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Charles T. Newland focuses on handling  probate estate administration, contested estates, business litigation matters, and personal injury cases. Over the years, he has helped his clients recover millions of dollars in compensation. After earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana in 1984, he went on to receive his Juris Doctorate, with Highest Distinction (graduating 3rd in a class of 210) from The John Marshall Law School in . Newland was recently selected by the American Society of Legal Advocates as one of the Top 100 Litigation Lawyers in the State of Illinois for 2014 and is the recipient of a number of other prestigious awards. He is a current member of the Lake County Bar Association, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. He served for three (3) years as the  Co-Chairman of the Lake County Bar Association Trusts and Estates Committee and serves as a Court appointed Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) in guardianship cases.

Paul B. Apple is an experienced and highly effective attorney, skilled in handling personal injury and wrongful death claims at trial. His accomplishments include being the current  Secretary/Treaser for the Legal Assistance to Military Personnel Section of the WSBA, being selected as a member of the  Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is limited to Trial Lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional skill, experience and excellence in advocacy by achieving a trial verdict, award or settlement in the amount of One Million Dollars or more, winning an appeal in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, and serving a number of times as an arbitrator for Pierce County and King County Superior Court Cases. Mr. Apple has successfully represented numerous clients on cases involving, wrongful death, serious personal injury, premise liability, and general aviation sample of cases handled by Mr. Apple includes:

When you come to Pavich Law Group, you can have confidence in the help you need from a Chicago personal injury attorney. Injury accidents of any kind are extremely serious and can bring about lifelong complications and hardships that could have serious ramifications and repercussions. Attorney Robert J. Pavich obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College. Later, he went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar, the Indiana State Bar, and the 4th and 7th Circuit for the United States Court of Appeals. In addition, he has been admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Attorney Pavich has earned his highly-respected reputation, having represented clients like you for over 35 years. He has a membership with the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association of Justice. He focuses the entirety of his attention on litigation, and he is ready to stand beside you and support you at this time. He has dealt with all kinds of cases, from premises liability accidents to car accident injuries. Are you suffering from medical malpractice, construction accident injuries, or catastrophic injuries of some kind? It is of the utmost importance that you take action and obtain the help your case requires today. He was included among Super Lawyers® for both 2012 and 2013, and he has a reputation that speaks for itself. Do not wait any longer to seek out the help you need by contacting Attorney Pavich today and beginning down the road to a bright and optimistic future.

Darren Feider is a Member in the Seattle office. His practice involves general employment litigation of wrongful discharge and discrimination claims, the drafting of employment and consulting contracts, non-compete agreements and severance packages for both employees and employers, and conducting investigations for private and public employers in response to EEOC and Washington State Human Rights Commission complaints. He has represented employers in unpaid wage actions, and he also handles general commercial litigation.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

At Foxtrot Family Law, all we do is help committed parents and caring relatives be effective in Child Custody cases.. We help you stand up to bullies when the Other Side or when DHR oversteps their bounds and fails to respect your rights and beliefs and relationship with your child.. We believe that you have a fundamental right under our Constitution to raise your children how you see fit and to spend as much time with them as you can. You may have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean that DHR or the Other Side gets to control or manipulate your relationship with your child.. Winning or losing in Child Custody is about leaving it all on the field, knowing in your heart and having the peace of mind that you did everything you could for what you believe to be best for your child.. At Foxtrot Family Law, we are so lucky to be skilled and uniquely equipped to effectively guide our clients through a challenging and difficult process. We see our clients step up, stand up and fight for their kids every day. I am very blessed to get to do what I do. ~SW

Kevin Swenson was raised in Bountiful, Utah, and is a co-founding partner of Swenson & Shelley. After graduating from Bountiful High School, Kevin attended business school at Westminster College. While in college, Kevin owned and ran a sign company and worked as an ambulance driver and firefighter. Kevin loved his work in the emergency medical arena. His career as a personal injury attorney allows Kevin to continue devoting his time to assisting injured people.. Kevin graduated from law school at the University of Utah and worked as a defense attorney for insurance companies. Through that experience, he learned how insurance companies work, how they think, and how they attack a claim. In 2010, Kevin “changed camps” and switched to representing injured individuals in his community rather than the multi-billion dollar insurance companies that fight those claims of those individuals.. He now feels a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment by assisting people injured by the wrongful acts of others. Understanding the reluctance of insurance companies to pay claims and the strategies they use to get out of paying claims, Kevin can now use that first-hand knowledge to fight for injured parties and collect the money rightfully due to them from insurance companies.. Kevin involved himself in thousands of lawsuits for more than 30 years as an attorney, many of which have gone to a jury verdict. Kevin is passionate about what he does, devoting time to helping individuals get the medical care they need, and he enjoys seeing his clients heal and move on from their injuries.. Kevin enjoys the outdoors, family, and travel when he isn't working.

Attorney Greene is an award winning employment lawyer in Massachusetts.. "Top Woman of the Law"  honoree by MA Lawyers Weekly, Massachusetts Top 50 Women Attorneys as rated by Super Lawyers, included in the 2025 Best Lawyers in America ® for employment and employment litigation in MA, ThreeBest rated, Expertise Best Employment Lawyers in Boston.. We protect our clients' professional reputations and advocate for the compensation they deserve.  Our attorneys are skilled at advising professionals and executives in the fields of technology, bio-technology, pharmaceutical, health care, retail, finance, banking, human resources, secondary and higher education, law,  manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction.. We advise on severance agreements and negotiate severance pay, bonuses, stock and other benefits.  We advocate for employees who are in a job transition to leave with dignity and their earned compensation.  Our firm also advises employees who have received warnings, performance improvement plans, as well as employees who are being subjected to workplace investigations.. Our firm handles sexual harassment, discrimination. wrongful termination, glass ceiling and failure to promote cases.  We empower employees with wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, unpaid wage and overtime cases to take back control.  We provide tailored employment services to meet your goals.. Your employer has a team of tough, experienced lawyers.  Shouldn't you have that too?

As a trial lawyer, Mr. Pfau has tried in excess of 50 cases to juries, the bench and arbitration panels. He has obtained multiple verdicts in excess of $1 million and has recovered tens of millions of dollars in settlements for his clients in a variety of cases. He has represented both individuals and businesses in disputes.. Mr. Pfau specializes in representing victims of childhood sexual abuse against perpetrators and the institutions that employ and protect sexual predators. Mr. Pfau has represented hundreds of victims of childhood sexual abuse and as lead counsel has recovered in excess of $85 million in cases against the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. the Mormon Church), the State of Washington, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Boy Scouts of America, the Salvation Army, and a variety of schools, religious organizations and other corporations and employers.. Mr. Pfau has represented victims in sexual abuse cases in Washington, California, Idaho, Illinois, New Jersey, Alaska and Louisiana.. Representative Cases

Leslie Clark focuses her practice on land use and environmental issues and related litigation.  Her experience includes advising private and public sector clients on land development and entitlement issues; testing statutory and constitutional limits of land use regulation by counties and cities; evaluating rates and taxing authority of municipalities; serving as general counsel to Washington special purpose districts; litigating a broad range of civil matters including shoreline, environmental impact, breach of contract, employment, and civil fraud issues.. Leslie has published on land use and environmental topics, including the evolving regulatory takings and cleanup apportionment laws.. Prior to joining Phillips Burgess PLLC in January 2015, Leslie worked for two Seattle law firms, where her practice focused on land use, environmental, and municipal matters.  Representative work included analyzing water districts’ authority to set and collect connection and development charges; prevailing on a port district’s interpretation of Washington’s Open Public Meetings Act; and establishing federal cleanup liability against a Canadian smelting corporation.. Before becoming an attorney, Leslie served as a land use planner for municipalities in Washington, Utah, and Louisiana.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

David Mejia Colgan, Esq. has over 25 years of experience in criminal law. After graduation from New York University School of Law in 1998, Mr. Colgan served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, where he served in the domestic violence and sex crimes bureaus and handled felony trials, including homicides, and misdemeanor trials.   Mr. Colgan served as the second chair on 5 homicide trials as an intern in the Kinge County District Attorney's Office prior to joining the Bronx County District Attorney's Office.. Since leaving the District Attorney’s office in 2005, Mr. Colgan has represented hundreds of clients in federal and state criminal cases, as well as post-conviction proceedings. Mr. Colgan has appeared in Courts throughout New York State, including local, town, city and county Courts throughout New York City, Westchester County, Rockland County, Orange County, Putnam County, Nassau County and Suffolk County.. Mr. Colgan is admitted to practice in the Federal Courts in the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the Northern District of New York and the Western District of New York. Mr. Colgan has represented criminal defendants in matters in Federal Courts throughout the United States.. Since leaving the District Attorney's Office, Mr. Colgan has also practiced Family Law in the Family Courts throughout the City and State, Matrimonial Law and Immigration Law in the limited areas of applications for citizenship and deportation defense. He has appeared before the United States Immigration Courts in New York City, throughout New York State and in various other jurisdictions in the United States.. Mr. Colgan is fluent in Spanish.

Matt joined Herndon, Coleman, Brading, & McKee in August 2006 upon his return to East Tennessee, where he was born and raised. He devotes 100% of his practice to litigation, representing individuals and businesses in a wide range of civil disputes, primarily including personal injury, premises liability, and breach of contract matters. He also manages an expansive domestic relations practice, including contested and uncontested divorce, child custody, post-divorce modifications, child support, paternity actions, and contested and uncontested adoption petitions. Matt’s other primary area of practice is criminal defense representation, both at the local state level and in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the Western District of Virginia. Matt graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2002, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications, later graduating law school in 2006 with an emphasis on trial practice. Always with an eye on giving back to the community, he has served on many area boards, including the Dawn of Hope and Hands On Children’s Museum, and he is a co-founder of the Lawyers Helping People Program, which has been recognized state wide for its contributions in assisting indigent citizens in the community obtain legal help in a variety of areas, free of cost. In 2016, Matt was recognized by the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys as a “Top 10 Under 40” attorney and was also named as a Mid-South Rising Star in the Super Lawyers publication the same year. He is a member in good standing of the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Washington County Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, having graduated its yearly renown criminal defense trial college in March of 2016.

From 1992 to 1997, while in law school, I was doing project work for 10-12 other attorneys, which allowed me to gain experience in many areas.  When I became an attorney in 1999, I had obtained a breadth of experience in civil, family, criminal, personal injury, probate litigation, immigration, contracts, construction defect, landlord tenant, and bankruptcy.. Ultimately, I have pruned my practice down to estate planning, conservatorships, guardianships, elder abuse, and associated litigation.. I am aggressive and passionate, and I work very hard to obtain the results that my clients seek.

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Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Jeffrey J. Sherrin, President of Albany, NY-based O'Connell & Aronowitz, is an accomplished litigator for health care, commercial, and employment matters. His national health law practice principally represents providers and their trade associations. His clients include hospitals, clinical laboratories, varied health care providers, nursing homes, home health care agencies and adult care facilities.. Jeff practices in all federal and state courts, and before all federal and state health care regulatory agencies. He has successfully represented health care clients in two appeals before the United States Supreme Court.. He actively represents clients in all types of healthcare litigation, including criminal, civil and administrative fraud and abuse investigations, Medicare, Medicaid and private insurer audits, and commercial litigation. He also represents providers in professional discipline and regulatory enforcement matters.. In the area of Employment Law, Jeff obtained a $15.4 million jury verdict for an individual plaintiff in a sexual harassment trial.  He also recently recovered over $5 million for a group of clinical laboratories from the State of New York, for excessive license fees, and over $5 million for an individual clinical laboratory from a major health insurance company for wrongful denials of claims.  Jeffrey has also successfully represented shareholder interests in major class action litigation.