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Jim Keller

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Jim Keller is a trial lawyer, chair of Saul Ewing’s Higher Education Practice, a founding member of the K-12 Schools Practice, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

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Steven F. Stanaszak

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Steve Stanaszak is managing partner of the Firm’s Milwaukee office. His practice focuses on trial court litigation of catastrophic injury, disfigurement, wrongful death claims, and the defense of employment-related claims against employers. His litigation experience also involves:

Coordinating emergency response accident investigation
Reconstruction and evidence preservation
Comprehensive pre-suit claim analysis and valuation for catastrophic injury claims
Stanaszak assists employers with some of their most difficult staffing issues. His labor and employment work involves issues including

Sexual harassment
Wrongful discharge
Discrimination

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Edward Gaus

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Edd’s practice includes a wide range of topics, including product liability, pharmaceuticals, industrial machinery, power tools, commercial disputes, automotive and data security and privacy. During his time at Shook, Edd has served on several successful trial teams and represented a diverse set of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies, tenants and California inmates alleging Eighth Amendment violations. Most recently, Edd served on a trial team in rural Alaska and contributed to a defense verdict in Hunter v. PMUSA. Edd has also participated in several successful mediations and settlement conferences and uses a calm and thoughtful demeanor to put his clients in the best possible position for success.

Edd has a deep commitment to pro bono work and has volunteered a significant portion of his time to assisting pro se plaintiffs and underprivileged tenants facing eviction. Edd enjoys digging deep into the facts of a case in order to fashion the best defense for his clients. At trial, Edd has prepared cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses and has served as lead trial counsel for two federal trials in the Eastern District of California. Edd has practiced in both federal and state court and specializes in interstate discovery procedures and expert witness development.

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Michael J. Kleffner

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Michael focuses his practice on tort and product liability litigation. He handles matters involving automobiles; heavy truck and bus accidents; accident reconstruction and investigation; product design, testing and performance; warnings; mass tort matters related to pharmaceuticals and medical devices; and medical negligence. In each practice area, Michael has handled cases involving significant personal injuries or alleged wrongful death.

Michael has defended motor vehicle product liability cases throughout his entire career, representing major automobile manufacturers in all phases of litigation, including at trial. For more than a decade, he also has represented a major manufacturer of commercial motor vehicles, heavy trucks and buses in product liability matters. These cases have typically involved catastrophic accidents and significant damage allegations.

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Shay Dvoretzky

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Shay Dvoretzky is the head of Skadden’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. He represents clients in a wide range of appellate matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts. His work has spanned many substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, tax, preemption, arbitration, antitrust, bankruptcy, labor and employment, ERISA, telecommunications, securities, energy, intellectual property, and criminal defense, as well as various complex statutory questions. He also leverages his appellate experience to counsel clients on key strategic issues at the trial level, and to brief and argue dispositive motions with an eye toward appeal.

Recognized nationally as a leading appellate litigator, Mr. Dvoretzky has argued 23 cases in the Supreme Court. He has been one of the most active practitioners before the Supreme Court in recent years, arguing 12 merits cases since 2020. Mr. Dvoretzky’s latest Supreme Court victory came in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., in which he convinced the Court to hold that Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA) does not create an implied private right of action for private litigants to sue for certain violations of the ICA.

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Alexander C. Drylewski

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Alex Drylewski is co-head of Skadden’s Blockchain and Digital Assets Group. His practice focuses on high-stakes complex litigation around the world, having represented companies and individuals across a wide range of industries and disputes, including high-profile litigation involving emerging technologies, government investigations, class actions, trials and appeals.

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Lara A. Flath

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Lara Flath represents a wide variety of clients in complex, high-stakes commercial, securities and antitrust litigation in federal and state courts throughout the country. Her experience extends through all phases of litigation, including trials and appeals.

In recognition of her work, Ms. Flath has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, in which clients have praised her “exceptional client services and sophisticated strategic thinking” and described her as “outstanding.” She has also been named to Forbes’ inaugural America’s Top Women Lawyers guide and honored as one of Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Women in Law, a Law360 Rising Star and one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of the Courtroom. In addition, she has been repeatedly named a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation and one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America and 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

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Justin J. DeCamp

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000

Justin J. DeCamp is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. He maintains a wide-ranging practice with a significant focus on finance, bankruptcy, and restructuring-related matters. He has represented financial industry and corporate clients in a broad range of high-stakes litigation in federal district, appellate, bankruptcy, and state courts, including in a wide range of debtor-creditor, contractual, merger, employment, and other complex business and financial disputes, mass tort litigation, securities litigation, and avoidance actions, as well as in numerous regulatory and enforcement proceedings and arbitrations.

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Eric W. Dittmann

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:17 +0000

Eric W. Dittmann is global co-chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings, where he oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP group. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading IP litigators, Eric possesses extensive first-chair experience representing clients in patent litigations, post-grant proceedings, arbitrations, and appellate disputes across a wide range of technologies, with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. He is regularly trusted by some of the world’s most prominent companies to lead their most critical and business-defining IP disputes.

A Band 1-ranked patent litigator with Chambers USA, Eric is described by clients as “an incredible attorney, who is smart and very driven,” noting that his “encyclopedic knowledge of patent law” enables “him to come up with multiple creative solutions for a problem.” Clients also praise him as “an excellent attorney who brings a brilliant strategic mind to every issue” and “an excellent strategist and litigator.”

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Jean F. Kuei

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:16 +0000

Jean Kuei, Pillsbury’s Labor & Employment Practice Group leader, is an experienced employment attorney representing corporate employers in the firm’s Washington, DC, and San Francisco offices. Jean is known not only for her employment litigation skills but also for her ability to resolve complex, high-stakes workplace disputes effectively and creatively. Jean also serves as a leading member of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) Litigation and Investigations practice, responding to activist shareholder proposals, conducting race and pay equity audits and advising on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Jean’s litigation experience covers a diverse range of employment charges and cases, from single or multi-plaintiff retaliation, discrimination, harassment and whistleblower matters to large wage and hour class, collective and PAGA representative actions. She has obtained defense verdicts at trials and at arbitration hearings and resolved several matters on dispositive motions in both court and arbitration. Jean has also served as a hearing officer to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, which is the central support entity for the federal judicial branch.

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