US Benchmark annual awards 2019 shortlist announced – New York
The nominations for the seventh annual Benchmark Litigation US awards have been announced.
For all of the litigation firm and lawyer of the year shortlists, please see below. The nominees have been chosen based upon research conducted between March and November 2018. Please note that there will be no pro bono firm of the year, impact case, or hall of fame winner shortlists. Those winners will be announced on the evening of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be held on Thursday, February 28 2019 at Essex House in New York.
Midwest and north east firms, please contact Rebecca Synnott at Rebecca.Synnott@euromoneyny.com or on 212-224-3337 to reserve your place.
Firms from the south and from the west, please contact José Zarza at jose.zarza@euromoneyny.com or on 212-224-3339 to reserve your place.
** This year there are expanded labor & employment and California-centred categories. As such, there will also be a second ceremony on Thursday, March 14 2019 at The St Regis in San Francisco. Please CLICK HERE to see the shortlist. If your firm is listed on one shortlist, but your firm would prefer to attend the other ceremony, please discuss this with Rebecca or José. **
STATE FIRM AWARDS
Alabama
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Cunningham Bounds
Lightfoot Franklin & White
Starnes Davis Florie
Arkansas
Friday Eldredge & Clark
Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Connecticut
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder
Robinson + Cole
Wiggin and Dana
Delaware
Abrams & Bayliss
Friedlander & Gorris
Grant & Eisenhofer
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Richards Layton & Finger
District of Columbia
Covington & Burling
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Zuckerman Spaeder
Florida
Akerman
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod
Greenspoon Marder
Podhurst Orseck
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson
Georgia
Kilpatrick Townsend
King & Spalding
Rogers & Hardin
Eversheds Sutherland
Troutman Sanders
Illinois
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Braun
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Sidley Austin
Winston & Strawn
Indiana
Barnes & Thornburg
Faegre Baker Daniels
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Iowa
Ahlers & Cooney
Nyemaster Goode
Kansas
Foulston Siefkin
Hite Fanning & Honeyman
Stinson Leonard Street
Kentucky
Frost Brown Todd
Stites & Harbison
Stoll Keenon Ogden
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs
Louisiana
Adams and Reese
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver
Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson
Phelps Dunbar
Maine
Berman & Simmons
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios
Verrill Dana
Maryland
Kramon & Graham
Miles & Stockbridge
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg
Venable
Whiteford Taylor & Preston
Massachusetts
Goodwin
McDermott Will & Emery
Proskauer Rose
Ropes & Gray
WilmerHale
Michigan
Bodman
Dickinson Wright
Dykema Gossett
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Minnesota
Blackwell Burke
Bowman and Brooke
Ciresi Conlin
Maslon
Robins Kaplan
Winthrop & Weinstine
Mississippi
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes
Butler Snow
Watkins & Eager
Missouri
Armstrong Teasdale
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale
Polsinelli
Shook Hardy & Bacon
New Hampshire
Devine Millimet & Branch
Nixon Peabody
Sheehan Phinney
New Jersey
Cole Schotz
Gibbons
Lowenstein Sandler
McCarter & English
Sills Cummis & Gross
New York
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
North Carolina
Brooks Pierce
Ellis & Winters
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson
Smith Anderson
North Dakota
Maring Williams Law Office
Vogel Law Firm
Zuger Kirmis & Smith
Ohio
Dinsmore & Shohl
Jones Day
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Thompson Hine
Ulmer & Berne
Oklahoma
Crowe & Dunlevy
GableGotwals
Hall Estill
McAfee & Taft
Pennsylvania
Ballard Spahr
Dechert
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Rhode Island
Adler Pollock & Sheehan
Partridge Snow & Hahn
South Carolina
Motley Rice
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Nexsen Pruet
Turner Padget Graham & Laney
South Dakota
Davenport Evans Hurwitz & Smith
Heidepriem Purtell Siegel
Johnson Janklow Abdallah Reiter & Parsons
Tennessee
Bass Berry & Sims
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Butler Snow
Texas
Gibbs & Bruns
Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst
McKool Smith
Reid Collins & Tsai
Reynolds Frizzell
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka
Vermont
Gravel & Shea
Paul Frank + Collins
Sheehey Furlong & Behm
Virginia
Hunton Andrews Kurth
LeClairRyan
McGuireWoods
Williams Mullen
West Virginia
Bowles Rice
Dinsmore & Shohl
Jackson Kelly
Wisconsin
Foley & Lardner
Gass Weber Mullins
Godfrey & Kahn
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
PRACTICE AREA FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust
Boies Schiller Flexner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
O’Melveny & Myers
Winston & Strawn
Appellate
Boies Schiller Flexner
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Jones Day
Mayer Brown
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Bankruptcy
Brown Rudnick
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
General Commercial
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Williams & Connolly
Insurance
Anderson Kill
Blank Rome
Covington & Burling
McKool Smith
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Intellectual Property
Durie Tangri
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Fish & Richardson
Winston & Strawn
International Arbitration
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Spalding
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
Product Liability
Butler Snow
Greenberg Traurig
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
Securities
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
White Collar Crime/Enforcement/Investigations
Buckley Sandler
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello
Boutique Firm of the Year
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
MoloLamken
Selendy & Gay
Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz
Plaintiff Firm of the Year
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Lanier Law
Pomerantz
Reid Collins & Tsai
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT AWARDS
Labor & Employment Management Firm of the Year
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Littler Mendelson
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Proskauer Rose
Seyfarth Shaw
Sidley Austin
Labor & Employment Management Attorney of the Year
Elise Bloom, Proskauer Rose
Noah Finkel, Seyfarth Shaw
Lynne Hermle, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Michele Maryott, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Grace Speights, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Jay St Clair, Littler Mendelson
Labor & Employment Employee Firm of the Year
Altshuler Berzon
Katz Marshall & Banks
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Outten & Golden
Sanford Heisler Sharp
Labor & Employment EmployeeAttorney of the Year
Rachel Bien, Outten & Golden
Eve Cervantez, Altshuler Berzon
Kelly Dermody, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Debra Katz, Katz Marshall & Banks
Jahan Sagafi, Outten & Golden
David Sanford, Sanford Heisler Sharp
Labor & Employment District of Columbia Firm of the Year
Cohen Milstein
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Katz Marshall & Banks
Paul Hastings
Sanford Heisler & Sharp
Labor & Employment District of Columbia Attorney of the Year
Barbara Brown, Paul Hastings
Kalpana Kotagal, Cohen Milstein
William Martucci, Shook Hardy & Bacon
Daniel Nash, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Grace Speights, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Labor & Employment Illinois Firm of the Year
Katten Muchin Rosenman
McDermott Will & Emery
Seyfarth Shaw
Sidley Austin
Winston & Strawn
Labor & Employment Illinois Attorney of the Year
Sari Alamuddin, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Daniel Fazio, Winston & Strawn
Linda Friedman, Stowell & Friedman
Julie Gottshall, Katten Muchin Rosenman
Joel Griswold, BakerHostetler
James Oh, Epstein Becker Green
Labor & Employment New York Firm of the Year
Kasowitz Benson Torres
Proskauer Rose
Sanford Heisler Sharp
Sullivan & Cromwell
Vladeck Raskin & Clark
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Labor & Employment New York Attorney of the Year
Jonathan Ben-Asher, Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher
Jeffrey Klein, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Alan Klinger, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Debra Raskin, Vladeck Raskin & Clark
Theodore Rogers, Sullivan & Cromwell
Jessica Taub Rosenberg, Kasowitz Benson Torres
Labor & Employment Texas Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Greenberg Traurig
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree Deakins
Sidley Austin
Labor & Employment Texas Attorney of the Year
Dennis Duffy, BakerHostetler
Shafeeqa Giarratani, Ogletree Deakins
Amy Halevy, Bracewell
Shira Yoshor, Greenberg Traurig
PRACTICE AREA ATTORNEYS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust
Daniel Brockett, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
George Cary, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Mark Gidley, White & Case
Ted Hassi, Debevoise & Plimpton
Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn
Richard Parker, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Appellate
Neal Katyal, Hogan Lovells
Mark Perry, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin
Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Kannon Shanmugam, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Bankruptcy
James Bromley, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Susheel Kirpalani, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Andrew Leblanc, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Christopher Shore, White & Case
General Commercial
Bill Carmody, Susman Godfrey
Lewis Clayton, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Daniel Slifkin, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Insurance
Jane Byrne, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Robin Cohen, McKool Smith
Mary Beth Forshaw, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Robert Horkovich, Anderson Kill
Intellectual Property
Jack Blumenfeld, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Bruce Genderson, Williams & Connolly
William Lee, WilmerHale
Frank Scherkenbach, Fish & Richardson
International Arbitration
Doak Bishop, King & Spalding
Mark Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton
Greg Litt, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Michael Nolan, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Abby Cohen Smutny, White & Case
Product Liability
Mike Brock, Kirkland & Ellis
Ralph Campillo, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
Nina Gussack, Pepper Hamilton
Joseph Petrosinelli, Williams & Connolly
Securities
Adam Hakki, Shearman & Sterling
Sharon Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Daniel Slifkin, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Marc Wolinsky, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Jonathan Youngwood, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
White Collar Crime/Investigations/Enforcement
William Burck, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
David Krakoff, Buckley Sandler
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John Savarese, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Plaintiff Attorney of the Year
Mark Lanier, The Lanier Law Firm
Mark Lebovitch, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Jeremy Lieberman, Pomerantz
William T. Reid IV, Reid Collins & Tsai
Jordan Thomas, Labaton Sucharow
Trial Lawyer of the Year
Bill Carmody, Susman Godfrey
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Randy Mastro, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz