Experts Directory

Lee Applebaum

In over thirty years of practice, Lee Applebaum has worked with regional and national clients on a broad spectrum of business and litigation matters.  His current practice focus is two-fold: appellate litigation and mediation. He clerked in Pennsylvania’s Superior Court for the Honorable Phyllis W. Beck, and has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in Pennsylvania’s Superior and Commonwealth [...]

David F. Abernethy

David Abernethy has spent more than three decades as a trial and appellate lawyer, prevailing in court for some of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies, insurance carriers and other Fortune 100 companies. He has defended hundreds of product liability claims, complex insurance coverage actions, contract and commercial disputes, and consumer class actions, at trial, on appeal and in complex arbitrations. David employs his decades of experience throughout the country to develop litigation [...]

Virginia Hinrichs McMichael

Virginia Hinrichs McMichael has over 37 years of experience in commercial litigation and appellate law. She is a former partner and Chair of the Appellate Practice Group at Dilworth Paxson, LLC, a premier litigation firm. McMichael is a former attorney-advisor at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Before working at HUD, she was an associate in the family law firm Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin and Associates.  McMichael is fluent in Spanish and French. McMichael [...]