About Us

Ted Mayer is a member of the firm's Executive Committee and its Compensation Committee. He formerly chaired the firm's Litigation Department and his practice focuses on product liability and on complex litigation generally. Mr. Mayer’s product liability work has included leading successful defense efforts in many of the largest and most complex tort litigations in the US over the past three decades as well as in many individual cases. He has coordinated the national defense of several m...

Marko J. Mrkonich focuses his practice on discrimination and other employment litigation, client counseling, and traditional labor law issues. Marko represents clients in federal and state jury and bench trials, in appellate courts and in administrative hearings before federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. He also handles labor arbitrations and...

William Perlstein is a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group, and a former co-managing partner of the firm. Among his many professional activities, Mr. Perlstein is a Fellow and Counsel to the American College of Bankruptcy.

James Rishwain, an accomplished Pillsbury partner, has served as a preeminent legal adviser to global market leaders, Fortune 100 companies, real estate companies, professional service firms, family offices and corporate boards. Jim served more than a decade as Pillsbury’s Chair and CEO. Before becoming Firm Chair and CEO, he spent a decade as Pillsbury’s Global Head of Real Estate. Jim presently serves as the Global Real Estate and Construction Industry Leader, with real estate and construct...

Mr. John Page serves as Chief Corporate Social Responsibility & Legal Officer at Golden State Foods Corporation and has been its Corporate Senior Vice President since March 23, 2017 also served as its Senior Corporate Vice President until March 23, 2017 and General Counsel. Mr. Page served as Corporate Vice President at Golden State Foods Corporation.

Peter M. Kellett is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dykema. He previously served as Director of the Litigation Department, and prior to that, served as one of the Firm’s practice group leaders. His practice focuses on class action and commercial litigation; automotive industry litigation, and products liability cases. He has tried to verdict consumer class actions, numerous product liability cases involving catastrophic injury or death, and many business disputes.

Roger Quillen is the full-time Chairman and Managing Partner of Fisher Phillips. He is effectively the CEO of an organization with 350 attorneys and an additional support staff of more than 300 people. Roger has continuously led the firm for 15 years. The firm has tripled in size under Roger’s leadership and is consistently recognized as one of the country’s elite labor and employment law firms. He practices appellate practice, employee benefits litigation, railway labor act, reta...

Mr. Sorabjee was designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India in 1971. He was the Attorney General for India 1989-90 and 1998-2004. He also served as Vice-President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and as a Member of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of International Law Association. He was appointed in 2000 as a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague for six years.

Mr. Negri is a partner of Negri, Busso & Fariña Attorneys, a major Argentine law firm, where he practices in the areas of Domestic and International Banking, Financial Transactions, Privatization, and International Mergers and Acquisitions. He received the Argentine Legal Profession Award granted by the Argentine Press Association and the Argentine Federation of Bar Associations in 1990.

Carolina Zang is Partner of Zang, Bergel & Viñes Abogados since 2008 and in May 2013 she was appointed Managing Partner of the firm. Her general corporate practice is focused on capital markets, banking and finance, debt restructuring, M&A, investment funds, real estate, private equity and venture capital transactions.

Casey Ryan represents employers in a wide variety of employment-related disputes, including harassment, retaliation, discrimination, wrongful discharge, equal pay and breach of contract litigation. She has successfully litigated in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and routinely appears before both federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and various state human relations commissions. She also has successfully defended employers in...

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...