On February 28th Benchmark Litigation hosted the first part of it seventh annual US awards in which it recognized the country’s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their work over the past twelve months.
This year for the first time the brand is having two seperate ceremonies, one on the East coast at Essex House, New York on February 28 and one on the West coast at The St Regis, San Francisco on March 14.
In New York the sold-out audience saw Diane Sullivan of Weil Gotshal & Manges and Max Berger of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman inducted into the Benchmark Litigation Hall of Fame.
Another highlight of the evening saw an impromptu standing ovation for Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink and Karen Dunn of Boies Schiller & Flexner for their work on the Charlottesvile residents lawsuit.
Firms from over half of the states plus DC were represented in the room. More firms will be attending the inaugural West Coast ceremony on March 14. Please click the link below to see the shortlist for that ceremony or email jose.zarza@euromoneyny.com for more details.
Benchmark US Awards West Coast Ceremony shortlist
Photographs from the New York award ceremony may be found HERE.
Congratulations to the winners, all of which are listed below:
STATE FIRM AWARDS
Alabama Firm of the Year
Lightfoot Franklin & White
Arkansas Firm of the Year
Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull
Connecticut Firm of the Year
Wiggin and Dana
Delaware Firm of the Year
Abrams & Bayliss
District of Columbia Firm of the Year
Williams & Connolly
Florida Firm of the Year
Akerman
Georgia Firm of the Year
King & Spalding
Illinois Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Indiana Firm of the Year
Faegre Baker Daniels
Iowa Firm of the Year
Nyemaster Goode
Kansas Firm of the Year
Stinson Leonard Street
Kentucky Firm of the Year
Stoll Keenon Ogden
Louisiana Firm of the Year
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver
Maine Firm of the Year
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios
Maryland Firm of the Year
Whiteford Taylor & Preston
Massachusetts Firm of the Year
Goodwin
Michigan Firm of the Year
Bodman
Minnesota Firm of the Year
Blackwell Burke
Mississippi Firm of the Year
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Missouri Firm of the Year
Polsinelli
New Hampshire Firm of the Year
Nixon Peabody
New Jersey Firm of the Year
Sills Cummis & Gross
New York Firm of the Year
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
North Carolina Firm of the Year
Brooks Pierce
North Dakota Firm of the Year
Maring Williams Law Office
Ohio Firm of the Year
Ulmer & Berne
Oklahoma Firm of the Year
Crowe & Dunlevy
Pennsylvania Firm of the Year
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Rhode Island Firm of the Year
Adler Pollock & Sheehan
South Carolina Firm of the Year
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
South Dakota Firm of the Year
Johnson Janklow Abdallah & Reiter
Tennessee Firm of the Year
Bass Berry & Sims
Texas Firm of the Year
McKool Smith
Vermont Firm of the Year
Gravel & Shea
Virginia Firm of the Year
LeClairRyan
West Virginia Firm of the Year
Bowles Rice
Wisconsin Firm of the Year
Gass Weber Mullins
PRACTICE AREA FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust Firm of the Year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Appellate Firm of the Year
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Bankruptcy Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
General Commercial Firm of the Year
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Insurance Firm of the Year
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
International Arbitration Firm of the Year
Debevoise & Plimpton
Product Liability Firm of the Year
Williams & Connolly
Securities Firm of the Year
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
White Collar Crime/Enforcement/Investigations Firm of the Year
Debevoise & Plimpton
Boutique Firm of the Year Firm of the Year
Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz
Plaintiff Firm of the Year
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT AWARDS
Labor & Employment Management Firm of the Year
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Labor & Employment Management Attorney of the Year
Noah Finkel
Seyfarth Shaw
Labor & Employment Employee Firm of the Year
Outten & Golden
Labor & Employment Employee Attorney of the Year
David Sanford
Sanford Heisler Sharp
Labor & Employment Firm of the Year: District of Columbia
Katz Marshall & Banks
Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year: District of Columbia
Grace Speights
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Labor & Employment Firm of the Year: Illinois
Seyfarth Shaw
Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year: Illinois
Sari Alamuddin
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Labor & Employment Firm of the Year: New York
Proskauer Rose
Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year: New York
Jeffrey Klein
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Labor & Employment Firm of the Year: Texas
Norton Rose Fulbright
Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year: Texas
Dennis Duffy
BakerHostetler
PRACTICE AREA ATTORNEYS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust Attorney of the Year
Ted Hassi
Debevoise & Plimpton
Appellate Attorney of the Year
Neal Katyal
Hogan Lovells
Bankruptcy Attorney of the Year
Andrew Leblanc
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
General Commercial Attorney of the Year
Lewis Clayton
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Insurance Attorney of the Year
Robin Cohen
McKool Smith
Intellectual Property Attorney of the Year
Frank Scherkenbach
Fish & Richardson
International Arbitration Attorney of the Year
Michael Nolan
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Lori Cohen
Greenberg Traurig
Securities Attorney of the Year
Adam Hakki
Shearman & Sterling
White Collar Crime/Investigations/Enforcement Attorney of the Year
Jonathan Polkes
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Plaintiff Attorney of the Year
Jeremy Lieberman
Pomerantz
Trial Lawyer of the Year
James Hurst
Kirkland & Ellis
HALL OF FAME
Max Berger
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Diane Sullivan
Weil Gotshal & Manges
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT IMPACT CASES
Raef Lawson v. Grubhub
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Roxana Del Toro Lopez and Ana Median v. Uber Technologies, Collective, Class Action and PAGA
Outten & Golden
Epic Systems v. Lewis
Hogan Lovells
Seyfarth Shaw
NATIONAL IMPACT CASES
City of Monroe Employees' Retirement System, derivatively on behalf of Twenty-First Century Fox v. Rupert Murdoch et al
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
CBS v. National Amusements
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Potter Anderson & Corroon
Fresenius v. Akorn
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Flexus Biosciences v. Incyte
Kirkland & Ellis
Uber v. Waymo
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Susman Godfrey
Charlottesville residents lawsuit
Boies Schiller & Flexner
Kaplan Hecker & Fink
Ohio et al v. American Express Company
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Claymore Holdings, LLC v. Credit Suisse AG, et al
Reid Collins & Tsai
Blackberry v. Qualcomm
Sullivan & Cromwell
Winston & Strawn
In re: Petrobras Securities
Pomerantz
Once again, we at Benchmark Litigation extend our congratulations to all of the evening’s winners and attendees and thank our guests for their continuing support of our projects.
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