Recent Articles from Paul Nolan
2023 Attorneys of the Year: Mark Schneider
Life can turn upside down in an instant for the family members of law enforcement officers and others who work in public safety.
2023 Attorneys of the Year: CellTrust v. ionLake, LLC
The legal process can be achingly slow. Multiple jurisdictions, complexities in the law, numerous depositions, pretrial motions and piles upon piles of documents for review are some reasons cases can drag out for years (not to mention appeals).
2023 Top Women in Law: Trudi Noel Trysla
Trudi Noel Trysla would be forgiven if she felt a bit exhausted from the roller coaster of events she has experienced while serving on and leading the in-house legal, compliance, audit and risk team at Fairview Health Services.
2023 Top Women in Law: Sarah Stroebel
Success often comes when you’re not chasing it for yourself.
2023 Top Women in Law: Sarah Johnson Phillips
Sarah Johnson Phillips had a feeling by the time she entered high school that she would pursue a career around her concern about the environment in a world hooked on fossil fuels.
2023 Top Women in Law: R. Leigh Frost
In her 23 years of practicing family law, R. Leigh Frost has done her best to help each client navigate emotionally exhausting issues and land in a mental space where they feel that life can take a positive turn.
2023 Top Women in Law: Poonam Kumar
If she’s not leading a global team of lawyers at DLA Piper on complex cross-border transactions, Poonam Kumar may be found tackling the everyday duties of a mother to a 10-year-old daughter.
2023 Top Women in Law: Melissa Raphan
You can take the New Yorker out of New York, but Melissa Raphan will be the first to assure you that you can’t take New York out of the New Yorker.
2023 Top Women in Law: Mary Young
For the bulk of her 20-plus-year legal career, Mary Young has litigated cases in the male-dominated world of product liability, class actions and mass torts.
2023 Top Women in Law: Kathy Cima
There are areas of law where unsung heroes commonly reside, and Kathy Cima is in one of those, says a former colleague who nominated Cima for this award.
2023 Up & Coming Attorneys: Melinda Dugas
Comic book heroes often tackle their regular job during the day and perform amazing feats at night.
2023 Up & Coming Attorneys: Jake Elrich
For a business litigator, Jake Elrich gets a fair share of cases that are, well, not real business-like — and that suits him just fine.
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