About Us

Jeff S. Korek has been a partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, P.C. since 1992 and is a leading litigator in medical malpractice, product liability and construction accident cases for the firm. Mr. Korek is a Past President of both the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the New York City Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been appointed by the past three consecutive Presiding Justices of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, to the Committe...

Stephen M. Forte is the Managing Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. In his role as Managing Partner and Chairman, Steve oversees the strategic growth and direction of the firm by cultivating strong relationships with clients and the community. As a leader, he understands the importance of being connected to the business community in order to develop a strategy for the anticipated business needs of the firm’s clients. With more than 35 years ...

Bob Van Brocklin is a partner and immediate past Managing Partner of the firm (2008-2015). Prior to becoming Firm Managing Partner, Bob chaired Stoel Rives' Land Use, Environmental, Natural Resource, and Real Estate practice group firm wide. He concentrates his practice in real estate and energy development, including on complex project siting and administrative law and policy matters. Bob has represented industrial, commercial, retail, public institutions, private colleges, mixed use, natura...

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...

Kriton is an expert in Intellectual Property Law and Antipiracy issues, as well as in International Corporate Litigation, White Collar Crime and Asset Recovery. He has represented in many occasions MPAA, the Greek Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Association, major film studios, Dassault Systemes, Warner the International Amnesty a.o. He has also been representing many major players of the Greek entertainment industry and prominent Greek authors, composers, directors and artists.

As a Managing Partner and Senior Lawyer of FINA LLP Law Firm, Nariman Ramazanov participated in various oil and gas related negotiations, provided foreign oil companies conducting their business activity under the specific Azeri PSA (“Production Sharing Agreements) tax regime with consultations on various aspects of the acting Azeri legislation, particularly on the issues of incorporation, taxation and labour. Ramazanov also provided foreign investors with the corresponding legal advice invol...

Bob Clifford is the founder of Clifford Law Offices, which concentrates its practice in helping victims of personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters. Bob regularly handles complex damage cases and routinely receives multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements. He's also an advocate for the consumer and has filed several class actions, holding companies accountable for their defective products...

Jose Quiñones has extensive local and international experience advising foreign financial institutions in structured finance deals, sovereign bond offerings in international capital markets, cross-border transactions and its tax implications, mergers and acquisitions and complex project finance deals involving local and foreign banks and financial institutions and/or borrowers. He is often retained to advice on business and corporate strategy, serves as advisor to boards of financial institut...

Mr. Chen serves as FBC’s Managing Partner and heads the Real Estate and Planning & Zoning Department. He focuses on the planning and execution of large-scale and complex real estate projects, real estate-related financing, and real property tax matters. Mr. Chen is recognized as one of Israel’s leading deal-makers and is consistently ranked by international and domestic indices as one of the pre-eminent Israeli real estate attorneys. He advises and comments upon legislation in the real es...

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...

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...