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Covering Your Campus's Legal Issues The legal issues facing colleges and universities are more challenging than ever, reaching every corner of campus life with increasing complexity. From discipline to drones, Title IX to taxes, FERPA to financing, Saul Ewing has a deep bench of lawyers who wrestle...
![Joshua W. B. Richards](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Richards_Joshua_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=7BgYWL6A)
Josh Richards helps clients involved in civil and regulatory disputes address challenges through litigation, appeals, and strategic responses to government enforcement, particularly for colleges and universities. Josh approaches his work for education and nonprofit clients from a mission-driven...
![James A. Keller](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Keller_James_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Ut_iJp7_)
Jim Keller is a trial lawyer, the co-chair of Saul Ewing’s Higher Education Practice and K-12 Schools Practice and a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
![Jared S. Hawk](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Hawk_Jared_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=23f_oxq8)
Jared Hawk is an experienced trial attorney who handles litigation matters for clients ranging from start-ups to product designers and manufacturers to large players in the energy industry. Jared's courtroom experience includes successes in federal, state and appellate courts across the county in...
Strategic Legal Advice to Match Evolving Business Strategy Whether better performance, lower costs, diversification, greater market penetration or elimination of the competition is the goal, mergers and acquisitions reshape companies big and small. Our legal advice is based on the practical...
![Robert C. Gill](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gill_Robert_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=WaDgveuP)
Robert Gill has more than 35 years of experience as a commercial litigator. Robert handles cases both locally in the Washington, D.C. metro area and throughout the United States, and has tried a number of cases in state and federal courts, and before arbitration tribunals. He has particular...
![Justin Crotty](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Crotty_Justin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=XXQFmScR)
Justin Crotty brings both a scientific and business sensibility to his work helping clients protect their intellectual property through patent prosecution, inter-partes review proceedings and litigation, particularly for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. His experience...
![Dennis Ostrovsky](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Ostrovsky_Dennis_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=F7Kqg4xR)
Dennis Ostrovsky assists clients with patent portfolios involving obtaining patents in diverse technologies such as nanomaterials, cellular analysis systems, small molecule drugs, bactericides, abrasives, drug delivery systems, dental compositions, volumetric additive manufacturing (VAM), OLED...
![Kyra A. Smerkanich](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Smerkanich_Kyra_LinkedIn.jpg?h=5f4e38f5&itok=xsJ5XKYR)
Kyra Smerkanich represents clients in complex civil litigation, helping them to navigate the challenging landscapes that arise in business and insurance disputes. Working in partnership with her clients – with an eye towards understanding their business practices and legal needs – Kyra is not afraid...
![Alireza Behrooz Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Behrooz_Alireza_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=fQ8oi1-a)
A patent attorney with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Alireza Behrooz assists companies and universities in protecting intellectual property connected to inventions in the life sciences. Drawing on years of private practice experience, Alireza prepares, files and secures patents as...
![Chihao Wang](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Wang_Chihao_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=zBXFBTrN)
Chihao Wang is a registered patent agent who draws on his scientific background in biochemistry to assist clients in protecting their innovations. Chihao has intellectual property experience in a broad spectrum of technology areas, including biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology...
![Connor Park](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-12/Park_Connor_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e88f149d&itok=vJLr3ZhS)
Connor Park is a patent agent who assists companies ranging from startups to large corporations with patent prosecution, counseling and patent portfolio development. His experience includes work across a broad range of: Software development Quantum computing Blockchain Cryptography Computer vision...
![Monaf Awwa](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-12/Awwa_Monaf_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e88f149d&itok=cM2I9qum)
Monaf Awwa, Ph.D., is a patent agent who helps clients in the biopharmaceutical, medical device and chemical industries protect their intellectual property by drafting their patent applications, preparing USPTO office action responses, and handling patent prosecutions. He also provides clients with...