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Lori Mince is a partner in Fishman Haygood’s Litigation Section. She practices in the areas of commercial litigation, media law, and tax litigation. In her commercial litigation practice, Lori has represented clients in a variety of matters, including class actions and commercial disputes involving GoAuto Insurance, LLC; LCMC Health; Wallace Drennan, Inc.; Rouses Enterprises; H&E Equipment Services, Inc.; Stirling Properties; Lloyd’s of London; and ASM Global, LLC, the company...
Chris Muirhead concentrates his practice in the area of public finance. For more than twenty years, numerous New Mexico municipalities and counties have relied on Chris for advice on their public financing matters such as general obligation bonds, gross receipts tax revenue bonds, utility system revenue bonds, special district financings, and economic development projects. He serves as general counsel and issuer’s counsel for the New Mexico Hospital Equipment Loan Council, a state-wide ...
Bryan Hickey, a shareholder and intellectual property attorney in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's Greenville office, blends a background of law and engineering to help domestic and international businesses and individuals acquire and use intellectual property, engineering and technology assets and resolve complex disputes. He assists in brand and trademark matters, internet business, intellectual property in mergers, acquisitions and company name and brand changes, technology litigation and arbitra...
Stuart D. Levi is co-head of Skadden’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group, and coordinates the firm’s outsourcing and privacy practices. He has a broad and diverse practice that includes outsourcing transactions, technology and intellectual property licensing, privacy and cyber security advice, branding and distribution agreements, cloud computing agreements, technology transfers, strategic alliances and joint ventures. Mr. Levi also counsels clients on a variety of issues...
Michael A. D’Amico As a dedicated trial lawyer in personal injury and medical malpractice, Mike is an active member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. Mike is the Immediate Past President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (2016-2017), serves on its Board of Governors and on its Executive, Medical Malpractice and Legislative Committees. Mike is a past member of the National Advisory Board of the Association of Plaintiff Inter...
Clayton Riddle is a Shareholder in the Litigation and Risk Management Practice Group. He focuses his practice on product liability, professional liability, transportation and trucking accidents, construction defects, fire cause and origin determination, premises liability and personal injury defense. Clayton is a Member and serves as a Wisconsin Firm Liaison for The Harmonie Group. He is also a member of the Wisconsin Defense Counsel and the National Retail and Restaurant Defense Association....
Harold Stephens is a litigation attorney in the firm's Huntsville office. He began his practice in 1980 as an Assistant United States Attorney in Birmingham. For more than twenty years, he has handled a variety of civil litigation, both at the trial and appellate level. In his litigation practice, Harold has defended numerous products liability claims involving forklifts, chainsaws, logging equipment, medical devices, computer software and hardware, punch presses, farm equipment, electrical d...
Ms. Haywood's law practice is devoted to representing private property owners in land condemnation cases. She graduated in 1977 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in International Studies. In 1982, she received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. After practicing for several years with a private law firm, Ms. Haywood went to work with the North Carolina Attorney General's office in Raleigh. F...
Robert J. Keach is co-chair of Bernstein Shur’s Business Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a Past President (2009-2010) of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Bob is also the co-chair of the ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. Bob focuses on the representation of various parties in workouts and bankruptcy cases, including debtors, creditors, creditors committees, lessors and third parties acquiring ...
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Janet Amburgey is a Board Certified Specialist in Family Law. Since graduating from Appalachian School of Law in 2008 she has focused her practice exclusively on family law matters, assisting people through family chaos, ensuring the protection of their rights and property and helping to blend and expand families. She has represented clients in divorce and separation with issues surrounding child custody, child support, alimony, and in property settlement matters. She also assists families th...
Ralph (Skip) McBride serves as Of Counsel for The Lanier Law Firm in the Houston office. During his more than 40 years in legal practice Mr. McBride has focused his practice on the representation of banks, energy companies and insurance companies in commercial and contract disputes. As a member of The Lanier Law Firm team, Mr. McBride continues to represent commercial clients and individuals in real estate disputes, products liability lawsuits, oil and gas disputes, personal injury cases, con...
With over twenty-five years of practice, Steven N. Williams has handled successfully and with distinction, all aspects of litigation and trial in state and federal courts, and in private arbitration. Steve has played a lead role in many of the most prominent antitrust class cases litigated in the United States over the last decade, including: In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation , In re Static Random Access Memory Litigation , Precision Associates v. Panalpina World Transport , and In ...
Kate Cruickshank is a shareholder and member of the firm’s Restructuring Practice. She has more than 25 years of experience representing corporations and individuals in financial distress, both in and out of bankruptcy. Kate often represents debtors and trustees in complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases and in the litigation arising from those proceedings. She also represents companies and individuals in out-of-court restructurings and in state and federal court litigation. Kate has fre...
Anne Kim is a tax partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Anne has a broad-based practice and handles a wide range of complex transactions, advising private equity funds, public and private companies and publicly traded partnerships on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, cross-border transactions, formation of joint ventures and capital markets and debt financings. Anne has been recognized for her work in tax by Chambers USA every year ...
Brian is a trial lawyer born and raised in Iowa. Brian has dedicated his life to fighting for and giving voice to victims of medical malpractice, car crashes, defective products and other types of negligence or carelessness. Over the course of his career, Brian has recovered tens of millions of dollars for his clients through settlement and verdicts at trial. After obtaining his B.A. at Colorado College, a top tier liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Brian returned home to Iow...
Andrew’s practice focuses on wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases resulting from dangerous products, police shootings, ski accidents, medical malpractice, big-rig collisions, and automobile/motorcycle accidents. He also handles cases involving negligent security, premises liability, and dangerous conditions of property. Andrew graduated magna cum laude with a degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received numerous acad...
Following in the footsteps of his father, firm founder Reese Joye, Mark Joye is now head of the litigation department and represents those who have been injured by defective products, in car crashes, and in tractor-trailer collisions. In 1997, Mark represented the parents of Sergio Jimenez, who was ejected from the back of a Chrysler minivan in an accident and killed. The case resulted in a $262.5 million verdict for the family and is one of the largest personal injury verdicts in South Carol...
With a legal career spanning more than 30 years, Mark Ticer maintains an aggressive practice focusing on matters involving insurance coverage, business disputes, legal malpractice and consumer law. While Mr. Ticer has frequently represented policyholders, he also counts insurers and claims representatives among his clients. He believes attorneys should hold themselves to the highest ethical standards and be held accountable when they are found to have committed wrongdoing and so has maintaine...
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