Speare Hodges

Speare Hodges joined Gilbert in 2025, where he represents major companies, creditors’ committees, and others in complex litigation and bankruptcy proceedings. He has extensive experience handling high-stakes matters under civil and criminal statutes in federal courts across the country. Prior to joining Gilbert, Speare spent almost a decade in the federal government handling criminal and […]

Brittney M. Welch

Brittney joined Gilbert LLP in 2025.   She represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation and insurance recovery matters.  She also maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Gilbert, Brittney served as a judicial law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and as a judicial law […]

Amber Hammond

Amber Hammond joined Gilbert LLP in 2025.  She represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation, insurance recovery matters, and bankruptcy matters.  She also maintains an active pro bono practice. Following law school, Amber served as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.  She then […]

Samone Ijoma

Samone joined Gilbert LLP in 2025.  She represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation and insurance recovery matters.  She also maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Gilbert, Samone served as a judicial law clerk on the Supreme Court of Maryland (formerly the Maryland Court of Appeals).  She was also a […]

Tyler Williams

Tyler joined Gilbert in 2025. He represents policyholders across a variety of industries, including education, the life sciences, manufacturing, entertainment and tourism, and many others. His work often focuses on mass torts and long-tail general liability claims, but he has pursued coverage under every type of policy, including professional liability, product liability, environmental liability, directors […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.