Duane Morris LLP

Alice Snedeker

Alice E. Snedeker practices in the area of intellectual property law and counseling, with a focus on patent litigation in district courts and the International Trade Commission. Ms. Snedeker represents several well-known technology companies in complex patent litigation involving technologies such as fiber optics communications, 802.11 wireless LAN technologies, wireless chipsets, video imaging and conferencing, cable television technology, telecommunications and computer hardware and software applications, and consumer technology accessories. She provides technical and legal analysis, works with experts and witnesses, takes and defends depositions, prepares and argues motions, manages discovery, and prepares pretrial documents. Ms. Snedeker also represents clients in complex commercial litigation, including matters related to trade secrets, defamation, restrictive covenants, products liability, breach of contract, fraud, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Ms. Snedeker regularly provides pro bono assistance to veterans, immigration, and community-based organizations with a variety of legal services, such as drafting life planning documents and petitions, assistance with landlord-tenant disputes, assistance with petitions for asylum, and challenges to state regulations limiting women’s rights. · Intellectual Property

Anastasios Kastrinakis

Anastasios G. Kastrinakis practices in the areas of international, corporate and partnership taxation. His practice focuses on cross-border tax planning and taxation of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions and related issues, including investment fund formation and private equity transactions. Mr. Kastrinakis is vice chair of the Tax Practice. Mr. Kastrinakis advises individuals, corporations, partnerships, family offices and investment funds on the structure and tax aspects of various cross border transactions, particularly inbound transactions. He also advises non-U.S. persons and investment funds on the tax aspects of investing in U.S. real estate, including tax issues pertaining to Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act ("FIRPTA"). Mr. Kastrinakis also advises businesses on tax aspects of cross border operations and cross-border tax optimization strategies and planning. He represents numerous foreign family offices, companies and investment funds, particularly based in Latin America, on U.S. tax issues. On the domestic side, Kastrinakis provides tax advice to buyers and sellers in private transactions, including purchases and sales of partnerships and S corporations. In addition, he advises non-U.S. individuals and families on pre-immigration tax planning. He represents numerous family offices and private equity funds based in Latin America and China on U.S. tax issues related to real estate and other private equity investments in the U.S. · International Taxation

Anthony Fitzpatrick

Partner · Patent Litigation

Anthony J. Guida Jr.

Tony Guida focuses his practice on the PreK-12, postsecondary, EdTech and corporate training education sectors handling issues relating to federal and state education law, licensing and accreditation, mergers, acquisitions and other substantive changes; institutional governance; government response and crisis management, federal and state education policy; and government affairs. An experienced senior executive in the field of higher education, Mr. Guida brings a unique business side perspective to his engagement with clients. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group and previously served as a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. The Legal 500 US 2024 Guide, which has ranked Duane Morris’ Education Industry Group, notes that Mr. Guida “consistently provides solid guidance and perspective” according to his clients and they “have complete trust in his counsel. He’s invaluable for keeping [clients] abreast of developments in higher education.” Mr. Guida was also ranked in Chambers USA for Higher Education – Nationwide for 2024, the first year Chambers issued rankings for Higher Education in the U.S. · Education Law

Brad Molotsky

Partner · Real Estate

Brad Thompson

Brad Thompson’s Chambers'-ranked practice focuses on complex commercial issues across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the energy and healthcare industries. He also serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Within the energy industry, Mr. Thompson has extensive experience from refineries to renewable energy facilities, with particular experience in megaproject EPC construction disputes. In the renewable energy industry, he represents clients in a range of energy-related issues involving disputes, transactions and regulatory compliance matters. In the healthcare industry, Mr. Thompson has experience representing healthcare and pharmaceutical providers in various levels of disputes and compliance-related matters. · Complex Commercial Litigation

Brian A. Kelly

Brian A. Kelly represents clients in connection with commercial, environmental and insurance matters. Mr. Kelly is a trial attorney with extensive jury and court trial experience. His practice involves counseling clients in all stages of risk, and he is frequently retained before a lawsuit is filed in an effort to manage risk. Mr. Kelly has extensive experience representing clients in arbitrations, mediations and all other types of alternative dispute resolution. In all engagements, Mr. Kelly works closely with his clients to achieve defined goals in the most cost-effective manner. Mr. Kelly advises and represents clients in a wide range of issues and lawsuits from contractual issues and insurance coverage to toxic torts and environmental claims. He is regularly retained as trial and appellate counsel in complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. Mr. Kelly also represents product manufacturers, industry groups and their associations in administrative, state and federal court proceedings relating to environmental impacts, product use restrictions and compliance with state and federal environmental regulations, including NEPA, CEQA, Clean Water Act and CERCLA, among others. · Commercial Litigation

Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin is a partner in Duane Morris' Corporate Practice Group, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s national governing Partners Board. Brian served as chairman of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, consisting of 200 plus attorneys in 16 offices, for more than a decade. Brian has extensive experience representing business entities, lenders, private equity funds and entrepreneurs in various business and financing transactions, including the buying and selling of companies, acquisition financings, syndicated secured loan transactions, asset-based financings, venture debt financings, capital raises, fund formations and equity investments. Brian prides himself on delivering high quality legal work, efficiently and responsively. Brian has led more than 1,000 financing transactions and over 200 company sale/purchase transactions. His clients have been located across the United States and have been involved in a myriad of businesses, including manufacturing, distribution, fintech, banking, healthcare, education, defense/military, fashion/retail, plastics, packaging, food and beverage, nutrition, pharmaceutical, technology, transportation logistics, automotive, lodging, gaming, home improvement, outsourcing and human resources, safety/test engineering and product safety, software, telecommunications, home and lawn care, investment management, private equity, among others. · Corporate Law

Brian Shue

Brian A. Shue serves as a team lead of the firm's Construction and Engineering industry group. He practices in the area of construction law. Clients rely on Mr. Shue for not only his strong legal advice, but also for the practical real-world advice he provides, having worked directly in the construction industry. Mr. Shue drafts and negotiates construction agreements, architect and engineer agreements, trade contracts/subcontracts and license agreements on behalf of developers, contractors and design professionals. As a complement to his transactional practice, Mr. Shue also assists clients in disputes arising from public and private construction projects and has prepared pleadings and motions and coordinated pretrial discovery in complex litigations. He advises on the resolution of construction disputes through litigation, arbitration and mediation. Mr. Shue's experience in this regard extends to construction defect claims, delay and disruption claims, change order and extra work claims, warranty claims, property damage, insurance and surety bonding issues, mechanic's liens, default/termination and other related matters. Representative projects include: stadiums, courthouses, infrastructure/transportation facilities, hospitals, institutional buildings, schools, manufacturing facilities, hotels and high-rise commercial and residential buildings. Mr. Shue has been directly involved in some of the largest and most iconic development projects in New York metropolitan area including, for example: the Hudson Yards Redevelopment, Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion, World Trade Center Office Towers and Essex Crossing. · Construction Law

Catherine Beideman Heitzenrater

Partner · Bankruptcy

Christiane Campbell

Partner · Intellectual Property

Christiane Schuman Campbell

Christiane Schuman Campbell is vice chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, She counsels clients on development, management, and protection of their most valuable assets: Their brands. Christi has worked hand-in-hand with some of the world’s most recognizable brands to develop strategies for brand development, clearance, protection, monetization, expansion, and enforcement. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Fashion/Retail/Consumer Branded Products industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board as well as the firm's Executive Committee. Christi partners with clients that range in size from start-ups to leading global franchises, in a wide array of industries, including fashion, jewelry, luxury, and consumer goods; alcohol; casinos and hospitality; franchise restaurants; medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences, including in the cannabis space; universities; and defense products. She is a trusted advisor and partner to larger clients’ in-house legal teams and regularly called upon to step into an in-house counsel role for smaller and start-up clients. Christi has extensive experience with global protection and enforcement of brands, and has guided clients through intellectual property transactional and litigation matters throughout the U.S., before U.S. Federal Courts and before the TTAB in Inter Partes and Ex Parte proceedings, and before WIPO and the NAF in domain disputes under the UDRP. Outside the U.S., Christi has successfully enforced clients’ intellectual property rights in some of the most legally complex jurisdictions in the world, including in China, throughout the Middle East and Africa, and Cuba. In the luxury and consumer goods space, Christi has extensive experience negotiating co-branding and license agreements, particularly with respect to brands using celebrity talent for branding and endorsements. On the deal side, Christi has negotiated hotel management agreements and advised major hotel and casino operations with respect to branding and co-branding in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions including Singapore and Macao. She has guided clients through multi-billion-dollar IPO’s, and multi-million-dollar mergers and acquisitions where clients’ intellectual property portfolios were significant assets. Christi also regularly acts as a consultant and advisor to branding and marketing companies that are supporting their own clients’ brand initiatives, by performing clearance and availability searches and offering advice that blends legal, business, and marketing advice. · Intellectual Property

Christopher Kroon

Partner · Patent Litigation

Christopher Tyson

Partner · Intellectual Property

Corey Weideman

Corey M. Weideman is a partner in Duane Morris’ Trial Practice Group with a practice focused on all phases of complex commercial, intellectual property and employment litigation. Mr. Weideman has valuable experience representing a diverse clientele of Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized companies and individuals in state and federal trial courts across the country and in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Weideman’s practice routinely involves matters alleging non-compete, trade secret, unfair competition, fraud, shareholder oppression, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, business torts and complex breach of contract claims. As a complement to his active litigation practice, Mr. Weideman counsels clients regarding the protection of trade secrets, confidential information and the enforceability of covenants not to compete. Mr. Weideman is further experienced in counseling clients in trademark prosecution and management, including assisting clients with clearance, registration, protection and enforcement. In addition to helping businesses throughout the country, Mr. Weideman devotes a substantial amount of time and energy to his local community through his participation in organized volunteer programs and by providing pro-bono legal services to low-income individuals and various non-profit organizations. Mr. Weideman currently serves on the board of directors of a local 501(c)(3) organization that raises funds in support of Texas Children’s Hospital and also provides pro-bono legal services to a 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of raising money to provide after-school opportunities for children in the community. He is also responsible for previously developing a pro-bono legal triage at a local homeless shelter to help guide the homeless community through Houston’s Homeless Court. Mr. Weideman has been a member of the Texas State Pro Bono College, which is an honorary society that recognizes Texas lawyers who exceed the State Bar’s aspirational pro bono standard through providing legal services to low-income parties. · Commercial Litigation

Courtney Baird

Courtney L. Baird is co-chair of the Commercial Litigation Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group and a member of the Firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Baird serves as outside counsel to businesses handling prosecution and defense of litigation and compliance and risk management issues. She has extensive experience in complex litigation, including defense of class actions, consumer claims (Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Competition and False Advertising Law), business to business disputes, trade secret misappropriation, anti-SLAPP, products liability, contract and tort. Her strategic approach, substantive experience and ability to cost-effectively optimize her clients' business and legal objectives has led to her representation of companies across the United States and internationally. · Commercial Litigation

Cyndie Chang

Cyndie M. Chang is the Managing Partner of the firm's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Chang manages risks and resolves complex business challenges. She advises and partners with clients to defend and litigate their commercial disputes, enforce their rights, and mitigate potential exposure. She has extensive experience handling corporate litigation involving mergers & acquisitions, asset or stock sales, fraud, securities, purchase and sale agreements, and business or partner break-ups. In addition, she has handled complex or class action disputes involving contracts, trademarks, licensing, products liability, product safety and recall, construction defect, trade secrets, California Proposition 65, and real estate. She also defends insurance companies in matters concerning environmental, asbestos, and toxic tort claims, as well as commercial general liability insurance coverage, contribution, bad faith, and reinsurance disputes. Her services have spanned various industries, including manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, healthcare, insurance, cannabis, education, energy, utilities, transportation, auto, telecommunications, financial services and banks. Ms. Chang has represented many public and private businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. She has obtained favorable results serving as first chair in state and federal bench trials, jury trials and arbitration, and has led joint defense groups in complex cases, and resolved cases through creative settlements, confidential proceedings, and dispositive motions. · Asbestos Litigation

Damon Vocke

Damon Vocke is a seasoned trial lawyer and business counselor, and focuses his practice in complex insurance and reinsurance coverage, class actions, high exposure arbitration and litigation matters, regulatory disputes and corporate governance. Mr. Vocke has extensive experience with insurance regulatory and compliance, corporate governance, C-suite problem solving and internal investigations. Mr. Vocke's areas of practice include: Insurance and Reinsurance Insurance Regulatory and Compliance Corporate Governance and Internal Investigations White-Collar Criminal Defense · Insurance and Reinsurance

Dana Ash

Dana J. Ash is Co-Chair of the Products Liability and Toxic Torts Division of Duane Morris' Trial Practice Group and serves as a Team Lead for the Duane Morris Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Industry Group. Mr. Ash practices in the areas of products liability and business litigation and has conducted trials in state and federal courts across the United States. In addition to numerous court trials, Mr. Ash has handled mediations and litigated arbitration claims through the American Arbitration Association. He represents medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors nationally in products liability matters, and in commercial disputes with suppliers and customers. Mr. Ash has served as lead trial counsel and lead national coordinating counsel for clients in consolidated products liability claims involving medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including human tissue products and other biologics, in both federal (multidistrict litigation ("MDL")) and state court venues. Mr. Ash also employs his medicolegal experience defending physicians, hospitals and health maintenance organizations in medical malpractice and other licensing claims. Mr. Ash also represents transportation companies in claims involving catastrophic injuries with complex medical issues, and in claims involving products liability theories. Mr. Ash also handles matters involving complex commercial disputes (including asset purchase agreement and partnership agreement disputes) and other business-related disputes. · Products Liability

Daniel R. Walworth

Daniel R. Walworth is a partner at Duane Morris LLP whose practice focuses on False Claims Act defense, internal investigations, and state attorneys general enforcement, within a broader white collar criminal defense and government investigations practice. He represents organizations and individuals in a range of sensitive and significant matters including government and internal investigations and enforcement actions. Dan represents clients in complex FCA matters –including in qui tam litigation brought under the federal FCA and analogous state statutes, and related administrative issues and compliance risks involving the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, Medicare and Medicaid billing, and grant and research funding across healthcare, higher education, and government contracting. · False Claims Act Defense

Darrick Mix

Darrick M. Mix is Co-Chair of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, head of its Capital Markets group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Mr. Mix practices corporate law with concentrations in the areas of securities law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has experience representing public and private companies in connection with their capital-raising activities, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. Mr. Mix also advises companies with respect to SEC regulations, compliance issues and other corporate and securities law matters, such as public reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and communications with analysts and investors. He has substantial experience representing public and private companies in selling and acquiring businesses His clients span a variety of industries, including biotech, industrials, retail, financial services, railroads and REITs. · Corporate Law

David Amerikaner

Partner · Eminent Domain

David Augustin

Partner · Real Estate Law

David Haas

Of Counsel · Real Estate Law

David Wolfsohn

Partner · Intellectual Property Litigation

Denis F. Shanagher

Denis F. Shanagher has more than 42 years of experience in representing clients in complex real estate and construction matters, including contracts, entitlements and dispute resolution. He represents a diverse group of clients in all aspects of the real estate development and construction process, including owners, developers, contractors and ownership association. His expertise includes contract drafting and negotiation, association management, and disputes regarding complex construction defects, design, delay, easements, title, and various aspects of the approval process (CEQA, entitlement, subdivision map act and administrative hearings). He also has significant experience with insurance coverage (advice and litigation for both policyholders and insurers in the real estate and construction context); and general commercial contract disputes. He also has provided counsel in the areas of professional negligence, emphasizing real estate agents, attorneys, accountants and insurance brokers. · Real Estate

Denyse Sabagh

Denyse Sabagh practices in the areas of immigration and nationality law and litigation. Ms. Sabagh has more than 30 years of experience in representing diverse clients. She helps corporate clients manage both inbound and outbound employment immigration. She is a recognized leader in all aspects of immigration law. She has in depth experience representing individual and corporate clients for all of their immigration needs including E, H, J, L, O, P, and TN non-immigrant and EB-1, PERMs, immigrant visas, EB 5 Immigrant Investor Visa, J-1 waivers and Outbound issues. She also represents clients in I-9 audits, complex immigration cases, consular processing and immigration ramifications of criminal charges. In addition, she represents family-based clients. She is a frequently featured speaker at national, state, and local conferences and in national and international media. She is a recognized leader in developing strategic business immigration programs and policies. · Immigration Law

Dominica C. Anderson

Dominica C. Anderson, managing partner of Duane Morris' Las Vegas office, practices in both the firm's Las Vegas and San Francisco offices. She also is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Anderson has over 30 years of experience in high stakes commercial litigation, including representing insurance companies in complex insurance coverage cases, CGL and D&O throughout the U.S., and works with numerous clients to resolve issues abroad. Most recently, Ms. Anderson founded the firm’s COVID-19 working group and focuses a significant amount of time on COVID-19 related legal issues, including risk management advice. She often represents businesses in complex contract disputes; unfair competition; business interference; false advertising; securities; antitrust; defamation; e-commerce and intellectual property issues. She began her legal career doing direct defense of personal injury suits. · Commercial Litigation

Driscoll Ugarte

Driscoll R. Ugarte serves as a team lead of the firm's Life Sciences and Medical Technologies industry group. He practices in the area of corporate law, including private equity financings, emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions and securities. Mr. Ugarte counsels public, domestic and foreign corporations through all stages of development, from formation and operation to capital-raising and exit, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions and recapitalizations. He is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. An increasing focus of Mr. Ugarte’s practice is advising single family offices on organization, tax-efficient structure and strategy with regard to direct investments and other acquisitions. He also advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs, venture capital investors and underwriters. Mr. Ugarte regularly counsels businesses in the industries of life sciences, biotech, medical devices, pharmaceutical and biologics; real estate; agribusiness; and aerospace. In addition to advising domestic business, he guides multinational and foreign companies in Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America on cross-border direct foreign investment and mergers and acquisitions activities. · Corporate Law

Edward Cramp

Edward M. Cramp represents institutions of higher education around the United States in accreditation, regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. He is a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. He also serves as the managing partner of the firm’s San Diego office. Mr. Cramp is active in the higher education community. He regularly speaks at conferences and events throughout the country on a variety of issues. Mr. Cramp also teaches higher education law and compliance as an adjunct faculty member at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and College of Education. Mr. Cramp served as a judge advocate in the United States Navy, where he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. During his time in the naval service, he defended numerous matters before courts-martial and administrative boards. He also represented the interests of the United States in claims brought against and on behalf of the Navy. · Accreditation

Erin Duffy

Erin M. Duffy is chair of the Duane Morris Health Law Practice Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Duffy concentrates her practice on corporate healthcare regulatory matters. She advises clients, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, medical practices, pharmacies, long-term care facilities and developmental disabilities facilities, on a wide range of issues, including fraud and abuse, privacy, medical staff relations, EMTALA, self-referral, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, and certificate of need and licensure issues. Ms. Duffy has worked extensively with healthcare providers on corporate transactions and administrative agency matters. · Health Law

Frederick Ball

Partner · Life Sciences

George Kroculick

Partner · Real Estate

Gina Foran

Gina Foran is a Senior Associate practicing in the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She has nearly a decade of experience handling complex, high-stakes commercial litigation, with a primary focus on insurance coverage and bad faith matters. Ms. Foran represents domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes involving environmental liability, toxic torts, personal injury, and product liability claims. Her practice includes providing strategic coverage analysis and opinions, advising on claims handling and risk exposure, and litigating coverage and extra-contractual disputes in state and federal courts across the country. In addition to her insurance practice, Ms. Foran has experience in bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation, including asbestos and mass tort bankruptcies and state receivership proceedings involving complex claims administration and insurance recovery issues. · Insurance Coverage

Gosia Kosturek

Gosia Kosturek focuses her practice on representing real estate development companies, investors, lenders and hotel management companies in all aspects of acquisition, disposition, development, management, licensing and finance of real estate and hotel assets in the U.S. and throughout the world. On behalf of these clients, Ms. Kosturek handles the drafting, review and negotiation of various agreements, including hotel management agreements (third party and brand managed), residential agreements, asset management agreements, franchise agreements, various financing documents, technical services agreements, consulting services agreements and purchase and sale agreements. In addition, she regularly advises hotel clients on operational matters and property-level agreements. · Real Estate

Grant Puleo

Grant Puleo focuses his practice on a wide variety of real estate, finance and business transactions, and leads the firm’s Multifamily and Student Housing group. He has extensive experience in a broad array of commercial, multi-family and educational facility (student housing) real estate transactions, including acquisitions, development, construction, affordable housing, P3, syndication, dispositions and specialized leasing and financing of all product types throughout California and the United States. Mr. Puleo's finance experience includes both borrower and lender representation in the origination and workout of complicated debt and equity transactions, such as acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing and synthetic leasing transactions. He also represents clients in business matters involving the transfer of business assets and property and the formation and restructuring of joint ventures, private placements, opportunity funds and other business entities. Mr. Puleo is also a seasoned trial attorney, having tried over a dozen jury trials and several dozen binding arbitrations and mediations involving real estate, finance and business disputes, lis pendens, quiet title and partition actions, as well as risk management and litigation avoidance counseling. Mr. Puleo has also testified as an expert witness in trial, binding arbitration and in deposition. In addition to representing hundreds of clients in mediations and mandatory settlement conferences, Mr. Puleo has received training as a mediator, which includes AAA Advanced Mediation and Dispute Resolution, and 40 hours of training in Mediating the Litigated Case at Pepperdine University's prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. · Real Estate

Jeffrey Hamera

Jeffrey L. Hamera provides legal services focused on the construction industry. He is a co-chair for the Chicago Bar Association’s Construction Law and Mechanics Lien Subcommittee and a past member of the CBA Nominating Committee. Mr. Hamera's clients include project owners, general contractors, design/builders, construction managers, subcontractors, suppliers, architects, engineers and sureties. He negotiates and drafts the full range of contracts for construction projects, including design agreements, construction contracts, construction management agreements, EPC contracts and design/build agreements. He also represents clients in preparation of claims and dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and litigation, of claims for breach of contract, delay, disruption, loss of productivity, change orders, mechanics liens, errors and omissions, construction defects and insurance claims under professional liability, general liability and builder’s risk policies. · Construction Law

Jennifer Lantz

Jennifer M. Lantz has more than 20 years of experience helping clients at all stages protect their brands and other intellectual property. Ms. Lantz focuses on helping companies develop brands through enforcement policies, clearing marks for use, registering marks in the United States and abroad, commercializing marks through licenses and merchandising agreements, assessing infringement risks, enforcing trademark rights and defending against allegations of infringement. She represents clients of all sizes—from new startups to multinationals—and across all industries, including those in the artificial intelligence space. · Intellectual Property

Jennifer Polovetsky

Jennifer Polovetsky is a seasoned attorney with more than two decades of both litigation and transactional real estate experience, with a focus in eminent domain law. She strives to provide every client of the firm with outstanding legal services, personalized attention, and the utmost respect. Ms. Polovetsky litigates in various New York and New Jersey state courts, with a focus on representing clients in all stages of eminent domain proceedings. She also represents clients in transactional real estate matters with a focus on multi-family and commercial real properties. Ms. Polovetsky has represented various religious organizations and not-for-profits before the New York State Attorney General Charities Bureau. She has also been involved in various complex real estate transactions involving the New York City Departments of Social Services, Homeless Services and Housing Preservation and Development. · Litigation

Jessica LaLonde

Jessica E. La Londe serves as a team lead for Duane Morris' Insurance/Reinsurance industry group, is co-chair of the Duane Morris Insurance and Reinsurance Division of the Trial Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Partners Board. Jessica’s practice focuses on civil litigation and appeals, with an emphasis on insurance coverage and commercial litigation and appeals. She has counseled and represented insurance companies in complex disputes for over 20 years. This includes counseling and representing insurance companies throughout the life of a claim – including advice with respect to coverage issues, claims handling, bad faith risks (including policy limits settlement demands), and contribution and subrogation opportunities or risks, and any necessary litigation on these issues. She has experience with several lines of insurance, including general liability, environmental pollution, various forms of professional liability, excess liability, auto liability, project liability, and directors and officers liability. These matters have involved a wide array of claims, including pollution, sexual abuse, asbestos, health hazards, construction defects, and medical malpractice. Jessica also has litigated cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets, business contracts, employment disputes, products liability, California Proposition 65, environmental law, and consumer class actions. · Insurance Coverage

Jessica Singh

Jessica Y. Singh concentrates her practice in the areas of construction, real estate and commercial litigation. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Construction and Engineering industry group and is co-chair of the Construction Division of the Firm's Trial Practice Group. Ms. Singh is an experienced litigator and commercial trial attorney, and focuses her practice on guiding clients through arbitrations, trials and other forms of dispute resolution. Ms. Singh has litigated and tried numerous complex construction cases involving private and public disputes before juries and before courts sitting without a jury. Ms. Singh is experienced in use of court technology in trial presentation and jury selection, and is familiar with jury consultant/mock trial services in large-scale jury trials. Ms. Singh is also a member of the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee. · Construction

Joel Ephross

Joel N. Ephross, P.C. practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and energy. He has structured debt transactions, including project finance; real estate lending; leveraged and non-leveraged lease financings; structured finance; asset securitization; bankruptcies and reorganizations; letters of credit; and credit enhanced transactions. He has worked in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leases, acquisitions and divestitures, mortgages and easements. Mr. Ephross has substantial experience in all aspects of energy and natural resources, including transactions involving mining, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas assets; merchant electric generation facilities; and energy commodity trading, and include acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint venture arrangements, structured finance, leveraged finance, project development and project finance. He has experience in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including advising buyers and sellers on CFIUS-related issues. · Corporate Law

John Baird

Partner · Intellectual Property

John \"Clint\" C. Callan Jr.

John C. (Clint) Callan, Jr. advises clients on real estate transactions and land use matters for commercial, residential, retail and industrial projects. He focuses on land acquisition, disposition and development, along with the purchase, sale, finance and exchange of investment properties. In addition, Mr. Callan represents clients in matters related to commercial, office, retail and ground lease developments. His scope of services include representing educational institutions and nonprofits in their real estate concerns; and leasing, title and loan review for shopping centers in California and Nevada. Mr. Callan has represented clients in the purchase and sale of farmland, vineyards and wineries, and has counseled ranchland owners concerning easement and boundary disputes. He also provides advice on loan workouts involving distressed real estate assets; San Francisco Bay Area land use matters; entitling and selling transferable development rights; easement, boundary and encroachment disputes; pre-construction matters involving contracts; and shoring and excavation issues. · Real Estate

Jonathan Lourie

Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions

Jonathan Swichar

Jonathan L. Swichar is Chair of the Duane Morris Pharmacy Litigation Group and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. For more than 25 years, Mr. Swichar has represented thousands of independent pharmacies and healthcare providers in regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings. His practice is dedicated to representing all provider types, throughout the United States, including specialty pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, retail pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, home infusion pharmacies, tele-health pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, home care pharmacies, long term care pharmacies, oncology pharmacies, among others. He has handled thousands of matters on behalf of such providers involving all aspects of their business operations including, but not limited to, issues with payors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), PBM audit appeals, challenges to network terminations, refusals to provide network access and in the submission of credentialing applications. Additionally, he routinely counsels pharmacies on reimbursement rate issues, reimbursement disputes and refusals by payors and PBMs to abide by Federal and State any willing provider laws and other legal requirements. He has been lead counsel on behalf of such providers in thousands of disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country, all arbitration forums and in mediation. Mr. Swichar's pharmacy experience includes representing multiple retail, mail and specialty pharmacies in negotiating agreements with pharmacy benefit managers for dramatically-improved reimbursement rates for branded and generic drugs, resulting in millions of dollars in additional reimbursement. He has also assisted numerous pharmacies in obtaining network status after being denied and successfully represented pharmacies in overturning decisions by pharmacy benefit managers to terminate them from their networks. He has also represented numerous pharmacies in connection with responding to audits and has successfully challenged audit results. In addition, he has defended numerous pharmacies in connection with investigations by state boards of pharmacy, Attorney General Offices, United States Attorney's Offices and multiple other state and federal government agencies. Mr. Swichar also frequently consults with state and federal legislators in the drafting and proposing of legislation to reign in abuses by pharmacy benefit managers and improve protections afforded to pharmacies. · Health Law

Joseph J. Machi

Joseph Machi is a partner in Duane Morris’ Corporate Practice Group and a vice-chair of the firm’s Private Equity Division within the Corporate Practice Group. He also serves as a team lead for the firm’s Private Equity Industry Group and is a member of the firm’s Education and Cannabis Industry Groups. He is based in the firm’s San Diego office. Mr. Machi represents clients across the country in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other complex transactions and general corporate matters. He advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies, public and private companies, family business owners and founders in buy-side and sell-side transactions. He has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, life sciences and telecommunications, and, in particular, Mr. Machi is a well-established deal attorney in the education/education technology sector. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Machi represents investors and venture capital firms in securities offerings and other sophisticated transactions. He also represents growth companies and established private companies in securities offerings and other intricate transactions and general corporate and regulatory issues in numerous industries, including education, cannabis, life sciences and technology. He advises directors, management and founders on exit strategies, corporate governance matters and day to day operational needs. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Justin Santarosa

Justin Santarosa practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and securities law. Mr. Santarosa represents clients across the country in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other complex transactions and general corporate matters. Mr. Santarosa advises public and private companies throughout their life cycle on a variety of corporate matters and capital market transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, regulatory compliance, IPOs, follow-on equity offerings as well as general corporate matters. Mr. Santarosa has substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries, including energy, specialty manufacturing, technology, life sciences and cannabis, and, in particular, Mr. Santarosa is a well-established deal attorney in the renewable energy sector. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Santarosa represents companies and investors in securities offerings securities offerings and other intricate transactions and general corporate and regulatory issues in numerous industries, including energy, manufacturing, cannabis, life sciences and technology. Mr. Santarosa also advises directors, management and founders on exit strategies, corporate governance matters and day to day operational needs. · Corporate Law

Karen Chuang Kline

Karen Kline practices in the area of intellectual property ("IP") and technology transactions and licensing, providing strategic guidance in protecting and monetizing companies' intellectual assets. With over fifteen years of legal practice, she has established herself as a trusted advisor to clients in matters of trademark, copyright and technology law, data protection and privacy, artificial intelligence, and commercial transactions involving IP or proprietary information. Ms. Kline works with clients that range in size from start-ups to established national and multinational corporations, and across a wide range of industries including software, medical technology, immersive (VR/AR/MR) technologies, computer vision, engineering, hospitality, media, cosmetics and personal care products. Intellectual Property Ms. Kline counsels clients in all aspects of their domestic and international trademark, copyright and patent portfolios. This includes strategic planning, clearance and prosecution, and enforcement of rights. She also assists clients with intellectual property due diligence in connection with the acquisition or sale of IP assets. In the emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI), she advises clients on IP and privacy issues related to training data and model development, diligence and procurement of third party models and products, and organizational policies and procedures related to use of AI in business operations. She has also provided product counsel support to tech clients, working closely with product teams and company stakeholders to advise on IP issues and privacy-first approaches in all stages of research and development. Technology Transactions, Licensing and Commercial Contracts Ms. Kline also counsels clients in technology-related transactional matters, including structuring, drafting, negotiating, and providing legal advice regarding in-bound and out-bound data licensing, content and brand licensing, collaboration and development agreements, consulting and professional services agreements. In this respect, she has drafted and negotiated agreements directed to a range of intellectual property issues, including software licenses, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and service level agreements, patent and related know-how licenses, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, joint development, trademark licenses and publicity rights. · Intellectual Property

Katherine Brodie

Katherine D. Brodie leads the Washington, D.C., team of the firm’s national education law and policy practice and serves as a Team Lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. She is one of a small number of attorneys in the United States with a daily practice devoted primarily to the needs of educational institutions (nonprofit, public and proprietary), education associations, education companies and investors in education. She has a strong interest in supporting mission-driven educational institutions and their partners to effectively lead and adapt to the rapid pace of change in the U.S. education sector while maintaining high quality educational services as measured in cost, accessibility and student outcomes. Ms. Brodie’s experience includes, among other areas of the law, those laws and regulations that directly impact educational institutions, including U.S. Department of Education regulations (Title IV student financial aid); Title IX compliance and response; Clery Act/campus safety; privacy and data security; accrediting agency standards including substantive change (ownership and governance, program, location and other changes); state licensing and authorization; admissions and marketing; online and hybrid education; foreign school and overseas operations including study abroad programs; OPM and partnership agreements; income share agreements; and skills-based, non-degree short term programs. Her advice also includes compliance with U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), U.S. Department of Veterans (VA)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) education benefits, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) participation and funding, state education grant programs, and other federal and state regulations and programs relevant to institutional operations. Because the needs of institutions are so diverse, she is often aided in her work by subject matter professionals in the firm’s other disciplines including tax, employment, real estate, immigration, corporate and trial. She is a frequent speaker and writer on higher education topics and trends and, · Education Law

Kenneth Lazaruk

Kenneth H. Lazaruk practices in the area of construction law. Mr. Lazaruk has more than 40 years' experience in the construction industry, 30 of which has been as an attorney exclusively practicing in the field of construction law. Mr. Lazaruk's experience as an attorney includes all aspects of construction law with an emphasis on representing owners and developers in the drafting and negotiation of design and construction agreements. Mr. Lazaruk also represents owners and developers in construction disputes resolved through either mediation, arbitration and/or litigation. He also has experience representing other parties involved in construction projects including design professionals, architects, engineers, contractors, construction managers, suppliers and vendors. Mr. Lazaruk has a diverse background that includes experience in the fields of law, design, construction, engineering and tax/finance. In addition to his experience as a practicing attorney, he has worked for major engineering, consulting and construction management firms. Mr. Lazaruk has drafted and negotiated contracts for all types of projects including office buildings, affordable and high end residential towers, stadiums and public works/infrastructure. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the states of New York and New Jersey. · Construction Law

Kirk Domescik

G. Kirk Domescik is the managing partner of the firm's Atlanta office. He concentrates his practice in the areas of healthcare and corporate law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, company organization and governance, including preparation of operating agreements and shareholder agreements, general corporate counseling and other transactional matters. Mr. Domescik has particular experience in healthcare transactions, having advised on multiple acquisitions and dispositions involving various healthcare providers, including hospitals and physician practice groups. Mr. Domescik also has substantial experience assisting owners and operators of long-term care communities on federal and state regulatory and licensing matters in connection with multi-state acquisitions. He also frequently advises privately-held companies on corporate governance matters. Mr. Domescik also has substantial experience in advising physician practice groups and other healthcare providers on operational issues affecting their businesses and a variety of healthcare transactional and regulatory matters. · Corporate Law

Kyle T. Molidor

Kyle T. Molidor practices in the area of corporate law and is a member of the firm's Banking and Finance industry group. Mr. Molidor’s practice includes the representation of commercial banks, private equity funds, corporate borrowers and other participants in the financial services industry in a wide variety of corporate and finance transactions, including asset-based lending transactions, cash flow financings, acquisition financings, syndicated transactions, real estate transactions, sponsor backed private equity transactions, bridge debt facilities and corporate restructurings. Mr. Molidor also practices in the areas of reorganization, bankruptcy law, creditors' rights, out of court workouts and complex commercial reorganizations, including representation of agents and other lenders in syndicated credit transactions. Mr. Molidor’s experience spans various industries and specialty lending (including recurring revenue financing, manufacturing, tech, medical devices, SaaS revenue based financing and warehouse loans). Mr. Molidor also represents private equity firms and private and public companies in structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and other general corporate matters. · Corporate Law

Lawrence Pockers

Partner · Commercial Litigation

Leen Al-Alami

Partner · Corporate Law

Lisa Scruggs

Lisa T. Scruggs provides litigation and counseling services for education and school reform organizations, including individual charter and private schools, charter school networks, charter and education management organizations, school districts and other education nonprofit and for profit organizations and service providers. She has handled a wide range of litigation, transactions and policy matters relating to new school development, teacher evaluation, credentialing and certification reforms, public/private education ventures, virtual education, school finance and parent and student civil rights. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. Ms. Scruggs is nationally recognized in school reform law. She has worked with the Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest school district in the U.S., in a number of capacities. Most notably, she served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer (2004-2006) and as a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Evaluate Magnet and Selective Schools Admission Policy (2010-2011). She has also served as an Expert Review Panelist for grant competitions sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, including the Race to the Top – District competition. Ms. Scruggs has also been selected as a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow, joining a cohort of leaders who are "reimagining America's public schools." Ms. Scruggs is also an experienced litigator who has participated in a variety of cases involving a wide range of issues including complex commercial, real estate, business torts and unfair competition law, civil rights and constitutional law. · Education Law

Lisa Spiegel

Lisa Spiegel practices in the areas of immigration and nationality law, concentrating on issues related to the employment of foreign nationals. She has been designated as a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California and is a past chair of the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Ms. Spiegel has served on numerous committees for AILA, including the Association's National Committee on Business and the AILA-USCIS Administrative Appeals Office Liaison Committee, as liaison to the New York and San Francisco District Offices of the Immigration & Naturalization Service and as national liaison with the California Service Center for many years. In addition, Ms. Spiegel is president of the Board of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. She is admitted to practice in New York and California. · Immigration Law

Marcus O. Colabianchi

Marcus O. Colabianchi practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and real estate law in the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices of Duane Morris. He also serves on the firm's Professional Standards Committee, which, among other tasks, evaluates and presents candidates for elevation to partnership. Mr. Colabianchi's bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice includes representing secured and unsecured creditors, financial institutions, business debtors, chapter 7 and chapter 11 trustees, committees, leasing companies, and receivers in all facets of corporate bankruptcy cases and litigation. He handles a variety of complex litigation, workout, restructuring and insolvency matters for lenders and special servicers for REMIC trusts involving Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loans. Mr. Colabianchi also serves as oversight counsel for special servicers in bankruptcy cases in multiple jurisdictions and states. Mr. Colabianchi's real estate practice includes representation of commercial developers, owners, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in all aspects of disputes concerning commercial properties. His practice includes resolving disputes involving complex commercial lease defaults, breaches of guaranties, mortgage fraud, real estate secured transaction issues, lender liability issues, easements, eminent domain issues and other real estate-related issues. · Bankruptcy And Creditors' Rights

Mark A. Steiner

Mark A. Steiner is a brand protection attorney. He has over four decades of experience representing clients in protecting, enforcing and defending their important intellectual property rights, both domestically and internationally, with a focus on trademark and copyright law. Mr. Steiner offers clients a strong combination of trial experience, counseling, enforcement, procurement and licensing insight in matters concerning trademarks, trade identity, internet domain names, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition. He has represented companies ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500 in a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, computer hardware and software, networking, retail, architectural and engineering-design services, personal-care products, sporting goods, clothing, toys and games, food and beverage, hotels and restaurants. He serves as intellectual property counsel to companies at various stages of development, from inception to maturity. Mr. Steiner regularly assists clients in the management and enforcement of domestic and international trademark portfolios with the understanding that companies’ brands are almost always their most valuable assets. · Trademark

Mark Canizio

Mark A. Canizio practices in the area of construction and commercial litigation. Mr. Canizio has litigated numerous complex construction cases involving multimillion-dollar disputes. He has extensive experience in both large scale trials and arbitrations and the use of cutting-edge computer technology to organize and manage documents and testimony and present evidence in the courtroom. He has also successfully employed jury consultants and conducted mock trials to help clients assess the reaction of potential jurors to their cases. In the course of his career, Mr. Canizio has litigated numerous cases resulting in reported decisions and has served some of the industry's largest construction clients. · Construction