Civil Litigation lawyers

Marina Rocha Farias

Senior Associate

FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS

Marina-Eleni Theodorou

Manager

Platis – Anastassiadis & Associates Law Partnership

Mario Reggiardo

Mario is a Partner of the firm, specializing in commercial arbitration, both domestic and international arbitration (ICC, UNCITRAL etc) Mario is one of the most prominent experts in arbitration and has extensive experience as an arbitrator in various ad hoc tribunals, the Chamber of Commerce of Lima, and American Chamber of Commerce in Peru (AmCham) in matters related to concessions, infrastructure, public-private partnerships, commercial contracts, among others.

Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados

Mario Verdugo

Associate

DLA Piper Chile

Marius Barisevičius

Associate Partner, Attorney-at-Law

Averus

Mark Batten

Mark W. Batten is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Class & Collective Actions Group. Mark represents employers nationwide at all stages of complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions on wage and hour matters and discrimination claims, and Commissioner’s Charges and other charges of nationwide import brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Outside of class and collective litigation, Mark assists clients with all aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, termination, leaves, accommodation of disabilities, and other matters. Mark also handles diverse civil litigation, including litigation of noncompetition agreements, discrimination and wrongful termination litigation in federal and state courts; proceedings before the EEOC and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; executive disputes; and wage and hour matters. He is also an experienced appellate attorney both in employment cases and other civil litigation, handling appeals at all levels in the state courts and in the United States Courts of Appeals. Mark also has substantial experience with traditional labor matters. He regularly represents employers in a variety of industries, including a number of newspaper and media companies, in collective bargaining, practice before the NLRB, labor arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, and day-to-day advice on administration of collective bargaining agreements. He regularly advises clients in both union and non-union settings on diligence matters in corporate acquisitions and financings. He also has experience on behalf of securities firms in arbitrations before the NASD and NYSE of customer and employee complaints. Before joining Proskauer, Mark was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where he was lead counsel in major litigation for over two dozen federal agencies, ranging from the U.S. Air Force, the CIA, and the U.S. Secret Service to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark regularly writes and lectures on employment-related matters, including, for instance, MCLE's Representing Clients Before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In his spare time, Mark is an experienced computer programmer, conversant in C, C++, and other languages. He has ported more than 35 commercial computer games between computer operating systems.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Mark Brown

Partner

King & Spalding

Mark Filip

Mark Filip, a former federal judge and high-ranking Justice Department official, helps to lead Kirkland’s government enforcement defense and internal investigations group, and serves as a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. As a partner in the Firm’s Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices, Mark has successfully guided numerous Fortune 100 companies and financial institutions through complex mission-critical moments, counseling leaders and Boards of Directors on high-stakes matters at the intersection of litigation, public policy and reputation. He also has an active civil litigation practice, and he is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Mark Gaylord

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Mark Keeley

Partner in charge of private litigation unit; the unit covers a range of civil disputes for private clients, but specialises in contested trust and probate disputes; caseload comprises high-value contested probate and trust disputes including IPFDA 1975 claims, will disputes, contested court of protection proceedings and related professional negligence claims against other solicitors. Mark is also a qualified commercial mediator and regularly mediates contested trust and probate disputes.

Freeths LLP

Mark Milkovics

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Mark Ng

Senior Associate

Bird & Bird ATMD LLP

Mark Robertson

Norton Rose Fulbright

Mark Spragg

Mark is both a civil and criminal litigation specialist who conducts the majority of his work in the area of financial services, often against the state, in particular HMRC, the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority. Many of his cases conclude in the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights and involve real points of principle. Mark has been involved in many notable and interesting cases since the establishment of the SFO and he is often called upon by the media to offer comment on matters of national interest. He travels abroad regularly to meet with clients who are unable to travel to the UK. Mark’s areas of expertise are criminal defence of white collar fraud, civil prosecution and defence of white collar fraud, corporate conflicts, contentious employment matters (defence and prosecution), advising employers on detecting and dealing with frauds, fraud prevention techniques, tax investigations and enquiries, extradition law and challenging police search warrants. Mark’s key achievements include: (i) early fraud trials such as Blue Arrow; (ii) long running dispute between Octav Botnar, Nissan UK and the Inland Revenue; (iii) Dame Shirley Porter, leader of Westminster City Council; (iv) commenced rare private prosecution following a death on Everest; (v) acting to resist the controversial and unpopular extradition of NatWest Three; (vi) challenges to high profile police search warrants eg Harry Redknapp; (vii) the expenses row in the Houses of Parliament, an appeal to the Privy Council from the Court of Appeal in Bermuda and litigation concerning BTA Bank.

Keystone Law

Marta Rey

Senior Associate, Madrid

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Marta Szrajer

Managing Associate, Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations

Addleshaw Goddard Wisniewski Dzianachowski Schulz i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Marta Villarino Gejo

Senior Associate

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Martina Filipová

Attorney-at-law

Chrenek, Toman, Kotrba advokátní kancelár spol. s r.o.

Martine Berwette

Partner Martine Berwette is specialised in intellectual property as well as in personal data protection with a broad experience in civil procedure, trade practices and commercial law in general. For several years, Martine has been assisting companies in all matters related to the protection of personal data of their clients, contacts, suppliers and employees (video surveillance cameras, cookies policy, privacy policy, etc.). She has assisted many companies in complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Martine is also specialised in all aspects of judicial law related to these matters, including enforcement measures (seizures) and exequatur. She has been teaching private judicial law for several years at the Brussels Bar in the framework of the courses of aptitude for the profession of lawyer. She is also an assistant lecturer in private judicial law at ULB Mons since 2011. She also has a long experience in Congolese law (DRC), in particular in contract law and labour law (especially for expatriate contracts).

Janson

Martín Eduardo Rueda Sandoval

Lechuga Abogados

Marvin Masangkay

Partner

Quisumbing Torres

Mary Hough

Partner and Head of the Healthcare team at Hayes solicitors. She specialises in professional indemnity defence litigation and in particular dealing with high value clinical negligence claims. Mary has extensive experience in civil litigation, acting for insurance companies, indemnifiers and plaintiffs. For many years, Mary has advised public and private hospitals, medical professionals and their indemnifiers in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious medico-legal matters. These include issues relating to consent, policies, guidelines and protocols, patient complaints, Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation, retention of records and claims management.Partner specialising in professional indemnity defence litigation and in particular dealing with high value clinical negligence claims. Mary has extensive experience in civil litigation acting for insurance companies, indemnifiers and plaintiffs. For many years, Mary has advised public and private hospitals, medical professionals and their indemnifiers in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious medico-legal matters. These include issues relating to consent, policies, guidelines and protocols, patient complaints, Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation, retention of records and claims management. She has also served on a hospital ethics committee. Mary is an experienced advocate and has represented individual clinicians and hospitals at inquests and was the sole advocate for a major public hospital in the Dunne Inquiry. She has lectured to clinicians and medical students in public and voluntary hospitals on issues such as informed consent, mediation and claims management. Mary has a strong interest in alternative dispute resolution. She is a CEDR accredited mediator and has participated in the mediation of disputes related to healthcare and non-healthcare issues.

Hayes Solicitors LLP

María Alejandra Pallares

Associate

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

María Camila Cubillos Romero

Junior Associate

Jimenez Ruiz & Asociados