Patrick Holkins

Patrick Holkins joined Gilbert in 2024. He represents major companies, creditors’ committees, and others in complex civil litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. He has experience litigating high impact matters under a range of federal statutes and in jurisdictions across the country. Patrick has led pre-litigation investigations, argued and defended numerous depositions, authored significant briefs, and appeared […]

Chelsea Krzaczek

Chelsea Krzaczek joined Gilbert in 2023. She works with Gilbert attorneys who represent corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation matters. She also maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Gilbert, Chelsea was a litigation associate in the Washington, DC office of a prominent international law firm. Chelsea’s practice focused on commercial […]

Yifan Liu

Yifan Liu joined Gilbert in 2023.  She works with Gilbert attorneys who represent corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation and insurance recovery matters.  Prior to joining Gilbert LLP, Yifan worked as a judicial fellow for the Honorable Laura A. Cordero on the DC Superior Court. Yifan received her law degree from Georgetown University […]

Emmanuella Saforo

Emmanuella Saforo joined Gilbert in 2023. She works with Gilbert attorneys on a range of complex civil litigation matters involving corporate and individual clients. Prior to joining Gilbert LLP, and during law school, Emmanuella worked on music industry business and intellectual property matters at NBCUniversal. Emmanuella received her law degree from the George Washington University […]

William Swain

Will Swain joined Gilbert LLP in 2023. He represents corporate and individual clients in a variety of complex civil litigation matters. Prior to joining Gilbert, Will was a law clerk at a civil and criminal law firm in North Carolina and a public finance, affordable housing, and economic development law firm that served communities across […]

Ifenanya Agwu

Ifenanya “Ife” Agwu joined Gilbert in 2021. Ife works with Gilbert attorneys on a range of complex civil litigation matters involving corporate and individual clients. Immediately prior to joining Gilbert LLP, Ife worked as a law clerk at a leading business law firm in Maryland. Ife received her law degree from the Howard University School […]

December Huddleston

December Huddleston joined Gilbert in 2021. She represents individuals and organizations in complex civil litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. Prior to joining Gilbert LLP, December worked on civil litigation matters and projects involving site lease agreements and real estate in D.C. and Maryland. December received her law degree from New York University School of Law. During […]

Lelia Parker

Lelia Parker joined Gilbert LLP in 2021, where her practice includes complex civil litigation, with a focus on mass torts, bankruptcy, and insurance coverage litigation, with a focus on eDiscovery. Her experience includes handling cases related to asbestos, the opioid epidemic, and PFAS. Lelia also has an active pro bono practice, focusing on prisoner rights […]

Ethan Kaminsky

Ethan Kaminsky joined Gilbert in 2021. He represents businesses, governments, institutional investors, and individuals in complex civil litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. He has experience litigating class actions and individual actions under the federal antitrust laws, state consumer protection laws, and other federal and state statutes. He also maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to […]

Janet Sanchez

Janet Sanchez joined Gilbert in 2020. During law school, Janet worked with Gilbert attorneys on bankruptcy and pro bono matters. She also completed a clinic with DC’s Rising for Justice, during which Janet represented tenants in the Justice Housing Advocacy and Litigation Clinic at the Landlord Tenant Branch of the DC Superior Court. 

Sarah Sraders

Sarah Sraders joined Gilbert LLP as an associate in 2020.  She represents individuals and organizations in a wide range of complex matters, including high stakes bankruptcy proceedings and insurance recovery litigation.  She has significant experience across many lines of insurance, including general liability, product liability, directors’ and officers’, business owners’, and environmental.  Sarah also maintains […]

Brandon Levey

Brandon Levey joined Gilbert in 2019.  He represents individuals, governments, and organizations in a wide range of complex matters, including in high stakes bankruptcy and insurance recovery work.  Brandon has appeared in and argued depositions and court hearings and has been lead associate in numerous litigation and bankruptcy matters that have concluded favorably for our clients. […]

Meredith Neely

Meredith Neely approaches the challenges her clients face from an analytical perspective that is intuitive, creative, and well-grounded in business and legal realities.  She has more than a decade of experience in insurance recovery practice, throughout which she has helped her clients to recover billions of dollars in insurance proceeds and to structure their insurance […]

John J. Girgenti

John Girgenti is an associate specializing in discovery for litigation matters. He joined Gilbert in 2011.  Mr. Girgenti practices in the areas of insurance and litigation, focusing his practice on e-discovery, working with other attorneys, litigation support, and outside vendors in order to provide efficient and cost-effective discovery.  He regularly supervises teams of attorneys and […]

Alison Gaske

Alison's practice focuses on representing policyholders in complex civil litigation and dispute resolution.