About Us

Mr. Burgess currently serves as Dickinson Wright’s Chief Executive Officer where he oversees all aspects of the Firm’s professional and business operations, working closely with practice area leaders and administrative officers. For more than 20 years, served as counsel to secured lenders (including banks, insurance companies, lending syndicates, administrative agents, collateral agents and loan servicers) in all aspects of workouts, restructurings, loan modifications and enforcem...

Deborah is Thompson Hine's firmwide managing partner. In this capacity, she serves as the firm's chief executive officer. She is also a member of the firm's Executive Committee, the principal governing body responsible for its strategic direction, financial affairs and the oversight of its seven-office operations. Deborah also spends some of her time as a practicing lawyer in the tax exempt, nonprofit corporate, and health care areas. She functions as outside general counsel to two large exem...

Fernando Peláez-Pier has been a partner of Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque since 1977. He has been responsible for setting up the London Office and Director of European Offices (Paris and London) of Bomchil, Castro, Goodrich, Claro, Arosemena & Associates, 1972-1976. His areas of practice are contracts, mergers and acquisitions, general counseling, integral patents, prosecution, telecommunications, information technology and e-commerce, trade, investments, finance, exchange control regul...

John J. Soroko is currently the Chairman Emeritus and has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Duane Morris since 2008. As of January 2018, Soroko will become Chairman Emeritus and will return on a full-time basis to his litigation, appellate and mediation practice. He practices in the area of litigation, including appellate law, with particular emphasis on general business, corporate and securities matters, including the defense of securities and other class actions. He also prac...

Colleen Tracy James joined the firm’s New York office in 2018. Colleen “is a top tier litigator. She has great instincts for litigations and is an excellent strategist. I value her insights immensely” Best Lawyers. Representing companies in the Life Sciences Industry, Colleen Tracy James focuses her practice on patent infringement litigation, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and other complex intellectual property litigation. She has extensive experience litigating against gen...

Lord Brennan QC has been a Queen’s Counsel since 1985 and is a senior associate member of Matrix. His areas of expertise include commercial law, public and private international law and international arbitration. Lord Brennan QC, as an appointed life peer, is active in politics as well as dedicating time to his incredibly varied legal practice. His most notable case during 2009 was the landmark civil Omagh bombing case. The outcome, in favour of his clients – relatives of those ki...

Patrick Dunican is the Chairman and Managing Director of the firm and a member of the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Department. Before joining the firm, Mr. Dunican clerked for the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Krzysztof A. Zakrzewski is one of the Law Firm’s founders and Managing Partner since 1999. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, privatization, capital markets and the trade in securities, as well as commercial and civil law and has been recommended as a leading expert in these areas by Polish and foreign publications.

Frank Darras has dedicated his life to helping the sick, disabled, and elderly recover their unreasonably delayed and wrongfully denied disability insurance benefits. He has seen, evaluated, litigated, and resolved more disability and long-term care cases than any firm in the United States. Darras' tireless work advocating for the disabled has led to stellar results for his clients and earned him the respect of the insurance industry. His firm DarrasLaw has recovered $800 million in wrongfull...

Paul Theiss is Chairman of Mayer Brown. He has served on the firm’s Management Committee since 2009 and previously served as a co-leader of the firm’s global Corporate & Securities practice. He joined Mayer Brown in 1985. Paul practices corporate law focusing on a broad spectrum of mergers and acquisitions and capital markets work. He advises clients on both public and private mergers and acquisitions, and serves as general outside counsel to numerous companies as they develop...

Henry Walker serves as the Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. In this role, he serves as the firm’s chief executive officer overseeing the strategic direction and growth of the firm. Mr. Walker leads the firm’s Executive and Management Committees working closely with them to define and execute the firm’s strategic and operational objectives. Prior to his election to Chair, he served as the firm’s Managing Partner.

Pedro Freitas has extensive experience advising on corporate law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure, and deep specific knowledge about the mining, construction, project finance, energy and natural resources, acquired in years of practice as a consultant internal and external. Pedro Freitas joined Odebrecht as Legal Director of the construction industry, working in the areas of regulatory law, public procurement, corporate, litigation estratégivo financing and c...