Timothy Belknap represents clients in litigation, arbitration and mediation. His practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in financial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and consumer class actions. In addition, Mr. Belknap assists in advising corporate clients on insurance coverage, including assessing risks and liabilities of currently held insurance policies.
Ingo is a senior attorney with previous experience in the legal department of the World Bank, managing the in-house team providing legal advice to the institution about all non-project related matters.
Shelli is an experienced trial and appellate litigator who has successfully represented clients in complex and fast-paced commercial lawsuits in federal and state courts around the country. Her practice focuses primarily on representing policyholders in a wide range of insurance coverage disputes.
Before joining WMC, Mr. Charana-Agudo worked for a number of small and boutique firms; representing private and public clients in civil and commercial matters. His prior litigation experience includes contractual matters, insurance, bankruptcy, tax, administrative law, tort, RICO, banking and collection matters, environmental, construction, fraud, employment and bondholder litigation at both the State and Federal levels.
Saul Cohen specializes in complex commercial litigation. His experience includes representing clients in business disputes, False Claims Act matters, and civil and criminal antitrust cases. He has also represented clients pro bono in habeas corpus and federal civil rights litigation. Mr. Cohen has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, and has drafted briefs in federal district courts and in state and federal courts of appeal.
Megan Conner has extensive experience in product liability defense, representing financial institutions and mortgage companies in civil litigation matters, and complex commercial disputes. She has focused on e-discovery and managing complex commercial and tort litigations.
Bill is an experienced trial and appellate litigator who has represented clients successfully in complex commercial disputes before state and federal courts around the country. He has helped clients recover for business related injuries in variety of areas, including misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, conspiracy, fraud, unfair business practices, violation of the False Claims Act, denial of due insurance coverage, and breach of contract.
Dr. Correa Marquez, is a senior business and legal consultant, advising corporate clients in complex commercial negotiations, natural disaster claims, business law matters, banking, project development, competitiveness, government relations, real estate transactions, and restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency issues.
Tamra Ferguson has more than a decade of experience in complex commercial litigations. Tamra has experience litigating in state and federal courts, and has worked on matters ranging from trade secret misappropriation to financial securities to eminent domain.
Jan is a Martindale-Hubbell AV preeminent rated attorney who temporarily left the practice of law in 2012 after 22 years, most of which had been spent in the private sector (insurance defense, chancery and appellate). She has also served as an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at Mississippi College School of Law (2006 and 2007).
Janet Goetz has more than thirty years of experience working on complex corporate, securities, and civil litigation. She has represented plaintiffs and defendants, including many corporations, officers, and directors, in a wide variety of litigation matters in state and federal courts around the country.
Missy’s practice is focused on representing policyholders in first-party property claims against insurance companies that have denied, mishandled, or improperly paid them after a loss. In the course of her litigation practice, Missy has been involved in a wide variety of matters, including representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in complex insurance coverage disputes, bad faith actions, and large-loss subrogation matters. Her experience in dealing with both insurance companies and policyholders has resulted in a specialized knowledge of insurance policy interpretation and application. Missy also has experience with professional liability, products liability, mass tort, and commercial contract disputes.
José Anibal Herrero-Acevedo is an attorney and notary public from Puerto Rico with extensive experience and knowledge as advisor on legal and legislative matters, public policy issues and governmental affairs.
Jim Hood served as Attorney General of Mississippi from 2004-2020. Prior to being elected as Attorney General, he served as a law clerk at the Mississippi Supreme Court and as a special assistant attorney general for five years. In 1995, he was elected the district attorney for seven counties in North Mississippi. During his eight years as district attorney, he tried more than 100 jury trials.
Billy Jacobs’ practice focuses on complex civil litigation. He represents clients in matters involving business disputes, insurance coverage, and consumer class actions.
Joshua Katz is a partner at Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC. The National Law Journal named Joshua Katz a 2018 Elite Boutique Trailblazer. Mr. Katz was selected for his work representing policyholders in insurance coverage disputes after natural disasters. He was the only insurance coverage lawyer selected.
Matthew Krauss represents plaintiffs in complex civil and commercial litigation. His practice frequently involves insurance coverage matters, including both traditional coverage disputes and related cases stemming from insurers’ failure to pay claims. He also represents plaintiffs in a range of civil matters involving breach of contract, fraud, and bad faith.
Andrew (“Andy”) Lamb is a partner at the firm. Andy represents businesses and individuals in litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He also has represented clients in public interest matters.
Giselle has extensive experience representing clients on civil matters, such as civil rights litigation under Section 1983, torts, labor, immigration, family and consumer issues. Mrs. Lombardi González provided legal services for Hurricane Maria survivors in Puerto Rico sponsored by Foundation Access to Justice, and One Stop Career Center Services of Puerto Rico, Inc..
Augie Matteis, the Chairman of WMC, is a trial lawyer and one of the premier disaster recovery lawyers in the United States. Augie’s cases have been featured in major news and media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, ABC News, The Washington Times, and USA Today.
Pamira is a partner at WMC who represents policyholders against insurance companies on claims arising out of hurricanes, floods, fires and other natural disasters. She strongly believes that insurers should be held to the terms of their contracts, and she will fight to get every penny owed for her clients, regardless of whether they are large corporations or individual homeowners.
Kathleen O’Beirne has extensive experience representing clients in a variety of matters in both state and federal courts throughout Mississippi. Her current focus is on representing policyholders in first-party property claims against insurance companies that have denied, mishandled, or improperly paid them after a loss.
Attorney Juan Saavedra served as a law clerk to Chief Judge José Trias Monge, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Later, he was an associate at White & Case, New York. He then joined the law firm Ferraiouli Axtmayer & Hertell, in San Juan Puerto Rico.
Susan M. Sajadi represents plaintiffs in general commercial and complex civil litigation. She has broad experience litigating matters in federal court and handles all aspects of litigation, from initial investigation through settlement or trial. She has represented plaintiffs in cases involving alleged fraud (including cases brought under the False Claims Act), torts (including cases brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act), as well as extensive litigation involving negligent contracting practices against defense contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jonathan is an associate focusing on complex civil and commercial litigation. His experience includes cases in federal and state courts on matters involving tort actions, antitrust law, and the False Claims Act.
Derek Sugimura’s practice focuses on interbank disputes, using negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, and-when necessary-litigation to maximize recoveries in a fast and efficient manner for his clients. Mr. Sugimura also has significant experience in policyholder-side insurance coverage litigation and public interest work.
Stephen Weisbrod is a founding partner of Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC. The firm is one of only ten firms in the United States named by The National Law Journal to its 2014 Litigation Boutiques Hot List.
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