Meet our team.
T.J. Dammrich
Founding Partner
tj@merceroaklaw.com
T.J. has advised businesses and earned his clients’ trust for over twenty years. He founded Mercer Oak to leverage his business and legal skills to better serve clients. His vision for advocacy is transparent, authentic, and proactive. Clients look to T.J. for litigation, transactions, compliance, risk management, trusted advice, and networking.
John Haarlow, Jr.
Founding Partner
john@merceroaklaw.com
John never hesitates in tackling the most complex legal problems and has a track record of earning top results. Clients, colleagues, and adversaries all agree on his effectiveness and professionalism. In 2017, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin selected John as one of the 40 most talented young attorneys in Illinois. John was recognized for his quick wit, professionalism and dedication to his clients. His “Forty Under 40” nominators described him as “stunningly effective” and “destined to be a prize litigator.” John founded Mercer Oak to provide the close attention and predictability his clients richly deserve.
Lindsay E. Dansdill
Partner
lindsay@merceroaklaw.com
Lindsay is a tenacious advocate for her clients in jurisdictions throughout the country and abroad. Her practice includes representing corporations and insurance carriers in a wide range of complex litigation including successfully defending and pursuing claims in the areas of product liability, construction defects, and commercial disputes in addition to multimillion-dollar state and nation-wide class actions.
Reginald Guy II
Partner
reginald@merceroaklaw.com
Clients value Reggie’s focus on honesty, responsiveness, and outstanding client service. Business owners and key executives rely on his counsel in transactions relating to mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, and entity formation. He has handled due diligence and closing activities for private equity deals and negotiated key agreements around operations and employment for clients in the sports, media, and entertainment industries.
Brian C. Langs
Partner
brian@merceroaklaw.com
Clients regularly turn to Brian to successfully resolve their most complex disputes and provide practical solutions on a myriad of corporate transactional matters. For the past twelve years, he has earned a reputation inside and outside the courtroom as a trusted advisor for businesses of all sizes, relentless in pursuit of his clients’ goals.
Kristen L. N. Goodfellow
Partner
kristen@merceroaklaw.com
Kristen approaches legal problems from a business perspective, presenting her clients with sophisticated legal advice in a practical and approachable manner. She maintains a dynamic corporate law practice focused on general corporate matters and corporate governance, merger and acquisition transactions, commercial contracts, and securities matters.
Terri Taibl Soni
Partner
terri@merceroaklaw.com
Throughout Terri’s career, she has been privileged to advise clients across a diverse range of industries, navigating the intricacies of complex corporate matters and M&A transactions with precision and foresight. At Mercer Oak, Terri brings this wealth of knowledge to the table, offering tailored solutions to address her clients' most pressing legal challenges. At the heart of Terri’s practice lies a steadfast commitment to integrity and excellence.