Attorneys
Attorneys
Meet our Attorneys
We are proud of our successes in the courtroom and at the negotiating table, and our team is our greatest and most valuable asset.
Meet our Attorneys
We are proud of our successes in the courtroom and at the negotiating table, and our team is our greatest and most valuable asset.
Stephanie Armas
Associate – Miami
Stephanie Armas is an insurance defense lawyer in Miami. Her practice focuses on representing insurers and their insureds in premises liability, construction defect, and first-party property matters.
Justin A. Bassett
Associate – Miami
Justin Bassett is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Miami, Florida. His practice focuses on insurance defense, premises liability, and property matters.
James M. Bauer
Senior Counsel – Atlanta
Jim Bauer provides counsel to insurers regarding first-party and third-party coverage claims and other commercial disputes. In addition to providing coverage advice, he litigates complex claims and defends insureds.
Giulia Bollini
Associate – Miami
Giulia Bollini is an insurance defense attorney in Miami. Her practice focuses on first-party property matters across the state of Florida. She provides coverage advice to domestic and international insurance carriers in commercial property and construction defect matters.
Christopher R. Brooks
Associate – Nashville
Christopher Brooks is an experienced defense attorney in Nashville, Tennessee. He has an extensive background in litigation and has effectively defended employers and carriers in various actions across the state of Tennessee. His practice areas include property, insurance defense, commercial general liability, and commercial litigation.
Marc A. Brotman
Senior Counsel – Greater Philadelphia
Marc Brotman is a civil litigation and insurance coverage attorney in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office. Marc’s legal experience in the public and private sectors gives him unique abilities to analyze and resolve complex legal issues confronting his clients.
Michael F. Burgess
Associate – Atlanta
Noah A. Caldwell
Associate – Atlanta
Noah Caldwell serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for domestic and international insurers of various professionals. His practice focuses on professional liability claims against accountants and accounting firms, architect and engineering firms, lawyers, and other professionals.
John P. Cappel
Associate – Greater Philadelphia
John P. Cappel is an attorney focused on commercial general liability and litigation matters. Based in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office, John provides insurance coverage advice and serves as defense counsel for domestic and international insurers.
Jonathan D. Chandrasekhar
Associate – Atlanta
Jonathan Chandrasekhar is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Georgia. His work focuses on commercial general liability and property matters. He serves as counsel to domestic and international insurers by providing coverage advice and preparing documents in litigation.
Pedro J. Collazo
Partner – Miami
Alery Delgado
Partner – Miami
Zachary J. Ferreira
Associate – Atlanta
Paul L. Fields, Jr.
Partner – Atlanta
Michael H. Galex
Of Counsel – Miami
Michael H. Galex is a defense attorney with twenty-five years of experience practicing law. For the last twenty years, he has been handling criminal and civil cases throughout south Florida. Michael was a partner at his previous firm for thirteen years and brings with him extensive background in first-party property and third-party insurance coverage and liability matters.
Samuel J. Gittle
Associate – Miami
Samuel J. Gittle is an insurance defense attorney in Miami, Florida. Samuel represents domestic and international insurance carriers in commercial litigation and toxic tort matters. He conducts extensive legal research and analysis to formulate case strategies and advise clients on potential risks and outcomes in state and federal court proceedings.
John P. Golden
Partner – Miami
John Golden specializes in insurance coverage and insurance defense, with a focus on complex litigation pending in state and federal courts in Florida and the United States Virgin Islands. A significant portion of his work dedicated defending clients against catastrophic personal injury claims, professional liability claims, product liability claims, and various business disputes.
Brandon R. Gossett
Atlanta – Of Counsel
Brandon R. Gossett is an insurance coverage attorney in Atlanta. He has been representing domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes for nearly a decade, particularly on claims arising from professional liability, general liability, and commercial property policies. Brandon provides coverage advice to insurers, prosecutes declaratory judgment actions brought by insurers, and defends coverage and bad faith actions brought by insureds.
Brittney C. Gowen
Associate – Atlanta
Brittney C. Gowen is an insurance coverage and defense attorney specializing in commercial general liability claims. She also provides coverage advice to domestic and international insurers regarding various first party property and business interruption claims.
Kelly A. Gresh
Associate – Greater Philadelphia
Kelly Gresh is an insurance coverage attorney in Pennsylvania. Her practice focuses on representing insurers and their insureds in property and commercial general liability matters.
Emma Han
Associate – Miami
Tal Harari
Associate – Miami
Tal Harari, an accomplished insurance defense attorney based in our Miami office, adeptly represents a diverse portfolio of prominent clients in areas such as automobile accidents, premise liability, and commercial liability matters.
Ariyiana M. Haynes
Associate – Atlanta
Ariyiana Haynes is an insurance coverage and defense attorney whose practice focuses on representing insurers and their insureds in property and commercial general liability matters.
Taryn M. Kadar
Partner – Atlanta
Stephen A. Kahn
Partner – Atlanta
Will J. Keegan
Associate – Atlanta
Will Keegan is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. He serves as coverage counsel for insurers and defends insureds in litigation, specifically in commercial general liability and property matters.
Logan M. King
Associate – Greater Philadelphia
Logan King is an insurance coverage attorney in Pennsylvania with over a decade of experience. His practice focuses on representing domestic and international insurers in coverage litigation arising from aviation, construction, commercial general liability matters, and more.
Ann T. Kirk
Partner – Atlanta
Jonathan D. Kramer
Partner – Atlanta
Christopher S. Kwelty
Associate – Greater Philadelphia
Christopher Kwelty is an insurance defense attorney in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office. His practice focuses on representing insurers and their insureds in commercial litigation. An experienced trial attorney, Chris is adept at running complex civil litigation matters.
Victoria Lageyre
Associate – Miami
Victoria Lageyre is an insurance defense attorney in Miami. Her practice focuses on defending insurers and their insureds in matters arising from property, premises liability, and and construction defect claims.
Marshall N. Lahiff
Partner – Miami
Robert L. Lakind
Partner – Greater Philadelphia
Robert Lakind is an experienced aviation attorney and litigator based in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office. Rob is a former airline pilot who flew domestic and international flights and now as an attorney represents a wide range of aviation clients.
Taylor N. Lear
Associate – Atlanta
Taylor N. Lear is an insurance defense attorney in Atlanta. Her work focuses on providing coverage advice to domestic and international insurers and defending insureds in litigation.
Ralph B. L. Marcuccilli
Associate – Atlanta
Ralph Marcuccilli is an insurance coverage attorney in Atlanta. He counsels domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes arising from property and commercial liability matters.
Gregory L. Mast
Partner – Greater Philadelphia
Greg Mast specializes in complex insurance coverage and business litigation for domestic and international insurers. Having spent time as both a law clerk and in-house counsel, Greg has earned a reputation as a respected advocate inside and outside of the courtroom.
Robert E. McLaughlin
Partner – Atlanta
D. Reid Morelli
Associate – Atlanta
Reid Morelli is an insurance coverage and litigation attorney in Atlanta. He provides coverage advice to domestic and international insurers and also defends insurers and insureds in litigation. Reid’s practice focuses on commercial general liability, commercial litigation, professional liability, bad faith, and insurance defense. Reid also advises clients in intellectual property litigation and management of IP portfolios.
Christopher S. Myles
Partner– Greater Philadelphia
Christopher S. Myles is an insurance defense and aviation attorney. He is a skilled litigator with fifteen years of experience in the legal industry, during which time he has worked on aviation, commercial, construction, environmental, and product liability matters.
Joshua Myles
Partner – Atlanta
Josh Myles counsels professional liability insurers and their insureds in matters involving up to billions of dollars in claimed damages. His professional liability practice involves some of the largest architectural and engineering firms and law firms in the world.
Mary Claire Pouncey
Associate – Atlanta
Mary Claire Pounce serves as coverage and monitoring counsel to domestic and international insurers of various professionals. She focuses on high value professional liability claims brought against architects and engineers, attorneys, accountants, and more. Prior to joining Fields Howell, Mary Claire clerked in the Superior Court for the Cherokee Judicial Circuit. There, she gained experience in both civil and criminal lawsuits and trials. After graduation, she began her career as an associate attorney with a large regional firm where she specialized in worker’s compensation defense.
Michael J. Redondo
Senior Counsel – Miami
Michael J. Redondo is an insurance defense attorney with a specialty in premises liability matters in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Adam R. Rivera
Associate – Miami
Adam Rivera is an insurance defense attorney in Miami. He represents Insurers and their Insureds in first-party property and third-party liability matters throughout Florida.
Lionel F. Rivera
Senior Counsel – Miami
Lionel F. Rivera is a seasoned insurance coverage and defense attorney in Miami, Florida. Lionel serves as Senior Counsel to domestic and international insurance carriers, focusing on claims arising from first-party property, commercial general liability, directors’ and officers’, professional liability, and environmental liability policies. Lionel has proven himself a trusted litigator and advocate in state and federal courts, and deft at resolving matters through direct settlement negotiations and mediation.
Samantha L. Rowles
Partner – Atlanta
Armando P. Rubio
Partner – Miami
Armando Rubio is the Partner in charge of Fields Howell’s Miami office. With over twenty years of experience as a litigation and trial attorney, his areas of expertise include personal injury defense, insurance coverage and bad faith, reinsurance, construction defects, first party property claims, admiralty and maritime defense, and product liability defense. He has handled numerous cases through verdict and judgment, binding arbitrations, and appeals at both the State and Federal level, ranging from catastrophic injury and death cases to multi-million dollar coverage disputes.
Sarah R. Salek
Associate – Atlanta
Sarah R. Salek is an insurance coverage attorney whose practice focuses on commercial general liability and property matters.
Lillian Sanchez
Associate – Miami
Lillian Sanchez is an insurance coverage and defense lawyer in Miami. She represents domestic and international insurers in premises liability actions, construction defect, and personal injury matters. In addition to defending insurers and their insureds, she also provides coverage advice to insureds in matters arising from various lines of insurance.
Tyler Bryant Walker
Partner – Atlanta
Jennifer W. Wolak
Partner – Atlanta
Giulia Bollini
Associate – Miami
Giulia Bollini is an insurance defense attorney in Miami. Her practice focuses on first-party property matters across the state of Florida. She provides coverage advice to domestic and international insurance carriers in commercial property and construction defect matters.
Christopher R. Brooks
Associate – Nashville
Christopher Brooks is an experienced defense attorney in Nashville, Tennessee. He has an extensive background in litigation and has effectively defended employers and carriers in various actions across the state of Tennessee. His practice areas include property, insurance defense, commercial general liability, and commercial litigation.
Mark A. Brotman
Senior Counsel – Greater Philadelphia
Marc Brotman is a civil litigation and insurance coverage attorney in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office. Marc’s legal experience in the public and private sectors gives him unique abilities to analyze and resolve complex legal issues confronting his clients.
Michael F. Burgess
Associate – Atlanta
Noah A. Caldwell
Associate – Atlanta
Noah Caldwell serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for domestic and international insurers of various professionals. His practice focuses on professional liability claims against accountants and accounting firms, architect and engineering firms, lawyers, and other professionals.
Jonathan D. Chandrasekhar
Associate – Atlanta
Jonathan Chandrasekhar is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Georgia. His work focuses on commercial general liability and property matters. He serves as counsel to domestic and international insurers by providing coverage advice and preparing documents in litigation.
Alery Delgado
Partner – Miami
Zachary J. Ferreira
Associate – Atlanta
Paul L. Fields, Jr.
Partner – Atlanta
Michael H. Galex
Of Counsel – Miami
Samuel J. Gittle
Associate – Miami
Samuel J. Gittle is an insurance defense attorney in Miami, Florida. Samuel represents domestic and international insurance carriers in commercial litigation and toxic tort matters. He conducts extensive legal research and analysis to formulate case strategies and advise clients on potential risks and outcomes in state and federal court proceedings.
John P. Golden
Partner – Miami
John Golden specializes in insurance coverage and insurance defense, with a focus on complex litigation pending in state and federal courts in Florida and the United States Virgin Islands. A significant portion of his work dedicated defending clients against catastrophic personal injury claims, professional liability claims, product liability claims, and various business disputes.
Brandon R. Gossett
Of Counsel – Atlanta
Brandon R. Gossett is an insurance coverage attorney in Atlanta. He has been representing domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes for nearly a decade, particularly on claims arising from professional liability, general liability, and commercial property policies. Brandon provides coverage advice to insurers, prosecutes declaratory judgment actions brought by insurers, and defends coverage and bad faith actions brought by insureds.
Taryn M. Kadar
Partner – Atlanta
Stephen A. Kahn
Partner – Atlanta
Ann T. Kirk
Partner – Atlanta
Jonathan D. Kramer
Partner – Atlanta
Christopher S. Kwelty
Associate – Greater Philadelphia
Christopher Kwelty is an insurance defense attorney in Fields Howell’s Pennsylvania office. His practice focuses on representing insurers and their insureds in commercial litigation. An experienced trial attorney, Chris is adept at running complex civil litigation matters.
Marshall N. Lahiff
Partner – Miami
Gregory L. Mast
Partner – Greater Philadelphia
Greg Mast specializes in complex insurance coverage and business litigation for domestic and international insurers. Having spent time as both a law clerk and in-house counsel, Greg has earned a reputation as a respected advocate inside and outside of the courtroom.
Robert E. McLaughlin
Partner – Atlanta
Christopher S. Myles
Partner – Greater Philadelphia
Christopher S. Myles is an insurance defense and aviation attorney. He is a skilled litigator with fifteen years of experience in the legal industry, during which time he has worked on aviation, commercial, construction, environmental, and product liability matters.
Lionel F. Rivera
Senior Counsel – Miami
Lionel F. Rivera is a seasoned insurance coverage and defense attorney in Miami, Florida. Lionel serves as Senior Counsel to domestic and international insurance carriers, focusing on claims arising from first-party property, commercial general liability, directors’ and officers’, professional liability, and environmental liability policies. Lionel has proven himself a trusted litigator and advocate in state and federal courts, and deft at resolving matters through direct settlement negotiations and mediation.
Samantha L. Rowles
Partner – Atlanta
Armando P. Rubio
Partner – Miami
Armando Rubio is the Partner in charge of Fields Howell’s Miami office. With over twenty years of experience as a litigation and trial attorney, his areas of expertise include personal injury defense, insurance coverage and bad faith, reinsurance, construction defects, first party property claims, admiralty and maritime defense, and product liability defense. He has handled numerous cases through verdict and judgment, binding arbitrations, and appeals at both the State and Federal level, ranging from catastrophic injury and death cases to multi-million dollar coverage disputes.
Lillian Sanchez
Associate – Miami
Lillian Sanchez is an insurance coverage and defense lawyer in Miami. She represents domestic and international insurers in premises liability actions, construction defect, and personal injury matters. In addition to defending insurers and their insureds, she also provides coverage advice to insureds in matters arising from various lines of insurance.
Tyler Bryant Walker
Partner – Atlanta
Jennifer W. Wolak
Partner – Atlanta