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“Lawyer of the Year” Honorees
Todd Fredrickson is managing partner of the Denver office. He also serves as Chair of the firm's Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee. Todd tries employment cases before juries, judges, and arbitrators. His practice involves representing employers in various matters arising under such laws as Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA). H...
Philip M. Hastings is president, director and shareholder of Cleveland, Waters and Bass, P.A. in Concord, where he focuses his practice in real estate development and finance, land use and zoning, commercial transactions, commercial lending, and leasing. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA from Connecticut College in 1988 and earned his JD from Harvard Law School in 1993. Mr. Hastings is a member of the American Bar Association, the New Hampshire Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Asso...
Joy Miyasaki is a Partner in the firm’s Honolulu office, and a member of the Tax, Estate Plan and Trust Administration practice group, concentrating in tax and estate planning, wealth preservation and asset protection, charitable planning and tax-exempt organizations, trust and estate administration, and trust and estate disputes and litigation. Joy received an A.B. and J.D. from Georgetown University. Her prior experience includes being a trial attorney with the IRS Office of Chief Cou...
Mr. Brigham is a third generation trial lawyer with experience in complex, high-profile cases involving real estate of many kinds. He is best known for work throughout Florida representing property or business owners in eminent domain proceedings. In 2008, Mr. Brigham was lead counsel in a case where he obtained the largest jury verdict in Florida state court eminent domain proceedings in the amount of $67,410,000 against the Jacksonville Port Authority. More recently, in 2013-2018, he was le...
Brad D. Kaufman is the Vice President and Treasurer of Greenberg Traurig. He is also Co-Chair of the Securities Litigation Group and leads the firm’s Associate Development Program. He focuses his practice on securities litigation and regulatory actions and has represented virtually every major broker/dealer in virtually all aspects of their business, including traditional litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitrations. Brad has defended both securities class actions and s...
James Plemmons provides counsel to secured lenders, unsecured lenders, bankruptcy trustees, debtors, shareholders, and investor groups in all nature of bankruptcy, restructuring, and workout proceedings, including corporate and individual reorganization and liquidation proceedings. He has represented insurance companies such as Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Travelers Insurance Company and Nationwide Insurance Company with regard to workout, foreclosure and bankruptcy matters. I...
Randy is a partner focusing on government finance and development. His practice focuses on land use and zoning issues as well as all aspects of municipal law and finance. He has worked on hundreds of development projects as either counsel to the municipality or to the developer.
Curt Hearn is a partner and has served as co-lead of the Corporate Practice Group for 20 years. Drawing on his extensive experience and knowledge of what works — and what doesn’t — he works with firm clients to solve their most challenging, complex business and legal challenges. Curt advises private equity and venture capital firms, as well as publicly traded and privately held companies, working with them to solve their most challenging and critical business and legal chall...
"Ones to Watch" Recipients
Nicholas A. Simpson is an associate in the Chicago, Illinois, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His practice focuses on counseling employers on labor and employment issues and defending labor and employment litigation. In addition to his litigation practice, Nicholas also assists clients with workplace diversity and inclusion related issues, including conducting climate surveys and internal investigations, analyzing employee related data and policies, and conducting trainings on unconscious bias, ...
Zena M Ho focuses her practice on real estate and real estate finance. She represents banks, non-bank lenders, real estate companies, real estate investment trusts and private equity funds in a wide variety of real estate-related transactions. Zena advises borrowers and lenders on structuring and documenting all types of real estate financing transactions involving a broad range of real estate assets, such as multifamily developments, office and industrial parks, retail centers, mixed-use pro...
James focuses his practice on litigation in the health care industry. In particular, he represents health systems, hospitals, and drug and device companies in litigation against private insurers, the federal government and state programs, and defending health care clients in high-stakes federal and state agency investigations and litigation, including actions involving False Claims Act, qui tam, Anti-Kickback, Stark Law, and Sunshine Act claims. In addition to his health care practice, James ...
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