Not exact matches
Joseph M. Sellers, a Partner at the firm and
head of the Civil Rights & Employment
practice group, was selected by Best Lawyers in the fields of Civil Rights Law, Labor Law - Union and
Litigation - Labor and Employment.
Mr. Vanderwoude joins Dorsey from Winstead PC where he was a shareholder in the Dallas office and previously served as
head of the Commercial
Litigation Practice Group for the Dallas / Fort Worth area.
The firm also plans to seek input from its
practice group heads for other areas in which checklists can be implemented in both the firm's transactional and
litigation practices.
Mark Kirsch,
head of Clifford Chance's US
litigation practice, has left the firm, leaving the 29 associates in the firm's New York
litigation group under threat of layoffs.
Prior to joining Brown Law
Group, Mr. Price was the
head of the Employment
Litigation Group for Bank of America's Legal Department where he
practiced for 34 years.
The key roles are shared between three attorneys who now lead our value team: myself, as «Chief Value Partner», Joe Sgroi, also a partner and
head of our bankruptcy
practice group, «Associate Chief Value Partner», and a
litigation associate, Value Associate Robert Riley.
He served for seven years as Deputy Chair and Chair of Foley Hoag's
Litigation Department, and since 1989 has
headed the firm's Product Liability and Complex Tort
Practice Group.
McGuireWoods continues the strategic expansion of its nationally recognized financial services
litigation practice with the addition of partners Marc A. Lackner, a former
head of Bank of America's mortgage
litigation group, and Carolee A. Hoover in the firm's new San Francisco office.
Practice head Georgie Messent specialises in the waste sector and in 2016 assisted waste companies both in relation to
litigation, including a significant nuisance action, as well as on various transactional matters; in one example of the latter, Messent acted for Cory Environmental
Group and its fund managers on the sale of its municipal waste business, Cory Environmental Municipal Services, to Biffa Waste Services.
Kim and Edelson join from Steptoe & Johnson, where Kim was
head of the firm's Korea Commercial
Litigation practice, co-
head of the Korea
practice group, and a member of the firm's executive committee; and Edelson led the firm's Trade Secrets
practice.
Other key figures include Cari Sowden - Taylor, who is also «very well versed in catastrophic injuries», particularly relating to traumatic brain and spinal injuries; Gwen Evans, who
heads the firm's environmental
practice and often works alongside Neil Stockdale, whose «very effective and experienced partnership dominates the Welsh market for
group litigation»; and Iain Scott, who is an «expert in catastrophic injuries and high - end personal injuries» and is praised for his «ability to fight his corner».
Jeff
headed the firm's Intellectual Property
Practice Group, worked with the commercial and entertainment litigation groups as well as the transactional group, and served for ten years as the firm's Marketing Par
Group, worked with the commercial and entertainment
litigation groups as well as the transactional
group, and served for ten years as the firm's Marketing Par
group, and served for ten years as the firm's Marketing Partner.
Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who
heads the firm's appellate
practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property
litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial
litigation.
Barbara is a partner of Torkin Manes LLP Barristers & Solicitors and
head of our Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Groups, with a civil
litigation practice focused on catastrophic injury and fatalities.