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December 18, 2017
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.
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December 15, 2017
Jones Day labor and employment practice co-chair Matthew Lampe had another banner year in 2017, securing judgments ending and narrowing two suits against IBM and helping Verizon beat back a potentially costly wage class action to earn himself a spot among Law360’s 2017 Employment MVPs.
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December 14, 2017
Littler Mendelson PC’s Maury Baskin played a central role in stopping some of the Obama administration’s signature labor policies in their tracks over the past year, including a controversial overtime rule and a regulation that would have required government contractors to report labor law violations, making him one of Law360’s Employment MVPs for 2017.
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December 13, 2017
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's Lynne Hermle again showed why she's become one of the go-to employment attorneys in Silicon Valley this year, winning two verdicts for Tesla founder Elon Musk's SpaceX to land herself among Law360's 2017 Employment MVPs.
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December 12, 2017
Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Jon Meer has secured numerous victories for companies in wage-related class actions recently, including a significant win in a “bag check” case for shoe giant Nike, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of 2017 Employment MVPs.
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December 08, 2017
Law360's MVP award goes to attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers in litigation, deals and other complex matters. Find the MVPs at your firm here.
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December 08, 2017
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.
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December 15, 2016
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.
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December 14, 2016
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.
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December 13, 2016
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.
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December 12, 2016
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.
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December 09, 2016
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.
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November 22, 2016
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.
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December 10, 2015
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.
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December 09, 2015
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.
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December 08, 2015
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.
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December 07, 2015
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.
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December 04, 2015
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.
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December 03, 2015
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.
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November 06, 2015
Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.
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November 06, 2015
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.
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November 06, 2015
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.
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December 16, 2014
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.
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December 15, 2014
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.
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December 12, 2014
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.