DAILEY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Business Litigation

In more than 25 years as a litigator of complex commercial matters, Alfred Anthony Brown has represented a wide variety of clients, including Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, technology, and retail sectors. In the mid-2000s, he created a pioneering technology assisted review ("TAR") system that enabled the efficient and accurate electronic discovery review of millions of database records in relational structures. Al continues to use his technological knowledge to create processes and forms that allow Dailey LLP to do more for clients in less time. Over the decades, Al has also litigated cases involving a wide range of business matters, including breach of contract, product and premises liability, creditors' rights, professional malpractice, insurance coverage, accounting liability, municipal utilities' rights, and consumer class actions. He has advised clients on the management and security of electronically stored information (ESI) and the proper implementation of every phase of the e-discovery lifecycle. Al is an avid fan of classical and jazz music, and has served as a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra Development Committee. He also enjoys woodworking, tackling home-renovation projects, and international travel. He is currently studying Mandarin, his wife's native language.

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• Partner

Early in his career, Andrew Sauder clerked for the Honorable Myron T. Steele, Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Andrew pulls from those formative experiences and from more than a decade of navigating complex cases through the Delaware Court of Chancery to offer clients measured counsel in a variety of corporate, fiduciary, and commercial litigation matters. This includes matters involving claims for breaches of fiduciary duty, appraisals, stockholder inspection demands, advancements and indemnifications, corporate control issues, LLC and partnership agreement interpretations, breaches of contract, and trust litigation. In addition to his Court of Chancery work, Andrew guides clients through appeals in the Delaware Supreme Court, through commercial disputes and insurance coverage actions in the Delaware Superior Court, and through securities and commercial disputes in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. Prior to joining Dailey LLP, Andrew worked with the corporate litigation group at Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP.

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• Attorney
• Business Litigation

Anthony is a commercial litigator with experience in a diverse range of practice areas, including government enforcement and regulatory actions, financial services representations, complex contract disputes, labor & employment, and insurance matters. Anthony has represented clients before the Securities Exchange Commission as well as in multi-state civil investigations. He began his career in the Chicago office of an AmLaw 100 firm, where he was an Associate in the firm's litigation practice. Anthony holds a B.S. from Cornell University, with Honors, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. At Northwestern, Anthony was an articles editor of the Journal of International Law and Business. Before law school, Anthony was a corporate paralegal in the private equity practice group of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP's New York office. Anthony is a member of the Rhode Island bar. He serves on the Business Organizations and Ethics & Professionalism committees of the Rhode Island Bar Association.

Job Titles:

• Attorney

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Business Litigation

Erin Hanlon has extensive experience with litigation involving complex civil matters for clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, and technology industries. Erin joined Dailey LLP after eight years at the Federal Judiciary, where she served as the career law clerk for the Honorable Late Marilyn Heffley, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During her clerkship, Erin advised on cases in a variety of areas of law from initial pleadings through trial. She also served as a Staff Attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit where she worked on federal appellate matters. Prior to her experience working for the Federal Judiciary, Erin spent seven years in the litigation practice group at a large international law firm in Philadelphia. Erin uses her experience and variety of perspectives - as an advocate, clerk, and appellate staff attorney - to counsel clients on effective and practical litigation strategies. Drawing from her experience at the Federal Judiciary where she was involved in and advised on all stages of a case, from initial pleadings through trial and appeal, Erin navigates clients through the development of legal strategy in all phases of litigation. Erin also has extensive experience defending clients in matters involving consumer and healthcare fraud, unfair trade practices, commercial and contract disputes, product liability, and violations related to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act. Her past work has included defending a group purchasing organization and specialty drug distributor in a case alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act; defending pharmaceutical clients in litigation involving alleged unfair sales and marketing practices, off-label promotion, Medicaid/Medicare compliance, and federal and state price reporting obligations; and representing a global medical technology company in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation of its sales and marketing practices.

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Business Litigation

Gay Parks Rainville, one of the co-founders of Dailey LLP, litigates bet-the-company matters with the broad perspective and strategic skills that only an attorney with her decades of experience can offer. Over the course of her career, she has earned a reputation as a forthright and resourceful litigator who has honed her ability to adeptly foresee and assess her clients' tactical options at every step of litigation. A seasoned securities class action litigator, Gay has represented a variety of clients in securities fraud and other shareholder litigations. She has also defended various life sciences companies and consumer product manufacturers in a range of significant matters, including multi-party product liability cases, antitrust actions, and patent licensing litigations. Especially well-regarded for her written advocacy, Gay has won case-dispositive motions in a number of securities class actions and other complex cases. Gay was honored at a recent American Bar Association, Women in Litigation Conference, as one of "100 Women Who Inspire Us." The honorees at the event consisted of top women litigators from across the country. Gay began her legal career as women pioneers were shattering glass ceilings in law firms around the country. During her career, Gay has been a top law firm litigator (Pepper Hamilton, Harkins Cunningham), who transitioned to valued in-house counsel (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), and then back to the large law firm (Pepper Hamilton) as a practice group leader (co-head of Securities Litigation Group), and now she is a co-founder of Dailey LLP. Because of her journey, she knows well the importance of supporting the efforts of others. That is why service to her community is so central to Gay's life. She is a deeply devoted supporter-and the past board chair-of SeniorLAW Center, an organization that provides free legal services to older Pennsylvanians who could not otherwise afford representation. Prior to entering law school, Gay taught high school English and studied, coached, and performed modern dance. Nearly thirty years after earning her juris doctorate, she went back to school to earn an MFA in poetry writing. In 2021, she published her debut poetry chapbook.

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• Attorney
• Employment Law

Most attorneys who work in labor and employment law only represent employees or employers, but Jackie Woolley takes an uncommon approach to her practice. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in employment law. For the past fifteen years, she has both supported employees who have needed a knowledgeable advocate and helped employers manage their day-to-day personnel matters. Her hybrid model allows her to examine and understand labor and employment issues from both sides, which affords her clients exceptional representation.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Business Litigation

Prior to co-founding Dailey LLP in 2019, Jeff spent nearly two decades at Akin, where he was a Partner. Jeff is a trial lawyer who focuses on complex business litigation, arbitration, and investigations, including disputes arising out of mergers or acquisitions, among business owners or investors, or between businesses and clients. Over the course of his career, Jeff has represented many of the country's top accounting firms, a number of publicly traded companies and their directors and officers, privately held businesses across a number of industries, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, a leading investment research and rating firm, and several national retailers. By reimagining the ways people and technology are used to gather, process, and analyze information, Jeff and his team at Dailey produce the highest level work, reduce costs to clients, and minimize the burden that litigation places on their clients' businesses.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Construction Law

When Lisa Dailey co-founded Dailey LLP, she brought with her a hands-on understanding of the construction industry, acquired through decades of experience in the field. When she was a teen, she worked on asbestos removal projects, roofing tear offs, and other demolition work at her parents' construction company. After college, before she attended law school, she worked as a technician, sampling construction materials and performing air quality testing on construction sites. Those real-life experiences give her an advantage as she now represents clients involved in complex commercial construction litigation. Lisa devotes much of her time to counseling owners and contractors during the construction process on a wide variety of construction-related issues, including enforcement of contractor compliance with contract documents and scheduling requirements, scope of work and payment disputes, terminations, mechanics' liens, and payment and performance bond claims. When necessary, Lisa prosecutes and defends construction-related cases, and engages in periodic collection work as well. She knows firsthand the importance of finishing construction projects on time and within budget, which is why she is so adamant about intervening in Owner-Contractor disputes early and maintaining a regular flow of information from the firm to the client. She also drafts construction and design contracts for owners including colleges and universities, public school districts, private schools, manufacturers, and churches, among others. Although Lisa is a skilled litigator who vigorously advocates for her clients, she also understands business decisions must drive litigation strategy, and when the opportunity arises, helps clients resolve disputes outside of litigation to avoid unnecessary legal expenses.

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Counsel
• Adjunct Professor of Law
• Business Litigation

Marc Durant has decades of experience trying and litigating complex civil, financial, and white-collar criminal cases. He specializes in matters involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and securities industry disputes including FINRA proceedings. After distinguishing himself at Cornell University and Harvard Law School, Marc served as law clerk to United States District Judge Walter K. Stapleton (D. Del.). He spent the following three years as a litigation associate in a large prominent corporate law firm. Marc was then offered positions as an Assistant United States Attorney in Manhattan and Philadelphia, and he then joined the Department of Justice. Over the next six years he tried numerous criminal jury trials and rapidly rose through the ranks, serving in several supervisory positions including Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. Marc was lead trial counsel in the nationally publicized "MOVE" trials. He played a key role in the "ABSCAM" prosecutions of federal and local elected officials charged with bribery and corruption in a FBI undercover sting operation. In private practice Marc has served as lead trial counsel in more than a dozen month long and longer federal jury trials, both civil and criminal. He has been chief trial counsel in securities, antitrust, FDA, R.I.C.O., Hobbs Act, and class actions. He has tried many wide-ranging securities and financial cases, civil, criminal, and regulatory. Marc has handled and supervised hundreds of securities matters. He has also handled a number of "parallel proceedings," which are complex multi-track matters simultaneously involving grand jury investigations, criminal indictments, civil actions and SEC as well as state regulatory proceedings. Marc has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law, a National Institute of Trial Advocacy faculty member, and an instructor in Prosecution Trial Advocacy at the United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. He regularly teaches other attorneys in continuing legal education programs. He has authored law review articles and served as an Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. He has lectured European and Asian attorneys on American extraterritorial jurisdiction. Marc has long been Martindale-Hubbell peer review rated as AV preeminent. He has been selected by his peers for membership in highly selective honoraries, including Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, the Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Fellow, Litigation Council of America, and Lawyers of Distinction. Marc is admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania and various federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Business Litigation
• Member of the Brehon Law Society

Prior to becoming a litigator, Mike Bonner worked as a journalist, so he understands the value of effective writing and storytelling. Mike combines his writing skills with his passion for creative problem-solving to guide clients through complex commercial litigation and construction disputes in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Mike is a member of the Brehon Law Society, and he serves on the organization's executive committee.

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Construction Law

Patrick Costello specializes in construction law, and also has worked on a variety of complex commercial and business litigation matters. In addition to being a seasoned litigator with trial experience, he is also a trained and certified mediator and commercial arbitrator, and he seeks claim solutions through settlement talks and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) whenever possible. Patrick is laser focused on providing cost-effective counsel in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey courts. Patrick's matters include construction defect claims, mechanics' liens, payment disputes, breaches of contract, unjust enrichment claims, professional liability of architects and engineers, warranty claims, bid claims, violations of consumer protection laws, delay claims, and insurance coverage disputes. He also advises construction clients on preparing construction contracts, purchase order terms, modifying American Institute of Architects (AIA) forms, releases, and settlement agreements. He provides advice on developing claim-handling strategies during projects as well. Patrick has represented contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, construction managers, sureties, and public and private owners, including large universities, school districts, condominium associations, and research institutions. Before joining Dailey LLP, he practiced for almost thirteen years at a boutique firm that focused on construction law. He also spent several years practicing corporate and commercial litigation at a large law firm, where he represented clients in all Delaware courts and in various state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Job Titles:

• Partner

Richard Levan has substantial experience in the Securities and White Collar Enforcement fields, having previously served as Chief Litigation Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Philadelphia Office and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Richard is currently co-chair of the Securities Regulation Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is former Chair of the American Bar Association's Financial Services Integration Committee, a national group addressing the unique compliance and regulatory issues confronting banks, securities firms, and insurance companies today. He has also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Securities Law360 and the Pennsylvania Securities Commission's Attorney Advisory Board. Richard has over forty years of experience defending civil and criminal cases initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the PCAOB, state securities and insurance agencies and self-regulatory organizations such as FINRA. A seasoned trial attorney, Richard has tried over 60 cases to verdict. His extensive experience, judgment and tenacity make him a formidable advocate. Richard writes frequently on matters affecting the securities industry and has been quoted in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The American Banker, Business Week, Bloomberg News, Smart Money, IA Week, The National Law Journal and Dow Jones News Service. He has also appeared on CNN and NBC Nightly News. Richard has served as a featured speaker at national compliance and regulatory conferences sponsored by such organizations as the National Society of Compliance Professionals, National Regulatory Services, American Bar Association, Society of Financial Service Professionals, NASD/Wharton Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Investment Adviser Week. Richard has been listed in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in the field of securities litigation since 2010. Richard also holds an AV rating, the highest rating awarded by Martindale-Hubbell. Richard is an avid fly fisherman, opera lover and hiker. When not out on a trail with his devoted dog, he is reading or listening to one of the many operas in his extensive vinyl collection. Richard is a former trustee of the Pound Ridge Library.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Business Litigation

Ryan J. Levan is a complex commercial litigator with deep experience litigating high-stakes matters. He began his career as an associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. To date, Ryan has litigated dozens of cases in federal and state courts for Fortune 500 companies, multinationals, financial services firms, large private corporations, and control personnel. His practice focuses on M&A litigation, securities and commodities investigations, antitrust and securities class actions, and commercial real estate disputes. Ryan also brings valuable business experience to bear in his representations, having previously founded and operated a start-up company-including through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thus, in addition to his insights from years of high-stakes litigation, his firsthand knowledge of business, finance, accounting, and operations allows him to analyze complex matters through the eyes of the business owner and control personnel. Ryan is deeply committed to pro bono work. He has represented New York-based charitable, religious, and scholastic organizations, and has assisted local businesses in navigating the existential challenges posed by COVID-19. Ryan has also helped secure legal immigration status for more than a dozen low-income women and children from Central America, for which he was recognized with Her Justice's Commitment to Justice Award. Ryan serves on the board of the Camp Shohola Scholarship Fund, a non-profit dedicated to providing access to summer camp for boys from low-income families. Ryan holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, with honors. While at Columbia, he served as a summer law clerk to The Honorable Judge John R. Fisher of the D.C. Court of Appeals, was an articles editor for the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

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• Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

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• Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

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• United States District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania ( 2008 - 2010 )