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Pete Woods
Pete Woods has spent nearly 29 years helping build and sustain the firm he co-founded, guided throughout by a commitment to serving clients and the legal community to the best of his abilities.
Matthew B. Woods
Matthew Woods has built a career spanning the full arc of modern legal practice — from the era of the Selectric typewriter, onion skin paper and white-out to today's age of artificial intelligence.
Alvin A. Wolff
Alvin Wolff has built his career as a solo trial lawyer, developing a practice rooted in courtroom work and supported by clients who continue calling on him for representation.
Robert J. Tomaso
Bob Tomaso began practicing law in 1989, in an era when there were no computers or typewriters, all work was handwritten or dictated, the firm library served as the social hub for associates and partners expected lawyers in the office five and a half days a week, Saturday mornings included.
Judge Edward W. Sweeney
Ed Sweeney served as First Lieutenant with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971 before embarking on a legal career spanning more than 44 years.
Jill Frost Smith
Jill Smith's litigation practice spans professional negligence, construction defect, premises liability, products liability, toxic torts, wrongful death and vehicular collisions, as well as environmental matters involving asbestos, silica, mold and lead paint, Title VII and civil rights defense and computer software and business disputes.
Anthony G. Simon
Tony Simon has spent more than 35 years practicing law, building a career centered on representing individuals and small companies against the world's largest corporations.
Gary R. Sarachan
Gary Sarachan entered the practice without a mentor in the traditional sense, learning the craft by observing other lawyers and approaching the work with a clean slate he has never regretted.
William H. Sanders Jr.
Bill Sanders has found particular satisfaction in two endeavors: helping establish and grow his current law firm while watching its personnel advance to leadership positions, and mediating over 4,000 claims — guiding parties to satisfactory compromises without the expenses and risks of going to trial.
Thomas E. Rice
Tom Rice takes particular pride in the growth of his firm, which began with four trial attorneys working from card tables and folding chairs and expanded to approximately 100 trial attorneys across nine offices in six states — with Rice still counting all of them as friends.
Bernard J. Rhodes
Bernie Rhodes came to law after a color-blindness diagnosis in kindergarten ended his ambition to become a police officer.
James W. Reeves
James Reeves has built a 40-plus year legal career as a litigation attorney, mediator and law professor, with a practice that spans the country and, through technology, reaches clients around the world.
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