Mike Langford litigated high stakes civil lawsuits throughout his 29-year career as a trial lawyer. He regularly defended motor carriers in jury trials nationwide and argued before state and federal appellate courts as well. He has been involved in several appellate cases that decided important issues of first impression.
Shannon Cohen primarily practices in emerging technologies, independent contractor issues, and legislative services.
Cohen focuses on forthcoming and active legislation and regulation pertaining to issues affecting motor carriers, particularly on legislation touching on the independent contractor status of owner-operators. She has extensive experience counseling clients on owner-operator programs and issues attendant to the design of a successful owner-operator model. These services include:
Prasad Sharma’s practice focuses on state and federal legislative and regulatory advocacy work and an array of regulatory compliance issues. From the Firm’s D.C. office, Sharma leads legislative support initiatives and provides a legal liaison function to Firm clients seeking transportation and logistics industry national and state association outreach. He spearheads outreach efforts within the Firm’s network of industry leaders to align efforts to achieve legislative outcomes that protect the future of the transportation industry.
Kelli Block’s practice is devoted to assisting clients with a variety of legal issues, concentrating on independent contractor issues facing the transportation industry. She counsels transportation carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics companies on owner-operator, regulatory compliance, transportation contract review, insurance, alternative risk management, employment tax, and unclaimed property matters. She also defends transportation companies in various investigation and enforcement matters, including IRS audits, U.S.
Gregory Feary is president and a managing partner of the Scopelitis Law Firm. He focuses on laws regarding transportation and related industries, including independent contractor issues, legislation, insurance, corporate structure designs, and contract matters. He also serves as a primary contact for mergers and acquisitions due diligence work and advises on corporate structure and risk mitigation issues.
He has created and counseled many captive insurance companies. Additional services Feary provides include:
Brian Faughnan is a sole practitioner and owner of Faughnan Law, PLLC, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to founding his own law firm, Brian practiced law for over twenty years in large and mid-sized full-service law firms. In addition to handling business litigation and appellate litigation, his practice focus involves solving problems for lawyers. Over the years, Brian has represented hundreds of lawyers in disciplinary matters, law firms and lawyers in litigation and other matters involving professional liability, and applicants for admission
William is a nationally sought-after trial attorney and an industry thought leader for results-based communication. He has litigated matters in 29 different states (over 50 cases in Federal Court alone), 100’s of cases in state courts, multiple arbitrations, and won in the Alabama Supreme Court. He is valued as a confident problem solver and personable tactician. William has become:
Leigh Anne Battersby, J.D. is a Senior Account Executive for Aon’s Transportation and Logistics Practice, where she is responsible for assisting Aon’s trucking and logistics clients to identify and mitigate risks and for ensuring delivery of all appropriate resources and solutions. Prior to joining Aon in March 2020, Leigh Anne spent the majority of her legal career in the transportation industry in a variety of legal, risk and claims positions.
Jonathan Todd is Vice Chair of the Transportation & Logistics Practice at Benesch. His entire career has focused on transportation, logistics, warehousing, and international trade matters.
Jonathan portfolio of experience includes industry mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and negotiating of all forms, government license and permit management, business operations counsel, new business lines, new market entry, risk management, regulatory compliance counsel and enforcement defense, claims, and dispute resolution.
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