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.
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.
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.
Michael F. Burgess
Associate – Atlanta
John P. Cappel
Associate – 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.
Kimberly A. Carabotta
Associate – Atlanta
Kimberly Carabotta serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for domestic and international insurance carriers. Her practice focuses on professional liability claims against large U.S. law firms and attorneys, architects and engineers, accountants, 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.
Pedro J. Collazo
Associate – Miami
Alery Delgado
Partner – Miami
Zachary J. Ferreira
Associate – Atlanta
Paul L. Fields, Jr.
Partner – Atlanta
Andrew A. Filipour
Associate – Atlanta
Andrew Filipour is an associate attorney who serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for domestic and international professional liability insurers.
Julieth A. Fresco
Associate – Miami
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.
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.
Emma Han
Associate – Miami
Taryn M. Kadar
Partner – Atlanta
Stephen A. Kahn
Partner – Atlanta
Ann T. Kirk
Partner – Atlanta
Jonathan D. Kramer
Partner – Atlanta
Christopher S. Kwelty
Associate – 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
Associate – Miami
Robert L. Lakind
Partner – 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 coverage attorney in Atlanta. Her work focuses on providing coverage advice to domestic and international insurers in disputes arising from various lines of business, including first party property and third party liability matters.
Christopher S. Lee
Associate – Atlanta
Christopher Lee is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Atlanta. He specializes in commercial general liability, commercial litigation, and catastrophic loss litigation. His litigation experience extends to both state and federal trial courts and appellate courts.
Gregory L. Mast
Partner – Atlanta
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.
Jamie McDowell
Associate – Atlanta
Jamie McDowell is an insurance coverage attorney in Atlanta whose practice focuses on claims and circumstances arising from professional liability policies. She serves as coverage and monitoring counsel to insurers of various professionals, including lawyers, architects and engineers, insurance brokers, and more.
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
Associate – 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
Senior Counsel – 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
Christina M. Nosari
Associate – Atlanta
Christina M. Nosari is an experienced insurance coverage lawyer in Atlanta. Her practice focuses on representing global and domestic insurance carriers in complex coverage disputes. Much of her work has involved first-party property and business interruption disputes arising out of catastrophic events. She also has experience advising insurers in various third-party matters. In addition to her practice as an insurance coverage lawyer, Christina also has experience in insurance defense, having litigated matters in state and federal courts.
Megan A. Palmer
Associate– Atlanta
Megan Palmer’s practice focuses on complex insurance defense, including commercial liability and litigation. Megan has advised and defended attorneys, accountants, and other professionals in regards to professional liability and commercial general litigation policies.
Michael J. Redondo
Associate – 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.
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
Robert R. Wheeler, Jr.
Associate – Atlanta
Robert R. Wheeler, Jr. serves as insurance coverage and monitoring counsel on Fields Howell’s Professional Liability Team. He advises insurers on the implications of claims and circumstances arising out of various professional liability policies, including those written for lawyers and law firms, accountants, engineers, long-term care facilities, and more.
Jennifer W. Wolak
Partner – Atlanta
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.
Michael F. Burgess
Associate – Atlanta
Kimberly A. Carabotta
Associate – Atlanta
Kimberly Carabotta serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for domestic and international insurance carriers. Her practice focuses on professional liability claims against large U.S. law firms and attorneys, architects and engineers, accountants, 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
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 – 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
Associate – Miami
Christopher S. Lee
Associate – Atlanta
Christopher Lee is an insurance coverage and defense attorney in Atlanta. He specializes in commercial general liability, commercial litigation, and catastrophic loss litigation. His litigation experience extends to both state and federal trial courts and appellate courts.
Jamie McDowell
Associate – Atlanta
Jamie McDowell is an insurance coverage attorney in Atlanta whose practice focuses on claims and circumstances arising from professional liability policies. She serves as coverage and monitoring counsel to insurers of various professionals, including lawyers, architects and engineers, insurance brokers, and more.
Robert E. McLaughlin
Partner – Atlanta
Christopher S. Myles
Associate – 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.
Christina M. Nosari
Associate – Atlanta
Megan A. Palmer
Associate– Atlanta
Megan Palmer’s practice focuses on complex insurance defense, including commercial liability and litigation. Megan has advised and defended attorneys, accountants, and other professionals in regards to professional liability and commercial general litigation policies.
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
Robert R. Wheeler, Jr.
Associate – Atlanta
Robert R. Wheeler, Jr. serves as insurance coverage and monitoring counsel on Fields Howell’s Professional Liability Team. He advises insurers on the implications of claims and circumstances arising out of various professional liability policies, including those written for lawyers and law firms, accountants, engineers, long-term care facilities, and more.
Jennifer W. Wolak
Partner – Atlanta