T. Roger White, Jr., is a Partner with the firm, and specializes in the areas of Personal Injury Protection, Personal Injury and Contract litigation. Mr. White graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and graduated from St. Thomas University School of Law, where he was a Merit Scholar, a member of Trial Advocacy team and Moot Court. Mr. White’s career began at the Miami-Dade County Public Defender’s office, where as an assistant public defender he handled hundreds of cases in the criminal justice system. After a brief stint as an equities trader for Carlin Equities, where he obtained his Series 7 license, he returned to the legal profession as a litigation associate at Fowler White Burnett, then as a Senior Associate at Wood & Bronstein. Mr. White was then hired as a lead trial counsel for the Offices of the General Counsel at UAIG. In his career, Mr. White has participated in hundreds of jury trials in both criminal and civil court. He is a founding member of the firm, and has had his own practice since the Summer of 2012.

Mr. Whitehead primarily represents employees in all aspects of employment litigation, which include claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour violations, retaliation and harassment. Mr. Whitehead has broad employment law experience in every area of the law. He also has extensive experience in mediation, arbitration, settlement negotiations and trial law. He has won numerous multi-million dollar verdicts for employees in race discrimination, sex discrimination, sexual harassment and tort cases. He has also settled numerous cases on behalf of employees in age, race, sex, and national origin discrimination claims for six-figure sums and has obtained favorable court orders for employees who have been treated unfairly in the workplace. Mr. Whitehead received his law degree from Whittier Law School where he was a member of the Law Review. He received his Bachelors of Arts in Spanish with a minor focus in International Studies from the University of Utah. Mr. Whitehead is currently an active member of the American Association for Justice and the Orange County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in the state of California as well as Washington D.C.

Mr. Whitehead specializes in business, matters with an emphasis on start-up companies, corporate acquisitions and corporate financing. He also has an extensive estate planning practice, including probate and trust administration. He has represented both private and public companies in a variety of sophisticated transactions, including initial and mezzanine stage financings, corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, mergers and asset sales, public offerings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, proxy contests and tender offers. He has also served as counsel to independent directors of public companies advising on sensitive areas independent of the company’s general counsel. Mr. Whitehead has prepared materials for legal education courses involving corporate matters, has been a lecturer at Golden Gate University's Law School on securities matters and a Moot Court Judge for Stanford Law School. ?Mr. Whitehead has been active in public service as an officer and director of several charities, including the California Historical Society Foundation, The Gold Rush Trail Foundation, Opera West Foundation, Hannah and Erich Sachs Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln High School of San Francisco Alumni Association that he co-founded in 1988. He previously served as a director of Easter Seals Society of San Francisco, Enterprise for High School Students, Traveler's Aid Society of San Francisco and Hospital de la Familia. His biography currently appears in Who's Who in America and two of its specialty series, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in the West.

It is my privilege as a Lexington criminal defense attorney to represent people against the power of the government. The United States and Kentucky Constitutions guarantee those charged with criminal offenses the right to a lawyer, and that is what I do: advocate for good people in bad situations.

Mr. Whitman is a highly skilled litigator accustomed to vigorously defending complex healthcare cases. Prior to joining SCHAEFFER COTA ROSEN LLP, he was a partner in one of the Central Coast’s largest healthcare litigation defense firms. Mr. Whitman has extensive experience defending the unique liability issues presented to the healthcare provider business entity (including claims of “corporate profits over patient care”) and defending healthcare providers against liability from elder and dependent adult abuse claims under Welfare and Institutions Code section 15657. For nearly two decades he has been at the epicenter of defending the long-term care industry against efforts to erode and eliminate MICRA protections. Mr. Whitman obtained his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He obtained a B.A. degree in Political Science from Arizona State University with honors (Magna Cum Laude). He is admitted to practice law before all California State Courts, the U.S. District Court for the Central and Eastern Districts of California and the U.S. Circuit Court Appeal for the 9th Circuit. He is a member of the California Bar Association, Southern California Association for Healthcare Risk Management (SCAHRM) and a former member of the California Association of Healthcare Facilities, Legal Subcommittee. He has been a frequent speaker at healthcare and legal conferences on a variety of topics. He is the co-author of a published article on healthcare provider obligations in responding to medical record requests.