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Ross Karsnitz
Georgetown, DE Business Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Ross Karsnitz chairs the workers' compensation practice and assists clients with a wide variety of civil litigation including personal injury, workers' compensation, business, and real estate matters in the Georgetown Office. Ross was raised in Sussex County Delaware, and is a second-generation attorney with both his mother and father practicing in Delaware.
Following his clerkship with the now President Judge of the Superior Court, Ross practiced criminal defense for the Office of Defense Services, rising through the ranks in Family Court, the Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court in Kent County and New Castle County. By the end of his...
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Brian Michael Ellis
Georgetown, DE Business Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Real Estate and Tax
Tulane University School of Law
Brian Ellis is a Partner in our Rehoboth Beach and Georgetown offices. His practice focuses on providing legal guidance and advice to individuals and businesses in a variety of areas, concentrating on business, transactional and real estate law.
Business and Transactional Practice Includes:
• Family business formation and planning
• Preparation and negotiation of various commercial agreements
• Business restructuring and reorganization
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures and strategic partnerships
• Legal guidance as to new business formation
• Business finance
• Legal advice as to Delaware business law
• Delivery of Delaware Opinion Letters, as to Delaware corporations and other entities
Real Estate Practice Includes:
• Residential and commercial real estate settlements
• 1031 like-kind exchanges
• Preparation and negotiation of leases, purchase...
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Robert Gibbs
Georgetown, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business and Real Estate
University of Baltimore School of Law
Rob Gibbs focuses his practice on business formation, commercial transactions, commercial lending, commercial and residential real estate transactions, and related civil litigation. Rob is actively involved in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) since completing the Delaware Superior Court Mediation Training in 2007. He serves as an arbitrator, mediator and neutral assessor both informally and under the ADR Programs of the Delaware Courts.
Practice areas:
• Business Transactions, Strategic Planning and Counseling
• Commercial Transactions
• Structured Finance Transactions
• Real Estate
• Land Use
• Private Clients
• Small Businesses and Start-Ups
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Energy Industry
rgibbs@morrisjames.com
302.856.0016
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Patrick Christopher Gallagher
Georgetown, DE Business Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Business, Employment, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Wake Forest University
Pat Gallagher was born and raised in southern West Virginia. He received his B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Elon University in 2002. He thereafter attended law school at Wake Forest University, graduating cum laude in 2005. While in law school, he was involved in mock trial, Moot Court, and Law Review.
After graduating from law school, Pat returned to West Virginia where he worked for a large defense firm. He defended clients in consumer finance, deliberate intent, and Mine Safety Health Administration cases. In 2008, he moved to the Wilmington, Delaware, area where he joined a large Wilmington law...
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Michelle Bounds
WGeorgetown, DE Business Law Lawyer
(302) 856-0015
107 W. Market Street
P.O. Box 690
WGeorgetown, DE 19947
Business
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Michelle Bounds is a business law attorney based in Sussex County, Delaware. She represents a diverse group of businesses and private clients in commercial transactions, education law, employment law, litigation, real estate law, and land use/zoning matters.
Michelle was a Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable Kenneth S. Clark, Jr and The Honorable Rosemary Betts Beauregard for the Delaware Court of Common Pleas in Georgetown, Delaware.
Practice areas:
• Business Torts
• Commercial Transactions
• Contract Litigation
• Education Law
• Employment Law
• Land Use
• Private Clients
• Real Estate
mbounds@morrisjames.com
T 302.752.3344
Gregory George Justis Jr.
Dover, DE Business Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Business, Animal, Appeals and IP
University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
David Rutt
Georgetown, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business, Estate Planning, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Kashif Iqbal Chowdhry
Georgetown, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business, Elder, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Dustin C Lane
Dover, DE Business Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Business, Administrative, Criminal and International
Diane Marie Andrews
Dover, DE Business Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Business and Insurance Defense
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Mark Matthew Billion
Rehoboth Beach, DE Business Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
Columbia Law School
Mark founded Billion Law in 2010. His current practice centers on litigation, corporate and insolvency matters.
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Eugene M Lawson Jr
Rehoboth Beach, DE Business Law Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
American University Washington College of Law
Carol Ann Sumter
Millsboro, DE Business Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
24793 Rivers Edge Rd
Millsboro, DE 19966
Business
Emory University
Noel Charles Burnham
Middletown, DE Business Law Attorney with 51 years of experience
Business and Bankruptcy
Boston University School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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Robyn T. Williams
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfBusiness, IP, Patents and Trademarks
Drexel University School of Law
Ms. Williams' practice focuses on Intellectual Property and General Business matters. She handles intellectual property prosecution, litigation, contracts, sales, and licensing. Additionally, Ms. Williams advises clients on general business issues including IP portfolio assessment and management.
Utilizing her vast experience in the areas of risk management, business analytics, and due diligence, Ms. Williams works with emerging growth businesses counseling on risk reduction and capitalization. She provides unique legal counseling to businesses looking to establish and grow their intellectual property portfolios. Ms. Williams specializes in advising businesses on long-term and layered strategies for intellectual property protection; brand establishment and re-branding; and intellectual...
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Lewis Lazarus
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business
Stanford Law School
Lewis Lazarus focuses his practice on corporate governance and commercial matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has been lead counsel in trials arising out of mergers and acquisitions, including cases involving the entire fairness standard of review, appraisal, books and records actions, actions to compel annual meetings, and actions to determine who rightfully are the managers of a Delaware entity. As a result of his knowledge and familiarity with these and related cases, Lewis often advises special committees and boards in conflict-of-interest transactions. He has counseled boards, companies, or special committees in conflict-of-interest transactions totaling over $7 billion...
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A. Kimberly Hoffman
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Business, Appeals, Construction and Environmental
Florida State University College of Law
Kimberly Hoffman uses her 20+ years of experience to serve as lead counsel in real estate, healthcare and government relations matters. She has assisted clients with strategic planning, legislation, documentation, and formal proceedings before courts, federal, state, and local agencies, including Congress. She is the only Delaware attorney recognized as a Top Lawyer by Delaware Today in the areas of both Zoning and Healthcare law.
Kimberly represents a diverse group of businesses and high-net-worth individuals, including publicly traded companies, physician groups, health care IT providers, developers and construction companies, schools, telecommunications carriers, banks, churches, and investors. She project manages multifaceted legal...
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Eric J. Monzo
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Business and Bankruptcy
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Eric J. Monzo focuses on issues relating to business restructuring and insolvency. He regularly represents a wide range of stakeholders with a focus on official and unofficial committees, indenture trustees, commercial creditors and lender groups, in addition to, corporate debtors and their independent and special committee management.
Eric is widely recognized by clients and peers for his preeminent legal ability and creative solutions. Clients regard him as a true professional, who is fully prepared and focused on the business objectives.
Eric handles matters relating to the restructuring and liquidation of companies in a broad range of industries with experience...
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Rebecca Kilmon
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business
Elon University School of Law
Rebecca Kilmon is a member of Morris James' Business Transactions, Strategic Planning and Counseling Practice, a group that handles over $100B in financings annually for a wide range of clients.
Rebecca’s focus has been with the administration of Delaware Statutory Trusts in connection with securitizations, equipment finance and vessel finance. While in law school, Rebecca served as a Judicial Intern to The Honorable Sherry R. Fallon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Practice areas:
• Business Transactions, Strategic Planning and Counseling
• Corporate Trust and Fiduciary Services
• Delaware Alternative Entities: LLC, LP, Partnership and Trust
• Energy Industry
• Legal Opinions
rkilmon@morrisjames.com
302.888.6846
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Paul D. Sunshine
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business, Arbitration & Mediation and Products Liability
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Paul D. Sunshine focuses his practice in the areas of general liability, construction defect, trucking and transportation litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Sunshine brings with him more than 25 years of experience representing clients in a wide range of matters including products liability, toxic tort, transportation, general liability, personal injury and construction defect litigation.
Mr. Sunshine has a proven track record of representing regional, national and international clients in all phases of litigation throughout Delaware and Maryland. He has extensive experience with a wide range of client products and services and incorporates the varied needs and goals of his...
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Louis J. Rizzo Jr
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Business, Bankruptcy and Insurance Defense
Villanova University School of Law
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Xiaojuan Huang
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Business, Immigration and Personal Injury
Washington University School of Law
Xiaojuan Carrie Huang is an attorney licensed to practice in Delaware and Pennsylvania. She was born in China and lived, studied and worked in China prior to moving to the United States. She obtained a B.A. in law from Nanjing University and a JD from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. After graduation, she worked for the Law Office of Bruce Hudson (Hudson and Castle) focusing on litigation. Her current practice focuses on immigration, business formation, commercial litigation, and personal injury and medical malpractice. As a bilingual and bicultural lawyer trained in the U.S. and China, she has...
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James Tobia
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
Business, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Family
Cornell University
Jim Tobia began practicing law in Delaware in 1998, focusing on corporate and commercial litigation with Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. and later focusing on corporate litigation with Potter, Anderson & Corroon, LLP, two of Delaware's oldest firms and worldwide leaders in corporate governance and litigation. In between his time with those firms, Jim practiced with The Bayard Firm, P.A., (now Bayard P.A.), where, Jim also participated in litigation related to Bankrupt debtors, including prosecution of bankruptcy preference and avoidance actions, in addition to continuation of his corporate and commercial litigation practice.
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Samuel Bashman
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business
New York University School of Law
Samuel Bashman is a member of the Corporate and Commercial Litigation Group at Morris James LLP. He focuses his practice on corporate and complex commercial litigation for business entities formed under Delaware law.
During law school, Samuel completed an externship at the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he assisted in the investigation and litigation of civil cases in Manhattan's federal courthouse.
Practice areas:
• Business Torts
• Contract Litigation
• Corporate and Fiduciary Litigation
• LLC, LP, Partnership Litigation
sbashman@morrisjames.com
302.888.6890
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James J. Gallagher
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Business and Tax
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jim Gallagher maintains a comprehensive business and tax practice that includes the preparation of wills, trusts, and other estate planning documents. In his business practice, Jim counsels and advises clients on business formation and management, including the drafting of operating agreements and stockholder agreements. He is experienced in the preparation, review, and negotiation of documents for the purchase and sale of assets or stock or other equity interests, as well as commercial and employment-related contracts. Through the representation of physicians and physician groups, Jim has also developed a thorough understanding of federal and state healthcare regulatory compliance issues, which accentuates...
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Lewis Ledyard
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business
Villanova University School of Law
Lewis C. Ledyard, III is a member of Morris James’ Business Transactions, Strategic Planning and Counseling Practice, a group that has been involved in over $100 Billion in financings for a wide range of clients.
Lew focuses primarily on the organization and operation of statutory and common law trusts, limited liability companies, and other Delaware business entities in commercial and business transactions, used predominantly in commercial aviation and infrastructure finance. His practice also includes acting as Delaware counsel to banks, trustees, financial institutions, and other parties in domestic and cross-border transactions such as leveraged leases and asset-backed securitizations.
Experience:
• Representing financial institutions acting...
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Jeffrey Waxman
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business and Bankruptcy
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Jeff Waxman represents debtors, official committees of unsecured creditors, official committees of equity holders, secured creditors, plan administrators, liquidating trustees, purchasers of assets, and a wide variety of creditor constituencies and interested parties in Chapter 11 cases. Jeff also represents Chapter 7 trustees, and plaintiffs, and defendants in bankruptcy-related preference and fraudulent transfer litigation.
Prior to entering private practice, Jeff served as a law clerk to The Honorable Mary F. Walrath, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, and to The Honorable Michael J. Kaplan, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York.
Jeff co-chairs Morris James’ Small Businesses and Start-Ups Group which...
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John Legare Williams
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Business, Estate Planning and Trademarks
Emory University
The Williams Law Firm leads business owners to attain goals. The firm advises business owners with sophisticated business and estate planning and litigation at reasonable rates. You can trust us when the most important things in your life are on the line: everything you own and everyone you love.
John Williams is Vice President of the firm. He is known nationwide as an expert on the Delaware Series LLC. He has presented many lectures on the topic and has consulted with the Uniform Laws Counsel on proposed series provisions to be added to the uniform LLC Act.
He also has experience...
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Nicholas Caggiano
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business
Villanova University School of Law
Nick Caggiano, Jr. is a member of Morris James' Business Transactions, Strategic Planning and Counseling Practice, a group that handles transactions for a wide range of clients, small and large.
In his practice, Nick helps clients to utilize Delaware corporations, limited liability companies, statutory trusts and other alternative entities in a variety of situations, from small business start-ups to complex commercial transactions. He can assist clients with forming and dissolving entities, structuring transactions, drafting and negotiating contracts, and providing Delaware legal opinions to support their closings. Nick also has significant experience and can advise clients negotiating energy industry and other industrial...
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Stuart Grant
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Business, Antitrust and Consumer
New York University School of Law
Stuart Grant of Delaware is an internationally recognized business leader, litigator and legal investor. Prior to founding Bench Walk Advisors, he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., which grew under his leadership and capital investment into one of the world’s most formidable plaintiff advocacy firms. He recently retired from Grant & Eisenhofer to devote his professional time to BWA.
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Michael J. Duffy
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney with 13 years of experience
1105 North Market Street
15th floor
Wilmington, DE 19801
Free ConsultationBusiness, Appeals, IP and Trademarks
Rutgers University - Newark
Michael J. Duffy is an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s Business Department. He focuses his practice on general corporate matters, with a concentration on government contracting, intellectual property, finance, consulting, employment, real estate, and corporate governance. Michael has extensive experience with a wide variety of business transactions, from initial contact with transaction targets and indications of interest, through to closing and post-transactional events.
Michael has represented businesses in a broad range of industries including pharmaceutical distribution and research, technology, construction, and real estate, in matters of negotiating and drafting organizational documents, distribution agreements, independent contractor agreements, construction agreements and purchase agreements, as...
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Francis G.X. Pileggi
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationBusiness
Francis practices primarily in the areas of corporate and commercial litigation. His practice includes representation in high-stakes disputes for a wide range of clients in many industries as well as for utility companies, governmental entities and non-profits in multiple states. He also has enjoyed success in litigating, in both federal and state appellate courts, groundbreaking Second Amendment cases and related constitutional issues on behalf of civil rights organizations. In 2015 and 2019, he was honored with The Chief Justice William Killen Award for Distinguished Second Amendment Appellate Advocacy.
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P. Clarkson Collins
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business
Dickinson School of Law
Clark Collins, Jr. has more than 40 years of litigation experience in complex corporate, commercial, and fiduciary matters in both jury and non-jury trials. Clark is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He represents corporations, directors and officers, and alternative entities and their managers and members in class, derivative, and individual actions involving governance, breach of fiduciary duty, appraisal, dissolution, summary proceedings, and claims for indemnification and advancement. He also represents clients in a wide variety of business tort, trust, fiduciary, and contract actions, including trade secret, unfair competition, lender liability, joint venture disputes, and professional liability...
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Aubrey Morin
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Aubrey Morin is an attorney in the Corporate and Commercial Litigation Practice Group. He focuses his practice on counseling and litigation involving corporations and other business entities formed under Delaware law.
Prior to joining Morris James, Aubrey worked as a corporate and business litigation attorney at a highly regarded Amlaw 200 firm and, prior to that, at a well-respected Delaware law firm, representing clients in a wide range of matters including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and business tort claims, as well as in disputes arising under Delaware’s business statutes.
Practice areas:
• Corporate and Fiduciary Litigation
amorin@morrisjames.com
302.888.6941
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Joseph Leonard
Wilmington, DE Business Law Lawyer
Business
Temple University
Joseph Leonard is an eDiscovery attorney in the Corporate and Commercial Litigation Group at Morris James. His practice involves partnering with in-house legal, IT, records management teams, and outside technology vendors, to provide start-to-finish litigation management. He is a seasoned attorney with extensive experience representing clients in matters related to internal investigations, data breach, electronic discovery and document retention. Joseph’s practice also includes managing large scale and complex document review projects.
Practice areas:
eDiscovery
Corporate and Fiduciary Litigation
jleonard@morrisjames.com
302.888.6872
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Albert Carroll
Wilmington, DE Business Law Attorney
Business and Arbitration & Mediation
Boston University School of Law
Albert Carroll is a partner of Morris James LLP and serves as Vice Chair of the Firm's Corporate and Commercial Litigation group. Albert focuses his practice on litigation involving corporations and alternative entities formed under Delaware law. He litigates fiduciary duty claims, contract disputes, M&A challenges, and summary proceedings under Delaware's business statutes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court. Albert also represents clients in contract or business tort litigation in Delaware federal court, the Delaware Superior Court, and arbitrations under Delaware law.
Another component of Albert's practice includes advising boards of directors, special committees, managers, or...