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Raised in northern Michigan, Jim is a 2002 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and has developed significant experience in the areas of public sector litigation, criminal and civil ordinance enforcement, and tax and election matters.Jim assists public sector and municipal clients throughout Michigan with a variety of issues, including property tax appeals and the prosecution of criminal and civil municipal ordinance violations.. Jim also practices at the appellate level; in both the circuit court where he has worked successfully to uphold the ordinances of local municipalities against constitutional and evidentiary challenges and in the Court of Appeals where he has successfully defended clients in matters ranging from easement disputes and riparian rights to constitutional issues.Jim enjoys being both advisor and advocate for his clients and offers an aggressive, yet practical, approach which allows him to present the strongest possible case.Jim resides in Plainfield Township with his wife and daughter.

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

Brant Stogner grew up in El Campo, Texas - a small town about an hour southwest of Houston. In high school, Brant excelled at both athletics and academics. Brant graduated in the top ten percent of his high school class; in sports, Brant and the Ricebirds won six district championships in football and baseball during his three years starting on varsity. Brant earned all-district honors all three years in both sports while also participating in theater and the National Honor Society. Despite a knee injury and subsequent knee surgery in his senior year of high school, Brant accepted a full scholarship to the University of Houston to play linebacker for the Cougars under former head coach Kim Helton.. In college, Brant's academic success continued. In his freshman year at the University of Houston, Brant earned the 1997 Conference USA Academic Excellence Award, earning the highest grade point average (GPA) of all football players in the conference. After playing two seasons, and having three surgeries in as many years, Brant decided to hang up his football cleats and transfer to Texas A&M University to complete his business degree. In College Station, Brant's scholastic accolades continued to mount. Brant was a member of numerous honor societies and graduated in the top ten percent of his class with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.. After graduation from Texas A&M University, Brant moved back to Houston to attend law school at South Texas College of Law Houston. In law school, Brant quickly became a member of the law school's nationally ranked mock trial and moot court program under Dean T. Gerald Treece. Following just his third semester in law school, Brant won the Intramural Summer Academy Mock Trial Competition and received the Best Speaker Award. Ultimately, Brant competed as a varsity advocate in 15 mock trial and moot court competitions across the country. In addition to numerous individual speaker awards, Brant won a state tournament championship, a regional moot court tournament championship, two regional mock trial tournament championships, and, ultimately, a National Championship in mock trial at the ATLA National Trial Competition in his final semester of law school. Brant graduated law school in May of 2006 in the top fifteen percent of his law school class, was admitted into the Order of Barristers, and received the 2006 Dean's Outstanding Student Advocate Award.. Following graduation from law school and after taking the bar exam, Brant accepted an associate position at Houston law firm, Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering (now named LeClair Ryan) while waiting for bar results. In November of 2006, Brant received his license to practice law from the State Bar of Texas while working at Hays McConn. As a licensed attorney, Brant continued to work with multiple partners on a wide range of cases in civil litigation, representing primarily defendants in personal injury and business disputes. Brant worked as a lawyer during the day and as a law professor at night while he coached South Texas College of Law Houston mock trial teams for his alma mater. After learning the ropes at Hays McConn for nearly two years, Brant accepted an associate position with Abraham Watkins in August of 2008. Brant has been with Abraham Watkins ever since and is now a firm partner with his name in the firm’s name.. At Abraham Watkins, Brant has continued to consistently try cases to verdict. Brant tried twelve cases to verdict in his first three years at the firm. Today, he exclusively represents plaintiffs. Brant's practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury matters, including gas explosions, commercial auto and 18 wheeler cases, refinery and petrochemical explosions, product defect cases, commercial business disputes, and first-party insurance bad faith and claims handling matters. Since joining the firm, Brant has helped hundreds of his clients obtain compensation for their injuries and damages caused by others. Brant is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law. He received this certification within his first five years of legal practice, which is the soonest an attorney can become board certified in Texas. In 2009, Brant received the largest verdict (over $20 million) in Texas for workplace safety and injuries and was listed in Verdict Search's Top Texas Verdicts of 2009. Brant is a board member of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association and is a founding member of the South Texas College of Law Houston Young Alumni Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the South Texas College of Law Houston Alumni Association and served as President in 2019.. Brant was named to the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star list from 2011 to 2013. He was named to H Texas Magazine's "Houston's Top Lawyers 2013" list and has been named to Houstonia Magazine's "Top Lawyers" list since 2013. Despite being only thirty-four years old, Brant was selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list in 2013. He has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list every year since 2013 and the Top 100: Texas Super Lawyers and Top 100: Houston Super Lawyers lists since 2019. In 2014, Brant was also added to the Top 40 Texas Attorneys Under 40 list by the National Trial Lawyers Association and received the award each year until he turned 40 years old. Brant has also been named to the Nation’s Top One Percent list by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel since 2015. Brant was also nominated for and inducted into the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) as a member in 2015 and was the youngest inductee in the 2015 class. In 2016, South Texas College of Law Houston honored Brant with the inaugural Young Alumni Award. He was the first recipient to receive this award from South Texas College of Law Houston.. Brant met his wife, Jennifer O’Brien Stogner, in law school and she was one of his mock trial partners when they won the ATLA Regional Championship in Dallas, Texas and the National Championship in Miami, Florida. Brant and Jennifer have two boys, Ryker and Beckett Stogner, and one girl, Holland Stogner. Brant and Jennifer’s partnership continues as Jennifer joined the firm in 2018 as Of Counsel.

Phil Griffis obtained his first jury verdict in 1990, when he convinced a jury that a customer’s fall at his client’s store did not cause the customer’s aspiration pneumonia and stroke. In the years since he has continued to win in courtrooms across the State of Texas.. A fifth generation Texan, Phil Griffis was born in Austin in the sixties. In 1985, he received his degree from Baylor University, majoring in Finance. Believing he would eventually practice corporate law, he entered Baylor Law School. The corporate law plan did not last long. Fortunately, the answer was across the hall, in the school’s Practice Court, a trial advocacy program ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best in the nation.. Following graduation in 1988, Mr. Griffis went to work for Mills, Shirley, L.L.P., the oldest continuous law firm in the State of Texas. The firm was, quite simply, loaded with stellar trial lawyers. Learning from them, and accepting the faith they placed in him, Mr. Griffis began trying, and winning, jury trials.. Mr. Griffis worked for a downtown Houston law firm from 1992 through 2008. During that time, he attended the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) ten-day program in trial advocacy. In courtrooms across Texas, he tried over 50 jury trials and arbitrations, winning the vast majority of those that reached a decision. He briefed and argued over fifteen appeals. He became board certified, by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, in both Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law. He was also certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.. When not representing his clients, Mr. Griffis spends his time with his wife, Cindy, and his sons. He is an avid surfer and triathlete, who completed Ironman Texas in 2015. His interest in the law also extends to the preservation of the Texas coast, bays and wildlife.

I have a wonderful family.  My wife and I have been happily married for 40 years.  We have two daughters, one who is 34 and lives and works in New York as the Coordinator of Hospitality for the NBA and, the other who is 30 and lives and works in Los Angeles in the music industry.  My daughters have made careers in the two avocations in which I have always been most interested, music and sports.  When it comes to music, I am a product of the progressive rock era from the 1970's.  When it comes to sports, I am an avid four for four Philadelphia sports fan.  My other interests include reading and fitness.  I am captivated by current events on a daily basis and I adhere to a regimented exercise protocol in an effort to stay healthy.

Matt Millea has represented victims of serious personal injury and wrongful death since 1998. He has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, indicating other lawyers consider him to be one of the preeminent lawyers in the personal injury field. Many of his clients have received six or seven figure recoveries.. Matt handles car, truck and motorcycle collisions; construction and mining accidents; burn injuries; brain injuries; and cases involving defective products. He has represented a number of clients who were seriously injured or lost loved ones when cars collided with livestock on the roads or highways.. He prides himself on being able to handle all phases of a case, particularly trials and appeals. He believes insurance companies will not pay top dollar unless they believe the lawyer (and the injured person) have the ability and the commitment to spend the time and money to take the case to trial when necessary. He prepares all his cases for trial because he believes the insurance company will not pay unless it is facing a trial.. Matt moved to Arizona in 1987, after graduating with high honors from the University of Nebraska College of Law. He also was an editor of the Nebraska Law Review. From 2001 to 2010, Matt worked with Treon, Aguirre, Newman & Norris, one of the oldest and best plaintiffs’ personal injury law firms in Arizona. Matt had the opportunity to handle large, complex personal injury and death cases. And he tried several jury trials with the firm.. He is a personal injury attorney who loves making a difference in the lives of those who have been damaged by the carelessness of others. "The law interested me because I wanted to help people," he says. "And I wanted to do my part to right what is wrong in the world. Unlike other lawyers, trial lawyers don’t charge those they help anything unless they recover money for them. Nothing makes me happier than improving the lives of victims by helping them obtain the fair compensation they deserve.". Matt moved to Arizona after he fell in love with backpacking its mountains and canyons. He has hiked all over the state. Recently, he and two friends hiked from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to the North Rim in the middle of August. He loves taking his teenage sons, 15 and 13, on camping and hiking trips.. Matt and his wife Ronda have been married since 1993. Ronda is an accomplished artist, and often helps Matt in his office.

I have been an AV rated trial lawyer for over 20 years. I was a prosecutor, worked for the largest law firm in the State of Arizona, and have been a name partner in a small law firm.  I have tried over 40 cases as lead counsel in state and federal courts in Arizona and Colorado.  I have appeared numerous times before the Arizona courts of Appeal, Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit.. I am a solo practitioner and represent clients who have been wronged---criminally accused, hurt and injured and those defrauded. I am a trial lawyer.

John Torgenson, a dedicated attorney at Torgenson Law, is committed to advocating for individuals who have been wronged or injured. Raised in St. George, Utah with a strong work ethic instilled by his parents, John pursued his education at the University of Utah and Notre Dame Law School, graduating with honors in 2004. Licensed to practice in Arizona and federal courts, John gained valuable experience in both defense and plaintiff’s practice areas at Fennemore Craig before establishing his own practice. His comprehensive background provides him with a well-rounded perspective on the litigation process, allowing him to effectively represent his clients' interests. In addition to his legal work, John is actively involved in various community organizations, demonstrating his commitment to maintaining a balance between professional and personal life. Recognized for his dedication, John was named one of Phoenix’s top young entrepreneurs and serves in organizations such as Kids @ Core and the Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association. With a strong belief in holding wrongdoers accountable and seeking justice for his clients, John approaches each case with loyalty, honesty, and a relentless pursuit of the truth. His unwavering dedication to fighting against insurance companies and corporations on behalf of those in need sets him apart as a true advocate for the injured.

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

Mr. Mitchell is a civil litigator focusing on aggressively pursuing the best possible results for his clients who have been injured and/or damaged from the negligent or willful acts of others.  Before joining the Law Offices of Scott Warmuth, Mr. Mitchell garnered success as a defense attorney for many years, vigorously representing his clients in various cases involving liability.  Mr. Mitchell is intimately familiar with the strategies of an insurance company’s handling of claims and of the defense attorney’s preparation of a case, which he uses to his advantage in advocating for his client’s rights to be compensated.  Mr. Mitchell graduated from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles where he was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award (highest grade) in Contracts II and was an advocate and Chairman of the Trial Advocacy Honors Program (TAHP).

Paul Wilkinson is a Denver Personal Injury Lawyer with over 20 years of experience helping victims of auto accidents, truck accidents, bike accidents and pedestrian accidents.

Attorney Ubaldi was born and raised in Waterbury, Connecticut.  He graduated from the University of Hartford, magna cum laude, with a B.A. degree in history and English in 1988.  He received his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1996.  He has over twenty five years of experience successfully handling injury and accident cases of all types.  No stranger to the cortroom, he has completed over thirty five jury trials,and argued cases before the Connecticut Appellate Court and Connecticut Supreme Court.  Throughout his career, he has represented clients injured in car accidents, falls, dog attacks, and truck accidents.  He has slso represented clients injured by medical malpractice and defective products.. Attorney Ubaldi lives in Milford, Connecticut with his wife and two children.

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

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

Fighting the good fight - for personal injury victims - in Boston and beyond.. Attorney Jonathan D. Sweet is a seasoned Boston trial lawyer who prosecutes personal injury claims for individuals and families that have suffered life-altering harm due to the wrongful conduct of others.  Combining book smarts and street savvy, Attorney Sweet provides top-flight legal representation in a broad range of personal injury claims from simple negligence to the most complex and sophisticated liability actions.. People from all walks of life turn to Attorney Sweet when they need reliable, responsive, zealous legal counsel for their injury cases in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  When prosecuting cases, no matter their size, successful results are achieved by holding fast to the old school principles:  Leave no stone unturned.  Use common sense.  Follow your instincts.  Master the details, but see the big picture.  Keep the client in the loop.  Do the right thing.  Always be prepared.  And when a case must be tried in court, Attorney Sweet’s proven ability to connect with judges and jurors is bedrock.

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

Joyce Novotny-Prettiman is an associate at the firm. She is a member of the Westmoreland Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.  She is a member of the Westmoreland, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. She is also a member of the Ned J. Nakles American Inn of Court where she is currently serving as President of the Inn.  Joyce also serves on the Board of Directors of the Westmoreland County Bar Association and has been elected to the position of President-Elect.. Ms. Novotny-Prettiman earned her B.A. in 1997 from Seton Hill College (summa cum laude) and her law degree from Duquesne University in 2000.. Ms. Novotny-Prettiman has a unique legal background. She was a legal secretary before obtaining her paralegal certification from St. Vincent College in 1989, and she worked in the capacity of legal assistant until her admission into law school.. While attending law school, Ms. Novotny-Prettiman worked as a law clerk at QuatriniRaffertyGalloway.. Ms. Novotny-Prettiman began practicing with the firm after her admission to the practice of law and is currently active in the areas of plaintiff personal injury litigation, school law, and general civil litigation.. A lifelong resident of Unity Township, Ms. Novotny-Prettiman currently resides in the Latrobe-Greensburg area with her husband, Daniel.

I have been practicing law for 30 years. I started as a defense attorney representing insurance companies.  I switched my practice in the early 1990's to focus on representing people who were seriously injured or killed in an accident.  I have spent most of my years as a lawyer practicing at Maine' largest law firm, working my way up to Partner in Charge of the Firm's Augusta Branch Office.  I left the large firm in 2015 to form my own firm and in 2016 added a partner.  The firm continues to grow with the addition of two other lawyers and 5 staff members.  Our firm focuses on quality, compassion and results.  We look forward to the opportunity to represent you.

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