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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...
![Amy S. Kline](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kline_Amy_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=Sadi42NW)
Amy Kline is a commercial litigator whose practice is focused on the representation of insurers and reinsurers in complex civil litigation. She is co-chair of the firm's Insurance Group and a member of the Executive Committee. Amy has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state...
![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...
![Bruce Smiley](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Smiley_Bruce_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=LSdUlzvU)
Bruce Smiley draws on more than 45 years of experience counseling international and national companies as well as local Southern California businesses and families regarding the legal aspects of transactional real estate matters. Bruce's practice encompasses both public and private sector...
![Jeryll Cohen LinkedIn Centered Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Cohen_Jeryll_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e90e346b&itok=eUPOcEmD)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Ulibarri_Sarah_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=qAVmOg_V)
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 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...
![Dawn Eyerly LinkedIn Centered Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Eyerly_Dawn_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=aJJNS1V6)
Dawn Eyerly is a trial attorney with substantial litigation experience, including jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, and mediations. She also has extensive appellate experience in both state and federal courts. Dawn represents individuals as well as entities, ranging from small, family-owned...
![Joi Morris](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Morris_Joi_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=nVi2Ddu-)
Joi L. Morris handles trust and estate litigation, representing a wide range of clients, including trustees, estates, individuals, and businesses. Joi assists with claims against fiduciaries, estates, or trusts, including issues related to capacity and undue influence. She has extensive experience...
![Lisa LaFourcade](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/LaFourcade_Lisa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=JcfJhfYb)
Lisa LaFourcade is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California State Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals, privately held businesses, and charitable organizations. Her areas of practice include: Estate, gift...
![Hilda Piloto](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Piloto_Hilda_LinkedIn.jpg?h=5f4e38f5&itok=T6x1jWlM)
Hilda Piloto is a skilled trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising clients, trying cases and negotiating complex civil disputes. She has handled significant international and local complex civil litigation matters involving the prosecution and defense of commercial partnership, fraud...
![Eric G. Orlinsky Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Orlinsky_Eric_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=dje76Rlz)
Eric Orlinsky co-chairs the firm's Corporate Practice and its Private Equity/Venture Capital subgroup and concentrates his practice in general business and securities law and counsels clients in private equity and venture capital investments, public and private offerings of debt and equity...
![Wendie C. Stabler](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Stabler_Wendie_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0df24928&itok=6iCmeo6N)
Wendie Stabler provides trusted legal counsel to clients across the country on commercial real estate deals (including leases, dispositions and acquisitions) as well as developments, redevelopments and expansions. Wendie's legal work also includes a wide array of projects promoting sustainable...
![James A. Morsch](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Morsch_James_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=kIUPVvcN)
Jim Morsch assists corporate clients with a wide variety of disputes involving insurance, antitrust and commercial law, as well as class action litigation. A trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Jim litigates cases in state, federal and appellate courts and routinely has matters in...
![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...
![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...
Real-World Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Counseling Information is a vitally important asset in today’s digital age. Companies are collecting and processing unprecedented amounts of data, much of which is sensitive employee and customer information. Often, companies rely upon the assistance of...
Counsel on Claims, Litigation, Transactions, Opinions and Compliance The legal landscape affecting the insurance industry is constantly changing. Whether the result of technological advances and corresponding risk exposures, ever-evolving case law affecting coverage and bad faith standards, or...
![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...