About Us

Russ is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and serves as the firm’s managing partner. Russ engages in the practice of general corporate and contract law, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and initial public offerings (IPO). He acts as general counsel to a variety of public and private corporations. Russ received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and his B.A. from Rutgers University. Russ is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Associ...

Lee Eng Beng has an active practice in commercial litigation and arbitration, with emphasis on banking and financing disputes, debt enforcement and insolvency litigation, shareholders' and joint venture disputes and general commercial disputes. He has also handled a wide range of insolvency and banking advisory work, and the debt restructuring of large businesses and public listed companies. He has published widely in the field of insolvency law and commercial law generally and his articles a...

Joe Fazio is the Principal and Managing Director of Miller Canfield. Joe’s specific areas of expertise include complex commercial real estate acquisitions and developments, with extensive experience in ground leasing, entity formation, public/private development agreements, as well as conventional, securitized and tax-increment financing. Among his many activities, Mr. Fazio sits on the Board of Trustees for the Legacy Land Conservancy.

Benjamin F. Wilson is the Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. He has been lead counsel in many complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer products corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers. He has represented financial bodies on a wide variety of environmental issues pertaining to the sale and ownership of real property, and on wetlands and Endangered Species Act litigation, as well as several complex commerc...

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.

As a Senior Client Advisor within Perkins Coie’s Client Advantage team, Mark leverages his wide-ranging experience to help his general counsel clients innovate, solve problems, understand trends in legal services and bring value to the law firm-client relationship. Clients in both public and private sectors turn to Mark Roellig for his decades of experience at the highest levels of Fortune 500 companies. Armed with best practices and deep knowledge, he advises general counsel and their senior...

Gary Wingens is Chairman and Managing Partner of Lowenstein Sandler. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Media of New Jersey and the Council of Trustees of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (where he also serves as outside counsel).

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...

Ed O’Keefe, former General Counsel of Bank of America Corporation, advises and represents financial institutions. Having also headed or served as a senior executive with the bank’s compliance, technology, human resources and operations functions, Ed’s broad experience includes all aspects of litigation, regulatory compliance, governance, cybersecurity, risk management and compensation, including the structuring and management of pension and equity plans.

Jaime Carey is Managing Partner of Carey y Cía, the largest law firm in Chile. He was also Chair of the World Services Group 2004-2005. Mr. Carey practices in the areas of corporate law, leases and leasing, banks and banking, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation.

In addition to his management responsibilities, James Lehman practices in the areas of business and securities litigation, white collar investigations, and professional liability. Mr. Lehman has also served in senior executive management positions. In 2001, he joined Safety-Kleen as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, which at the time was one of the largest bankruptcies in US history.

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...