Eckert Seamans Attorneys Named to 2024 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List
May 17, 2024
Twelve attorneys from national law firm Eckert Seamans have been named to the 2024 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists in Pennsylvania. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in each state are selected as Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5 percent are named as Rising Stars.
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 recognized Eckert Seamans attorneys include:
SUPER LAWYERS
Scott D. Cessar (Pittsburgh)
Scott Cessar serves as Chief Executive Officer of Eckert Seamans and maintains an active litigation and counseling practice representing several publicly traded companies, and numerous privately held companies, in litigation across the country.
Frank R. Emmerich (Philadelphia)
Frank Emmerich serves as Member-In-Charge of Eckert Seamans’ Philadelphia office, where he focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, specifically in matters involving trade secrets and unfair competition, restrictive covenants, and intellectual property.
Edward C. Flynn (Pittsburgh)
Ed Flynn concentrates his practice on patent infringement litigation, representing both patent owners trying to protect their intellectual property against theft or copying and businesses who have been accused of infringing intellectual property of others.
David Laigaie (Philadelphia)
Dave Laigaie serves as Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Internal Investigations practice group. He focuses his practice on internal corporate investigations, health care litigation, compliance, and complex civil litigation.
RISING STARS
Andrew J. Bond (Philadelphia)
Andrew Bond advises on professional liability matters, with particular emphasis on the defense of health care providers, hospitals, and physicians in complex medical malpractice actions.
Brooke Carickhoff (Philadelphia)
Brooke Carickhoff advises on professional liability matters with particular emphasis on the defense of health care providers, hospitals, and physicians in complex medical malpractice actions.
Lynette Carter (Harrisburg)
Lynette Carter focuses her practice in the area of commercial litigation. Previously, she served seven years at the Pennsylvania Capitol as a budget analyst for the Pennsylvania State Senate, and as a research analyst for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Samuel M. Franklin (Philadelphia)
Sam Franklin represents real estate developers, landlords, tenants, and banks, and advises government agencies, community groups, as well as nonprofits on real estate-related matters.
Ernest Holtzheimer (Philadelphia)
Ernie Holtzheimer is an experienced transactional attorney, assisting numerous U.S. and international clients in transformative mergers and acquisitions and complex commercial transactions valued more than $2.5 billion across multiple industries.
Gretchen Panchik (Pittsburgh)
Gretchen Panchik serves as Co-Office-Chair of the firm’s Pittsburgh office, where she focuses her practice on a broad range of commercial litigation and insurance recovery matters.
Alexandra Rogin (Philadelphia)
Alexandra Rogin concentrates on corporate and commercial litigation and professional liability, including matters involving business disputes, professional negligence, breach of contract, business torts, financial services, fraud, and medical product liability.
Jenna Torres (Philadelphia)
Jenna Torres advises on intellectual property matters, particularly on the prosecution and litigation of trademarks in the US and internationally, helping clients build and protect their trademark portfolios around the world.