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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 18, 2017

    MVP: Covington's Ben Razi

    Covington & Burling LLP's Ben Razi racked up numerous trial wins across a wide spectrum of legal sectors this year, including a victory against federal attorneys in the Southern District of New York in a rare civil forfeiture case, landing him among Law360's 2017 Trials MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: DLA Piper's Maxine Hicks

    DLA Piper's Maxine Hicks has built a reputation as a leader in shepherding massive mixed-use real estate projects from initial planning stages to opening day, including most recently representing two Major League Baseball teams in the development of new stadiums, garnering her a spot on Law360’s 2017 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Dakessian Law's Mardiros Dakessian

    Dakessian Law Ltd. founding partner Mardiros “Marty” Dakessian makes his fourth appearance on the Law360 MVP list this year, thanks to a 15-year personal income tax fight that saved a local entrepreneur $3 million, as well as a $15 million win that cut a Fortune 500 food company's tax bill in half.  

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Latham's Matthew Brill

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Matthew Brill spent 2017 hard at work on behalf of the cable industry, fighting off Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuits in court and working to shape federal policy in areas like net neutrality on Capitol Hill, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Telecommunications MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Munger Tolles' Kelly Klaus

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP’s Kelly Klaus landed a massive win this past year on behalf of major Hollywood film studios that sued movie filtering service VidAngel Inc. for infringing their copyrights, earning him a place among Law360's 2017 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Kirkland's Peter Martelli

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Peter Martelli worked countless hours over the past year, through holidays and on tight deadlines, in a tireless effort to score major deals on behalf of his clients, including Blackstone Group LP and Pamplona Capital Management LLP, earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Private Equity MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Mark Cheffo

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Mark S. Cheffo wiped out multidistrict litigation over Pfizer’s Lipitor this year, winning the dismissal of more than 3,000 claims that the cholesterol drug caused diabetes, securing him a spot among Law360’s 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Bracewell's Robin Miles

    Bracewell LLP’s Robin J. Miles secured $800 million in financing from a group of Chinese banks for a sprawling methanol plant in Louisiana this year and helmed a number of other complex and high-dollar financing arrangements, including a $360 million debt refinancing of a Michigan power facility, earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Neal Katyal

    Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal made legal history this year by breaking Justice Thurgood Marshall’s record for Supreme Court arguments by a minority attorney, but the former acting solicitor general also spent the year in the litigation trenches fighting President Donald Trump’s travel ban, landing him among Law360’s 2017 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Jones Day's Heather Lennox

    Jones Day’s Heather Lennox led the charge this year to restructure the world’s largest private sector coal company, saving it from liquidation and earning her a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Ari Fitzgerald

    Hogan Lovells' Ari Fitzgerald secured a victory at the D.C. Circuit this summer for a service provider with ties to Dish Network Corp. in a dispute over a spectrum license discount, earning a spot on Law360's 2017 list of Technology MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Kirkland's Daniel Wolf

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Daniel Wolf has spent the last year handling back-to-back billion-dollar deals in a variety of industries, including health care, real estate, private equity and technology, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2017 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's James Speyer

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's James F. Speyer has a knack for landing victories in complex litigation, securing a spot among Law360's 2017 Retail MVPs with wins that included casting doubt on a public prosecutor's pricing claims against a national retailer and nixing two false-advertising actions.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Jones Day's Michael Gray

    Jones Day’s labor and employment co-chair Michael Gray led McDonald’s to successful outcomes in multiple high-profile wage and hour class actions, including a case that sought to hold the company jointly liable for violations committed by a franchisee, landing him a place on Law360’s list of Employment MVPs for 2017.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Melissa Sawyer

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Melissa Sawyer steered one of the biggest deals of the year in the food and beverage sector with her representation of Diageo in its acquisition of George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila brand, earning her a place as one of Law360’s Food & Beverage MVPs for 2017.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: White & Case's Farhad Jalinous

    White & Case LLP partner Farhad Jalinous racked up an impressive year of convincing anxious regulators to let his foreign corporate clients enter the U.S. market, closing billion-dollar deals for companies like Safran SA and Fortis Inc. and cementing his spot among Law360’s 2017 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Vinson & Elkins' Steve Gill

    Vinson & Elkins LLP’s Steve Gill has helped clients execute major mergers and acquisitions over the past year, including one that established one of the largest natural gas producers in the country, securing him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Energy MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Fish & Richardson's Juanita Brooks

    Fish & Richardson PC’s Juanita Brooks has been called a "titan of the patent bar," an "IP icon” and “a jury whisperer” throughout her career as a patent litigator, and her 90 percent trial success rate, combined with recent wins in two major back-to-back patent trials, earned her a spot among Law360’s 2017 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jane Love

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Jane Love found herself dealing with Japanese law in a U.S. court this year, but that didn't stop her and her team from successfully defending a Novartis multiple sclerosis treatment from a multi-front attack by challengers seeking to invalidate the company's patent, earning her a spot among Law360's 2017 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Davis Polk's Charles Duggan

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Charles Duggan has put to bed a slew of cases over the past year in favor of his clients from an all-star roster that has included such Wall Street heavyweights as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and S&P Global Inc., securing him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Securities MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Jane Byrne

    Among her many wins this year, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Jane Byrne secured notable victories for client Infrassure in an arbitration-location fight in the Second Circuit and a case over $100 million worth of fire-related damage at a refinery, making her one of Law360's 2017 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Willkie's Todd Cosenza

    As vice chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s securities litigation team, Todd Cosenza has had another year of successes representing high-profile financial institutions, including foiling a multibillion-dollar case against Barclays at New York’s highest court, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Banking MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William Burck

    From helping Brazilian industrial giant Odebrecht SA survive a multinational corruption investigation to representing top White House personnel in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has been in demand, landing a spot on Law360's list of White Collar MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Crowell & Moring's Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan

    Crowell & Moring LLP’s Amy Laderberg O’Sullivan had a busy year in bid protests, including helping to defend a $17 billion defense health contract award and successfully representing Experian in an unexpectedly high-profile dispute over an IRS identity verification deal, landing her among Law360's 2017 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Blank Rome's Robert Scott

    Blank Rome LLP’s Robert Scott had a hand in a number of important environmental matters this year, including leading the defense of Eastman Chemical Co. in a West Virginia coal-processing chemical spill class action and helping secure the development of a $6 billion ethane gas complex in western Pennsylvania for a Royal Dutch Shell PLC unit, earning him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Environmental MVPs.