Author: Bailey Glasser

Wesline Manuelpillai Joins BG’s Washington, D.C. Office

Bailey Glasser warmly welcomes trial lawyer Wesline Manuelpillai to our national Commercial & Environmental Litigation Practice Group.

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Bailey Glasser warmly welcomes trial lawyer Wesline Manuelpillai to our national Commercial & Environmental Litigation Practice Group. Wesline joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office where she will be working alongside Chambers-ranked Practice Group Leader Cary Joshi and in an office that is Band 1 ranked by Chambers & Partners for its plaintiff-side work as well as top-ranked in commercial litigation and bet-the-company litigation by Best Law Firms®.

Prior to joining Bailey Glasser, Wesline served as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, where she litigated multi-defendant enforcement actions under federal consumer protection statutes, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. In that role, she zealously advocated on behalf of American consumers in high stakes matters, both in and out of the courtroom, against opposing counsel from the nation’s leading law firms.

“Wesline’s deep experience in the complex litigation arena will be a major asset to our clients,” said Cary Joshi, Practice Group Leader. “We warmly welcome her to our D.C. office and look forward to having her bring her sharp mind, love of litigation, and trial tenacity to our cases.”

Katherine Charonko Named Winner of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award

Kate will be honored at the sixth annual Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards and Dinner on Monday, March 9, 2026, during the Legalweek 2026 conference in New York.

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Katherine E. Charonko, Bailey & Glasser, LLP’s Electronically Stored Information & Technology Practice Group Leader, has been named a winner of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award, an award given by ALM / LegalTech News. Ms. Charonko is a litigator whose work directly creates life-changing results for people harmed by dangerous products in some of the largest product liability and mass tort cases in the country.

Named after the former editor-in-chief of Legaltech News, the Monica Bay Award honors women at law firms, legal departments, and legal technology or legal service companies who have achieved notable successes and made significant contributions to legal innovation. Kate will be honored at the sixth annual Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards and Dinner on Monday, March 9, 2026, during the Legalweek 2026 conference in New York.

Ms. Charonko plays a central role in many of Bailey Glasser’s most consequential matters, including on litigation teams taking on the world’s most powerful corporations, such as Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Volkswagen, Toyota, Bayer/Monsanto, and major medical device manufacturers. Her assistance is routinely sought by national trial teams, strengthened by her and Bailey Glasser’s strong reputation and her global Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) credential. Ms. Charonko has been appointed to numerous MDL leadership roles, serving as liaison director of e-Discovery and ESI, directing the management and review of billions of documents across multiple parties and jurisdictions. Across every dimension of her work, Ms. Charonko stands out for her technical brilliance and unwavering commitment to the people she and Bailey Glasser serve.

Ms. Charonko leads, speaks, and writes on cutting-edge topics, including being a member of the Sedona Conference and Women En Masse, and recently spoke at the November 2025 Trial Lawyers of Mass Torts Summit (including its Women’s Summit). She recently published “From Code to Canvas: the Intellectual Property Debate in Generative AI Creations,” as a guest columnist in the Daily Journal on November 3, 2025.

BG Partner Sharon Iskra Presenting at WVAJ Mid-Winter Convention

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Bailey Glasser partner Sharon Iskra will be a featured panelist at the West Virginia Association for Justice 2026 Mid-Winter Convention & Seminar where she will be presenting in the “Achieving Accountability and Justice: Representing Victims of Physical and Sexual Abuse” program.

Sharon tenaciously litigates cases across the country on behalf of children, individuals with special needs, and others who have been abused, neglected, or exploited in institutions such as schools, daycare centers, juvenile facilities, group homes, rehabilitation centers, foster care facilities, and other settings. Within the American Association for Justice, she is active in the Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, and Anti-Human Trafficking Litigation Groups, and designed and hosted a CLE-approved webinar series to teach lawyers how to improve their representation of abuse survivors. Sharon is also a leader in fighting abuse at home in West Virginia, centering her practice on these matters while serving on the Human Trafficking Task Force of West Virginia and on the Board of Directors for the West Virginia Association of Justice.

Sharon leads the Institutional Abuse & Neglect team at Bailey Glasser, focusing on individual matters while also working on behalf of hundreds of former juveniles in Maryland who were abused in juvenile hall facilities. Sharon’s advocacy on behalf of abuse survivors has earned her recognition by Best Lawyers in America®, by Lawdragon as a Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers, and more.

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Tad Duree Authors Litigation Funding Article for ABA Law Practice Today

Third-party litigation funding has transformed how law firms finance cases—but it comes with serious ethical considerations that aren’t always clear or obvious.

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Third-party litigation funding has transformed how law firms finance cases—but it comes with serious ethical considerations that aren’t always clear or obvious. Bailey Glasser partner Tad Duree authored an article for the American Bar Association Law Practice Today about what lawyers need to know about attorney independence, client confidentiality, and navigating litigation funding agreements.

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Bailey Glasser Heads Back to Supreme Court for Intel ERISA Appeal

The plaintiffs allege that the defendants mismanaged retirement plan assets by stuffing target date funds in the Intel plans with expensive, opaque, and esoteric private equity and hedge fund investments. These outlier investments caused Intel employees to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings.

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The Supreme Court of the United States granted the petition for certiorari filed by Bailey & Glasser, LLP and co-counsel on behalf of clients Winston Anderson and Christopher Sulyma in their ongoing case against the Intel Corporation and the Intel fiduciaries responsible for investing Intel’s retirement plans. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants mismanaged retirement plan assets by stuffing target date funds in the Intel plans with expensive, opaque, and esoteric private equity and hedge fund investments. These outlier investments caused Intel employees to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings.

Gregory Porter, BG’s ERISA Practice Group Leader and leading co-counsel in this case, said, “This case presents a critical opportunity to clarify how courts evaluate fiduciary decision-making in complex retirement-plan investments, particularly as plans increasingly incorporate alternative and nontraditional assets.”

In addition to Greg Porter, the petition was filed by Bailey Glasser’s nationally recognized ERISA litigation team, which includes partners Mark Boyko and Ryan Jenny, as well as co-counsel from Gupta Wessler LLP and The Barton Firm LLP.

Plaintiffs, long-time Intel employees and participants in the company’s retirement plans, allege that Intel’s plan fiduciaries violated their duties of prudence and loyalty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The complaint contends that the fiduciaries invested billions of dollars of plan assets in unproven, high-risk, and illiquid alternative investments, such as hedge funds and private equity, through custom target-date and multi-asset funds, exposing participants to unnecessary risk and underperformance relative to traditional retirement investment options.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the case, holding that the complaint did not plausibly allege imprudence or disloyalty because it failed to identify “meaningful benchmarks” for comparing the Intel funds’ performance. In May 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed, concluding that ERISA plaintiffs must identify comparator funds with similar objectives, risks, and rewards to support claims of imprudent investment even when no such benchmark exists because no similarly-situated fiduciaries embarked on such reckless conduct.

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