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Advisory Board Spotlight
Kenneth M. Suggs, a principal in the firm of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, has been a consumer legal rights companion for nearly 40 years. Known for his advocacy in the areas of medical malpractice, product liability, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death, he has been recognized nationally as one of the nation’s finest trial lawyers.
W. Mark Lanier is the founder of The Lanier Law Firm, where he also serves as lead litigation counsel. Mr. Lanier is certified as a personal injury trial specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and practices nationwide. In addition to his active practice, Mr. Lanier serves on the Board of Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development and the Board of Directors for the National Center for State Courts.
First appointed as a mediator for the federal courts in 1999, Mark’s current mediation practice includes state and federal actions involving intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets), employment (class and individual cases), consumer (class and individual cases), commercial, antitrust, unfair competition and contract actions, insurance coverage and contract disputes, real estate leasing and sale disputes, business acquisition and dissolution disputes, and soci...
Jüri Raidla is the founder and Senior Partner of Ellex Raidla. He is one of the most widely recognised legal practitioners in Estonia and the only individual that has been endorsed in the Chambers & Partners legal directories from Estonia in the "Senior Statesmen" category. Jüri Raidla served as the first Minister of Justice of Estonia (from 1990 to 1992) as well as the Chairman of the expert committee that drafted the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia in 1992. Mr. Raidla was also t...
Alberto Estrella is a Member of the firm and is its Managing Member. Since Alberto joined the firm in 1994, he has been involved in hundreds of trials and earned a reputation as a distinguished and sought-after trial lawyer. He is involved in litigation and asked to advise business clients on a diverse variety of matters, including commercial and contract disputes, complex litigation, premises liability and insurance defense, antitrust and business regulation, federal laws and litigation, tra...
Advisory Board Member
Matt Gorson currently serves as Senior Chairman of the firm. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s Southeast and California offices and previously served as the firm’s President. Matt joined Greenberg Traurig in 1973 as the firm’s 14th lawyer, and became one of the most prolific and in-demand real estate attorneys in South Florida. His work over the last two decades has played a key role in revitalizing the urban landscape and changing the skyline of Downtown Miami, Brickell Ave...
Christian von Hammerstein is a partner of Raue LLP. In addition to his busy Energy and Competition practice, Mr. von Hammerstein is a member of the Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law Berlin, German Institution of Arbitration German Lawyers Association, and Study Association Competition Law (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.) His primary focus areas are energy, natural resources, climate change, antitrust and competition law, litigation and arbitration, power plant projects, energy tra...