in resolving complex insurance coverage disputes through alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation and acting as specialist settlement counsel. Mr. Matthews has a successful record in achieving resolution of matters without protracted litigation. One example is working out a procedure to resolve, for a major group of insurers, one Fortune 50 corporations more than 1,000 coverage claims for pollution sites and thousands of toxic tort claimants before the filing of litigation. A decade later, other insurers were still litigating with the Fortune 50 Company over these claims.

Maureen L. McCluskey

Maureen L. McCluskey serves as a team lead of the firm's Banking and Finance industry group, She has extensive experience representing commercial banks, lending institutions, private equity funds and corporate borrowers in a wide array of commercial finance transactions, including asset-based lending transactions, cash flow transactions, recurring revenue transactions, syndicated transactions, unitranche transactions, real estate transactions, sponsor-led private equity and acquisition financing transactions, bridge-to-HUD financing transactions and mezzanine financing transactions. Ms. McCluskey’s experience spans various industries and specialty lending (including warehouse loans, recurring revenue financing, manufacturing, consumer products, tech and medical devices), with a particular emphasis on healthcare financing. Ms. McCluskey regularly advises healthcare lenders and healthcare providers in connection with securing term loans and working capital loans, and advises lenders and borrowers on healthcare specific transactional and regulatory matters.

Nicole McLaughlin

Patrick McPherson

Darrick Mix

Darrick M. Mix is Co-Chair of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, head of its Capital Markets group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Mr. Mix practices corporate law with concentrations in the areas of securities law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has experience representing public and private companies in connection with their capital-raising activities, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. Mr. Mix also advises companies with respect to SEC regulations, compliance issues and other corporate and securities law matters, such as public reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and communications with analysts and investors. He has substantial experience representing public and private companies in selling and acquiring businesses His clients span a variety of industries, including biotech, industrials, retail, financial services, railroads and REITs.

Kyle T. Molidor

Kyle T. Molidor practices in the area of corporate law and is a member of the firm's Banking and Finance industry group. Mr. Molidor’s practice includes the representation of commercial banks, private equity funds, corporate borrowers and other participants in the financial services industry in a wide variety of corporate and finance transactions, including asset-based lending transactions, cash flow financings, acquisition financings, syndicated transactions, real estate transactions, sponsor backed private equity transactions, bridge debt facilities and corporate restructurings. Mr. Molidor also practices in the areas of reorganization, bankruptcy law, creditors' rights, out of court workouts and complex commercial reorganizations, including representation of agents and other lenders in syndicated credit transactions. Mr. Molidor’s experience spans various industries and specialty lending (including recurring revenue financing, manufacturing, tech, medical devices, SaaS revenue based financing and warehouse loans). Mr. Molidor also represents private equity firms and private and public companies in structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and other general corporate matters.

Brad Molotsky

Vicki Norton

Vicki G. Norton, Ph.D., has advised life sciences clients for 25 years, devising strategies for clients to successfully counter patent claims and demands totaling over $2 billion, performing IP diligence for transactions, product clearances, and at the market offerings collectively worth over $4.0 billion, and formulating worldwide patent strategies for clients entering public markets with total valuations of over $6 billion. Dr. Norton also audits technology portfolios and identifies patent coverage issues for her clients’ transactions, venture financings, and patent enforcement opportunities. She has handled patent matters in a variety of life science fields, including precision medicine and diagnostics, biologic drugs, pharmaceuticals, immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine and stem cell technologies, transgenic plants and cells, molecular biology, nanotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, probe amplification assays, nutraceuticals, microbiology, and devices for physical therapy. Dr. Norton has also advised clients on all facets of litigation involving technologies including diagnostics, biopharmaceuticals, transgenic organisms, small molecules and nanotechnology. Vicki Norton serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Life Sciences and Medical Technologies industry group and is Chair of the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotechnology Division of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Prior to attending law school, Dr. Norton served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of California, Davis, where she conducted research on histone acetylation and chromatin structure for her doctoral thesis.

Ron Oliner

Ron Oliner is co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Fiduciary Representations division of Duane Morris' Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group. He represents financial institutions, including loan servicers, mortgage lenders and asset based lenders, as well as bankruptcy trustees, creditors' committees, and rents and equity receivers. Mr. Oliner has served as a chapter 11 trustee in the Northern District of California Bankruptcy Court, and is a court-appointed mediator and examiner. He has testified in jury trials as a qualified expert witness on bankruptcy and commercial remedies, and is versed in all creditors' remedies in both state and federal courts. He has also defended appeals in bankruptcy appellate courts, district courts, and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Lawrence Pockers

Jennifer Polovetsky

Jennifer Polovetsky is a seasoned attorney with more than two decades of both litigation and transactional real estate experience, with a focus in eminent domain law. She strives to provide every client of the firm with outstanding legal services, personalized attention, and the utmost respect. Ms. Polovetsky litigates in various New York and New Jersey state courts, with a focus on representing clients in all stages of eminent domain proceedings. She also represents clients in transactional real estate matters with a focus on multi-family and commercial real properties. Ms. Polovetsky has represented various religious organizations and not-for-profits before the New York State Attorney General Charities Bureau. She has also been involved in various complex real estate transactions involving the New York City Departments of Social Services, Homeless Services and Housing Preservation and Development.

Rebekah Prince

Rebekah Prince has significant experience negotiating celebrity endorsement transactions as well as joint ventures and license agreements in the sports, restaurant and hospitality, media and entertainment, health and fitness, and consumer products industries. Ms. Prince notably provides her clients—a growing number of which are current and former professional athletes—with legal advice traditionally offered to family offices and implements corporate governance and structure to growing individual brands. She works both with younger players navigating the beginning of a professional career, as well as current and retired players who are transitioning from being known as solely as athletes into successful business owners and investors. Ms. Prince also has long-standing experience representing buyers, sellers and investment advisers in connection with financings and mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies. She has been involved in the structuring and closing of multimillion-dollar acquisitions of franchise systems and large-scale portfolio purchases and sales of franchised and company-operated outlets. Ms. Prince regularly advises clients on the structuring of domestic and international franchise ventures, including the registration, disclosure and development of franchise systems.

Grant Puleo

Grant Puleo focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate, finance and business transactions, and leads the firm’s Multifamily and Student Housing group. He has extensive experience in a broad array of commercial, multi-family and educational facility (student housing) real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, construction, affordable housing, P3, syndication, dispositions and specialized leasing and financing of all product types throughout California and the United States. Mr. Puleo's finance experience includes both borrower and lender representation in the origination and workout of complicated debt and equity transactions, such as acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing and synthetic leasing transactions. He also represents clients in business matters involving the transfer of business assets and property and the formation and restructuring of joint ventures, private placements, opportunity funds and other business entities. Mr. Puleo is also a seasoned trial attorney, having tried over a dozen jury trials and several dozen binding arbitrations and mediations involving real estate, finance and business disputes, lis pendens, quiet title and partition actions, as well as risk management and litigation avoidance counseling. Mr. Puleo has also testified as an expert witness in trial, binding arbitration and in deposition. In addition to representing hundreds of clients in mediations and mandatory settlement conferences, Mr. Puleo has received training as a mediator, which includes AAA Advanced Mediation and Dispute Resolution, and 40 hours of training in Mediating the Litigated Case at Pepperdine University's prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Denyse Sabagh

Denyse Sabagh practices in the areas of immigration and nationality law and litigation. Ms. Sabagh has more than 30 years of experience in representing diverse clients. She helps corporate clients manage both inbound and outbound employment immigration. She is a recognized leader in all aspects of immigration law. She has in depth experience representing individual and corporate clients for all of their immigration needs including E, H, J, L, O, P, and TN non-immigrant and EB-1, PERMs, immigrant visas, EB 5 Immigrant Investor Visa, J-1 waivers and Outbound issues. She also represents clients in I-9 audits, complex immigration cases, consular processing and immigration ramifications of criminal charges. In addition, she represents family-based clients. She is a frequently featured speaker at national, state, and local conferences and in national and international media. She is a recognized leader in developing strategic business immigration programs and policies.

Thomas Sankey

Thomas W. Sankey is the managing partner of the firm's Houston office as well as Duane Morris' Texas operations. He is also a member of the firm's Partners Board and serves on the firm's Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Sankey is a seasoned commercial trial lawyer with over 38 years of experience handling a wide variety of high-stakes disputes for defendants and plaintiffs, including many Fortune 500 companies. He has tried more than 50 cases to verdict in trials or arbitration proceedings and has led hundreds more as lead counsel that have resolved successfully for his clients before trial. Mr. Sankey has extensive commercial and intellectual property trial experience, focusing on trade secrets, patents, copyrights, unfair competition, contract disputes, employer/employee disputes and the Lanham Act. He has represented clients in many industries including the telecommunications industry, the medical device industry, auto parts industry, oil and gas industry, as well as others, including online banking entities, inventors, electronic device companies, semiconductor companies, pharmaceuticals, banks, medical supply companies, medical R&D companies and others. Mr. Sankey is board certified in Civil Trial Law by The Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has been inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (A.B.O.T.A.).

Justin Santarosa

Justin Santarosa practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and securities law. Mr. Santarosa represents clients across the country in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other complex transactions and general corporate matters. Mr. Santarosa advises public and private companies throughout their life cycle on a variety of corporate matters and capital market transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, regulatory compliance, IPOs, follow-on equity offerings as well as general corporate matters. Mr. Santarosa has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries, including energy, specialty manufacturing, technology, life sciences and cannabis, and, in particular, Mr. Santarosa is a well-established deal attorney in the renewable energy sector. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Santarosa represents companies and investors in securities offerings securities offerings and other intricate transactions and general corporate and regulatory issues in numerous industries, including energy, manufacturing, cannabis, life sciences and technology. Mr. Santarosa also advises directors, management and founders on exit strategies, corporate governance matters and day to day operational needs.

Christiane Schuman Campbell

Christiane Schuman Campbell is vice chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, She counsels clients on development, management, and protection of their most valuable assets: Their brands. Christi has worked hand-in-hand with some of the world’s most recognizable brands to develop strategies for brand development, clearance, protection, monetization, expansion, and enforcement. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Fashion/Retail/Consumer Branded Products industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board as well as the firm's Executive Committee. Christi partners with clients that range in size from start-ups to leading global franchises, in a wide array of industries, including fashion, jewelry, luxury, and consumer goods; alcohol; casinos and hospitality; franchise restaurants; medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences, including in the cannabis space; universities; and defense products. She is a trusted advisor and partner to larger clients’ in-house legal teams and regularly called upon to step into an in-house counsel role for smaller and start-up clients. Christi has extensive experience with global protection and enforcement of brands, and has guided clients through intellectual property transactional and litigation matters throughout the U.S., before U.S. Federal Courts and before the TTAB in Inter Partes and Ex Parte proceedings, and before WIPO and the NAF in domain disputes under the UDRP. Outside the U.S., Christi has successfully enforced clients’ intellectual property rights in some of the most legally complex jurisdictions in the world, including in China, throughout the Middle East and Africa, and Cuba. In the luxury and consumer goods space, Christi has extensive experience negotiating co-branding and license agreements, particularly with respect to brands using celebrity talent for branding and endorsements. On the deal side, Christi has negotiated hotel management agreements and advised major hotel and casino operations with respect to branding and co-branding in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions including Singapore and Macao. She has guided clients through multi-billion-dollar IPO’s, and multi-million-dollar mergers and acquisitions where clients’ intellectual property portfolios were significant assets. Christi also regularly acts as a consultant and advisor to branding and marketing companies that are supporting their own clients’ brand initiatives, by performing clearance and availability searches and offering advice that blends legal, business, and marketing advice.

Michael Schwamm

Michael D. Schwamm represents public and private entities in all aspects of their business affairs. He practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities and technology law and provides general corporate counseling. Mr. Schwamm formerly was general counsel and chief operating officer of FiberCity Networks, Inc., a telecommunications service provider and uses his experience to provide his clients with proven, business-centered advice. Mr. Schwamm represents companies of all sizes, including startups and venture-backed companies, privately held family businesses and both large and small public companies in all aspects of their business affairs. He also provides services to venture capital and private equity funds, angel and other institutional investors. An increasing focus of his practice is assisting single family offices in structuring their direct business acquisitions; Mr. Schwamm co-leads the firm’s initiative in this area. Mr. Schwamm has worked on a wide variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, joint ventures and licensing arrangements involving a number of industries, such as big data, business services, consumer/retail, technology including FinTech, entertainment, healthcare services, manufacturing, sports and telecommunication. He calls upon his partners across the country and around the world in other practice areas to ensure his clients receive seamless, efficient and effective service for all their legal needs.

Lisa Scruggs

Lisa T. Scruggs provides litigation and counseling services for education and school reform organizations, including individual charter and private schools, charter school networks, charter and education management organizations, school districts and other education nonprofit and for profit organizations and service providers. She has handled a wide range of litigation, transactions and policy matters relating to new school development, teacher evaluation, credentialing and certification reforms, public/private education ventures, virtual education, school finance and parent and student civil rights. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. Ms. Scruggs is nationally recognized in school reform law. She has worked with the Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest school district in the U.S., in a number of capacities. Most notably, she served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer (2004-2006) and as a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Evaluate Magnet and Selective Schools Admission Policy (2010-2011). She has also served as an Expert Review Panelist for grant competitions sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, including the Race to the Top – District competition. Ms. Scruggs has also been selected as a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow, joining a cohort of leaders who are "reimagining America's public schools." Ms. Scruggs is also an experienced litigator who has participated in a variety of cases involving a wide range of issues including complex commercial, real estate, business torts and unfair competition law, civil rights and constitutional law.

Denis F. Shanagher

Denis F. Shanagher has more than 42 years of experience in representing clients in complex real estate and construction matters, including contracts, entitlements and dispute resolution. He represents a diverse group of clients in all aspects of the real estate development and construction process, including owners, developers, contractors and ownership association. His expertise includes contract drafting and negotiation, association management, and disputes regarding complex construction defects, design, delay, easements, title, and various aspects of the approval process (CEQA, entitlement, subdivision map act and administrative hearings). He also has significant experience with insurance coverage (advice and litigation for both policyholders and insurers in the real estate and construction context); and general commercial contract disputes. He also has provided counsel in the areas of professional negligence, emphasizing real estate agents, attorneys, accountants and insurance brokers.

Timothy Shannon

Brian Shue

Brian A. Shue serves as a team lead of the firm's Construction and Engineering industry group. He practices in the area of construction law. Clients rely on Mr. Shue for not only his strong legal advice, but also for the practical real-world advice he provides, having worked directly in the construction industry. Mr. Shue drafts and negotiates construction agreements, architect and engineer agreements, trade contracts/subcontracts and license agreements on behalf of developers, contractors and design professionals. As a complement to his transactional practice, Mr. Shue also assists clients in disputes arising from public and private construction projects and has prepared pleadings and motions and coordinated pretrial discovery in complex litigations. He advises on the resolution of construction disputes through litigation, arbitration and mediation. Mr. Shue's experience in this regard extends to construction defect claims, delay and disruption claims, change order and extra work claims, warranty claims, property damage, insurance and surety bonding issues, mechanic's liens, default/termination and other related matters. Representative projects include: stadiums, courthouses, infrastructure/transportation facilities, hospitals, institutional buildings, schools, manufacturing facilities, hotels and high-rise commercial and residential buildings. Mr. Shue has been directly involved in some of the largest and most iconic development projects in New York metropolitan area including, for example: the Hudson Yards Redevelopment, Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion, World Trade Center Office Towers and Essex Crossing.

Jessica Singh

Jessica Y. Singh concentrates her practice in the areas of construction, real estate and commercial litigation. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Construction and Engineering industry group and is co-chair of the Construction Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group. Ms. Singh is an experienced litigator and commercial trial attorney, and focuses her practice on guiding clients through arbitrations, trials and other forms of dispute resolution. Ms. Singh has litigated and tried numerous complex construction cases involving private and public disputes before juries and before courts sitting without a jury. Ms. Singh is experienced in use of court technology in trial presentation and jury selection, and is familiar with jury consultant/mock trial services in large-scale jury trials. Ms. Singh is also a member of the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Alice Snedeker

Alice E. Snedeker practices in the area of intellectual property law and counseling, with a focus on patent litigation in district courts and the International Trade Commission. Ms. Snedeker represents several well-known technology companies in complex patent litigation involving technologies such as fiber optics communications, 802.11 wireless LAN technologies, wireless chipsets, video imaging and conferencing, cable television technology, telecommunications and computer hardware and software applications, and consumer technology accessories. She provides technical and legal analysis, works with experts and witnesses, takes and defends depositions, prepares and argues motions, manages discovery, and prepares pretrial documents. Ms. Snedeker also represents clients in complex commercial litigation, including matters related to trade secrets, defamation, restrictive covenants, products liability, breach of contract, fraud, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Ms. Snedeker regularly provides pro bono assistance to veterans, immigration, and community-based organizations with a variety of legal services, such as drafting life planning documents and petitions, assistance with landlord-tenant disputes, assistance with petitions for asylum, and challenges to state regulations limiting women’s rights.

Lisa Spiegel

Lisa Spiegel practices in the areas of immigration and nationality law, concentrating on issues related to the employment of foreign nationals. She has been designated as a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California and is a past chair of the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Ms. Spiegel has served on numerous committees for AILA, including the Association's National Committee on Business and the AILA-USCIS Administrative Appeals Office Liaison Committee, as liaison to the New York and San Francisco District Offices of the Immigration & Naturalization Service and as national liaison with the California Service Center for many years. In addition, Ms. Spiegel is president of the Board of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. She is admitted to practice in New York and California.

Mark A. Steiner

Mark A. Steiner is a brand protection attorney. He has over four decades of experience representing clients in protecting, enforcing and defending their important intellectual property rights, both domestically and internationally, with a focus on trademark and copyright law. Mr. Steiner offers clients a strong combination of trial experience, counseling, enforcement, procurement and licensing insight in matters concerning trademarks, trade identity, internet domain names, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition. He has represented companies ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500 in a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, computer hardware and software, networking, retail, architectural and engineering-design services, personal-care products, sporting goods, clothing, toys and games, food and beverage, hotels and restaurants. He serves as intellectual property counsel to companies at various stages of development, from inception to maturity. Mr. Steiner regularly assists clients in the management and enforcement of domestic and international trademark portfolios with the understanding that companies’ brands are almost always their most valuable assets.

Max Stern

Max H. Stern is a trial and appellate lawyer, with an emphasis on a result-oriented approach to complex disputes. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in insurance coverage and bad faith cases, business tort and other commercial litigation, consumer and business class actions, and both commercial and high-end residential real estate litigation. Mr. Stern has tried cases before juries, judges and arbitration panels, and he has argued appeals in a number of state (California and Texas) and federal (Second, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits) courts. Mr. Stern devotes a substantial part of his practice to litigation and counseling services for the insurance industry. He has handled matters in various lines, including general liability, specialty liability, professional liability, excess liability, business interruption, workers' compensation, property, and personal accident. He provides oversight counsel for clients at a nationwide or regional level with respect to issues of coverage, claims handling, litigation management and corporate risk. He has extensive experience in insurance-related litigation, including coverage, bad faith, subrogation and contribution, reinsurance and regulatory disputes. He also provides defense of insureds in complex or high-stakes cases, including class actions and severe injuries, and he is often called upon by insurers when they need a change in direction in the defense of their insureds.

Shannon Hampton Sutherland

Shannon Hampton Sutherland is Co-Chair of the Duane Morris Trade Secrets and Non-Compete division of the Trial Practice Group. A strategic and practical advisor, and sharp trial and injunction lawyer, Ms. Sutherland is particularly well versed in in helping companies avoid and navigate disputes involving non-compete, non-solicit, and other restrictive covenant agreements, confidential information and trade secrets, customer and employee goodwill, unfair competition, and customer, consultant, and employee relationships. Ms. Sutherland routinely obtains and defends against temporary restraining orders and injunctions across the country and has represented clients in business, non-compete, and trade secret litigation nationwide. Companies across a broad range of industries – and, in particular, in the medical device and biotechnology, healthcare, financial services, transportation, chemical, and energy sectors – have trusted Ms. Sutherland to assist them with complex commercial and employment-related disputes, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and business torts. Ms. Sutherland has also handled high-stakes injunction and litigation matters involving public entities and has represented several public entities in litigation and counseling roles. She also serves as a team lead of the firm's Life Sciences and Medical Technologies industry group and is a member of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation division. Ms. Sutherland's areas of practice include: Injunctions – prosecution and defense Temporary restraining orders Preliminary injunctions Permanent injunctions Restrictive covenants – drafting, counseling, and litigation Non-competition agreements Non-solicitation agreements Trade secrets Defend Trade Secrets Act claims State law claims Confidentiality, non-disclosure, and invention agreements Distributor agreements – drafting, counseling, and litigation Business tort and statutory claims, including, for example: Unfair competition Tortious interference Breach of fiduciary duty/duty of loyalty Fraud Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Complex commercial and business and contract disputes Employment-related disputes Declaratory judgment actions Zoning matters

Stephen Sutro

Stephen H. Sutro ("Steve") is co-chair of Duane Morris’ Trial Practice Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Mr. Sutro previously served as Managing Partner for the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Mr. Sutro has led investigations and litigation on behalf of clients in matters involving government contracts and false claims, antitrust laws, securities fraud and insider trading, RICO, corporate governance, the environment, food and drug, homeland security and customs enforcement, trade secrets, and public corruption. Mr. Sutro is experienced in crisis management and managing responses to media in high profile investigations and litigation. The nature of his practice demands experience not only in the courtroom, but also in risk management and compliance, strategies to minimize potential criminal and civil liability, and committed advocacy in the pursuit of justice.

Jonathan Swichar

Jonathan L. Swichar is Chair of the Duane Morris Pharmacy Litigation Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. For more than 25 years, Mr. Swichar has represented thousands of independent pharmacies and healthcare providers in regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings. His practice is dedicated to representing all provider types, throughout the United States, including specialty pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, retail pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, home infusion pharmacies, tele-health pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, home care pharmacies, long term care pharmacies, oncology pharmacies, among others. He has handled thousands of matters on behalf of such providers involving all aspects of their business operations including, but not limited to, issues with payors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), PBM audit appeals, challenges to network terminations, refusals to provide network access and in the submission of credentialing applications. Additionally, he routinely counsels pharmacies on reimbursement rate issues, reimbursement disputes and refusals by payors and PBMs to abide by Federal and State any willing provider laws and other legal requirements. He has been lead counsel on behalf of such providers in thousands of disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country, all arbitration forums and in mediation. Mr. Swichar's pharmacy experience includes representing multiple retail, mail and specialty pharmacies in negotiating agreements with pharmacy benefit managers for dramatically-improved reimbursement rates for branded and generic drugs, resulting in millions of dollars in additional reimbursement. He has also assisted numerous pharmacies in obtaining network status after being denied and successfully represented pharmacies in overturning decisions by pharmacy benefit managers to terminate them from their networks. He has also represented numerous pharmacies in connection with responding to audits and has successfully challenged audit results. In addition, he has defended numerous pharmacies in connection with investigations by state boards of pharmacy, Attorney General Offices, United States Attorney's Offices and multiple other state and federal government agencies. Mr. Swichar also frequently consults with state and federal legislators in the drafting and proposing of legislation to reign in abuses by pharmacy benefit managers and improve protections afforded to pharmacies.

Matthew Taylor

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Brad Thompson

Brad Thompson’s Chambers'-ranked practice focuses on complex commercial issues across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the energy and healthcare industries. He also serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Within the energy industry, Mr. Thompson has extensive experience from refineries to renewable energy facilities, with particular experience in megaproject EPC construction disputes. In the renewable energy industry, he represents clients in a range of energy-related issues involving disputes, transactions and regulatory compliance matters. In the healthcare industry, Mr. Thompson has experience representing healthcare and pharmaceutical providers in various levels of disputes and compliance-related matters.

Christopher Tyson

Driscoll Ugarte

Driscoll R. Ugarte serves as a team lead of the firm's Life Sciences and Medical Technologies industry group. He practices in the area of corporate law, including private equity financings, emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions and securities. Mr. Ugarte counsels public, domestic and foreign corporations through all stages of development, from formation and operation to capital-raising and exit, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions and recapitalizations. He is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. An increasing focus of Mr. Ugarte’s practice is advising single family offices on organization, tax-efficient structure and strategy with regard to direct investments and other acquisitions. He also advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs, venture capital investors and underwriters. Mr. Ugarte regularly counsels businesses in the industries of life sciences, biotech, medical devices, pharmaceutical and biologics; real estate; agribusiness; and aerospace. In addition to advising domestic business, he guides multinational and foreign companies in Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America on cross-border direct foreign investment and mergers and acquisitions activities.

Shelton Vaughan

Shelton M. Vaughan practices corporate law with a focus on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions and corporate governance. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group. Mr. Vaughan represents large public companies, middle-market companies and startups in a variety of industries. His experience includes numerous capital markets transactions, including IPOs and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, representing issuers and underwriters; mergers and acquisitions, representing targets and acquirers in both public and private transactions; extensive securities law compliance and counseling and corporate governance counseling; venture capital and private equity transactions; bank financings, representing both borrowers and lenders; advising special committees; and restructuring transactions and counseling.

Damon Vocke

Damon Vocke is a seasoned trial lawyer and business counselor, and focuses his practice in complex insurance and reinsurance coverage, class actions, high exposure arbitration and litigation matters, regulatory disputes and corporate governance. Mr. Vocke has extensive experience with insurance regulatory and compliance, corporate governance, C-suite problem solving and internal investigations. Mr. Vocke's areas of practice include: Insurance and Reinsurance Insurance Regulatory and Compliance Corporate Governance and Internal Investigations White-Collar Criminal Defense

Daniel R. Walworth

Daniel R. Walworth is a partner at Duane Morris LLP whose practice focuses on False Claims Act defense, internal investigations, and state attorneys general enforcement, within a broader white collar criminal defense and government investigations practice. He represents organizations and individuals in a range of sensitive and significant matters including government and internal investigations and enforcement actions. Dan represents clients in complex FCA matters –including in qui tam litigation brought under the federal FCA and analogous state statutes, and related administrative issues and compliance risks involving the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, Medicare and Medicaid billing, and grant and research funding across healthcare, higher education, and government contracting.

Corey Weideman

Corey M. Weideman is a partner in Duane Morris’ Trial Practice Group with a practice focused on all phases of complex commercial, intellectual property and employment litigation. Mr. Weideman has valuable experience representing a diverse clientele of Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized companies and individuals in state and federal trial courts across the country and in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Weideman’s practice routinely involves matters alleging non-compete, trade secret, unfair competition, fraud, shareholder oppression, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, business torts and complex breach of contract claims. As a complement to his active litigation practice, Mr. Weideman counsels clients regarding the protection of trade secrets, confidential information and the enforceability of covenants not to compete. Mr. Weideman is further experienced in counseling clients in trademark prosecution and management, including assisting clients with clearance, registration, protection and enforcement. In addition to helping businesses throughout the country, Mr. Weideman devotes a substantial amount of time and energy to his local community through his participation in organized volunteer programs and by providing pro-bono legal services to low-income individuals and various non-profit organizations. Mr. Weideman currently serves on the board of directors of a local 501(c)(3) organization that raises funds in support of Texas Children’s Hospital and also provides pro-bono legal services to a 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of raising money to provide after-school opportunities for children in the community. He is also responsible for previously developing a pro-bono legal triage at a local homeless shelter to help guide the homeless community through Houston’s Homeless Court. Mr. Weideman has been a member of the Texas State Pro Bono College, which is an honorary society that recognizes Texas lawyers who exceed the State Bar’s aspirational pro bono standard through providing legal services to low-income parties.

Michael A. Witt

Michael A. Witt is a partner in the Chicago office of Duane Morris LLP, a team lead of the firm’s Banking and Finance industry group, co-chair of the firm's Healthcare Financing Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Mr. Witt has extensive experience representing banks, lending institutions and borrowers in commercial finance transactions, including senior, syndicated, secured, agented and mezzanine finance. He also focuses on industry lending, such as healthcare and insurance, and specialty lending, including warehouse loans and tax liens, as well as sponsor-led private equity and acquisition financings. Mr. Witt has led deals around the country, including Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, California, Florida, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

David Wolfsohn

Philip W. Woo

Philip W. Woo is the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on patent law, with deep experience in litigation, prosecution and contested proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With a degree in electrical engineering and substantial real-world experience in the high-tech industry, he has served as lead counsel for numerous matters, coordinating teams across separate, but relating proceedings. Companies have entrusted Mr. Woo to handle the deep technical issues in intellectual property matters of commercial significance. Among other accomplishments, he was counsel in the first inter partes review (IPR) proceeding resulting in a successful final determination invalidating claims of the patent at issue. Mr. Woo’s technical areas include all forms of electrical and electronic arts, including computer architecture, storage systems and networks, server networks and architecture, microprocessors, memories, software and internet applications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, security, cryptography, telecommunications, wireless, interactive television and electronic program guides, satellites, business methods, semiconductor design and processing, semiconductor packaging, circuit design, electric and hybrid vehicles, autonomous vehicles and medical devices.

Robert Zaffrann