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NewsMichael Best is pleased to announce the addition of several talented professionals to its offices nationwide in the third quarter of 2025. These new hires bring diverse expertise and a commitment to excellence, further strengthening the firm’s ability to serve clients across key practice areas and markets.
Milwaukee Office
- Silas Petrie – Intellectual Property – Patent Prosecution
- Danny Levandoski – Labor and Employment
- Rodrigo Villalobos – Litigation
- Zachary Schumacher – Regulatory
- Connor Cruz – Transactional
- Colby Groom – Transactional
- Thomas Kozlovsky – Transactional
- Tyler Horn – Transactional
Chicago Office
- Anastasiya Kadukov – Intellectual Property – Brand Protection
- Kristin Galvin – Intellectual Property – Patent Prosecution
- Natalie Hartl – Litigation
- Natalie Allen – Venture Best
- Paige Schaefer – Venture Best
Madison Office
- Juliet Jacques – Labor and Employment
- Christopher Hovel – Regulatory
Austin Office
- Ryder Smith – Labor and Employment
- Matt Turinas – Venture Best
Denver Office
- Carolyn Payne – Litigation
Los Angeles Office
- Adam Garcia – Venture Best
Raleigh Office
- Megan Demeny – Labor and Employment
- Destiney Parker-Thompson – Litigation
- Serge Melnik – Transactional
Salt Lake City Office
- Paul Helms – Transactional
Related People Preview Attorney's BiographyRodrigo focuses his practice on complex litigation matters, civil disputes, and litigation avoidance strategies. His extensive experience in legal research, motion drafting, and brief writing allows him to deliver strategic support to clients throughout the litigation process. Before joining Michael Best, Rodrigo worked with the firm as a summer associate, where he assisted on a broad range of civil litigation matters. He gained additional experience as a law clerk at a well-known per ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyConnor is an associate in Michael Best’s Corporate practice, assisting clients with a variety of business and transactional matters.While pursuing his law degree, Connor worked as a summer asociate for Michael Best where he conducted due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, drafted and reviewed complex agreements, and managed corporate reorganizations. His background includes handling corporate governance matters, deal structuring, entity formations, and healthcare regulatory compliance ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyTyler counsels real estate developers and businesses in a range of matters relating to the purchase and sale of real property, financing, entitlements, commercial leasing, and development projects.Committed to a detail-oriented approach, Tyler provides practical and thorough guidance to his clients. He is dedicated to building strong relationships with his clients through timely communication on all business activities.Prior to joining Michael Best, Tyler worked at a Milwaukee-based law firm, wh ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyAnastasiya supports clients in Michael Best’s Intellectual Property practice group with a focus on trademark registration, enforcement, and litigation. As a creative herself, she is passionate about helping individuals and companies protect their ideas, brand identities, and creative assets.She manages domestic and international trademark portfolios, conducts comprehensive clearance searches, and prepares and files applications, Office action responses, renewals, and assignments. Anastasiy ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyPaige partners with startups and investors as they navigate the legal side of building, funding, and scaling companies. Before law school, Paige spent nearly a decade in San Francisco’s tech scene as a product marketing manager, helping companies with messaging, positioning, and customer storytelling. Paige brings that same entrepreneurial energy to her legal work, blending business know-how with legal training to support founders, early-stage companies, and the investors backin ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyWith deep experience in labor and employment law, Ryder advises clients on litigation, compliance, and policy matters across a range of industries, including higher education. He has represented clients before various tribunals, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and collaborated with the Texas Office of the Attorney General on active litigation.  Preview Attorney's BiographyCarolyn works with clients in the litigation group at Michael Best, where she draws on experience in both the public and private sectors. She previously served as a judicial intern to Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, drafting recommendations and orders on dispositive motions, researching issues including expert testimony admissibility, prisoner litigation, and employment law, and observing a range of federal hearings and trials. That role p ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyMegan has experience in property law, international insolvency, and legislative affairs. She previously served as a research assistant to the dean of Campbell University School of Law, contributing to a cross-border bankruptcy research program focused on European Union relations and helping develop curriculum for an international course, and as a research assistant to the associate dean, assisting in drafting a North Carolina estate administration manual. She also worked with Investors Title Ins ...  Preview Attorney's BiographyDestiney focuses on complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and appellate matters. She represents and advises clients in both state and federal court proceedings, providing strategic counsel at all stages of litigation, including trial and the appellate. Her experience includes a wide range of commercial disputes, insolvency-related litigation, and creditor-debtor issues. Destiney is committed to delivering practical, results-driven solutions tailored to each client’s business objective ...  Preview Attorney's BiographySerge works with clients in the corporate group at Michael Best, bringing experience in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities, bankruptcy law, entity formation and governance, and venture capital matters. He began his legal career as a summer intern with the Office of the U.S. Bankruptcy Administrator for the Middle District of North Carolina, where he drafted court orders and memoranda, conducted research, and worked closely with attorneys, trustees, and federal bankruptcy judges.
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