BUSINESS & TRANSACTIONS
LIT
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DEBRA A. JENKS
CIKLIN LUBITZ MARTENS
& O’CONNELL
515 North Flagler Drive
20th Floor
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tel: 561-346-9854
debraa.jenks@gmail.com
Ms. Jenks has practiced in the areas of securities arbitration,
litigation, and regulation since 1987. She has experience in
defending major wire houses, independent broker/dealers,
registered investment advisors, and stockbrokers in retail,
industry, and employment disputes in arbitration and in court.
She also defends firms and individuals in regulatory matters.
She has significant experience in the defense of insured broker/
dealers and registered persons serving as counsel to insured
clients. She represents a diversified and wide range of clients
involved in various aspects of the securities business and
financial markets.
ALTERNATIVE DISPU TE RESOLU TION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
SECURI TIES LI TIGATION
RICHARD J. MCALPIN
MCALPIN CONROY P. A.
2805 Brickell BayView Center
80 Southwest 8th Street
Miami, FL 33130
Tel: 305-810-5400
Fax: 305-810-5401
rmcalpin@mcalpinconroy.com
www.mcalpinconroy.com
As one of only a handful of Florida lawyers certified in both Civil
Trial Law and Admiralty and Maritime Law, Richard McAlpin, of
McAlpin Conroy, combines his unique qualifications with over
30 years of trial experience. Richard’s rare, real world experience
in the industry – everything from marine salvage to commercial
towing to professional yacht operations – has proven valuable in
defending a wide range of maritime disputes at both the state
and federal level. With scores of precedent-setting decisions
to his credit, it is not surprising that McAlpin has received
the highest rating, AV, from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Richard regularly represents major cruise lines and yacht
owners in a variety of matters throughout the state.
TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME
HARRY A. PAYTON
PAY TON & ASSOCIATES LLC
One Biscayne Tower
2 South Biscayne Boulevard
Suite 1600
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-372-3500
Fax: 305-577-4895
payton@payton-law.com
www.payton-law.com
Harry Payton is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Business
Litigation and Civil Trial. With over 45 years of experience in
state and federal court, he represents domestic and foreign
corporations and high net worth individuals in complex business
litigation matters involving commercial real estate, commercial
foreclosures and lender liability; corporate, shareholder and
partnership disputes; litigation involving fine art; intra-family
business disputes; probate, will, and trust litigation; and
professional malpractice cases. Harry was appointed to the
Supreme Court of Florida’s Committee on Professionalism for the
Eleventh Judicial Circuit and serves on The Florida Bar’s Judicial
Nominating Procedures Committee. In the ABA, he is a member
of the Corporate Counsel Committee, Section of Litigation.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILIT Y
ESTATE & TRUST LI TIGATION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
JEFFREY D. HORST
KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3250
1201 W Peachtree Street Northwest
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, franchises, intellectual
property, officers/directors, 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, professionalism, 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
media, including 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.
INTELLEC TUAL PROPERT Y LI TIGATION
SECURITIES LI TIGATION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
C. MICHAEL (MIKE)
JOHNSON
THE JOHNSON INSURANCE
LAW GROUP, LLC
1629 Monroe Drive N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30324
Tel: 404-442-8836
Fax: 404-442-8835
mjohnson@tjilg.com
www.TJILG.com
I am an AV-rated insurance litigator with 30 years of experience
litigating complex insurance matters on a national level in more
than 25 states and have won hundreds of cases in the state and
federal courts and on appeal including before the Second, Fourth,
Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Federal Appellate Courts. I
represent my client’s interest in primary, excess, and umbrella
coverages concerning large U.S. and international risks. Specific
coverages litigated include builder’s risk property, OCIP and
CCIP liability for major construction projects, large commercial
and industrial first-party property risks, environmental liability
risk for the chemical and petroleum industries, commercial
general liability for U.S. and international businesses, E&O
professional liability, and D&O liability for directors and officers.
CONSTRUC TION LI TIGATION
TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME
INSURANCE COVERAGE
HALSEY G. KNAPP, JR.
KREVOLIN & HORST, LLC
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3250
1201 W Peachtree Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404-888-9700
Fax: 404-888-9577
hknapp@khlawfirm.com
www.khlawfirm.com
Mr. Knapp is recognized as an aggressive and attentive litigator
with good trial experience and a strong reputation for business
divorce cases. His trial practice includes representing clients in
crisis management, corporate governance, and business tort
litigation. Drawing on his extensive negotiation and dispute
resolution experience, he regularly counsels clients on business
arrangements, limited liability business operating agreements,
graceful departures, and more antagonistic bet the company
business litigation. Mr. Knapp brings a solution-oriented
approach to disputes.
CLOSELY HELD BUSINESS
CRISIS MANAGEMEN T
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
PETER B. CAREY
CAREY & HARTMANN 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 LITIGATION
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
PETER E. KANARIS
FISHER KANARIS, P.C.
One South Wacker Drive
Suite 3100
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel: 312-474-1400
Fax: 312-474-1410
pkanaris@fisherkanaris.com
www.fisherkanaris.com
Mr. Kanaris is co-managing director of Fisher Kanaris, P.C.
His practice involves first-party and third-party coverage, bad
faith, and reinsurance litigation. He also handles antitrust,
commercial, construction, and environmental litigation and
insurance subrogation. Mr. Kanaris has extensive experience
in complex multiparty litigation, having tried cases in
numerous state and federal jurisdictions. He has provided loss
counseling and coordinated litigation strategies for several
insurance carriers in connection with catastrophic events, such
as Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Florida hurricanes, 9/11, the
2003 Northeast blackout, the 1994 Northridge earthquake,
and 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. He has represented and advised
clients with respect to litigation pursued in Asia and Europe.
CONSTRUC TION LI TIGATION
BUSINESS LITIGATION
INSURANCE COVERAGE
ROBERT L. NORA
NORA & TANZILLO, LLP
10 South LaSalle Street
Suite 2500
Chicago, IL 60603
Tel: 312-650-7900
Fax: 312-650-7910
rnora@ntllplaw.com
www.noratanzillo.com
Robert L. Nora is a trial lawyer who, for over the past 30 years,
has specialized in the defense of medical negligence, product
liability, and catastrophic injury cases. He is a founding and
managing partner of his firm. Mr. Nora has tried a substantial
number of serious injury cases which, almost without exception,
have resulted in defense verdicts. One of these cases involved
the first wrongful life case tried in Illinois. Although negligence
was admitted, the jury returned a defense verdict. He was
recently honored by Chicago Lawyer magazine as one of its top
tort defense lawyers as elected by his peers. His trial results are
regularly reported in local legal publications along with The
National Law Journal and Verdicts and Settlements.
PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE
PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRAC TICE: DEFENSE
