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Navigating Issues Unique to the Independent School Landscape In addition to independent schools’ core educational missions, they must balance a host of business and legal needs in order to prudently manage their endowments, admissions, and enrollment priorities and to hire and retain top-quality...
![Carolyn M. Toll](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Toll_Carolyn_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=UYT_4yEf)
Carolyn Toll is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Philadelphia office. She maintains a general litigation practice, focusing on higher education matters. Carolyn advises institutions of higher education on matters involving issues related to Title IX, Title VI, and other civil...
![Joshua S. Pasker](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Pasker_Joshua_LinkedIn.jpg?h=ab401cf2&itok=4qm1IiI2)
Josh Pasker focuses his practice on municipal and corporate finance matters, serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel and borrower's counsel in a broad variety of financings. Josh's experience includes general obligation notes and bonds, revenue obligations, variable rate...
![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...
![Sondra Saporta](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Saporta_Sondra_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=w4JTgYjq)
Sondra Saporta assists employers with labor and employment disputes, including litigating and investigating claims relating to racial and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, disability accommodations, and restrictive covenants. In addition to defending clients in civil litigation...
![Daniel Altchek Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Altchek_Daniel_LinkedIn.jpg?h=16f15343&itok=eYDs8pm8)
Dan Altchek has a national practice representing unionized employers, and employers who wish to remain union-free, in their labor relations and human resources issues. Whether Dan is serving clients as their lead negotiator at the bargaining table, their litigator, or their trusted counselor – and...
![James D. Taylor, Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Taylor_Jim_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=DaSWf-tO)
Jim Taylor is a trial lawyer with first-chair experience handling complex litigation in federal and state courts. A significant portion of his practice uses that litigation experience and perspective to counsel clients in managing high-profile crises, minimizing financial and reputational risks...
![Martin Doyle Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Doyle_Martin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=os1AnKw5)
Martin Doyle concentrates his practice in commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, finance, and leasing. Martin has represented clients in transactions involving a wide array of property categories, including office, shopping center, retail...
![Howard R. Majev](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Majev_Howard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=rcpdU19J)
Howard Majev is a seasoned real estate attorney with extensive experience in acquisitions, dispositions, financings, development, and leasing of industrial, multi-family, retail, office, mixed-use, and sports properties, including stadium development. He has considerable experience with regards 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...
![Nathan S. Henderson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Henderson_Nathan_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=Iu37Ypg6)
Nathan Henderson is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Chicago office. He maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes. After earning his J.D. at University of Illinois College of Law, Nathan was a judicial clerk for...
![Tricia Duffy Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Duffy_Tricia_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Bp0E0aA5)
Tricia Duffy maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes. Tricia has experience advising institutions of higher education on matters involving Title IX and affirmative action, as well responding to OCR investigations. Recently, she...
![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...
![Francelina Perdomo Klukosky](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-03/Perdomo_Francelina_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=oxfGflI3)
Francelina Perdomo Klukosky represents individuals and corporate creators in protecting their intellectual property assets and assisting with their business transactions and litigation. Drawing on more than two decades of legal experience and her personal passion for technology and innovation and...
![Jessica Lenoir](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-01/Lenoir_Jessica_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=FCHymbcS)
Jessica Lenoir, Ph.D., helps clients protect their intellectual property by drafting patent applications and preparing office action responses to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign offices. In handling this work, Jessica draws on her knowledge from earning a doctorate in...
![Tom Murray, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Murray_Tom_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=GKsoaJEN)
Tom Murray is a patent agent who helps clients protect their intellectual property through patent preparation and prosecution, as well as analyses involving freedom to operate, non-infringement and invalidity. Tom also has experience with matters involving post-grant prosecutions. His IP work for...
![Jessica Bradley](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-03/Bradley_Jessica_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=SZgaIKW6)
Jessica E. Bradley is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who defends employers and managers in labor and employment matters, ranging from claims of harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and discrimination based on age, sex, gender, race, color, national origin, disability and...
![Matthew Young](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Young_Matthew_LinkedIn.jpg?h=4e0e1cc0&itok=RLhG3B2D)
Matthew Young represents clients who are involved in commercial lending and real estate disputes, as well as intellectual property litigation. Businesses and government entities, among others, rely on him to handle matters ranging from allegations of fraud and negligence to unfair competition and...