About Us

Kenneth M. Doran is the Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn LLP and serves as the Chairman of the Firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, leveraged buy-outs and "going private" transactions, cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations and other restructurings. Mr. Doran regularly counsels clients regarding corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties and o...

Michelle C. Ifill is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Verizon’s Services Operations & Technologies units, responsible for primary legal oversight and support of the Verizon Corporate Information Technology Organization and the Chief Administrative Office, including Sourcing, Real Estate and Fleet Management. Ms. Ifill’s team also has primary responsibility for a variety of intellectual property areas, including copyright, trademark, and patent licensing.

Brad Brian is a national trial lawyer and Co-Managing Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson. He specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Brian has been active in the leadership of the ABA Litigation Section since 1986, and served as the chair of the section in 2005-2006. In addition to his practice, he is current chairman of the RAND Civil Justice Institute and is a past president of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Foundation.

Because of his expertise in personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort and product liability cases, Brian Panish has been appointed to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Steering and Executive committees in numerous high profile mass torts and major disaster cases. He is a member of the American Bar Association (formerly a Litigation Section Board Member), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (formerly on the Board of Governors), and the Consumer Attorneys of California (formerly on ...

Wade Cooper is the firmwide Managing Partner of Jackson Walker. His duties are those of the Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and he chairs two of the major committees of the partnership: the Management Committee and the Compensation Committee. In his legal practice, Mr. Cooper has handled substantial commercial litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy matters in Texas, and in federal and bankruptcy courts in a number of other states. His clients include telecommunications carriers, nationa...

Mr. Dannhauser is now retired. He joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in 1975. He was named as the Firm's Executive Partner in 1989, becoming Chairman in 2002, a position he held through the end of 2012. Mr. Dannhauser continued in a consulting capacity through 2015 endeavoring to expose his client and community relationships to the Firm. He played a key role in crafting and executing the business strategies that catapulted Weil into the top tier of international law firms, expanding from i...

Along with being Of Counsel at Beiten Burkhardt, Dr. Jack Schiffer is a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. His area of activity comprises mergers & acquisitions, company, transformation and group law, management of annual general meetings, as well as private equity and alternative investments. He particularly advises his national and international clients on cross-border transactions, company law restructurings and corporate litigation. Focus industries are automotive suppl...

John Tishler has over 25 years of experience. An insolvency and restructuring attorney by trade, John deals in both the transactional and litigation arenas. He focuses mainly on corporate insolvency/board advice, creditor's rights, financial services, and defaulted bonds.

Kenneth Van Winkle is a member of the firm's Real Estate Transactional Group and focuses his practice on real estate leasing; real estate equity and debt financing; and real estate sales and acquisitions. He has represented many institutional clients in acquiring and disposing of developed and undeveloped multifamily residential, single family residential, commercial, retail and industrial real estate. He has experience handling the joint venture and purchase and sale of multifamily products,...

William B. Solomon, Jr. (Retired) joined Ally Financial in 1999 to serve as general counsel; he was named group vice president in 2004. In this role, he had responsibility for providing all legal services to Ally through the oversight of outside counsel and legal staff. Solomon was also responsible for the secretary’s office, the licensing department and the organization’s record and information management activity. Solomon retired from Ally Financial effective Sept. 30, 2016.

For more than 40 years, Dallas attorney Frank L. Branson has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to victims of dangerous products, commercial airplane crashes, injuries from gas explosions or electric burns, medical negligence, major trucking accidents, and industrial catastrophes. He and the legal team at The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson also successfully pursued companies and corporate representatives in high-stakes business disputes. In addition to accepting referrals from other lawye...

Regina M. Pisa is the Chairman Emeritus of Goodwin Procter LLP, a leading Global 50 law firm with more than 900 attorneys, serving clients from locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Ms. Pisa led the firm as Chairman, and before that also as Managing Partner, for more than 16 years, from 1998 through September 2014. Her practices include banking, higher education, financial institutions, and M&A/corporate governance.