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Eleanor D’Ambrosio combines her policy and regulatory experience to provide clients with proactive and responsive counsel and advocacy in utility-related regulatory and business matters, helping them provide efficient and high quality service to the public.
Shelly has more than 30 years of experience helping clients in complex litigation situations, with a strong background in multi-district litigation and class action defense. She has developed a focus on process and efficiency in dealing with large scale litigation. With a current emphasis on environmental litigation, Shelly handles CERCLA litigation, environmental nuisance, oil and gas industry environmental impacts, and federal and state compliance issues relating to air quality, water quality, noise pollution, and hazardous waste. She works closely with technical experts in investigations, analysis, compliance, and the crafting of experts’ reports in the environmental and natural resources arenas.
Jim Dankenbring represents businesses in mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, complex contract negotiations, and executive compensation.
Matt David helps large technology companies navigate the intricacies of intellectual property litigation, skillfully applying his background in engineering and as a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) examiner to address patent applications with hands-on intel and exceptional creativity. Matt litigates, prepares, and prosecutes patents primarily in the computer, electrical, and mechanical arts. He also has experience with post-grant proceedings at the USPTO.
With over 20 years of experience as a litigator, Shannon Davies focuses on complex litigation. She helps clients successfully resolve disputes that others may deem difficult to quantify, challenging to explain, or too complicated to tackle. She is adept at uncovering every facet of a case, developing a detailed tactical plan, and crafting a story that will achieve results.
Gardiner Davis has over 35 years of experience representing businesses of all sizes in commercial disputes. He helps businesses enforce their rights against defaulting vendors, buyers, and competitors.
Katherine Davis provides critical guidance for labor and employment clients so they can productively operate their businesses with minimal employee and compliance issues. This includes advising and structuring effective human resources staff, developing company-wide best practices, mitigating potential challenges and disputes, and preventing serious legal matters.
Madeline Davis represents contractors and subcontractors in all phases of construction litigation, employing an aggressive yet reasonable, value-oriented approach which considers the needs of all parties to secure consistently favorable outcomes. Her experience extends to both private and public projects, where she demonstrates a proven ability to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders. She has completed over 10 trials, several of which she served as first chair.
Scott Davis helps clients resolve complex business disputes through strategic counseling and litigation, advancing their interests while reducing financial exposure as he creates optimal paths for success in and out of the courtroom. His areas of focus include insurance coverage and bad faith claims, environmental disputes, financial disputes, business litigation, and personal injury litigation.
Aaron Dean represents general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, public and private owners, developers, and A/E in every aspect of construction dispute resolution. Notably, he is the Chapter Attorney for the Minnesota Subcontractors Association, where he drafts and testifies about legislation affecting the construction industry.
Audra M. Dean defends businesses in complex commercial, product liability, mass tort, and toxic tort disputes. With a domestic and international reach, she has defended manufacturers and retailers in product liability matters involving consumer products, medical devices, power tools, and vaping products.
Joshua Decker is Of Counsel with the firm and focuses his practice on estate planning, tax planning, and trust and estate administration. He helps families navigate all areas of estate planning with special knowledge in special needs planning and charitable giving.
Sadaf Deedar’s legal and professional experience informs her approach to handling patent prosecution and litigation, trademark prosecution and litigation, internet law, and trade secrets.
Kris Dekker assists banks, financial institutions, and other lenders of varying sizes close their transactions efficiently. He understands that timely execution is critical to a lender’s ability to compete in its marketplace.
Mike Delaney has represented management in traditional labor relations matters, including collective bargaining negotiations, grievances and arbitrations, and union campaigns and matters before the National Labor Relations Board for more than 39 years.
Mykaela Delgado Schluter represents public, private, and corporate clients with a diverse range of litigation needs, with a focus on real estate and construction litigation.
Bryan DeMatteo specializes in helping companies nationwide develop, protect, and enforce their patents, trademarks and copyrights. He has extensive experience litigating and prosecuting patents and has actively participated at trial in numerous patent cases. Bryan also represents clients in connection with post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and routinely conducts patent IP due diligence on behalf of his clients (including freedom to operate, infringement and validity opinions), as well as for venture capitalists and other entities, including funds wishing to invest in IP litigation.
Taylor’s practice focuses on administrative law in the area of public utility regulation. She represents investor and municipally owned utility clients before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
Alexis Denny helps clients navigate complex litigation and mitigate regulatory and administrative risks, achieving outcomes aligned with their unique business goals and objectives. Her practice focuses on the health care sector, where she brings a fresh perspective and stability-oriented approach to current matters challenging health care entities large and small.
Patrick Derksen works with a broad range of clients in construction, transactional and bankruptcy matters, facilitating sophisticated transactions, financings, and agreements beneficial to all stakeholders.
Carl Desenberg is a tax attorney who has spent over 25 years advising clients on transactional tax matters.
Brenden Desmond works with special districts all over Colorado so they can more efficiently and effectively serve their property owners and residents.
Brian Devling represents lenders in the origination and workout of middle-market commercial finance transactions. Applying a resourceful and pragmatic approach to collaborative planning, he constructs strong foundations for consistently risk-averse and cost-efficient outcomes. Brian’s primary focus is representing asset-based lenders in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and maintaining credit facilities.
Brian P. DeVoss represents private developers, institutional investors, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), entrepreneurs, and family offices in the acquisition and disposition of multiple classes of commercial real estate and private operating companies with successful, risk-mitigating strategies cultivated over nearly two decades of experience.
Josh Dickinson is a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Labor and Employment Groups. He represents businesses and professionals across a wide spectrum of disputes, including intellectual property, employment, construction, and creditors’ rights.
Jamie Dickinson is a full-service litigator who represents public, private, and corporate clients with all of their litigation needs.
Samuel DiPietro collaborates with families and their advisors to develop customized estate plans that promote financial literacy, preserve family history, and convey the deeper meaning behind family wealth.
Troy Dobbs assists clients with all aspects of business and estate planning, offering structured, goal-oriented legal counsel while crafting carefully tailored solutions based on each client’s unique goals and objectives. With acute attention to detail and exceptional communication skills, he creates clear, step-by-step processes which preserve assets and protect wealth amid often highly sensitive and complex circumstances.
Lindsay Doman is a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. Her practice focuses on bankruptcy. She represents creditors, receivers, trustees, and others in bankruptcy, restructuring, and non-bankruptcy insolvency matters.
Nik Donta helps businesses and individuals protect and monetize their ideas, inventions, and services through the utilization of attorneys with a background relevant to a growing client base for Spencer Fane.
Jedidiah Dooley brings nearly 20 years of litigation experience to partner with clients to achieve their goals when disputes arise – whether that be through a negotiated settlement or taking matters all the way through trial.
John Dorman leans on more than three decades of extensive municipal law experience to provide clients with creative solutions to resolve complex issues in a favorable manner.
Patrice Douglas counsels banks, energy companies and utilities on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. She helps clients navigate the complex regulatory issues they face in today’s economy so they can close transactions efficiently and move forward to realize their goals.
Jim Drakeley has four decades of experience prosecuting and defending a broad range of business-related litigation, ranging from simple to complex matters. He has achieved meaningful outcomes for clients in disputes over complex contracts, employment matters, covenants not-to-compete, theft of trade secrets, commercial leases, commercial insurance policies, shareholder and partnership relations, business divorces, and fiduciary duty obligations.
Shawn Draney assists cities, special districts, irrigation companies, and landowners with advice, planning, transactions, negotiations, and litigation involving water resources.
Sherry Dreisewerd combines creativity with sound legal judgment to close complex financial transactions, representing lenders, banks, borrowers, buyers, and sellers in connection with originating and selling real estate loans and commercial and industrial loans. Her commercial finance experience encompasses a wide variety of notable and impactful transactions, including secured, unsecured, syndicated, maritime, acquisition, and equipment financing transactions.
David Driggs takes a methodical, highly collaborative approach to helping clients navigate a wide array of intricate business transactions, employing his background in real estate finance.
Doug Driggs, a leader in real estate and corporate law, assists local, regional, and national clients with transactional and business needs. His practice includes real estate acquisition, disposition, financing, development, and leasing of master planned communities and office, industrial, multifamily, and retail properties as well as entity formation and structuring.
Tom Driggs advises clients in the areas of water transactions and regulation, real estate and corporate transactions, and related government relations issues in Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. His clients include farmers, ranchers, dairies, hotel casinos, power companies, mining and industrial companies, golf course owners, real estate developers, individual homeowners, and a multinational resource-efficient agricultural producer working to grow blueberries in the Nevada desert.
Christopher Droubay’s practice assists clients with a variety of civil litigation matters including cybersecurity issues, insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, employment issues, and regulatory compliance, with a primary focus on health law. He represents and counsels clients on a number of complex statutory and regulatory issues, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medicaid and Medicare issues, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws, and credentialing issues.
Lawrence Drucker skillfully navigates complex patent, copyright, trademark, unfair competition, and other commercial litigation matters, vigorously protecting his clients’ interests amid high-stakes disputes. As a seasoned trial attorney representing clients in high-stakes patent litigation in courts throughout the nation, he is frequently called on to serve as lead counsel in cases between competitors as well as in patent enforcement actions backed by litigation funders.
Adam Dummer represents individuals and insurance providers in matters pertaining to personal injury, wrongful death, construction defect, and other related litigation in a private practice that manages the full life cycle of a case. He performs case discovery, conducts depositions, drafts all forms of necessary legal documents, and provides representation in district court hearings, providing collaborative client service which results in beneficial resolutions.
Joseph “Joe” Dworak helps individuals and organizations on a wide range of matters while developing solutions that comply with rapidly evolving legal requirements in litigation, administrative actions, environmental matters, health law, and governmental affairs. Clients seek Joe’s advice as a result of his practical experience, creative problem-solving, and tenacity. He is passionate about advancing clients’ short- and long-term priorities and developing processes that promote compliance and risk mitigation.
Angus Dwyer helps corporate and individual clients resolve legal disputes in the most advantageous manner possible under the circumstances, so they can keep their focus on their business.
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