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Lindsay Vance Smith has a strong personal commitment to education and the law. Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Smith received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University and taught literature and writing at both the college and high school levels. She also spent several years working for an education law firm in South Carolina, where she assisted attorneys representing public school boards and school districts on a wide variety of legal matters, including most notably civil litigation and appeals, special education administrative processes, and charter school issues. These experiences instilled in her the importance...

Navid Yadegar is the managing partner of Yadegar, Minoofar & Soleymani LLP. Prior to forming his own law firm in 2006, Navid worked at two preeminent law firms in Los Angeles (Proskauer Rose LLP and Arnold & Porter) handling complex commercial and employment litigation for large corporate and individual clients. In 2006, Navid left the large firm practice to create a litigation boutique where he could combine his litigation experience with his understanding of changing business environments as they intersect with law, public policy and technology to bring his clients the highest level of legal service, in an efficient and...

Solon Phillips, Esq. is a licensed attorney and managing partner at the law firm Remus Enterprises Law Group, where the firm’s motto is “Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins.” Solon graduated from American University Washington College of Law, where he was a member of Law Review, a Dean’s Fellow, and a Marshall-Brennan Fellow. Solon has interned for the Honorable Steven Platt at the Circuit Court in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and has worked at the law firms Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Arnold & Porter. Having passed three different Bar exams, Solon is licensed in Alabama, the...

I am a trial attorney focused on serving clients in the areas of insurance coverage, securities litigation, and white collar criminal defense. I have represented mutual funds, corporations, Native American tribes, law firms, accounting firms, small businesses, and individuals as both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of high-stakes disputes. Through my experience in private practice and as a former prosecutor, I have tried nearly fifty jury trials to verdict. In the area of insurance coverage, I have represented policyholders and other insureds in coverage disputes and civil actions alleging bad faith...

Mr. Gradman is one of the country’s leading experts in mortgage-backed securities litigation and other legal issues stemming from the mortgage crisis. He provides services to clients in litigation, mortgage finance & structured products and business law.

While practicing as a commercial litigator at Arnold & Porter (formerly Howard Rice) in San Francisco, Mr. Gradman was involved in some of the earliest litigation arising from the subprime mortgage crisis, including the representation of PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. in a suit against WMC Mortgage Corp. and its parent, GE Money Bank, over misrepresentations relating to a $1 billion pool of subprime mortgages....