Lawyers in United States

Russell Hirschhorn

Russell L. Hirschhorn is co-head of Proskauer’s premier ERISA Litigation Group, which is a significant component of the firm’s ERISA Practice Center and globally renowned Labor and Employment Law Department. Russell’s practice focuses on employee benefits issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including class action and complex litigation, U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service investigations, and counseling clients on best practices to avoid litigation. Russell has more than two decades of experience representing plan sponsors, fiduciaries, trustees, and service providers across the country. His work on behalf of clients has included all types of plans, including 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, defined benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, executive compensation plans, health and welfare plans, multiemployer plans, multiple employer plans, and severance plans. And, it has included the full gamut of claims arising under ERISA, including excessive investment and plan administration fees and investment underperformance claims; cash balance plan litigation; claims for benefits; company stock fund cases; claims for delinquent contributions; ERISA § 510 claims; ERISA statutory claims; ESOP litigation; executive compensation claims; independent contractor claims; independent fiduciary representations; multiemployer fund litigation; plan service provider claims; recoupment of plan overpayments; retiree benefits claims; severance plan claims; and withdrawal liability claims. His pro bono work has included serving as lead litigation counsel in several impact litigations: on behalf of social security recipients whose benefits were unlawfully suspended based on an outstanding warrant, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in Louisiana prisons seeking disability accommodations, and Swartzentruber Amish in upstate New York to obtain religious exemptions from certain building code requirements. Russell also was a principal drafter of several amicus briefs for the Innocence Project, a legal non-profit committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Russell L. Irby

Attorney. Rusty has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and tax law. Rusty works with closely held and family businesses on business planning and taxation, including their formation, operation and sale. He is recognized as being highly knowledgeable in tax issues related to estate and succession planning, trusts and probate. Works with closely held and family businesses on business planning and taxation, including their formation, operation, and sale. Recognized as being highly knowledgeable in tax issues related to estate and succession planning, trusts, and probate.

Butler Snow LLP

Russell Leaf

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Russell Levine

Russell is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he has spent his entire 40+ year career. He focuses his trial (jury, bench and ITC), appellate (Federal Circuit), and alternative dispute resolution practice on patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation matters, and disputes involving and relating to technology transfer, patent license, confidentiality and know-how agreements. His technology transfer and licensing practice includes structuring and negotiating both licensing-in and licensing-out transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Russell Lewis

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Russell Nance

Partner

Mayer Brown

Russell Post

Partner

Beck Redden L.L.P.

Russell Sacks

Partner

King & Spalding

Russell Sass

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Russell Sauer, Jr.

Litigation & Trial Partner

Latham & Watkins

Russell Trice

Norton Rose Fulbright

Russell Wolfson

Venable LLP

Ruth Zadikany

Partner

Mayer Brown

Ruti Smithline

Ruti Smithline | White Collar Defense + FCPA | Morrison Foerster Ruti Smithline serves as co-chair of the firm’s Latin America Desk, in addition to being a member of Morrison Foerster’s FCPA + Global Anti-Corruption group and a former co-chair of the Investigations + White Collar Defense group. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, with an emphasis on white collar criminal defense, SEC enforcement, and corporate internal investigations. Ruti regularly advises clients on cross-border investigations, global compliance programs and anti-corruption due diligence for acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. Ruti has represented individual and corporate defendants in cross-border criminal investigations, SEC enforcement matters, and other regulatory proceedings, including matters related to trade sanctions and anti-money laundering. She has experience conducting corporate internal investigations both domestically and internationally, often advising clients on remedial measures responsive to the issues investigated. Ruti was born and raised in Colombia and is fluent in Spanish. She has conducted investigations, seminars and anti-corruption training in Spanish throughout Central and South America. Ruti has been recognized by industry leading publications including Chambers & Partners, where she is ranked in the USA guide for Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York and nationally for their FCPA category, in addition to being ranked in the Latin America guide for Corporate Crime & Investigations across the LatAm region. She has also been recommended by Legal 500 US in their Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense category, was recently selected by LatinVex as one of "Latin America's Top 100 Lawyers: FCPA & Fraud" for 2022, and has also been named to Global Investigations Review's "Women in Investigations" 2018 survey, which recognizes the top 100 leading female investigations specialists from around the world. Ruti received her J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law, where she graduated with honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. degree cum laude from Cornell University. She is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey.

Morrison Foerster

Ryan Adams

Ryan J. Adams | Morrison Foerster Ryan Adams is a Public Company Advisory & Governance partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on securities regulation, SEC reporting and compliance, proxy and shareholder issues, corporate governance, and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Ryan’s deep SEC experience enables him to provide insightful counsel on federal securities laws, helping clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes and anticipate shifts impacting their business. Ryan’s informed and pragmatic approach to the industry’s most challenging securities issues has earned him widespread commendation.

Morrison Foerster

Ryan Alexander

Principal

Offit Kurman

Ryan Austin

Partner

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Ryan Bates

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Ryan Bergsieker

Ryan Bergsieker is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Denver office. A former federal cybercrimes prosecutor who has tried more than 45 cases to verdict, Ryan’s practice is focused in three areas: government investigations, complex civil litigation, and cybersecurity/data privacy counseling.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Ryan Blaney

Partner

Jones Day

Ryan Boland

Principal

Offit Kurman

Ryan Borneman

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Ryan Botkin

Partner

Botkin Chiarello Calaf PLLC

Ryan Brady

Partner

White & Case LLP