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Tyler Bryant Walker is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insurance Law. Tyler Bryant, who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Tyler Bryant is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jeff Whitfield represents businesses and individuals facing a wide variety of legal and policy challenges, including but not limited to contract disputes, election challenges, securities litigation, products and premises liability, international law issues, statutory construction, and questions of constitutionality. Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Whitfield attained the rank of Captain while serving as an active duty Air Force Officer. Following his military service, he worked his...

Kaighn Smith Jr. has been fighting for Tribal Nations and their enterprises in the tribal, federal, and state courts and before federal administrative agencies across the country for over 30 years. He has garnered a national reputation for his committed advocacy for tribal sovereignty, winning cases in a wide range of areas, including jurisdiction disputes, gaming matters, labor and employment relations, and land-in-trust and environmental matters. He regularly teaches federal Indian law as a...

Kathleen Stillman is a partner at Stillman Smith Gadow, with her practice focused solely on family law matters. Ms. Stillman has been a Certified Specialist in Family Law since 2021 and a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) since 2024. She brings to her practice thirteen years of teaching experience, advocating for children, and working with families. Ms. Stillman has received recognition for community service in the area of legal services and regularly serves as a co...

Scott I. Schneider has a wide range of experience in all aspects of a multistate transactional real estate practice, including negotiating retail, office, and other leases for landlords and tenants; representing lenders and borrowers in acquisition, capital improvement, construction, working capital, and permanent loans; representing lenders in workouts of troubled real estate loans; representing purchasers and sellers in the conveyance of commercial and residential properties and the related...

Lawrence S. Lustberg chairs the Gibbons Criminal Defense Department and is a longtime Director of the firm’s John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, which litigates historic, cutting-edge civil rights and civil liberties cases. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1979) and cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School (1983), as well as recipient of the International Graduate School Fellowship at the University of Stockholm (1980), Mr. Lustberg cler...

Joyce Mocek is a Partner and practices in the Labor and Employment and Business Liability and Insurance National Practice Sections at Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP. Ms. Mocek is a nationally recognized litigation lawyer that has represented companies across the United States in a diverse range of labor and employment matters. Her areas of expertise focus on advising and representing major employers, insurers, manufacturers, hospitality companies, and health care providers, with particular st...

Judge Ward served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas for 12 years from September 24, 1999 until his retirement on October 1, 2011. During his 12-year tenure, Judge Ward presided over cases in the Marshall, Tyler, and Texarkana divisions and had one of the heaviest intellectual property dockets in the country. Judge Ward conducted over 150 jury trials, presided over hundreds of patent cases, including Hatch-Waxman cases, and held in excess of 150 claim construc...

Doug Jones is a shareholder in the Tallahassee, Florida office of Carr Allison. He has over 35 years of trial experience and currently defends physicians, nursing homes, hospitals, dentists and other health care professionals in malpractice suits across the state and before state licensing agencies. He has extensive experience defending health care providers against claims involving complex medical issues, punitive damages, fraud and allegations of associated corporate misconduct. Mr. Jones c...

Jay Cusimano is a managing partner with Kaman & Cusimano LLC in Cleveland, Ohio, where his practice focuses on Community Association Law and Real Estate Law. In 2005, Jay became the second attorney from Ohio to be accepted into the national College of Community Association Lawyers. In 2013, he was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in Real Estate Law and Community Association Law, and he has received this peer recognition ea...