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Andrew Sommerman represents clients in personal injury cases. A highly experienced trial lawyer, Andrew specializes in catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and defective product cases. Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization , Andrew has tried numerous complex cases involving car accidents, truck wrecks, house and apartment fires, slip and falls, and workplace injuries. He is an advocate for victims of damaging pharmaceutical drugs such as Yaz...

Mr. Young is an employment lawyer and civil litigator who represents individuals and companies in the financial, medical, aviation, entertainment, and technology industries. Mr. Young also has significant experience representing teachers, administrators, professors and other employees working for public and private schools and universities, and he regularly represents non-profit institutions and employees working for non-profit organizations. Mr. Young represents both employees and employers ...

John is board-certified in appellate practice by The Florida Bar, is a member of the American Law Institute, and has argued before all of Florida’s state and federal appellate courts—including the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition to representing parties, he has represented various amici curiae (friends of the court), and wrote an amicus brief in the landmark age discrimination case Smith v. City of Jackson, presenting an entirely novel textual argument that the Supr...

Justin R. Barnes is office managing principal of the Atlanta, Georgia, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He is the co-leader of the Wage and Hour practice group. He represents employers in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies on a variety of labor and employment related issues, focusing on collective and class action wage and hour disputes and complex single plaintiff wage and benefit disputes. Justin’s practice is focused primarily on defending complex wage and hour c...

Todd Butler represents clients in matters involving employment, civil rights and appellate issues. He is general counsel to the Mississippi Municipal Liability Plan, the Mississippi Municipal Workers’ Compensation Group, and the Mississippi Municipal Service Company. Todd has successfully represented municipalities, law enforcement officers and companies, serving as counsel in nearly 100 reported decisions and having presented oral arguments in both federal and state courts throughout t...

Scott H. Tucker is head of the firm’s Railroad Practice Group. He and his section represents the two largest Class One freight railroads in the country and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in their Arkansas litigation. He has extensive experience representing railroads in cases involving grade crossing accidents, employee injuries, and trespasser strikes. Scott is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in Arkansas’s Top Lawyers in AYMagazine for Railroad Law...

Richard K. Howell is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation. Richard K., who practices law in Irvine, California, has been recognized since 2018. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Richard K. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Gerald Serlin, a founding partner of Benedon & Serlin LLP, is a distinguished appellate attorney with nearly four decades of experience. As the current managing partner of B&S, one of Southern California’s premier appellate boutique law firms, Gerald’s practice spans a wide range of substantive areas, such as employment, contracts, civil rights, torts, arbitration, and anti-SLAPP. Gerald actively contributes to a number of professional organizations, including the Los Ange...

Aaron V. Burrell is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation, Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor and Employment. Aaron V., who practices law in Detroit, Michigan, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Aaron V. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Deborah Schmall is widely recognized as one of the leading environmental law practitioners in California. She recently served as the Co-Chair of the Global Environment and Energy Practice at Paul Hastings. She is ranked Band One in Chambers for California Environmental Law. Starting with her career at the U.S. Justice Department’s Environmental Enforcement Section, where she prosecuted civil and criminal enforcement matters under a range of federal environmental laws, Deborah has practi...