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August 12, 2025
Joshua Morey of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has racked up several trade wins for the U.S. domestic industry, including duty orders on aluminum sheets imported from 16 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2025
Evie Whiting of Sidley Austin LLP helped in the creation of a joint venture involving Warner Bros. Discovery, which marked a historic TV and film music rights deal covering almost a century's worth of music copyrights, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2025
Avi Kupfer of Mayer Brown LLP has used his unique governmental experience as a litigator and administrator to, as a private practitioner, help clients such as the U.S. Postal Service navigate the intricacies of administrative law, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2025
Kevin Biniazan of Breit Biniazan PC is in the midst of handling a large case in which over 50 clients allege the medical director of a Virginia hospital sexually abused them, with the first trial in September resulting in what the firm said was the largest tort verdict in Virginia history at $360 million, earning him a place among the attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2025
Brinton Lucas of Jones Day successfully challenged a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring public companies to describe their reasoning behind stock buybacks, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2025
Melissa Wollis of Dechert LLP steered the largest collateralized loan obligation transaction in history at over $2.3 billion for Golub Capital Partners and helped create the first such transaction since the 2008 financial crisis to offer liabilities denominated in multiple currencies, earning her a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Brian Schmalzbach of McGuireWoods LLP argued a civil rights case addressing attorney fees before the U.S. Supreme Court last fall, earning him a spot among appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Lucille Hague of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has helped clients secure approvals in international transactions, such as a transaction to take public the space industry startup Momentus Inc. and the sale of cybersecurity company Venafi to Israel-based CyberArk, earning her a spot among the international trade law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Jenner & Block LLP's Lauren Greene helped NBCUniversal block the sale of knockoff "Friday Night Lights" merch and settle a trademark dispute over the "Back to the Future" DeLorean time machine, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
David Siegel of Latham & Watkins LLP helped advise Guggenheim Securities in connection with structuring the first-ever data center securitization for a hyperscale data center operator, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Jack McNeily of Latham & Watkins LLP defended the former chief technology officer of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in one of the U.S. government's flagship crypto enforcement cases, earning him a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Adele Daniel of Keller Rohrback LLP has been helping her firm win big-money cases for clients alleging toxic pollution, facing determined opponents in court, working on every stage of the litigation and earning a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Thomas James of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has represented numerous classes of investors as they take on corporate misconduct, including winning verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
In the months since U.S. tariff policy was remade under a new presidential administration, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Katie Hilferty has worked closely with clients facing significant sudden uncertainties to help resolve their international trade compliance questions and avoid disruption to their businesses, earning her a place among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Ben White of Bloch & White LLP won a major false-conviction trial over the alleged false testimony of three NYPD narcotics officers, was instrumental in obtaining a $26 million verdict over the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally, and started his own firm with a colleague, earning him a spot among the trials attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 08, 2025
Samuel Katz founded Athlaw LLP after graduating from law school and spent the next decade building it into a powerhouse, filing the first proposed class action against the NFL's disability benefit plan to beat dismissal and earning a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 08, 2025
Diem Huong Ho of Foley Hoag LLP has served as lead associate in matters before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including ethnic Armenians' proceedings against Azerbaijan and The Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 08, 2025
Sheena Paul is a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner in the firm's investment management group, where she focuses on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels private fund advisers — including leading Clayton Dubilier & Rice through a $26 billion fundraise — earning a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 08, 2025
Stephen R. Chuk of Proskauer Rose LLP helped poultry giant Sanderson Farms beat $7 billion worth of antitrust claims at trial and scored another jury trial win on behalf of Major League Soccer, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Rachel O'Brien of Ropes & Gray LLP advised Hamilton Lane on its largest fundraise ever, closing with $5.6 billion in tow, and helped The Vistria Group LP clinch $3 billion in investor commitments for its largest-ever private equity fund — earning O'Brien a spot among the fund formation lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Matthew Howell of Cozen O'Connor has been successful on bid protests, including a contract involving the Strategic National Stockpile and in helping clients navigate government regulations and reviews, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Laura Umbrecht Gulick of Goodwin Procter LLP advised Human Immunology Biosciences and Mariana Oncology in billion-dollar deals with Big Pharma last year, earning her a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Katelyn Horne of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has represented Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia in a wide range of disputes, defending their rights to crack down on human rights abuses and money laundering, as well as their ability to protect the environment against powerful multinationals, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Mary E. Grinman of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has defended several large employers in proposed class actions alleging retirement plan mismanagement, including Liberty Mutual and JPMorgan, earning her a spot among benefits practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2025
Soon after Rishi Satia moved back to the Bay Area after years in Washington, D.C., he began representing the companies he'd heard about growing up in Los Gatos, California. In the seven years he's worked for Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's antitrust practice, he's represented an array of clients fighting claims they've stifled competition — from tech giants like Google and Qualcomm to the governing body for U.S. cricket teams — earning him a spot among the competition law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.