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The disposition of estates and trusts often results in complications and disputes requiring the discretion, experience, and accessibility that are the hallmarks of our dispute resolution team. Our clients include individuals, fiduciaries, and non-profit organizations where creative problem-solving...

A legacy is built not only with a gift of property given by will or trust, but also with the client’s goals and values represented by the gift. Wealthy individuals and families need to carefully plan how they will use their assets to shape their legacy. The decisions involved, however, are not just...

The challenges facing closely held and family businesses are unique. It's business and it's personal, all at once. From executing leadership changes in a manner that preserves peace at Thanksgiving to advising on critical compensation decisions, Saul Ewing attorneys regularly represent family...

Michelle G. Novick is an experienced insolvency professional with a reputation for thinking "outside the box" and finding practical, efficient solutions to clients' financial and legal problems. Michelle has represented clients on every side of a transaction in corporate bankruptcy proceedings. With...

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...

Nancy S. Hearne is a member of Saul Ewing's Trusts & Estates Practice. She focuses on estate and tax planning and administration, estate and guardianship disputes and the creation and continuing representation of both public and private charitable organizations. Nancy assists families with a broad...

A partner in the Trusts & Estates Practice, Russell Fishkind focuses his practice on high net worth estate planning, business succession planning, family office consulting, estate administration and probate litigation. Prior to joining the Firm, Russell served as Chair of the Trusts & Estates Team...

Saul Ewing’s Litigation Department features approximately 200 attorneys across 18 offices. We handle a wide range of matters including complex business and commercial disputes, bet-the-company legal proceedings, and high-profile cases in state and federal courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution...

Carmen Contreras-Martinez represents corporate clients who are involved in commercial disputes and/or facing financial difficulties that require them to restructure or file for bankruptcy. The dual nature of her practice as a trial lawyer and bankruptcy attorney positions her to handle cases where...

Saul Ewing’s Trusts & Estates group is a nationwide team featuring more than 40 attorneys across 10 offices. We work with individuals and families on succession planning and wealth transfer, counsel closely-held businesses on governance, growth and restructuring, and litigate and resolve disputes of...

Stephen B. Ravin is a highly seasoned insolvency and bankruptcy attorney, with more than 40 years of experience. He has served as a fiduciary and fiduciaries' counsel throughout his career in both federal and state courts. He also has vast experience representing individual and corporate debtors...

Jay Tarshis's practice focuses on estate planning and administration, taxation, and general corporate law. His estate planning practice is concentrated on inter-generational wealth planning for family business owners and high net worth individuals. Jay frequently addresses business succession issues...

Geraldine Wyle is the co-chair of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group. She focuses her practice on complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution related to trusts and estates, conservatorships and guardianships, business succession, and partnership disputes (often involving fiduciary and high...

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 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...

George Apostolides is a business and bankruptcy litigator who advises clients in the life sciences, cannabis, higher education, manufacturing, retail and technology industries. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, George handles cases in federal and state courts both in Illinois and nationwide...

Jeryll Cohen is the co-chair of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group. She advises clients on complex trust and estate administration and estate and business succession planning as well as multi-faceted litigation and alternative dispute resolution with regard to trusts and estates, family business...

Sarah Ulibarri advises clients on advanced estate planning, probate and trust administration, conservatorships of the person (limited and general), and guardianships of the person. She works diligently to establish a trusted partnership with clients on both a personal and professional level. Some of...

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...

Danielle Guerrero provides guidance to clients on estate planning, trust administration, probate, special needs planning, succession planning, and litigation settlement planning. High-net-worth individuals requiring comprehensive tax planning to business owners seeking advice on business succession...