Attorney Intel is pleased to announce The Top 25 Consumer Products and Services Attorneys of 2025. These attorneys play an essential role in representing clients across a wide array of legal challenges, including antitrust law, intellectual property protection, product liability, consumer class actions, and regulatory compliance. Their expertise spans industries such as consumer goods, technology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and beauty products, where they handle complex legal matters that affect both large corporations and smaller businesses.
This year’s awardees are recognized for their ability to tackle high-stakes legal issues, from defending clients in mass torts and product liability claims to navigating complex regulatory frameworks and managing trademark enforcement. Whether representing clients in merger clearances, consumer protection lawsuits, or global intellectual property disputes, these attorneys offer strategic legal solutions that ensure their clients can thrive in an increasingly competitive and regulated marketplace.
Among this year’s awardees, George Paul, Partner at White & Case, is recognized for his expertise in antitrust law, advising clients on international competition matters, including merger clearances and cartel defense, with notable work in the consumer products, retail, healthcare, and technology sectors. Andrew Sim, Partner at Baker McKenzie, is distinguished for his leadership in intellectual property law, specializing in IP enforcement, food and beverage regulations, and plant variety rights across the Asia Pacific region. Kelly McCarthy, Partner at Sideman & Bancroft, is acknowledged for her work in brand protection, focusing on trademark enforcement and portfolio management for consumer products, particularly in the beauty, wellness, and food and beverage industries.
This year’s awardees were selected through a methodical process and careful consideration of each candidate’s career track record and industry contributions. Please join us in celebrating The Top 25 Consumer Products and Services Attorneys of 2025.
1. Dori Brewer
Partner, Perkins Coie
Dori Brewer is a Partner at Perkins Coie, having first joined in 1984. Perkins Coie is an international law firm renowned for delivering high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters essential to client success. With more than 1,200 attorneys across the United States, Europe, and Asia, the firm offers a comprehensive range of legal services, including corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory counsel.
Prior to her retirement, Brewer practiced for more than 30 years in the areas of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic business transactions, joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies and advising closely-held companies and family-owned businesses.
Brewer earned a JD in law from Cornell Law School and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and speech communication from University of Washington.
2. Robert Hardy
Partner, Greenberg Taurig
Dr. Robert Hardy is a Partner in Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Amsterdam office. He advises clients on matters spanning a wide spectrum of economic sectors, including consumer products, energy, financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, TMT, and transportation. Greenberg Traurig, LLP is a global law firm with more than 2,850 attorneys across 49 locations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
Hardy’s practice covers a wide range of issues under European and Dutch competition law. He represents clients before the European Commission (EC), the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM), the Dutch administrative law courts, and the EU courts in matters relating to cartel defense, abuse of dominance, merger control, and State aid proceedings.
Additionally, he represents clients before the Dutch civil law courts on issues relating to antitrust damages claims; Hardy advises clients on a diverse range of EU and Dutch regulatory frameworks that impact business matters. He provides proactive and responsive advice and legal risk assessments to clients, assisting with day-to-day business transactions, counseling on the applicability and effect of regulations, and providing guidance on how to mitigate the risks of potential enforcement actions. Hardy also provides clients with guidance on ex-U.S. foreign investment review.
Before joining Greenberg Taurig, Hardy was a counsel at Simmons & Simmons and before that an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. Earlier in his career he worked with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as a foreign associate (NYC).
Hardy graduated from Harvard Law School with an LLM in law and from Maastricht University with a PhD in law.
3. Alan Rothman
Partner, Sidley Austin
Alan Rothman is a Partner at Sidley Austin. Sidley is a global law firm with 2,300 lawyers, annual revenue of $3.4 billion, and nearly 160 years of legal experience. The firm successfully represents clients in more than 70 countries on complex transactional, restructuring, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters.
Rothman has more than two decades of experience representing pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer product, chemical, and other companies in connection with more than two dozen Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) proceedings, as well as class actions and individual mass tort product liability litigation. He has successfully argued issues of first impression and jurisdictional and coordination issues in federal and state court.
Rothman also has extensive end-game strategy experience, serving as settlement counsel with respect to the resolution of mass torts. In addition to his broad MDL experience, Rothman regularly counsels clients with respect to corporate structure, successor liability, MMSEA/Medicare compliance, and professional ethics issues.
Rothman is an industry thought leader, having authored more than 100 articles regarding MDL and jurisdictional issues, including a bi-monthly Law360 column (for more than 10 years) focusing on practice before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. He is also a frequent presenter at conferences and symposiums.
Rothman is also a past chairman of the New York Coordinated Proceedings subcommittee of the Product Liability Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He serves as a Board member of various not-for-profit and educational institutions.
Rothman first got his start in 1994 as a counsel at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. He graduated from Columbia Law School with a JD and from Yeshiva University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and government.
4. Claudia Ray
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Claudia Ray is a Partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Kirkland & Ellis serves a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A, and complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory, and internal investigations.
Ray represents clients across a wide range of industries, including financial services, technology, consumer products, and entertainment and media, in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright, trademark, Internet, contract/licensing, and trade secret issues. She also advises clients on pre-litigation issues, IP issues arising out of corporate transactions and licensing matters, and overall IP protection and brand-building strategies, including the registration, maintenance and policing of their trademark and copyright portfolios.
Ray is a member of the American Bar Association’s AI Task Force and the International Trademark Association’s US Amicus Subcommittee, and previously chaired the New York City Bar Association’s Copyright Committee and Trademarks and Unfair Competition Committee. She frequently lectures and publishes on IP-related issues.
Earlier in her career she worked with O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a Partner. Ray earned a JD from New York University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Macalester College.
5. Michael Glaser
Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Michael Glaser is a Partner in the San Francisco office of Morrison Foerster and is co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group. Glaser has represented startups in hundreds of venture capital transactions, with pre-money valuations ranging from millions to billions of dollars.
Glaser’s clients have been funded by top-tier venture capital firms, such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures. Glaser also represents his startup clients in M&A deals, and has advised companies in numerous high-value exit transactions with leading serial acquirers.
Glaser is an industry thought-leader and has served on the Model Document Working Group for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Corporate Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and the ABA Working Group on Legal Opinions. He also has significant business management experience. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he co-chaired another international law firm’s largest practice group, with ten subgroups, over 300 lawyers, and a P&L in the hundreds of millions.
Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Glaser was a Partner at Perkins Coie LLP and before that an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Glaser graduated from New York University School of Law with a JD and from University at Albany with a bachelor’s degree.
6. David Singh
Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges
David Singh began his professional career nine years ago. Today, he is a Partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges. Founded in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has been a preeminent provider of legal services for the past 90 years. Singh represents major global companies in state and federal courts throughout the country.
Singh’s principal areas of focus include consumer class actions (including product defect, labeling, false advertising, ESG, and privacy class actions), claims under state deceptive trade practice acts (including California’s Unfair Competition Law, False Advertising Law, and Consumer Legal Remedies Act), mass arbitrations, product liability and mass tort claims, public nuisance, breach of contract and tortious interference claims, fraud, unfair competition, and trade secret misappropriation and employee mobility disputes.
Singh has long-served as a leader in the ABA, Section of Litigation in numerous capacities. Currently, he serves on the Federal Practice Task Force. His previous positions include Co-Chair of the Class Action and Derivatives Committee and Co-Chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee. Singh is a leader of Weil’s Class Action Task Force, and he regularly speaks and writes on significant class action issues. He is a former Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow, and a member of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) Northern California Chapter.
Singh graduated from Cornell Law School with a JD and from University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in political science and speech communications.
7. Stacy Harrison
Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Stacy Harrison is a Partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, having first joined in 2014. Harrison is an experienced trial lawyer, who practices complex business litigation, with an emphasis on products liability, mass and business torts, intellectual property, unfair competition, and real estate. She represents consumer product companies, financial institutions, real estate partnerships, and energy companies.
Harrison represents numerous clients in consumer class actions and multi-district litigation involving products liability and unfair competition claims. She has represented several retailers in putative class actions asserting claims under California Business and Professions Code Section 17200 and the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act.
Most recently, she was lead trial counsel for a consumer products company in which the plaintiff alleged that exposure to asbestos in the client’s products caused their mesothelioma; that settled favorably for the client shortly before opening statements.
She also represented Naturex, Inc., a manufacturer of a Green Coffee Bean extract that was advertised on the Dr. Oz Show, in a putative class action alleging unfair competition and false advertising claims, which settled favorably for the client. She also successfully represented Johnson & Johnson in two putative class actions, one in the Southern District of California and the other in the complex court of the Los Angeles Superior Court, which alleged unfair competition and Proposition 65 violations.
Her work for clients in the commercial and residential real estate, banking, and financial services industries focuses on partnership disputes and representing secured creditors in judicial and non-judicial foreclosure actions and bankruptcy proceedings. She has represented numerous real estate developers and property owners, including Ronald A. Simms and the Simms/Mann Institute for Education and Community Development in connection with various disputes.
She also has represented financial institutions in bankruptcy proceedings, including adversary proceedings, regarding priority lien disputes and other business issues. Harrison also represents several energy companies in connection with investigations by and hearings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
In addition, she has represented numerous producers and high-profile artists and talent in accounting and profit-participation, licensing, and other disputes involving the television and motion picture industries. This included a film production company, defeating a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit filed by an individual claiming to have co-written screenplay; well-known artists prosecuting a copyright infringement and right to publicity action for defendants' improper use of performance sound recordings; and a film financier regarding investments in several independent films.
Harrison currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library and the Board of the Jewish Graduate Students Initiative. Previously, she was a Partner at Bingham McCutchen and before that a Partner, an of counsel, and an associate at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP. Earlier in her career she worked with Fried Frank as an associate.
Harrison earned a JD from University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from University of California, Berkeley.
8. Monique Bhargava
Partner, Reed Smith
Monique Bhargava is a Partner in the Advertising section of Reed Smith’s Entertainment & Media group. Bhargava is also co-lead of the Artificial Intelligence group within Reed Smith’s Emerging Technologies practice.
Bhargava focuses on the convergence of advertising, privacy and emerging technology, helping clients navigate compliance and legal risks relating to their advertising, media, technology, and data initiatives, including the development, implementation, and use of artificial intelligence technologies, digital marketing and content, social media, adtech, and martech. She supports consumer brands, advertising agencies, publishers, and media and technology companies in all aspects of their advertising, marketing, and media initiatives, as they innovate to drive consumer engagement.
In addition, Bhargava works with clients to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of domestic and international privacy laws. She regularly assists clients in developing data use, protection and monetization strategies by evaluating and optimizing data practices, developing internal and external policies, conducting privacy assessments, and drafting and negotiating data privacy-related agreements.
Before joining Reed Smith, Bhargava was a Partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP and before that a Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. Earlier in her career she worked with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP as a case clerk.
Bhargava graduated from University of Illinois College of Law with a JD in law and from University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in molecular cell biology and political science.
9. Elizabeth Donley
Partner, Hogan Lovells
Elizabeth Donley began her professional career 18 years ago. Today, she is a Partner at Hogan Lovells. Donley works with U.S. and international companies to deliver their most complex and commercially strategic domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, asset purchases and sales, investments, joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology licenses, and complex commercial arrangements.
Donley works with clients in a variety of industries, including industrials and consumer goods; aerospace, defense, and government services; automotive; technology; health and life sciences; real estate; and hospitality.
Donley invests time to get to know and fully understand her clients' organizations, businesses, and industries to provide effective and complementary advice tailored to fit the objectives of the matter at hand. She collaborates daily with regulatory and compliance professionals at Hogan Lovells across industry sectors — as well as subject matter advisors in critical areas — to bring the right individuals to each project to achieve positive outcomes.
Donley graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School with a JD.
10. George Paul
Partner, White & Case
George Paul is a distinguished antitrust Partner at White & Case lawyer who provides guidance to clients on a broad spectrum of international competition matters, specializing in merger clearances, cartel defense, and litigation. In the ever-evolving regulatory environment, Paul has been instrumental in numerous high-profile cases, consistently providing strategic counsel that has been pivotal in obtaining clearance for large, intricate mergers.
Paul's expertise spans a variety of industries, including: consumer products and retail, where he represented Albertsons in its merger with Kroger; healthcare, advising Elevance Health, Smith's Medical, and US Renal Care in several transactions; and technology, where he represented Meta in its investment in India's Jio Platforms.
Paul earned his JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Mississippi State University.
George Paul's Insight
"As an antitrust merger attorney, my work sits at the intersection of law and business, directly impacting the prices consumers pay at the store. By helping clients navigate a complex and global regulatory landscape, I strive to add value, enabling them to develop innovative products for consumers at the most competitive prices.”
11. Andrew Sim
Partner, Baker McKenzie
Andrew Sim is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong office and a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group, where he leads the IP enforcement and litigation practice for Hong Kong.
He is the Global Chair of the Plant Variety Rights Practice, which includes registration and enforcement of plant breeders' rights. Andrew also heads the Food and Beverage ("F&B") Industry Practice Group in the Greater China region and advises on all F&B related areas, including consumer, regulatory, food safety, advertisements, franchising as well as internet laws and regulations. Andrew serves as one of the managing editors of the 2024 edition of the Asia Pacific Food Law Guide, a unique publication by Baker McKenzie that provides a comprehensive summary of food law regulations across 12 Asia-Pacific jurisdictions.
Andrew's practice also focuses on IP protection and enforcement in Hong Kong and China, including assisting clients in strategizing their IP rights, directing anti-counterfeiting operations as well as providing advice on licensing and commercial IP issues and agreements. His practice also includes domain name, Internet and technology laws, and he currently serves as a domain name panelist for WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre.
Andrew Sim's Insight
"As an Intellectual Property and Technology partner in Greater China, I have had the privilege of working with renowned brands in the consumer goods and retail sectors, helping them to achieve their ambitions, safeguard their intellectual property, and navigate complex legal and regulatory landscapes across the Asia Pacific region. As the Global Chair of the Plant Variety Practice, I focus on protecting and enforcing plant breeders’ rights globally.
I have the privilege to be one of the key partners in Baker McKenzie’s Consumer Goods and Retail as well as the Food and Beverages practices, which allows me to deeply understand each client’s unique business needs and provide tailored, strategic solutions. I am honoured to be recognised as a finalist for The Top Consumer Products & Services Attorneys of 2025 and am excited to continue supporting my clients’ success in an ever-evolving legal landscape."
12. Roberto Gaskin
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Roberto Gaskin is a Partner at Latham & Watkins, having first joined in 2010 as an associate. Gaskin frequently tackles clients’ most intricate and business-critical challenges. His work includes a number of first-ever high yield bond offerings in various jurisdictions, as well as an array of matters involving innovative and bespoke securities products.
Additionally, Gaskin counsels banks, insurers, debt servicers, payment institutions, and investors on financial regulatory matters, including regulatory and ordinary capital offerings. His work includes capital relief trades, Additional Tier 1 and Tier 2 capital raising, and regulatory capital matters before the Eurosystem and Single Resolution Board.
Gaskin is an active participant with the Association for Financial Markets in Europe and the International Capital Markets Association. He earned a JD from New York University School of Law and an LLM in European law from Paris-Pantheon-Assas University.
13. Rachel Feldman
Partner, White & Case
Rachel Feldman is a Partner at White & Case. With 19 years of experience, Feldman is a commercial litigation Partner based in the Los Angeles office. She focuses on international and national complex business disputes, representing companies throughout the world in high-stakes civil litigation and regulatory investigations in the tech, internet and social media space.
Feldman represents leading technology clients before the world's highest courts (including the European Court of Justice and national Supreme Courts) and in front of supervising regulatory authorities in matters involving data protection, privacy, defamation, hosting provider liability, intellectual property and censorship laws. She also provides product counseling and compliance advice to global clients, including with respect to regulations governing data protection, e-commerce, advertising, and content liability.
Nationally, Feldman represents clients in a variety of industries, including social media, food and beverage, telecommunications, manufacturing and accounting, in commercial contract disputes and consumer class actions alleging unfair competition, fraudulent advertising and false labeling.
Feldman graduated from University of Southern California with a JD in law and from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor’s degree in English.
14. Kelly McCarthy
Partner, Sideman & Bancroft
Kelly McCarthy began her professional career 24 years ago. Today, she is a Partner at Sideman & Bancroft. McCarthy represents clients in relation to brand protection issues, trademark enforcement and portfolio management. Her practice focuses on trademark protection for consumer products with a particular emphasis on beauty, personal care, wellness, sporting goods, and food and beverage industries. Her clients include public and private entities, from emerging regional companies to global industry leaders.
McCarthy advises clients on a variety of trademark and brand protection issues, including matters involving product and corporate name selection; trademark availability and clearance; worldwide branding strategies; trademark related agreements including licenses; management and prosecution of worldwide and U.S. trademark portfolios; disputes before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; domain name disputes and cybersquatting concerns; foreign, domestic and online anti-counterfeiting and enforcement measures; advertising, claims and promotions, and social media and Internet marketing issues.
McCarthy specializes in the development and implementation of customized and comprehensive brand protection programs that focus on global trademark portfolio growth while combatting product counterfeiting concerns and other infringements.
Prior to joining Sideman & Bancroft LLP, Ms. McCarthy was Of Counsel at Tomlinson Zisko LLP. McCarthy graduated from University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) with a JD in law and from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
Kelly McCarthy's Insight
“My practice focuses on brand protection for consumer products with a focus on the unique issues facing the beauty and personal care industries. It is an exciting time to be working with beauty companies. It is an industry that surged during the pandemic and continues to be a place of innovation and empowerment. I enjoy working with breakout brands who need to protect their trademark rights and grow their global portfolios to (1) ready the company for investment or sale (2) combat the growing threat of counterfeit and infringements and (3) establish rights in advance of international expansion. It is so fulfilling to start with a brand early and then see its success on store shelves. Our firm is one of the largest women owned law firms in America and beauty founders (also mostly women) are universally creative and inspiring and it is a true joy to get to know them!”
15. John Roddy
Partner, Bailey & Glasser
John Roddy is a Partner at Bailey & Glasser, having first joined in 2011. Roddy is a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Service Lawyers, an organization limited to those lawyers who have achieved preeminence in the field of consumer financial services law and who have made repeated and substantial contributions to the promotion of learning and scholarship in consumer financial services law through teaching, lecturing and published writings; membership is by invitation only.
Roddy represents consumers in class actions challenging unfair and deceptive business practices, and serves as relator’s counsel in qui tam “whistleblower” actions. In the last two decades the settlements in cases he has litigated have returned more than $1 billion to consumers harmed by marketplace misconduct.
Roddy regularly writes and speaks on class action practice and consumer financial services law, and has published dozens of articles on these topics. He has co-chaired PLI’s Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute for the past 20 years.
Roddy earned a JD in law from Boston College Law School and a bachelor’s degree in English from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
John Roddy's Insight
“John represents consumers in class actions challenging unfair and deceptive business practices, and serves as relator’s counsel in qui tam “whistleblower” actions. In the last two decades the settlements in cases he has litigated have returned more than $1 billion to consumers harmed by marketplace misconduct. He regularly writes and speaks on class action practice and consumer financial services law, and has published dozens of articles on these topics. He has co-chaired PLI’s Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute for the past 25 years.”
16. Howard Hogan
Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Howard Hogan is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is chair of the Fashion, Retail and Consumer Products group. Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising on significant transactions and high-stakes disputes.
Over the course of his career, Hogan has handled numerous complex cases in a variety of federal and state courts in several different substantive areas including general commercial, securities and employment matters, and internal investigations.
Hogan's practice focuses on IP litigation and counseling, including trademark, copyright, patent, false advertising, right of publicity, licensing, and trade secret matters. Hogan has represented various corporations and individuals in a broad range of industries, including financial services, sports, fashion, cosmetics, entertainment, transportation, pharmaceuticals, and online services.
A significant portion of Hogan practice involves computer, Internet, and new media-related issues. He has represented and counseled a wide variety of companies on these issues, whether they are Internet-focused companies or traditional brick–and–mortar companies.
Many of Hogan matters have tested the application of traditional legal principles to the Internet and emerging technologies, such as in connection with issues of Internet jurisdiction, online contracting, and the application of trademark and copyright law to search engines, social media, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence.
Hogan has been involved in cutting-edge matters concerning the protection of data, and he has assisted clients with several substantial trade secrets and information security matters. Hogan also represents clients in connection with rights of publicity, Name Image and Likeness (NIL) rights, and the developing legal framework that governs uses of digital replicas.
Before joining Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Hogan was an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton and before that a law clerk at Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Judge. Earlier in his career he worked with Americorps as a team leader, national civilian community corps.
Hogan graduated from New York University School of Law with a JD in law and from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, law, and organization.
17. Franco Corrado
Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Franco Corrado is a Partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. With offices in strategic hubs across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Morgan Lewis & Bockius collaborates with clients ranging from global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups.
Corrado's practice focuses on a broad range of litigation matters, with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes and the defense of class actions. He has represented clients across a variety of areas, including the technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries.
Corrado is a member of the firm's Class Action Working Group and has successfully defended consumer class actions asserting deceptive trade practice, warranty, false advertising, and product liability claims in a number of state and federal jurisdictions. In particular, he has represented and continues to represent a large, California-based computer and other technology product manufacturers in class action lawsuits across the country.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Corrado clerked for Judge Frank J. Montemuro, Jr. of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. He first got his start in 2004 as an attorney at Elliott Greenleaf, his most recent position prior to joining Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
Corrado holds a JD from the Villanova University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Villanova University.
Corrado is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
18. Jeremiah Webb
Partner, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Jeremiah Webb is a Partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP and serves as Vice Chair of the Firm’s Consumer Warranty Practice and is also a member of the Firm’s Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation and Product Liability Practices. His practice focuses on consumer warranty and products liability, environmental, toxic tort, and commercial litigation. Webb’s practice extends to representing clients in both state and federal courts as well as before various state, regional and local agencies.
Webb’s clients include Fortune 100 and 500 companies, manufacturers of automobiles, motorcycles, and other consumer goods, as well as both individuals and corporate business entities. Webb’s consumer warranty practice includes defending cases involving the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, Uniform Commercial Code, and various state lemon laws including the Song-Beverly Act. Webb’s experience in these matters include claims involving fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and dealership negligence. Webb has taken several consumer warranty cases all the way up to and through trial.
Webb’s environmental experience includes not only litigation matters, but also regulatory compliance and enforcement actions under both federal and California statutes which include the federal Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, CEQA, and Prop 65. His cases have involved state and federal lawsuits pertaining to warranty and product liability claims, water and soil contamination, Proposition 65, as well as fraudulent bond activity and construction issues for a multitude of clients. Webb handles all aspects of litigation including law and motion, mediations, depositions as well as having trial experience in both warranty and environmental litigation throughout the years.
Previously, Webb was a senior associate attorney at Kutak Rock and before that a senior associate attorney at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Earlier in his career he worked with Law + Brandmeyer, LLP as an associate.
Webb earned a JD in international law from the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, CIS, and criminal science from Kansas Wesleyan University.
19. Chelsea Mikula
Partner, Tucker Ellis
Chelsea Mikula is a Partner at Tucker Ellis. With 17 years of experience, Mikula is a seasoned trial lawyer who represents clients nationwide in all aspects of commercial litigation across the country.
Mikula has amassed significant trial experience early in her career. As a general commercial litigator, she has taken several cases to verdict at trial and in arbitration as co-counsel. She has represented clients in complicated breach of contract actions, and other business-related torts. Mikula's passion for truly getting to know clients allows her to better understand their businesses and help them solve problems quickly and efficiently.
Complementing her business litigation work and skills as a trial lawyer, Mikula represents corporations and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustees in litigation across the country. Also experienced with consumer product safety issues, Chelsea advises clients on compliance, reporting obligations, recall effectiveness, and in advertising disputes before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau and the National Advertising Review Board.
Mikula graduated from the Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and from Denison University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
Chelsea Mikula's Insight
“Being an attorney is incredibly rewarding. I have especially enjoyed my work in the area of consumer products and helping clients navigate the challenges they face.”
20. Jeffrey Greene
Partner, Foley & Lardner
Jeffrey Greene began his professional career 26 years ago. Today, he is a Partner at Foley & Lardner. Greene focuses his practice on strategic foreign and domestic brand counseling and protection including the creation, development, expansion, and enforcement of global trademark portfolios, creative brand enforcement strategies, licensing of brand assets, and advertising.
Greene is a Partner in the firm’s New York office where he is a member of the Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice, and co-chairs the Fashion, Apparel, and Beauty Industry Team. He is also the former chair of the Trademark Copyright & Advertising Practice and the former Vice Chair of the IP Department.
Greene regularly advises clients on the trademark and intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions, including agreements, licensing, and negotiation and transfer issues. He has extensive experience addressing all these issues for startups and emerging and established companies across a variety of industries including financial services, technology, fintech, media, consumer products, food and beverage, retail, and fashion.
On the life sciences front, Greene has experience helping pharmaceutical, biotech, digital, and tele-health, and other life sciences companies — from emerging companies to well-recognized brands — obtain and enforce foreign and domestic trademark rights for drug and device names and related offerings.
Greene is an active member of the International Trademark Association, where he currently serves in the U.S. Roundtables Project Team and the Madrid System Sub-Committee. He previously served on the Leadership Development Committee, where he co-chaired the Leadership Labs Subcommittee, the U.S. Programs Committee for the 2008 and 2010 annual meetings, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. He has also served on the Trademarks and Unfair Competition Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Greene first got his start in 1999 as an associate of trademark practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. From there, he went on to Fenwick & West, before eventually rising to Partner at Cooley LLP, his most recent position prior to joining Foley & Lardner.
Greene graduated from the Cardozo School of Law with a JD and from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in history and theater arts.
21. Helen Brown
Partner, Baker McKenzie
Helen Brown is a Partner at Baker McKenzie. She first joined the company in 1999 as associate then senior associate in IP and IT practice. Previously, Brown was a solicitor at Bird & Bird LLP. Earlier in her career she worked with Eversheds Sutherland as an assistant solicitor.
Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in modern history.
22. Chris Froelich
Partner, Holland & Knight
Chris Froelich is a Partner at Holland & Knight. Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 2,200 lawyers and other professionals in 34 offices throughout the world. Holland & Knight provides representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law.
With 19 years of experience, Froelich focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity, including public and private acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, carve-out transactions, recapitalizations, transactions involving distressed or bankrupt sellers and other general corporate matters. His clients include private equity funds and the portfolio companies they back as well as leading companies across the globe engaged in strategic M&A.
Froelich also represents insureds and underwriters in connection with transactional risk products, including the issuance of representations and warranties insurance (RWI) policies.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Froelich was an attorney at an international law firm in its New York office.
He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jaynee LaVecchia of the New Jersey Supreme Court as well as the Honorable Johann van der Westhuizen of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. During law school, Froelich served as an editor of the Seton Hall Law Review.
Before joining Holland & Knight, Froelich was a special counsel at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP and before that an associate at Jones Day. Earlier in his career, he worked with the Constitutional Court of South Africa as a law clerk to Justice Johann van der Westhuizen.
Froelich graduated from Seton Hall University with a JD and an MBA and from Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg with a bachelor’s degree in history.
23. Brandon Howald
Partner, Ropes & Gray
Brandon Howald began his professional career 26 years ago. Today, he is a Partner at Ropes & Gray. Howald advises private equity funds and public and private companies in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate and securities law matters. Over 20 years, Howald has guided numerous middle-market and large-cap transactions across a range of industries, including technology, software, data centers, healthcare, fitness, services, food and beverage and consumer products. Brandon has also represented companies and executives in employment agreements and equity incentive plans and agreements.
Howald first got his start in 1999 as an associate in the corporate department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, before eventually rising to Partner in the corporate department at Paul Hastings, his most recent position prior to joining Ropes & Gray.
Howald graduated from the USC Gould School of Law with a JD, from the USC Marshall School of Business with an MBA, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree.
24. David Fialkow
Partner, K&L Gates
David Fialkow is a Partner at K&L Gates, having first joined in 2015. Fialkow serves as a practice group coordinator for the firm’s Financial Institutions and Services Litigation group. He regularly represents an array of financial institutions and service providers in disputes involving commercial and consumer finance products.
On the consumer side, Fialkow represents national banks, mortgage servicers, student lenders, and other consumer financial services providers in litigation, class actions, arbitrations, administrative proceedings, appeals, and other disputes involving state and federal laws related to mortgage origination, loan servicing, auto loans, student loans, debt collection, credit reporting, unfair and deceptive trade practices, as well as a host of other consumer finance laws. He also advises these businesses in regulatory compliance matters.
On the commercial side, Fialkow represents lenders, servicers, and special servicers in lender/servicer liability actions in state and federal courts. In collaboration with their restructuring and insolvency group, Fialkow advises clients on issues arising out of loan transactions, cash management, risk mitigation, default, and other disputes.
Beyond financial services, Fialkow represents corporate and individual clients in commercial and personal disputes involving contracts, competition, intellectual property, antitrust, fiduciary duties, employment, and other matters.
Previously, Fialkow was a Partner at Nelson Mullins and before that an associate at White & Case. Fialkow earned a JD from Suffolk University Law School and a bachelor’s degree in information studies from Florida State University.
25. Claire Temple
Partner, Cooley
Claire Temple is a Partner at Cooley. Cooley is a registered service mark of Cooley LLP in the United States and European Union as well as certain other jurisdictions. Cooley partners with clients on transformative deals, complex intellectual property and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation. With nearly 1,400 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia, and Europe, and a total workforce of more than 3,000 people, the firm delivers comprehensive legal solutions with a global reach. Temple has 14 years of experience. She began her career in 2006.
Before joining Cooley, Temple was an associate director at Osborne Clarke. Temple graduated from College of Law, Birmingham and from The University of Sheffield.
