Avocats en Alternative Dispute Resolution

Maura Connolly

Maura is Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Group. She also leads the Employment Law Group in Ireland. Maura’s disputes practice has involved the management of large scale litigation. This has recently included Commercial Court proceedings relating to professional negligence in the financial sector, management of a large e-discovery process, acting in a landmark case relating to the “Gig Economy” and the status of workers. In addition to representing clients in the Courts, particularly the High Court and Commercial Court, Maura has advised extensively on alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Maura’s practice includes advice on regulatory matters, including professional conduct investigations and decision making, administrative law and legal proceedings. She has advised on statutory investigations, tribunals of inquiry and directors’ liability for statutory offences. Having practised for many years in the area of employment law Maura’s practice includes advising employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transfer of undertakings issues. She also advises on a contractual matters, development of policies and procedures, management of disciplinary, performance, absence and other processes. This includes regularly appearing in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Civil Courts. Data privacy and dealing with data access requests under GDPR is a feature of many cases in which we are involved. Most recently she has advised extensively on Covid-19 related issues, restructurings, redundancies and legislative changes.

Addleshaw Goddard

Maureen Esegi

Associate

The Trusted Advisors

Mauro Teresi

Counsel

Simmons & Simmons

Meagan Bachman

Partner

Crowell & Moring LLP

Melanie Isherwood

Melanie qualified as a solicitor in 1994, previously having worked a hospital doctor. She joined Weightmans in 2001 and was made partner in 2006. Since 1995, Melanie has specialised in defendant clinical negligence claims. Melanie’s specialisms include cases of catastrophic injury, claims arising out of non-delegable duty of care, and other matters of high profile and sensitive claims, sometimes with media involvement. Melanie has experience in handling claims with mentally ill unrepresented claimants and provides training and to support to colleagues and NHS Trusts in connection with this specialist work. Melanie also represents clients at mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, provides training to clients on learning from claims and works with NHS Trusts on DNACPR issues.

Weightmans LLP

Melinda Gentile

Peckar & Abramson, P.C.

Melissa Magliana

Partner

LALIVE

Menachem Abramovich

Partner, Litigation Department

EBN – Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano

Menachem Hasofer

International clients seek out Menachem Hasofer for his experience in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. His work focuses on handling documents-intensive disputes arising from building construction and infrastructure projects. Menachem advises companies on records retention and management, including storage and retrieval of electronically stored information and e-discovery. Menachem has significant experience in public/administrative law cases, particularly in representing Hong Kong land owners and NGOs in judicial review proceedings concerning town planning, environmental and land lease decisions. He also counsels clients on public procurement/tendering issues under the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). He is a co-author of chapters on international litigation and arbitration in Electronic Discovery Deskbook, published by Practising Law Institute.

Johnson Stokes & Master

Mia de Jager

Mia is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Department of Adams & Adams based in Pretoria.

Adams & Adams

Michael Brier

Partner

Gesmer Updegrove LLP

Michael Browne

Michael advises on the enforcement and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property, as well as competition law issues which frequently arise in IP matters. “IP is the driving force behind today’s economy. I help clients to make the most of their IP by putting in place the right agreements to get their products and services to market on the right terms, as well as defending their rights when competitors step over the line. I have more than a decade of experience working with clients from a range of IP-rich industries including fashion, technology, computer games and sports, to name a few. My transactional IP work often has an international flavour, and I have particular experience in helping clients to establish international distribution networks and franchise operations. Where a dispute cannot be avoided, I am able to draw on considerable litigation experience from cases I have undertaken across the English and EU IP courts and registries, as well as my involvement in cross-border arbitrations and mediations, to identify the right strategy for a given scenario and commercial objective. IP is a constantly evolving field and I enjoy contributing to the development of the law in this area through my involvement in organisations such as UNION-IP (for which I am currently the GB Group Council member and Honorary Secretary), the Competition Law Association (of which I was the National Reporter General for several years) and CIPA. I also enjoy helping to train the next generation of IP lawyers in my role as a visiting lecturer on the Oxford University Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Law and Practice, where I teach IP Litigation and design law.”

Wiggin LLP

Michael Evans

Michael is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team, advising national and regional businesses, public bodies and third sector clients. He is a responsive and experienced commercial litigation solicitor, providing tailored, practical and effective dispute resolution advice. Michael specialises in commercial disputes, advising on commercial contracts claims, competition law claims and disputes involving director, company shareholders and/or partnerships, as well as professional negligence claims. Michael regularly assists clients to recover debts of various values and complexity. He also advises clients and officeholders in relation to personal and corporate insolvency matters. Michael regularly advises clients on contractual disputes covering a wide variety of breach of contract claims, including for example; general breaches, debt recovery and breach of warranty. In addition, he works with clients to resolve professional negligence claims and disputes between shareholder(s) and/or director(s) and within partnerships. Michael has experience in handling high value, complex multi-party disputes and of working on cross-border disputes with international clients and issues. Michael regularly advises clients, insolvency practitioners, creditors and debtors in relation to personal and corporate insolvency. He has also successfully resolved disputes using alternative dispute resolution methods, including virtual and in-person mediations.

Geldards LLP

Michael Frape

Partner and Chairman

Ashtons Legal

Michael Frisby

Consultant handling Litigation, International Arbitration, adjudication and ADR for clients in a variety of sectors. He handles complex disputes arising out of projects and transactions, often with an international dimension.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Michael J. Thomas

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Michael Kelly

Michael is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team. He specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution and has acted for a wide variety of State bodies, financial institutions, and private entities in a variety of complex commercial disputes, insolvency matters, enforcement and recovery actions and personal injuries litigation. These disputes are generally progressed through the High Court or Commercial Court. Michael has particular interest in alternative dispute resolution and has concluded numerous high value disputes through mediation.

Hayes Solicitors LLP

Michael Kim

Michael is the office managing partner of the Seoul office. He is an expert in litigation including alternative dispute resolution. Michael advises on a wide range of shipping, shipbuilding and offshore, international trade and commercial litigation issues including charterparties, memoranda of agreement, shipbuilding and offshore construction contracts, marine and commercial insurance, agency agreements, letters of credit and commercial notes.

Stephenson Harwood

Michael McKeeman

Mr. McKeeman is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's San Francisco office. He is co-chair of the national Construction Practice Group, and he leads the firm's San Francisco Litigation Group. Mr. McKeeman specializes in transactional and litigation matters throughout Northern and Southern California involving construction law, real estate, and complex commercial matters. He is a member of the California Association of General Contractor’s Legal Advisory Committee. Mr. McKeeman has significant experience in representing public and private owners, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and design professionals in construction disputes. Mr. McKeeman's knowledge of the construction industry is bolstered by several years of field experience in which he participated in the construction of large commercial and multi-dwelling residential structures. He also aids contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers in contract drafting, contract negotiation, contract interpretation, differing site conditions, bid protests, extra work, changes, payment disputes, design defects, construction defects, warranty claims, and delay and other impact claims. His practice includes both private and public construction projects. Mr. McKeeman has worked on a wide-variety of projects including commercial structures, hospitals, high-rise office buildings, condominiums, apartments, single-family residences, jails, justice centers, earthwork projects, amusement parks, parking structures, golf courses, and educational facilities. When disputes arise, Mr. McKeeman assists clients with claim preparation, arbitration, mediation, debt collection, and preparing and pursuing mechanics’ lien and stop notice remedies. He also advises clients about alternative dispute resolution procedures that offer viable alternatives to expensive and prolonged litigation. Mr. McKeeman assists clients with real estate transactions. These transactions include real property acquisition, development, and disposition, compliance with building regulations and codes, commercial leasing, eminent domain actions, license agreements, CEQA and real property exchanges. Mr. McKeeman’s clients include both private and public entities. Mr. McKeeman also represents clients in complex, multi-party civil litigation matters involving complex commercial disputes, unfair business practices, trade secret disputes, products liability, premises liability, and personal injury.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Michael S. Sestito

Partner

Dentons

Michal Mistrík

Senior Associate: Michal joined the team in 2006 and is mainly responsible for the employment matters including transfer of employees at the cross-border mergers of the subsidiaries, advising on application of TUPE principle at the acquisitions and others. Profound expertise of Michal and continual development and training in employment practice area ensure that LEGATE is eligible to provide unique and comprehensive assistance for both employers and employees, whether on national or foreign level.

LEGATE, s.r.o

Mikko Leppä

Partner

HPP Attorneys

Mikołaj Folwarski

Attorney-at-Law / Counsel / Disputes of Financial Institutions

Kochanski & Partners

Mirtha dos Santos

Partner

Vouga Abogados