Attorneys
Daniel Berger
Managing Shareholder
Daniel Berger graduated with honors from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone academic scholar. He is presently a senior member and shareholder of the firm, for which he serves as a Managing Shareholder.
Harold Berger
Managing Shareholder
Harold Berger is a Senior Partner and Managing Principal of the firm and serves on its Executive Committee. Harold Berger has participated in many complex litigation matters, including the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation, C.A. No. A89-095, in which he served on the case management committee and as Co-Chair of the national discovery team.
Shanon J. Carson
Managing Shareholder
Shanon J. Carson is a Managing Shareholder of the Firm. He Co-Chairs the Firm’s Employment Law and Consumer Protection Departments, and is a member of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation, Environmental & Mass Tort, Employee Benefits/ERISA, Insurance & Financial Products & Services, and Lending Practices and Borrowers’ Rights Departments.
Caitlin G. Coslett
Shareholder
Caitlin Coslett concentrates her practice on complex litigation, including antitrust, environmental, and mass tort litigation. Since joining Berger Montague, she has worked on a variety of matters, including Cook v. Rockwell International Corp. (mass tort), and antitrust class actions such as CRT Antitrust Litigation, In re Domestic Drywall Antitrust Litigation, In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, Steel Antitrust Litigation, and In re Urethane [Polyether Polyols] Antitrust Litigation.
Merrill G. Davidoff
Chair Emeritus & Managing Shareholder
Merrill G. Davidoff is Chairman Emeritus and a Managing Shareholder, in addition to his continuing work as Co-Chairman of the Antitrust Department with Mr. Montague and Chairman of the Environmental Group. Mr. Davidoff has litigated and tried a wide range of antitrust, commodities, securities and environmental class actions.
Peter R. Kahana
Shareholder
Peter R. Kahana is a shareholder in the Insurance and Antitrust practice groups at Berger Montague. He concentrates his practice in complex civil and class action litigation involving relief for insurance policyholders and consumers of other types of products or services who have been victimized by fraudulent conduct and unfair business practices.
Neil Makhija
Associate
Neil Makhija is an associate in the Consumer Protection, Employment & Unpaid Wages, Environment & Public Health, Government Representation, and Predatory Lending and Borrower’s Rights practice groups at Berger Montague.
H. Laddie Montague Jr.
Chair Emeritus & Managing Shareholder
H. Laddie Montague Jr. is a member of Berger Montague’s Executive Committee, having joined the firm’s predecessor David Berger, P.A., at its inception in 1970. Mr. Montague was Chairman of the Firm from 2003 to 2016.
Ellen T. Noteware
Shareholder
Ellen T. Noteware is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S. 1989) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School (J.D. cum laude 1993) where she won the Daniel H. Grady Prize for the highest grade point average in her class, served as Managing Editor of the Law Review, and earned Order of the Coif honors.
Josh Ripley
Associate
Josh Ripley is an associate attorney in the Antitrust, Insurance Products & Financial Services, and Environmental & Mass Tort practice groups. Mr. Ripley graduated from Harvard Law School in 2015.