US Benchmark annual awards 2020 shortlist announced – New York
The nominations for the eighth 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 2019. 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 27 2020 at The Pierre in New York.
Please contact Rebecca Synnott at Rebecca.Synnott@euromoneyny.com or on 212-224-3337 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 5 2020 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. **
STATE FIRM AWARDS
Alabama
Bradley
Cunningham Bounds
Lightfoot Franklin & White
Starnes Davis Florie
Arkansas
Friday Eldredge & Clark
Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Connecticut
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
Robinson + Cole
Wiggin and Dana
Delaware
Abrams & Bayliss
Friedlander & Gorris
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Richards Layton & Finger
Ross Aronstam & Moritz
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
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
Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes
Stinson Leonard Street
Kentucky
Frost Brown Todd
Stites & Harbison
Stoll Keenon Ogden
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs
Louisiana
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver
Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson
Phelps Dunbar
Stone Pigman
Maine
Berman & Simmons
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios
Verrill Dana
Maryland
Kramon & Graham
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg
Venable
Whiteford Taylor & Preston
Massachusetts
Choate Hall & Stewart
Goodwin
Mintz
WilmerHale
Michigan
Bodman
Dickinson Wright
Dykema Gossett
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Minnesota
Blackwell Burke
Bowman and Brooke
Ciresi Conlin
Robins Kaplan
Winthrop & Weinstine
Mississippi
Bradley
Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes
Butler Snow
Watkins & Eager
Missouri
Armstrong Teasdale
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale
Lathrop GPM
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
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
Thompson Hine
Ulmer & Berne
Oklahoma
Crowe & Dunlevy
GableGotwals
Hall Estill
McAfee & Taft
Pennsylvania
Ballard Spahr
Dechert
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
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
Butler Snow
Texas
Gibbs & Bruns
Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst
McKool Smith
Reid Collins & Tsai
Reynolds Frizzell
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka
Susman Godfrey
Vermont
Gravel & Shea
Paul Frank + Collins
Sheehey Furlong & Behm
Virginia
Hunton Andrews Kurth
McGuireWoods
Williams Mullen
West Virginia
Bowles Rice
Dinsmore & Shohl
Jackson Kelly
Wisconsin
Gass Weber Mullins
Godfrey & Kahn
Husch Blackwell
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
PRACTICE AREA FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust
Boies Schiller Flexner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
O’Melveny & Myers
Winston & Strawn
Appellate
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Williams & Connolly
Bankruptcy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank
Proskauer
Weil Gotshal & Manges
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
Reed Smith
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Intellectual Property
Covington & Burling
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Fish & Richardson
Susman Godfrey
Williams & Connolly
International Arbitration
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Spalding
Kobre & Kim
White & Case
Product Liability
Butler Snow
Greenberg Traurig
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Tucker Ellis
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Williams & Connolly
Securities
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Latham & Watkins
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
White Collar Crime/Enforcement/Investigations
Buckley
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kobre & Kim
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Boutique Firm of the Year
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
Kaplan Hecker & Fink
Levine Lee
MoloLamken
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
Seyfarth Shaw
Sidley Austin
Labor & Employment Management Attorney of the Year
Elise Bloom, Proskauer
Nancy Rafuse, Seyfarth Shaw
Grace Speights, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Jay St Clair, Littler Mendelson
Labor & Employment Employee Firm of the Year
Katz Marshall & Banks
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Outten & Golden
Sanford Heisler Sharp
Labor & Employment Employee Attorney of the Year
Debra Katz, Katz Marshall & Banks
Shannon Liss-Riordan, Lichten & Liss-Riordan
David Sanford, Sanford Heisler Sharp
PRACTICE AREA ATTORNEYS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust
Daniel Brockett, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Ted Hassi, Debevoise & Plimpton
Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn
Kevin Orsini, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Richard Parker, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Todd Stenerson, Shearman & Sterling
Appellate
Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly
Willy Jay, Goodwin
Neal Katyal, Hogan Lovells
Mark Perry, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kannon Shanmugam, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Bankruptcy
Martin Bienenstock, Proskauer
Susheel Kirpalani, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Andrew Leblanc, Milbank
Lisa Schweitzer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Christopher Shore, White & Case
General Commercial
Michael Carlinsky, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Bill Carmody, Susman Godfrey
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Kevin Orsini, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Orin Snyder, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Insurance
Jane Byrne, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Robin Cohen, McKool Smith
Mary Beth Forshaw, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Robert Horkovich, Anderson Kill
Jim Murray, Blank Rome
Intellectual Property
Jack Blumenfeld, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Dale Cendali, Kirkland & Ellis
Bruce Genderson, Williams & Connolly
William Lee, WilmerHale
Frank Scherkenbach, Fish & Richardson
Max Tribble, Susman Godfrey
International Arbitration
Doak Bishop, King & Spalding
Mark Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton
Michael Kim, Kobre & Kim
Michael Nolan, Milbank
Howard Zelbo, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Product Liability
Allison Brown, Skadden Arps Meagher Slate & Flom
Michael Brown, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis
Joseph Petrosinelli, Williams & Connolly
Diane Sullivan, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Securities
Andrew Clubok, Latham & Watkins
Adam Hakki, Shearman & Sterling
Sharon Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
William Savitt, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Jonathan Youngwood, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
White Collar Crime/Investigations/Enforcement
Barry Berke, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
George Canellos, Milbank
Sean Hecker, Kaplan Hecker & Fink
Michael Kim, Kobre & Kim
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Ted Wells, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Plaintiff Attorney of the Year
Mark Lanier, The Lanier Law Firm
Mark Lebovitch, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
William Reid, Reid Collins & Tsai
Jordan Thomas, Labaton Sucharow
Andrew Zivitz, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Trial Firm of the Year
Bartlit Beck
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Susman Godfrey
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Williams & Connolly
Winston & Strawn
Trial Lawyer of the Year
Michael Carlinsky, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Bill Carmody, Susman Godfrey
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Tarek Ismail, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Ted Wells, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz