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Rankings: MVPs of the Year

Law360’s MVPs of the Year recognizes the five attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year. The series showcases standout attorneys across the practice areas and industries covered by Law360.
  • December 07, 2012

    IP MVP: WilmerHale's William Lee

    When the judge overseeing a high-stakes patent battle between Apple Inc. and rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. asked veteran WilmerHale litigator William Lee if he had been “smoking crack,” Lee didn't get flustered — instead he went on to help Apple Inc. win a billion-dollar verdict, earning a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Health Care MVP: Skadden's Gregory Luce

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Gregory Luce’s tireless work on behalf of his clients, leading to a number of significant False Claims Act outcomes in their favor, has earned him a spot on this year’s Law360 list of Health Care MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Hilarie Bass

    Greenberg Traurig LLP's Hilarie Bass convinced not just one court that it possessed jurisdiction over a Chinese manufacturer in the massive litigation over defective drywall, but two — groundbreaking feats that earned her a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    White Collar MVP: Cooley's Michael Attanasio

    Cooley LLP's Michael Attanasio stepped up to defend former baseball star Roger Clemens in a controversial and much publicized perjury trial over Clemens' alleged steroid use, weathering a mistrial and earning Clemens' acquittal, securing a spot among Law360's White Collar MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Real Estate MVP: Kramer Levin's Jonathan Canter

    For his representation of Toll Brothers Inc. and Starwood Capital Group in complex negotiations with New York City for the development of a 550,000-square-foot luxury mixed-use project at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's Jonathan Canter has earned a spot as one of Law360's Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Employment MVP: Greenberg Traurig's James Boudreau

    Greenberg Traurig LLP partner James Boudreau represented employers in a series of defenses to high-stakes litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act — including an appeal by Genesis HealthCare LLC heard by the Supreme Court on Monday — landing him among Law360's Employment MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Securities MVP: Kirkland's Andrew Clubok

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Andrew Clubok played a key role in a precedential stock fraud suit that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and persuaded a panel of federal judges in less than ten minutes to consolidate dozens of class actions over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, work that earns him a spot on Law360's list of Securities MVPs for 2012.

  • December 06, 2012

    Privacy MVP: Cooley's Michael Rhodes

    Cooley LLP partner Michael Rhodes has aptly applied traditional legal principles to new technologies to help Facebook Inc. defeat objections to a pair of cutting-edge class action settlements over its data use practices and to prevent class certification in a suit over Google Inc.'s AdWords program, earning him a place among Law360's Privacy MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    Bankruptcy MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Susheel Kirpalani

    Susheel Kirpalani of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP boldly accused Dynegy Holdings LLC of orchestrating a fraudulent transfer of company assets in his examiner’s report on Dynegy’s controversial Chapter 11, a move that helped restore the claims of company creditors and earned Kirpalani a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    IP MVP: Gibson Dunn's Josh Krevitt

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Josh Krevitt steered Apple Inc., AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA out of harm's way in 2012 by fending off major patent infringement cases against the three tech giants, earning himself a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    M&A MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' Daniel Wolf

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Daniel Wolf's lead in some of 2012's most complicated, high-profile deals — including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s $7 billion acquisition and subsequent share partitioning of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and ABB Ltd.'s $3.9 billion cross-border buy of a U.S. electrical components maker — has landed him on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    Energy MVP: Baker Botts' Hugh Tucker

    Baker Botts LLP’s Hugh Tucker has become a deal-making dynamo for energy giants shaking up their portfolios in a hopping oil and gas scene, structuring Marathon Oil Corp.’s $3.5 billion buy in Texas and preparing several other eye-popping acquisitions to score a slot among Law360’s Energy MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    Appellate MVP: Fish & Richardson's Jonathan Singer

    Fish & Richardson LLP's Jonathan Singer in 2012 convinced a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate drug monitoring patents and chalked up major wins defending pharmaceutical patents before the Federal Circuit, earning him a spot among Law360's Appellate MVPs.

  • December 06, 2012

    Life Sciences MVP: Weil's Liz Weiswasser

    A career spent guiding pharmaceutical and biotechnology developers through the life cycle of their products, from development and patent protection to litigation — including a victory for Wake Forest University in August with billion-dollar implications — has earned Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Liz Weiswasser a spot on Law360's list of Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    IP MVP: Winston & Strawn's Michael Elkin

    Over the past year, intellectual property litigator Michael S. Elkin of Winston & Strawn LLP has secured courtroom wins that have not only benefited his media industry clients, but have had a profound effect on the wider new media landscape, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    Private Equity MVP: Ropes & Gray's William Shields

    Advising some of the largest and most influential private equity firms in the world, including TPG Capital, on a variety of U.S. and cross-border transactions has earned veteran Ropes & Gray LLP partner William M. Shields a spot on Law360's list of Private Equity MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    Bankruptcy MVP: Kasowitz's David Friedman

    Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP’s David Friedman earned a place among Law360's 2012 Bankruptcy MVPs by tackling some of the year's toughest bankruptcy cases, overseeing the liquidation of Borders Book Group and extracting a $40 million bankruptcy malpractice settlement related to Adelphia Communications Corp.

  • December 05, 2012

    Appellate MVP: Akin Gump's Patricia A. Millett

    One week after scoring a win at the U.S. Supreme Court, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Patricia A. Millett made her 31st appearance before the high court — the most of any woman in history — landing her on Law360’s list of appellate MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    Life Sciences MVP: Morgan Lewis' Randall Sunberg

    Randall Sunberg of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP spent the last year facilitating collaborations among pharmaceutical companies, including a nearly $2 billion multidrug deal between H. Lundbeck A/S and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., earning him a spot among Law360's Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    M&A MVP: Latham & Watkins' Charles Ruck

    For his work this year on a slew of complex life sciences and technology deals including Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s $5.65 billion acquisition of Actavis Group, Latham & Watkins LLP’s Charles K. Ruck has earned a spot on Law360’s list of M&A MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    Privacy MVP: Ropes & Gray's Douglas Meal

    Ropes & Gray LLP's Douglas Meal helped Sony Corp. win a dismissal order in multidistrict litigation over massive cyberattacks and bagged court approval of Heartland Payment Systems Inc.'s settlement of consumer data breach claims in 2012, landing him a spot among Law360's Privacy MVPs.

  • December 05, 2012

    Energy MVP: Covington & Burling's Steve Rosenbaum

    It's hard to do better than perfect, and Covington & Burling LLP's Steve Rosenbaum batted 1.000 in representing the oil and gas industry in several challenges to the federal government's approval of projects launched by environmental groups, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Energy MVPs.

  • December 04, 2012

    Bankruptcy MVP: Cadwalader's George Davis

    In seeking to get a fair shake for his noteholder clients in the Dynegy Holdings LLC restructuring, George Davis of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP pulled out all the stops, filing an outside suit, pushing for an examiner and negotiating a revised plan, earning him a spot on Law360's Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 04, 2012

    IP MVP: Keker & Van Nest's Robert Van Nest

    Robert Van Nest of Keker & Van Nest LLP led Google Inc. to a sweeping victory in a patent and copyright suit brought by Oracle Corp. and represented HTC Corp. in its recently-settled smartphone patent dispute with Apple Inc., earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.

  • December 04, 2012

    Private Equity MVP: Latham's Paul Sheridan

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Paul F. Sheridan Jr. has forged a unique attorney-client relationship with some of the biggest players on the international private equity scene, launching no less than seven major deals for his repeat customers and earning himself a spot on Law360's Private Equity MVPs.