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Zuberi Williams

Retired Judge Zuberi “Judge Zu” Williams transforms conflict into clarity. As Chair of Bayard’s Business Alternative Dispute Resolution practice, he brings judicial insight, practical strategy, and a people centered approach to high stakes disputes. His philosophy is simple: the most durable outcomes occur when parties actively participate in and take ownership of their resolution.

Judge Zu leads an innovative ADR platform designed to resolve complex matters with speed, dignity, and lasting impact. Over the course of his career, he has conducted hundreds of mediations and settlement conferences across commercial, civil, employment, and government disputes. Clients and counsel consistently praise his even keeled demeanor and his ability to make complex cases manageable.

Before joining Bayard, Judge Zu served for a decade on the Maryland bench, first as an Administrative Law Judge and then as a Maryland District Court Judge in Montgomery County. Appointed at age 36, one of the youngest judicial appointments in Maryland history, he served from 2015 until retiring in 2025. While on the bench, he chaired the District Court’s ADR Sub Committee, modernizing programs and training judges statewide. He is widely respected for guiding high conflict disputes with neutrality, clarity, and momentum. His leadership has been recognized with honors including the Peacemaker Award from the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County.

Prior to his judicial service, Judge Zu was an Administrative Law Judge at the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings and an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Earlier in private practice, he worked in Washington, D.C., at an AmLaw 100 firm in its White Collar Crime and Investigations group and at a prominent Baltimore intellectual property boutique firm.

Judge Zu clerked for Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of Maryland’s highest court, then the Court of Appeals and now the Supreme Court of Maryland, and for the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, widely known as the Rocket Docket for its swift timelines and complex civil caseload.

A dedicated educator, Judge Zu serves on the faculty at Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law, where he has taught trial advocacy, torts, and his popular Law and Popular Culture course. He also teaches nationally through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the National Association of Attorneys General, and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. He regularly speaks at judicial roundtables and conferences across the country and internationally.

Marky Suazo

Marky is an Associate resident in the New York office. His practice focuses primarily on litigation, and he counsels clients in a wide range of disputes, including commercial, employment, real estate, and healthcare matters.

His commercial litigation experience includes disputes involving breach of contract, business torts, partnership disputes, shareholder derivative actions, civil RICO claims, and other business-related issues. He also represents clients in employment disputes, including the defense of discrimination and wage-and-hour claims, and in real estate disputes, including landlord-tenant matters. In the healthcare space, Marky represents physicians in investigations brought by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct.

Marky previously served as a member of the Labor & Employment Committee and the Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar Association from January 2024 through July 2025.

Before joining Windels Marx, Marky practiced at a boutique law firm focused on the healthcare industry. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, where he managed criminal investigations, prosecuted felony matters, and regularly appeared in court. He began his legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Patrick J. Arre, J.S.C., in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage.

Shamalla Semoy

Shamalla is an associate in Reed Smith LLP's New York office with the Global Commercial Disputes Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and financial services litigation.

She has represented clients in federal and state court, as well as in arbitration, across a diverse range of industries, including contract-based disputes, entertainment and media, health care, and transportation.

Shamalla also maintains an active pro bono practice and has assisted in matters pertaining to wrongful conviction and immigration.

Dana Dyer

Dana Dyer is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York Office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. She has experience in breach of contract actions, class actions, and securities actions. Prior to joining the firm, in law school, Dana worked as a certified legal intern for Penn’s Civil Practice Clinic where she represented clients in the Philadelphia area. There, she won social security benefits for a client with disabilities.

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Fredrick Rhine, III

Fredrick has played lead roles at all phases of litigation and dispute resolution. He has experience drafting dispositive motions, preparing for and taking depositions, managing discovery, including complex e-discovery issues, and preparing for hearings and trial proceedings. Fredrick also has an active pro bono practice. Of late, among other matters, he has worked on Weil trial teams representing pro-bono clients in various civil rights related actions, including a former prisoner in a federal §1983 lawsuit as well as organizations and individuals challenging SB1, Texas’s newly-enacted voting law. Fredrick is also active in Firm and other professional organizations and focuses significant time on mentoring, diversity, and development. Currently, he serves as a Co-Chair of the Black Associate Advisory Board, which works with Executive Partner Barry Wolf to advise on a range of issues of importance to the Firm, including but not limited to the recruitment, retention, and professional development of African American attorneys.

Fredrick received his B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. During law school, he served as a legal extern at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and president of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Andrew L. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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