Board of Directors
Seema Chawla's practice focuses on a broad range of commercial litigation, securities and employment matters. She has experience in all aspects of the litigation process, including case-strategy, client interviews, taking and defending depositions, trial preparation, trial, arbitration, and oral arguments before state and federal courts. She has handled complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, including enforcement actions by state attorney generals, class actions and multi-district litigation. She has also successfully defended employers in all aspects of employment discrimination litigation, including defense of age, sex, race and disability discrimination suits, as well as various other claims at the administrative, state and federal levels.
Greg Wu is a partner of Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP's National Products Liability Division. His practice focuses on tort and products liability defense litigation and representing major corporations in the defense of complex personal injury and products liability cases. Greg has directedall aspects of defense litigation, including investigation, document collection, expert witness preparation, discovery, motion practice, and settlement / mediation. Greg has a particular interest in complex class litigation, and has played an active role in the successful defense of class certification on behalf of several Fortune 100 companies in state and federal courts throughout the country. In addition to his practice, Greg has co-authored and presented CLE and articles on various class action topics
Lisa Westergaard is Associate General Counsel at the American Academy of Family Physicians and handles intellectual property, contracts, and other transactional matters. She previously was an an associate of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP where her practice focuses on a variety of corporate transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities, corporate governance, and securities law compliance.
Justin Pulikkan is in-house counsel with Collective Brands, Inc. providing advise to retail units primarily in the area of marketing advertising law, retail law, and consumer product safety. He has experience in a variety of transactional corporate, intellectual property, employee benefits, executive compensation and ERISA litigation matters. He has reviewed, drafted and negotiated a wide range of transactional agreements including procurement, professional services, sponsorship, marketing, trademark licensing, software licensing and outsourcing agreements. Justin was previously an associate an Polsinelli Shughart, PC, and Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, LLP (now SNR-Denton).
Judy Yi is a shareholder at Polsinelli Shughart PC. Her labor and employment law practice focuses on how to manage and minimize workplace risks associated with multi-state and federal regulatory compliance issue. In her labor and employment law practice Judy focuses on how to manage and minimize workplace risks associated with multi-state and federal regulatory compliance issues. If a matter becomes adversarial, she represents management in agency investigations and lawsuits. She regularly provides advice pertaining to employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, collective actions, breach of contract, covenants not to compete, drafting personnel policies, management training, defamation, unfair labor practices, and protection of confidential and trade secret information.
David is an attorney at Finch & Campbell. His practice focuses on M&A, securities, and general corporate law. David is also a part-time professor of Business Law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). He is also co-founder and owner of Method Men's Clothing Boutique. Prior to joining UMKC's faculty, David was an associate at one of the nation's top 100 law firms. He graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law where he was an Articles Editor for the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy and President of the Asian Law Student Association. David is also a volunteer for his adoption agency, Holt International Adoption.
Fang is a member of the International Group at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP. Fang's practice focuses on US-China cross border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities and financing, and general corporate law. Fang received legal education in both the U.S. and China. As a bilingual and bi-cultural lawyer, Fang's China-related experience includes counseling U.S. companies on establishment of operations in China, sourcing, manufacture and distribution agreements, loan transactions, joint ventures, and intellectual property protection. Fang also routinely represents Chinese businesses for their legal needs in the U.S. Fang's U.S. transaction experience includes all aspects of M&A transactions, securities compliance matters, offerings of debt and equity, contracting, and corporate entity formation and governance. Fang is active in the Kansas City international trade and Asian communities and serves as a board member of the International Trade Council of the Greater Kansas City and the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Kansas City.
Jose M. Bautista is founding member of Bautista | Allen. Jos¨¦ and his partner have a national plaintiffs' trial practice consisting of complex tort and class action litigation. Missouri Lawyer¡¯s Weekly has highlighted the results of Jose's work on several occasions, including his $3 million settlement of a private crossing collision case involving a local construction worker in 2005. His articles on railroad litigation have been published by the premier plaintiffs' attorney organization, the American Association for Justice, for which he currently serves as the Chair of the Railroad Law Section. In 2009 and 2010, his peers recognized him as a "Rising Star" of the legal community.
Peter Chung's experience at Lathrop & Gage L.C. includes all phases of litigation. He has represented and counseled clients in tort litigation, commercial litigation, workers' compensation and employment matters. He has acted as lead counsel for his clients in trials, administrative hearings and in the Court of Appeals. His current litigation practice emphasizes tort litigation, workers' compensation and employment matters where he primarily represents large corporations.
Christopher Javillonar's practice at Bryan Cave LLP focuses on complex commercial litigation and his experience encompasses all aspects of the litigation process, including case strategy, pre-trial briefing, depositions, hearings, trial preparations and trial. He represents regional and national clients in a broad range of business disputes, including breach of contract, fiduciary duty claims, product liability and complex class action defense.
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Judy Yi, Past-President
David R. Lloyd, Programs Committee Chair
Jose Bautista, Diversity Committee Chair
Christopher J. Javillonar, Liaison to NAPABA