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William A. Waddell Jr. is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group. Bill’s work is focused on litigation and other representation for banks, insurance companies, healthcare entities, and other businesses. He has deep experience in class actions, bet-the-company jury trials, and regulatory litigation.

Amanda C. Waddell is a member of Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell PLC, where she focuses her practice on healthcare liability defense and professional liability defense. Her work includes the defense of physicians, hospitals, healthcare providers, and legal professionals in Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Amanda represents clients throughout Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi in state and federal trial courts, appellate courts, multi-district litiga...

Area of Emphasis Matthew Moses is a shareholder in Babst Calland’s Corporate and Commercial Group and is a member of, and past co-chair of, its Energy and Natural Resources Group. Mr. Moses’ practice includes business structuring and governance; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, particularly dealing with environmentally-challenged assets; real estate transactions and development; information technology; and routine and complex commercial contracts in (among other areas) proc...

Ryan S. Stippich is a shareholder in the firm’s Litigation Practice, as well as a member of the White Collar Litigation and Corporate Compliance Group and Reinhart Institutional Investor Services. He represents clients in a wide range of complex civil and criminal matters at both the trial and appellate levels. Ryan focuses his litigation practice in the areas of securities litigation, shareholder disputes, professional liability litigation, other business torts and class actions. Ryan ...

John's practice focuses on the representation of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), closed-end funds and business development companies (BDCs) and their independent board members. He advises clients on a range of matters, including the formation, operation, merger and liquidation of mutual funds, closed-end funds, ETFs, and BDCs. John has extensive experience working on transactions involving registered funds, such as adviser acquisitions, fund adoptions and product launches.

Brian E. McKinley is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Family Law. Brian E. practices law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Best Lawyers has recognized Brian E. McKinley since 2024. 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 Brian E. McKinley is held by other lawyers.

Vivian Hanson is Co-Head of the U.S. Sourcing Group. Her practice is focused primarily on complex, large-scale outsourcing transactions, as well as domestic and cross-border transactions involving the transfer of intellectual property rights in a variety of industries, including information services, information technologies, financial services, life sciences, new media, and entertainment. She also advises Japanese clients and is fluent in Japanese. She has extensive experience in outsourcing...

Bob Collie serves as bond, disclosure, and underwriters’ counsel in tax-exempt bond transactions for clients including cities, counties, school districts, and special authorities throughout Texas. He has also worked on education, transportation, utility, aviation, port, convention center, and sports facility financings. Bob draws on his experience as City Attorney of Houston to represent local governments as special counsel in joint public/private development, election, redistricting, a...

Victoria Lehman manages all aspects of litigation and serves as trial counsel for the defense of hospitals and healthcare providers in medical malpractice litigation, premises liability and general negligence claims. Her practice focuses primarily on the defense of healthcare providers and health systems in all facets of litigation, from initial investigation through trial. She has significant experience managing high exposure claims, with a strong emphasis on pre-suit resolution and alternat...

Jeffrey R. Lamb is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Jeffrey R. practices law in Los Angeles, California Best Lawyers has recognized Jeffrey R. Lamb since 2023. 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 Jeffrey R. Lamb is held by o...