Maron Marvel is proud to announce that 49 of its attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.

In addition to individual Best Lawyers’ recognitions, “Lawyer of the Year” accolades are given to individual lawyers who received the highest overall peer-feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Only one lawyer is recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” for a specialty and metropolitan location per edition.

For 2025, David A. Barfield has been named the Jackson, MS “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Insurance.

Maron Marvel’s recognized attorneys were drawn from the firm’s offices nationwide. Attorneys were recognized for their work in the practice areas of mass tort litigation/class actions, personal injury, product liability, environmental, and commercial litigation on behalf of defendants.

 Maron Marvel congratulates the following 26 lawyers named among the 2025 Best Lawyers in America:

Wilmington, DE

Robert B. Anderson 
Commercial Litigation

Stephanie Fox
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Commercial Litigation

Wayne A. Marvel 
Commercial Litigation

Paul A. Bradley 
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Commercial Litigation

Scott W. Henry *admitted in Illinois only
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Chicago, IL

Robert Petti
Environmental Law

New Orleans, LA

Robert E. Dille
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Rebecca Zotti
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Ridgeland, MS

Samuel D. Habeeb 
Environmental Law
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

David A. Barfield
Litigation – Insurance: 2025 “Lawyer of the Year”
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Stefan G. Bourn
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Richard M. Crump
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Christi G. Jones 
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Kimberly P. Mangum
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Donald C. Partridge 
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Colleen S. Welch 
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Jersey City, NJ

Timothy Coughlan
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Philadelphia, PA

John G. Gaul 
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Chad D. Mountain
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Pittsburgh, PA

Joseph R. Schaper 
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Terry A. Schrock
Insurance Law
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Charleston, SC

George L. Inabinet Jr.
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Yancey McLeod III
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Houston, TX

Roger H. Nebel
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Dallas, TX

John R. Robinson
Litigation – Insurance
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Todd D. Ogden 
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

In addition, 23 attorneys were named to The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch list:

Chicago, IL

Daniel Alexander 
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Kyle Clapper
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Matthew Earl
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Leslie Federer
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Alyssa Fleischman
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Alexandra Reitzner
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Sydney Wisniewski
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

New Orleans, LA

Jon F. Carmer, Jr.
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Nicholas A. Grest
Construction Law

Richard Wiese
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Audrey O. Anyaele
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Brian E. Bergin
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Gina Marie Lagomarsino
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Simon Lee
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Liana Nobile
Commercial Litigation

William Perrelli
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Kijon Roberts
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Zachary Wasserstein
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Gabrielle Morrison
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Audra J. Inglis
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Morgan Miller
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Tanica M. Mann
Commercial Litigation

John Parsons
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

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Maron Marvel is pleased to announce that director Jennifer McGarrity has been named the Office Managing Attorney for the firm’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office.

McGarrity focuses her practice on the defense of manufacturers, suppliers, and premises owners in mass tort litigation both as national coordinating counsel and as local counsel in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She has represented and defended individuals to Fortune 100 companies in a broad range of litigation areas. She has also represented more than a dozen different leading product manufacturers, suppliers, and large industrial facility owners in the defense of toxic tort, environmental, asbestos, talc, benzene, and silica matters in numerous jurisdictions across the U.S.

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce that member Stefan Bourn has been named the Office Managing Attorney for the firm’s Mississippi office.

Bourn joined Maron Marvel in 2015 and is excited to now lead the talented team in Mississippi on their mission to deliver excellence to the firm’s clients. Internally, Bourn plans to foster a supportive and productive work environment that focuses on professional development, mentorship and belonging.

Bourn is a member of Maron Marvel’s product liability and mass tort litigation practice groups, with an emphasis on product liability, personal injury, toxic tort, and construction defect claims. He is National Coordinating Counsel for a variety of mass tort defendants and has consistently coordinated asbestos and silica defenses on a national level since 1998. As national coordinating counsel for companies sued in asbestos matters, Bourn has had a principal role in creating trial-ready defenses against claims pending in the most problematic jurisdictions in the nation. He also serves as national coordinating counsel for one of the nation’s largest corporations in the defense of a variety of personal injury claims throughout the United States. He works with local counsel throughout the U.S. on all aspects of the defenses, including discovery, expert witness support, witness preparations, trial planning, and, where needed, settlement negotiations.

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce Gabrielle Morrison has been selected to the 2024 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list.

Gabrielle is being recognized for her outstanding work in Civil Litigation Defense. She is an associate at our Philadelphia office and focuses her practice on premises liability, personal injury, and mass tort claims for clients with operations in Pennsylvania. She also has experience handling business litigation and contractual disputes.

Congratulations, Gabrielle!

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Maron Marvel member Antoinette D. Hubbard is speaking at the Delaware State Bar’s 2024 Women in the Law Retreat. This two-day conference will be held April 4 – April 5, 2024, at the Hyatt Dewey Beach. 

Antoinette is on the panel “Let’s Just Call the Judge (or Not): Deposition Civility,” which will discuss best practices when facing tension during the deposition process. She will be joined by several experienced judges, practitioners, and disciplinary counsel. To learn more, visit: https://www.dsba.org/event/women-and-the-law-retreat-2024/

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce attorney Kiadii Harmon has been selected to serve on Law360’s Delaware Editorial Advisory Board for 2024.The editorial advisory board provides feedback on Law360’s coverage and expert insight on how best to shape future coverage.

Maron Marvel member Antoinette Hubbard served as a panelist for the Women’s Networking Lunch at Perrin Conferences’ Cutting-Edge Issues in Asbestos Litigation Conference in Miami, FL, on March 12, 2023. Antoinette and fellow industry leaders connected and discussed the unique challenges they face as women in the law.

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce director Shounak “Ruku” S. Sarkar has been selected as a 2024 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow. In addition, associates Leslie Federer and Gabrielle Morrison were chosen for the 2024 LCLD Pathfinder Program.

The LCLD Fellows Program is an intensive, yearlong professional development course that connects mid-career attorneys of diverse backgrounds with leading general counsel and managing partners. It is designed to give high-potential lawyers the leadership training and tools to propel their careers further. LCLD Fellows have distinguished themselves within their organizations by being deeply engaged, indispensable to key clients and teams, invested in attorney mentoring and professional development, and on a trajectory toward leadership positions.

Created with early-career attorneys in mind, the LCLD Pathfinder Program provides participants with foundational leadership skills, professional networking opportunities, and career development strategies. LCLD Pathfinders will have several opportunities throughout the year to meet and interact with their peers, both in person and in a virtual format. This is in addition to the exclusive leadership and professional development curriculum that is unique to the Pathfinder program.

“The LCLD Fellows and Pathfinder Programs perfectly align with our firm’s DEI values,” says Antoinette Hubbard, Maron Marvel’s DEI director. “Ruku, Leslie, and Gabrielle will represent Maron Marvel well at LCLD. We are excited to see their professional growth over the next year.”

Ruku is a mass and toxic tort attorney defending environmental and general liability claims. He is based in our Wilmington, DE, office.

Leslie focuses her practice on mass tort and general liability matters. She is based in our Chicago, IL, office.

Gabrielle defends clients in the areas of premises liability, personal injury, and mass tort claims. She is based in our Philadelphia, PA, office.

Founded in 2009, LCLD is an organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of diverse legal talent. LCLD members comprise more than 400 managing partners and leading counsel, including Maron Marvel President Catherine Pyune McEldowney, who have pledged to build a more equitable and diverse legal profession.

Maron Marvel associate Liana Nobile spoke at NYU’s “Lunch with a Lawyer” event. Hosted by the NYU Preprofessional Advising Center, “Lunch with a Lawyer” allows students to learn more about a career in law through Q&A sessions with lawyers. As a guest speaker, Liana shared her career insights as a defense attorney and offered advice on the transition from a student to a working professional.

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce six attorneys from our Chicago office have been named to the 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.

Included in this year’s Super Lawyers list are members Melissa M. Fallah and Adam J. Jagadich.

Additionally, four attorneys were recognized as Rising Star Honorees

Congratulations to all the firm’s named attorneys on this accomplishment.

Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to the Super Lawyers list and no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected to the Rising Stars list.

Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.

Maron Marvel is pleased to announce Information Technology Director Gil Pinkett was appointed as a member of the Delaware Commission on Law and Technology (“DCLT”) of the Supreme Court of Delaware. The DCLT is an arm of the Delaware Court that “provides Delaware lawyers guidance and education in the aspects of technology and the practice of law to facilitate compliance with the Delaware Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct.” Gil will serve with the DCLT for a three-year term, aiding in its mission to address the continually expanding use of technology in Delaware legal matters.