GEORGIA – KENTUCKY
BUSINESS & TRANSACTIONS
LITIG
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J. ROBB CRUSER
CRUSER & MITCHELL, LLP
Meridian II, Suite 2000
275 Scientific Drive
Norcross, GA 30092
Tel: 404-881-2626
Fax: 404-881-2630
rcruser@cmlawfirm.com
www.cmlawfirm.com
J. Robb Cruser is a founding Partner at Cruser & Mitchell, LLP
which has offices in Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Florida,
Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Robb is
an AV-rated attorney, a trained mediator, and a former Certified
Public Accountant. Since 1990, he has represented individuals,
corporations, self-insureds, and insurance companies in state
and federal courts. His practice emphasizes the areas of
professional liability, transportation litigation, products liability,
premises liability, insurance coverage disputes, bad faith claims,
and other significant civil matters. He has tried and mediated
cases throughout Georgia and established appellate decisions
on a variety of legal issues.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILIT Y: DEFENSE
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: PRODUC TS
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: GENERAL
JEFFREY D. HORST
KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3250
1201 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404-888-9594
Fax: 404-888-9577
horst@khlawfirm.com
www.khlawfirm.com
Jeff specializes in complex business litigation including
appeals, corporate governance, contracts, franchise, intellectual
property, officer/director, securities, and trade secrets. Jeff
has been recognized by his peers as one of the most effective
business litigators in Georgia. Many attorneys refer clients to
Jeff because of his creativity, efficiency, trial experience, and
successful track record in handling complex, cutting-edge
legal issues. He has tried cases in five states and has handled a
number of high-profile matters covered in The New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal. Jeff recently won a defense verdict
for the CEO and EVP of a large Georgia financial institution in a
shareholder derivative trial.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
IN TELLEC TUAL PROPERT Y LITIGATION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
JO L. MEEKS
JAMES – BATES – BRANNAN –
GROOVER – LLP
3399 Peachtree Road
Suite 1700
Atlanta, GA 30326
Tel: 404-997-6020
Fax: 404-997-6021
jmeeks@jamesbatesllp.com
www.jamesbatesllp.com
Jo Meeks is a partner in James – Bates – Brannan – Groover –
LLP’s Atlanta office. Her litigation practice focuses on business
disputes, securities and financial services litigation, and financial
and insurance professional liability defense. She regularly
represents brokers, banks, broker-dealers, insurance agents,
registered investment advisers, and other financial industry
companies and professionals in court and in arbitration. A
former president of the Atlanta Bar Litigation Section, Jo
currently serves as a board member of the Atlanta Bar
Foundation, a Master with the Bleckley Inn of Court, and an
arbitrator with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).
She holds a B.B. A. in accounting from the University of Georgia
and graduated from UGA’s School of Law in 1979.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILIT Y: DEFENSE
SECURITIES LITIGATION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
KIMBALL R. ANDERSON
WINSTON & STRAWN LLP
35 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel: 312-558-5858
Fax: 312-558-5700
kanderson@winston.com
www.winston.com
Kimball Anderson is a veteran trial lawyer with 36 years of
experience at Winston & Strawn, where he is a senior partner and
former General Counsel of the firm. A Fellow of the American
College of Trial Lawyers, his national trial practice concentrates
on the areas of professional liability, product liability, patent
and trademark infringement, and class actions. Mr. Anderson
also serves as an expert witness in professional responsibility
matters and as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. As national
and local counsel to Fortune 100 companies, Mr. Anderson has
tried many cases to verdict in state and federal courts around
the country and has argued cases before the United States
Supreme Court.
ALTERNATIVE DISPU TE RESOLU TION
PROFESSIONAL LIABILIT Y: DEFENSE
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
PETER B. CAREY
CAREY & HAR TMANN LLC
135 South LaSalle Street
Suite 2200
Chicago, IL 60603
Tel: 312-541-0360
Fax: 312-641-0360
pcarey@careyhartmann.com
Peter B. Carey has over 40 years of experience in litigating
complex civil actions throughout the United States and in
foreign jurisdictions. His clients have included large public
companies, such as the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, along with small and medium-sized
businesses, individuals, and units of state and local government.
His practice includes contract disputes, corporate control and
shareholder conflicts, corporate governance disputes, lender
liability litigation, shareholder derivative actions, securities
and commodities fraud claims, class actions, environmental
litigation, and professional liability claims.
GENERAL LI TIGATION
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
DAVID E. KAWALA
S WANSON, MARTIN & BELL,
LLP
330 North Wabash
Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: 312-321-8436
Fax: 312-321-0990
dkawala@smbtrials.com
www.smbtrials.com
David E. Kawala concentrates his trial practice on the defense
of civil litigation. David’s experience has focused on a variety
of personal injury litigation, including products liability,
construction and premises liability, and chemical exposure
matters. His trial experience includes over 30 trials in state and
federal courts in Illinois and Indiana, and he has been admitted
pro hac vice in various courts across the country. In recognition
of his trial experience, David was recently inducted into the
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: PRODUC TS
PROFESSIONAL LIABILIT Y: DEFENSE
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: GENERAL
PATRICIA POLIS
MCCRORY
FROST BROWN TODD LLC
201 North Illinois Street
Suite 1900
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Tel: 317-237-3235
Fax: 317-237-3900
pmccrory@fbtlaw.com
www.frostbrowntodd.com
Pat McCrory concentrates her practice on business and patent
litigation, environmental, and corporate disputes. Pat has
represented officers and directors in cases involving breaches
of fiduciary duties and financial institutions in lender liability
issues. She has defended corporations in numerous corporate
matters in both state and federal litigation. She advises
corporations on environmental issues before state, federal, and
administrative agencies. Pat has litigated on behalf of clients
in over 48 reported cases and numerous unreported cases and
jury trials before U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals,
and state courts. She has been on the Indiana Super Lawyers
list since 2004 and is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
DORIS L. SWEETIN
SWEETIN LAW GROUP, P.C.
431 West 43rd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Tel: 317-522-0644
Fax: 888-515-2919
doris@sweetinlaw.com
www.sweetinlaw.com
Doris L. Sweetin concentrates on litigation, trial, and appellate
practice in insurance defense, general liability, products and
premises liability, workers’ compensation, construction, and
business and corporate law. She is licensed to practice law
both in Ohio and Indiana. She is a member of the ISBA and
is admitted to the Ohio and Indiana State Bars, the Federal
District Courts of both Ohio and Indiana, and the Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals. Doris is very active in the DRI, including its
Trial Tactics Committee, and was the Chair for the 2010 DRI
Damages Seminar. She is also active with DTCI and is currently
serving her third term on its Board of Editors. Doris graduated
cum laude from Wichita State University in 1988.
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
CONSTRUC TION LI TIGATION
CIVIL LI TIGATION DEFENSE
RONALD G. SHEFFER
SHEFFER LAW FIRM PLLC
101 South 5th Street
National City Tower, Suite 1450
Louisville, K Y 40202
Tel: 502-582-1600
Fax: 502-582-1193
rsheffer@kylaw.com
www.shefferlawfirm.com
Ronnie Sheffer has been a trial attorney for over 30 years.
His trial experience is varied. He tries both criminal and civil
cases. In criminal law he has served as a prosecuting attorney
and represented state elected officials, bankers, attorneys,
and company executives in white collar cases. In civil cases,
Mr. Sheffer has represented the City of Nashville, Tennessee, in
an environmental case; General Motors in employee wrongful
discharge cases; construction companies in various cases; some
of the nation’s leading jockeys in a suit to establish their rights
under the First Amendment to wear logos on their uniforms;
doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice cases; and estates
of coal miners killed in coal mine explosions.
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: GENERAL
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
