DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – NEW YORK
FREDERICK H. RITTS
BRICKFIELD, BURCHETTE,
RITTS & STONE, PC
1025 Thomas Jefferson Street NW
Suite 800 W
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-342-0800
Fax: 202-342-0807
fritts@bbrslaw.com
www.bbrslaw.com
ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES
BARBARA H. GALLO
KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3250
1201 W. Peachtree Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404-888-9700
Fax: 404-888-9577
gallo@khlawfirm.com
www.khlawfirm.com
ENVIRONMEN TAL LITIGATION
ENVIRONMENTAL
KEVIN H. HUDSON
FOLTZ MARTIN, LLC
Five Piedmont Center
Suite 750
3525 Piedmont Road Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30305
Tel: 404-231-9397
Fax: 404-237-1659
khudson@foltzmartin.com
www.foltzmartin.com
BUSINESS LITIGATION
CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION
Mr. Ritts represents large users of electric power and natural gas,
including rural electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities,
and industrial plants. Efforts include negotiation of purchase
contracts for electric power and natural gas, transmission
contracts and rates, electric restructuring, and natural gas
pipeline contracts and rates; evaluation of prices and rates; and
litigation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and
state regulatory agencies. He has also developed plans and
contracts for electric cooperatives to serve new loads (such as
pipelines) and to deal with distributed generation.
Barbara H. Gallo is a partner with Krevolin & Horst, LLC.
Ms. Gallo has extensive experience in all areas of environmental
law and environmental litigation. Ms. Gallo also negotiates
civil enforcement matters, advises and counsels on rulemaking
issues, and assists in corporate and real estate transactions,
including brownfield transactions, placement and monetization
of conservation easements, and transactions involving carbon
offsets and trading. Ms. Gallo has been listed as one of the
leading environmental attorneys in Chambers USA, America’s
Leading Lawyers for Business, and in The Best Lawyers in
America. She has repeatedly been among the Top 50 women
lawyers in Georgia Super Lawyers.
Kevin Hudson is the construction litigation chair for the complex
business litigation group of Foltz Martin. Mr. Hudson’s practice
focuses on general contractor construction counsel and
litigation matters. Mr. Hudson also handles select catastrophic
injury matters, and, in that capacity, Mr. Hudson has obtained
numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements.
DOUGLAS P. KREVOLIN
KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3250
1201 W. Peachtree Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404-888-9700
Fax: 404-888-9577
krevolin@khlawfirm.com
www.khlawfirm.com
RICHARD S. VALE
BLUE WILLIAMS, LLP
3421 North Causeway Boulevard
Suite 900
Metairie, LA 70002
Tel: 504-831-4091
Fax: 504-837-1182
rvale@bluewilliams.com
www.bluewilliams.com
JEFFERY A. TOCCHIO
DROHAN TOCCHIO &
MORGAN PC
175 Derby Street
Suite 30
Hingham, MA 02043
Tel: 781-749-7200
Fax: 781-740-4335
jtocchio@dtm-law.com
www.dtm-law.com
CONS TRUC TION & REAL ES TATE
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
REAL ESTATE
Doug Krevolin has focused his practice for more than 25 years
on representing entrepreneurs, emerging-growth companies,
owner-managed businesses, real estate developers, and
lenders. Doug has represented clients in acquiring all types
of real property, from raw land to shopping centers, office
buildings, and hotels, along with the development, financing,
and leasing of numerous properties. He is outside general
counsel to a number of businesses and regularly advises clients
on formation, financing, acquisitions and sales, contracts, and
corporate governance matters. Doug is a graduate of The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Emory
University School of Law.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
CONSTRUCTION/SURETY
For over 38 years, Mr. Vale has been at the forefront of
construction litigation. He has represented construction
companies and their insurers in a vast array of construction
defect claims, including structural issues; geotechnical
problems; cladding issues; plumbing, electrical, and HVAC
claims; and many mold claims. Mr. Vale has also represented
several construction companies regarding claims arising out of
roads, bridges, and other construction sites. Mr. Vale has been
named in the Louisiana Super Lawyers list in construction law in
four of the past five years.
LAND USE/ZONING
REAL ESTATE
Jeffery Tocchio is a partner at Drohan Tocchio & Morgan
PC, a well-established law firm in Hingham, Massachusetts.
He represents clients in matters involving real property
development and land use with specific emphasis on the
areas of project permitting, real estate and eminent domain
litigation, and sophisticated real estate leases and transactions.
Mr. Tocchio has tried more than 50 civil jury cases before the
Superior Court of the Commonwealth. He is Certified by the
Federal Highway Administration in Right-of-Way Appraisal. He
has recently been involved in the development and permitting
at the Hingham Shipyard and currently chairs the Hingham
Business Council of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.
DANIEL J. BEESON
LEVANDER, GILLEN & MILLER,
P.A.
633 South Concord Street
Suite 400
South St. Paul, MN 55075
Tel: 651-451-1831
Fax: 651-450-7384
dbeeson@levander.com
www.levander.com
LAND USE/ZONING
EMINEN T DOMAIN
Daniel J. Beeson brings over 33 years of experience to the
successful representation of individuals, corporations, and
businesses in eminent domain litigation. He is the chair of the
firm’s Eminent Domain Practice Group, a member of the Board
of Directors of the Minnesota Eminent Domain Institute, and
chair of the First District Bar Association Ethics Committee.
Dan has represented numerous local and national corporations
in total and partial condemnation takings, which have involved
complex multimillion-dollar severance damage claims,
including access takings, changes in highest and best use, and
adverse impacts to present and future use and development. He
has successfully litigated and secured loss-of-going-concern,
business-value damage awards and settlements.
DANIEL R. DOLAN, II
DOLAN & ASSOCIATES PC
5801 Osuna Road Northeast
Suite 106
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Tel: 505-883-1266
Fax: 505-888-7509
Cell: 505-269-2056
dan@lobo.net
www.dolan-envirolaw.com
AVIATION
CONSTRUC TION LI TIGATION
ENVIRONMENTAL
Mr. Dolan practices in West Texas and New Mexico and is
a licensed Professional Chemical Engineer. Clients include
governments, oil and chemical companies, landfills, developers,
and individuals with environmental issues, permitting, or
regulatory violations. He has tried and settled cases with
regulatory agencies involving air pollution, groundwater
contamination, and hazardous waste. He associates with trial
counsel on complex environmental cases where technical
evidence and expert witness prep is important and on insurance
coverage issues. Mr. Dolan also handles aviation cases,
construction and real property cases involving environmental
claims, remediation, environmental due diligence, and risk
reduction/shifting. Mr. Dolan owns/uses a Beechcraft B36TC.
LUCAS A. FERRARA
NEWMAN FERRARA LLP
1250 Broadway
27th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212-619-5400
Fax: 212-619-3090
lferrara@nfllp.com
www.nfllp.com
BUSINESS LITIGATION
GENERAL LI TIGATION
REAL ESTATE
For more than two decades, Lucas A. Ferrara has successfully
represented clients in a wide array of real estate disputes
initiated in federal, state, and local forums. In 2002, Mr. Ferrara
was appointed Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law
School. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Real
Estate at New York University’s School of Continuing and
Professional Studies, where he was the 1996 recipient of the
University’s Teacher’s Excellence Award. Mr. Ferrara is the
named co-author of Landlord and Tenant Practice in New York
(West Group) and is a contributing author to West’s New York
State Administrative Procedure and Practice. Regularly quoted in
The New York Times, you will find his daily musings on the latest
developments in the law at www.nyreblog.com.
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