About Us

Linda A. Klein is senior managing shareholder at Baker Donelson and recently completed a six-year term on the Firm's Board of Directors. Her practice includes most types of business dispute resolution, including contract law, employment law and professional liability. She has worked extensively with clients in the construction, higher education and pharmaceutical industries.

Mike Chivell serves as chairman of Armstrong Teasdale and focuses on client relations, strategic planning, community relations, and lateral recruitment. From 2007-2016, he served as the firm’s managing partner and chaired its Executive Committee. In this role, Mike oversaw the strategic growth of the firm, including the expansion of the firm into Colorado by combining with a large group of attorneys practicing in the Denver market. His legal practice focuses primarily on general corporate mat...

John Montgomery became a litigation partner in 1985, and served as managing partner of the firm from 2004 through 2012. He retired as a partner on December 31, 2012, but he continues to be active in pro bono and other public interest matters. John focuses on complex civil litigation with an emphasis on trials and appeals in high profile cases involving novel or publicly sensitive issues. His litigation practice has included a variety of complex matters involving securities, pharmaceutical pri...

Kenichi Fujinawa is the Managing Partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, the first law firm in Japan to surpass the 100-lawyer milestone. As of January 1, 2009, the firm has 334 lawyers (inclusive of foreign-licensed lawyers). Mr. Fujinawa focuses his practice in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Bob Lewis serves as Chair of the firm-wide Directors and Officers Practice. Mr. Lewis has more than forty years of experience in the insurance defense field with his practice focusing on complex civil litigation with emphasis in the area of directors and officers liability class action security cases as well as professional liability. He has acted as both coverage and monitoring counsel in numerous class action lawsuits and security class action litigation. His practice focuses on complex civ...

Joseph M. Leccese is the Chairman of Proskauer. In that capacity, he is responsible for leading the Firm’s global operations across its 13 offices. He also is an extremely active practitioner and the co-head of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group. Joe regularly handles matters relating to the acquisition, financing, operation and equity funding of professional sports teams, including the sale of the Buffalo Bills and the acquisition of the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars,...

Terrence O'Donnell's practice has focused on litigation, primarily complex civil and criminal cases involving the representation of business enterprises, members of corporate boards, senior corporate officers, and senior government officials. In addition, he has extensive experience in international dispute resolution, regulatory/administrative disputes, government contract litigation, campaign finance, corporate governance, and non-profit organizations.

A partner and co-chair of the Litigation Department, Theodore V. Wells, Jr. has extensive litigation experience in white-collar defense, complex civil and corporate litigation, SEC regulatory work, healthcare fraud, FCPA, AML and OFAC investigations, environmental matters and class action litigation.

Mary is the Chair of the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board. She is a board member of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Limited and Victorian Legal Admissions Committee. Mary was formerly Chairman of Ashurst Australia and Vice Chairman of Ashurst. She was a partner from 1989-2018. Mary served three terms as Ashurst Australia's (Blake Dawson) elected chairman from 2005-2013 after being an Executive Partner with responsibilit...

As Managing Partner, Steven Sonberg is the chief executive officer of the firm, overseeing the strategic growth and direction of the firm and the management of all aspects of the firm's operations. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Sonberg is a corporate lawyer whose practices have focused on the areas of securities law and mergers and acquisitions. His practice has included the representation of domestic and international businesses in public and private offerings of debt and equity...

With over 13 years of experience as a member of top tier Romanian law firms, Alina has been at the forefront of some of the largest projects and transactions unfolded in Romania, as well as of some of the most significant commercial and investment arbitrations involving Romanian counsels. She is highly experienced in commercial & contract law, corporate and employment matters as well as in mergers & acquisitions, having advised a broad range of high profile private clients and multina...

Dan has a nearly 40-year career in law and business, most notably serving from 1997 until 2007 as senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle under Larry Ellison and from 2007 to 2010 as senior vice president and general counsel of Apple under Steve Jobs. With DLA Piper, he continues to focus on issues related to corporate governance and boards of directors, as well as the role of the general counsel and management of global corporate law departments. Dan also serves as a member of th...