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![Caroline Patterson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-02/Patterson_Caroline_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=uBXv3MWN)
Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing practices and professionals in the health care industry in a variety of transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters. Her experience ranges from providing counsel in mergers, acquisitions, sales and private...
![Nicholas Smargiassi](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-12/Smargiassi_Nicholas_LinkedIN.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=nvEL16ME)
As a member of the firm's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice, Nicholas Smargiassi assists debtors, trustees, creditors' committees and other parties throughout the bankruptcy and restructuring process. While earning his J.D. at St. John's University School of Law, Nicholas was a summer associate...
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Pia Aklian is a corporate and transactional attorney who advises clients ranging from emerging businesses to multinational, public companies across various industries including technology, software, manufacturing, life sciences and health care. Pia advises clients on a broad range of matters that...
![Paige Topper](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Topper_Paige_LinkedIN.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=auI2Weri)
As an attorney in the firm's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice, Paige Topper represents debtors, official and ad hoc committees, trade creditors, landlords, purchasers of assets, and other parties-in-interest in bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Her experience includes in- and out-of-court...
![Stephanie Denker Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Denker_Stephanie_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=bAw1y5lb)
Stephanie Denker focuses on complex commercial litigation, including insurance and securities law. In the Insurance industry, Stephanie has experience in lapse litigation, primarily in New York. Stephanie also defends insurance companies in class actions, including cases brought in Illinois, Florida...
![Franklin Zemel](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Zemel_Franklin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0afe7b08&itok=nsipKc8f)
Franklin Zemel focuses on cybersecurity and privacy law, First Amendment and civil rights litigation, complex business litigation, and appellate law. Franklin represents large and small businesses, manufacturers, and religious entities in South Florida and has several significant reported cases.
Navigating the Complex World of Tax Law Saul Ewing's Tax Practice offers focused, in-depth knowledge of the intricacies associated with federal, state, and local tax law. The role of the Tax Practice is to provide clients with advice and representation in a wide variety of tax-related legal issues...
![Andrew J. Daly](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Daly_Andy_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=om3VY4oF)
Andy Daly advises employers, including employee-owned companies, on legal issues connected with employee benefits. He focuses in particular on matters involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), including: Handling ESOP transactions. Assisting with plan design. Evaluating feasibility issues...
![Jeffrey B. Shapiro Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Shapiro_Jeffrey_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=41om0xgD)
Jeff Shapiro handles sophisticated litigation nationwide for companies facing allegations of defective products and other crises that threaten their business, often in the context of multi-district litigation and class actions. During his 40 years as a trial lawyer, manufacturers of medical devices...
![Geoffrey M. Gamble Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gamble_Geoffrey_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=jWtdlI6V)
Geoff Gamble is a litigator who focuses on insurance disputes, consumer financial services matters, and shareholder issues. He has extensive experience handling these and other complex commercial matters in federal and state courts and before private arbitration panels. Geoff represents insurance...
![Mary Harmon](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Harmon_Mary_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=hOHwn_Nn)
Mary Harmon focuses her practice on advising corporations and passthrough entities on tax and contractual issues. Clients look to her for counsel on U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign tax compliance and planning issues, including matters relating to subchapter C, subchapter K, subchapter S and...
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As a member of the firm's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice, Turner Falk assists debtors, creditors and committees in bankruptcy and adversary proceedings. He has experience working on Chapter 11 reorganization cases, liquidations and bankruptcy confirmations, and representing multi-district...
As institutions of higher learning face increasingly public regulation from the Department of Education as well as state and other federal agencies, plaintiffs’ lawyers have taken note and begun to file class actions with increasing frequency. These claims tend to follow current events. Whether they...
![Gary Lipkin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Lipkin_Gary_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=9LCIsYg6)
Gary Lipkin represents companies and individuals in a wide array of corporate and commercial litigation matters. In his more than 20 years of legal practice, Gary has built an extensive track record handling cases before the nation's preeminent business court, the Court of Chancery of the State of...
![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...
![John L. Ropiequet Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Ropiequet_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=8WvtKGdz)
John L. Ropiequet has practiced for more than 30 years, focusing on consumer finance class action defense and other commercial litigation. He has a nationwide civil litigation practice at both the trial and the appellate levels, including a substantial amount of experience handling alternate dispute...
![Thomas Laser](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Laser_Thomas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=TIFeU1uj)
Tom Laser 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, including servicing claims for consumer financial services companies. Before joining Saul Ewing, Tom was...
![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...
![Teresa Tracy](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Tracy_Teresa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=YGnCJvO3)
Teresa "Terri" R. Tracy represents management in labor and employment litigation and related legal matters. Her experience includes issues involving wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, class action, union organizing campaigns, grievances and arbitrations, and collective bargaining...
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Patrick Rodriguez's practice focuses on business and tax planning law. A certified public accountant, Patrick is experienced in representing clients in mergers and acquisition. He represents both buyers and sellers in a broad range of transactions, which encompasses stock purchases and asset sales...