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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.
  • November 08, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Michele D. Johnson

    Michele D. Johnson of Latham & Watkins LLP successfully defended big names like X, formerly known as Twitter, Apple and Peloton from consumer class actions this year, earning herself a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 07, 2024

    MVP: Weil's Drew Tulumello

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Drew Tulumello helped PepsiCo Inc. and subsidiary Frito-Lay Inc. fend off multiple proposed class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, and got a $228 million damages award against BNSF Railway Co. in BIPA litigation wiped out, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Skadden's Boris Bershteyn

    Boris Bershteyn of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP scored a pair of wins for casino hotel clients accused of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme through algorithmic software, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway

    Audra Soloway, co-chair of Paul Weiss' securities litigation and enforcement group, secured a favorable result for Goldman Sachs in a 13-year class action, obtained a dismissal in an investor suit against Snapchat and secured the first substantive ruling applying a 2021 Supreme Court ruling in the Second Circuit, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Amy Lally

    Amy Lally, global co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's consumer class actions practice, is a creative litigator who has had unique success in getting internet privacy cases dismissed early in California courts for clients like The Container Store and biotechnology giant Amgen Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 18, 2024

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Weil's David Singh

    David Singh of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's complex commercial litigation practice often finds himself working to defend clients against large consumer classes. In April, Singh was co-lead counsel for Scripps Network as the network fielded a consumer class action alleging it violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Class Action MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Stueve Siegel's Norman Siegel

    Norm Siegel of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP has helped thousands of people take on major companies in high-stakes class actions, including one against State Farm that his firm identified as the largest settlement reached in cost of insurance litigation, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 03, 2023

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Crystal Nix-Hines

    Crystal Nix-Hines of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP founded the firm's education practice group about six months before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Since then, she and her team have obtained a string of victories in class actions filed against universities following the transition to remote education, earning Nix-Hines a spot among Law360's 2023 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 02, 2023

    MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody

    Kelly Dermody of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, who doubles as the firm's managing partner in San Francisco, notched one of the largest discrimination settlements in U.S. history this year in a decade-long case against Goldman Sachs, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 01, 2023

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 171 Attys At 76 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2023 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • September 15, 2022

    MVP: White & Case's Eric Grannon

    Eric Grannon led a White & Case LLP team in opposing certification in a multibillion-dollar securities class action against Toshiba, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 14, 2022

    MVP: Robbins Geller's Paul J. Geller

    Paul J. Geller led a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP team securing over $600 million in settlements in a class action against pharmaceutical companies over unfair practices that caused the price of EpiPens to skyrocket, and served as negotiator in opioid-related litigation resulting in a $26 billion global settlement, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 13, 2022

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Adam Wolfson

    Adam B. Wolfson of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped win three bellwether trials on behalf of injured veterans in the largest mass tort in the nation's history and got class certification for consumers and ATM owners in an antitrust action against Visa and Mastercard over access fee rules, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: Labaton Sucharow's Carol C. Villegas

    Labaton Sucharow LLP's Carol Villegas helped seal a $39 million deal for investors accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. of covering up its fraying relationship with Saudi Arabia and secured a $73 million settlement for people claiming that a data firm undersold a privacy law's effects on its business, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Covington & Burling's Henry Liu

    Covington & Burling LLP's Henry Liu helped secure the dismissal of Congolese families' child labor claims against Apple Inc. and the tossing of allegations that JPMorgan Chase & Co. conspired with other big banks to manipulate the $14 trillion U.S. Treasury market, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 02, 2022

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 188 Attys From 78 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • September 16, 2021

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Theane Evangelis

    Over the past year, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Theane Evangelis spearheaded the legal team that convinced the Ninth Circuit to roll back a record-breaking $102 million judgment against Walmart over alleged pay stub violations, earning her a spot among Law360's 2021 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 15, 2021

    MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly M. Dermody

    Kelly M. Dermody of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped successfully sue the federal government to secure more than $1.5 billion in CARES Act economic stimulus payments for incarcerated Americans, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 14, 2021

    MVP: Tycko & Zavareei's Hassan Zavareei

    Hassan Zavareei of Tycko & Zavareei LLP helped get a $66 million settlement against Bank of America for illegal fees upheld, defeated an arbitration agreement that shielded Wells Fargo from litigation stemming from its overdraft practices and got a judge to approve a $17 million settlement from Capital One, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 13, 2021

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Crystal Nix-Hines

    Crystal Nix-Hines of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP successfully represented several universities in tuition class actions connected with the COVID-19 pandemic and earned the dismissal of a proposed class action against General Motors over its car heaters, making her one of Law360's 2021 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 10, 2021

    MVP: Covington's Ashley Simonsen

    Ashley Simonsen of Covington & Burling LLP helped Facebook fend off a class action accusing the social media giant of charging advertisers for bogus clicks and helped student loan servicer Navient resolve a class action over loan payments, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Class Action MVPs.

  • August 30, 2021

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 182 Attys From 77 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • October 13, 2020

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jonathan K. Youngwood

    Jonathan Youngwood of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP secured a historic consent decree against a Mississippi sheriff's department in a class action challenging the department's racially biased policing and settled claims that SeaWorld downplayed the financial impacts of the documentary "Blackfish," earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 09, 2020

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Shon Morgan

    Shon Morgan of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped persuade a federal judge to approve a massive deal to settle suits for Hyundai and Kia over an engine defect, won an arbitration ruling for Ancestry.com, and grappled with new class actions spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, making him one of Law360's 2020 Class Action MVPs.

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