Publications

Lincoln is a founding partner of Connelly Law Offices. He is a seasoned plaintiff trial lawyer with an in-depth knowledge of personal injury, civil rights and insurance bad faith law. Lincoln’s track record lists dozens of jury trials and settlements that far exceed multi-million dollar results on behalf of his clients. His powerful courtroom reputation brings him some of the best, most complicated cases in Washington state. He has a passion for taking on cases that involve the abuse of...

Joseph D. Pickles is a partner with Orr | Cook and is a civil litigator with significant experience handling jury and non-jury trials, as well as matters in arbitration. Joseph has practiced in both Federal and state courts throughout the state of Florida. In addition to general complex litigation matters, Joseph focuses his practice on business and commercial litigation and probate and trust litigation. Joseph has represented clients in partnership, corporate, real estate, and contract dispu...

Out of well over 1000 civil trial attorneys in North Florida, Michael Fox Orr was recognized by Attorney-at-Law Magazine as one of the “top 8 civil litigators.” Michael tries civil jury and bench trials primarily in the area of complex commercial and civil litigation with significant damages at issue. Most of his cases involving situations where the company could be bankrupted or an individual stands to lose their net worth. His experience and success as a civil trial lawyer has l...

Charles R. Haskins (Chuck) concentrates his practice on medical malpractice, products liability, and premises liability litigation. Chuck has worked at Clifford Law Offices for a number of years. Starting as a clerk, his commitment to his work and dedication to the law was immediately recognized. Chuck decided to work at Clifford Law Offices because of his interest in helping the injured, those who are in their most desperate times of need, and he does so with a calm, studied manner as he app...

Craig Squillace has worked for a number of years on various cases, particularly vehicular accident cases, at Clifford Law Offices. He also has worked on claims due to medical negligence, product liability, transportation litigation, and municipal liability. In 2015, he obtained a record $4 million settlement in Will County on behalf of a family who lost their 60-year-old mother in a tragic trucking crash. He was part of the Clifford Law Offices team that reached a settlement with a major auto...

The Honorable Henry R. Simmons (Ret.) is Managing Partner at Clifford Law Offices. He joined the firm in 2014 coming from ADR Systems of America, one of the top mediation services in the country, where he served as a Senior Mediator and Arbitrator for three years. He also worked as a Special Master and Neutral Fact Finder for ADR Systems. His experience in personal injury and multi-party disputes serves him well in running the 20+ lawyer firm at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago. He is known th...

As a trial lawyer, Jim’s philosophy on litigation is based on integrity and hard work for his clients. True to his roots as a prosecutor, Jim values fighting for justice on behalf of those people harmed and always acts with a sense of urgency to hold wrongdoers accountable. While at Clifford Law Offices, Jim has worked on behalf of many individuals and families whose lives have been forever impacted. As the youngest of six children born and raised on Chicago’s Southside, Jim learn...

Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, John grew up working in his family’s restaurant and then stayed local attending both Northwestern University (B.A.) and Notre Dame Law School (J.D.). As a first generation Greek American, John witnessed the difficulties that immigrants can experience while adapting to a new culture. He also experienced the importance of community in helping people to assimilate and understand how to become part of that new culture. He is fluent in Greek and has b...

ATTORNEY FOR PRODUCT LIABILITY AND AVIATION LAW Richard Burke is a partner at Clifford Law Offices. He is an outstanding product liability attorney and one of the most respected aviation liability attorneys in Chicago. Mr. Burke is experienced in many complex practice areas including medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, heavy truck litigation, product liability, aviation liability, aviation litigation, airline liability, and other forms of transportation liability. Over his decades o...

Robert Walsh is a partner at Clifford Law Offices as well as one of the firm's most qualified car accident attorneys and Chicago accident lawyers. Mr. Walsh is experienced in many complex practice areas, including insurance coverage and liability. Clifford Law Offices is proud to have him on their team of accident lawyers in Chicago. U.S. News-Best Lawyers named him a top attorney in the area of plaintiffs' Personal Injury Litigation. The area of insurance law is becoming more complex with ea...

Sarah F. King is one of Chicago’s rising medical malpractice lawyers at the firm and one of the most hard-working, intelligent attorneys one can find. She works tirelessly to investigate and prepare complex medical malpractice cases to achieve justice for those who have been harmed by medical negligence. She works with dedication and tenacity to get to the bottom of what actually happened and what proper practices should have been used to prevent injuries related to medical care. It is ...

Susan Capra, a partner at Clifford Law Offices, P.C., has spent her entire professional life serving others in times of difficulty and crisis, first as a nurse and currently as an attorney. Susan knew from an early age, through the example of her parents, that her mission in life was to serve others. After graduating from college with a nursing degree, Susan worked at Children’s Memorial Hospital, now known as Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The majority of Susan’s nur...

Tracy Brammeier is no stranger to tort law, having worked as a clerk at the firm for years and then jumping into courtroom work and complex tort cases. In fact, her intelligence and legal acumen have led her to already have worked on some of the biggest lawsuits filed at the firm, led by partners directing the cases. She works closely with partner Kevin P. Durkin handling many transportation accident matters. Tracy has worked on several cases involving bicyclists struck by trucks, a man who s...

Adam R. Konrad is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Corporate Law, International and Tax groups with a practice primarily focused on mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures; however, Adam also regularly provides guidance on commercial contracting and corporate / “outside general counsel” type matters. Adam devotes a significant part of his practice to advising German businesses in connection with their investment or expansion of operations in the United States. He speaks, reads,...

Allen C. Schlinsog, Jr. is a shareholder, chair of the firm's Litigation Practice and chair of the Product Liability and Safety Practice Group. His practice focuses on defense of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Al has represented drug and device companies in significant class actions, product liability and mass tort proceedings. He also regularly defends catastrophic injury cases involving a wide variety of products in highly regulated industries, including mining equipment, c...

Amy L. Barnes is a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate Law and Tax practice where she advises clients on tax planning matters. Her practice focuses on structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations; designing and implementing executive compensation arrangements, including navigating tax limitations applicable to such arrangements; and assisting clients with various federal and state tax issues, including tax-free reorganizations, equity rollovers, restructurings a...

Caitlyn B. Sikorski is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Trusts and Estates Practice where she focuses on trustee compliance and litigation, including breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty, undue influence, and significant construction and reformation matters. She represents individual and corporate fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and other parties involved in will, trust and intra-family related disputes and matters. Caitlyn is also experienced in prenuptial and marital property agreements, ...

Overview As a shareholder in Reinhart’s Corporate Law and International Practices and member of the firm’s multidisciplinary Commercial and Competition Law Group, Catherine L. Davies has an extensive business law practice focused on international and domestic transactional matters. Cathy works closely with clients on purchase and sale transactions, joint ventures, distributor and sales representative agreements and other commercial issues. Cathy is also a member of the White Colla...

David J. Sisson is a shareholder in the firm’s Litigation and Labor and Employment Practices. David solves problems that arise when critical personal business relationships end. These include disputes involving departing key employees and shareholders in closely held corporations and others who owe fiduciary duties. Controversies often develop at the conclusion of these relationships regarding what may be owned by, or owed to, the respective parties. A departing employee may try to esta...

Frank DiCastri is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Business Reorganization Practice. For more than 20 years, Frank has focused his practice on insolvency proceedings, including corporate reorganization cases, liquidations and receiverships, and other litigation and trial work arising from sophisticated commercial transactions. His clients have included debtors, financial institutions, creditors’ committees, trustees, receivers, asset purchasers and both secured and unsecured creditors....

Guy R. Temple is shareholder in Reinhart’s Litigation Practice who represents a variety of clients including business owners, product manufacturers, developers, and distributors with a wide range of complex legal issues related to product distribution, franchising, and supply chain disputes. Guy’s practice also includes representing individual and corporate fiduciaries in a broad range of trust, estate and probate disputes. Over the course of his career, Guy has successfully repre...

Jessica Hutson Polakowski is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Litigation practice groups. Jess serves a wide range of business clients such as electrical and mechanical designers and manufacturers, biotech companies, health care technology companies, software developers, service firms and product distributors. Based out of Reinhart’s Madison office, Jess regularly appears in the Western District of Wisconsin and works to both advise and assist clien...

John K. Tokarz is a business lawyer whose practice focuses on complex transactions. As a Certified Public Accountant who previously worked as an auditor for a Big Four accounting firm, John understands his clients’ businesses. From startups to publicly traded companies, he provides a full range of transactional and strategic support to clients with matters involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestures, securities offerings and other significant corporate transactions. I...

Joseph D. Shumow is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Real Estate Practice and a trusted adviser to a variety of tax credit, real estate and corporate clients. His tax credit practice focuses on representing developers, credit allocators, lenders, and investors involved with low-income housing, new markets and historic tax credit transactions. Joe also represents clients in acquisition, development, leasing and entitlement of real estate transactions and provides business advice to non-profit...

Lucas N. Roe is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Real Estate Practice and has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of real estate law. He provides legal advice and counsel to clients in connection with acquiring, financing, developing, constructing, leasing, and selling real estate nationwide. His experience includes complicated tax-deferred (1031) exchanges, facilitating public-private partnerships, sophisticated condominium structures, alcohol licensing, and work-out situat...

Nathan J. Neuberger is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Corporate Law Practice as well as a member of the firm’s Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance group. Nate works with clients to facilitate a wide range of corporate sale and acquisition transactions including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and recapitalizations. Nate represents a range of private equity sponsors located in Illinois, Wisconsin and other states, and he specializes in middle-m...

Robert Henkle, Jr. is a shareholder and former co-chair of Reinhart’s Corporate Law Practice where he provides legal counsel to clients ranging from large, national-public companies to closely held, mid-sized businesses. He has substantial experience assisting clients with business related concerns from startup through acquisition, operation, financing, and the sale of a business and frequently works with food industry, transportation industry, and financial institution clients. Bob reg...

Robert S. Driscoll is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Labor and Employment Practice. Rob’s practice covers a wide variety of litigation-related issues facing employers including claims of unlawful discrimination and/or retaliation, disputes over noncompete agreements and other restrictive covenants, wage and hour claims (both individual and class actions), and he also represents clients in appeals. Rob counsels employers to help them avoid disputes before they start with a particular ...

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 ...

Stephen C. Elliott is a shareholder in the firm’s Real Estate Practice. Steve serves individuals and commercial clients including developers. Prior to practicing law, Steve worked for Trek Bicycle Corporation developing and delivering marketing and sales training to Trek’s independent dealers while managing Trek’s company-owned stores in Madison, Wisconsin. He also worked in sales for Saris Cycling Group, Inc., a Madison manufacturer of bicycle accessories.Steve’s comm...

Steven P. Bogart is a shareholder in the Litigation Practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren sc where he counsels and represents clients in commercial litigation, environmental litigation and insurance coverage matters. Steve's clients include municipalities, financial institutions and large manufacturers. Steve draws on over three decades of professional experience to achieve the best legal and business results for his clients, whether through out-of-court settlement, mediation, arbitration o...

Thomas M. Burnett is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Litigation Practice where he represents a variety of clients such as business owners, insurers, actuaries, and financial institutions as well as product manufacturers, developers and distributors. Tom has experience with a wide range of complex legal issues but concentrates his practice on product distribution and franchise litigation, false advertising and unfair competition, antitrust and trade regulation, and insurance and financial se...

Timothy P. Reardon is a business lawyer working with a wide array of companies—global, national and regional—in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, construction, service, distribution, health care, real estate and professional associations. Business clients value Tim as a trusted advisor and legal strategist who draws on his vast knowledge and experience base to provide creative, cost-effective solutions for a wide array of complex business and legal issues. Tim is a...

Troy A. Hilliard is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Corporate Law Practice and co-chair of the firm’s Commercial and Competition Law Group. He serves a wide range of manufacturing, service, and technology companies. With more than 20 years of legal experience, Troy assists clients in the negotiation of supply and distribution agreements, license agreements, and in other general corporate matters. In addition to a law degree, Troy has a business background which provides him with a uni...

Vincent J. Beres is a shareholder in the firm's Business Law, Tax and Tax-Exempt Organizations Practices. While Vince's clientele consists of businesses, ranging from partnerships and LLCs, S corporations, closely held businesses and large national manufacturing and service corporations, he also has deep experience as a trusted business and family advisor to individual business owners. Representative Matters and Experience Helping a food manufacturing client in the acquisition, development an...

Adam F. Haimo is a Partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP. He is Board Certified in Construction Law by the Florida Bar. Prior to joining the firm, Adam practiced in the civil litigation group in the Miami office of a well respected South Florida law firm. Mr. Haimo practices in all areas of civil litigation with a focus on the construction and real estate investment industry. His extensive litigation experience includes complex commercial litigation, real es...

Partner Matthew Cox heads the Columbia, South Carolina office of Smith Currie. He is Martindale-Hubbell AV rated among his peers, as well as the judiciary and has been practicing since 1999. Matthew focuses his practice in the areas of Construction Law, Commercial Law, and Government Contracts, with his emphasis in litigation and compliance. He represents a variety of private clientele in the construction industry from design professionals, to owners and developers, to general contractors and...

ROLLY L. CHAMBERS is a partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, where he practices construction law and commercial litigation and is a mediator of commercial and construction disputes. He is a North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission Certified Mediator for Superior Court and Estates & Guardianship matters. Rolly has practiced law in Charlotte for over twenty-five years. He received his J.D. degree in 1984 from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law...

Michael P. Verna is a 1975 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1978 graduate of Hastings College of the Law. An experienced trial attorney with an extensive record of accomplishment, Mr. Verna enjoys preeminent and A.V. ratings from the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory and has been certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy ("NBTA") since 1986. The NBTA is the only organization accredited by both the American Bar Associa...

PRACTICE AREAS Complex Commercial Litigation White Collar Criminal Defense Trials EXPERIENCE Chase Scolnick specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation. Having tried as lead counsel approximately fifty federal jury trials, Chase is among the most seasoned young trial attorneys in the United States. He has also been one of the most successful. In separate years, Chase led three of the nation’s largest federal districts in both defense trials and wins. In 2017, Chase was the only...

PRACTICE AREAS Trials Commercial Litigation Class Actions White Collar Criminal Defense Criminal Defense EXPERIENCE With over two decades of experience and 100 cases to jury verdict, Kay Anderle is among the region’s leading trial attorneys. Kay began her legal career over 26 years ago in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, where she spent 12 years prosecuting criminal cases. She was one of its most respected prosecutors, and was assigned to several of its most prestigio...

PRACTICE AREAS Commercial Litigation White Collar Criminal Defense Appellate Litigation EXPERIENCE Reuben Cahn is a courtroom advocate of rare experience and ability. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has tried over 100 cases to jury verdict and has argued twice before the Supreme Court (in 2011 and 2018) in addition to numerous arguments before both the 9th and 11th Circuits. This combination of skill and experience at the highest levels establish Mr. Cahn as one of the m...

PRACTICE AREAS Business Litigation Trademark and Copyright Litigation Securities Litigation White Collar Criminal Defense EXPERIENCE Shaun Hoting focuses his practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Shaun’s practice includes litigation related to contract disputes, legal malpractice, patents, copyrights, trademarks, securities, and white collar defense. He has litigated cases involving technologies as diverse as software, cellular telephones, aerospace seals, and wat...

Adam S. Hall has extensive experience in representing victims against state sponsored terrorism and in a wide variety of civil litigation, including but not limited to, complex commercial/business litigation, professional malpractice litigation, intellectual property litigation, labor disputes, securities litigation, tort litigation, and appellate matters. Hall has been consistently recognized and honored as one of South Florida's top trial lawyers. He was recently named one of the three fina...

Darby Doan is a partner with Haltom & Doan, and is licensed to practice in state and federal courts in Texas and Arkansas. His primary areas of practice are products liability, intellectual property, class action, pharmaceutical and personal injury litigation. Darby has tried or argued cases and appeals in both state and federal courts in Texas and Arkansas. Darby is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the Arkansas Bar Association, the Northeast Texas Bar Ass...

Shareholder Heidi Storz joined the firm in 1999 and has more than 20 years of experience in construction defect litigation. Prior to attending law school, Heidi served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize, Central America where she worked with young adults and children who had experienced physical or sexual abuse. While in Belize, Heidi traveled to every high school in the country to conduct the first ever study quantifying the incidence of child abuse. Before serving in the Peace Corps, Heid...

Shareholder Jeff Kerrane joined the firm in 2000. Jeff has more than 20 years of experience in construction defect litigation. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Burdman Law Group in Nevada and at the Law Offices of Cisneros & Kerrane in California. In addition to his extensive experience in the courtroom, Jeff has been published in journals such as the Santa Clara Law Review, Nevada Lawyer, California Regulatory Law Reporter, Condo Management Magazine, Recharger Magazine, and...

Colin Simpson’s legal practice focuses primarily on personal injury and general civil litigation; business formation and law; real estate; contracts; farm and ranch; land use; government relations; and domestic relations matters. Mr. Simpson has been engaged in the practice of law since 1987. He practices with the law firm his grandfather, Milward L. Simpson, established—Simpson, Kepler & Edwards, LLC, the Cody, Wyoming division of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P....

Curt Sullan was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1962, and grew up near Chicago. He graduated from Glenbrook North High School in 1980 and from the University of Maryland in 1984. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a double minor in English and Philosophy. Mr. Sullan graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1988 with a Juris Doctor. While at the University of Denver, Mr. Sullan served on two law reviews and was a member of the Moot Court. Mr....

Jennifer Seidman’s practice focuses on representing homeowners and homeowner associations in construction defect and defective building products cases. Her work includes cases involving structural failures and foundation movement, water intrusion and building envelope failures, building product defects, and design professional errors. Ms. Seidman appreciates how confusing the legal process can be for homeowners and association board members and strives to help homeowners and homeowner a...

Joe Smith is a licensed attorney in Colorado and Florida and a Colorado licensed architect with over twenty-five years of architecture, construction law, construction defect litigation, and related insurance coverage and bankruptcy experience. Throughout his legal career, Joe has exclusively represented homeowners, homeowner associations, and building owners. From 2011 to 2014 Joe worked as a forensic architect at a Colorado consulting firm where he provided forensic services to private and p...

Mr. Jones’ practice currently focuses upon commercial litigation, general civil litigation, personal injury, criminal and civil appellate practice, business law, real property, contracts, wills, and trusts and estates. He has defended and prosecuted construction defect, personal injury, and wrongful death actions. Mr. Jones is a second generation lawyer and was born in Cody, Wyoming. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Political Science and Economics from the Universi...

Leslie A. Tuft attended Stanford Law School, where she received the Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Award for excellence in legal research and writing and the Lawrason Driscoll Moot Court Award. While at Stanford, Ms. Tuft served as Co-President of Stanford’s Kirkwood Moot Court program (2000-2001). Ms. Tuft focuses her practice on construction defect litigation and related insurance issues and appeals. She has co-authored many articles and books concerning important construction defects, insurance...

Michael Menghini is a Shareholder in Burg Simpson’s Construction Defect Litigation Group. His practice focuses on representing clients with claims involving construction defects, construction products liability, association reserves, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation/non-disclosure and commercial litigation. His clients include community associations, such as homeowner associations and condominium associations, homeowners and business owners. Mr. Menghini has successfully repr...

Nelson is a native of Arvada, Colorado. His civil litigation practice focuses on appeals, business, insurance bad faith, and personal injury litigation. Nelson joined Burg Simpson in 2013 after several years running his own firm. He studied third-world history at Temple University (B.A., 1997) and United States history at New Mexico State University (M.A., 2000). Nelson earned his law degree at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (J.D., 2007). He has practiced in Colorado trial cour...

Nick Fogel is the practice group leader of Burg Simpson’s workers’ compensation department, which has achieved Tier 1 status by US News and World Report (the highest-ranking available). His practice is devoted to those who have been injured while working on the job and in the line of duty. In this capacity, Nick has extensive courtroom experience handling a wide variety of matters. Nick’s practice focuses on the representation of law enforcement, firefighters, and first resp...

Mr. Katz joined Burg Simpson in September 2005 after six years with the New York law firm of Seeger Weiss LLP, in which he was a partner. Mr. Katz focuses his practice primarily in the areas of complex, pharmaceutical mass tort, and class action litigation including consumer protection, securities fraud, products liability, and commercial litigation. In addition to his varied professional experience, Mr. Katz is a frequent speaker on electronic discovery, class actions, and pharmaceutical lit...

Burg Simpson shareholder Stephan J. Marsh focuses his practice on Colorado workers’ compensation claims. As a workers’ compensation trial attorney, Mr. Marsh considers many factors when evaluating a case. He works to provide a fair and honest assessment of each legal matter and apply relevant laws to ensure full benefits. Mr. Marsh is a highly experienced lawyer and is uniquely qualified to help his clients obtain the best possible outcomes. Mr. Marsh has been selected by 5280 Mag...

Stephen Burg is a trial attorney at the law firm Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine, P.C. Mr. Burg’s practice is focused on representing victims of auto crashes, personal injury, trucking accidents, motorcycle collisions, product liability injuries, gas explosions, wrongful death, and harmful drug products. Mr. Burg has been recognized for his legal excellence both nationally and locally. He was named as a “Recommended Attorney” by the U.S. Legal 500. and has also been reco...

Tom Henderson focuses his practice on representing policyholders in suing insurance companies for bad faith and getting insurance companies to pay what the insurance policy promises to pay. Tom spent the first 20 years of his practice representing the insurance companies, answering their questions about whether the policy provided coverage for various claims, and even defending them when they were sued. He has spent the past 12+ years of his practice exclusively representing business insuranc...

Aaron Bundy is a trial lawyer from Sapulpa, Oklahoma. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and he is board-certified for family law trials by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He advises and represents individuals in private negotiations and in high-conflict disputes at trial and on appeal. Aaron is listed in the world's most exclusive, reputable directories of lawyers for high-net-worth individuals, including the Chambers Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth guide...

Mr. Finkel was the founding member and the Managing Member of Finkel Law Firm L.L.C. until January, 2007, at which time he went of counsel to the firm. From 2007 until May 2015, he was a full time faculty member at the Charleston School of Law as a Professor of Law where he taught Torts, Insurance Law, Evidence and Trial Advocacy. From 1981 until 2006, he taught Trial Advocacy and Insurance Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law as an Adjunct Professor. He is a past President o...

Jordan Cohen joined Wicker Smith in 2003 and is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Duke University in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from Tulane University, graduating cum laude in 1997. Prior to joining Wicker Smith, he worked for two years as a law clerk for Fourth District Court of Appeal Chief Judge Mark E. Polen. Mr. Cohen’s practice is devoted to 100% litigation. Mr. Cohen has extensive experience in...

Kurt M. Spengler, a partner in the Orlando office, is a board certified trial lawyer by the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education. He is also certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Civil Trial Law. Kurt has over 30 years of experience and has tried approximately 70 civil jury trials, including at least 10 wrongful death cases. Kurt has represented motor carriers for most of his career, but over the past 10 years, his work in this area has increased to approxima...

Leslie A. McCormick joined Wicker Smith in 1986 and is a partner in the firm’s Miami office. An AV® Preeminent™ rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, Leslie has handled numerous medical malpractice cases for healthcare providers and hospital facilities in a wide range of complex issues involving wrongful death, brain damage, surgical and nursing issues. Among her many successful cases, Leslie served as counsel for NutriSystem, Inc. in the State Court and multi-district litigat...

Mandi Karvis, a partner in the Wicker Smith Phoenix office, is an experienced trial attorney, with jury trial experience in state and federal courts. Ms. Karvis has the desire and skill to try cases, but also has the judgment and discretion to know that not every case belongs in the courtroom. Her practice primarily focuses on handling complex injury cases. Ms. Karvis defends premises liability, products liability, and general personal injury matters that involve catastrophic and/or complex i...

Nicholas E. Christin joined Wicker Smith in 1997 and is a Managing Partner in the Miami office. He maintains a general commercial practice with an emphasis on estate planning, estate administration, probate litigation and the representation of professionals and other individuals in their professional practices and business entities. Since 1979, Mr. Christin has been an adjunct professor in the University of Miami LL.M Program in Estate Planning. He has taught Income Taxation of Trusts and Est...

Renee L. Brant is a partner in Wicker Smith’s Fort Lauderdale office handling cases concerning medical malpractice and general negligence matters. Mrs. Brant graduated from Baylor University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and environmental sciences. She then continued her education at Stetson College of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctor cum laude in 2000. She has been practicing medical malpractice for approximately 15 years, including local and regional f...

Mr. Goodwin is a shareholder and director of Gill Ragon Owen, P.A. Mr. Goodwin’s practice focuses on structuring and documenting corporate and public finance transactions (including commercial loan closings), structuring asset acquisitions and dispositions, and general corporate, securities and real estate development law. Mr. Goodwin serves on the Editorial Board of the Retail Law Strategist, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers and is a frequent speaker and a...

Beth E. Bertelson is the founder of Bertelson Law Offices, P.A., located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Focusing her practice on labor and employment law, she represents employees in the Twin Cities metropolitan area and throughout Minnesota in litigation and pre-litigation negotiations in matters involving severance, employment and noncompete agreements, and related issues. Certified as a specialist in labor and employment law by the Minnesota State Bar Association, Ms. Bertelson also mediates e...

Leah Rudnicki’s unique background as in-house counsel, officer of an oil and gas company, and a trial lawyer in private practice provides her a distinct perspective when advising her clients on matters important to their business, including creative dispute resolution, advising on litigation prevention, or ultimately taking a case through the trial process. As a litigator in private practice, Leah has represented, counseled and advised a diverse range of clients, from small independent ...

Rick has handled hundreds of cases resulting in six figure and higher awards for his clients, and has handled both multi-million dollar injury cases and has sued insurance companies for as little as $23 in unpaid personal injury protection coverage on behalf his clients. No case is too big or too small. Rick is licensed to practice in every single State Court in all 24 jurisdictions in the State of Maryland, all Maryland Federal Courts, as well as the United States District Courts in both Mar...

Bob Farley is a fearless advocate for people injured due to the negligence of others. He is a seasoned and aggressive trial lawyer whose experience of representing clients on both sides of injury cases gives him a unique perspective (and some might say an unfair advantage). His experience continues to be a tremendous asset to his medical malpractice and personal injury clients. His renewed focus on representing victims of negligence has been met with an overwhelming positive response from his...

Dan is a passionate trial lawyer who focuses on complex business litigation, financial fraud and business torts, and professional liability. His clients range from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. His experience includes litigation regarding breach of contract, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, embezzlement, intellectual property litigation, and appeals.He frequently serves as co-counsel or local counsel on ...

Kyle J. Martelon is a Partner and member of the Family Law and Civil Litigation Teams. A Colorado native, Kyle earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2004 and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. In 2010, he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he graduated in the top 3% of his class and was inducted into the Order of St. Ives, an honorary sch...

Denise H. Kim is a former prosecutor and recognized civil trial lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience representing corporate clients and individuals. With a practice focused around commercial litigation and complex business disputes, Ms. Kim’s extensive litigation work includes cases involving construction defects, professional responsibility for financial professionals, products and premises liability, insurance coverage and defense, derivative shareholder claims, legal malpractice...

John H. Kim is a seasoned, respected civil trial lawyer who handles high-stakes litigation for international corporations and the most important case of their lives for individuals who have been injured by others. He practices in Texas, nationwide and internationally. He was named 2018 TEX-ABOTA Trial Lawyer of The Year. He has also been named a Best Lawyer in America in the Commercial Litigation category by his peers. Recent past president of the Houston chapter of the American Board of Tria...

Andrew S. Buzin specializes in civil trial law, and takes cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death, employment and wage and hour law, and business litigation. He has earned significant verdicts at trial, including one for $28,000,000 involving a high school’s negligent supervision of a 14-year old cognitively impaired girl. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has settled multi-million dollar cases throughout his career. Mr. Buzin is also an adjunct ...

Daniel S. Kirschner is a partner at the Chicago plaintiffs’ law firm of Corboy & Demetrio. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Kirschner represents victims of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice. Mr, Kirschner has successfully handled cases against many of the nation’s largest insurance companies and corporations at the pretrial, trial and appellate levels in state and federal court in Illinois and throughout the United States.Mr. Kirschner concentrates his...

Edward G. Willer is a Chicago personal injury lawyer and represents individuals and their families in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases in the areas of construction negligence, product liability, premises liability, and vehicular negligence. As a Partner at the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio, Mr. Willer has obtained numerous multi-million settlements and verdicts. His many accomplishments include a $7.5 million settlement he obtained in a federal court case for the f...

Francis Patrick Murphy - Patrick Murphy - a Chicago personal injury lawyer, has been with the law firm of Corboy & Demetrio since 1983 and became a partner in 1991. He regularly handles complex personal injury and wrongful death cases involving porch and deck collapses, aviation negligence, construction negligence, product liability, premises liability and claims resulting from railroad, automobile, and other vehicular negligence. Patrick is a highly sought after lawyer in porch and deck ...

Kenneth T. Lumb joined Corboy & Demetrio as a Chicago personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer in 1995, after a tour of duty in the United States Army, and was named Partner in 2015. As a captain in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG Corps), Mr. Lumb served four years as the Medical Claims Judge Advocate at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. His duties at the Defense Department's largest medical facility included medical malpractice defense and hospital ...

Michael K. Demetrio, a partner at the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio, represents plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including aviation disasters, railroad cases, product liability, construction liability and motor vehicle liability. Prior to becoming a successful and accomplished Chicago civil lawyer, Mr. Demetrio was a criminal prosecutor at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. During his career, he has tried more than 100 cases to verdict. M...

Michelle M. Kohut is a Chicago personal injury trial lawyer and was named Partner at Corboy & Demetrio in 2019. She practices in all areas of personal injury law, including cases arising from automobile collisions, medical malpractice, construction negligence, premises liability, product liability and railroad negligence, as well as in the area of workers' compensation. Michelle has tried many personal injury cases to verdict and has obtained numerous multi-million dollar settlements on b...

Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr. was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1978 and worked in a small white-collar criminal defense firm before joining the criminal division of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office that same year. At the time of his resignation from that public office in 1985, he was a "first-chair" prosecutor - responsible for trying such felonies as murder, rape, armed robbery and kidnapping - in one of the major courtrooms at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building at 26th and Ca...

Thomas A. Demetrio is a trial lawyer with an emphasis on medical negligence, product liability, airplane crash and commercial litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. He is Past President of the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. He is a fellow of: The American College of Trial Lawyers The International Academy of Trial Lawyers The Inner Circle of Advocates Tom has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its inception in 1987 and was named by Best Lawyers as the C...

William T. Gibbs is a partner at the Chicago personal injury and medical malpractice law firm of Corboy & Demetrio and concentrates his practice on cases arising from railroad negligence, automobile collisions, participation in sports, unsafe pharmaceuticals or medical devices, construction negligence, medical negligence, premises liability, product liability and aviation litigation. For more than a decade at Corboy & Demetrio, Bill has obtained numerous record-setting and multi-milli...

A National Practice Devoted To Complex Federal Criminal Defense, Federal and State Habeas Litigation And Other Federal Matters. Ezekiel E. Cortez is a Board Certified Criminal Law Specialist, California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization after passing the federal specialist examination. As a devoted career criminal defense attorney, Mr. Cortez has unwaveringly devoted his practice to the defense of federal criminal cases and other federal matters since 1984. Since 1988 Mr. Cortez has als...

Jan Handzlik is an accomplished investigations and trial lawyer with a national and international practice. He represents individuals and organizations in investigations, prosecutions, regulatory enforcement actions and complex civil litigation in the United States and abroad. Jan and his firm also conduct corporate internal investigations, represent clients in multinational investigations, and advise domestic and foreign clients on law compliance and risk avoidance. An experienced trial lawy...

Mr. Hightower has been a trial lawyer for 35 years and has tried over 200 jury trials all over the state with a 80% success rate. He has been selected for inclusion in the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for the sixth year in a row, and the 2018 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" for Personal Injury Litigation—Defense in the Metropolitan Tier 3. Dale has also been named a “Top Lawyer” by the Florida Legal Guide from 2002 to 2011....

Anita Porte Robb is a Cum Laude graduate of The University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Robb is a nationally respected advocate. The National Law Journal has recognized Anita as one of the Top Ten women trial lawyers in the country, and Lawyers USA has identified her as one of five " Women of Note " nationwide. Ms. Robb has appeared frequently in the media as a spokesperson for victims’ rights. She has used issues raised in her cases as a springboard for policy debates in courts and the ...