Valerie E. Brown

Martin Brigham has devoted his legal career to representing victims of unsafe products and of corporate negligence. His talent in the field of products liability is recognized year after year by The Best Lawyers in America©, the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and Super Lawyers. He is the only Philadelphia plaintiff’s attorney selected by corporate and insurance counsel for listing in the “World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers.” As lead trial counsel in ov...

Joseph E. Mayk is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Financial Services Regulation Law. Joseph E., who practices law in West Chester, Pennsylvania, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Joseph E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Real estate and business attorney Michael V. Naseef joined Gawthrop Greenwood as a partner in 2024, less than a year after the law firm became one of the largest to support homeowners associations (HOAs), planned communities, condominium associations and cooperatives across Pennsylvania in the residential and commercial arena. With more than 24 years of experience practicing in real estate and business law, Michael has represented developers, builders and investors in residential and commerci...

Allison M. Brown is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants. Allison M., who practices law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Allison M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jennifer W. Karpchuk represents companies and individuals in various matters related to state and local taxation, with an emphasis on the minimization of state and local tax obligations. She has extensive experience handling state and local tax matters, including those related to: corporate income taxes, franchise taxes, gross receipts taxes, excise taxes, personal income taxes, sales and use taxes, business privilege taxes, and real estate taxes. Jennifer serves in a number of leadership rol...

Dianne Coady Fisher serves as bond counsel and underwriters' counsel on a variety of private activity tax-exempt financings, including single-family mortgage bonds, multifamily housing bonds, and health care financings. Additionally, she serves as borrowers' counsel in acquisitions of bond-financed multifamily housing projects and debt restructurings, including unsecured REIT borrowings. Dianne also acts as counsel to bond purchasers in private placement of multifamily housing bonds for new c...

For more than two decades, Fredric S. Eisenberg has worked relentlessly in protecting the rights of seriously injured victims. After graduating in 1984 from the University of Pennsylvania, he attended and graduated law school at Temple University School of Law in 1987. Mr. Eisenberg spent the first five years of his career at Labaton Sucharow in New York City, representing individuals and families who suffered financial hardship as a result of corporate misconduct in high-profile securities c...

With over 40 years of experience, Martina Walsh McLaughlin has a distinguished career and stellar reputation representing clients in a wide variety of complex civil litigation cases, including medical malpractice, product liability, highway design, and dram shop cases. She has represented many families who suffered devastating losses, including a new father whose wife died in childbirth, parents of a healthy newborn who suffered brain damage only hours after birth, the mother of a constructio...

Deborah R. Willig has served as Willig, Williams & Davidson’s managing partner since the firm’s founding in 1979. A determined advocate for workers, Deborah has focused her practice on labor relations and employment law since 1976. As a labor and employment attorney, Deborah has been involved in representing a wide range of labor unions including teachers, and non-professional public school employees, public health, social, and recreation workers, firefighters, teamsters and o...

Emily Ashe is an associate in the firm’s Mass Tort Department. She concentrates her practice on defective medical devices, pharmaceutical drug cases and vaccine injury lawsuits .