Best Lawyers Summer Business Edition 2020

SUMMER 2019

EDITION

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L I T I G AT I O N ISSUE A Corporation's

WORST NIGHTMARE COMES TRUE Breaking Trust:

Big Tech Is on the Chopping Block When China Plays by Its Own Rules,

How Do You Collect?

What Happens Next?

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LAW FIRMS FAMILY LAW — TIER 1 CHICAGO

2019 Daniel R. Stefani and P. André Katz

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K AT Z & S TEFANI, LLC

atz & Stefani, LLC is a family law firm committed to efficiently helping clients resolve emotional family issues in a calm and dignified manner. Recognizing that divorce is “a very personal business,” the firm’s lawyers limit their case load, allowing them to give clients significant personal attention. “You need to be comfortable with your divorce lawyer and you need to know you can get in touch with him or her,” explains founding partner Daniel R. Stefani. Combining their total of over 40 years working in family law at some of the largest firms in Illinois, Stefani joined P. André Katz to form Katz & Stefani in 2008. Serving high-profile and high-net-worth individuals in premarital and divorce matters, the firm’s lawyers are particularly attentive to maintaining the privacy of these individuals. Its partners’ strong business, financial, tax, and accounting backgrounds provide a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of business valuations, employee benefits, retirement planning, and other financial issues that arise in divorces involving high-net-worth individuals. Although skilled and experienced litigators, Katz & Stefani’s founders believe that not every case needs to be litigated. The firm’s lawyers strive to resolve cases

222 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2150 Chicago, IL 60601 phone 312.364.9000 fax 312.364.9035

“in the conference room rather than the courtroom,” utilizing alternative dispute resolution methods. Katz & Stefani lawyers are experienced in navigating the complicated waters of interstate and international custody disputes implicating the laws of multiple jurisdictions, the Hague Convention, and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act. Sensitive to issues of parental alienation, the firm works with mental-health professionals to identify and address the issue as soon as possible. Katz & Stefani lawyers are also adept at negotiating and crafting both premarital and postnuptial agreements. Both Katz and Stefani take a leadership role within their specialty, lecturing and publishing frequently on the topic of family law. Stefani writes a regular column on family law for Chicago Lawyer. The Illinois Governor signed into law a new divorce statute effective January 1, 2016, which was based primarily upon recommendations made by the Illinois Family Law Study Committee, which was chaired by Katz. Both Katz and Stefani have been recognized for many years as two of the best matrimonial attorneys by several publications, and the firm received a Tier 1 ranking in Chicago for Family Law by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" 2019.

2201 Waukegan Road, Suite 160 Bannockburn, IL 60015 phone 847.914.0500 fax 847.914.0501

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High-Asset Divorce Move-Away Cases

Complex Marital Estates

High-Conflict Child Custody

Prenuptial / Postnuptial Agreements

Cohabitation Agreements

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AT A GLANCE

The Litigation Issue Stats

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By Benedict P. Morelli

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NO SIR, SETTLEMENTS SEEING RED By Annesley H. DeGaris AREN'T SIMPLE BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

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ENLIGHTENED WITNESS PREPARATION

By Kenneth R. Berman

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BLUFF, BLUSTER, BADGER, BEG, & BARRISTER

By Douglas Ross

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A Corporate Veil

REMAINS UNPIERCED

By Peter B. McGlynn and Robert W. Stetson

By Joel Hirschhorn, Brian Bieber, and Andrew Sarangoulis

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SPONSORS

Policy

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SURVIVORS' GILT

By Margaret E.W. Sager and Bradley D. Terebelo

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DON'T FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

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SPOTLIGHT

What do Huawei, ride-hailing apps, and the opioid epidemic all have in common? For one, they’ve all made headlines this year, but they’ve also all been the subject of focus for some of the world’s top litigators. In this inaugural “Litigation Issue” of the Best Lawyers Business Edition, we bring into focus the strategies and a na lyses from inf luentia l voices shaping both legal and corporate policy. It’s hard to skim the news and miss a story about the continued escalation of the trade wars with China. Tariffs aren’t the only pain point in this saga, however. In “Seeing Red,” returning contributor Annesley Degaris offers a timely assessment of the convoluted quagmire that awaits corporations seeking damages against Chinese companies. Speaking of complicated, domestic cor p or at e l it igat ion i s no les s complex than foreign. A century ago, antitrust litigation had relatively cut-and-dry goals of trust-busting. But what happens when a single corporate behemoth straddles dozens

of markets? How are regulators to proceed? Douglas Ross provides a sharp critique of the modern-day battle cry to break up “Big Tech.” Then, Peter McGlynn and Robert Stetson f lip the script in our cover story, “A Corporate Veil Remains Unpierced,” and recount a defensive strategy employed in a major bet-thecompany litigation. Finally, in The Verdict column, seasoned trial attorney John Hill issues a stern warning to law firms and corporate clients alike: While trials by jury are at an all-time low, the stakes for litigants and clients have never been higher. A last-minute consultation from an experienced trial lawyer can make or break your outcome. Our Business Editions ultimately aim to provide our corporate audience with an authoritative guide to the industry’s top legal talent. In this special summer issue, we are proud to feature an impressive cross-section of vetted litigators all recognized in the 26th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America © (2020).

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UBER NEGLIGENCE

By Daniel Katz

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THE OPIOID CRISIS CREEPS IN

By Robert M. Robenalt

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WARNING SIGNS

By Bryce T. Hensley, Antonio M. Romanucci, and Nicolette A. Ward

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Best Lawyers® 2020 LITIGATORS Featuring: • BANKRUPTCY • BET-THE-COMPANY • CONSTRUCTION • ERISA • LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT • REAL ESTATE • TRUSTS AND ESTATES • MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS • PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

THE VERDICT

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TRIAL BY HIRE

By John Hill

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Proud to be Recognized by Best Lawyers® in their 2019 Litigation Issue Bentley & More LLP joins Prominent Trial Lawyers Gregory L. Bentley & Keith P. More – who have both been named The Best Lawyers in America© 2019. Both men have been recognized by numerous publications & associations, including Greg Bentley being chosen by the Daily Journal as the Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California and Keith More being chosen as one of the Top Labor and Employment Lawyers. Mr. More & Mr. Bentley have been selected to the Super Lawyers each consecutive year since 2010. Greg & Keith continue to fight for justice and the rights of consumers. Bentley & More specializes in Product Liability, e-cigarette explosions, Personal Injury, Insurance Bad Faith and Workers’ Compensation. Visit us at www.bentleymore.com.

C O N T R I B U T O R S

Kenneth R. Berman co-chairs the Business Litigation Practice Group at Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston and is the author of the American Bar Association best-selling book Reinventing Witness Preparation: Unlocking the Secrets to Testimonial Success (ABA 2018).

Brian Bieber is a shareholder at GrayRobinson, engaging in criminal and civil white collar defense litigation (both high profile and extremely confidential) for corporate executives, prominent clients, ordinary citizens, as well as small, midsized and major multimillion-dollar businesses, in all federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels. He may be reached at brian.bieber@gray-robinson.com or via phone at (305) 416-6880.

Annesley H. DeGaris is recognized nationally for mass tort litigation involving defective medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He has been recognized as Birmingham “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers® for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs in 2013 and again in 2016. Mr. DeGaris also has an extensive practice in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. In addition to his practice, he is a frequent lecturer on a variety of litigation topics and serves as an adjunct law professor.

Paul Goatley is an attorney in Fisher Phillips’ Louisville, Kentucky office where his practice is exclusively devoted to representing employers in matters of labor and employment law. He can be reached at pgoatley@fisherphillips.com.

Bryce T. Hensley is an Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, where he works in the firm’s complex litigation group representing individual and classes of victims of toxic exposures, product defects, civil rights violations, fraud, sexual harassment, wrongful death, and other catastrophic personal injuries. Bryce is currently representing victims of the October 1 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada and has played a key role in securing numerous record breaking verdicts for the firm.

John Hill is Buckingham’s Litigation Practice Group Chair. He is a trial attorney who represents business owners, with a focus on doctors, lawyers, and other professionals. John has tried approximately 75 civil cases to juries over a 30-year career. He handles cases involving business interference, shareholder disputes, contract and insurance disputes, and other complex commercial litigation. John serves as boardroom counselor for clients who recognize the value and perspective an experienced courtroom lawyer can bring to a dispute before litigation begins.

Joel Hirschhorn is a shareholder at GrayRobinson, focusing on the criminal and civil white-collar defense of corporations and business executives, as well as elected public officials and private individuals accused of alleged criminal misconduct. His practice covers a wide range of areas, including commercial fraud, mortgage and banking, health care fraud, tax fraud, and money laundering. He may reached at joel.hirschhorn@gray-robinson. com or via phone at (305) 416-6880.

Daniel Katz is president and founder of RDK Interactive, a full-service technology firm specializing in web and mobile development, business strategy, start-up guidance, and consulting for nearly 30 years. RDK Interactive serves corporate clients such as Comcast, NBC, PBS, and the University of Pennsylvania & The Wharton School plus many law firms such as MOREMARRONE LLC; Dilworth Paxon; Faruqi & Faruqi; GPFF; Willig, Williams & Davidson among others. RDK Interactive’s work has won the touted Webby Award along with other industry accolades such as the W3 Gold Award “Recognizing the Power of Web Creativity.”

Peter B. McGlynn, a partner at Bernkopf Goodman LLP is a trial attorney specializing in construction, surety, malpractice, commercial and bankruptcy cases. Peter has tried to verdict or decision in excess of 150 cases throughout the United States representing general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, lenders, sureties and owners, among others, on a wide array of commercial, construction, surety and bankruptcy disputes.

Benedict P. Morelli, founding partner at Morelli Law Firm, is one of the most successful and recognized attorneys in the country, specializing in civil litigation. With decades of experience and a reputation as a fierce trial lawyer, he consistently secures multi-million dollar results for his clients. He has tried every kind of civil case, with a particular focus on personal injury, truck and train accidents, employment discrimination, and complex product and drug liability. Mr. Morelli is frequently called on to handle high-profile cases, including representing actor/comedian Tracy Morgan in his landmark settlement with Wal-Mart.

Antonio M. Romanucci is a founding partner in the Chicago based law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, where he focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injuries arising from police misconduct cases, including civil rights actions, mass torts, class actions, and traumatic brain injuries. Romanucci’s steadfast commitment to fighting for victims seeking justice across the country has helped the firm obtain dozens of verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million. He currently serves as President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Vice President of the Judicial Accountability PAC, on the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee, and in multiple leadership roles for the American Association for Justice.

Robert M. Robenalt, a partner in the Fisher Phillips Columbus, Ohio office, has practiced labor and employment law for over 25 years. His practice is focused on advising employers on all aspects of employment law, including employee discipline, and compliance issues in various Federal and Ohio employment laws and regulations, including ADA, FMLA, and OSHA.

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Douglas Ross is a partner in the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine and an affiliate instructor at the University of Washington Law School, where he teaches antitrust. Best Lawyers has named him as Seattle’s “Lawyer of the Year” in both Antitrust and Health Care Law. He is a past officer of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. Before entering private practice, Mr. Ross spent three years at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Margaret E.W. Sager is a shareholder of Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, P.C., a Pennsylvania law firm focused on estate planning, estate and trust administration, fiduciary litigation, asset protection planning, charitable planning, and related areas. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a past Chair of the Probate & Trust Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Andrew Sarangoulis is an associate at GrayRobinson, focusing his practice on criminal and white-collar defense, as well as complex civil domestic and international matters. He may be reached at andrew.sarangoulis@gray-robinson.com or via phone at (305) 416-6880.

Robert W. Stetson, a partner with Bernkopf Goodman LLP, has significant experience in disputes involving corporations and other business organizations, construction projects, contracts, real estate, landlord-tenant, and shareholder disputes. Bob represents a variety of clients ranging from individuals to multi-national corporations in all phases of litigation including trial and appellate practice.

Bradley D. Terebelo is a shareholder at Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, P.C. Brad’s practice focuses on estate planning and administration, trust administration, tax planning and fiduciary litigation. Brad speaks and writes about various aspects of estate and trust administration, including trust modification, fiduciary fees, virtual representation, and change of situs (especially pertaining to state fiduciary income tax issues).

Nicolette Ward is an Attorney at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC. Her practice is focused on representing victims of police and prison misconduct, sexual assault and abuse, wrongful death, and other civil rights matters. As trial counsel, she has been a part of record tort and excessive force verdicts at the state and national level. Nicolette is currently representing victims of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando, Florida.

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RECOGNIZED LAWYERS

IN THE BEST LAWYERS 2020 LITIGATION ISSUE At a Gl ance SMALLEST PRACTICE AREA BASED ON # OF RECOGNIZED LAWYERS

Litigation - ERISA

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

Litigation - Real Estate

Litigation - Bankruptcy

T O TA L : 2 8 0

T O TA L : 5 4 4

T O TA L : 8 4 7

T O TA L : 1 0 9 1

T O TA L : 1 1 8 8

T O TA L : 1 3 2 9

D.C. (28) Ohio (16) California (15) Alabama (15) New York (14)

California (87) New York (58) Pennsylvania (42) Alabama (39) Florida (34)

Louisiana (77) Mississippi (69) Texas (47) New York (46) California (43)

California (98) Florida (97) Texas (73) New York (69) Ohio (66)

Florida (156) California (67) Michigan (57) Hawaii (53) Ohio (48)

California (117) Florida (101) New York (93) Texas (85) Ohio (64)

Fastest growth rate

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Personal Injury

LARGEST PRACTICE AREA BASED ON # OF RECOGNIZED LAWYERS

138 Litigation - Defendants Personal Injury

Bet-the-company Litigation

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

T O TA L : 1 6 3 2

T O TA L : 1 6 7 7

T O TA L : 2 5 6 5

T O TA L : 3 2 6 8

T O TA L : 3 9 1 9

Florida (152) Texas (96) North Carolina (72) Pennsylvania (67) Georgia (67)

Florida (113) Texas (110) California (98) New York (86) North Carolina (74)

Texas (185) New York (131) Florida (129) Alabama (115) Louisiana (113)

California (227) New York (213) Ohio (195) Texas (176) Florida (153)

Florida (348) California (328) Pennsylvania (247) New York (244) Texas (219)

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3.5%

4.6%

4.9%

5.1%

6.3%

6.9%

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Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Litigation - ERISA

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

Litigation - Construction

Litigation - Bankruptcy

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Litigation - Real Estate

Bet-the-company Litigation

2019 - 2020

9.5%

11.7%

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Litigation - Labor and Employment

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Bet-the-company Litigation

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Litigation Construction

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Litigation - Trusts and Estates

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Litigation Real Estate

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Litigation Bankruptcy

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Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

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Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

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Litigation - ERISA

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NO SIR, SETTLEMENTS AREN’T SIMPLE How corporations can navigate the tangled web of lawsuits, settlements, and insurance companies By Benedict P. Morelli

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WHEN A COMPANY IS SUED in a substantial lawsuit, it faces a difficult dilemma. The conventional course of action would be for the company to expect its insurer—to whom it has been paying premiums for years—to step in, represent its interests, and pay out an appropriate settlement amount. The problem is this almost never happens. Insurance companies have a powerful incentive to avoid settling cases. They make determinations to save part or all of their available coverage dollars, often deciding to wait the plaintiff out, no matter what the cost or exposure is to the insured. Unfortunately, insurance companies are generally able to get away with doing this with impunity. Contracts are drafted almost entirely in favor of the insurer, giving them control over a company’s defense and if and when to settle. Worse, many of these contracts prohibit companies from settling with their own money. In fact, they often state that if a company settles independently, it waives its right to try and subsequently collect from the insurer. These obstacles are even more pronounced for larger companies who might have multiple insurers. All of this amounts to a profound and troubling conflict of interest. While insurers are supposed to protect the companies they represent, in reality they are pursuing their own agendas to protect their own money. Their delay and obstructionist tendencies can have devastating consequences for the companies they insure, negatively impacting those companies’ public reputations and their bottom lines. Executives looking to protect themselves and ensure they have a voice during litigation need to consider having a larger self-insured retention, or SIR. A SIR is a dollar amount specified in a liability insurance policy that must be paid by the insured before the insurance company will respond to

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a loss. Large companies often have SIRs, some which may be as much as $10 million. Thus, a company with a $10 million SIR would have complete autonomy to settle a lawsuit against it for any amount under $10 million because the insurance policy would not apply until a settlement exceeds $10 million. Larger SIRs are less expensive to a company with reference to paying insurance premiums, but could be more expensive if they need to defend and resolve numerous lawsuits. The advantage is that the larger the SIR, the more control a company has in deciding how to defend itself in lawsuits and resolve cases against it.

Insurers’ Playbook

Insurance companies pursue a number of tactics to guarantee they are in a position to dictate if, when, and how a case is resolved. In every instance, they are looking to cast doubt on a plaintiff’s case and avoid settlement. When a suit is brought, the insurer retains the right to engage outside legal counsel to represent the defendant company. Those attorneys, while ostensibly representing the defendant, are ultimately at the behest of the insurer. Typical tactics the insurers’ lawyers will pursue include overwhelming the plaintiff with motions, utilizing multiple expert witnesses, taking multiple depositions, seeking adjournments, and undertaking other legal maneuverings that eat up time. Most often, time is not on an injured plaintiff’s side. The obstacles are even more acute for very large companies, which, due to the high amount of coverage they need are often forced to engage multiple insurers. They typically use a layered system—known as a “tower of insurance”—where various insurance companies provide coverage at different limits. For example, a company might have a SIR of $10 million, Insurance Company A might provide coverage up to $15 million above the SIR, Insurance Company B might provide $25 million above that, Insurance Company C might provide $25 million above that, and Insurance Companies D and E might provide a shared layer of $50 million above that. Companies can procure as much insurance coverage as they want, but usually the tower consists of levels of $15 million or $25 million, or a level of $50 million, which is shared by two or three insurance companies. This system makes reaching a settlement all the more challenging, since the various insurers will try to stick their counterparts with the tab. More lawyers, more insurance companies, more red tape. Based upon my decades of experience, including my representation of the actor Tracy Morgan in his case against Walmart, I often insist upon negotiating directly with the defendant company

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A SIR is a dollar amount specified in a liability insurance policy that must be paid by the insured before the insurance company will respond to a loss.

When insurers drag out the settlement process, the consequences companies face can be debilitating.

rather than their insurers to avoid the obstacles created by the insurance dilemma. This course of action streamlines resolution of the case to the benefit of the parties involved. I resolved Tracy Morgan’s case directly with Walmart and they then engaged in a lawsuit with their insurers to be reimbursed.

The Cost

When insurers drag out the set tlement process, the consequences companies face can be debilitating. Aside from the financial burden of ongoing litigation, they also can suffer longterm harm to their brand. General counsels and executives understand this—and often share their frustration with me. They know there is a cost if they are perceived to be denying justice to a clear victim, especially in a high-profile case. But insurance companies assume none of these risks and are content with delaying for as long as possible to keep their money.

Solutions

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C o mp ani e s s h o ul d s t ro n gl y c o n s i d e r maintaining larger SIRs, which will provide them with the autonomy to settle most cases on their own without their insurers’ consent. This is particularly true for large companies with towers of insurance coverage. They will need to convince each insurer at every applicable level to agree before reaching a settlement.

While having a tower of insurance coverage seemingly protects companies from significant exposure in lawsuits, it often causes problems because the insurers are more interested in saving money than in protecting the defendant company. Oftentimes plaintiffs and defendants want a case settled but cannot achieve that end because of discord among the carriers for the various layers of the insurance tower. We need to see companies insist upon language in insurance contracts that provides an acceptable course of action if they disagree with the insurer on whether to settle. For example, contracts could stipulate that if such a disagreement occurs, an independent third-party process could be required to make the determination. Or, perhaps, we should do away with towers of insurance all together because they don’t accomplish their intended purpose—protecting insured companies. This system cannot continue where insurance carriers hold companies hostage to the detriment of all parties involved For executives and general counsels, it is important to think through these dynamics and prepare accordingly. While you won’t be able to change the business models and instincts of insurance companies, you can be intentional about guaranteeing they don’t hold all of the power when you’re facing a lawsuit that threatens your business. At the end of the day, we know that insurers are good at collecting premiums and they struggle when it’s time to pay out on behalf of the companies they represent. companies they represent.

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HOW NEW PREPARATION STRATEGIES PRODUCE MORE POTENT TESTIMONIAL By Kenneth R. Berman

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and every story has two sides. On each side is a party who believes that the truth resides with them. While they both can’t be right, their belief in the rectitude of their own position doesn’t mean the other side is lying. The other side could just be mistaken. Fortunately, we have a justice system that, when it works right, will figure it all out and dispense justice accordingly. But what if the judge or jury gets it wrong? What if they disbelieve the right story or credit the wrong one? It’s usually not because the truth failed to resonate or didn’t do its job. It’s usually because the witness who owned the truth failed to persuade. Or as often happens, the witness who owned the truth gave such poor answers as to merit disbelief. Testimony is hugely consequential. A witness might own the winning facts, but that will count for nothing unless three things happen. First, the witness must tell those facts to the factfinder. A helpful but unspoken fact has no utility in a legal dispute. It’s as if the fact did not exist.

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Second, the witness who tells that fact must earn the factfinder’s trust. Spoken facts from untrusted sources do not stick. Third, if the witnesses on both sides appear trustworthy, the factfinder must have a reason for choosing to credit the facts offered by one of them. Being trustworthy is thus necessary but not sufficient. The witness must be liked— and liked more than the witness on the other side—because we more readily believe the people we like. What makes these three things come together in a single witness? Not coincidence. Not luck. It’s preparation. And not just any preparation. Most certainly not the kind of preparation lawyers have been practicing since the dawn of litigation. True enough, old-style witness preparation is comfortable to use and deceptively appealing, which is why it remains ubiquitous. But it’s dangerous. Let’s look at how most lawyers do it and then at how they ought to do it.

The Old Way Has Big Risks Clas sic wi tne s s prep aration — preparing witnesses to answer questions from opposing counsel—rests on the philosophy that witnesses should testify defensively: Limit what’s given to opposing counsel. Don’t volunteer information. Don’t explain your answers. Keep them short. A simple yes or no should suffice. Don’t answer the

Conventional witness preparation should come with a warning label: Use only for witnesses who need the witness is feigning to be kept on a short poor recall to hide a bad leash, and use it at fact. Wouldn’t the witness your own risk.

question you think should have been asked. Don’t improve on the question. Just answer the question as asked and then stop. And don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know,” “I don’t recall,” or “I don’t understand” if those are true answers. To the witness, the messages are clear: When the other lawyer is asking the questions, be brief. That’s more important than telling your story. The more you give to opposing counsel, the more they can skewer you. Open up only when your own lawyer asks the questions. That’s the time to straighten things out (a myth, by the way, that creates a false sense of comfort in using the conventional approach, as explained below). When witnesses follow this advice, bad things can happen. An unexplained yes or no can easily fit into the other side’s case. “Did you ever pay John the $10,000 mentioned in the contract?” A short “no” supports the other side’s story that the witness breached the contract. Wouldn’t the witness be better off if the factfinder heard a more complete answer like this: “Not after John said that he couldn’t deliver the widgets on time.” Conventional witness preparation doesn’t produce the helpful explanation. Too bad, because a fact not spoken doesn’t exist. Does “I don’t recall” help the witness? Not if the factfinder would expect the witness to have a memory. It sounds like

be better off by making an earnest effort: “I wish I could remember when that happened. I believe it was in May, but I could be wrong. If I checked my records, I could probably confirm that for you.” An “I don’t recall,” produced by conventional witness preparation, can make witnesses seem evasive. Evasion undermines trust, which in turn infects other answers. Too bad, because spoken facts from untrustworthy sources do not stick. What about “I don’t understand the question”? Conventionally prepared witnesses are counseled to give that answer when something about the question seems a bit unclear. But most listeners understand the point of most questions. A witness who genuinely wants the factfinder to understand would reframe the question to make it clear. And they’d do it in a way that lets the witness control the answer and the direction of the testimony, because, after reframing, the question is now the witness’s. Reframing—if you’re asking me x, the answer is y—lets the witness be her own cross-examiner, a friendly one. Reframing allows the witness to help the factfinder understand the case better, to understand it from the witness’s perspective. Factfinders like witnesses who help them understand the case better. Conventional witness preparation, however, shuts down those opportunities

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and, with it, the opportunity to be more likable. Too bad, because we more readily believe the people we like. So what ’s wrong with relying on redirect to clean things up? It’s a poor substitute for giving the best answer the first time the question is asked. Delaying repair work to a later time allows misimpressions to take hold, makes repair work harder, and gives it a spin-doctor flavor. And that assumes that the witness’s lawyer actually gets a chance to do it, remembers all the misimpressions that need correction, and knows what to ask to get the job done. The witness would be much better off if the misimpression never occurred. Conventional witness preparation should come with a warning label: Use only for witnesses who need to be kept on a short leash, and use it at your own risk. Nearly all other witnesses should be prepared in a more enlightened way. But what does that look like?

The Enlightened Approach

witness would expect from someone she herself trusts. Truth-telling is essential. Answering precisely is important too. Conceding a fact if the question requires, but being able to explain it, will also enhance trust. And an earnest, human demeanor helps to burnish the message. Goal 3. To be likable, the witness must understand what factfinders want. Factfinders want to know what happened. Witnesses need to answer in ways that will make it easier for the factfinder to listen and understand. Through their answers, witnesses need to build a connection with the factfinder. This means shedding the bad traits and baggage that come with conventional preparation and answering with a seriousness and sense of purpose befitting the case. Enlightened witness preparation is not easy. It takes time, careful work with the witness, and practice. Like the way a good music teacher works with a pupil, the lawyer needs to practice with the witness, listen to the answers, evaluate them not simply for content but also for style, and, if necessary, suggest a better way for the witness to find her voice and tell her truthful story. If the result matters, and of course it does, the work and effort to prepare correctly should yield far superior testimony, give the witness the advantage over the opponent, and significantly improve the chances for a better outcome.

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It starts with adopting a different set of goals. The goal isn’t brevity; brevity is just a tactic and not a very effective one. There are three much better goals: First, get your story out, because facts only count if they’re spoken. Second, build trust and credibility with the factfinder, because spoken facts from untrustworthy

sources do not stick. Third, answer in ways that will make the factfinder like you, because we more readily believe the people we like. These three goals should shape the preparation. Goal 1. To get the story out, the witness first needs to understand the theme of the case. The case theme is like a homing signal that brings the testimonial ship into port. It forms the way the story is told and serves as the reference point for how to frame the answers. With a good command of the case theme, the witness shouldn’t be afraid of the questions. Questions are the opportunities to put pieces of the puzzle into place. More pieces placed means a more complete and memorable story. Of course, the witness shouldn’t go overboard. Gratuitous speeches that stray unnaturally from the question’s penumbra diminish trustworthiness. But underanswering—the hallmark of conventional witness preparation—not only sounds evasive but risks leaving much of the story untold or forgotten, including important explanations and context that contribute to a fuller understanding of the truth. Reframing questions or using transitional answers that begin with door openers like “Not in every instance, but...,” “Only when...,” “It depends on...,” “Yes, because...” allows the witness to tell more of the witness’ story. Goal 2. To build trust and credibility, the witness must answer in ways the

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a regional construction company, comes to you after her office has been raided by a task force of law enforcement agents from the FBI, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and, of course, the IRS. The CEO candidly tells you the company has been engaging in what she describes as “light” tax fraud for several years to the tune of approximately $1.5 million, but felt the company was just exploiting loopholes in the federal tax code. Unfortunately, the United States government has a different perspective and XYZ and several senior executives are the targets of a federal investigation for which there is little to no foreseeable defense. Following further confidential discussions with the CEO of this privately held corporation, you discover that, in addition to the light tax fraud, company executives have engaged in what appears to be a sophisticated bribery scheme involving several elected and appointed officials both in the United States and in two small island countries in the Caribbean. Some of the funds paid to the officials, who approved the contracts at issue, were in cash, but most of the money was “parked” in offshore bank accounts. In addition, XYZ has numerous employees with questionable immigration status on its payroll who are paid in cash or as W-2 employees using suspect Social Security numbers and visas. You have identified numerous serious federal violations being investigated by at least four federal law enforcement agencies, the local United States Attorneys Office, and the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. With the oppressive “advisor y” but nonbinding federal sentencing guidelines

looming, the CEO asks you if there is any chance that the principals of the company can avoid charges by taking the hit and paying a significant fine. Further, the CEO asks what are the potential alternative resolutions to the investigation. The proverbial deck is completely stacked against you. The government, having seized XYZ’s computers, has all of its accounting, banking, and other financial records going back several years. Your cursory review of the company’s records shows that the evidence of fraud is obvious and abundant. In short: Things are not looking good for XYZ, its CEO, and senior executives. As the recently retained criminal defense lawyer for the company and its CEO, what do you do?1 More importantly, what can you do to get your client the best possible result? What are your options in dealing with the local United States Attorneys Office and the Department of Justice Tax Division lawyer?

Negotiating a Stacked Deck In cases such as this, where the facts are terrible and the case law is worse, an attorney—even a skilled one—is frequently left with limited arrows in their quiver: bluff, bluster, badger, beg, and barrister. Bluffing, blustering, and badgering rarely work, but begging may. In the end, however, it is often the barrister, 2 not afraid to announce “ready” at the calendar call, who just may get the desired result. Criminal defense attorneys are frequently viewed as the “equalizer” in the plea-bargaining process.3 The often romanticized role of the criminal defense attorney—that “of a sophisticated master-of-the-system whose only job is to be on the defendant’s side”4 —conjures images

1 For the purposes of this hypothetical, all potential conflicts of interests have been properly waived by the clients. 2 “In Crown Court, the English court of general jurisdiction over criminal cases, the defendant is represented by a barrister and a solicitor. The solicitor prepares the defendant’s defense; the barrister, based on the information received from the solicitor, advises the defendant about his plea. If the defendant pleads not guilty, the barrister advocates for the defendant in trial.” Peter W. Tague, Guilty Pleas and Barristers’ Incentives: Lessons From England, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 287, 288 (2007). 3 Albert W. Alschuler, The Defense Attorney’s Role in Plea Bargaining, 84 Yale L.J. 1179 (1975), (citing Judge J. Skelly Wright, The A’eau-Role of Defense Counsel Under Escobedo and Miranda, 52 A.B.A. J. 1117, 1120 (1966)). 4 Id. 5 Rodney J. Uphoff, The Criminal Defense Lawyer as Effective Negotiator: A Systematic Approach, 2 Clinical L. Rev. 73, 94 n.80 (1995), (citing Randy Bellows, Notes of a Public Defender, in THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF LAWYERS: CASE STUDIES 69 (1988); JAMES S. KUNEN, HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THOSE PEOPLE?: THE MAKING OF A CRIMINAL LAWYER (1983)).

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The zealous advocate must be prepared to set personal pride aside, roll up their sleeves, and do the work others are not willing to do.

And although pleading for mercy is rarely of the valiant champion willing to fight the desired route,9 sometimes that is the only the government to the bitter end on every miniscule issue to exonerate their client. arrow left before putting on the barrister’s Unfortunately, clients, especially business robe and wig and demanding the case be people, confuse this romantic imagery with set for trial. the reality of the American criminal justice system, especially in federal court. In actuality, more often than not, a criminal defense attorney’s best and only negotiating tool The harsh reality, however, is the government may be good old-fashioned, hat-in-hand begging. prevails in well over 95 percent of all cases investigated “Although the image of the advocate going hat in hand in which formal charges are filed (either by way of a preto beg for mercy for one’s client may be far-removed from the plea information or post-indictment plea, or trial). Frequently romanticized view of the criminal defense lawyer depicted in (but not always), the closer to trial without a formal resolution, the movies, on television and in print, it is all too familiar to the more likely the proposed plea offer will be better than those who have represented many criminal defendants.”5 the first one presented. Barristers like to think that their When representing those charged with serious criminal personal reputations and trial skills come into play when the conduct, the zealous advocate must be prepared to set personal real and impending specter of a jury trial enters the mix. pride aside, roll up their sleeves, and do the work others Whether accurate or not, just as we ask “Who is the are not willing to do, particularly in cases where prosecutor?” and “Who is the judge?” so, too, the the client is less than sympathetic and/or the responsible prosecution team always assesses prosecutor is unreasonably hardheaded and has who is defending the case: a schmoozer or a a virtually unassailable case. 6 trial warrior? Who knows? Maybe there is That is not to say that the criminal defense some real benefit in announcing (and being) attorney should just roll over and permit the ready—if not, you can always go back to hat in government to steamroll the plea-bargaining hand, but this time with a tin cup in the other. process—in fact, just the opposite. It is With a little luck, a lot of hard work, and imperative that the attorney fully investigate some creative negotiating, the government just all aspects of the case, even where the facts may take a pass on the imperiled XYZ Corp. appear overwhelmingly harmful, the law and its board members or, at the least, offer adverse, or the client expresses an early desire some reasonable concessions such as agreeing to to plead guilty to the “best deal.” 7 As we know, the a last-minute corporate plea instead of charging the “devil is in the details.” The innovative and creative principals. With a great deal of luck, the government attorney just may uncover a fact or detail from which they can may even offer the CEO and senior executives a plea to a lesser bluff, bluster, or badger the government into reconsidering its offense (as rare as they are in the federal criminal code) or lower position, thus having a significant effect on the negotiating guidelines (though the judge is not bound by anyone’s federal dynamics or, at the very least, provide the prosecution team sentencing guideline recommendations or calculations) thereby with a reasonable, arguable basis to request a more defense- significantly reducing the likely sentence. Worst-case scenario, friendly plea offer from their supervisor. there is always the option of taking the case to trial—should the Indeed, legal scholars generally agree that, in most clients not approve of the final plea offer. Sometimes cases, criminal defense attorneys should adopt (not often), even if convicted, the court may impose a competitive negotiation strategy early on in a sentence less than the government’s best plea the litigation, before transitioning to a more offer, especially where the trial evidence and cooperative approach as the negotiations counts of conviction tell a different story than Although pleading c ont i nu e . 8 O f c ou r s e , t h e s p e c i f i c the one spun by the prosecutors in the factual for mercy is rarely ci rcu msta nces of a ny given case may proffer in support of the proposed plea. the desired route, require modifying one’s initial strategy.

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sometimes that is the only arrow left.

6 See id. at 94. 7 See id. at 94–95. 8 See, e.g., Donald G. Gifford, A Context-Based Theory of Strategy Selection in Legal Negotiations, 46 Ohio St. L.J. 41 (1985). [Professor] Gifford describes the competitive negotiator as one who “tries to maximize the benefits for his client by convincing his opponent to settle for less than she otherwise would have at the outset of the negotiation process.” The competitive strategy utilizes tactics including a high initial demand; limited disclosures of facts and one’s own preferences; few and small concessions; threats and arguments; and apparent commitment to one’s position during the negotiating process. In contrast, the cooperative negotiator seeks to develop trust by initiating concessions designed to create reciprocal concessions and ultimately a fair agreement. Uphoff, supra note 5, at 108 n.131 (internal citations omitted). 9 Id. at 129.

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OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA CITY

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John R. Bailey**, Dennis L. Kennedy

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Gerald R. Curran, Grant T. Moher, Jason A. Weis

Francis W. Deisinger

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Peter L. Gardon

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Robert E. Bellin, Vincent J. Beres, Larri J. Broomfield, Lawrence J.

REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN 608-229-2200

Christopher E. Rechlicz, John L. Schliesmann, David B. Schulz, William Invie Shroyer

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FAMILY LAW Melanie S. Lee Burnett, Eric P. Hagemeier, Anthony J. Handzlik, Kevin J. Howley, Jerome M. Janzer, Benjamin G. Lombard, Delos N. Lutton, Martin THOMPSON HOWLE VAUGHN ATTORNEYS AT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE LAW McLaughlin, Albert S. Orr, Michael T. Pepke, Timothy P. Reardon, LAW 206-682-8400 Carol Vaughn

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Lincoln C. Beauregard (P), John R. Connelly, Jr. (P), Nathan Roberts (P)

Keith L. Johnson (G)

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN 608-229-2200 Lynn M. Stathas

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Burnett, Eric P. Hagemeier, Anthony J. Handzlik, Kevin J. Howley, Jerome M. Janzer, Benjamin G. Lombard, Delos N. Lutton, Martin McLaughlin, Albert S. Orr, Michael T. Pepke, Timothy P. Reardon, Christopher E. Rechlicz, John L. Schliesmann, David B. Schulz, William Invie Shroyer

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW

Colin M. Simpson

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REAL ESTATE LAW

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ENERGY LAW Kristin M. Bergstrom, Bennett E. Choice, Donald J. Christl, Jeffrey BURG SIMPSON ELDREDGE HERSH &

REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN 608-229-2200 Peter L. Gardon

R. Fuller, Thomas E. Funk, Denise P. Goergen, John E. Mossberg*, Gail M. Olsen, Gregory A. Storm, William H. Tobin

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN 414-298-1000

Steven P. Bogart**, Michael H. Simpson, John M. Van Lieshout**

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SURVIVORS’ GILT

Policy

How estate plans that predate a marriage and omit the spouse set a trap for the unwary. By Margaret E.W. Sager and Bradley D. Terebelo

onsider the following:

A business owner drafts a will that leaves the company and other assets to her children upon her death. She later remarries but doesn’t alter the will, still wishing to leave her estate— her business interests specifically—to her kids. Little does she know, though, that by not signing a new will after remarrying—and thereby not providing for her new spouse—she has potentially left her estate vulnerable. In some states, the surviving spouse has the right to make a special claim against the late spouse’s estate and end up with a large share of it. The business owner’s best intentions to protect what she has built and pass it on to her children may therefore be thwarted by her surviving spouse, who was omitted from the will— otherwise known as a “pretermitted spouse.” In a recent case of first impression, Trust Under Deed of Kulig, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court held that under state law, the pretermitted spouse’s share of the estate does not include the assets of the decedent’s funded revocable trust (or, by extension, any funded irrevocable trust). Although the case still serves as a reminder that the family business could be in jeopardy if the owner marries or remarries without updating his or her will, Kulig clarifies that (in Pennsylvania, anyway) an owner’s assets held in a revocable trust funded before the marriage are not subject to the claim of a pretermitted spouse.

States’ Spousal Rights

Twenty-six states, Pennsylvania among them, have some form of pretermitted-spouse statute, which typically gives the surviving spouse the right to claim a share of the decedent’s probate estate if his or her will was signed prior to the marriage—that is, the share the surviving spouse would receive under applicable law if the deceased spouse had died with an updated will. This may surprise many people who get remarried without a nuptial agreement, and without revising their will because they like their existing estate plan—not realizing that the surviving spouse may therefore be able to claim a larger share (usually half the probate estate) than the typical elective share (generally about one-third of the estate, with certain offsets).

This unexpected outcome makes a smaller impact on children from an earlier marriage in 12 of the 26 states that include a “prior descendants” exemption, in which the pretermitted spouse’s share would not apply if the late spouse had descendants from a prior marriage. (Those dozen states are Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Utah.)

Prior Descendants Exemptions

Descendants and Modifications

Uniform Trust Code (UTC) Section 112, “Rules of Construction,” provides as follows: “The rules of construction that apply in this State to the interpretation of and disposition of property by will also apply as appropriate to the interpretation of the terms of a trust and the disposition of the trust property.” The Comment to UTC §112, meanwhile, provides that “[r]ules of construction also address situations the donor failed to anticipate . . . [and] can also concern assumptions as to how a donor would have revised donative documents in light of certain events occurring after execution. These include rules dealing with the effect of a divorce[.]” Accordingly, UTC §112 applies to various modifications by circumstance “as appropriate.” In the context of a pretermitted spouse, 15 of the 33 states that have adopted the UTC have both a pretermitted-spouse statute and some version of UTC §112. Of those, five (Alabama, Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina) do not have a “prior descendants” exemption; 10 (Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, www.bestlawyers.com | 2 9

million, plus the ERISA plan, for a total of $2.55 million). Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, However, when she claimed the pretermitted share, Mary and West Virginia) have one. Jo also claimed that under Pennsylvania’s version of UTC The Comment to UTC §112 also states: “The revocable §112, her pretermitted share must be calculated based on trust is used primarily as a will substitute, with its key the assets of Kulig’s funded revocable trust in addition to provision being the determination of the persons to his probate estate—and with no offset for ERISA benefits. receive the trust property upon the settlor’s death. Given This would have increased her pretermitted share from this functional equivalence between the revocable trust $2.55 million to almost $4.2 million and effectively and a will, the rules for interpreting the disposition created a “super-spouse” category applying only to of property at death should be the same whether the pretermitted spouses. individual has chosen a will or revocable trust Pennsylvania law provided that if the as the individual’s primary estate planning testator—in this case, Kulig—marries after instrument.” The Comment notes that UTC making a will, the surviving spouse is §112 was “patterned after Restatement (Third) entitled to receive a share from the testator’s of Trusts § 25(2) and comment e . . . , although estate as if the testator had died intestate— this section, unlike the Restatement, also that is, without a will. Unlike applies to irrevocable trusts.” in some states, Pennsylvania’s Prior to the enactment of pretermitted-spouse statute, as Pen nsylva n i a’s version, t he noted earlier, does not include a pretermitted-spouse statute did “prior descendants” exemption. not apply to either revocable or 2001: David Kulig creates a revocable Historically, in Pennsylvania, assets irrevocable trusts funded prior trust to benefit his first wife & their joint in revocable and irrevocable inter to the marriage. The question descendants upon his death. vivos trusts—those made between the Pennsylvania Supreme Court living people—were never included considered in Kulig was whether the in the pretermitted spouse’s share. Keystone State’s version of UTC §112 Nevertheless, both the trial court and changed this well-established law by intermediate appellate court held extending the state’s pretermittedthat under Pennsylvania’s version spouse statute to the assets of a of UTC §112, which was enacted in deceased spouse’s revocable trust 2006, Mary Jo’s pretermitted claim funded before the marriage—as if included a portion of Kulig’s funded such assets were part of the deceased revocable trust. spouse’s probate estate. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed that decision, holding that the state statute did not extend In 2001, David Kulig created a 2010: Mr. Kulig’s first wife passes away, the pretermitted-spouse claim to revocable trust to benefit his first after 35 years of marriage. inter vivos trust assets, noting wife and their joint descendants in particular that the reading of upon his death. Kulig’s first wife the statute by the lower courts passed away in 2010 after 35 years would lead to questionable, if not of marriage. He married his second downright absurd, outcomes—not wife, Mary Jo, at the end of 2011 least that pretermitted spouses without a nuptial agreement. He might then have been able to reach died 35 days later without having the assets of irrevocable inter vivos amended his will or revocable trusts, including charitable trusts trust. He was survived by Mary Jo and those for disabled dependents. and his children from his previous Estate planning already requires marriage. Among other assets, great care and attention by families Kulig left a probate estate of about and their legal counsel, particularly $2.1 million; a $3.3 million revocable today, when “blended” families 2011: At the end of the year, Mr. Kulig trust funded before the second are increasingly common—and marries his second wife, Mary Jo, without marriage; and an employee benefit when there arguably exists more a nuptial agreement. plan worth $1.5 million. opportunity for, in that especially Mary Jo received the employee loaded phrase, “modification by benefit plan under federal ERISA circumstance.” Kulig threatened law. Under Pennsylvania law, Mary to create additional hidden pitfalls Jo could have made a claim for her and generate further litigation. late husband’s other assets on Although the Pennsylvania Supreme one of two bases: First, she could Court’s decision maintained the have claimed an elective share, “pre-UTC” status quo by holding which would have entitled her to that inter vivos trusts are not approximately one-third of Kulig’s subject to a pretermitted-spousal probate and non-probate assets share, probate lawyers must be (including those in the revocable aware of this potential situation in trust), but with an offset for the other states that have enacted UTC 35 days later: Mr. Kulig dies without ERISA plan—essentially reducing §112, and the potential application amending his will or revocable trust, her elective share to zero. of the pretermitted-spouse statute survived by Mary Jo and his children from Alternately, she could have his prior marriage. generally, lest their clients suffer a claimed a “pretermitted share” of different fate. 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POLICY

DON’T FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

SCOTUS Reaffirms What Lawyers Should Already Be Doing At the Outset of Title VII Litigation By Paul Goatley

IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR,

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the U. S . Supreme Cour t unanimously ruled, in Fort Bend County v. Davis, that Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement is merely a claim-processing rule, rather than a jurisdictional one. As a result, an employer who does not move to dismiss or, at a minimum, allege “failure to exhaust” as an affirmative defense in response to the complaint might waive the ability to seek dismissal on that ground. This decision serves as a good reminder to any lawyer representing employers in Title VII litigation: Identify any exhaustion issues immediately (or as soon as practicable) after the complaint is received or risk waiving that defense altogether.

JURISDICTIONAL OR PROCEDURAL?

A s mos t employment at torneys already know, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employees to file discrimination and retaliation claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (or a similar state agency) before filing a lawsuit against their employers. These claims

must be filed within 180 days of any alleged unlawful employment practice and can be extended to 300 days if a state or local agency enforces a law that prohibits employment discrimination on the same basis. Before the Supreme Court’s ruling, however, circuit courts disagreed on the significance of this step: Was this a jurisdictional requirement—meaning courts are deprived of jurisdiction over the lawsuit until a charge is filed with the EEOC—or a claim-processing rule, viewing the EEOC charge as a procedural element of the employee’s discrimination claim that can be waived if the charge is not challenged at the outset of litigation by the employer? Three circuit courts ruled the language was jurisdictional. Meanwhile, eight other circuit courts ruled the language was a claimprocessing rule (i.e., procedural). The case started when Lois Davis filed an internal complaint alleging the IT director at Fort Bend County, Texas, sexually harassed her. Fort Bend investigated her complaint and the IT director later resigned as a result. Nonetheless, Davis filed a charge against Fort Bend with the Texas Workforce Commission (Texas’ EEOC equivalent) www.bestlawyers.com | 3 1

A federal court may retain jurisdiction over a discrimination claim even if an employee fails to allege the basis for such a claim in his or her administrative charge.

claiming sexual haras sment and retaliation. In so doing, she completed an EEOC intake questionnaire outlining the contours of her sexual harassment and retaliation claims. The IT director’s resignation, however, did not resolve Davis’ workplace complaints. She claimed her supervisor (who was allegedly the IT director’s close friend) retaliated against her and eventually terminated her employment after she failed to report to work one Sunday due to a religious observation. After her termination, Davis amended her intake questionnaire—but not her charge—to include religion as another basis of discrimination. She then filed a lawsuit in district court, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, and religious discrimination under Title VII. Fort Bend asked the lower court to dismiss all of Davis’ claims, which it did. Davis appealed the decision to the Fifth Circuit, which reversed the lower court’s ruling on Davis’ religious discrimination claim and remanded the case for further proceedings. On remand, Fort Bend argued to the lower court—for the first time, five years into the lawsuit—that Davis failed to exhaust her administrative remedies on the religious discrimination claim (i.e., she never included religion as a basis for discrimination in her EEOC charge). The lower court agreed with Fort Bend, holding that filing an administrative charge is a jurisdictional prerequisite in Title VII cases, and once again tossed Davis’ lawsuit. On appeal, however, the Fifth Circuit agreed with Davis—an administrative charge is simply an element of a discrimination claim (which can be waived by the employer). Ultimately, this meant Davis could pursue her religious discrimination claim because Fort Bend did not allege a failure-toexhaust defense after Davis filed her lawsuit in a timely manner.

SCOTUS SAYS ADMINISTRATIVE EXHAUSTION REQUIREMENT IS PROCEDURAL

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on the issue. In an opinion drafted by Justice Ginsburg, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Title VII ’s administrative exhaustion requirement is merely a claim-processing rule, and not a jurisdictional bar to filing a lawsuit. Therefore, a federal court may retain jurisdiction over a discrimination claim even if an employee fails to allege the basis for such a claim in their administrative charge. The Supreme Court found that Congress did not clearly state that Title VII’s administrative requirement is jurisdictional, and therefore courts must treat it as non-jurisdictional in nature. Justice Ginsburg, however, cautioned would-be plaintif f s to not ignore Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement. Stating, “[d]efendants, after all, have good reason to promptly raise an objection that may rid them of the lawsuit filed against them. A Title VII complainant would be foolhardy consciously to take the risk that the employer would forgo a potentially dispositive defense.” As a result, an employee still risks having a claim tossed if they do not first file a charge with the EEOC or relevant state agency. Likewise, an employer risks defending against a claim, which was never filed with the EEOC, if it does not assert failure to exhaust as an affirmative defense and move to dismiss on that ground.

DON’T FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

What does this decision mean for litigators? Upon receipt of a Title VII complaint filed against a client, you should immediately and c aref ully review the administrative history, asking yourself these pertinent questions: Did the employee file a charge with the EEOC or the state equivalent? If so, did the employee assert the same claim(s), or those within the scope of the agency’s investigation, in that proceeding as in the lawsuit? If not, advise your client to move to dismiss on that ground or, at the very least, include this as an af firmative defense in its response to the complaint. The former is preferable unless other procedural issues need to be addressed at the outset. An unwary lawyer who fails to move to dismiss or assert a timely failure to exhaust defense, risks waiving that defense…and, at the same time, likely waving good-bye to that client.

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CHINA P L AY S B Y ITS RULES By Annesley H. DeGaris

CHINA BECAME A MEMBER of the World Trade Organization in 2001, and many observers believed membership in this exclusive club would usher in an era of reforms that would quickly bring China in line with mainstream Western business practices and legal concepts. Liberal thinkers who thought a prosperous China would lead to liberalization have been proved wrong. Instead, China punishes foreign businesses for the actions of their home governments while at the same time resists accountability for its activities in other countries. The nation’s meteoric rise to the world’s largest export economy indicates that China embraced aspects of capitalism, but only those aspects that benefit Chinese companies or Chinese national interests (which some argue are inseparable). The question becomes whether China is willing to embrace Western concepts of accountability and rule of law as part of its participation in the international marketplace. If recent allegations filed by the United States Department of Justice against Chinese telecom giant Huawei are any indication, China intends on playing the capitalism game by its own rules.

T H E H U AW E I H E I S T In early 2019, the Department of Justice unsealed two cases against Huawei, a Chinese telecom giant and a key player in the development of 5G wireless networks. The first indictment accuses Huawei of stealing information about “Tappy,” a proprietary phone-testing technology from T-Mobile. The indictment alleges that Huawei sought to use the information to reverse engineer Tappy. Prosecutors claim the company directed its employees to gather details about how the technology worked in direct violation of the confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements it had with T-Mobile. Huawei claims any theft is due to rogue employees but still faces accusations of incentivizing the theft through a company-sponsored bonus program. The second case brought against Huawei alleges that for over a decade Huawei deceived the government and financial institutions about its dealings with Iran. The company’s founder is accused of making false statements to the FBI and its chief financial officer is accused of making false statements to HSBC. It remains to be seen whether Huawei will be held accountable for the allegations in the indictments. However, what civil remedies will T-Mobile have for the theft of trade secrets and breach of confidentiality agreements? What remedies are enforceable against any Chinese company for activities here in the United States? www.bestlawyers.com | 3 3

BARRIERS TO A C C O U N TA B I L I T Y The United States annually imports over five hundred billion dollars’ worth of goods from China. Lack of proper regulation and limited oversight of manufacturing processes in China has led to the importation of children’s toys containing lead paint, tainted toothpaste, poisonous pet food, contaminated counterfeit makeup, and toxic drywall. Can Chinese manufacturers be held responsible for their economic activities in the United States? Two things work against the rule of law and accountability: constitutional due process rights and Chinese bureaucracy. Proper ser vice of process along with the enforceability of a judgment once obtained are the two key components in holding any foreign defendant responsible for its actions in this country. Whether it be a business tort or a product liability action, United States law guarantees defendants’ due process, and any decision made without proper service of process is void for lack of personal jurisdiction. Therefore, the ability to effect service of process on Chinese companies is foundational for the ability to hold them accountable. The Hague Service Convention is an international treaty whose purpose includes simplification of service of process abroad. Article 2 requires each signing country to create a central authority to receive requests for service of process. Article 5 then requires that central authority to serve process either in accordance with the country’s own law or a method compatible with it. Article 10 allows countries to consent to other methods of service. While China is a signatory to the Hague Service Convention, it objects to Article 10 and therefore any service of process on a Chinese defendant must go through the central authority, pursuant to Article 5. This enables Chinese bureaucracy to influence attempts to secure personal jurisdiction. The Chinese central authority is the International Legal Cooperation Center located in Beijing. Plaintiffs must submit all documents translated into simplified written Chinese. A USM-94 must be completed and signed, and $95 must be wired to the central authority to cover processing fees. The defendant’s address for service must be included and absolutely correct. According to the Hague Convention, processing by the central authority takes three to four months. The reported time frame is closer to twelve months.

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The Chinese central authorit y enables the government to stymie attempts to serve process on Chinese businesses by hiding their locations. Determining the correct address for service can be nearly impossible. Chinese companies can obscure this address by not including it on any of their business documents. If the address is incorrect, the central authority can reject the request for service. It is sometimes necessary to hire an investigator to determine the proper address. Because of the significant time delays involved, any technical errors in the files can create extraordinarily long delays. This allows defendants an opportunity to dissolve and re-form, dodging any liability whatsoever. Once personal jurisdiction has been obtained, and assuming a favorable judgment for the plaintiff, the next obstacle is enforcing the judgment in China. Chinese courts rarely enforce judgments from the United States. The first time a Chinese court enforced such a judgment came in 2017, under Liu Li v. Tao Li and Tong Wu. There are significant open questions surrounding future attempts to secure enforcement. As it stands, Chinese courts will not enforce a judgment from the United States. In response, some commentators have argued for an expansion of the Alien Tort Claims Act as a solution. However, the best, if not only way to collect a judgment obtained against a Chinese business is to attach assets found in the United States or in another country that enforces judgments from the United States. The recent actions of the Trump administration, such as imposing massive tariffs on Chinese goods, the actions of the U.S. Department of Justice against Huawei, and the international dispute over the arrest of Chinese nationals for alleged improper business activities have all brought greater scrutiny to a wide array of Chinese business practices. For China, it can no longer be business as usual. If China desires the benefits of international trade and trade with the U.S., it must abide by the same rules as other players. As changes are forced on the Chinese government and businesses as a condition of remaining a participant in the international marketplace, those with a say in directing change should insist on compliance with U.S. law, including rules regarding liability for defective products and thef t of technology. The days of governmentorchestrated avoidance must come to an end. Given the tremendous benefits Chinese businesses receive as result of participating in the international marketplace, specifically the U.S. marketplace, accountability consistent with United States law is a comparatively small cost of doing business.

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BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO As antitrust prosecutors look at “Big Tech,” one size doesn’t fit all. By Douglas Ross

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oliticians, presidential candidates, pundits on both sides of the political spectrum, populists, and even law students looking for hot topics on which to write law review articles, are in agreement: Big Tech is too big. Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook, in particular, should be put under the antitrust microscope or, more bluntly, should be made to feel the weight of the antitrust club on their shoulders. Some— maybe all—Big Tech companies should be broken up. And if our current antitrust laws aren’t up to the job, it’s time for new laws. The Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890, and the Clayton Antitrust Act, dating back to 1914, should be upgraded. But does a one-size-fits-all approach make sense? The four companies drawing most of the criticism today do different things: Apple depends on the iPhone for almost two-thirds of its revenue. 2 Amazon derives half its revenue from its online marketplace and, while its fastest-growing segment is now physical stores, its web services are the company’s most profitable segment. Although Facebook and Google derive the vast majority of their revenue from ads (98.5 percent for Facebook and 85 percent for Google in 2018), one is purely a social media company and the other provides search functions, maps, YouTube, and other products beyond the Google brand under the Alphabet umbrella. From the time the last revolution in antitrust thought began in the mid-1970s, through the Supreme Court ’s

recent Amex decision, 3 the focus of U.S. antitrust law has been on competition. “ The goal,” the Supreme Court wrote in Amex, “is to ‘distinguish between restraints with anticompetitive ef fect that are harmful to the consumer and restraints stimulating competition that are in the consumer’s best interest.’”4 The goal is the same when the enforcement agencies examine mergers: their job is to predict the effect of a particular deal on competition. But it’s competition—and not individual competitors— that the antitrust laws seek to protect. When one company makes a better mousetrap, its rivals are hurt as customers flock to the improved product. Unless rivals can keep pace, some will fail. Antitrust policy that hobbles successful companies and focuses on protecting competitors won’t help consumers: it deters innovation and rewards complacency. As a result, U.S. antitrust law doesn’t condemn a company for being big. U.S. law doesn’t even condemn monopoly as such—it forbids behavior that harms competition. What does this mean for the Greek chorus who call for stronger antitrust enforcement , the breakup of Facebook (and others), and a reboot of current antitrust law? Three things: First, ranting about size is no substitute for careful analysis. The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission understand some technology companies deserve careful scrutiny. The

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“It’s hard for me to against Facebook, giving social media agencies recently divided responsibility believe there won’t consumers a choice. Maybe. But in 2012, for the big four: reports indicate the DOJ Instagram had a small staff, earned no will concentrate on Apple and Google, be some ways to money, had only 30 million users, and while the FTC’s newly created tech task improve an antitrust was in need of serious technical and force will take Facebook and Amazon. statute that was other help to have any realistic chance of But if the enforcers open investigations written more than survival. 5 A study prepared in May 2019 into any of these companies, and later 100 years ago.” bring cases, they must do so within the for the U.K.’s Competition and Markets confines of existing antitrust law. They Authority acknowledges that “Instagram’s must bring cases that make economic growth has significantly benefited from the sense, where they can show competition integration with Facebook” and its success is at risk. If cases are brought, the only safe in monetizing user attention “likely benefitted prediction is that each will be different and fact from Facebook’s guidance and expertise.” 6 Any specific. A case must be brought with a theory of how antitrust authority that seeks to force Facebook to divest identified conduct harms competition. Apple can’t be charged Instagram must show this isn’t so, and that in the hypothetical with monopolizing smartphones without taking into account world where the merger didn’t happen, Instagram would have Android-based phones (which swamp Apple in the worldwide succeeded and grown on its own. Hard to do. arena). Amazon faces thousands of competitors in the retail Other mergers offer even less fertile ground for secondspace, with the exact competitive lineup changing depending guessing. There was no theory on which to challenge on the product examined. In fact, Amazon’s role typically has Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods as anticompetitive in been to inject new competition into a market rather than 2017, when the companies merged. And there still is no theory suppress competition. on which to criticize the agencies today for standing by and Second, going back to review and second-guess doing nothing. To the contrary: in retrospect the acquisition decisions that allowed certain mergers to proceed clearly appears to have benefited consumers. To name just two won’t be easy. Facebook’s purchase of Instagram, Google’s benefits: service in the grocery industry has improved, with acquisition of DoubleClick , and Amazon’s takeover of large chains scrambling to compete to deliver groceries, and Whole Foods have all been reported as potential targets for Prime members who shop at Whole Foods enjoy discounts retrospective review and possible enforcement action. But each they previously wouldn’t have obtained. deal was different. And despite what we think we know now, it Third, if we can’t point to a wholesale failure to enforce won’t be easy to show—even in retrospect—that a particular existing antitrust laws, does this mean we need new deal harmed competition. Consider Facebook’s purchase of antitrust laws? Or should we simply break ’em up? Instagram in 2012. It’s fashionable today to say that the world’s Rep. David Cicilline, the Democrat from Rhode Island who competition enforcers made a mistake when they cleared the chairs the House Antitrust Subcommittee, said in June, “It’s deal. If only the enforcers had done something, Instagram— hard for me to believe there won’t be some ways to improve with a billion worldwide users in 2019—would be squaring off an antitrust statute that was written more than 100 years

Big Tech isn’t the only sector in the modern economy with high market saturation. Some scholars have found that, “More than 75% of US industries have experienced an increase in concentration levels over the last two decades.” (Gustavo Grullon,

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ago.” 7 This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the up Big Tech? This is Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s prescription. She antitrust laws—which is somewhat disturbing for the individual wants us to break up any company that runs a marketplace and in charge of antitrust policy in the House of Representatives. makes more than $25 billion a year. Following this prescription, Both the Sherman and Clayton Acts were written more than a all of Big Tech needs to be busted. According to Warren: century ago. Each is short. Each enjoins behavior that harms “Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn’t competition. Neither prescribes how that injunction is to be exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known carried out. Both give the courts final authority to decide, companies in the world. It’s a great story — but also one that based on the economic understanding of the age, how best highlights why the government must break up monopolies and to promote consumer welfare. Our nation’s antitrust laws, promote competitive markets.” 9 as Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote in 1972, “are the Magna Here’s a non sequitur: If a company is successful, it must Carta of free enterprise.” 8 Under our antitrust regime, it is the be broken up. job of the courts to adapt to changing times and adopt new interpretations of the law. Any revision of our A final thought. There are five (not four) Big Tech antitrust statutes—to be more specific and more companies. The biggest company of all, measured topical—far from improving our ability to deal by market capitalization: Microsof t. T he with our age’s competitive threats, will catch in government wanted to break it up 20 years Microsoft aspic a particular moment’s understanding of ago. That didn’t happen. Today, of all the Big competition. Unless we are now blessed with Tech companies, Microsoft has the most stands as a complete foresight, and there is nothing left diversified sources of revenue; it competes lesson that our to discover, this will produce poor public in market after market. It was the subject antitrust laws policy results within a few short years. of a traditional antitrust enforcement are strong. We should resist the temptation action in the late 1990s, which to tinker with our statutes. We it lost. Microsof t stands as should leave to the courts a lesson that our antitrust of tomorrow the flexibility laws are strong. That these to design solutions to statutes don’t need to be tomorrow’s problems. changed. And that calls And leave to them as to change these laws, well the strength to or worse, to break resis t tomorrow ’s up the companies populists. that make this O r, s h o ul d we countr y the env y simply give up on of the industrial antitrust law and world, are terribly just start breaking misguided.

1 Douglas Ross is a partner in the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and an affiliate instructor at the University of Washington School of Law. Thanks to Douglas Litvack, partner in the Washington, D.C., office and Aaron Ross, associate in the Seattle office, for their help in preparing this article. 2 All figures in this paragraph are drawn from Jeff Desjardins, How Tech Giants Make Their Billions, Visual Capitalist, March 29, 2019, https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-tech-giants-make-billions/. 3 Ohio v. American Express Co., No. 16–1454 (June 25, 2018) (“Amex”) 4 Amex, slip op. at 9 (quoting Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877, 886 [2007]). 5 Kara Swisher, “The People Screaming for Blood Have No Idea How Tech Actually Works,” New York Times, June 4, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/facebook-google-regulation.html. 6 Elena Argentesi et al., Ex-post Assessment of Merger Control Decisions in Digital Markets: Final Report, Lear, May 9, 2019), https://assets.publishing.service. gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803576/CMA_past_digital_mergers_GOV.UK_version.pdf. 7 “Cicilline Opening Remarks at Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing,” June 11, 2019, https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/cicilline-opening-remarks-antitrust-subcommittee-hearing. 8 U.S. v. Topco Associates, Inc., 405 U.S. 506 (1972). 9 Elizabeth Warren, “It’s Time to Break Up Amazon, Google, and Facebook,” Medium, March 8, 2019 https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c. images: creativecommons.org, istock/Nicolas McComber

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A CORPORATE VEIL

REMAINS UNPIERCED : How an unwinnable case was won By Peter McGlynn, and Robert Stetson

Based upon the documentation you have provided, the plaintiff appears to have a reasonable case to pierce the corporate veil between your entities, and, therefore, reach directly to you.

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his was the assessment made by prior counsel in a privileged communication sent to our clients—several corporations and their sole shareholder—who were defendants in a corporate veil-piercing case brought by a multibillion-dollar global company. Unfortunately, the trial court had ordered this and all other communications exchanged by prior counsel and our clients to be produced to the plaintiff along with $75,000 in legal fees as a discovery sanction. The above quote, and similar damaging language containe d in communic ations between our clients and their prior counsel, was extensively cited by the plaintiff in virtually every pleading it filed in the case and with devastating effect. The trial court twice allowed wide-ranging injunction orders freezing our clients’ assets concluding, in both instances, that the plaintiff was likely to succeed at trial. This virtually ensured that our effort to settle the case during a pretrial mediation session would fail. It did. Compounding the difficulties we already had in defending this case was the trial court’s denial of our request to depose the plaintiff’s expert witness and to offer expert witness testimony on behalf of the defendants. What’s more, the plaintiff filed this factually intense and legally complex case in another state. The defendants opted not to defend the case, were defaulted, and judgment was entered against two of the corporate defendants for substantial monetary damages. The plaintiff then filed a new case in Massachusetts to domesticate the foreign judgment and asserted claims based on that foreign judgment against the other related corporate defendants and their principal shareholder on corporate veil piercing and alter ego liability theories. In ef fect, the plaintif f was at tempting to bootstrap the foreign judgment in order to hold our clients liable for the foreign judgment because the two corporate defendants initially sued by the plaintiff in the other state had gone out of business. On the surface, the plaintiff appeared to have a strong case: There was evidence that the defendant corporations were commonly owned by one individual or by an entity he controlled; the defendant corporations were thinly capitalized and hadn’t paid any dividends; there were numerous intercorporate loans that were not supported by promissory notes or board of directors approval; there was evidence that funds belonging to some of the defendant corporations were utilized by the other defendant corporations; and one of the defendant corporations provided accounting, bookkeeping, and other administrative services to all of the other defendant corporations.

CORPORATE VEIL: A legal concept that separates the actions of an organization to the actions of the shareholder. In addition, it protects them from being liable for the company’s actions. It does not necessarily mean that the protection is always in place. A court can also determine whether they hold shareholders responsible for a company’s actions or not.

Components that a court may consider* when determining whether to pierce the corporate veil incorporate the following: •• Unavailability or mistakes of corporate records •• Covering or misreports of company members •• Inability to keep up associations with related entities •• Inability to observe corporate formalities relating to behavior and documentation •• Blending of assets of the company and the investors •• Manipulation of assets or liabilities •• Dysfunctional corporate officers or directors •• Notable undercapitalization of the business entity •• Draining of corporate funds by the predominant shareholder(s) •• Treatment by a person of the assets of the company as his/her own * STRATEGICCFO.COM/CORPORATE-VEIL

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The plaintiff also enlisted the cooperation of one of the defendant corporation’s ex-CEOs who provided the plaintiff with affidavits purportedly demonstrating that corporate assets were being siphoned off by the defendant corporations’ sole shareholder. The plaintiff served notice that this ex-CEO would also provide damaging trial testimony against the defendant corporations’ sole shareholder. We were c onf ident , however, that the defendants’ expected evidence on many of these issues would counter the plaintiff’s claims and that, overall, the defendants had not done anything improper or illegal. We also felt we had a better chance of explaining about the complex intercorporate transactions and the thousands of pages of financial records to a trial judge rather than a jury. Neither the plaintiff’s counsel nor the defendants’ prior counsel had requested a jury trial. Even though a substantial amount of discovery in the case had already been conducted before we took over, with the remaining depositions we were able to neutralize the more damaging facts contained in the ex-CEO’s affidavits and demonstrated through other deposition testimony that many of the factual allegations contained in the plaintiff’s complaint were erroneous. We were also successful in opposing the plaintiff’s efforts to amend its complaint to add additional claims, including those based upon unfair and deceptive acts and practices under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A, which, if proven, would have exposed our clients to multiple damages and attorney’s fees. Shortly before the trial began, we were also successful in excluding the plaintiff’s use of the privileged communications exchanged between the defendants and their prior counsel and we were able to utilize nonexpert testimony to counter the plaintiff’s expert witness testimony since we had been precluded from introducing our own expert witnesses. Following a nine-day bench trial, in a detailed opinion, the trial judge declined to pierce the veils of the corporate defendants and their sole shareholder. The trial court’s decision was affirmed on appeal in a 25-page decision by the appeals court. Although, as noted above, the defendants were successful in defeating the plaintiff’s veil-piercing claims, that success came at a heavy price. The attorney’s fees and the innominate costs for the

“Corporate veil piercing is one of the more highly litigated commercial claims in the United States and remains among the most complex and least understood legal concepts in

American jurisprudence.”

defendants and their employees, burdened by defending the case while trying to operate their businesses during the four-plus years the case remained active, were enormous. Corporate veil piercing is one of the more highly litigated commercial claims in the United States and remains among the most complex and least understood legal concepts in American jurisprudence. Corporations, both large and small, who believe their officers, directors, and shareholders are insulated from liability simply because they are incorporated, could find themselves, like the defendants in our case, enmeshed in expensive, “bet the company” litigation. Simply relying on the corporate form without gaining a complete understanding of corporate veil piercing and alter ego principles and taking steps to minimize exposure to veilpiercing claims could lead to costly, timeconsuming, and highly risky litigation.

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Litigating personal injury cases with ride-hailing services By Daniel Katz

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ou are probably already familiar with Uber, Lyft, and other players in the ride-hailing services space. These companies are similar to many taxi-based services in that they do not own, operate, or control the vehicles used by their drivers, nor do they classify their drivers as employees. In simple terms, drivers contract with these companies to pick up passengers, i.e., the users of their mobile apps. Their customers cannot hail an Uber or Lyft on the street with a fancy whistle or wave. Instead, in this gig economy, they must utilize the app on their phone and arrange for a driver to pick them up and taxi them to their destination. While these new services have made car travel more convenient, they haven’t made it any safer, and some evidence suggests that they have contributed to more motor vehicle injuries and deaths. According to a study conducted by the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School, motor vehicle fatalities have increased by approximately 3 percent nationwide since 2011—the year in which ride-hailing apps were introduced into most major U.S. cities. But when it comes to litigating car accidents in the gig economy, who exactly is responsible? As in any car accident or personal injury case, the person pursuing the claim must prove two key things in order to be compensated: liability and damages. Liability centers around who is at fault and damages relates to the claimant’ from the incident. While car accidents (with the passenger as the claimant) are the most common situations in cases involving ride-hailing services, they may also involve incidents such as a driver hitting a pedestrian, running into a bus full of passengers, and other unique conditions.

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What Next?

If the negligent party in one of these cases is the driver, the obvious course of action would be to refer the claim to the driver’s personal insurance carrier—similar to the process consumers are familiar with when it comes to car accident claims. But since an Uber or Lyft contractor is driving for money (i.e., a commercial driving service), the situation quickly gets more complicated. In terms of assessing a case involving one of these drivers, the facts will always be integral to how it progresses, from which insurance carrier is involved to any potential compensation limits. Simply having proof that the driver was at fault is the tip of the iceberg. Key information needs to be verified, such as when the accident occurred; if the driver had already been hired by the ride-hail customer; was an uninsured (or underinsured) driver involved in the accident; and many different aspects that affect how each case is formalized. Assessing the insurance situation is critical to success in each case. As personal car insurance typically excludes all business use, the driver may not be covered by their policy when they are available for hire but have not yet accepted a ride request, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. If a driver has a commercial policy (or has purchased a ride-hailing “endorsement,” an option in some states) the driver’s personal policy will typically not be a factor. The extra coverage offered by the endorsement may help fill the gaps between the ride-hailing company’s commercial policy and the driver’s personal auto insurance policy.

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Uber and Lyft offer liability insurance to their drivers, which will kick in when the driver’s carrier has denied the claim (drivers must submit the claim to their own insurance carriers first). So legal responsibility aside, it is possible to hold a ride-hailing company financially responsible if you are a nonnegligent person in an accident caused by one of their drivers. Lyft and Uber drivers must carry a commercial policy in order to have passengers in their vehicle. The specific dollar amount available depends on the standing or status of the ride-hailing driver at the time of the accident and based on the following established guidelines:

1. Driver Not Available

If the driver is using their vehicle for personal use and is not available to accept requests for rides from customers, the ride-hailing company’s policy does not apply. Instead, the driver’s personal policy applies. The coverage limit is based on their own personal automobile insurance policy.

2. Available but Not Carrying Passenger(s)

If the driver is available on a mobile app and ready to pick up passengers, but is not actually carrying a passenger when the accident occurs,

the primary insurance is the driver’s own policy. However, Uber and Ly f t provide additional coverage in this situation with liability up to $50,000 per injury, with a maximum of $100,000, and a maximum of $25,000 in property damage. This coverage only applies if the driver requests coverage from the ride-hailing company and if their own personal liability coverage does not cover all of the damages.

3. Available and Customer-Connected or Carrying Passenger(s)

If the mobile app is turned on and the driver has connected with a potential passenger for pickup or if the driver is on the way to pick up the passenger, then a $1 million insurance policy limit from the ride-hailing company will apply. If the passenger is in the vehicle at the time of the accident, then a $1 million policy will apply. For example, if the driver is carrying a passenger when the accident occurs, the driver and passenger are covered under the liability insurance policy. Additionally, if a third party is injured, such as a pedestrian, they are covered by the company’s policy. However, if the company denies coverage, the driver and passenger may still be denied by the driver’s personal insurance policy because the driver was driving for pay at the time of the accident.

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4. Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists

It is important to assess the amount of time and focus that is taken away from the actual act of driving and spent using a smartphone

Typically, companies such as Uber and Lyft also carry a $1 million uninsured/underinsured motorist policy so that if an uninsured driver causes the accident this policy will apply. The company’s insurance carriers will try to avoid paying out as many claims as possible, as this is the nature of the beast. It is not uncommon for accident claims to be denied by the ride-hailing company’s carriers. Another key element that makes these situations more complex is that ride-hailing companies do not consider their drivers to be employees, but rather independent contractors. This distinction has allowed the companies to deny liability when their drivers are involved in accidents. Companies are generally not liable for the actions of independent contractors, as opposed to those of their employees. This makes the process even more complicated for passengers to get compensated when a driver was at fault (e.g., driver was distracted, drunk, or driving recklessly). One response by accident victims and their attorneys may be to sue the ridehailing company directly. They may also seek payment from the driver’s personal insurance company. But as many insurance policies prohibit their insured from driving for work purposes or using their car as a taxi or ride-hailing vehicle, suing the driver directly may limit the amount of damages that can be received.

The Dangers of App-Based Driving

It is also important to keep in mind that the success of the ride-hailing model depends on the use of mobile apps—and not just for the consumer. And these mobile applications require inherently risky and potentially negligent behaviors behind the wheel. Let’s start with how a driver gets a potential customer: When a pickup request comes in, the driver’s smartphone will deliver visual and audio notifications. Next, the driver has seconds (it’s been said that in the case of Uber, 15 seconds) to

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accept the request. Then the driver must physically tap the screen to accept the “contract.” Ride-hail requests can (and will) be delivered to a driver’s phone at any time—including while the vehicle is moving—meaning that in order for drivers to secure a fare, they must take their hands off the wheel to confirm a pickup. Not surprisingly, the risky behavior does not stop there. While passengers are in a vehicle, drivers must again turn to their phone—this time for directions. Uber describes its offering as a “redesigned navigation experience built around drivers’ needs.” This “experience” relies on proprietary algorithms that process multiple levels of information in real time (traffic data, road closures, accident reports, weather, etcetera) to deliver the most direct route to the drivers. The bottom line is more and more distractions with the goal of fewer delays, better mileage, and happier customers—since they will arrive at their destination as quickly as possible. It is important to assess the amount of time and focus that is taken away from the actual act of driving and spent using a smartphone. This is, essentially, time spent not focusing on the road. Research shows that engaging in such behaviors for as little as two seconds can affect a driver’s ability to spot danger—significantly increasing the risk of an accident. At this time, data measuring how much time drivers (of all kinds) spend staring at their phones instead of the road and how that translates into accidents is still lacking. We do know the obvious—that distracted driving causes accidents, increases the risk of a crash, and ends up killing people. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,166 people were killed by distracted driving in 2017. Over time, more and more data will continue to help substantiate the statistics. We also know that based on a common sense understanding of the ride-hailing model, more driving will mean one thing: an increase in the number and size of payouts to complainants moving forward.

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ur nat ion’s curren t opioid crisis

has been described as the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history. The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reports that between 1999 and 2017 nearly 218,000 people have died from overdoses in the United States. As a result, American families are living with the consequences of addiction and suffering the aftermath of opioid-related deaths. The crisis also has created significant concerns for employers.

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The CDC reports that between 1999 and 2017 nearly 218,000 people have died from overdoses in the United States.

The Development of the Opioid Crisis

As noted in a recent study by the Bipartisan Policy Center,1 the current opioid crisis came in three waves, starting in 1996 with the development of oxycodone. Sold as OxyContin, this drug was part of a new class of painkillers marketed as cure-all solutions to pain. The pharmaceutical companies, with the assistance of physicians and clinics, became increasingly aggressive in promoting these new and stronger pain medicines as nonaddictive alternatives to other painkillers on the market. Unfortunately, the medicines are highly addictive in nature, and a crisis soon developed in the overuse and misuse of these drugs. In 2010, the problem was exacerbated by a new formulation of OxyContin that made it more difficult to abuse by crushing and snorting. Federal and state governments also worked to limit access to prescription opioids overall. These two actions combined to create a second wave of overdose-related deaths due to the increased use of heroin as a cheap, and deadly, alternative to legal opioids. The surge in heroin use was not limited to urban communities, but spread to small towns and rural areas. Studies have confirmed that these heroin addicts became dependent after being introduced to legally prescribed painkillers. The third wave of the crisis, per the BPC report, is due to the increased availability of illegal fentanyl and its analogs. These new drugs are both inexpensive and potent and have been responsible for many of the recent overdose deaths.

1 See Tracking federal Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis (March 2019).

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The Government Response

Increasingly, additional resources are needed to address the epidemic. Both the federal and state governments have jumped in to address the problem with additional programs and increased funding. This has included a broad array of solutions, such as more funding for law enforcement and addiction ser vices, with a focus on prevention, treatment, and recovery. The CDC is also funding critical research into the problem of addiction and overdose. This includes the development of an early warning system, such as monitoring prescription practices. This information is shared with federal, state, and local entities. The federal response has included some significant legislation, including passage of both the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act and the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016. These two pieces of legislation, designed to help stem the crisis, led to the authorization of more than $1 billion for grant programs. More recently, Congress passed the Support for Patients and Communities Act, designed to help prevent opioid misuse and to increase access to treatment. The act also permits Medicare to provide coverage for opioid treatment. In 2017, the Trump administration declared the opioid crisis to be a public health emergency. Included in the federal government’s response is increased funding of criminal justice grant programs designed to assist states in addressing

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the myriad problems created by the crisis. Most states have followed the federal government ’s lead, creating and funding additional programs and designed to address the opioid epidemic. These federal and state responses are ongoing and additional efforts are expected.

Opioid Litigation: Actions Targeting the Pharmaceutical Industry

In addition to the federal and state legislative response, there have been a number of court actions filed against the pharmaceutical companies involved in the marketing of prescription opioids like Ox yContin. The litigation seeks to hold Big Pharma responsible for the impact of the opioid crisis. Multiple states have filed suits alleging that some of these companies improperly marketed the opioids and misled the public about the addictive nature of the medication. The focus has been on the national litigation venued in Ohio. This case has consolidated thousands of federal lawsuits that have been brought against various pharmaceutical companies . The s ui t ’s li t i g an t s in c lu d e c o u n t y governments, municipalities, hospitals , and others . The U. S . Justice Department has intervened and is participating in the action. There is some belief that this case will lead to a global settlement of these opioid-related cases. While the Ohio litigation is still pending, one high-profile case has made its way to the courtroom. The first case was brought by the Oklahoma attorney general against multiple pharmaceutical companies. He alleged that these drug companies falsely claimed the pain-killing medications were nonaddictive and safe for use and that the marketing was deceptive and misleading, creating a “devastating health crisis” in the state. This case will prove to be a critical first view at how the opioid cases will fare before a jury. The implications will be significant.

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The opioid crisis has taken a heavy toll on American society, stretching government resources to a breaking point. The crisis also weighs heavily on the families affected, with overdose deaths leading to a cycle of tragic consequences for those left behind. For example, opioid-related deaths have led to a dramatic increase in the number of children in unsuitable living conditions and in need of foster care.

The Role Employers Can Play to Address Addiction in the Workplace

A s many busine s s e s — b oth large and small—have discovered, the opioid crisis is having a significant impact on the workforce. This is especially true given that opioids are commonly prescribed to treat work-related injuries or conditions protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This has left employers grappling with issues of lost productivity, higher absenteeism, greater risk of workplace injuries, an increase in positive drug tests and workplace theft, and higher healthcare costs overall. Many businesses are even experiencing labor shortages due to the difficulty in hiring and retaining a sufficient number of workers who can successfully pass drug tests, leading some employers to scrap their drug-testing policies altogether. In response, employers are being urged to become an integral part of a massive effort to help educate, support, and rehabilitate opioiddependent workers. But how? One solution is to develop a policy that promotes a drug-free workplace but also provides support for those who succumb to addiction. While employers cannot tolerate workplace drug use, they can develop a five-pronged approach to addressing drug abuse issues that arise in the workplace. This program would include:

1. adoption of a comprehensive, written drug-free workplace policy 2. detailed and comprehensive supervisor training 3. employee education and awareness program 4. a comprehensive employee assistance program 5. a comprehensive drugtesting policy

“Many businesses are even experiencing labor shortages due to more difficulty in hiring and retaining a sufficient number of workers who can successfully pass drug tests, leading some employers to scrap their drug testing policies altogether.”

This five-pronged approach to the crisis will assist managers and employees by providing educational resources and better access to treatment. In adopting these proactive steps, employers will increase morale and help to reduce the harmful impact of addiction in the workplace. Of course, these steps should not substitute for appropriate disciplinary actions and/or termination for drug-related workplace misconduct when appropriate.

Conclusion: Development of an Action Plan

The opioid crisis is now a par t of the workplace landscape and, despite the best efforts of our government and health care providers, it will continue to impact the workforce in multiple ways. It is therefore important for employers to stay on top of the crisis by conducting a critical review of their current policies and procedures.

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WARNING SIGNS

Recent mass shootings in Florida and Nevada were, in some senses, eminently predictable. Why do they keep happening, and what legal remedies are being sought by those affected by the carnage? By Bryce T. Hensley, Antonio M. Romanucci, and Nicolette A. Ward

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RLANDO AND LAS VEGAS

are well-known throughout the countr y—inde e d , throughout the world—as two of the most popular tourist attractions in the U.S. More than 40 million people visit each city every year. Then, in 2016 and 2017, respectively, each fell victim to the scourge of mass shootings that has plagued the country in recent years. At Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, 49 were shot dead and another 50 wounded. It was the deadliest single-gunman mass shooting in U.S. history—until a year later, in Las Vegas, where shots rained down on the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival from the thirty-second floor of MGM’s Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 59 and injuring 500 more. After the shootings, as after any act of mass violence, comments about the unprecedented nature of the attacks were a common refrain. Yet it feels as though mass-casualty incidents have been happening far too often the last decade: Aurora, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Sutherland Springs, Parkland, Pittsburgh, and— most recently—Virginia Beach. Indeed, there have been more than 300 mass shootings, defined as five or more individuals shot during one event, in the past several years alone. In such an environment, can officials in popular destinations plead ignorance of the unfortunate reality that their renown might make them a target for those wishing to inflict mass harm? “Soft targets,” as they’re sometimes referred to in the security business, are places particularly vulnerable to mass-casualty incidents. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security emphasizes that “sports venues, shopping venues, schools, and transportation systems” are places where large numbers of people congregate amid limited security. Recent years have shown that concerts, places of worship, and evening entertainment spots can be added to the list. Pulse was one of Orlando’s most popular clubs. The country festival in Las Vegas, just off the famed Strip, was attended by thousands.

The June 12, 2016, Pulse shooting began when gunman Omar Mateen entered the crowded club around 2 a.m. carrying a semiautomatic rifle (an AR-15, a common weapon in mass shootings) and a semiautomatic pistol. A single uniformed off-duty officer was present outside the club working as a security guard. The officer was armed and exchanged fire with Mateen, but the assailant was able to gain access through the main entrance. As Mateen opened fire inside, survivors reported feeling confused and disoriented in the dark, loud club; many reported mistaking the initial shots for music or fireworks. A stampede for available exits ensued, and survivors later said they encountered locked exit doors as they tried to escape. Some were able to flee through the club’s rear and side doors onto the patio. Others, unable to escape, took cover in bathrooms, resulting in a hostage situation and a three-hour standoff with law enforcement that ended only when police breached an exterior wall using an armored vehicle and shot Mateen to death. Pulse was not Mateen’s first choice for his attack. Federal prosecutors have indicated that video from only hours earlier shows Mateen “casing” Walt Disney World, walking around its perimeter with a gun concealed in a stroller. Prosecutors indicated they believe Mateen reconsidered due to Disney’s substantial police presence, choosing instead to target the more vulnerable Pulse to maximize casualties. Similarly, Stephen Paddock, the Mandalay Bay shooter, was found to have cased other locations, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Boston’s Fenway Park, and the Life Is Beautiful concert in Las Vegas. Comparable concerns over security and feasibility forced him to settle on the Route 91 show, on October 1, 2017. Paddock was able to haul two dozen guns (including many highpowered rifles), scopes, bipods, bump stocks, and other tactical equipment into his room before unleashing his onslaught on the unsuspecting concertgoers below. In addition to those killed and wounded by gunfire, many others were trampled and injured in their attempts to escape.

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LAWSUITS IN BOTH CASES HAVE PROCEEDED.

Survivors of the Pulse shooting initially brought suit in the Southern District of Florida, filing eventually in Palm Beach County, where the matter was consolidated with the cases of other Pulse survivors. The plaintiffs’ complaint made claims against the security company G4S PLC and its American subsidiary, G4S Secure Solutions, which employed Mateen, for the company’s alleged failure to thoroughly investigate or terminate Mateen, an armed security guard, after he made violent threats. The complaint also alleged that G4S had knowingly falsified and submitted documentation to the

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State of Florida regarding Mateen’s required psychological evaluation while continuing to provide him with annual firearms training. The plaintiffs also brought a claim for civil conspiracy against Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, for helping plan the attack. (The plaintif fs would later choose to dismiss claims against Salman and G4S PLC, leaving only their claim against G4S Secure Solutions.) Despite allegations that Mateen had threatened a sheriff’s deputy while on-duty as an armed guard, praised terrorists to his coworkers, and expressed a desire to die a martyr, the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County dismissed the claims against G4S Secure Solutions, stating there was no indication that the company “had any direction or control over Mateen at the time of this tragic event.” The court ruled that the conduct at issue did not foreseeably increase the risk of harm to the plaintiffs such that G4S owed them any legal duty. Despite amendments extrapolating on G4S’s knowledge of Mateen’s psychological instability, the court continued to dismiss complaints on the grounds that G4S had no legal duty to control Mateen’s behavior. The plaintif fs have appealed this decision and await a ruling from the District With proper planning Cour t of Appeal of and procedures in the State of Florida, place, what happened Fourth District. at Pulse and Route 91 is, Victims in Las Vegas filed their case ultimately, preventable. in state court in Clark County, Nevada. The Silver State was the home of many of the victims and the headquarters or state of incorporation of many of the named defendants, and Clark County was where the shooting occurred. However, the defendants removed the case to federal court in Nevada, relying on an obscure, never-beforecited federal statute known as the SAFET Y (Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies) Act. Shortly after removing, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that, one, the shooting was unprecedented and unforeseeable as a matter of law; and two, causation could not be established, as Paddock— who killed himself at the conclusion of the shooting—was a “superseding and predominant cause” as a matter of law. Plaintiffs responded to both procedural maneuvers, first by filing a motion to remand the cases back to state court, then by responding to the motion to dismiss— arguing first that the defendants were on notice due to previous incidents at the Mandalay Bay and around the world, thereby rendering the shooting foreseeable; and second that their

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negligence in failing to prevent the shooting was a legal cause of the plaintiffs’ harm. While still in the midst of briefing, both on the motion to dismiss and the plaintiffs’ motion to remand, the defendants took the unprecedented step of suing victims in eight federal jurisdictions around the country. The defendants’ actions were for a declaratory judgment, seeking a federal court’s approval of the applicability of the SAFETY Act to plaintiffs’ claims. Rather than wait for a ruling in the respective district courts, though, the defendants filed a motion to transfer and centralize their claims against the victims pursuant to the Multi-District Litigation Statute. However, the JPML swiftly struck down the defendants’ attempt to transform the litigation into an MDL as premature, and the cases were sent back to their respective district courts. Upon return, the plaintiffs filed a motion to dismiss the numerous declaratory actions filed by the defendants. Nearly two years later, the most troubling aspect of the aftermath of the Vegas shooting may be the documented history of local hotel and casino owners’ awareness of the possibility of such acts of violence. Federal and state homeland-security officials, as well as professionals in the hospitality and casino industries, had for years discussed the possibility of a mass shooting in Las Vegas. As such, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department had conducted training exercises at, and developed plans with, city hotels and casinos in the event of such an incident. Notably, the scenarios included preparing for a sniper on the Stratosphere Tower, and one exercise entailed the use of a mannequin in an upper window of the Sahara Hotel, simulating an attacker. Finally, in 2014, staff at the Mandalay Bay thwarted a nearly identical potential attack when they discovered a guest who had brought multiple semiautomatic rifles to his room and set one up, aimed at the Strip. While some hotels ignored the deafening chorus of industry, law enforcement, and security experts ahead of the Paddock shooting, others implemented “no-gun” policies, constructed concealed metal detectors by entrances and exits, and increased the quantity and quality of their security and response teams. Such actions might have decreased the likelihood of the 2017 massacre—or prevented it altogether. Given the heavy coverage of similar incidents and the abundant warnings from industr y and government, mass shootings are now highly predictable for event promoters, large companies , and venue owners any where large numbers of people congregate. With proper planning and procedures in place, what happened at Pulse and Route 91 is, ultimately, preventable. The attorneys involved in both cases remain optimistic about securing justice for the thousands affected by the shootings— and, just as important, ensuring that senseless atrocities like them never happen again.

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ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

CABANISS, JOHNSTON, GARDNER, DUMAS & O'NEAL 205-716-5200 R. Carlton Smyly**

CAMPBELL PARTNERS 205-224-0750 Andrew P. Campbell*

Richard P. Carmody**, Robert D. Eckinger*

ANDRÉ M. TOFFEL 205-252-7115

BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ 205-328-0480

W. Patton Hahn*, Timothy M. Lupinacci**, Eric L. Pruitt**

BALCH & BINGHAM 205-251-8100

Paul H. Greenwood**, Eric T. Ray**, Jesse S. Vogtle Jr.**

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

Jay R. Bender**, N. Chris Glenos**, Christopher L. Hawkins

BURR & FORMAN 205-251-3000 Michael L. Hall**, Derek F. Meek**

CHRISTIAN & SMALL 205-795-6588 Bill D. Bensinger**, Daniel D. Sparks**

Joseph A. Fawal*

Janell M. Ahnert (EM, LE*, LM), Stacey T. Bradford (LE*), Charles A. ADAMS AND REESE 205-250-5000 Powell IV (EM, LE*, LM), Jennifer Fox Swain (EM, LE*) Stephen A. Rowe (D)

Vernon L. Wells II*

Taffi S. Stewart

JONES WALKER 205-244-5200 Larry G. Canada**

LIGHTFOOT, FRANKLIN & WHITE 205-581-0700 E. Glenn Waldrop, Jr.**

REDDEN, MILLS, CLARK & SHAW 205-322-0457 William H. Mills*

C. Ellis Brazeal III**

LAW OFFICES OF TED STUCKENSCHNEIDER 205-324-5631 J. Theodore Stuckenschneider**

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000 Jayna Partain Lamar**, J. Leland Murphree**

REYNOLDS LEGAL SOLUTIONS 205-957-6500 Thomas E. Reynolds**

SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100

George M. Neal, Jr.**, Donald M. Wright**

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000 John P. Scott, Jr.*

WALLACE, JORDAN, RATLIFF & BRANDT 205-870-0555

LLOYD GRAY WHITEHEAD MONROE 205-967-8822 MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000

John B. Holmes III (EM, LE*), Warren B. Lightfoot, Jr. (EM, LE*, LM), Stephanie Houston Mays (LE*), David M. Smith (EM, LE*, LM), Matthew W. Stiles (LE*, LM)

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART 205-328-1900

Michael L. Edwards, Alan T. Rogers

BARZE TAYLOR NOLES LOWTHER 205-872-1032 R. Bruce Barze Jr.

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

Jay R. Bender, Philip H. Butler, James W. Gewin, F. M. Haston III, David G. Hymer, Matthew H. Lembke, Joseph B. Mays Jr., Michael R. Pennington

BELT & BRUNER 205-933-1500

RUMBERGER KIRK & CALDWELL 205-327-5550

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

Larry B. Childs*

SCOTT DUKES & GEISLER 205-251-2300

Craig A. Alexander (LE*)

Kimberly W. Geisler (LE*)

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100 BALCH & BINGHAM 205-251-8100

Gaile Pugh Gratton (LE*), Kyle Smith (LE*)

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000 Leigh Anne Hodge*

Michael T. Sansbury (LE*), Kenneth D. Sansom (LE*), Emily J. Tidmore (LE*)

David P. Donahue*

Alfred H. Perkins, Jr.

Peter H. Burke*

Christopher W. Deering (EM, LE*, LM)

Christopher L. Yeilding*

SPOTSWOOD SANSOM & SANSBURY 205-986-3620

CABANISS, JOHNSTON, GARDNER, DUMAS & O'NEAL 205-716-5200 Crawford S. McGivaren, Jr.

DONALD, RANDALL & DONALD 205-758-2585

CARR ALLISON 205-822-2006

WIGGINS CHILDS PANTAZIS FISHER & GOLDFARB 205-235-3202

Douglas I. Friedman*

BADHAM & BUCK 205-521-0036

James L. Goyer III*, Grace Robinson Murphy*, William B. Wahlheim, Jr.*

BALCH & BINGHAM 205-251-8100

Sarah Yates Larson*

Matthew Todd Lowther (D)

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000

Vernon L. Wells II

LIGHTFOOT, FRANKLIN & WHITE 205-581-0700

Samuel H. Franklin, John M. Johnson, M. Christian King

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000 Lee E. Bains, Jr., John Neiman

ROSEN HARWOOD 205-344-5000 R. Bernard Harwood, Jr.

SARAH YATES LARSON 205-276-8302 SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

THE MARTIN LAW GROUP 205-343-1771 Ariel S. Blocker, David P. Martin*

BADHAM & BUCK 205-521-0036 Brannon J. Buck (LE*)

BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ 205-328-0480

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

Keith Covington (EM, LE*, LM), John W. Hargrove (EM, LE*, LM), Jennifer J. McGahey (LE*), T. Matthew Miller (EM, LE*, LM), Anne R. Yuengert (EM, LE*, LM) Stephen E. Brown (EM, LE*, LM), Rima Hartman (EM), Carole G. Miller (EM, LE*)

BURR & FORMAN 205-251-3000

John J. Coleman III (EM, LE*, LM), Michael L. Lucas (EM, LE*, LM), Frank McRight (EM, LE*, LM)

CABANISS, JOHNSTON, GARDNER, DUMAS & O'NEAL 205-716-5200 CARR ALLISON 205-822-2006

Robert R. Baugh

SPOTSWOOD SANSOM & SANSBURY 205-986-3620 Robert K. Spotswood, Emily J. Tidmore

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000 William Anthony Davis III

WHITE ARNOLD & DOWD 205-323-1888 J. Mark White

Elizabeth J. Kanter (LE*)

BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS 205-521-8000

James F. Archibald III**, Axel Bolvig III**, David W. Owen**, J. David Pugh**, E. Mabry Rogers**

BROCKWELL SMITH 205-800-8500 Gregory Brockwell*

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BURR & FORMAN 205-251-3000

D. Christopher Carson (D), C. Paul Cavender (D), Anthony C. Harlow (D), John C. Morrow (D), Robert H. Rutherford (D), Allan R. Wheeler (D)

CABANISS, JOHNSTON, GARDNER, DUMAS & O'NEAL 205-716-5200

DAVID ARENDALL 205-305-5179

LaBella S. Alvis (D), James B. Carlson (D), Edgar M. Elliott IV (D), Michael A. Vercher (D)

CORY WATSON 205-328-2200

CROSS & SMITH 205-391-0618 Justin L. Smith

CUSIMANO, ROBERTS & MILLS 256-543-0400 Gregory S. Cusimano (P), Michael L. Roberts (P)

DEGARIS & ROGERS 205-558-9000 Annesley H. DeGaris (P)

DONALD, RANDALL & DONALD 205-758-2585 William J. Donald III (D)

DRAKE LAW FIRM 205-970-0800 Whit Drake (P)

ELLIS, HEAD, OWENS & JUSTICE 205-669-6783 J. Bentley Owens III (D)

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION GROUP 205-382-9200 Gregory A. Cade

FRIEDMAN, DAZZIO, ZULANAS & BOWLING 205-278-7000 Charles E. Sharp, Sr. (D)

GAINES GAULT HENDRIX 205-980-5888

Ralph D. Gaines III (D)

CORY WATSON 205-328-2200

HARE WYNN NEWELL & NEWTON 205-328-5330

Charles P. Gaines (D) BOOTH SMITH 205-533-9650 Edgar M. Elliott IV (D), Sharon D. Stuart (D), Michael A. Vercher (D) HALL David W. Proctor (D)

CHRISTIAN & SMALL 205-795-6588

Elizabeth E. Chambers, Ernest Cory (P), Douglas A. Dellaccio, Jr., Stephen R. Hunt Jr., Hirlye Lutz, F. Jerome Tapley, Leila Hirayama Watson (P)

CRUMLEY ROBERTS 336-333-9899 Peter H. Burke

DEGARIS & ROGERS 205-558-9000 Annesley H. DeGaris (P)

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION GROUP 205-382-9200 Gregory A. Cade (P)

GUIN, STOKES & EVANS 205-226-2282 David Guin (P)

HARE WYNN NEWELL & NEWTON 205-328-5330

John W. Haley (P), Don McKenna (P), Scott A. Powell (P)

HENINGER, GARRISON & DAVIS 205-308-1991

Taylor Bartlett, William L. Bross, W. Lewis Garrison, Jr. (P), Christopher Hood, Honza J. F. Prchal, Brandy L. Robertson

CHRISTIAN & SMALL 205-795-6588

Jonathan W. Macklem (LE*), Sharon D. Stuart (LE*), David B. Walston (EM, LE*)

CHRISTIAN & SMALL 205-795-6588

GAINES, GAINES & RASCO 256-362-2386

LIGHTFOOT, FRANKLIN & WHITE 205-581-0700

C. Michael Quinn (EI, LE*)

Charles F. Carr (D), Elizabeth J. Kanter (D), David L. McAlister (D)

Steve A. Tucker (D)

KAZMAREK MOWREY CLOUD LASETER 205-777-7972

David R. Arendall (EI, LE*)

D. Keith Andress**, W. Patton Hahn*, Edward P. Meyerson**, Donald J. Nettles**

BRESSLER, AMERY & ROSS 205-719-0400

CHARLES MICHAEL QUINN 205-706-8153

CONSTRUCTION LAW FORDHARRISON 205-244-5900

BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ 205-328-0480

T. Michael Brown (D), James W. Gewin (D), John E. Goodman (D), F. M. Haston III (D), Andrew B. Johnson (D), Michael R. Pennington (D)

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW A. Inge Selden III (D)

Michael E. Turner (EM, LE*)

SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100

Gregory Carl Cook (D)

BARZE TAYLOR NOLES LOWTHER 205-872-1032

J. S. Christie Jr.**

John M. Graham (D), Crawford S. McGivaren, Jr. (D), Steve A. Tucker (D)

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS Ernest Cory (P), G.Rick Digiorgio, Leila Hirayama Watson (P)

Stacey T. Bradford*

BRESSLER, AMERY & ROSS 205-719-0400

JONES WALKER 205-244-5200

James C. Barton, Jr. (D), Christopher S. Berdy (D)

FRIEDMAN LAW FIRM 205-879-3033

Douglas B. Kauffman (EI, LE*, LM), Marion Jefferson Starling III (EM, LE*, LM)

James R. Pratt III

BUTLER SNOW 201-297-2200

VULCAN EMPLOYMENT LAW GROUP 205-910-5030

HARE WYNN NEWELL & NEWTON 205-328-5330

JAMES PRATT 205-370-6922

Anthony C. Harlow (D), John C. Morrow (D)

CRUMLEY ROBERTS 336-333-9899

Jenna M. Bedsole (EM, LE*), J. Trent Scofield (EM, LE*, LM), William G. Somerville III (EM, LE*)

Edward R. Jackson

BURR & FORMAN 205-251-3000

CABANISS, JOHNSTON, GARDNER, DUMAS & O'NEAL 205-716-5200

FRIEDMAN, DAZZIO, ZULANAS & BOWLING 205-278-7000 BALCH & BINGHAM 205-251-8100 Charles E. Sharp, Sr. JACKSON, FIKES & BRAKEFIELD 205-387-2171

Philip J. Carroll III (D), Ty E. Dedmon (D), James W. Gewin (D), Andrew B. Johnson (D), Michael D. McKibben (D), Richard H. Monk III (D)

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000

William J. Donald III

D. Leon Ashford, John W. Haley, Scott A. Powell, S. Shay Samples

Keith T. Belt, Jr. (P)

BRESSLER, AMERY & ROSS 205-719-0400

Adam M. Porter (EI, LE*)

Michael L. Hall, John C. Morrow

BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ 205-328-0480

Susan N. Han

ADAM M. PORTER 205-588-2261

BURR & FORMAN 205-251-3000

Nolan E. Awbrey (P)

RED MOUNTAIN LAW GROUP 205-328-9445

BRESSLER, AMERY & ROSS 205-719-0400 A. Inge Selden III

AWBREY LAW 205-321-5999

Clark R. Hammond**, Cecil H. Macoy, Jr.**

Brannon J. Buck (D)

BALCH & BINGHAM 205-251-8100

Jason A. Shamblin (P)

J. Scott Dickens*, Luther Graves Stiff III*

BAINBRIDGE, MIMS, ROGERS & SMITH 205-879-1100 Bruce F. Rogers

ALEXANDER SHUNNARAH PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS 205-323-1000

WALLACE, JORDAN, RATLIFF & BRANDT 205-870-0555

J. Rushton McClees*, George M. Neal, Jr.*

LEHR MIDDLEBROOKS VREELAND & BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION THOMPSON 205-326-3002 Albert L. Vreeland* BADHAM & BUCK 205-521-0036 LITTLER MENDELSON 205-421-4700 Brannon J. Buck

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000

SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100

Robert J. Camp (LE*), Candis A. McGowan (EI, LE*, LU), Temple D. Trueblood (EI, LE*)

Clark R. Hammond**

William L. Waudby (D)

LITTLER MENDELSON 205-421-4700

D. Keith Andress Gordon L. Blair (EM), Brian R. Bostick (EM, LE*), J. Carin Burford & BINGHAM 205-251-8100 (LE*), T. Scott Kelly (EM, LE*), Peyton Lacy, Jr. (EM, LE*, LM), David BALCH S. Allen Baker Jr. (D) L. Warren, Jr. (EM, LE*)

WALLER LANSDEN DORTCH & DAVIS 205-214-6380

JONES WALKER 205-244-5200

WILSON ELSER MOSKOWITZ EDELMAN & DICKER 205-709-8990

Augusta S. Dowd (D), J. Mark White (D)

CHRISTIAN & SMALL 205-795-6588

LARRY G. CANADA 504-908-1737

André M. Toffel**

WHITE ARNOLD & DOWD 205-323-1888

LEHR MIDDLEBROOKS VREELAND & THOMPSON 205-326-3002

Kary Bryant Wolfe (LE*)

David J. Middlebrooks (EM, LE*, LM), Michael L. Thompson (EM, LE*), Albert L. Vreeland (EM, LE*)

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS Greer B. Mallette**, Richard E. Smith* / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW FAWAL & SPINA 205-939-0590 ADAMS AND REESE 205-250-5000

JONES WALKER 205-244-5200

J. Alan Truitt (D)

Kevin E. Clark (D), John M. Johnson (D)

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000

D. Leon Ashford (P), Jason Earley (P), Michael D. Ermert (P), Scott A. Powell (P), S. Shay Samples (P)

HART LAW 205-276-1286 Anna L. Hart (P)

HENINGER, GARRISON & DAVIS 205-308-1991 Stephen D. Heninger (P), J. Callen Sparrow (P)

HOLLIS, WRIGHT, CLAY & VAIL 205-324-3600 Joshua J. Wright (P)

HUIE, FERNAMBUCQ & STEWART 205-251-1193

Thomas E. Bazemore (D), Eugene D. Martenson (D), James R. Shaw (D), D. Alan Thomas (D)

JACKSON, FIKES & BRAKEFIELD 205-387-2171 Edward R. Jackson (D, P)

JAMES PRATT 205-370-6922 James R. Pratt III (P)

JONES WALKER 205-244-5200 Steven F. Casey (D)

KING FORSTMAN LAW 205-568-8080 Leigh King Forstman (P)

KIRBY JOHNSON 205-458-3553

Jeffrey C. Kirby (P) John N. Bolus (D), James R. Bussian (D), John Earnhardt (D), OFFICES OF THOMAS P. WILLINGHAM 205-298-1011 Maibeth J. Porter (D), John A. Smyth III (D), Thomas W. Thagard III LAW Thomas P. Willingham (P) (D), William B. Wahlheim, Jr. (D), H. Thomas Wells, Jr. (D)

METHVIN, TERRELL, YANCEY, STEPHENS & MILLER 205-939-0199

LIGHTFOOT, FRANKLIN & WHITE 205-581-0700

GALLOWAY SCOTT MOSS & HANCOCK 205-949-5580 HARBUCK KEITH & HOLMES 205-547-5540

PITTMAN, DUTTON & HELLUMS 205-900-4168

MARSH, RICKARD & BRYAN 205-879-1981

Wesley C. Redmond (LE*)

William K. Hancock (EM, LE*)

Robert Methvin Jr. (P)

Chris T. Hellums (P), Jonathan S. Mann (P)

J. Chandler Bailey (D), Michael L. Bell (D), Samuel H. Franklin (D), Lee M. Hollis (D), John M. Johnson (D), William H. Morrow (D), Adam K. Peck (D), Harlan I. Prater IV (D)

RAGSDALE 205-290-6800

William Andrews, Michael K. Beard (P), David H. Marsh (P), Jeffrey C. Rickard (P)

Kenneth D. Haynes (EI, EM, LE*, LU)

RUMBERGER KIRK & CALDWELL 205-327-5550

John A. Smyth III (D)

Tammy L. Baker (EM, LE*), Thomas A. Davis (EM, LE*), Shannon L. Miller (EM, LE*), David T. Wiley (EM, LE*)

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000

Jonathan S. Harbuck (LE*), Lynlee Wells Palmer (EM, LE*, LM), Sean C. Pierce (LE*)

HAYNES & HAYNES 205-879-0377 JACKSON LEWIS 205-332-3100

BUSINESS EDITION | SUMMER 2019

Milton Clay Ragsdale IV (P) J. Michael Rediker (P)

H. Thomas Wells III (D)

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 205-254-1000 MORRIS, HAYNES, WHEELES, KNOWLES & NELSON 256-329-2000 Larry W. Morris (P)

ALABAMA CONSTRUCTION LAW HELMSING, LEACH, HERLONG, NEWMAN &

NORMAN, WOOD, KENDRICK, & TURNER 205-328-6643 Thomas A. Kendrick (D)

PARSONS, LEE & JULIANO 205-326-6600

Jasper P. Juliano (D), David A. Lee (D), Marda W. Sydnor (D)

Joseph P.H. Babington*, James B. Newman*, A. Edwin Stuardi III*

Douglas Hargett

JOHNSTONE ADAMS 251-432-7682

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW Lawrence J. Seiter*

PITTMAN, DUTTON & HELLUMS 205-900-4168 Thomas E. Dutton (P), W. Lee Pittman (P)

ROUSE 251-432-5521

HALL TANNER HARGETT 256-381-7750

RUMBERGER KIRK & CALDWELL 205-327-5550

LANIER FORD SHAVER & PAYNE 256-535-1100

SCOTT DUKES & GEISLER 205-251-2300

MAYNARD COOPER & GALE 256-551-0171

SHUTTLESWORTH 866-583-1885

SIROTE & PERMUTT 256-536-1711

SIROTE & PERMUTT 205-930-5100

T. DWIGHT SLOAN 256-883-9628

SMITH & ALSPAUGH 205-324-8910

WILMER & LEE 256-533-0202

Craig A. Alexander (D)

J. R. Brooks (LE*), George W. Royer, Jr. (LE*)

David B. Block (EM, LE*, LM), Christopher S. Kuffner (LE*)

John W. Scott (D)

John P. Burbach (LE*)

Perry G. Shuttlesworth Jr.

SMITH, SPIRES, PEDDY, HAMILTON & COLEMAN 250-547-2034

WRIGHT, GREEN 251-344-7755

Charles C. Simpson III*

TRUSTS AND ESTATES ARMBRECHT JACKSON 251-405-1300 Edward A. Dean*, Duane A. Graham**

COALE, DUKES, KIRKPATRICK & CROWLEY 251-471-2625 Harwell E. Coale, Jr.**

James P. Green*

PHELPS DUNBAR 251-432-4481 Thomas F. Garth**

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW SIROTE & PERMUTT 251-432-1671 Greg Carwie*

Thomas H. Benton, Jr.*

Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr. (EM, LE*, LU), John A. Wilmer (EM, LE*)

William W. Smith (P)

Archibald T. Reeves IV*

BENTON LAW 251-338-4286

T. Dwight Sloan III (EM, LE*, LM)

Robert R. Baugh (D), Thomas Woodall

MCDOWELL KNIGHT ROEDDER & SLEDGE 251-432-5300

JOHNSTONE ADAMS 251-432-7682

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

MONTGOMERY

ADAMS AND REESE 251-433-3234

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS Randall Scott Hetrick (EM, LE*, LM)

ARMBRECHT JACKSON 251-405-1300

Thomas S. Spires (D)

MARTIN & HELMS 256-539-1990

Walter William Bates (D), Michael A. Florie (D), Alicia Medders Harrison (D), Philip G. Piggott (D), John P. Scott, Jr. (D), H. Thomas Wells III (D)

MORRIS, KING & HODGE 256-536-0588

STARNES DAVIS FLORIE 205-868-6000

STOCKHAM COOPER & POTTS 205-776-9000 Robert E. Cooper (D)

THOMAS P. MELTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW 205-458-4556 Thomas P. Melton IV

WATKINS & EAGER 205-598-2100

Scott G. Brown (EM, LE*), Kirk C. Shaw (EM, LE*, LM)

Clay Martin (P)

BURNS, CUNNINGHAM & MACKEY 251-432-0612

BALCH & BINGHAM 334-834-6500

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John F. Lomax, Jr. (EM, LE*, LM), Rebecca A. Winterscheidt (EM, LE*) Laura Lawless (EM, LE*), Daniel B. Pasternak (EM, LE*, LM), Lawrence J. Rosenfeld (EM, LE*)

ASHBURN & MASON 907-276-4331 BANKSTON GRONNING BRECHT 907-276-1711 William M. Bankston**

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE 907-257-5300 HUGHES WHITE COLBO WILCOX & TERVOOREN 907-274-7522 Steven S. Tervooren**

STOEL RIVES 907-277-1900 James E. Torgerson*

TRUSTS AND ESTATES BANKSTON GRONNING BRECHT 907-276-1711 Christopher M. Brecht

MANLEY & BRAUTIGAM 907-334-5600 Robert L. Manley**

STEVEN T. O'HARA 907-223-5911 Steven T. O'Hara**

JUNEAU

Lawrence G. Scarborough (D)

FENNEMORE CRAIG 602-916-5000 Christopher L. Callahan (D)

LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 602-262-5311 Stephen M. Bressler (D), Craig W. Phillips (D)

SNELL & WILMER 602-382-6000

Sheila Carmody (D), Barbara J. Dawson (D)

LESSMEIER & WINTERS 907-796-4999

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION MURPHY, SCHMITT, HATHAWAY, WILSON & BECKE 928-445-6860 Michael R. Murphy (D), Robert E. Schmitt (D, P)

John A. Micheaels (P), David S. Shughart III, K. Thomas Slack (P) Thomas L. Toone (D)

Patrick J. McGroder III (P), Mark S. O'Connor (P) Steven L. Reed (P)

James R. Broening (D), John W. Oberg (D), Terrence P. Woods (D, P)

BURCH & CRACCHIOLO 602-274-7611

Daniel Cracchiolo (D, P), Todd A. Julian, Jr. (P), Steven J. Lippman (P), Ian Neale (D), Wendi A. Sorensen (D)

David B. Rosenbaum*

CHRISTIAN DICHTER & SLUGA 602-792-1700

Jodi Knobel Feuerhelm*

CUNNINGHAM LAW FIRM 602-257-1750

SNELL & WILMER 602-382-6000

ARIZONA FLAGSTAFF

Richard M. Gerry (P), J. Tyrrell Taber (P)

CALVIN L. RAUP 602-314-6811

Mark G. Worischeck*

Michael L. Lessmeier (D, P)

James R. Condo*, Jason Ebe**, Charles P. Keller*, James J. Sienicki**

STINSON 602-279-1600 Jeffrey J. Goulder*

WARNER ANGLE HALLAM JACKSON & FORMANEK 602-264-7101

Chris R. Baniszewski**, Stephen E. Jackson**

Scott A. Ambrose, Paul D. Friedman (P) Calvin L. Raup (D, P)

Douglas L. Christian (D)

Daniel L. Bonnett*

THE LAW OFFICES OF JOSEPH MONTEDONICO 928-204-1212

Nathan J. Fidel

O'STEEN & HARRISON 602-252-8888

Jonathan V. O'Steen (P), Van O'Steen (P), Ward B. Rasmussen

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Jonathan V. O'Steen (P), Van O'Steen (P), Ward B. Rasmussen

PALUMBO WOLFE & PALUMBO 602-265-5777 Scott I. Palumbo (P), Elliot G. Wolfe (P)

PAUL ENGLANDER 602-266-7986 Paul A. Englander (P)

PLATTNER VERDERAME 602-266-2002

Randall A. Hinsch (P), Richard S. Plattner (P), Frank Verderame (P)

ROBBINS & CURTIN 602-400-4400 John M. Curtin (P), Joel B. Robbins (D, P)

ROBERT D. BOHM 602-957-7400 Robert D. Bohm (P)

SANDERS & PARKS 602-532-5600 SANDWEG & AGER 602-648-3200

John P. Ager (P), William H. Sandweg III (D, P)

SCHNEIDER & ONOFRY 602-230-8857 Joseph B. Swan, Jr. (D)

SHORALL MCGOLDRICK BRINKMANN 602-230-5400 Paul J. McGoldrick (D), Tom Shorall, Jr. (D)

SKELLY, MUCHMORE & OBERBILLIG 602-277-8228 Charles J. Muchmore (D)

SNELL & WILMER 602-382-6000

Vaughn A. Crawford (D), Warren E. Platt (D)

SNYDER & WENNER 602-224-0005

Brian Snyder, Howard M. Snyder (P), David A. Wenner (P)

SPENCER FANE 602-333-5430 Andrew M. Federhar (D)

STEPHEN I. LESHNER 602-266-9000 Stephen I. Leshner (P)

THE BREBNER LAW FIRM 602-230-9554 Bartlet A. Brebner (P)

THE CAVANAGH LAW FIRM 602-322-4000 Frank Fox

THORPE SHWER 602-682-6100 William L. Thorpe (D)

TREON & AGUIRRE 602-478-8755 John Aguirre (P), Richard T. Treon (P)

TUCKER & MILLER 602-714-9864 Kenneth L. Tucker (P)

ZACHAR LAW FIRM 602-494-4800 Christopher J. Zachar (P)

REAL ESTATE LAW

DAVID J. OUIMETTE 602-245-0887 David J. Ouimette*

DICKINSON WRIGHT 602-285-5000

James T. Braselton*, Michael J. Plati*, Michael R. Scheurich*, Robert A. Shull*

FENNEMORE CRAIG 602-916-5000 Douglas C. Northup*

GALBUT & GALBUT 602-955-1455 Martin R. Galbut*

Mark M. Deatherage*

GAMMAGE & BURNHAM 602-256-0566 George U. Winney III**

GREENBERG TRAURIG 602-445-8000 E. Jeffrey Walsh*

GUST ROSENFELD 602-257-7422 Kent E. Cammack

JENNINGS, HAUG & CUNNINGHAM 602-234-7800 Mark E. Barker*

JENNINGS, STROUSS & SALMON 602-262-5911 Timothy W. Barton*, John G. Sestak, Jr.*

LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 602-262-5311

Robert H. McKirgan*, Randall S. Papetti*, Bruce E. Samuels*, Jon D. Weiss*

RAMRAS LEGAL 602-734-0179 Ari Ramras**

SHERMAN & HOWARD 602-240-3000 Robert C. Hackett*

SNELL & WILMER 602-382-6000 Robert A. Henry*

STINSON 602-279-1600 Jeffrey J. Goulder*

THE CAVANAGH LAW FIRM 602-322-4000 Terry L. Rakow**

TRUSTS AND ESTATES

Matthew B. Cunningham (P)

DICKINSON WRIGHT 602-285-5000

FRAZER RYAN GOLDBERG & ARNOLD 602-277-2010

ELY, BETTINI, ULMAN, ROSENBLATT, & OZER 602-230-2144

JABURG WILK 602-248-1000

Frederick M. Cummings (D) Burton Rosenblatt (P)

FENNEMORE CRAIG 602-916-5000

Scott M. Finical (D), James Goodnow (P), Marc H. Lamber (P), Douglas C. Northup (D, P)

FITZGIBBONS LAW OFFICES 520-426-3824 Daniel G. Harrington (P)

GALLAGHER & KENNEDY 602-530-8000

Matthew R. Boatman, Robert W. Boatman (P), Shannon L.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW Clark (P), Lincoln Combs (P), Michael K. Kennedy (P), Matthew MARTIN & BONNETT 602-240-6900

MILLER, PITT, FELDMAN & MCANALLY 602-266-5557

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION GALLAGHER & KENNEDY 602-530-8000

Joshua Grabel**, Frances J. Haynes**, Robert F. Roos**

SANDERS & PARKS 602-532-5600

Karen L. Lugosi (P)

COHEN DOWD QUIGLEY 602-252-8400

BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER 602-364-7000

Michael A. Ludwig

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION Edward A. Salanga*

LUGOSI LAW OFFICE 602-222-4160

Andrew Abraham**

BURG SIMPSON ELDREDGE HERSH & JARDINE 602-777-7000

QUARLES & BRADY 602-229-5200

Steven J. Hulsman (P), Craig W. Phillips (D)

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS Daniel P. Quigley*

BROENING, OBERG, WOODS & WILSON 602-271-7700

PERKINS COIE 602-351-8000

LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 602-262-5311

BURCH & CRACCHIOLO 602-274-7611

JENNINGS, HAUG & CUNNINGHAM 602-234-7800

OSBORN MALEDON 602-640-9000

Geoffrey M. Trachtenberg (P)

Leo R. Beus*

BREYER LAW OFFICES 480-568-6449

LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 602-262-5311

LEVENBAUM TRACHTENBERG 602-271-0183

Gerald Barrett (EI, LE*)

JABURG WILK 602-248-1000

JONES, SKELTON & HOCHULI 602-263-1700

Amy G. Langerman (P), Adam Studnicki

BEUS GILBERT 480-429-3000

BEUS GILBERT 480-429-3000

Gerald W. Alston*, John G. Sestak, Jr.*

LAW OFFICES OF RAYMOND J. SLOMSKI 602-635-7603

WARD, KEENAN & BARRETT 602-279-1717

HOLDEN WILLITS 602-508-6210

JENNINGS, STROUSS & SALMON 602-262-5911

Ilya E. Lerma (P)

Elliot S. Isaac (EI, LE*)

BEER & TOONE 602-263-0900

Mark E. Barker**, James L. Csontos**, William F. Haug**, D. Kim Lough**, Edward Rubacha**, Chad L. Schexnayder*, Julianne C. Wheeler**

LAW OFFICE OF ILYA E. LERMA, ESQ. 602-899-3035

THE LAW OFFICE OF ELLIOT S. ISAAC 602-456-7888

GREENBERG TRAURIG 602-445-8000

Mark D. Bogard**

Charles Callahan, Jefferson T. Collins (D), John M. Dicaro, James Evans, William D. Holm, J. Gary Linder (D), John T. Masterson (D), Donald L. Myles, Jr., William J. Schrank, Georgia A. Staton

Helen Perry Grimwood (EI, LE*)

GAMMAGE & BURNHAM 602-256-0566

Michael J. Holden**, Barry A. Willits**

JONES, SKELTON & HOCHULI 602-263-1700

Brian Schulman**

BEALE, MICHEAELS, SLACK & SHUGHART 602-285-1444

E. Jeffrey Walsh**

Jon S. Dawson*

Mack T. Jones (P)

BALLARD SPAHR 602-798-5400

AIKEN SCHENK HAWKINS & RICCIARDI 602-248-8203

Michael R. King**, Richard K. Mahrle*

JONES RACZKOWSKI 602-842-6297

THE GRIMWOOD LAW FIRM 602-265-4995

GALLAGHER & KENNEDY 602-530-8000 Kevin E. O'Malley**

Donald W. McClintock III**

Richard K. Delo (D), Jay A. Fradkin (D)

STEPTOE & JOHNSON 602-257-5200

FENNEMORE CRAIG 602-916-5000

REAL ESTATE LAW Kevin J. Bonner*

P. MacLeod, Kevin D. Neal (P), Raymond M. Norris (P), Jeffrey T. Pyburn (D, P)

Charles L. Arnold**, John R. Fitzpatrick*, Joshua D. Moya*, T.J. Ryan** Lauren L. Garner**

MICHAEL J. TUCKER 602-280-1500 Michael J. Tucker**

SNELL & WILMER 602-382-6000 John C. Vryhof**

SPENCER FANE 602-333-5430 David E. Funkhouser III*

STACEY L. JOHNSON 602-218-5445 Stacey L. Johnson*

TIFFANY & BOSCO 602-255-6000

David L. Case**, James A. Fassold*, Alisa J. Gray* Shawn M. Cunningham (P), Joseph D'Aguanno, Frank I. Powers (P) WARNER ANGLE HALLAM JACKSON &

HARRIS POWERS & CUNNINGHAM 602-910-6779

FORMANEK 602-264-7101 Jerome K. Elwell*

Joseph Montedonico (D)

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Tod F. Schleier (EI, LE*)

Steven D. Wheeless (LE*, LM)

E.J. Kotalik, Jr.

HUGHES WHITE COLBO WILCOX & TERVOOREN 907-274-7522

Philip S. Flemming (LE*)

James E. Brophy (LE*), Michael D. Moberly (EM, LE*)

W. Michael Moody (P), Richard E. Vollertsen (P)

JENNINGS, STROUSS & SALMON 602-262-5911

Robin E. Burgess, J. Arthur Eaves (D), Garrick L. Gallagher (D, P), Daniel L. Bonnett (EI, LE*, LU), Susan J. Martin (EI, EM, LE*, LM, LU) Mark G. Worischeck (D, P)

Christopher H. Bayley**, J. Matthew Derstine**, Donald L. Gaffney**, Steven D. Jerome**, Peter J. Rathwell**

Charles A. Dunnagan (EI, LE*, LU)

Thomas J. Chamberlin (P), John R. Cunningham (D), Jorge Franco, Jr. (P)

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CONSTRUCTION LAW HARDIN & GRACE 501-378-7900

SHERRY J. DOWNER 520-207-2311 Sherry J. Downer (EM)

KUTAK ROCK 479-973-4200

KUTAK ROCK 480-429-5000

Jason H. Wales*

RUSING LOPEZ & LIZARDI 520-792-4800 Michael J. Rusing (P)

Dean M. Dinner**

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

SACKS TIERNEY 480-425-2600 Randy Nussbaum**

BIAGGI, KROESE & CAMPBELL 520-618-2515

CONSTRUCTION LAW Kurt Kroese (P) LANG & KLAIN 480-947-1911 SACKS TIERNEY 480-425-2600

THE PHOENIX LAW GROUP 480-444-3500

QUATTLEBAUM, GROOMS & TULL 501-379-1700

QUATTLEBAUM, GROOMS & TULL 479-444-5200 Brandon B. Cate*

KENDALL LAW FIRM 479-464-9828

Kevin A. Crass, William Mell Griffin III, Christopher J. Heller, Elizabeth Robben Murray, James M. Simpson, William A. Waddell, Jr.

HOLLINGSWORTH KELLY LAW FIRM 520-882-8080

LITTLER MENDELSON 479-582-6100

Jess L. Askew III

HUMPHREY & PETERSEN 520-795-1900

ROBERTSON, BEASLEY, SHIPLEY & ROBINSON 479-782-8813

Susan K. Kendall (EI, LE*, LM, LU)

KHALIDI LAW FIRM 520-629-9909

FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK 501 376 2011 KUTAK ROCK 501-975-3000

Eva C. Madison (LE*)

LAX, VAUGHAN, FORTSON, ROWE & THREET 501-376-6565

Alfred F. Angulo, Jr. (LE*), Benjamin H. Shipley III (LE*)

Roger D. Rowe

MITCHELL, WILLIAMS, SELIG, GATES &

501-688-8800 MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS WOODYARD M. Samuel Jones III, Lance R. Miller

John J. Kastner, Jr. (D)

Dinita L. James (LE*)

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION BARBER LAW FIRM 501-372-6175

GUST ROSENFELD 520-628-7070

Marshall S. Ney (LE*)

JENNINGS, STROUSS & SALMON 520-618-1050

GONZALEZ LAW 480-565-6400

Charles T. Coleman**

FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK 479-695-2011

Marshall Humphrey III (D)

Stacy M. Gabriel (EI, EM, LE*)

WRIGHT LINDSEY & JENNINGS 501-371-0808

Jim L. Julian

Suzanne G. Clark (LE*)

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW Louis Hollingsworth (P), Michael F. Kelly GABRIEL & ASHWORTH 480-368-2790

Lance R. Miller**, Stan D. Smith**

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW Geoffrey B. Treece**

GOLDBERG & OSBORNE 520-620-3975 Peter Collins, Jr. (P)

Wendy N. Weigand

MITCHELL, WILLIAMS, SELIG, GATES & WOODYARD 501-688-8800

WALES COMSTOCK 479-439-8088

CLAUSEN LAW OFFICES 520-327-5000 David J. Diamond (P), John E. Osborne

Sharon B. Shively**, David C. Tierney*

Kevin P. Keech**

James G. Lingle*

CLARK LAW FIRM 479-856-6380

Darren M. Clausen (P)

Kent A. Lang**

KEECH LAW FIRM 501-221-3200

LINGLE LAW FIRM 479-636-7899

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

Dan Cavett (D)

P. Douglas Folk**

James F. Dowden**

Russell C. Atchley*

CAVETT AND FULTON 520-733-0100

CLARK HILL 480-684-1100

JAMES F. DOWDEN 501-324-4700

John M. Scott**

Joseph A. Kroeger (EM, LE*)

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS TURCHIK LAW FIRM 520-882-6964 / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW Merle Turchik (EI, LE*) MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS ANDANTE LAW GROUP 480-421-9449 Daniel E. Garrison*

David A. Grace**

CONNER & WINTERS 479-582-5711

SNELL & WILMER 520-882-1200

Thabet Khalidi (P), Lisa Kimmel

BASSETT LAW FIRM 479-521-9996

MUNSON, ROWLETT, MOORE & BOONE 501-374-6535

ADELMAN LAW GROUP 480-209-2426

Elliot Aaron Glicksman (P)

CONNER & WINTERS 479-582-5711

QUATTLEBAUM, GROOMS & TULL 501-379-1700

BODE & COLLINS 480-355-5020

JoJene E. Mills (P)

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION LAW OFFICE OF ELLIOT GLICKSMAN 520-628-8878 LAW OFFICE OF JOJENE E. MILLS 520-529-3200

Steven A. Adelman (D)

LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. TULLY 520-322-5051

H. Christian Bode (P)

BOSSIE REILLY & OH 602-553-4552 CRAWFORD & KLINE 480-491-5100

BAILEY & OLIVER LAW FIRM 479-202-5200

Richard T. Donovan

BASSETT LAW FIRM 479-521-9996

Steven T. Shults

Frank H. Bailey (P)

Walker Dale Garrett (D), Curtis L. Nebben (D)

Barry A. MacBan (P)

KNAPP & ROBERTS 480-991-7677 Craig A. Knapp (P)

LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS M. RYAN 480-963-3333 Thomas M. Ryan (P)

MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886

Douglas H. Clark, Jr. (P), Gary J. Cohen (D), Richard Davis (D, P)

Daniel J. O'Connor (D)

RIGGS ELLSWORTH & PORTER 480-539-9400 Robert L. Greer (D, P)

ROGER T. SHARP 480-584-5681

KEN KIEKLAK, ATTORNEY AT LAW 479-262-9766

SCHMIDT, SETHI, & AKMAJIAN 520-790-5600

Michael W. Herzog (D, P)

Peter Akmajian (P), James D. Campbell, Ted A. Schmidt (P), Dev K. Sethi (P)

WIENEKE LAW GROUP 602-715-1868 Kathleen L. Wieneke (D)

SHOWARD LAW FIRM 520-622-3344

REAL ESTATE LAW Sarah J. Showard SACKS TIERNEY 480-425-2600

Paul Dowdell, Jeffrey S. Leonard**, David C. Tierney*

SLUTES SAKRISON & ROGERS 520-624-6691 Tom Slutes (D)

SNELL & WILMER 520-882-1200

TRUSTS AND ESTATES Todd Rinner BECKER & HOUSE 480-240-4020

THE MERCALDO LAW FIRM 520-624-1400

BRAUN SILER KRUZEL 480-951-8044 NEARHOOD LAW OFFICES 480-269-8979

Mark E. House**

Carlo Mercaldo (P), Marco Mercaldo (P), Ronald D. Mercaldo (P)

Gregory M. Kruzel**

Thomas A. Zlaket (P)

Susan M. Ciupak*

D. Burr Udall (D)

Walter B. Cox (D), James R. Estes (D)

Clifford W. Plunkett (D)

Kumpe, David M. Powell

Kenneth J. Kieklak (P)

LAW OFFICE OF JASON M. HATFIELD 479-361-3575

Charles T. Coleman, Stephen R. Lancaster, Troy A. Price, Gordon S. Rather, Jr.

MATTHEWS, CAMPBELL, RHOADS, MCCLURE & THOMPSON 479-282-2586

ADR 501-376-2121

Jason M. Hatfield Scott Tidwell

David A. Grace**

WALES COMSTOCK 479-439-8088

Junius Bracy Cross, Jr.* Edward T. Oglesby**

REAL ESTATE LAW ROSE LAW FIRM 501-375-9131 CLARK LAW FIRM 479-856-6380

Richard T. Donovan*

GUST ROSENFELD 520-628-7070

DAILY & WOODS 479-782-0361

Richard N. Watts*

DAVIS, CLARK, BUTT, CARITHERS & TAYLOR 479-521-7600

David M. Powell

MATTHEWS, CAMPBELL, RHOADS, MCCLURE & THOMPSON 479-282-2586

Stephen R. Lancaster*

MITCHELL, WILLIAMS, SELIG, GATES & WOODYARD 479-464-5650

QUATTLEBAUM, GROOMS & TULL 501-379-1700

CLARK LAW FIRM 479-856-6380

GALCHUS 501-371-9999

George O. Krauja* Mark L. Collins**

HEURLIN SHERLOCK 520-319-1200

LAW OFFICES OF DENNIS A. ROSEN 520-319-9191 LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 520-622-2090

Suzanne G. Clark*

WATTS, DONOVAN & TILLEY 501-372-1406

Thomas A. Daily*

WILLIAMS & ANDERSON 501-859-0575

Constance G. Clark*

WRIGHT LINDSEY & JENNINGS 501-371-0808

Edwin N. McClure

Lane D. Oden*

Dennis A. Rosen*

L. Kyle Heffley*

MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION J. Emery Barker* MILLER, PITT, FELDMAN & MCANALLY 520-792-3836

MILLER, PITT, FELDMAN & MCANALLY 520-792-3836

QUARLES & BRADY 520-770-8700

MUNGER CHADWICK 520-721-1900

SNELL & WILMER 520-882-1200

RUSING LOPEZ & LIZARDI 520-792-4800

Gerald Maltz

Gerald Maltz*

Craig H. Kaufman

John F. Munger*

DAVIS, CLARK, BUTT, CARITHERS & TAYLOR 479-521-7600 Cynthia Kolb (EM, LE*), Carolyn B. Witherspoon (EM, LM) FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK 501 376 2011 William Jackson Butt II**

JONESBORO

J. William Brammer, Jr.**, Michael J. Rusing*

SNELL & WILMER 520-882-1200

FENNEMORE CRAIG 520-879-6800 John E. Kofron**

GUST ROSENFELD 520-628-7070

WATERFALL, ECONOMIDIS, CALDWELL, HANSHAW & VILLAMANA 520-790-5828

LAW OFFICES OF DENNIS A. ROSEN 520-319-9191

FLETCHER STRUSE FICKBOHM & WAGNER 520-575-5555

Melvin C. Cohen**, Paul A. Loucks*

MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886

MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886

Ronna L. Fickbohm*

SNELL & WILMER 520-882-1200

J. Emery Barker*

William N. Poorten III**

WATERFALL, ECONOMIDIS, CALDWELL, HANSHAW & VILLAMANA 520-790-5828 D. Michael Mandig*

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886 Barney M. Holtzman*

WATERFALL, ECONOMIDIS, CALDWELL, HANSHAW & VILLAMANA 520-790-5828

John L. Burnett (EI, LE*, LU)

MCMATH WOODS 501-213-3556

CONSTRUCTION LAW John D. Coulter (EI, EM, LE*, LM)

MITCHELL, WILLIAMS, SELIG, GATES & WOODYARD 501-688-8800

H. David Blair*

Kathlyn Graves (EM, LE*, LM)

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW PULLIAM & MUSKHELI 501-436-0010 WADDELL, COLE & JONES 870-931-1700 Paul D. Waddell (EI, EM, LE*)

ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE

Denise Reid Hoggard (EI, EM, LE*)

H. David Blair (P)

BRISTOW & RICHARDSON 870-935-9000 Bill W. Bristow (D, P)

ABBE M. GONCHARSKY 520-729-1400 Abbe M. Goncharsky (EM, LE*)

AWERKAMP, BONILLA & GILES 520-798-5282

Donald T. Awerkamp (EI, LE*), Ivelisse Bonilla (EI, EM, LE*), Shannon L. Giles (EI, LE*)

FARHANG & MEDCOFF 520-790-5433

Ali J. Farhang (LE*)

MESCH CLARK ROTHSCHILD 520-624-8886 Barney M. Holtzman (EM, LE*)

MOOMJIAN LAW FIRM 520-230-1115 Edward Moomjian II (EI, LE*)

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART 520-544-0300

James K. Mackie (EM, LE*), Tibor Nagy, Jr. (EM, LE*, LM)

RUSING LOPEZ & LIZARDI 520-792-4800

FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK 479-695-2011 Marshall S. Ney*

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION CONNER & WINTERS 479-582-5711 Robert L. Jones III

MCNEIL 870-932-0900 John V. Phelps (D)

ROSE LAW FIRM 501-375-9131 David P. Martin (EM, LE*, LM)

WILLIAMS & ANDERSON 501-859-0575 John D. Davis (EM, LE*, LM), William Stuart Jackson (EM, LE*), Michelle M. Kaemmerling (EM, LE*)

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS JOHNSON FIRM 501-777-7777

TRUSTS AND ESTATES Anthony C. Johnson (P) WADDELL, COLE & JONES 870-931-1700 Robert S. Jones**

Constance G. Clark

LITTLE ROCK

FRIDAY ELDREDGE & CLARK 479-695-2011 Clifford W. Plunkett Warner H. Taylor

Spencer F. Robinson (EM, LE*, LM)

WRIGHT LINDSEY & JENNINGS 501-371-0808

WELLS & WELLS 870-782-4084

DAVIS, CLARK, BUTT, CARITHERS & TAYLOR 479-521-7600

TAYLOR LAW PARTNERS 479-316-6300

RAMSAY, BRIDGFORTH, ROBINSON & RALEY 870-535-9000

Philip E. Kaplan (EM, LE*)

Paul D. McNeill (D)

Phillip J. Wells (P) LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW DAVIS, CLARK, BUTT, CARITHERS & TAYLOR 479-521-7600 WOMACK PHELPS PURYEAR MAYFIELD & Constance G. Clark*

QUATTLEBAUM, GROOMS & TULL 501-379-1700 E.B. Chiles IV (LE*)

BLAIR & STROUD 870-793-8350

MCDANIEL LAW FIRM 870-336-4747

William M. Clark, Jr.*

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CLARK S. BREWSTER 501-315-6000

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DLA PIPER 310-595-3000

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GIRARDI KEESE 213-977-0211 Thomas V. Girardi (EI, LE*, LU)

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TRUSTS AND ESTATES Harvey R. Friedman RITA REED HARRIS 870-633-9900

Mike Arias

James Goodman, David Jacobs

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER 213-229-7000 B. Michael Easley (P)

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS Neal Ross Marder (D)

Bennett J. Murphy*, K. John Shaffer**

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN 213-443-3000

Dennis A. Fischer

EASLEY & HOUSEAL 870-330-0015

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CONSTANGY, BROOKS, SMITH & PROPHETE 310-909-7775 ENGSTROM, LIPSCOMB & LACK 310-552-3800

TRUSTS AND ESTATES Richard W. Brunette, Jr.** Allison J. Cornwell**, Sarah Cotton Patterson**

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Kapur**, Ira D. Kharasch**, Alan J. Kornfeld**, Jeffrey P. Nolan*, Robert B. Orgel**, Isaac M. Pachulski**, Richard M. Pachulski**, Malhar S. Pagay**, Jason S. Pomerantz**, William Ramseyer*, Jeremy V. Richards**, Robert M. Saunders**, James I. Stang**, Dean A. Ziehl**

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JEFFER MANGELS BUTLER & MITCHELL 310-203-8080 Louise Ann Fernandez (EM)

KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN 562-436-2000 Samuel A. Keesal, Jr. (LE*), Terrance Ross (LE*)

Walter J. Lack (P)

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Robert W. Finnerty (P), Thomas V. Girardi (P)

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MANNING GROSS + MASSENBURG 213-622-7300 David Davidson

NELSON & FRAENKEL 844-622-6469 Gretchen M. Nelson (P)

O'MELVENY & MYERS 213-430-6000 Richard Goetz (D)

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PERKINS COIE 310-788-9900 David T. Biderman (D)

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oug Easton and his sons Brian, Matt, and Travis know—based on their 90 years of collective experience— that the key to successfully litigating high-value plaintiffs’ personal injury claims lies in an attorney’s ability to tell a client’s personal story in a compelling way. Such was the case this past year when the Eastons acquired $20 million for a client severely injured by a third party on the defendants’ premises. Despite the defendants’ initial vows that they were not liable and would spend millions to defend the case, the Eastons spent more than two years investigating and litigating the matter until they proved the defendants had significant liability for this tragic incident. Close to three decades after the firm opened its doors, remarkable results like this stand as proof that the Eastons are a force to contend with. “As a family of litigators, we share a lifelong passion for this work,” Doug Easton says. “Finding the compelling story at the heart of each case is paramount in order to achieve

great results, and we know how to find and tell that story.” The Eastons recognize this isn’t always easy, but it is often the most important part of what they do. “In some cases, it can take months or years to truly get to the heart of the matter. But once we find that story, it drives our efforts throughout the case,” says Matt Easton. This emphasis on the human side of each case seems to have developed from the familial structure of the firm and the team dynamic that naturally emanates therefrom. As Brian Easton puts it, “When you hire one of us, you get all of us. It’s that simple.” It’s a team dynamic that gets results and has the Eastons’ peers in the legal community regularly taking notice. To start, the firm has been named one of Orange County’s 2019 Tier 1 “Best Law Firms” for plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation by U.S. News-Best Lawyers® and was chosen last year by the L.A. Times’ "Readers' Choice Poll" as “The Best Personal Injury Law Firm in Orange

County.” Each member of the Easton family holds numerous prestigious credentials and accolades, including AV Preeminent distinctions from MartindaleHubbell; listings on both Super Lawyers’ and Best Lawyers’ lists; and recognitions from the American Academy of Trial Lawyers’ Premier 100, the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100, and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, among many others. In recent years, the Eastons have had numerous verdicts and settlements recognized among the Top Multi-Million Dollar Settlements and Top 50 Personal Injury Verdicts for California. Even so, these recognitions are not what drive the Easton team—it’s clearing a path to recovery in cases that, on face value, often appear difficult, if not insurmountable, such as their recent $20 million victory. “We’re tenacious in our representation and have a singular focus on helping clients maximize their claims,” Doug says. “It’s at the heart of what our family and this firm have always been about.”

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Robert W. Finnerty (P), Thomas V. Girardi (P), Keith D. Griffin (P), David R. Lira (P)

GORDON, EDELSTEIN, KREPACK, GRANT, FELTON & GOLDSTEIN 213-739-7000 Roger L. Gordon (P)

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HAIGHT BROWN & BONESTEEL 213-542-8000 William G. Baumgaertner (D, P)

Eric Early*

Norman H. Levine* Andrew S. Clare*

MCKOOL SMITH 213-694-1200 J. Michael Hennigan*

PILLSBURY 213-488-7100 Nathan M. Spatz

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SIDLEY AUSTIN 213-896-6000 Paul R. Walker**

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Robert C. Eroen*

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Thomas C. Aikin*, Jeryll S. Cohen**, Stephen M. Lowe**, Rebekah E. Swan*, Kenneth S. Wolf**, Geraldine A. Wyle*

KING & SPALDING 213-443-4355 Peter A. Strotz (D)

GREENBERG GLUSKER FIELDS CLAMAN & MACHTINGER 310-553-3610

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GREENBERG TRAURIG 310-586-7700

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M. Lawrence Lallande

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HOLLAND & KNIGHT 213-896-2400

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JEFFER MANGELS BUTLER & MITCHELL 310-203-8080

Thomas M. Dempsey

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Daniel T. Pierson

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LAW OFFICE OF DENNIS ELBER 310-936-3925 LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS M DEMPSEY 310-385-9600 LAW OFFICES OF DANIEL T. PIERSON 310-277-2236 LAW OFFICES OF DAVID E. WOOD 310-286-0900 David E. Wood (P)

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Elizabeth A. Hernandez (P), Jin N. Lew (P), Philip Michels (P)

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MAGAÑA, CATHCART & MCCARTHY 310-553-6630 Peter T. Cathcart (P)

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advocate in Northern California for persons who have been seriously injured, disabled, or killed as a result of someone else’s wrongdoing. With offices in Oakland, Walnut Creek and Stockton, the firm effectively represents persons throughout Northern and Central California. The firm’s experienced legal team is led by R. Lewis Van Blois, whose more than 150 jury trials in California have earned him a reputation as one of the state’s most knowledgeable injury attorneys. Certified as a civil trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy for over 35 years, Mr. Van Blois has achieved millions of dollars in awards and settlements on behalf of his clients. He was selected by Best Lawyers as the Product Liability “Lawyer of the Year” in Northern California in 2018. Thomas Knowles specializes in product liability, construction site accident, and trucking accident cases. Michael Gatto is an experienced trial attorney specializing in injury cases with complex medical issues. He has tried over 200 cases including the largest medical malpractice award in Contra Costa County. He was selected by Best Lawyers as the 2018 Personal Injury “Lawyer of the Year” in Oakland.

TAYLOR DEMARCO 213-687-1600

FORNOS LAW FIRM 310-204-3529

LAW OFFICE OF ALEXIS DJIVRE 213-700-3436

FOR MORE THAN 45 YEARS, The Van Blois Law firm has served as a powerful

Robert R. Clayton (P), James W. Lewis, Louanne Masry (P), David M. Ring (P), John C. Taylor (P), Natalie Weatherford

Jeffrey S. Behar (D), Timothy L. Walker (D)

JOHNSTON & HUTCHINSON 213-542-1978

R. LEWIS VAN BLOIS, THOMAS C. KNOWLES, MICHAEL E. GATTO

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MCNICHOLAS & MCNICHOLAS 310-474-1582

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NELSON & FRAENKEL 844-622-6469

Stuart R. Fraenkel (P), Gretchen M. Nelson (P)

Marc M. Stern**

Lisa C. McCurdy, Eric V. Rowen* M. Katharine Davidson** Lynard C. Hinojosa*

Roger B. Coven, Vivian Lee Thoreen** Burton A. Mitchell** Abby L.T. Feinman**

Andrew S. Garb*, Rachel J. Harris**, Rodney C. Lee*, Jeffrey M. Loeb**, David C. Nelson*, Ronald C. Pearson**, Gabrielle A. Vidal**

MILLER BARONDESS 310-552-4400 Benazeer Roshan*

MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP 310-312-2000

Allan B. Cutrow**, Jeffrey K. Eisen**, Peter B. Gelblum*

OLDMAN, COOLEY, SALLUS, BIRNBERG & COLEMAN 818-986-8080

Susan J. Cooley*, Justin B. Gold*, Peta-Gay Gordon*, Marc L. Sallus**

PROSKAUER ROSE 310-557-2900 Andrew M. Katzenstein**

RMO 424-320-9444 Scott E. Rahn*

RODRIGUEZ, HORII, CHOI & CAFFERATA 213-892-7700 Reynolds T. Cafferata**

ROGERS TRUST LAW 213-986-3400 John T. Rogers, Jr.**

SACKS, GLAZIER, FRANKLIN & LODISE 213-617-2950

Terrence Franklin*, Kenneth Glazier**, Margaret G. Lodise*, Matthew W. McMurtrey*, Robert N. Sacks*

SCHINDLER EYRICH 310-473-1656 John F. Eyrich, Trudi Schindler*

SEYFARTH SHAW 213-270-9600 Bruce S. Ross*

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON 213-620-1780 Joseph G. Gorman, Jr.**, Nancy Baldwin Reimann**, Adam F. Streisand*, Nicholas J. Van Brunt**

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON 310-228-3700

OLAN LAW 310-566-0010

Joseph G. Gorman, Jr.**, Nancy Baldwin Reimann**, Adam F. Streisand*, Nicholas J. Van Brunt**

PANISH SHEA & BOYLE 310-477-1700

John D. Pettker**

David R. Olan (P)

Kevin R. Boyle (P), Ryan A. Casey (P), Deborah S. Chang (P), Daniel W. Dunbar (P), Robert Glassman, Peter L. Kaufman (P), Candice S. Klein (P), Spencer Lucas (P), Andrew Owen (P), Brian Panish (P), Peter J. Polos (P), Rahul Ravipudi (P), Lyssa A. Roberts (P), Thomas A. Schultz (P), Adam K. Shea (P)

POCRASS & DE LOS REYES 310-550-9050 James L. Pocrass (P)

RAMEY LAW 310-773-5509 Christa Haggai Ramey (P)

SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL 213-358-7242

TREDWAY LUMSDAINE & DOYLE 877-923-0971 Jennifer Lumsdaine

VALENSI ROSE 310-277-8011

Brad Kuenning*, M. Laurie Murphy*

WEINSTOCK MANION 310-553-8844

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WRIGHT KIM DOUGLAS 626-356-3900 Lauriann C. Wright*

ROBIE & MATTHAI 213-706-8000

OAKLAND

Edith R. Matthai (D)

7677 Oakport Street, Suite 565 Oakland, California 94621 phone 510.635.1284 • fax 510.635.1516

www.vanbloislaw.com

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Michael P. Verna

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WENDEL, ROSEN, BLACK & DEAN 510-834-6600

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Where to Turn When It Comes to Appeals

After a trial-court decision—and sometimes long before—Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland is the firm to which other lawyers come when it’s time to appeal or defend a decision.

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hat’s when it’s time to shift gears from persuading judges and juries with facts to arguments about the proper application of the law—GMSR’s area of expertise. The attorneys at GMSR specialize in appellate law, with nine attorneys who were named to Best Lawyers® for Appeals and two, founding partner Kent Richland and senior partner Robin Meadow, who were named for both Appeals and Bet-the-Company Litigation. Through more than four decades of working with businesses and their trial lawyers, Meadow and Richland have accrued a wealth of insights on appeals in high-stakes litigation, some of which they share below. brief. This means that parties need How do appeals differ in strategy counsel who can write briefs that compared to trials? avoid jargon, who simplify—but not Once judgment is entered, the rules oversimplify—specialized concepts, of the game and the intellectual and who boil the issues down to demands change. Appellate courts their essence. They need counsel who are particularly concerned with can speak the language of both the the broader impact of their rulings. appellate courts and the business. This cha nge of context mea ns that businesses need experienced What are the key aspects that appel late cou nsel to t a ke t he litigators should consider when lead after judgment. In addition facing an appeal? to add ressi ng t he speci a l i zed ● Appellate focus. Independent demands of the appellate forum, review of an issue or a judgment appel late cou nsel ca n prov ide that’s going up on appeal—even corporate counsel with realistic if the trial team prevailed—is assessments of likely outcomes and essential. GMSR’s appellate options, clear budgeting guidelines, lawyers are objective in a way seasoned recommendations, and that trial lawyers, who are appellate goals that align with invested in particular theories business realities. and enmeshed in factual detail, often cannot be. When should trial counsel and general counsel bring in ● Creativity. GMSR is known for appellate lawyers? its creative approaches in shaping Appellate counsel are especially the law, mining the record for valuable in litigation involving crucial facts, creating arguments high financial stakes or important premised on first principles, and implications for future business finding new avenues by which to conduct. The best practice is to reach the desired result. involve appellate counsel early to ● Experienced Counseling. help mold potential appellate issues, Throughout the appellate to guide preservation of the record process, GMSR coordinates for appeal, and to contribute to a closely with corporate long-term strategy. counsel (and trial counsel, as How do appellate counsel support appropriate), offering clearefforts to streamline the case? eyed assessments, advice, and a At the trial level, complex business strategic path forward. disputes often require a team of How does GMSR develop l aw yers, somet i mes i nclud i ng the strategic vision to win specialists with deep expertise in on appeal? a particular legal area. The trial GMSR sees the big picture. GMSR team has many chances to explain offers corporate clients objective complex legal and factual issues, a s s es s ment s on app e a l , ba s ed often in an ongoing dialogue with on a deep understanding of the the trial judge. l i m it at ion s a nd oppor t u n it ies o f a p p e l l a t e r e v i e w, c o u p l e d Appeals are different. The outcome w it h broad perspect ive on t he depends almost entirely on written implications of appellate decisions advocacy—and for the party that beyond the particular case. prevailed at trial, on just a single

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LATHAM & WATKINS 858-523-5400 Christopher W. Garrett*

MORRISON & FOERSTER 858-720-5100 Mark C. Zebrowski*

NOONAN LANCE BOYER & BANACH 619-780-0880 James R. Lance*

PROCOPIO, CORY, HARGREAVES & SAVITCH 619-238-1900

Eliot S. Jubelirer

SHARTSIS FRIESE 415-421-6500 Arthur J. Shartsis, Joel Zeldin

STEPTOE & JOHNSON 415-365-6700 Laurie Edelstein

SELTZER CAPLAN MCMAHON VITEK 619-685-3003

Edward W. Swanson

CONSTRUCTION LAW

Neal P. Panish*

ERNEST BROWN & COMPANY 800-832-6946

Dana J. Dunwoody*

FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL 415-954-4400

Vincent J. Bartolotta, Jr.*

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI 415-986-5900

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON 858-720-8900 THORSNES BARTOLOTTA MCGUIRE 619-236-9363 WHITE & AMUNDSON 619-239-0300 Daniel M. White*

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SWANSON & MCNAMARA 415-477-3800

John D. Alessio*

Ernest C. Brown**

Alan E. Harris**, Charles M. Sink**, Richard Van Duzer*

The firm’s practice encompasses all aspects of business litigation with an emphasis in the areas of:

William J. Peters*

• Commercial Litigation • Securities Litigation • Intellectual Property • Employment Law • Media Law • Internal Investigations

HANSON BRIDGETT 415-777-3200 Howard William Ashcraft, Jr.**

TRUSTS AND ESTATES NIXON PEABODY 415-984-8200 ABBENE & ALCOCK 619-236-1323 Meredith G. Alcock**

BEAMER, LAUTH, STEINLEY & BOND 619-235-6800

Robert Blum**

PILLSBURY 415-983-1000 John R. Heisse II**

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW

Stephen A. Bond**

GOODWIN BROWN GROSS & LOVELACE 858-750-3580 James J. Brown**, James R. Goodwin**

BAKER MCKENZIE 415-576-3000

Kristen E. Caverly*, M. Katharine Davidson**, Shirley L. Kovar*

CREITZ & SEREBIN 415-466-3090

Roland H. Achtel

MORRISON & FOERSTER 415-268-7000

Ralph E. Hughes*

NIXON PEABODY 415-984-8200

Richard A. Heller*

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE 415-773-5700

Mary Cataldo

SEYFARTH SHAW 415-397-2823

Mary F. Gillick**, Jeremiah Moffit*

TRUCKER HUSS 415-788-3111

HENDERSON, CAVERLY & PUM 858-755-3000 HIGGS FLETCHER & MACK 619-236-1551 HUGHES & PIZZUTO 619-239-1211

WEST COAST RESOLUTION GROUP 619-238-2400 WHITE AND BRIGHT 760-747-3200 WITHERSWORLDWIDE 619-564-6170

SAN FRANCISCO

James P. Baker**

Silicon Valley Office 111 N. Market St., Suite 600 San Jose, CA 95113 Telephone: (408) 291-6200

Joseph A. Creitz*

James J. Brosnahan* Charles M. Dyke*

William D. Berry**

San Francisco Office 101 California St., Suite 1075 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 294-7701

D. Ward Kallstrom**, Kathleen Cahill Slaught* R. Bradford Huss**, Clarissa Kang

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW ALTSHULER BERZON 415-421-7151

Beverly Hills Office 9350 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 206 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Telephone: (301) 846-5257

Stephen P. Berzon (LE*), Eve H. Cervantez (LE*), Jeffrey B. Demain (EI), James M. Finberg (LE*), Michael Rubin (EI, LE*)

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS 415-391-4800 / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW Fred W. Alvarez (EM, LE*, LM) ARNOLD & PORTER 415-471-3100 Jeffrey Lyle Schaffer**

BUCHALTER 415-227-0900 Peter G. Bertrand**

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS 415-391-4800 Gregg M. Ficks**

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE 415-276-6500 Judith Droz Keyes (EM, LE*)

FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL 415-954-4400 Doug Dexter (LE*)

FISHER PHILLIPS 415-490-9000 Timothy J. Murphy (LE*)

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI 415-986-5900

COOLEY 415-693-2000

Michael D. Bruno (LE*), Michael T. Lucey (EM, LE*)

Robert L. Eisenbach III**

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE 415-276-6500 Harvey S. Schochet**

DENTONS U.S. 415-267-4000 Michael A. Isaacs**

DIAMOND MCCARTHY 415-692-5200 Christopher D. Sullivan

DUANE MORRIS 415-957-3000 Ron M. Oliner**

FREDERICK HOLDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW 415) 307-6881 Frederick D. Holden, Jr.**

G. LARRY ENGEL 415-370-5943 G. Larry Engel**

JEFFER MANGELS BUTLER & MITCHELL 415-398-8080

HIRSCHFELD KRAEMER 415-835-9000

JONES DAY 415-626-3939

Scott P. Nealey

Lawrence E. Kern (D)

Fraser A. McAlpine (LE*)

Aaron L. Agenbroad (EM)

JUDICATE WEST 415-266-1242 David L. Perrault (EM, LE*, LM)

LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN 415-956-1000 Kelly M. Dermody (EI, LE*)

LITTLER MENDELSON 415-433-1940

R. Brian Dixon (LE*), Robert Hulteng, Garry G. Mathiason (EM, LE*, LM)

Peter J. Benvenutti**

MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON 415-512-4000

Merle C. Meyers**

NIXON PEABODY 415-984-8200

MICHELSON LAW GROUP 415-512-8600 Randy Michelson**

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS 415-442-1000 Jami Wintz McKeon*

MORRISON & FOERSTER 415-268-7000 Adam A. Lewis**

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PACHULSKI STANG ZIEHL & JONES 415-263-7000

Kenneth H. Brown**, John D. Fiero**, Debra I. Grassgreen**, Henry C. Kevane

PILLSBURY 415-983-1000

M. David Minnick**, Philip S. Warden**

REED SMITH 415-543-8700

Jonathan R. Doolittle**, Harvey L. Leiderman*

RINCON LAW 415-672-5991 Charles P. Maher*

Eric Akira Tate (LE*)

Malcolm A. Heinicke (EI, EM, LE*) Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum (EM, LE*)

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART 415-442-4810 Thomas M. McInerney (LE*)

Rachel M. Bien (LE*)

PAUL HASTINGS 415-856-7000

Paul W. Cane, Jr. (EM, LE*), Zach P. Hutton (EI, LE*), Robert P. Kristoff (EM, LE*, LM), Jeffrey D. Wohl (EM, LE*)

PILLSBURY 415-983-1000 Paula M. Weber (LE*)

RUDY, EXELROD, ZIEFF & LOWE 415-906-2647 David A. Lowe (EI, LE*), Steven G. Zieff (LE*)

WINSTON & STRAWN 415-591-1000 Joan B. Tucker Fife (EM, LE*)

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON 415-434-9100

ANDRUS ANDERSON 415-986-1400

ST. JAMES LAW 415-391-7566

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY 650-697-6000

James M. Finberg (P)

Michael H. Ahrens**

Jennie Lee Anderson (P), Lori E. Andrus (P)

Michael St. James**

Joseph W. Cotchett (P), Frank M. Pitre (P)

DAVID B. BAUM 415-388-4490

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION David B. Baum (P)

Joseph W. Cotchett

DURIE TANGRI 415-362-6666

Daralyn J. Durie, Mark A. Lemley, Ragesh K. Tangri

FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL 415-954-4400 Douglas R. Young

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER 415-393-8200 Charles J. Stevens

GOODIN, MACBRIDE, SQUERI & DAY 415-392-7900 Robert A. Goodin

JONES DAY 415-626-3939 Robert A. Mittelstaedt

KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS 415-391-5400

Susan J. Harriman, John W. Keker, Jan Nielsen Little, Robert A. Van Nest

LAW OFFICES OF ARA JABAGCHOURIAN 640-437-6840

REED SMITH 415-543-8700

Colleen T. Davies (D), Sonja Weissman (D)

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DECHERT 415-262-4500 H. Joseph Escher III (D)

EVANS LAW FIRM 415-441-8669 Ingrid M. Evans (P)

FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL 415-954-4400 James A. Bruen (D)

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Daniel C. Girard (P), Elizabeth A. Kramer (P)

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI 415-986-5900 Fletcher C. Alford (D), Stuart M. Gordon (D)

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KING & SPALDING 415-318-1200 Gennaro A. Filice III (D)

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Guy O. Kornblum (P)

Ara Jabagchourian (P)

LECLAIRRYAN 415-391-7111 Charles H. Horn (D)

LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN 415-956-1000

Deborah R. Rosenthal (P)

Donald C. Arbitblit (P), Elizabeth J. Cabraser (P), Robert J. Nelson (P), Fabrice N. Vincent (P)

Steven J. Skikos (P)

Robert T. Lynch (D)

SIMMONS HANLY CONROY 415-536-3986 SKIKOS, CRAWFORD, SKIKOS & JOSEPH 415-546-7300 THE BRANDI LAW FIRM 415-989-1800 Thomas J. Brandi (P)

LYNCH, GILARDI & GRUMMER 415-273-2317

MARY ALEXANDER & ASSOCIATES 415-966-2626 Mary E. Alexander (P)

MCGUINN, HILLSMAN & PALEFSKY 415-421-9292

VENABLE 415-653-3750 Jessica L. Grant (D)

Khaldoun A. Baghdadi (P), Michael A. Kelly (P) Scott P. DeVries (D)

John R. Hillsman (P), John A. McGuinn, Jr. (P)

MINAMI TAMAKI 415-788-9000 B. Mark Fong (P), Dale Minami (P)

MORRISON & FOERSTER 415-268-7000 James J. Brosnahan (D)

NEALEY LAW 415-231-5311 Scott P. Nealey (P)

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION RAINS LUCIA STERN ST. PHALLE & SILVER 415-341-9341

ABRAMSON SMITH WALDSMITH 415-421-7995

Eustace de Saint Phalle (P)

ALTAIR LAW 415-988-9828

Kathleen Strickland (D)

William B. Smith (P)

ROPERS MAJESKI KOHN BENTLEY 415-543-4800

Jeremy Cloyd, Andje M. Medina (P), J. Kevin Morrison, Craig M. Peters (P)

ROUDA FEDER TIETJEN & MCGUINN 415-940-7176

John M. Bentley (D)

SCARLETT LAW GROUP 415-688-2176

James S. Bostwick (P)

SCHIFF HARDIN 415-901-8700

Steven J. Brady (P)

SIMMONS HANLY CONROY 415-536-3986

Mark B. Abelson (P)

THE ARNS LAW FIRM 415-495-7800

Dennis F. Moriarty (D)

THE BRANDI LAW FIRM 415-989-1800

George V. Choulos (P)

THE VEEN FIRM 415-673-4800

BENTLEY LAW GROUP 650-594-4200

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS BOSTWICK & PETERSON 415-275-3115

George H. Kalikman**

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY 650-697-6000

Rebecca Coll (P), James A. Quadra (P)

WINSTON & STRAWN 415-591-1000

ALTSHULER BERZON 415-421-7151

Paul Alexander

KORNBLUM, COCHRAN, ERICKSON & HARBISON 415-440-7800

QUADRA & COLL 415-426-3502

OUTTEN & GOLDEN 415-638-8800

Gary R. Siniscalco (EM, LE*)

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON 415-362-6000

KERN SEGAL & MURRAY 415-474-1900

Jahan Sagafi

OUTTEN & GOLDEN 415-638-8800

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE 415-773-5700

SCHNADER HARRISON SEGAL & LEWIS 415-364-6700

ARNOLD & PORTER 415-471-3100

NEALEY LAW 415-231-5311

WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & SCHOENBERGER 415-889-2919

SACKS RICKETTS & CASE 415-549-0580 Steven B. Sacks

James M. Goodman (D) Eugene Brown, Jr. (D)

MORRISON & FOERSTER 415-268-7000

MEYERS LAW GROUP 415-362-7500

HASSARD BONNINGTON 415-288-9800

JACKSON LEWIS 415-394-9400

Robert B. Kaplan**, Richard A. Rogan**, Bennett G. Young**

KELLER & BENVENUTTI 415-364-6798

LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN 415-956-1000

Donald C. Arbitblit (P), Elizabeth J. Cabraser (P), Lexi J. Hazam (P), Richard M. Heimann (P), Robert L. Lieff (P), Sarah R. London (P), Michael W. Sobol (P), Fabrice N. Vincent (P)

Stephen J. Hirschfeld (EM, LE*)

BRADY LAW GROUP 866-478-6483 CAMPAGNOLI, ABELSON & CAMPAGNOLI 415-421-1515 CESARI WERNER AND MORIARTY 650-991-5126 CHOULOS CHOULOS & WYLE 415-432-7290

June Bashant (P), John M. Feder (P), Cynthia B. McGuinn (P), Ronald H. Rouda (P), Timothy G. Tietjen (P) Randall H. Scarlett (P) Jean L. Bertrand (D)

Deborah R. Rosenthal (P)

Robert S. Arns (P), Jonathan E. Davis (P)

Thomas J. Brandi (P), Daniel Dell'Osso (P), Brian J. Malloy (P)

Niall P. McCarthy (P), Frank M. Pitre (P)

Anthony L. Label (P), Elinor Leary (P), William L. Veen (P), David L. Winnett (P)

Michael S. Danko (P), Kristine Keala Meredith (P)

Martin Blake (P)

COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY 650-697-6000 DANKO MEREDITH 650-453-3600

WALKER, HAMILTON, KOENIG & BURBIDGE 415-570-7694

DAVID B. BAUM 415-388-4490

WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & SCHOENBERGER 415-889-2919

David B. Baum (P)

DOLAN LAW FIRM 213-410-5042

Quinton B. Cutlip, Christopher B. Dolan (P)

EMERGENT 415-894-9284

Khaldoun A. Baghdadi (P), Matthew D. Davis (P), Conor M. Kelly (P), Michael A. Kelly (P), Spencer J. Pahlke (P), Sara M. Peters, Douglas S. Saeltzer (P), Richard H. Schoenberger (P)

Seth I. Rosenberg (P)

EMISON COOPER & COOPER 415-434-2111

REAL ESTATE LAW

Theo J. Emison (P), John E. Hullverson (P)

BUCHALTER 415-227-0900

Michael A. Farbstein (D)

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS 415-391-4800

FARBSTEIN & BLACKMAN 650-554-6200 GIRARD SHARP 415-981-4800 Daniel C. Girard (P)

GOUGH & HANCOCK 415-848-8900 Gregory C. Read (D)

Howard N. Ellman** Jonathan R. Bass*

COX, CASTLE & NICHOLSON 415-262-5100 Michael H. Zischke**

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS 415-442-1000 Rollin B. Chippey II*

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NEEDHAM KEPNER & FISH (408) 956-6949

SCHIFF HARDIN 415-901-8700

THE BOCCARDO LAW FIRM 408-298-5678

Donald J. Putterman* Jean L. Bertrand*

Craig Needham

John C. Stein (P)

LICCARDO LAW FIRM 408-909-9696 TRUSTS AND ESTATES THE Salvador A. Liccardo (P)

REAL ESTATE LAW Christopher G. Costin**

CLEMENT, FITZPATRICK & KENWORTHY 707-523-1181 Clayton E. Clement*

WILLOUGHBY, STUART, BENING & COOK 408-289-1972

ADR SERVICES 415-772-0900 Bette B. Epstein*

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS 415-391-4800 Philip B. Feldman**

Randall E. Willoughby (D)

BERLINER COHEN 408-286-5800

HOLLAND & KNIGHT 415-743-6900

HOPKINS & CARLEY 408-286-9800

Dominic J. Campisi*, Charles P. Wolff* Stacie Polashuk Nelson*

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS 415-291-7400 Jill S. Dodd**

SHARTSIS FRIESE 415-421-6500

COLORADO BOULDER

REAL ESTATE LAW

EVANS, LATHAM & CAMPISI 415-421-0288

Andrew L. Faber

MCMANIS FAULKNER 408-279-8700 William Faulkner*

BERLINER COHEN 408-286-5800

WEINTRAUB TOBIN CHEDIAK COLEMAN GRODIN 415-433-1400

HOPKINS & CARLEY 408-286-9800

Robert R. Cross*

Jonathan D. Wolf*

Michael G. Desmarais**

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION

William Faulkner*

TEMMERMAN, CILLEY & KOHLMANN 408-780-1912 Robert E. Temmerman, Jr.**

MCMANIS FAULKNER 408-279-8700 James McManis

MESSNER REEVES 408-298-7120

Susan Hardie Jacks*

REILLY POZNER 303-893-6100 Daniel Reilly*

SENDER & SMILEY 303-454-0540

Judith A. Biggs (EM, LE*, LM)

John C. Smiley**

& HOWARD 303-297-2900 MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS SHERMAN Peter A. Cal*

MACON COWLES ASSOCIATES 303-447-3062 S. Macon Cowles III (P)

PURVIS GRAY THOMSON 303-442-3366

SANTA BARBARA

John C. Dwyer, Stephen C. Neal

John A. Purvis (P)

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION HADFIELD, STIEBEN & DOUTT 970-221-2800 Peter S. Dusbabek (P)

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS HUTCHINSON BLACK AND COOK 303-442-6514

Jesse F. Ruiz

CAPPELLO & NOËL 805-564-2444

David J. Driscoll (P), Christopher W. Ford (P), Glen F. Gordon (P)

Norman J. Blears

FARRISE LAW FIRM 310)-424-3355

Christopher W. Jeffress (P)

SIDLEY AUSTIN 650-565-7000

JEFFRESS LAW 303-632-9748

A. Barry Cappello (P), Leila J. Noel

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM 650-470-4500 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 650-493-9300 Boris Feldman

KLEIN & MARIAS 805-290-4882 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW ROSE, William M. Grewe RICHARD A. GRIMM 650-248-5487 SLAUGHTER, REAGAN & COLE 805-658-7800 Richard A. Grimm**

William M. Slaughter (D, P)

SANTA ROSA

BERGESON 408-291-6200 Daniel J. Bergeson (LE*)

COOLEY 650-843-5000

Frederick D. Baron (EI, EM, LE*)

DAVID F. GOMEZ 602-957-8686 David F. Gomez (EI, EM, LE*)

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS 650-843-4000 Melinda S. Riechert (EM, LE*, LM)

MORRISON & FOERSTER 650-813-5600 Tom E. Wilson (EM, LE*)

Wendy M. Lazerson (LE*)

ABBEY, WEITZENBERG, WARREN & EMERY 707-542-5050 W. Barton Weitzenberg*

BRAYTON PURCELL 415-898-1555

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS R. KENNEY 707-575-7715

Richard Alexander (P)

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Thomas R. Kenney, Jr. (P)

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BARTLIT BECK HERMAN PALENCHAR & SCOTT 303-592-3100 Fred H. Bartlit, Jr.

Michael J. Gallagher, Kenzo S. Kawanabe, Shannon Wells Stevenson

FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS 303-607-3500 GREENBERG TRAURIG 303-572-6500

METIER LAW FIRM 970-377-3800

David G. Palmer

T. Thomas Metier (P)

HADDON, MORGAN, AND FOREMAN 303-831-7364

OLLANIK LAW 303-579-9322

Harold A. Haddon, Pamela Robillard Mackey

PURVIS GRAY THOMSON 303-442-3366 John A. Purvis (D, P), Michael J. Thomson (P)

STEVE RAY LAW 970-266-1210

HAMIL LAW GROUP 303-830-1383 J. Lawrence Hamil

HOLLAND & HART 303-295-8000 Gregory E. Goldberg, Craig Stewart

Steven B. Ray (P)

HOLLAND & HART 303-473-2700

Timothy R. Macdonald

Michael S. McCarthy

Mari C. Bush (P)

HUSCH BLACKWELL 303-749-7200 Jeffrey A. Chase

REAL ESTATE LAW LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 303-623-9000 Frederick J. Baumann, James M. Lyons

Beat Steiner**

PERKINS COIE 303-291-2300 Michael L. Bender

TRUSTS AND ESTATES REILLY POZNER 303-893-6100

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

ALEXANDER LAW GROUP 408-289-1776

MARI C. BUSH 303-442-4885

CONSTRUCTION LAW

Gilbert L. Purcell (P)

SIDLEY AUSTIN 650-565-7000

S. Macon Cowles III (P)

Stuart A. Ollanik (P)

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION ARNOLD & PORTER 303-863-1000

DAVIS GRAHAM & STUBBS 303-892-9400

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION MACON COWLES ASSOCIATES 303-447-3062

Ryan D. Harris (P)

Darrell G. Waas*

Sean Connelly

Carrie Frank, Beth Klein

HARRIS PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS, INC. 805-254-4713

WAAS CAMPBELL RIVERA JOHNSON & VELASQUEZ 720-351-4700

CONNELLY LAW 303-302-7849

KLEIN FRANK 303-622-3876

Simona A. Farrise (P)

Allen J. Ruby

DAVIS GRAHAM & STUBBS 303-892-9400

Jennifer Salisbury*, John F. Young**

JUDITH BIGGS LLP 303-669-6822

MCMANIS FAULKNER 408-279-8700

COOLEY 650-843-5000

Steven E. Abelman*

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW OGBORN MIHM 303-592-5900

Mark B. Wiletsky (LE*)

LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL G. DESMARAIS 408-356-6886

SAN JOSE

BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK 303-223-1100

MARKUS WILLIAMS YOUNG & ZIMMERMANN 303-830-0800

HOLLAND & HART 303-473-2700

Ellen McKissock*

Gary D. Rothstein*

Theodore J. Hartl

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS FAIRFIELD AND WOODS 303-830-2400 / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW Caroline C. Fuller**, John M. Tanner* THE DALEY LAW FIRM 303-479-3500

SKOOTSKY & DER 415-979-9800

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW BALLARD SPAHR 303-292-2400

Thomas C. Bell**

Dori Yob Kilmer*, Jay M. Ross*

TRUSTS AND ESTATES Darrell M. Daley*

Richard S. Kinyon**

DENVER

BEYERS COSTIN SIMON 707-547-2000

VINCENT, ROMEO & RODRIGUEZ 303-720-7260 Thomas A. Rodriguez*

Larry Pozner, Daniel Reilly

RICHILANO SHEA 303-893-8000 John M. Richilano

RIDLEY, MCGREEVY & WINOCUR 303-629-9700 Patrick J. Burke

SHERMAN & HOWARD 303-297-2900 Gordon W. Netzorg, Robert E. Youle

COLORADO WHEELER TRIGG O'DONNELL 303-244-1800

Scott S. Barker, Hugh Q. Gottschalk, Michael L. O'Donnell

LORENZO, EKKER, DALLNER 720-543-7735

HEIZER PAUL 303-595-4747

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI 303-534-5160

MOYE WHITE 303-292-2900

HOLLAND & HART 303-290-1600

LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE 303-623-9000

Phillip S. Lorenzo*

Kevin C. Paul (EI, EM, LE*)

CONSTRUCTION LAW J. David Arkell**

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MURPHY & DECKER 303-468-5980

BELTZER BANGERT & GUNNELL 720-576-7225

NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT 303-801-2700

Laurin D. Quiat**

Henry Bangert, Buck S. Beltzer**, Bret R. Gunnell**

BENSON, KERRANE, STORZ & NELSON 720-898-9680 Jeffrey P. Kerrane, Heidi E. Storz*

BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK 303-223-1100 Hubert A. Farbes, Jr.*

BURG SIMPSON ELDREDGE HERSH & JARDINE 303-792-5595

Craig Nuss*, Ronald M. Sandgrund*, Joseph Smith III, Curt T. Sullan*, Valerie M. Sullan*

Michael S. Beaver (LE*), Steven M. Gutierrez (EI, LE*), Emily Hobbs-Wright (LE*), John M. Husband (EM, LE*, LM), Maureen Reidy Witt (LE*)

Michael J. Decker*

HOLLAND & HART 303-295-8000

Mike Ogborn

Michael S. Beaver (LE*), Steven M. Gutierrez (EI, LE*), Emily Hobbs-Wright (LE*), John M. Husband (EM, LE*, LM), Maureen Reidy Witt (LE*)

Brandon P. Hull, Scott A. McGath

Ryan Lessmann (LE*)

Jeff Dykes III*

OGBORN MIHM 303-592-5900 OVERTURF MCGATH & HULL 303-860-2848

JACKSON LEWIS 303-892-0404

SENTER GOLDFARB & RICE 303-320-0509

KILLMER, LANE & NEWMAN 303-571-1000

Darold W. Killmer (EI, LE*), David A. Lane (EI, LE*), Mari Newman (EI, LE*)

John D. Hayes**

SHERMAN & HOWARD 303-297-2900

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successfully obtained a dismissal of claims, and complete relief on a counterclaim, with the court reserving jurisdiction to award fees, costs, and sanctions after exposing the case as an attempted fraud on the court. But relatively few cases end up in trial, and Keller is equally effective in winning dispositive motions, handling arbitrations and mediations, and evaluating and resolving cases quickly and quietly when appropriate, often without formal mediation or arbitration. An instrumentrated pilot, Keller handles significant cases throughout Florida, having handled matters in at least 10 Florida circuits, as well as in federal courts.

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Edward Soto

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April L. Boyer (LE*, LM)

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Rodolfo Sorondo, Jr.

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R.H. Farnell II*

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M. MATTHEWS 305-761-2323 REAL ESTATE LAW JOSEPH Joseph M. Matthews

AKERMAN 904-798-3700

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THE HAGGARD LAW FIRM 305-446-5700

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HOLLAND & KNIGHT 407-425-8500

Robert F. Higgins**

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Dana Clayton*, Elizabeth M. Hernandez*, Michael Mena*

AVILA RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ MENA & FERRI 305-779-3560 Daniel O. Mena*, Wilfredo A. Rodriguez*

LOSEY 407-986-0406

Chris N. Kolos (D)

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KING, BLACKWELL, ZEHNDER & WERMUTH 407-422-2472

Andrew M. Brumby**, James A. Timko*

Thomas A. Zehnder (D)

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Virginia B. Townes*

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Laura K. Sundberg**

Michael C. Maher (P), Steven R. Maher (P)

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SARASOTA

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Michael M. Bell (D)

David W. Trench*, Mitchell E. Widom*

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John W. Bocchino (D)

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Hal K. Litchford, James M. Talley

Michael S. Olin*

Dennis M. Campbell*

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David P. Milian*

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Darryl M. Bloodworth

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John Edwin Fisher

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John M. Brennan, Mayanne Downs

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David E. Cannella

DAY PITNEY 305-373-4000

David B. King

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Virginia B. Townes

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Nathan P Carter, Melvin B. Wright (P)

DEBEAUBIEN, KNIGHT, SIMMONS, MANTZARIS & NEAL 407-422-2454 Kenneth P. Hazouri

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Merrick L. Gross*, Thomas J. Meeks*

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Jeffrey C. Gilbert*

HOLLAND & KNIGHT 407-425-8500

Robert H. Dellecker (P), W. Doug Martin, Kenneth J. McKenna (P), William E. Ruffier, Anthony Sos (P), Brian T. Wilson (P)

Melanie E. Damian

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Henry N. Didier, Jr. (P)

Manuel A. Garcia-Linares*

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Michael A. Bedke**

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Joseph A. Lane, Timothy J. Manor, H. Gregory McNeill

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Francis L. Carter*

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Steven D. Hutton

A. Lamar Matthews, Jr.

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Eric H. Faddis (P), Tiffany M. Faddis (P)

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Charles J. Bartlett*

A. Lamar Matthews, Jr.*

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

David M. Carter (P)

DONNA TISCH MEDIATION 239-826-3644

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Emery H. Rosenbluth Jr.

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION

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Donna J. Tisch (D)

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M. David Shapiro (P)

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John F. O'Sullivan*

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Anna Marie Hernandez Gamez*

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John W. Dill (P)

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James P. Kelaher (P)

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Kevin Cannon (P)

CHRISTOPHER WEISS ATTORNEY AT LAW 407-928-6737

Francis M. McDonald, Jr. (D), M. Gary Toole (D)

DEAN, MEAD, EGERTON, BLOODWORTH, CAPOUANO & BOZARTH 407-841-1200

Scott R. McMillen

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Marc D. Chapman*, Thomas P. Wert**

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Manuel L. Crespo*

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James M. Talley*

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Evan Small

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Brian W. Bennett**

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Charles J. Cacciabeve**

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Robert G. Lyons (P)

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Donald S. Rosenberg**

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Jill Nexon Berman*

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Oscar A. Sanchez*

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HOLLAND & KNIGHT 407-425-8500

Harry A. Payton*

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MATTHEWS, EASTMOORE, HARDY, CRAUWELS & GARCIA 941-366-8888 Theodore C. Eastmoore (P)

REAL ESTATE LAW Thomas H. Dart*

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ICARD, MERRILL, CULLIS, TIMM, FUREN & GINSBURG 941-366-8100

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Mark F. Raymond*

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