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![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...
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](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Grabenstein_Casey_LinkedIn_1.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=6LZXFk1t)
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...
Counsel From the Earliest Stage of Development Through Disposition of Projects Throughout the continuum of financing, acquiring, developing, leasing and selling real estate are a multitude of complexities to address and challenges to overcome—from regulatory hurdles and shifting capital stacks to...
![Evan Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Miller_Evan_LinkedIN.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=4pqkp9dq)
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...
![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...
![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...
![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...
![Carol Chow LinkedIn Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Chow_Carol_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=PYJLLyl4)
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...
![Theodore Stolman](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Stolman_Theodore_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=vmeCpIY5)
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...
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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...
![Austin Strine](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Strine_Austin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=bTCXb9qJ)
Austin Strine represents clients in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts. His experience includes matters ranging from data privacy and cybersecurity issues and commercial breach of contract claims to corporate and shareholder disputes and business defamation cases. He also...
![Delene Lantz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Lantz_Delene_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=BMhXQ2ug)
Delene Lantz is an experienced attorney who advises clients on and litigates decisions by regulatory agencies throughout the bureaucratic process and on appeal before trial and appellate courts. Prior to joining Saul Ewing, Delene spent more than a decade working in legal roles for the Commonwealth...
![Matthew R. Gerber](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gerber_Matthew_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=pS4x8LAl)
Matthew Gerber assists commercial clients with real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, and purchase and sales agreements. He also handles leases, mortgages and financings. Matthew draws on his experience with corporate transactions to advise clients involved in mergers and...
![Jorge Garcia](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Garcia_Jorge_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1jbmM47O)
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...
![Anthony Kang](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kang_Anthony_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=H6C0upn-)
Anthony Kang represents companies and individuals in various business matters and real estate transactions. Anthony has considerable experience handling the acquisition and disposition of commercial and multi-family properties, representing lenders and borrowers in real estate financing, and...
![Katie Barrett Wiik](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Barrett-Wiik_Katie_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=HBKVDC6j)
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...