State and Local

Jacqueline Ferris MacLaren serves Columbus and the central Ohio residents with estate planning, estate and probate administration, wills and trusts, equine law, small business law, and real estate property law. Jacqueline began her legal career at the Franklin County Municipal Court as a law clerk. At the Franklin County Municipal Court, Jacqueline worked closely with the magistrates and judges while researching and drafting opinions on legal issues before the court. Jacqueline enjoys working with families and educating individuals on the estate planning process. Jacqueline’s personal time is spent with her family and horses. Jacqueline was born and raised with Arabian horses and continues to actively participate on the local, regional and national levels with the Arabian Horse Association and the National Show Horse Registry. Jacqueline’s career highlight to-date came in 2009, when she and her Half-Arabian gelding, Great Days of Honor, went U.S. Arabian and Half-Arabian National Champion in Half-Arabian Hunter Pleasure Maturity Horse. In addition to showing, Jacqueline and her family continue to breed and raise Arabian and Half-Arabian horses in Johnstown, Ohio. The MacLaren Law LLC office is located in beautiful New Albany, Ohio.

Since his arrival in Rapid City, Brad has always been active in the local Pennington County Bar Association (PCBA). The PCBA is an organization devoted to educating others about the role of lawyers in our communities as well as helping financially needy organizations in Rapid City. In 2009, Brad was nominated as the Secretary/Treasurer for the PCBA. In 2010, Brad served as the Vice-President before taking on the role of President in 2011. In 2008, Brad was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for the Seventh Circuit’s Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program. The CASA Program recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers to advocate in court for the best interest of abused and neglected children. The goal of the CASA Program is to have a “voice” in court for every child who needs one. Brad served as the Vice-Chairperson for the Board of Directors until 2014. In 2010, Brad was asked to serve on the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association as the Chair for the Recruitment & Services Committee. The purpose of the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association is to preserve the jury system, promote justice, and establish a high standard of ethics among trial lawyers. In 2011, Brad was appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Governors for the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association. In 2014, Brad was elected to serve on the Board of Bar Commissioner for the State Bar of South Dakota. The Board of Bar Commissioners has many responsibilities which relate to promoting the interests of the legal profession and working to improve the relationships between the profession and the public. Brad is an avid golfer and enjoys organizing golf tournaments to raise money for charity. In law school, Brad organized the Delta Theta Phi charity golf tournament for the benefit of Habitat for Humanity. Brad continued that tradition in 2007 when he organized the Seventh Circuit Charity Golf Tournament, which involves a yearly golf tournament that raises money for charities and worthy causes in the Rapid City area. Each year Brad has continued to organize this charitable event and has helped raise over $60,000 for charity. For the past several years Brad has served on the Worker’s Compensation Committee for the State Bar of South Dakota. As a member of this committee Brad is able to monitor developments in South Dakota’s workers’ compensation system and monitor how the changes may affect South Dakota employees. Brad enjoys spending time with friends and family. He and his wife Ann have two children—Megan and Brody. Aside from work, Brad stays busy coaching and attending his children’s various sports and events, traveling, and golfing.

Compassion, concern, and competence are the stellar qualities people discover as they work with Dallas, TX, Attorney Michael Presti. During his many years of law practice, Michael Presti has helped resolve a wide variety of immigration cases in favor of his clients. In addition to Immigration Law, Michael has extensive experience helping clients with their Personal Injury and Criminal Law cases. He is a firm believer in making sure even the smallest details of any case are done correctly and in a timely manner, to satisfy requirements perfectly, the first time. Attorney Michael Presti is committed to providing people with honest legal services and strong advocacy for their rights. He has worked with clients from around the world who want to win immigration cases against the government, obtain green cards and visas and gain citizenship. For other clients, Michael has been a driving force for upholding client rights in personal injury and criminal law cases. He has an excellent background in law and extensive experience with negotiation and presenting winning cases in the courtroom.

Darryl A. Goldberg is an aggressive criminal defense lawyer who represents those accused of the most serious criminal offenses in both federal and state courts. Based in Chicago, he regularly travels to other state and federal district and appellate courts to represent his clients, often in high profile cases. In the course of his criminal defense practice, his clients have included professional athletes, celebrities, doctors, lawyers, accountants, and law enforcement officers. His relentless efforts as a trial lawyer have resulted in jury verdicts acquitting his clients of everything from first-degree murder to large scale drug conspiracy charges. He chairs many committees for the American and Chicago Bar Associations, including the Criminal Law and Criminal Trial Evidence Committees.

Dylan Pond is an attorney at Pond Lehocky Giordano and serves as its Chief Revenue Officer. Dylan is an avid traveler. We’re talking about a “100 countries visited with maybe a few dozen more visited by the time you read this” kind of traveler. He’s such an avid traveler that he was ranked as the second-most-traveled American between the ages of 20 and 29, according to Most Traveled People and NomadMania. But he’s not one of those travelers that touches down in a country, spends a few hours there, and then heads off to another one once he’s checked that country off his list. Not Dylan. He’s more of a “live like a local” type. He wants to feel what it’s like to live in a particular country. He wants to step into the shoes of its citizens and see the world through their eyes. He wants to see the bigger picture of what’s going on in the world beyond his neighborhood, state, and country. Dylan brings this same curiosity and appreciation for the big picture to both of his roles at Pond Lehocky Giordano. As an attorney at the firm, Dylan provides holistic legal counsel to his clients that takes into account the bigger picture. He’s not interested in merely getting a “good” legal result for a client; he’s interested in getting the best overall result for a client given their circumstances and wishes. Oftentimes, the best result for a client means helping them receive additional medical treatment, or other services, so they can regain their physical, mental, and emotional health. Dylan also helps manage the Pond Lehocky Giordano Referral Network, which is made up of thousands of trusted attorneys and doctors across the United States and the world. The firm’s attorneys and staff refer their clients to network members when they are in need of additional assistance with health issues, or legal issues beyond the areas of law that the firm’s attorneys practice themselves. As the firm’s Chief Revenue Officer, a unique position for a law firm of any size and of any type, Dylan is again focused on the big picture. He works with Pond Lehocky Giordano’s founding partners and executive team to strategize about, vet, and fund investments he believes will be profitable for the firm so that it can reinvest profits back into its operations to continue its mission of helping everyone in the world who has been injured or is disabled.

The George Bochanis Injury Law Offices was established in 1985. Before opening his office, Mr. Bochanis spent years representing major insurance companies in litigation cases and prior to that was a law clerk to a prominent local district court judge. Our offices have grown from a small one person setting to having its own well known office location on South Ninth Street in Downtown Las Vegas with 15 employees. Over the past 28 years of practice, Mr. Bochanis has helped thousands of locals and tourists who have had their lives disrupted and sometimes ruined as a result of the carelessness and negligence of others. We have represented the widest range of clients, from high profile wrongful death cases to those who were able to recover from their harms and losses in a short period of time. Our previous clients are our main referral source of new clients because of our efforts and the results we get for them. Mr. Bochanis is the past president of the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association/Nevada Justice Association and has served on its Board of Governors since 1995. He holds the highest AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell National Law Directory for every year since 2000. We have also just been awarded the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award which is received by less than 1% of the 900,000 attorneys listed on martindale.com and lawyers.com. He has also received other top lawyer ratings from other national and local sources such as the American Trial Lawyers Association, Super Lawyers and MyLasVegas Magazine. Mr. Bochanis is also involved in many community and church activities and organizations in Las Vegas and Henderson. In an ongoing effort to help the community, the law office offers an annual $5,000 need-based scholarship. But even with all the awards and recognition our law firm has received, our proudest accomplishments are the testimonials and referrals from our past clients whom we have been able to help during their difficult times.

Attorney McClure has a general practice serving individuals, families, and small businesses. Early in his career Attorney McClure gained valuable experience at the Milwaukee City Attorney's office, Milwaukee County District Attorney's office, then in private practice with an "A" rated Milwaukee litigation firm. Attorney McClure then developed a general practice in the metro Milwaukee area over the next decade which became known as McClure Law Offices. His practice has been located in Delafield, Wisconsin since 1997. A trial attorney by training, with numerous civil and criminal jury trials in his career, Attorney McClure brings a wealth of experience to his clients at the local, state and national levels in civil, criminal, administrative and appellate law. The law office is a limited liability company, Attorney Thomas J. McClure LLC. The office is generally known by its trade name "McClure Law Offices. He has appeared on Wisconsin Public Television, NBC's Today Show, and is listed in Who's Who in American Law.

Diallo Morris is a practicing lawyer in Chesapeake, VA. He currently is a partner at Morris, Crawford & Currin, P.C. with offices in Chesapeake and Norfolk. Diallo graduated from The Ohio State University College of Law with his J.D. in 1996. Diallo is also a 1993 Hampton University graduate.

Henry’s office is located in Philadelphia. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, and received his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1995. Henry was a law clerk for the Honorable Brenda J. Hollar in the Territorial Court of US Virgin Islands. He has also successfully organized, owned and operated several small businesses. Prior to starting his law firm, Henry spent five years working as a consumer advocate at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia — one of the oldest, most prestigious and effective providers of non-profit legal services in the country. While there, Henry spent countless hours saving consumers’ homes from Sherriff’s Sale by obtaining Loan Modifications and filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy. He frequently negotiated with lenders (in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas nationally recognized Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program) to obtain Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) loan modifications. Henry was also a Contributing Writer to the following editions of the Urban Affairs Coalition Foreclosure Prevention Guide: Fall 2012 Edition, Section II, Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), pp. 23-25 · Winter/Spring 2012 Edition, Section II, HAMP, p. 25 · Fall 2013 Edition, Section II, HAMP, pp. 22-24; HAMP 2MP, pp. 25-26; HAMP UP, p. 27. The Guide is a resource for consumers to use as an outline to get a general understanding of the various HAMP loan modification programs. In addition, Henry was a Tax Research Analyst with H&R Block at their World Headquarters in Kansas City, MO. Henry worked on the Tax Change Analyst Team and with the “TIGERS” Group (Trusts, IRS Procedure, Gifts, Estates, Retirement, and State/local). Henry monitored six states for tax regulatory changes in Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He also provided H&R Block Franchisees, located across the nation, with tax research support for questions relating to Trusts, IRS Procedure, Gifts, Estates, Retirement, and State/local issues. Henry is a member of the American Bar Association, and the Philadelphia Bar Association. He served as a volunteer for Philadelphia VIP and the Low Income Tax Clinic at the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council. Henry is admitted to practice before all Pennsylvania State Courts, the United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C.

Attorney Brabazon devotes most of his practice to cases involving litigation. He has appeared in front of most Judges throughout Eastern Wisconsin and has extensive experience in both State and Federal Courts. Shane has represented various types of clients; CEO's of corporations, casino employees, managers, police officers, teachers, small business owners, mill workers, members of political families, and professional athletes. Attorney Brabazon is also proud of his representation of indigent clients, whether providing his services pro bono or representing indigent clients through appointment by the State or Federal Defenders office. Attorney Brabazon has handled very complex criminal, family and federal civil cases. Involved in numerous high-profile cases, Attorney Brabazon has been quoted in local, state and national newspapers and has appeared on CNN.