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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...

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...

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...

Casey Grabenstein handles complex commercial litigation for clients nationwide across an array of industries. His litigation experience includes class actions involving securities, consumer fraud, and ERISA, including defeating class certification in multiple cases for a leading insurance company...

Evan Miller is a member of the firm's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice, where he handles corporate bankruptcy and restructuring matters for debtors (including under Subchapter V) and trustees. His representations also include official committees of unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, vendors...

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...

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...

Christie McGuinness focuses her practice on commercial litigation and disputes involving force majeure and white collar and government enforcement. Christie represents clients in a wide range of industries in cases alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty as well as disputes arising...

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 "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...

Carol Chow handles business and commercial litigation, as well as litigation pertaining to bankruptcies and other insolvency events. She is highly experienced in the preparation and trying of cases under the time pressures often found in complicated bankruptcy litigation. Carol represents clients on...

Ted Stolman draws on decades of experience in the insolvency and bankruptcy space to help businesses successfully resolve financial matters. In addition, drawing upon his experience in representing debtors, Ted is particularly adept at assisting creditors when confronted with an insolvency. Ted has...

Jeffrey Goodfried is a commercial litigator who focuses on cases involving real estate disputes, creditor's rights, breach of contract, and commercial landlord/tenant law, as well as business torts, including fraud, unfair competition and interference with economic advantage. Although based in Los...

The pharmaceutical industry faces a challenging business environment as competition drives down prices, R&D expenses rise, and government scrutiny deepens. However, companies have many options for navigating these challenges, generally by making deals with others in the field, including mergers and...

Michelle Streifthau-Livizos represents clients in litigation matters, including disputes involving the Hatch-Waxman Act, patents, copyrights and trademarks. She handles cases involving various types of technology, including representations of pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies...

John Snyder concentrates his practice in the areas of land use planning and real estate development. For more than 30 years, he has represented commercial, industrial, and residential clients in the full spectrum of real estate development and land use planning, including land use approvals...

Jorge Garcia is a member of the firm's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice and concentrates his practice in matters involving bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, and debtor/creditor rights. Jorge works to develop solutions for debtors, trustees, creditors' committees, unsecured creditors, and...

Marc Citron counsels a broad range of commercial enterprises on real estate deals and other business transactions that are key to their growth and evolution. During his more than 45 years of legal practice, Marc has advised clients ranging from real estate developers, retailers and the hospitality...

Katherine "Katie" Barrett Wiik is a litigator with more than 17 years of experience handling federal and state appellate matters and litigation disputes. Katie has served as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and secured favorable outcomes for clients before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits...

Carl Everett has more than 42 years of experience helping manufacturers, oil and gas companies and many other types of businesses resolve disputes with the government and other parties over environmental remediation of polluted sites. He is deeply involved in cases involving the Superfund, including...