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Boyd, John W.
Partner | Jay Boyd is a member of the firm’s Business Department. Mr. Boyd’s practice involves representing private businesses and entrepreneurs in business organization, capitalization, acquisition, disposition, and operational activities with a special emphasis on tax issues. He has substantial experience with publicly held and privately owned energy-related, wagering and gaming and distribution businesses. He is also experienced in Indiana gaming licensing and has served as in-house general counsel to an investment management company. |
Boykin, Richard R.
Partner | Richard R. Boykin is a partner in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he advises clients on government relations and legal matters. He concentrates his practice on the representation of significant institutions headquartered in the Midwest before federal legislative and executive institutions in Washington, D.C., and before units of state and local government in Illinois and Indiana. His experience includes appropriations, postal, health care, education, telecommunications, government reform and oversight, workforce education and small business legislative and executive policy. |
Breen, John P.
Of Counsel | John P. Breen joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Washington, D.C., office as of counsel and is a member of the Intellectual Property Department. His practice includes counseling clients and preparing and prosecuting United States and international patents in the area of biotechnology.
Mr. Breen earned his B.S. degree in biology from the University of Notre Dame in 1984 and his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Indiana University in 1990. At Indiana University, his research related to plant molecular biology and more particularly to characterizing the expression of the cruciferin storage proteins of Brassica napus. He received his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in 1993.
Mr. Breen was previously an associate at Barnes & Thornburg from 1993-1999 and before returning to the firm, he was senior patent counsel for the University of Virginia Patent Foundation. |
Burkhardt, Craig S.
Partner | Craig S. Burkhardt is a partner in the firm’s Governmental Services & Finance Department, advising clients on government relations and regulatory matters related to the utility, trade, higher education, technology and healthcare insurance sectors. He also practices election law.
Mr. Burkhardt served as Chief Counsel for Technology at the U. S. Department of Commerce, leading the legal staff responsible for providing advice to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Technical Information Service, and departmental policy units, including the Office of Technology Policy. The 3,300 employees who work in these bureaus research and develop scientific, technical and commercial innovations and voluntary consensus standards. He advised the New York World Trade Center building failure investigation, for which he was presented the department’s Gold Medal for scientific and engineering achievement by the Secretary of Commerce. |
Coffey, William R.
Of Counsel | William R. Coffey now serves of counsel (retired) in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. He has served several U.S. and foreign companies in connection with intellectual property and trade regulation matters including the legal framework involved in marketing their products and services.
Mr. Coffey is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and several courts. He is a former chairman of the Patent and Trademark Section of the Indiana State Bar Association.
Mr. Coffey attended the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, where he received a B.S. degree in 1959 in industrial engineering with a mechanical engineering option in studies. He attended Indiana University Law School–Indianapolis, graduating with a J.D. in 1963. He worked for five years as an engineer before entering the legal profession in 1964. |
Conard, Richard D.
Partner | Richard D. Conard is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Indianapolis, Indiana office and is a member the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. He serves several United States and foreign companies in connection with intellectual property matters.
Mr. Conard graduated in 1970 from Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) with a B.S. in electrical engineering. Prior to entering private practice he worked as an engineer in integrated circuit fabrication and testing, and on a corporate patent staff. In 1974 he received his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. Mr. Conard entered the private practice of intellectual property law in 1974 as an associate at the intellectual property law firm of Trask, Jenkins & Hanley in Indianapolis, and became a partner in that firm in 1979. He became a partner in Barnes & Thornburg in 1982 when the Jenkins firm merged with Barnes & Thornburg. |
Dygas, Katarzyna
Associate | Katarzyna Dygas is an associate in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where she practices in the Litigation Department. She researches and drafts internal and external legal memoranda with a focus on litigation and corporate law, drafts pretrial motions and responses, and participates in client and witness interviews.
Ms. Dygas received her bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001. She received her J.D. cum laude in 2007 from the John Marshall Law School where she was a member of the John Marshall Law Review and the Moot Court Council. From 1997 to 1998, she studied International Economics and International Affairs at the American University of Paris. During the summer of 2000, Ms. Dygas was a Parliamentary Assistant to a Member of European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. |
Eaton, Joseph G.
Partner | Joseph G. Eaton is a partner in the Litigation Department in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and co-chair of the Toxic Tort Practice Group.
He has represented clients in litigated matters throughout the United States involving product liability actions, including plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation and relating to alleged toxic products. He presently assists several national defense counsel teams representing industrial companies, chemical and pesticide manufacturers in toxic tort and chemical exposure claims across the country. He also assists other clients in toxic tort and product liability actions, in which capacity he has litigated in more than 30 state and federal courts. His court appearances include challenges to expert testimony and Daubert and Frye hearings. |
Fee, Kathleen
Paralegal | Kathleen Fee is a paralegal in the Chicago, Illinois office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and a member of the Litigation Department.
Ms. Fee has been in the legal profession for 15 years, recently taking a year and a half hiatus to work for American Invsco as its contract administration manager in Las Vegas and Florida. She has been the lead paralegal in several multi-million dollar trials, as well as two appellate court cases and one Illinois Supreme Court matter. Her primary responsibilities are organization and trial preparation.
Ms. Fee received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Elmhurst College in psychology and social work and her Post-Baccalaureate Paralegal Certificate with high honors from Elgin Community College. |
Krinsky, Richard P.
Of Counsel | Richard P. Krinsky is of counsel at Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Washington, D.C. office. He serves domestic and international clients in the areas of patents and other intellectual property matters; aviation and business issues, including aircraft noise, airport access, obstructions to navigable airspace, and the handling of hazardous materials; and local, state, and federal agency regulatory matters. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is a former vice-chairman of the American Bar Association's Airport Law Committee. |
Lazarus, Richard B.
Of Counsel | Richard B. Lazarus is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. His practice involves all aspects of patent application prosecution including interference practice, petition matters, and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) matters. He has served as a PCT and patent “expert” witness in litigated cases. |
Longsworth, Jeffrey S.
Partner | Jeffrey S. Longsworth joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Washington, D.C., office as of counsel in 2002 and is the administrator of the Environmental Practice Group in that office. He concentrates his practice primarily on environmental law, although he also regularly advises clients on matters pertaining to non-profit trade associations, federal legislation, and federal regulatory law. He counsels corporations and trade associations and forms coalitions regarding the many legal issues that arise under federal environ-mental laws and regulations, with a special emphasis on Clean Water Act permitting, compliance, and enforcement matters.
Mr. Longsworth serves as general counsel or environmental counsel to numerous national trade associations, representing clients before federal executive departments and agencies and the U.S. Congress. |
McCarthy, Christine H.
Of Counsel | Christine H. McCarthy is of counsel in the Intellectual Property Department in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Washington, D.C., office. With experience working in the government, private and legal-services sectors, Ms. McCarthy’s practice includes virtually all aspects of intellectual property including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, Internet law and copyright and patent licensing. Using her degree in electrical engineering and physics, she primarily focuses on technology areas of telecommunications, wireless infrastructure and applications, software and computer-related inventions, business methods, information technology, financial services, cryptography, semiconductors, electronics, bioinformatics, optics and Internet-related and e-commerce inventions. |
McGill, Daniel W.
Partner | Daniel W. McGill is a partner in the firm’s Indianapolis office. He is chairman of the Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation and Public Utilities Department. He concentrates his practice in the public utility, energy, natural resources, and telecommunications areas. He has tried numerous rate cases for water, gas, electric, and telephone companies before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. He has handled many other types of administrative litigation including financing proceedings, territorial disputes, accounting authority, acquisitions, depreciation rates, tracking proceedings and rulemakings. He has also appeared before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and federal courts. He has been responsible for appeals of utility matters to the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court. He has also participated in trial court litigation in utility matters including service area disputes, condemnations, and customer complaints. |
Moreau, D. William , Jr.
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Washington, D.C., Managing Partner | Bill Moreau co-chairs the firm’s Public Policy Group within the Governmental Services & Finance Department. He also chairs the firm's interdisciplinary Higher Education Practice Group. Mr. Moreau represents clients before local, state, and federal legislative, administrative, and regulatory bodies. Trained as a litigator and appellate advocate, he served now-U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh for five years as, in succession, his deputy secretary of state/chief of staff, gubernatorial transition director, chief of staff, and legislative director.
He was Gov. Bayh’s lead counsel in negotiations with Illinois, Chicago, and Gary on the siting of a multibillion dollar airport to serve the Chicago region. He then represented both Gov. Bayh and Gov. Frank O’Bannon in negotiations and litigation to create a new airport authority for Chicago and Gary pursuant to an interstate compact. |
Oskay, Sarah
Paralegal | Sarah Oskay is a paralegal at Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis office. She is a member of the Litigation Department with her primary focus on toxic tort litigation.
Ms. Oskay earned a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and paralegal certificate from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in May 2007. |
Palan, Perry
Partner | Perry Palan is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s Washington, D.C., office where he is the administrator of the Intellectual Property Department. He serves U.S. and foreign companies in protecting and licensing their intellectual property by obtaining patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secret and employment agreements in the United States and in foreign countries. He counsels clients in litigation and trade commission matters as well as litigation and risk avoidance.
Mr. Palan is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia as well as numerous federal courts. He is active in B’nai B’rith on the local, national, and international levels.
Mr. Palan received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Washington University in 1965 and a J.D. from George Washington University in 1970. |
Park-Suk, Hae
Associate | Hae Park-Suk is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office and a member of the Intellectual Property Department. Ms. Park-Suk counsels clients on the selection, adoption, availability, and proper use of trademarks. Her practice consists of searching and clearing trademarks, prosecuting domestic and international trademark applications, managing extensive foreign trademark portfolios, assisting clients in planning and structuring their worldwide trademark strategies, assisting clients in protecting and enforcing their trademarks in the U.S. and worldwide, coordinating intellectual property assignments, resolving trademark infringement disputes, and litigating before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Ms. Park-Suk counsels clients in a variety of industries including advertising, cosmetics, entertainment, fashion, food, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. |
Stayin, Randolph J.
Of Counsel | Randolph J. Stayin is a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP and heads the Global Services Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office. He concentrates his practice primarily in the international trade area, although he also has extensive non-profit trade association, federal legislative, and federal regulatory law experience.
He counsels foreign and domestic clients as well as trade associations regarding the many legal issues that arise in the regulation of the import and export of goods and services. He has litigated many cases involving international trade issues, including antidumping; countervailing duty; safeguard actions; unfair trade practices; generalized system of preferences; and U.S. Customs valuation, classification, country-of-origin and fraud matters. |
Stokes, Nathan A.
Associate | Nathan A. Stokes is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Mr. Stokes practices in the Environmental Department where he focuses on permitting, compliance, and enforcement matters under the Clean Water Act.
In 2004, Mr. Stokes received a dual Juris Doctor and Master of Studies in Environmental Law (M.S.E.L.) degree from Vermont Law School. His undergraduate work was completed in 2001 at the University of Dayton where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in environmental biology. Immediately prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Mr. Stokes worked on state clean water issues for the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA).
He is admitted to practice in the state of Massachusetts and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. |
Streeter, Richard H.
Senior Counsel | Richard H. Streeter, the managing partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, serves as the administrator of the Governmental Services & Finance and Litigation Departments and chairs the Transportation and Global Logistics Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in transportation law and litigation before federal courts, the U.S. Departments of Transportation (Surface Transportation Board, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Aviation Administration), Justice and the United States Congress.
His transportation practice involves rail mergers and acquisitions, construction, abandonment, and forced sales of lines of railroad; freight loss and damage claims, enforcement of the common carrier obligation; defense of hazardous materials violations, and contract negotiations. |
Stroble, Larry J.
Partner | Larry J. Stroble, former managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, concentrates his practice primarily in state and local tax matters, federal tax controversies, and federal tax planning. He has represented clients in numerous cases before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing authorities and has also tried several tax cases in the state and federal courts. He represented the taxpayer in a test case for the utilities industry, which controlled the outcome of cases involving more than $100 million in income taxes. He successfully argued the case in the U. S. Tax Court, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and ultimately the U. S. Supreme Court. He is also active in counseling clients in the planning of transactions from a state and local tax perspective. |
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