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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 08, 2017

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 78 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2017 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 15, 2016

    Employment MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz

    Between his successfully defending Cablevision against a host of unfair labor practice charges, sparing Ford from retirement plan headaches and literally co-writing the book on whistleblower law this year, Gibson Dunn’s Jason C. Schwartz was a shoo-in as a Law360 Employment MVP.

  • December 14, 2016

    Employment MVP: Sanford Heisler's David Sanford

    David Sanford of Sanford Heisler LLP helped a pair of Chadbourne & Parke LLP female attorneys lodge a landmark $100 million lawsuit accusing the firm of discriminating against them and other women, and guided thousands of female Qualcomm Technologies Inc. employees to a rare $19.5 million pre-suit settlement in their own bias suit, earning him a place on Law360's list of 2016 employment MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Employment MVP: Akin Gump's Daniel Nash

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's Daniel Nash handled several high-profile cases for the National Football League in 2016, including a legal battle over the Deflategate suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, helping earn him a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.

  • December 12, 2016

    Employment MVP: Ogletree Deakins' Jeffrey C. Londa

    Many attorneys handled a bigger caseload in 2016 than Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC's Jeffrey C. Londa, but few have had as great an impact, earning the managing shareholder of the labor boutique’s Houston office a spot on Law360’s list of employment MVPs for this year.

  • December 09, 2016

    Employment MVP: Morgan Lewis' Sarah Bouchard

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Sarah E. Bouchard guided Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to a win over an ousted executive's claims that she was fired for cooperating in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act probe, one of numerous wins she scored for employers in whistleblower cases that earned her a spot among Law360's 2015 Employment MVPs.

  • November 22, 2016

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.

  • December 10, 2015

    Employment MVP: Shegerian & Associates' Carney Shegerian

    Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates has secured millions of dollars in damages awards for workers fired for age, disabilities and injuries on the job, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs for 2015.

  • December 09, 2015

    Employment MVP: Sanford Heisler's David Sanford

    David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP secured millions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs in separate class action employment suits against Daiichi Sankyo Inc. and Ma Laboratories Inc., earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Employment MVPs.

  • December 08, 2015

    Employment MVP: Proskauer Rose's Elise Bloom

    Proskauer Rose LLP's Elise Bloom helped Fox Searchlight Pictures escape an employment class action from unpaid interns who worked on the movie "Black Swan," scoring a landmark Second Circuit victory and earning her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs of 2015 in the process.

  • December 07, 2015

    Employment MVP: Orrick's Lynne Hermle

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Lynne Hermle led the all-woman trial team that brought Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLP to victory in Ellen Pao's closely watched sex bias trial this year, earning her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs of 2015.

  • December 04, 2015

    Employment MVP: Gibson Dunn's Eugene Scalia

    Helping Ford score an en banc victory in the Sixth Circuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Americans with Disabilities Act claims and representing UBS Financial in an important win in a high-stakes case over arbitration agreements earned Gibson Dunn's Eugene Scalia a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs for 2015.

  • December 03, 2015

    Employment MVP: Akin Gump's Donald Livingston

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Donald R. Livingston, a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel, flexed his employment law muscles this past year by helping his client, an event marketing company, beat back the agency’s challenge to its hiring practices, earning him a place on Law360 list of employment MVPs for 2015.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360's Super MVPs In A Class Of Their Own

    Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.

  • November 06, 2015

    5 Firms Lead The Pack With MVP Wins

    Five elite law firms have racked up more than 20 Law360 MVP wins each over the past five years, outshining their competitors with their accomplishments in complex litigation and transactions.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 86 Firms

    This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • December 16, 2014

    Employment MVP: Epstein Becker Green's Steven Swirsky

    Epstein Becker Green PC's Steven M. Swirsky helped navigate Volkswagen AG and its American subsidiary through a plethora of litigation in both federal court and before the National Labor Relations Board arising out of a controversial attempt by a labor union to organize workers in the automaker's Chattanooga, Tennessee, manufacturing plant, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.

  • December 15, 2014

    Employment MVP: Sanford Heisler's David Sanford

    Sanford Heisler LLP Chairman David Sanford navigated the challenging environment for employee lawsuits created by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to secure class certification for workers in separate employment suits against KPMG LLP and Ma Laboratories Inc., earning himself a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs.

  • December 12, 2014

    Employment MVP: Seyfarth Shaw's Gerald Maatman

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP's Gerald L. Maatman Jr. thwarted a sweeping U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit against Sterling Jewelers Inc. and secured a Sixth Circuit win for Kaplan Higher Education Corp. in an EEOC case over the use of credit checks in the hiring process, landing himself among Law360's Employment MVPs for the second year in a row.

  • December 11, 2014

    Employment MVP: King & Spalding's Michael Johnston

    Longtime King & Spalding litigator Michael W. Johnston represented Bass Pro Outdoor World LLC in a high-profile discrimination case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and wrapped up work in an influential retaliation suit against University of Texas Southwestern, earning himself a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs.

  • December 10, 2014

    Employment MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody

    As the head of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's employment practice group, partner Kelly M. Dermody has been at the forefront of contentious gender discrimination cases against Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., as well as a case accusing numerous Silicon Valley tech giants of conspiring to suppress workers' pay, earning her a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.

  • December 09, 2014

    Employment MVP: Ogletree Deakins' Ron Chapman

    Ron Chapman Jr. of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC scored a big victory for employers when the Fifth Circuit rejected the National Labor Relations Board’s holding that arbitration agreements that include class waivers violate federal labor law, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Employment MVPs.

  • November 18, 2014

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 78 Firms

    Beginning this week, Law360 will profile those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • December 06, 2013

    Employment MVP: O'Melveny & Myers' Bob Siegel

    This year, O’Melveny & Myers LLP partner Bob Siegel cemented his reputation as one of the nation's top airline labor lawyers by counseling US Airways Group Inc. executives over antitrust litigation amid its $11 billion merger with American Airlines Inc., landing himself a place on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.

  • December 05, 2013

    Employment MVP: Morgan Lewis' Samuel Shaulson

    Helping Citigroup Inc. secure a Second Circuit win that allowed the bank to enforce an individual arbitration policy in an overtime dispute is just one of the recent successes that landed Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Samuel Shaulson among Law360's Employment MVPs.

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