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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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November 15, 2024
MVP: McNicholas & McNicholas' Matthew McNicholas
This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz
Jason C. Schwartz, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, secured rulings from the bench in a case about his client Fearless Foundation's awarding of grants to Black female entrepreneurs and in another dispute representing DraftKings as the company sought to stop a former executive from soliciting customers ahead of the Super Bowl, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Jessica Ellsworth
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Duane Morris' Gerald L. Maatman Jr.
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has helped his clients fend off potentially catastrophic exposures, including a suit alleging Geico misclassified thousands of insurance agents, by utilizing defense strategies to gut the claims before courts were able to assess the merits of the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: deRubertis Law's David M. deRubertis
Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 06, 2024
MVP: O'Melveny's Mark W. Robertson
Mark W. Robertson of O'Melveny & Myers LLP has spent the year defending Piedmont Airlines Inc. and American Airlines from proposed class actions and other litigation over overtime, sick leave and other employment issues, earning himself a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
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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.
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October 13, 2023
MVP: Morgan Lewis' Philip A. Miscimarra
Philip A. Miscimarra, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, played a key role in helping the United States Football League negotiate its first collective bargaining agreement covering about 350 professional athletes, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 12, 2023
MVP: Outten & Golden's Cara E. Greene
Cara E. Greene of Outten & Golden LLP was a lead attorney on the team that landed the largest pre-trial sex bias settlement of all time: a $215 million deal with Goldman Sachs, secured on behalf of hundreds of female executives, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 11, 2023
MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody and Anne Shaver
Kelly Dermody and Anne Shaver of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's employment practice served as co-lead counsel in a years-long gender discrimination class action against Goldman Sachs that ended in a record $215 million settlement and helped secure a $118 million settlement for thousands of female Google employees in another class action, earning them a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Theane Evangelis
Theane Evangelis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's employment practice defended large companies operating in the gig economy and argued the first and only successful constitutional challenge to California's assembly bill governing employee classification, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Duane Morris' Gerald L. Maatman Jr.
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has taken on mammoth employment law class action cases and successfully whittled down the suits that posed existential threats to the businesses he represents, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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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.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: DeRubertis Law Firm's David DeRubertis
David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm APC led a team that won a record $440 million in punitive damages for two workers who brought a retaliation suit against a California utility, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Paul Weiss' Liza Velazquez
Over the past year, Liza Velazquez of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP successfully defended several big clients, including the New York State Unified Court System, from an onslaught of legal challenges to their COVID-19 vaccine policies, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 08, 2022
MVP: Morgan Lewis' Michael Weil
Michael D. Weil of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's employment law group became a go-to litigator for the novel practice of defending employers' COVID-19 vaccine mandates against employee challenges, including for pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 07, 2022
MVP: Jones Day's Amanda Sommerfeld
Amanda Sommerfeld, a partner at Jones Day's labor and employment practice, helped corporate giants McDonald's Corp. and SkyWest Airlines Inc. avoid big payouts to employees accusing them of workplace violations, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 06, 2022
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz
Jason C. Schwartz of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice fended off the New York attorney general's condemnation of Amazon's COVID-19 safety standards and pivoted at the last minute to an in-person overtime exemption trial in a separate case, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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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.
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September 13, 2021
MVP: Keller Lenkner's Warren Postman
Warren Postman of Keller Lenkner LLC's arbitration practice won an appellate ruling that said Postmates had to pay more than $10 million to cover filing fees for couriers in a misclassification case, and forced DoorDash Inc. to live up to its agreement to resolve issues with its couriers out of court, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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September 10, 2021
MVP: Morgan Lewis' Nicole A. Buffalano
Nicole Buffalano of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped the National Women's Soccer League be the first U.S. professional team sport to take to the field following pandemic shutdowns, guided health care providers through ever-changing COVID-19 protocols, and represented Amazon during the unionization effort at an Alabama facility, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Employment Law MVPs.
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September 09, 2021
MVP: Cohen Milstein's Joseph M. Sellers
Joseph Sellers of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's employment practice led a class of flight service specialists to a $44 million settlement with the Federal Aviation Administration to end one of the federal government's largest age bias payouts, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
MVP: Seyfarth Shaw's Gerald L. Maatman
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of the Seyfarth Shaw LLP employment law practice group secured a settlement that paid workers in gift cards to end a sprawling class action against Jimmy John's that threatened its franchise business model, securing him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
MVP: Orrick's Erin Connell
Erin Connell of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's employment law and litigation practice helped computer technology giant Oracle defeat a sweeping $400 million administrative pay bias suit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, earning her a spot among Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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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.