Kelly Almeter focuses her practice on commercial litigation in state and federal courts. She has experience litigating a wide variety of issues, including representing insurers in coverage and bad faith matters. Kelly regularly advises carriers on coverage issues under environmental and pollution,…

Bryce Benson litigates complex disputes for a broad range of clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, mid-size companies, and individuals. His experience spans a variety of sectors, including financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. Bryce has substantial experience…

Will Craven focuses his practice on complex litigation, strategy, and risk transfer matters. His clients often call on him for their toughest legal and business challenges, with Will representing insurers and insureds in high exposure defense litigation and claims management. Will’s practice also…

Rola Daaboul is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney who focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, business torts, and personal disputes in state and federal courts. She advises clients on a wide range of matters including intellectual property, employment, real estate, construction,…

Wes Davis is a commercial litigator focusing on insurance coverage and construction disputes. His insurance coverage practice encompasses first-party and third-party insurance coverage matters throughout the United States. Wes advises insurance companies on policy coverage issues during the claim…

Eduardo Espinosa is an experienced court-appointed fiduciary frequently recommended by regulators to serve in proceedings where there is concern that alleged fraudsters will dissipate the remaining assets. A former enforcement lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Eddy has…

James Grice focuses his practice on general commercial real estate, primarily representing investors, developers, operators, and users in the data center and digital infrastructure realm. Jim has distinguished himself in the data center and renewable energy sector where he utilizes his intimate…

Melissa Harvey focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions, with a special emphasis on retail leasing. Melissa spent more than a decade working in the in-house legal departments of retailers, where she gained a keen understanding of both the legal and business needs involved in real…

Christy Hawkins (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, PLS) focuses her practice on privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and incident response. She advises clients on state, federal, and international data security and privacy issues, including compliance and risk management. She supports…

Jason Heep has litigated and resolved commercial disputes, complex insurance-coverage issues, and environmental-remediation matters across the country for more than 20 years. He uses his environmental-engineering background to assist with environmental-regulatory compliance and preventive measures…

Xakema Henderson focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation. She has experience litigating high-stakes matters in state and federal court and has litigated a wide range of issues, including insurance coverage and bad faith matters; data breach, privacy, and cybersecurity matters; and…

Michael Hess is an experienced litigator who focuses his practice on complex commercial and business litigation matters. Michael combines his strong written and oral advocacy skills with an energetic, detail-oriented and creative approach to every case his clients entrust him with no matter the size…

Byron Keaton is an associate in Akerman’s Consumer Financial Services, Data and Technology (CFS+) Practice Group. Byron represents a wide array of financial services companies in state and federal litigation including class actions. He regularly defends financial services providers against…

Benjamin Lancaster focuses his practice on general and healthcare commercial real estate with an emphasis on development, investment, leasing, and finance. Benjamin represents developers and landlords through all stages of multi-use and industrial development, including the negotiation of purchase…

Eric Levy focuses his practice in the areas of information privacy, data breach response, and insurance coverage. Eric’s counsel on privacy and cybersecurity compliance includes drafting privacy policies and notices, and negotiating contracts allocating data protection and data gathering…

Valerie Lott focuses her practice on insurance coverage litigation in state and federal courts. Valerie assists insurers with complex first-party and third-party coverage issues, bad faith avoidance, and claim resolution. As part of her practice, Valerie represents insurers in litigated…

With more than 28 years of experience in infrastructure and energy transactions, Eddie Lowry is a trusted authority for clients in this dynamic and rapidly evolving sector. He advises developers, operators, and investors on the full economic cycle of data centers and data energy projects, including…

Mark McElree focuses his practice on real estate transactions, finance, and oil and gas matters. His clients include real estate developers, owners and investors, national and multi-national corporations and money center banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. Mark also…

Esther McKean focuses her practice on business bankruptcy, creditor's rights, and commercial litigation. She helps creditors and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings recover assets, obtain relief from the automatic stay, and negotiate plan provisions. Esther also represents debtors in bankruptcy…

Michael McKinley focuses his practice on project development and real estate, with an emphasis on data centers. Michael has experience representing landlords and tenants in a variety of short and long term build to suit leases, co-location leases, master services agreements and service level…

As a court-appointed receiver and counsel to receivers and trustees, Michael Napoli works to maximize the value of insolvent entities in order to make a fair and equitable distribution to creditors. His experience covers a variety of industries with an emphasis on life settlements. Outside of the…

Highly regarded for his skillful resolution of bankruptcy and insolvency matters, David Parham represents corporate and partnership debtors, creditor committees, equity holders, secured and unsecured creditors, lessors, and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings, litigation, and workouts. His…

Bryce Pilawski focuses his practice on insurance coverage disputes. He has experience assisting insurers in complex commercial litigation including coverage issues under environmental and pollution, commercial liability, umbrella, excess, errors and omissions, commercial auto, property, and…

Serving as Office Managing Partner of Akerman’s Dallas office, Matt Schroeder represents major insurance companies in litigation with significant exposure claims that pose extreme risk of loss to the company. He advises insurance companies not only on related policy coverage issues and disputes, but…

Sam Scott focuses his practice on insurance defense and litigation. Sam handles insurance coverage issues, breach of contract claims, and bad faith insurance disputes in state and federal courts. Additionally, he has extensive experience analyzing insurance coverage on emerging environmental issues,…

Elliot Strader has an exceptionally diverse litigation practice. Elliot has successfully represented clients in jury and bench trials, in addition to obtaining numerous summary judgments. He focuses on complex, high-stake matters including those involving COVID-19/Coronavirus, insurance coverage and…

Laura Taveras represents debtors and secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. She also has experience guiding clients in insolvency-related litigation, out-of-court restructuring, and workouts. Laura's work includes debtor representations in Subchapter 5 and Chapter 15 for…

Rob Weitzel has significant experience in all aspects of litigation, including strategy development, fact investigation, taking and defending depositions, discovery (including eDiscovery in complex matters), motion practice, preparing fact and expert witnesses, negotiating favorable settlements,…

A seasoned attorney, leader, and executive advisor, Jeremy Williams represents clients in all aspects of litigation and arbitration. Drawing on his almost two decades of experience as a law firm trial lawyer and deputy general counsel of a multi-billion dollar holding company with operating assets…