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![Courtland C. Merrill](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Merrill_Courtland_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=K-qg5OKB)
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...
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...
![James D. Taylor, Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Taylor_Jim_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=DaSWf-tO)
Jim Taylor is a trial lawyer with first-chair experience handling complex litigation in federal and state courts. A significant portion of his practice uses that litigation experience and perspective to counsel clients in managing high-profile crises, minimizing financial and reputational risks...
![Michael J. Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Joyce_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1TqFPexD)
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...
![Caitlin Strauss Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Strauss_Caitlin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=PHtfNKc3)
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...
![Jesse L. Krohn](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Krohn_Jesse_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=y56jMx0T)
Jesse Krohn draws on her past work as an assistant general counsel for a small private college and an associate director in the civil rights compliance office of a large university to advise institutions of higher education on legal matters. Her experience includes evaluating complaints and...
![Dana Silva](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Silva_Dana_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=4EjVEq-r)
Dana Silva handles business litigation and general civil suits. She has experience with breach of contract, fiduciary duty, trade secret disputes, fraudulent conveyance, unfair competition and shareholder disputes. She litigates trademark infringement claims in federal court. She also has experience...
![Kenneth Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-03/Jones_Ken_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e88f149d&itok=DgiJ4MQc)
Ken Jones brings 30 years of experience to his work as a litigator and trial lawyer who defends public and private entities in labor and employment disputes. Clients in industries ranging from retail and banking to logistics and insurance, along with government agencies, rely on him to handle...
![Alexander Reich](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Reich_Alexander_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=OSyZkTIH)
Alexander Reich is a trusted litigator and advisor who focuses on employment law. He counsels employers on an array of matters involving federal and state statutes such as Title VII, Title IX, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family...
![Steven Appelbaum Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Appelbaum_Steven_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=aC6rEQFP)
Steven Appelbaum represents clients in a wide range of business disputes, including real estate and construction, commercial contracts and loans, shareholder disputes, and landlord-tenant issues. The clients that Steven assists range in size from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and include...
![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...
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...
![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...
![Jessica Bradley](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-03/Bradley_Jessica_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=SZgaIKW6)
Jessica E. Bradley is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who defends employers and managers in labor and employment matters, ranging from claims of harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and discrimination based on age, sex, gender, race, color, national origin, disability and...
![Gary B. Eidelman Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Eidelman_Gary_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=2KcxfPXu)
Gary Eidelman represents employers in labor and employment law and business matters, with a particular emphasis on non-compete, restrictive covenant and trade secret counseling and litigation. A Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Gary is recognized by clients for his proactive...
![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...
Industry-Specific, Business-Focused Legal Advice Increased pricing pressure combined with a rise in generic competition and continued regulatory uncertainty have squeezed the margins of life sciences companies. Helping navigate this ever-shifting terrain, Saul Ewing’s Life Sciences Practice consists...
![Henry A. Platt](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Platt_Henry_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0afe7b08&itok=rLMmotst)
Henry Platt brings more than three decades of experience to his work representing management nationwide in labor and employment disputes in industries ranging from government contracting to retail sales and higher education. Henry is a skilled trial lawyer who litigates jury and non-jury cases...