Mark Whitehead, Of Counsel in KSF’s New Orleans office, practices complex class action litigation. Mark Whitehead has been practicing in the field of mass torts and class actions since 2001. He has been involved in numerous environmental cases involving class claims for property damage and medical monitoring. Mark also represented the Boilermakers’ Union Local 1814 […]
Brian C. Mears
Brian C. Mears is an Associate Attorney in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses on securities litigation involving mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mears received his J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 2014. During his time in law school, Mr. Mears was a member of the Sports Lawyers Journal, and he interned with the general […]
Melissa H. Harris
Melissa Harris, Of Counsel in KSF’s New Orleans office, practices securities and other complex class action litigation. Prior to joining KSF, Ms. Harris worked at a large, well-respected regional law firm in New Orleans, where she handled defense of complex commercial litigation, government contracts matters, and government investigations in state and federal courts around the […]
Nicolas Kravitz
Nicolas Kravitz is an associate in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses primarily on shareholder derivative litigation. Mr. Kravitz received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2014. During law school, Mr. Kravitz served as an editor for the American Criminal Law Review and worked as a legal extern for the United […]
Nowal J. Jamhour
Nowal J. Jamhour, an associate in KSF’s New Orleans office, focuses on federal securities class action litigation. Ms. Jamhour earned her J.D. in 2016 from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Civil Law Division, with course concentrations in environmental and international law. As a research assistant at Loyola’s Environmental Law Center, in connection with […]
Kent W. Patterson
Kent Patterson is an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office and focuses on federal securities class actions. Mr. Patterson received his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2018. He earned his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 2015. During law school, Mr. Patterson served as a member of the Loyola Maritime […]
Morgan M. Embleton
Morgan M. Embleton is an associate in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses on federal securities class actions. Ms. Embleton received her J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate from Tulane University Law School in 2014. During her time in law school, Ms. Embleton was a student attorney in the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, a member of […]
Marie O. Luis
Marie Luis is an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office and focuses on federal securities class action litigation. Ms. Luis received her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2018. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2011. During her time in law school, Ms. […]
Jyoti Kehl
Jyoti Kehl is an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office and focuses on federal securities class action litigation. Ms. Kehl received her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 2018, where she was a member of the International Criminal Court appellate moot court team and a Rule XX Student Attorney with the Tulane Criminal Justice […]
Emily Hall
Emily Hall is an associate in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses on federal securities class actions. Ms. Hall received her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2016. During her time in law school, Ms. Hall served as a Managing Editor on the Loyola Maritime Law Journal and her article “Pollution […]
Eda Ayrim Walker
Eda Ayrim Walker is an associate in KSF’s New Orleans office and focuses on shareholder derivative litigation and federal securities class actions. Ms. Ayrim Walker received her LL.B. from the Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law in 2012. After graduating from law school, Ms. Ayrim Walker worked as an in-house attorney and as outside general […]
Craig J. Geraci
Craig J. Geraci, Jr. is an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office and focuses on federal securities litigation and other complex class action litigation. He is actively involved in cases pending before federal courts across the United States. Mr. Geraci has litigated numerous securities matters and helped recover more than $100 million for shareholders allegedly defrauded […]
Matthew P. Woodard
Matthew Woodard, an associate in KSF’s Louisiana office, focuses on federal securities class action litigation. He is involved in cases pending before federal courts across the United States. Mr. Woodard received his J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 2012, where he served as the Senior Managing Editor for the Tulane Journal of Law […]
Michael A. Swick
Michael A. Swick is a co-founding partner of KSF and heads the firm’s case starting department, overseeing case evaluation and initiation in the firm’s securities, shareholder derivative and mergers & acquisitions practice groups. Prior to founding KSF, Mr. Swick had a distinguished career working at several of the nation’s premiere class action litigation firms. Relying […]
Michael J. Palestina
Mr. Palestina practices securities and other complex class action litigation. He focuses his practice on securities litigation involving mergers and acquisitions. In his capacity as a KSF partner, Mr. Palestina currently serves as lead, co-lead, or executive committee counsel in several ongoing M&A cases and has previously served in the same capacity in several successfully […]
Melinda A. Nicholson
Melinda A. Nicholson, a partner in KSF’s Louisiana office, focuses on shareholder derivative and class action litigation, representing institutional and individual shareholders in corporate governance litigation and securities fraud actions, and antitrust matters. Ms. Nicholson also oversees KSF’s shareholder derivative practice. Ms. Nicholson has been involved in a number of significant derivative and class action […]
Kim E. Miller
Kim E. Miller is a KSF partner who specializes in securities litigation and other complex class action litigation. Ms. Miller also supervises the New York City office of KSF. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Ms. Miller was a partner at one of the nation’s leading plaintiff class action firms. Ms. Miller also spent […]
J. Ryan Lopatka
J. Ryan Lopatka, a partner in KSF’s New York office, focuses on federal securities class action litigation. He is involved in cases pending before federal courts across the United States. Mr. Lopatka received his J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 2010. During the summer of 2009, he studied international capital markets and securities law […]
Alayne K. Gobeille
Alayne Gobeille is an associate in the Louisiana office of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC. Ms. Gobeille completed her undergraduate work at the University of California at Davis, earning a B.S. in Fermentation Science in 2000. She went on to earn a Masters Degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University in 2003. After graduate school, Ms. […]
Andrew J. Gibson
Mr. Gibson is of counsel to KSF. Andrew focuses his practice on merger and acquisition litigation, shareholder derivative actions, and other complex class action litigation. Mr. Gibson is also responsible for the formation and management of the firm’s Business Loss Claim division, wherein he represents hundreds of businesses and non-profit organizations in claims under the […]