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Super Lawyers Names 13 from Wilson Elser to 2023 Northern California Lists

June 27, 2023

Super Lawyers® has named 13 Wilson Elser attorneys to the 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars™ lists:

Super Lawyers

• William M. Hake (Partner) – Business Litigation
• John H. Podesta (Partner) – Insurance Coverage

Rising Stars
• Alexander Cheung (Of Counsel) – General Litigation
• Katelyn P. Dembowski (Associate) – PI – General: Defense
• Jillian Harvey (Associate) – PI – Products: Defense
• Gayle L. Ketchie (Associate) – Class Action
• Nicholas R. Lane (Partner) – Transportation/Maritime
• W. Christopher Maloney (Associate) – PI – General: Defense
• Dominique Marangoni-Simonsen (Associate) – PI – Products: Defense
• Kimberly D. Pye (Associate) – Insurance Coverage
• Jianlin Song (Partner) – Health Care
• Krista M. Stoumbos (Of Counsel) – Civil Litigation: Defense
• Kendra L. Tietjen (Of Counsel) – Environmental Litigation



Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The Rising Stars lists, comprising the best attorneys who are 40 and younger or who have practiced law for 10 years or less, are published nationwide in Super Lawyers magazines and in leading city and regional magazines across the country. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are named to these lists.