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![Jason St. John](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-03/St.John_Jason_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=3uOSZXa4)
Jason M. St. John is managing partner of Saul Ewing. As the chief executive officer, Jason oversees the firm's daily operations, client relations, strategic planning, business development and growth strategies. In leading Saul Ewing's national practice of 425 attorneys through its 18 offices located...
![Leah D. Leyendecker](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Leyendecker_Leah_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Q85PqgxA)
Leah Leyendecker focuses her practice on commercial transactions driven by intellectual property, intangible assets and technology. Her experience includes reviewing, drafting and negotiating complex technology-related license and master services agreements, SaaS agreements, technology development...
![Jerad Beltz LinkedIn Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Beltz_Jerad_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=4pXL5Fp1)
Jerad Beltz focuses his practice for individual clients on estate planning, wealth preservation, business succession planning and trust administration. He also counsels nonprofit organizations and privately held businesses in formation, governance, compliance, contract negotiation and charitable...
![Richard T. Frazier](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Frazier_Richard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=HKrUheSt)
Richard Frazier advises clients on legal issues involving health law and the tax code. Clients include hospitals and related entities, ancillary health care providers, and joint venture arrangements. He has been actively involved in the planning and implementation of numerous hospital mergers and...
![John F. Stoviak](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Stoviak_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=MUOXQ52d)
John Stoviak handles high-stakes litigation, complex trials and appeals for business, energy and environmental clients in courts throughout the United States, and he represents colleges, universities, and independent schools in delicate governance matters and issues. He has achieved two $100 million...
![Blaine Feinauer Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Feinauer_Blaine_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=QggCdUGl)
Blaine Feinauer maintains a general litigation practice with a focus on representing clients in complex commercial business disputes. While pursuing his J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Blaine was an intern to the Honorable Cathy Bissoon for the U.S. District Court for the Western...
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...
![Vanessa Schoenthaler](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Schoenthaler_Vanessa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=3UL4ioah)
Vanessa Schoenthaler's practice focuses on corporate, securities and regulatory matters, with a particular emphasis on securities transactions, disclosure obligations, corporate governance, investment management and regulatory compliance. Vanessa's corporate finance experience ranges from advising...
![Melissa Cruz Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Cruz_Melissa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=CaA5aXYT)
Melissa Clarke advises clients in a variety of industries in matters involving environmental permitting, counseling and litigation. She assists with the acquisition, development and siting of pipelines, power plants, solar and wind projects. Melissa negotiates and drafts environmental contractual...
![David Y. Sartorio Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Sartorio_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=Dc9xlVxx)
David Sartorio focuses his practice on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, control and non-control investments, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. David has experience advising companies ranging from private start-up and growth companies to large public companies...
![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...
![Nikhil A. Mehta](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Mehta_Nikhil_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e90e346b&itok=nnWVCCsY)
Nikhil Mehta works closely with clients and their management teams to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including contracts for purchase and sale of goods, distribution and supply agreements, services agreements, manufacturing agreements, licenses and leases. Nikhil also represents...
![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.
![Anthony P. Forte](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Forte_Anthony_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=DzADA25L)
Tony Forte concentrates his practice in the area of commercial real estate development and transactions, with an emphasis on site acquisition, land use approvals and permitting, construction, historic preservation, and leasing matters. Most recently, Tony has provided real estate legal counsel to...
Counsel From Inception to Close-Out Saul Ewing’s Construction Practice provides experienced counsel throughout the life cycle of projects – from planning and contracting through project performance and dispute resolution – to clients across the country and around the globe. While some of our work is...
![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...
![Jay Reilly Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Reilly_Jay_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=ONANoM5H)
Jay Reilly represents biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies, as well as universities and nonprofits, in strategic transactions in the life sciences industry, particularly complex collaborative arrangements and technology acquisitions and dispositions. Jay has extensive experience...
![Michael A. Gold](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gold_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=zHUuQROw)
For more than 25 years, Michael Gold has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries in corporate and transactional matters. He is a trusted advisor to general counsel, senior management and boards of directors across the country. Michael is a "closer" with a record of negotiating complex...
![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...