BARRETT MCNAGNY - Key Persons
Practice Areas:
Economic Development and Real Estate
Attorney Anthony Stites represents business entities in all facets of their employment matters. On a daily basis, he works with human resource personnel and in-house counsel to prevent or solve problems in the employment arena. Tony assists all sizes of employers ranging from very small businesses through large publicly traded corporations.
Job Titles:
- Paralegal & Legal Assistant
Caleb Peery is a member of the litigation team where he handles matters involving insurance defense, commercial litigation premises liability, products liability, collections, and contract disputes. He has experience with the court system, as he spent time following law school clerking for the Honorable Jennifer DeGroote and the Honorable Andrew Williams in Allen County Superior Court. During law school, he was a judicial intern for the Honorable Rossie Alston at the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria, VA and for the Honorable Daniel Ortiz in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, VA.
Carta Robison focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment. She works with employers to help prevent and solve disputes with employment contracts, and claims involving Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Indiana Wage Payment Statute, the Indiana Wage Claims statute, and the Indiana Worker's Compensation Act. She also represents clients in general liability defense.
Casie Towsley focuses her litigation practice in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance defense, premises liability, products liability, collections, and contract disputes. She also assists with due diligence review in the mergers and acquisitions practice area.
Practice Areas:
Labor Relations and Employment Law
David Steiner focuses his practice on transactional work for businesses and individuals, primarily real estate transactions, specializing in environmentally impacted real estate, brownfields redevelopment, land leases and sales for solar facility development, and tax-free exchanges, as well as business transactions involving formation, acquisitions, sales, and contracts.
Throughout his career, David has represented clients in acquiring, selling and leasing real estate across the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast. He regularly represents purchasers, sellers and lenders in transactions involving environmentally impacted commercial properties. These representations include all aspects of real estate due diligence including environmental risk assessment, land use, title insurance, survey and mortgage financing matters. In addition, David has represented business and individuals in negotiating and resolving environmental claims with state and federal regulators and in negotiating and settling environmental insurance claims.
Practice Areas:
Estate Planning and Administration
H. Joseph Cohen works with clients in the areas of labor and employment matters and litigation including insurance defense. Concentrating on health care providers, his practice works with hospitals, physician offices, dentists, and doctors on their employment law needs. He has extensive experience in defending all types of employment claims, including those based on race, sex, national origin, religion, and sexual harassment. His experience also includes handling insurance defense claims.
He is a frequent speaker on labor and employment topics and has presented more than 100 lectures/seminars to statewide and local audiences.
Jake Gattuso focuses his practice in the areas of mergers & acquisitions where he is a member of our transactions team. His work involves negotiations, drafting and due diligence. He routinely represents buyers in the financial services and manufacturing industries and has been involved in the closing of numerous transactions involving both strategic and private equity parties.
He has experience working with businesses of various sizes, and represents clients in the initial formation stages, and provides day-to-day operational counsel such as providing assistance with respect to the negotiation and drafting of third-party contracts, internal governance matters.
Similarly, he represents clients in the growth or fundraising stages, by providing guidance for private placements, Regulation D securities offerings, and similar matters involving state "blue-sky" laws and federal securities laws compliance. Further, Jake assists clients buying and selling businesses of various sizes.
Additionally, Jake represents businesses and individuals in all stages of real estate transactions such as the purchase, sale, financing, and leasing of commercial, industrial, rental, and residential property. He provides counsel to landowners and prospective land owners on environmental diligence, environmental risk assessment, and risk mitigation.
Professional and Community Involvement
Member, Allen County Bar Association
Member, Indiana State Bar Association
Board Member, Recovery Cafe, Fort Wayne
James Koday is a retired partner from Barrett McNagny. While he was practicing law, he focused his practice on estate tax planning, succession planning, estate administration, and mediation. He counseled clients on sophisticated transfer tax minimization strategies, practical succession plans for business owners, general and complex business matters, and efficient and cost-effective estate administration.
Job Titles:
- Research Assistant for Professor
Justin T. Molitoris concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and cybersecurity. He works with clients of all sizes including sole proprietors, family-owned businesses and Fortune 500 companies assisting with a variety of corporate and business law matters, ranging from business formation and organization, corporate governance matters, contract drafting and review, and business transitions. He also has experience working on antitrust matters and assisting companies with Hart-Scott-Rodino analysis.
Justin is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (United States) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He advises businesses on the impact of privacy laws in their day-to-day operations, including providing privacy impact assessments and risk assessments regarding the use and potential misuse of personally identifiable information. He counsels businesses on technological developments, including assisting with cybersecurity issues, breach preparedness, and software licensing.
Job Titles:
- Paralegal & Legal Assistant
Kevin K. Fitzharris, is a registered civil mediator who concentrates his litigation practice in the areas of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and litigation services. He spends most of his time serving as a mediator to help individuals and entities resolve their disputes before filing suit or before trial. With over thirty-three years of litigation experience, Kevin has mediated thousands of cases and has represented major litigants in numerous mediations, arbitrations, jury trials, and bench trials.
Lauren Minke concentrates her practice in the area of civil litigation, with an emphasis in insurance defense and medical malpractice defense. She also represents clients in general liability defense and commercial litigation and provides litigation services related to disputes concerning premises liability, real estate, and contracts. She has bench and jury trial experience, as well as appeals.
Marcus A. Heminger concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and business law and securities law. He has extensive experience in corporate transactions, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, private and registered public securities offerings, SEC reporting compliance, and NYSE and NASDAQ regulatory compliance.
Prior to returning to Fort Wayne and joining Barrett McNagny, Marcus spent more than five years working at one of New York's largest law firms, where he gained valuable experience with the firm's Capital Markets Group. His corporate governance and securities law experience also includes drafting and reviewing SEC disclosure documents, including Annual Reports, Quarterly Reports, Current Reports, Proxy Statements, Stock Ownership Disclosures, offering documents and other required filings, and responding to SEC comment letters, exchange and self-regulatory organization inquiries, and Department of Justice investigations.
Mark Bains represents clients in a variety of real estate matters including acquisitions and dispositions, zoning and land use matters, and leasing. In addition, Mark focuses his practice on various types of real estate litigation, including disputes related to purchase agreements, lease agreements, and eminent domain actions. Mark also handles construction law matters, where he represents residential and commercial contractors in the process of negotiating and drafting construction contracts, mechanic's lien preparations and foreclosures, contract disputes, defective workmanship claims, and collection actions.
Michael O'Hara focuses his practice in the areas of finance, creditor's rights, business transactions/contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions. He is counsel for Do it Best Corp. and for numerous closely held corporations and several financial institutions.
Practice Areas:
Business and Commercial Litigation
Practice Areas:
Economic Development and Real Estate
Practice Areas:
Labor Relations and Employment Law
Pat Murphy has spent his career in litigation. He is an experienced trial attorney whose practice is focused on representing businesses in business, and intellectual property litigation. His diverse experience includes handling matters involving contract disputes, non-competition and non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, real estate, adverse possession, easements, boundary disputes, property law, construction, intellectual property disputes, trademark and copyright infringement, trade secrets, unfair competition, injunctions, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, product liability, riparian rights litigation, insurance defense, disputes between owners of closely held businesses, and bet-the-company litigation. He has also handled transportation and trucking litigation. Pat has been lead counsel on more than 100 jury trials and more than 1,000 arbitrations, mediations, depositions, and hearings.
Job Titles:
- Fellow for His Lifetime Contributions to the Fort Wayne
Practice Areas:
Business and Commercial Litigation
Richard Fox has, for over 35 years, counseled employers, lenders, developers and governmental entities with regard to various and complex financing arrangements for public-private partnership projects, including the use of federal, state and local incentives, such as New Markets, low-income housing and historic Tax Credits, Indiana state Tax Credits such as Community Revitalization Enhancement District (CReED) and Industrial Recovery (Dino) Tax Credits and local economic development bond financing supported by tax incremental financing (TIF) revenues and other available sources of public funds. Mr. Fox has also served as bond counsel, borrower's counsel, underwriter's counsel, and issuer's counsel in taxable and tax-exempt bond and note issues for public and private issuers.
Robert T. Keen Jr. is a trial lawyer who focuses his litigation practice in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance defense, premises liability, products liability, employment litigation, and the defense of lawsuits filed against local governments and police officers. Bob has tried hundreds of cases in state and federal courts across the State of Indiana for businesses, insurance companies, and governmental entities.
Sadie Dillon-Baatz concentrates her practice in the area of domestic and family law. She assists clients with dissolutions, adoptions, custody disputes, child support issues, and handles adoptions including private, agency and foster adoptions.
Sadie is a Guardian Ad Litem and completed training to serve in this capacity. Her specialized instruction and education as a Guardian Ad Litem included topics such as early childhood and adolescent development and the identification and treatment of child abuse and neglect. In addition to enhancing her practice as a family law attorney, this training allows her to represent the best interests of individuals who are unable to represent themselves, including children and incapacitated persons.
She has experience working with parents and guardians in family law cases as a volunteer at the Viola J. Taliaferro Family and Children Mediation Clinic in Bloomington during law school. At the clinic she mediated cases involving custody, parenting time, child support, asset and debt division and other family law related disputes.
Attorney Sam Talarico, Jr., has nearly thirty years of experience representing corporate clients, with an emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and private placements. He regularly represents clients who are buying and selling businesses involving both strategic and private equity parties, including numerous transactions within the insurance and financial services space. He has assisted public companies with the preparation of 10-Ks, 8-Ks, 10-Qs, as well as proxy materials and press releases, and has prepared Hart Scott Rodino filings for multiple transactions. He has also assisted companies with well over forty "Reg D" private offerings of equity and debt securities.
Practice Areas:
Labor Relations and Employment Law
Practice Areas:
Estate Planning and Administration