Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Scott Krause and Ashley Marucci as partners in its Baltimore Office. Krause’s practice focuses on defending healthcare professionals and the defense of legal malpractice, employment, and directors and officers claims, while Marucci focuses on legal malpractice, medical negligence, personal injury, and employment claims.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Heath Fox to its Seattle office as a partner in the Healthcare Practice. Dedicated to serving the people in the healthcare profession who work hard to help others, Fox focuses his civil litigation practice on the defense of claims against hospitals, physicians, nurses, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare professionals.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Partners Ryan Frazier, Angela Trueblood, and Associate Chie Walker to its Workers’ Compensation Practice. The trio will extend the practice’s presence to Lewis Brisbois’ Sacramento office, which hasn’t had a workers’ compensation presence in its 20-year history, and enable Lewis Brisbois to better serve its clients throughout California.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome David Russo as a partner and Matthew Johnston as an associate to its San Francisco office in the growing Admiralty, Maritime & Energy Litigation Practice. The addition of Russo and Johnston ramps up Lewis Brisbois’ West Coast maritime presence, which the firm has developed in response to client need. 

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Lynn L. Krieger to its San Francisco office as a partner in the Admiralty, Maritime & Energy Litigation Practice. Krieger will help expand the practice’s presence on the West Coast, where she will apply her expertise defending clients in maritime personal injury and cargo matters.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Christopher R. Rodriguez to its Sacramento, California, office as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice. Rodriguez has a history of successfully representing clients in jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations in both federal and state court, focusing on government contracting, construction, health care, and financial services litigation.

Lewis Brisbois announces the addition of a new six-lawyer employment and labor team in Houston, Texas. Led by seasoned Texas trial lawyer William “Bill” S. Helfand, who joins Lewis Brisbois as a partner, the group also includes Partners Norman R. Giles and Charles T. Jeremiah and Associates Earl H. Walker, Andrew del Junco, and Avniel J. Adler. 

Newark, NJ (May 2, 2016) – Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of a seven-lawyer team to its Newark, New Jersey, office. Led by Partner Peter B. Van Deventer, who also chairs Lewis Brisbois’ nationwide Aviation Practice, the members of the Newark team, formerly of LeClairRyan, focus their practice on the defense of aviation clients across the nation in all areas of aviation law and litigation. Clients include leading domestic and international commercial airlines; aviation product manufacturers; owners and operators of private aircraft entities; and insurers.