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James Williams is a partner in the firm's Litigation practice. He has been trying cases and managing litigation for over 25 years as a government attorney and a private practitioner. James graduated in 1985 from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, with honors, and earned his law degree in 1988 from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, he served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Air Force before moving to Seattle and joining Perkins Coie in 1993. H...

Stephan D. Blandin is a principal and partner in Romanucci & Blandin LLC, a Chicago-based personal injury firm. Since co-founding the firm in 1998, Mr. Blandin has focused his practice on catastrophic plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death cases involving motor vehicle and airplane crashes, medical negligence, product liability and workplace accidents. He also has a particular passion for birth injury cases in Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. At Romanucci & Blandin, Mr. ...

Dodd is a business lawyer with a background in corporate, tax, securities and real estate law. He works with a wide range of business clients, including financial institutions, venture-backed companies, venture capital investors, and non-profit institutions. He uses a variety of financing techniques, including debt, equity, and tax-advantaged investment structures, to help clients organize, structure and capitalize their businesses. He provides advice on the design, implementation and operati...

Ben Harris is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. He represents financial institutions in complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and related disputes. Ben has more than 30 years of experience in commercial litigation. He began his career as a clerk to the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before practicing in Washington, DC, first with the General Counsel’s Office of the Federal Trade Commission and later with Williams & C...

Paul Oosterhuis is a senior international tax partner representing clients on a wide range of international and U.S. tax matters. Mr. Oosterhuis has extensive experience in international mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration transactions, spin-offs, internal restructurings and joint venture transactions. He also represents multinational companies in nontransactional international tax planning and IRS controversy matters. In recent transactions, Mr. Oosterhuis has represented:...

Rosalyn “Sia" Baker-Barnes is a Shareholder at Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., and the Chairperson of the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. In her over 20-year career, she has successfully pursued justice for victims in personal injury, medical negligence and product liability cases and frequently lectures throughout the United States on catastrophic injury cases. She has achieved numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, includi...

Cindy Saiter is a litigation attorney with Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP in Austin, Texas. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and litigation involving trusts and estates, including disputes related to fiduciary duties, probate matters, officer and director liability, and legal malpractice defense. Cindy represents individuals, businesses, and companies in Austin’s technology and emerging growth sectors in matters involving fraud claims, breach of licensing agreem...

https://kostelanetz.com/profile/caroline-rule/ Caroline was born in Zimbabwe. Caroline’s winning record includes cases involving alleged tax fraud, tax evasion, failure to file tax returns and related tax forms, money laundering, and other white collar controversies. Caroline has achieved outstanding results for individuals and corporations under criminal investigation by the IRS and other governmental and regulatory agencies, as well as by state and federal prosecutors’ offices i...

Andrew M. Alul is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Litigation - Intellectual Property. Andrew M. practices law in Chicago, Illinois Best Lawyers has recognized Andrew M. Alul since 2020. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Andrew M. Alul is held by other lawyers.

Akiba Stern has advised clients for 30 years in all aspects of business law, both as in-house counsel and at law firms. Akiba concentrates his practice on outsourcing, technology-enabled business transactions, e-commerce, technology transfers, licensing, intellectual property and joint ventures. He also specializes in transactions involving the commercialization of intellectual property. Akiba helps his clients with outsourcing transactions and strategic alliances, as well as with structuring...