Troutman Sanders Partnership Expands By 11
ATLANTA – Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of 11 attorneys who have been elected partners. The new partners are located in the law firm's offices in Atlanta, New York, Norfolk,
Richmond, Tysons Corner and Virginia Beach.
"These 11 attorneys have worked tirelessly to achieve this milestone in their careers,” said Stephen E. Lewis, managing partner of Troutman Sanders. “The firm appreciates their hard work, dedication and commitment
to the firm, and looks forward to their continued success as partners at Troutman Sanders."
Troutman Sanders’ new partners are:
Attorney/Primary Practice Group/
City:
Tina A. DeNapoli
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Atlanta
Alison A. Grounds
Electronic Discovery & Data Management
Atlanta
Michael E. Lacy
Financial Services Litigation
Richmond
Jason E. Manning
Financial Services Litigation
Virginia Beach
Carroll W. McGuffey III
Environmental and Natural Resources
Atlanta
Megan C. Rahman
White Collar & Government Investigations
Richmond
M. Chadwick Stackhouse
Lending & Structured Finance
Tysons Corner
Sharon H. Stern
Business Litigation
New York
David H. Sump
Maritime Law and Government Contracts
Norfolk
Trenton A. Ward
Intellectual Property
Atlanta
Erin S. Whaley
Healthcare
Richmond
About the new partners in the Atlanta office:
Tina A. DeNapoli joined Troutman Sanders in 2007 as of counsel and is a member of the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group.
Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate at Hunton & Williams LLP from 2000 to 2007, an associate at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice from 1999 to 2000, both in Atlanta, and an Assistant State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit in Florida from 1996 to 1997.
DeNapoli’s practice focuses on all aspects of employee benefits law relating to tax-qualified retirement plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements, welfare plans and executive and stock-based compensation plans and arrangements. Her practice includes designing such plans and arrangements and advising clients with respect to the implementation and administration of such plans and arrangements. She also has extensive experience advising clients with respect to benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions and ERISA plan asset issues arising with private equity funds.
Her public appearances have included a guest spot on PBS’ “The Layman’s Lawyer,” as well as speaking at a COBRA Presentation for the Center for Employee Management. Additionally, she wrote “Are 409A Issues Lurking in Your Compensation Arrangements? A 101 Primer for Employers on section 409A” in May 2009.
A member of the Georgia Bar, who also speaks fluent Greek, DeNapoli graduated with a B.B.A., cum laude, in 1992 from Stetson University, and a J.D., with honors, in 1995 and an LL.M. in Taxation in 1998 from the University of Florida.
Alison A. Grounds joined Troutman Sanders in 2001 as an associate and became an of counsel in 2010. She is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, serves on the firm’s Technology Committee and is the co-founder and leader of the firm’s Electronic Discovery and Data Management Team. From 2002 to 2003, she also served as a fellow for Atlanta Legal Aid.
Grounds focuses her practice on advising clients on the efficient management, analysis, and use of electronically stored information in litigation and government investigations. She has developed and implemented case-specific strategies, which incorporate appropriate technological tools and resources to efficiently and effectively preserve, manage, collect, review, analyze, and produce large volumes of electronically stored information. She also uses her litigation experience to advocate on behalf of clients on issues related to E-Discovery.
In addition, she is experienced in litigating various complex commercial and business disputes related to contractual rights, fraud, business torts, products liability, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, technology, false advertising, trade secrets and unfair competition.
Grounds has written and spoken extensively on e-discovery issues. Her articles have appeared in The National Law Journal, DRI’s E-Discovery Connection, and Electronic Records Management and E-Discovery (Inside the Minds Series), and she has spoken at CLEs, webinars, and e-discovery conferences and symposiums across the country.
She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia’s Young Lawyers Division, the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1), and The Stonewall Bar Association.
Grounds received a B.A., summa cum laude, in 1997 from Loyola University New Orleans and a J.D., with honors, in 2001 from the University of North Carolina.
Carroll Wade (Mack) McGuffey joined Troutman Sanders in 2003 as an associate, and is a member of the firm’s Environmental & Natural Resources and Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation practice groups, as well as the firm’s Climate Change and Renewable Energy teams.
His practice focuses on environmental law, where he specializes in regulatory compliance under the Clean Air Act. He also represents electric utility and industrial clients on a number of important air quality issues, including New Source Review, Title V Operating Permits, Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards, and Regional Haze. Additionally, he has experience in enforcement action and litigation matters, and has helped defend clients against a wide variety of environmental claims.
McGuffey has written extensively on environmental issues, having articles appear in Turbomachinery International, the Georgetown Law Review, the Penn State Environmental Law Review, and the American Bar Association’s Air Quality Committee Newsletter and Natural Resources & Environment journal. He also has presented or spoken at numerous engagements, including sessions at the Georgia Bar’s Environmental Law Section summer seminars, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s semi-annual “Managing Environmental Compliance” lectures and Biowood Energy Audio conferences.
He is chair of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia.
McGuffey earned a B.B.A. in 1998 and a J.D., magna cum laude, in 2003 from the University of Georgia. While in law school, he was on the National Moot Court Team from 2001 to 2003 and was the Talmadge Moot Court Competition Winner.
Trenton A. Ward joined Troutman Sanders in 2003 and is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group.
Ward litigates and prosecutes patents, trademarks, and copyrights on behalf of some of the firm’s largest clients in various jurisdictions across the country and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also manages patent portfolios and counsels clients on strategies to develop critical intellectual property from their research and development efforts and obtain patent protection and exclusivity in existing and new markets. Additionally, he regularly counsels clients on licensing agreements and licensing efforts, especially in the areas of telecommunications, semiconductors and software to maximize the potential of their intellectual property and minimize their exposure to intellectual property assertions by others.
His patent litigation experience includes litigation in multiple district courts on a wide range of technologies, including telecommunications equipment, computing devices, medical devices, manufacturing equipment, and software. His
practice also includes commercial litigation involving mass tort actions, pharmaceutical litigation, contract disputes, and commercial banking.
Ward prosecutes patent applications for numerous clients in a wide array of electrical and mechanical arts, including wireless telecommunication systems, carbon nanotube devices, heart valves, financial software, continuously variable
vehicle transmissions, fossil fuel power plants, steel melt furnaces, sporting equipment and oxygen delivery systems.
He also has counseled clients on a wide variety of intellectual property issues, including drafting and negotiating patent and trademark licenses, as well as counseling clients and assisting in defending against patent assertions
through invalidity searching, ex parte and inter partes reexamination, and other defense techniques.
Prior to joining the firm, he worked as an electrical engineer at Nortel Networks.
Ward earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, with honors, in 1999 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a J.D. in 2003 from Emory University.
About the new partner in the New York office:
Sharon H. Stern joined Troutman Sanders in 2005 and is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment and Media & Entertainment practice groups.
Stern represents and counsels businesses in various types of commercial disputes and transactions, with particular focus on government enforcement defense, corporate and contract matters, intellectual property disputes and securities litigation.
She also has substantial experience in consumer law, false advertising, trade practices and regulation, restrictive covenants, Internet issues, entertainment law, privacy law, employment, and real estate. She has been lead counsel
in numerous litigations in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings, successfully representing diverse clients, including retailers, manufacturers, distributors, entertainers, musicians, media
companies, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications companies, computer and software providers, securities brokerage firms and commercial lenders.
Additionally, she has counseled clients on anti-counterfeiting initiatives and issues involving retailing, intellectual property, advertising, licensing, and e-commerce.
Stern has written articles on a variety of technology and intellectual property issues, including course material for the New York State Bar Association and the American Law Institute-American Bar Association.
She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in 1983 from the University at Albany, State University of New York and a J.D. in 1986 from New York University.
About the new partner in the Norfolk office:
David H. Sump joined Troutman Sanders in 2008 and is a member of the firm’s Maritime law & Government Contracts practice group.
Prior to working at Troutman Sanders, he was a partner at Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, PLC from 1997 to 2008 in Norfolk, Va., where he also served as the firm’s managing partner from 1999 to 2008.
Before joining Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, Sump served for fourteen years as a commissioned officer and law specialist in the United States Coast Guard, eventually reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander. While in the Coast Guard,
Sump served as the Coast Guard and Department of Transportation liaison to Capitol Hill for the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and related bills, providing technical input regarding the legal and practical implications of various proposed
legislation dealing with vessel construction, operations and environmental response. Before departing the service, he established the Coast Guard’s first Defense Advocate Team, which was tasked to provide legal representation
to service members facing military criminal charges and administrative discharges.
Sump has extensive experience in charter party drafting, charter party interpretation and conflict resolution. He has drafted and/or revised several blanket Contracts of Affreightment primarily concerning bulk dry cargoes, such
as petroleum coke and coal. He has routinely represented large multi-national power generation companies with affreightment contracts for world-wide ports. He also has devised and delivered world-wide training sessions
for a client describing and interpreting the Contract of Affreightment he drafted.
Additionally, Sump has represented a variety of maritime clients in civilian practice for the past 18 years, concentrating in the area of prosecution and defense of various property damage claims, vessel collision and grounding claims,
marine personal injury and wrongful death claims, as well as addressing issues involving maritime construction and marine contracts. He is acknowledged as one of the area’s leading
attorneys in marine pollution and riparian rights. He also has experience in state and federal procurement claims and protests.
As an author, Sump wrote The Oil Pollution Act of 1990: A Glance in the Rearview Mirror, which was published in the Tulane Law Review (Vol. 85, No. 4).
He is a member of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. From 2010 until 2013, he is the Secretary of the Maritime Law Association Committee on Regulation of Vessel Operations,
Safety, Security and Navigation. From 2006 to 2008, he served as the chair of the Law Practice Management Division, as well as on the Board of Governors for the Virginia Bar Association.
Sump graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1979 with a B.S. in Government, earned an MBA in Finance from Cleveland State University in 1985 and a J.D. from William and Mary University Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1988.
About the new partners in the Richmond office:
Michael E. Lacy joined Troutman Sanders in 2004 and is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Litigation and Securities Litigation practice groups.
Prior to joining the firm, Lacy was a law clerk to the Honorable Lynn N. Hughes, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas from 2002 to 2004.
His practice focuses on representing financial institutions and corporate clients in complex litigation matters in state and federal courts. He also has experience representing public utilities in regulatory matters, as well as representing local government officials in criminal and civil matters.
Lacy is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, which published an article he co-authored in its October/November 2005 VBA News Journal; as well as a member of the Virginia State Bar; the John Marshall Inn of Court; and a past member of the Greater Richmond Stop Child Abuse Now, Board of Young Professionals.
He received a B.A. in 1999 from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. in 2002 from William and Mary University, where he was editor in chief of the William & Mary Bill of Right’s Journal and received a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Leadership.
Megan C. Rahman joined Troutman Sanders in 1999 as an associate and became an of counsel in 2010. She is a member of the firm’s White Collar & Government Investigations and Intellectual Property practice groups, and also serves on the firm’s Women’s Forum Committee.
Before joining Troutman Sanders, Rahman was a law clerk for the Honorable James R. Spencer, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1998 to 1999.
Rahman’s practice focuses primarily on providing advice and support to individuals and corporations responding to regulatory, civil and criminal investigations. She has substantial experience in conducting internal corporate investigations, representing clients in agency investigations, and handling federal and state litigation, and has recently handled cases for clients under investigation for government contracting fraud, tax evasion, false claims and money laundering crimes. She also has significant experience litigating and counseling clients in complex litigation and intellectual property matters, including disputes involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret violations, unfair competition and breach of contract and business torts.
Rahman is a member of the Virginia Bar Association.
She has co-authored numerous articles that have appeared in the Virginia State Bar Litigation News, the Virginia State Bar Association News Journal and Virginia Lawyer, as well as presented at a 2006 CLE
titled “Electronic Discovery: Emerging Case Law and Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
In 1995, Rahman received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1998 she received a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Richmond.
Erin S. Whaley joined the firm in 2004 and is a member of its Healthcare practice group.
Whaley represents hospitals and other health care providers in the full spectrum of health care legal issues. Her corporate and regulatory experience includes advising providers on healthcare operational regulatory issues including
Stark, Anti-Kickback and HIPAA; corporate issues, such as physician contracting and joint venture opportunities; and compliance issues including the design and implementation of compliance programs, as well as the investigation and
resolution of compliance issues.
Her health information technology experience includes assisting with the development of health information exchanges (HIEs) and advising these organizations on legal structure, governance, privacy and security frameworks, operational
policies and procedures, breach notification, and data exchange agreements.
She also assisted in drafting the Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement (DURSA) for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) and provides expert advice to clients on e-health issues, including HIPAA Privacy and Security,
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), the development of electronic health record donation programs and “meaningful use.”
Whaley has co-authored many publications on health care related topics, which have appeared in The Health Lawyer, Health Lawyers Weekly, In-House Counselor, the Journal of Health Care Information Management,
MD News and the Virginia Medial Law Report.
She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Health Law Section of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association. Her public service work has included
being an editor for Virginia Law Women, a judge for the University of Virginia’s Judiciary Committee, and a 10
th circuit representative and chair of the Will for Heroes program of the Virginia State Bar.
Whaley earned a B.A. in 2001, a M.A. in 2004 and a J.D. in 2004 from the University of Virginia. In law school, she was the editor of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law.
About the new partner in the Tysons Corner office:
M. Chadwick Stackhouse joined Troutman Sanders in 2006 and is a member of the firm’s Lending & Structured Finance and Real Estate Finance practice groups, and serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee.
Prior to joining Troutman Sanders, he was an associate in the D.C. offices’ of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Stackhouse has a broad range of experience advising institutional clients on secured lending and structured financings, including asset-based and real estate supported credit facilities, equipment financings, rediscounting and foreign currencies transactions, syndicated, senior secured, mezzanine and unsecured financings. He represents national commercial lenders and banks, and other public and private financing firms in commercial lending transactions involving public and private corporations, life science and technology companies, real estate investment funds, venture capital funds, and high net worth individuals.
In addition, he has significant experience representing lenders that provide working capital financing to support the sale of U.S. manufactured items guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, as well as advising institutional corporate borrower clients with respect to secured and unsecured credit facilities. He also has represented secured and unsecured creditors in commercial loan workout negotiations, pre-bankruptcy restructurings and foreclosure proceedings, including asset sales under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Additionally, he has worked on aircraft and equipment financings, and leveraged lease financings of big-ticket equipment, with an emphasis on aircraft, for equity and debt participants, including cross-border transactions.
Stackhouse graduated with a B.S. in 1997 from Dickinson College and a J.D. in 2002 from The Catholic University of America.
About the new partner in the Virginia Beach office:
Jason E. Manning joined the firm in 2006. He is a member of Troutman Sanders’ Financial Services Litigation, Business Litigation, and Intellectual Property practice groups.
Prior to joining Troutman Sanders, he was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in New York City from 2003 to 2006.
Manning's practice focuses on consumer class actions and litigation against banking institutions arising under federal and state law. Manning advises financial institutions on statutory compliance, federal preemption, the
Dodd-Frank Act, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Manning represents businesses in disputes over contracts, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. His experience includes jury verdicts in state and federal court,
and appeals in the Fourth Circuit and Virginia Supreme Court.
He is admitted to the Virginia, District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey and West Virginia bars, and serves on the board of directors for Horizons Hampton Roads.
Manning received a B.A., magna cum laude, in 2000 from Vanderbilt University and a J.D., magna cum laude, in 2003 from the University of Notre Dame, where he was the article editor for the Notre Dame Law Review.
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