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Rahul Ravipudi has spent his legal career representing handling catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, involving commercial vehicles, pedestrians, industrial or construction accidents, and dangerous conditions of public and private property. He also represents consumers in class actions against businesses who engage in unfair and illegal business practices. Recently, Mr. Ravipudi recovered $10 million for the family of an independent truck driver killed by an intoxicated heavy lift ope...

Chip Chiles litigates business-related disputes at trial and on appeal. As lead counsel, he recently represented investors accused of breaching a multimillion-dollar contract to invest in a nutritional-supplement business in California. A federal jury in Los Angeles not only rejected the claim for over $21 million against the investors but awarded the investors $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages for securities violations and fraud by the party who sued them. The court later award...

Alan Perry has been involved in some of the largest and most complicated litigation matters in Mississippi. He has handled banking, securities, and antitrust cases, as well as matters involving business torts and statutory claims. With a background in accounting Alan is well-known for his financial law acumen and is often hired in litigation related to accounting and auditing matters, as well as other cases involving financial institutions. He also maintains an active practice providing advic...

Chuck is a trial lawyer of over 37 years whose practice focuses primarily in the defense of national and international corporations in product liability, employment, toxic tort, commercial, intellectual property, and catastrophic personal injury matters. Licensed in Alabama and Tennessee, Chuck’s extensive litigation experience is national in scope. He has handled a wide variety of cases in Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina, Texas, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Mississippi, Tenness...

Steve Bernstein is managing partner of the firm's Tampa office. He also serves as a Chair of the firm’s Associate Development and Retention Committee. Steve maintains a traditional labor practice in which he represents employers throughout the United States in both state and federal courts, as well as before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and other state and federal agencies. In the proce...

Irwin W. Aronson is the partner in residence of Willig, Williams & Davidson’s Harrisburg, Pa., office. A respected appellate advocate, Irwin concentrates his practice in labor and employment law, employee benefit matters, governmental affairs and legislative drafting and analysis. He possesses a broad range of experience in litigation and legislative matters ranging from fair labor standards and unemployment compensation, to housing and urban development, to elections and voting rig...