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Ricardo Bonilla

Ricardo Bonilla: Fish & Richardson, Dallas

Bonilla practices commercial and intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on patents. He is a co-chair of the firm’s Latino affinity group and participates in the Pathfinder Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.


Megan Browdie

Megan Browdie: Cooley, Washington, D.C.

Browdie is a senior associate in the antitrust practice group, guiding clients through merger review and representing them in government investigations. She received Cooley’s 2017 Pro Bono Award and is a member of the D.C. office’s pro bono committee.


Alex Chan

Alex Chan: Tensegrity Law Group, Redwood City, California

Chan focuses his practice on patent litigation and is a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is a member of the ABA House of Delegates and a fellow of the Law Practice Division.


Natalie Chan

Natalie C. Chan: Sidley Austin, Chicago

Chan is an associate who litigates on a broad array of employment and labor matters. She has been on the board of the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago and is active with the Chicago Bar Association.


CiCi Chang

CiCi Cheng: Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell, Denver

Cheng is a commercial litigator who handles breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust and business-related torts. She is co-president of the Colorado Pledge to Diversity, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the diversity pipeline for Denver-area attorneys.


Caldwell Collins

Caldwell G. Collins: Baker Donelson, Nashville, Tennessee

Collins defends health care providers in personal injury, wrongful death and government investigation matters. She is vice-chair of the ABA Health Law Litigation Committee and editor of an upcoming ABA book on common issues in long-term care litigation.


Rashelle Davis

RaShelle Davis: State Governor’s Office, Olympia, Washington

Davis is a senior policy adviser for Gov. Jay Inslee on education, civil rights and general government and led the governor’s initiatives to create the state’s charter school commission. She is a member of the ABA House of Delegates.


Elizabeth Del Cid

Elizabeth Del Cid: Murphy & McGonigle, New York City

Del Cid is a litigation attorney and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrator with an extensive background handling professional liability and securities matters. She is an ABA Law Practice fellow and alumna of the ABA’s Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy.


Laura El-Sabaawi

Laura El-Sabaawi: Wiley Rein, Washington, D.C.

El-Sabaawi is a partner in her firm’s international trade practice, representing clients in matters such as anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, export controls and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance programs. She is on the ABA’s International Trade Committee in the Section of International Law.


Daedrea D. Fenwick

Daedrea D. Fenwick: Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, Atlanta

Fenwick is an associate who focuses on general liability defense. She is active with the Young Lawyers Division and the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section and is a 2017-2018 TIPS Now scholarship fellow.


Jason B. Freeman

Jason B. Freeman: Freeman Law, Frisco, Texas

Freeman is a dual-credentialed attorney-CPA and an adjunct pro-fessor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. He is president of the North Texas chapter of the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs.


Weston Graham

Weston Graham: Barney & Graham, Sheridan, Wyoming

Graham’s practice focuses on workers’ compensation matters, representing local small-business owners, and is appointed counsel for patients in involuntary hospitalization proceedings. Graham will be president of the Wyoming State Bar in 2018-2019.


Samuel Greenberg

Samuel Greenberg: Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles

Greenberg is a partner who focuses his practice on the taxation of domestic and international transactions. He also teaches partnership tax at the University of Southern California and income tax timing at the Loyola Law School as an adjunct professor.


Bryan H. Heckenlively

Bryan H. Heckenlively: Munger, Tolles & Olson, San Francisco

Heckenlively is a partner and first-chair trial lawyer who practices complex civil litigation with an emphasis on privacy and data security issues. He co-chairs his firm’s associate development committee and has an active pro bono practice.


Meegan Hollywood

Meegan Hollywood: Robins Kaplan, New York City

Hollywood is a principal in her firm’s antitrust and trade regulation group. She prosecutes class actions involving price-fixing, unlawful monopolization and other anti-competitive practices and has helped recover more than $1.5 billion for victims of anti-competitive conduct.


Ernest D. Holtzheimer

Ernest D. Holtzheimer:  Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia

Holtzheimer is an associate whose practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions and general corporate matters. He is on executive committees for the Philadelphia Bar Association and is a fellow with the ABA Business Law Section.


Daniel Horwitz

Daniel Horwitz: Law Office of Daniel A. Horwitz, Nashville, Tennessee

Horwitz practices constitutional litigation, election law and amicus curiae representation. He is also a member of the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and has a leadership position in the American Constitution Society.


Richard Scott Kelley

Richard Scott Kelley: DLA Piper (U.S.), Washington, D.C.

Kelley is an associate whose practice focuses on internal compliance and investigations and other general litigation. He volunteers with Center Global to support LGBTQ asylum seekers and is a guardian ad litem in D.C. family court.


Alexia Korberg

Alexia Korberg: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City

Korberg practices complex commercial and constitutional litigation at the trial and appellate levels. She participated in United States v. Windsor and multiple cases in Mississippi that invalidated the state’s bans on same-sex marriage and adoption.

 

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This article was published in the September 2018 ABA Journal magazine with the title "Rising up: Young Lawyers Division honors 40 up-and-coming attorneys."

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