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![Sean T. O'Neill](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/O-Neill_Sean_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7670f36c&itok=K8o3VlF4)
Sean O'Neill handles commercial and real estate litigation matters for energy companies, developers, higher education institutions and insurance companies, among others. He also advises clients on environmental social and governance (ESG) related issues and provides counsel in connection with...
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Michael Petrizzo brings nearly 30 years of experience to his work guiding clients through mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and corporate formations, reorganizations and restructurings. Public and private companies, private equity and venture capital firms, and high-net-worth...
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Stephanie Denker focuses on complex commercial litigation, including insurance and securities law. In the Insurance industry, Stephanie has experience in lapse litigation, primarily in New York. Stephanie also defends insurance companies in class actions, including cases brought in Illinois, Florida...
![Franklin Zemel](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Zemel_Franklin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0afe7b08&itok=nsipKc8f)
Franklin Zemel focuses on cybersecurity and privacy law, First Amendment and civil rights litigation, complex business litigation, and appellate law. Franklin represents large and small businesses, manufacturers, and religious entities in South Florida and has several significant reported cases.
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...
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Steven Appelbaum is an experienced commercial litigator who represents individuals and companies involved in disputes related to real estate, creditor’s rights, corporate divorces, employment matters, and theft of trade secrets. Steven enjoys gaining a deep understanding of his clients’ business...
![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...
![Jeffrey B. Shapiro Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Shapiro_Jeffrey_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=41om0xgD)
Jeff Shapiro handles sophisticated litigation nationwide for companies facing allegations of defective products and other crises that threaten their business, often in the context of multi-district litigation and class actions. During his 40 years as a trial lawyer, manufacturers of medical devices...
![Geoffrey M. Gamble Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gamble_Geoffrey_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=jWtdlI6V)
Geoff Gamble is a litigator who focuses on insurance disputes, consumer financial services matters, and shareholder issues. He has extensive experience handling these and other complex commercial matters in federal and state courts and before private arbitration panels. Geoff represents insurance...
![Patrick Tracey](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-02/Tracey_Patrick_LinkedIn.jpg?h=16f15343&itok=_HAZTTCY)
Patrick Tracey represents clients in the consumer financial services industry in litigation and regulatory matters. Drawing on 20 years of experience, Patrick also advises a wide array of corporate clients on complex commercial and business matters, with the goal of minimizing their legal risks...
![Jon Barooshian](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-02/Barooshian_Jon_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=Gteyj8lx)
Jon Barooshian brings almost three decades of experience as a litigator to the table, in his work for business clients facing criminal and civil proceedings involving white collar claims and tax controversies, as well as in complex commercial disputes. A seasoned trial lawyer and former state...
![Thomas E. Doyle Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Doyle_Thomas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=xovnMfko)
Thomas Doyle advises companies on legal issues in connection with their daily operations and long-term business strategies. His experience includes representing clients in a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture financing and debt financing. Companies frequently rely...
![Kermit J. Nash](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Nash_Kermit_LinkedIn.jpg?h=4e0e1cc0&itok=WuwzF_c8)
Kermit Nash counsels domestic and international clients on legal issues connected with their business operations, governance, strategy and investments. Privately held domestic and international corporations rely on Kermit to advise them on transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions and sales...
![Gary Lipkin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Lipkin_Gary_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=9LCIsYg6)
Gary Lipkin represents companies and individuals in a wide array of corporate and commercial litigation matters. In his more than 20 years of legal practice, Gary has built an extensive track record handling cases before the nation's preeminent business court, the Court of Chancery of the State of...
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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...
![Maria Carnicella](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-04/Carnicella_Maria_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=yE7gdE9C)
Maria Carnicella advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and other major corporate transactions. In addition to M&A deals, she represents private and public entities and individual investors in stock and asset sales and acquisitions, private placements, reorganizations, IPOs, redemptions, and...
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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...
![David G. Shapiro](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Shapiro_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=RYwjh6Rm)
David Shapiro advises clients on international and domestic business tax planning, including domestic and cross border expansion, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. David's practice includes entity formation and structure planning, securities offerings and hybrid...
![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...