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![John Gekas Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gekas_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=SnSRSlPz)
John Gekas is a trusted advisor and trial lawyer helping companies resolve business disputes that threaten their finances, operations, and position in the marketplace. John's clients range from Fortune 500 corporations to privately held entities in numerous industries, including transportation...
![Courtland C. Merrill](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Merrill_Courtland_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=K-qg5OKB)
Courtland Merrill represents businesses across the country in intellectual property disputes, including enforcement of patents and IP rights in trials and appeals. His patent litigation experience includes handling claims of willful patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, an area of...
![Maxwell Bremer Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Bremer_Maxwell_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=N6jcO0ef)
Max Bremer advises entrepreneurs and established companies on key transactions throughout the business life cycle, from formations and financings to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Max works with clients in a variety of industries, including health care IT, medical devices, data analytics...
![Erik L. Kantz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kantz_Erik_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=IJ--c0xr)
Erik Kantz focuses his practice on middle-market businesses and emerging companies. Having served in both the business and litigation groups of the Firm, Erik takes a business approach to the practice of law, helping clients design and implement strategies and organizational structures that promote...
![Kermit J. Nash](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Nash_Kermit_LinkedIn.jpg?h=4e0e1cc0&itok=WuwzF_c8)
Kermit Nash counsels domestic and international clients on legal issues connected with their business operations, governance, strategy and investments. Privately held domestic and international corporations rely on Kermit to advise them on transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions and sales...
![Michael J. Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Joyce_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1TqFPexD)
Michael Joyce assists clients with litigation, including a wide variety of commercial disputes and insurance matters. His commercial litigation experience includes high-stakes contractual disputes, intellectual property and software cases, trade secret misappropriation and other injunction matters...
![David R. Berk](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Berk_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=nWI0e_Qn)
David Berk counsels families and their businesses, entrepreneurs and start-up companies in taxation, structuring transactions, contract negotiations and governance issues. David also advises clients on corporate succession planning, trust and estate planning, insurance and retirement planning and...
![Maria Carnicella](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-04/Carnicella_Maria_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=yE7gdE9C)
Maria Carnicella advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and other major corporate transactions. In addition to M&A deals, she represents private and public entities and individual investors in stock and asset sales and acquisitions, private placements, reorganizations, IPOs, redemptions, and...
![Caitlin Strauss Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Strauss_Caitlin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=PHtfNKc3)
Caitlin Piccarello Strauss is a commercial litigator who represents companies in disputes involving insurance, employee benefits and ERISA, real estate, and restrictive covenants. As a leader of the Firm's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation team, she regularly defends insurers in life, health...
![Mark Mizrahi](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Mizrahi_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=jEA4Tjl9)
Mark Mizrahi advises clients on intellectual property law, including patent, trademark and copyright protection and enforcement. His experience includes preparing and managing trademark and copyright applications, preparing and negotiating licenses and agreements relating to intellectual property...
![Dana Silva](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Silva_Dana_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=4EjVEq-r)
Dana Silva handles business litigation and general civil suits. She has experience with breach of contract, fiduciary duty, trade secret disputes, fraudulent conveyance, unfair competition and shareholder disputes. She litigates trademark infringement claims in federal court. She also has experience...
![Kenneth Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-03/Jones_Ken_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e88f149d&itok=DgiJ4MQc)
Ken Jones brings 30 years of experience to his work as a litigator and trial lawyer who defends public and private entities in labor and employment disputes. Clients in industries ranging from retail and banking to logistics and insurance, along with government agencies, rely on him to handle...
![David G. Shapiro](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Shapiro_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=RYwjh6Rm)
David Shapiro advises clients on international and domestic business tax planning, including domestic and cross border expansion, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. David's practice includes entity formation and structure planning, securities offerings and hybrid...
![Douglas M. Ramler](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Ramler_Douglas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=834uXVRX)
Doug Ramler's focus is on helping entrepreneurs, managers and boards build their companies. He advises high-growth start-up and emerging companies on business formation, technology commercialization, finance, governance, contracts and strategic matters. With 30 years of experience, Doug is able to...
![Alexander Reich](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Reich_Alexander_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=OSyZkTIH)
Alexander Reich is a trusted litigator and advisor who focuses on employment law. He counsels employers on an array of matters involving federal and state statutes such as Title VII, Title IX, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family...
![Dennis Brennan Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Brennan_Dennis_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=xuun7iCw)
Dennis Brennan helps companies navigate the legal risks they face when they enter into mergers and acquisitions, purchase agreements and other major transactions. Dennis represents clients in the insurance industry, such as carriers, brokers, TPAs and agencies, as well as clients in other industries...
![John J. Heurich Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Heurich_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=rxnDknxu)
John Heurich advises companies on a wide range of deals and corporate matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, business formation and restructuring, and corporate governance. He also has experience with private equity and securities offerings, IP licensing, commercial...
![Eric G. Orlinsky Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Orlinsky_Eric_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=dje76Rlz)
Eric Orlinsky co-chairs the firm's Corporate Practice and its Private Equity/Venture Capital subgroup and concentrates his practice in general business and securities law and counsels clients in private equity and venture capital investments, public and private offerings of debt and equity...
![Steven Appelbaum Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Appelbaum_Steven_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=aC6rEQFP)
Steven Appelbaum represents clients in a wide range of business disputes, including real estate and construction, commercial contracts and loans, shareholder disputes, and landlord-tenant issues. The clients that Steven assists range in size from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and include...
![Alfred Coleman Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Coleman_Alfred_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=vq2SeCXZ)
Al Coleman is an award-winning corporate partner who is sought after for his work handling major transactions, including for high-profile clients. Kevin Warren, former chief operating officer for the Minnesota Vikings and current commissioner of the Big 10 Conference, says "Al has always provided...