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| Elaine Charlson Bredehoft |
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Ms. Bredehoft, a native of Northern Minnesota , has
been successfully trying cases in state and federal
courts in Virginia and the District of Columbia for
22 years.
Ms. Bredehoft has been honored to be included in The
Best Lawyers In America every year since 1997. She was
named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the "Fifty
Best Lawyers in Washington" in 1997, one of the
"Forty Top Lawyers Under 40" in 1998, one
of the “75 Best Lawyers” in 2002, and listed
as one of the “Top Employment Lawyers ”
in 2004.
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| Peter C. Cohen |
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Mr. Cohen, of Brooklyn, New York, joined the firm in 2003 and became partner in September of 2004. He graduated with top honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a B.A. in Political Science. In 1984, he received his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Mr. Cohen is admitted to practice in Virginia, Washington, D.C., the state and federal courts in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. |
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Carla D. Brown |
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Ms. Brown, of Fairfax County , Virginia , joined the firm in June 2006. Ms. Brown earned her B.A. in Foreign Affairs with a minor in Spanish from the University of Virginia in 1996 and received her law degree from George Mason University School of Law in 1999. Ms. Brown is currently admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia . Ms. Brown also serves as a Liaison between the Young Lawyers Division and the ABA Construction Industry Forum, Division Five: Contract Negotiation, Performance and Administration.
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Christopher A. Costa |
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Mr. Costa joined the firm in January 2008. Mr. Costa obtained his B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in 1993 with a double-major of French and Political Science. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a teacher of English as a foreign language and a community developer in the Transylvania region of Romania. After completing his service, Mr. Costa obtained his J.D. cum laude from George Mason University School of Law in 1999.
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| Kathleen Zahorik Quill |
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Ms. Quill, of Menasha, Wisconsin, joined the firm in 2003. Ms. Quill graduated with distinctions and phi beta kappa, from the University of Wisconsin in 1990. She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in June 1996, where she was co-president of the Women's Law Caucus and participated in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, Criminal Justice Project. After law school, Ms. Quill clerked in the Federal District Court of Massachusetts for the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton. Ms. Quill is currently admitted to practice in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the District of Massachusetts. |
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Brittany J. Sakata |
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Ms. Sakata, originally from Fairfax County, joined the firm in January 2007. Ms. Sakata received her B.A. in Government and International Politics, with a minor in Legal Studies, from George Mason University in 2000. In 2004, Ms. Sakata received her law degree from American University Washington College of Law. While in law school, she worked as a paralegal at Hughes and Associates and assisted in the litigation of construction law and insurance defense cases. Later, she was employed as a research law clerk by Stein, Mitchell & Mezines in Washington D.C., where she worked on government investigations of corporate officials and antitrust and trade regulation matters.
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Curtis L. Charlson |
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Curtis L. Charlson, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft's father, was the founding partner of the Minnesota law firm of Charlson & Marben, P.A. Prior to retirement, Mr. Charlson was admitted to practiced in Minnesota . While in active practice in Minnesota , Mr. Charlson enjoyed a long and successful career as a trial attorney, in all areas of civil and criminal law, on the trial and appellate levels. Now retired, Mr. Charlson consults with the firm on selected civil litigation matters.
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| The firm's practice focuses largely in the areas of employment and business-related litigation. The firm has successfully litigated cases ranging from business-related torts such as defamation, battles over stock options, change in control agreements, complex employment agreements, and covenants not to compete, to cases such as employment discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, whistleblower, civil rights violations, wrongful termination, fraud, tortious interference with contractual relations, negligence, assault and battery, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and less frequently, medical malpractice. |
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