Highlighted Lawyers & Firms
The Year’s Best in the Eyes of Their Peers
“Lawyer of the Year” Honorees
JOHN (JACK) SCAROLA graduated with honors from Georgetown University in 1969 and from Georgetown Law Center in 1973. Before joining the firm in 1978, he was Chief Felony Prosecutor in the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office, where he was lead counsel in the trials of more than 50 major criminal cases, including the nation’s first gavel-to-gavel televised murder trial. Mr. Scarola is Board Certified in both Civil Trial Practice and Commercial & Business Litigation. While ...
Melanie Howard’s practice focuses on the acquisition, protection, licensing, exploitation and sale of intangible assets for major brands and individual talent. Known for her business-minded approach, she represents clients across a variety of industries, including fashion and luxury retail, esports, automotive, technology, entertainment and media, and financial. Clients regularly turn to Melanie for strategic brand protection guidance and counsel on data privacy matters in the context o...
Stephanie E. Grana, partner of the personal injury law firm of Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci, has been fighting for individuals and families for over 30 years. Stephanie has a proven track record of securing fair compensation on behalf of the injured and has obtained more than 85 verdicts and settlements of over $1 million. Her professional integrity and ability to secure results for her clients has earned her an AV® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, a leading lawyer rating directory. She...
Alan G. Towner focuses his practice on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Alan serves as Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Alan regularly handles matters including preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications, patentability opinions, patent infringement and validity studies, trademark clearance opinions, patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation, and general intellec...
Terri L. Pastori is a partner with Pastori | Krans, PLLC. Her employment practice involves counseling and representing employees and employers in the full spectrum of employment matters. Terri advises clients on employment and severance agreements, employee discipline, compliance with employment laws, including wage and hour matters, terminations, investigation of complaints, governmental audits, drafting and implementing policies and practices, training, in-house dispute resolution, and clai...
"Ones to Watch" Recipients
Ryan is a partner whose legal practice focuses on business litigation; criminal defense; domestic matters which including divorce, adoption, and contested guardianship custody; and probate litigation which includes will contest, trust contest, and tortious interference. Other areas of focus include personal injury litigation and estate matters. Ryan has been lead counsel in a wide range of cases and has extensive jury and bench trial experience. Ryan is a 2020 Indiana Rising Star for exhibiti...
Bernadette Kasnicki concentrates on tax and corporate law. She advises business clients on a range of tax matters relating to corporations, LLCs, partnerships, public charities and private foundations. She drafts and negotiates transactional documents, including acquisition agreements, merger agreements, operating agreements and shareholders’ agreements. Bernadette also represents not-for-profit and tax-exempt organizations. She has extensive experience petitioning the Attorney General&...
Jen is an experienced and compassionate criminal defense attorney whose practice focuses on achieving the best possible outcome for each client. While she appreciates that each case is unique, she knows that zealous advocacy always starts with the same thing: compassionately listening to her client. She understands that trust is the cornerstone of any attorney-client relationship and takes great care to establish trust with each client through thoughtful and clear communication. Over the cour...
Katie C. Gose’s practice focuses on estates, trusts and tax planning for high net worth clients. She has experience drafting and administering dynasty trusts, supervising trust administrations, preparing federal estate and gift tax returns and working with private foundations. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/gose-kathryn/
Highlighted Firms
The Rockefeller Group
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Mutual of Omaha
Office Depot
Sumitomo Chemical