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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 21, 2025

    MVP: McGuireWoods' Lucy Wheatley

    McGuireWoods LLP partner Lucy Jewett Wheatley helped propel Pennsylvania State University to a victory in a closely watched trademark dispute involving the sale of unlicensed merchandise and obtained an injunction stopping the sale of "Wavy Baby" sneakers that imitated Vans' designs, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Waymaker's Brian Klein

    Brian Klein of Waymaker LLP won key victories defending clients in novel white collar crypto matters, overturning a conviction of an unusual trading scheme and deadlocking a jury in the highly publicized prosecution over the Tornado Cash mixing service, to earn him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Mike Morin

    Mike Morin of Latham & Watkins LLP guided Sarepta Therapeutics to winning a $115 million judgment in a patent dispute with Nippon Shinyaku Co. Ltd., and led an Abbott Laboratories unit to a victory in a patent suit against Dexcom Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Chau Le

    Chau Le of Ropes & Gray LLP's private equity practice has worked on a range of lucrative deals and investments, often for long-standing clients, that has included simultaneously advising on a $10 billion debt exchange merger and a $7.6 billion acquisition that stemmed from an alternative asset management firm's previous purchase of a 30% stake in DirecTV, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Morgan Lewis' Melissa Hill

    Melissa Hill of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped Elon Musk defeat a proposed class action over severance benefits related to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and prevented class certification in a lawsuit accusing U.S. Bank of miscalculating workers' early retirement benefits, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Seyfarth's Adam Lasky

    Adam Lasky, co-chair of Seyfarth Shaw LLP's government contracts practice, led bid protests involving more than $130 billion in federal contracts in the past year alone, including three separate high-stakes protests that risked getting nixed in one fell swoop, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVPs: Kirkland's Adam Alper And Michael De Vries

    Adam Alper and Michael De Vries of Kirkland & Ellis LLP won a $25 million verdict in patent litigation over a promising fecal transplant technology and are representing Motorola in a blockbuster intellectual property case, earning them a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Rachel S.K. Bates

    Rachel Bates of Latham & Watkins LLP was the lead real estate counsel guiding Hyatt Hotels Corp. through multiple multibillion-dollar transactions and also worked on one of the year's biggest deals as Bridge Investment Group sold to Apollo Global Management for $1.5 billion, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Pillsbury's David Dixon

    David Dixon of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP helped companies mount successful protests that secured coveted awards for major, multiple-award U.S. government contracts for information technology support services, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mike Ringler

    Sullivan & Cromwell's technology group co-head Mike Ringler guided social media giant X to several financial agreements, including merging with xAI in a $113 billion transaction, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Milbank's Joshua Sterling

    Josh Sterling of Milbank LLP helped secure the reversal of a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission order barring political event contracts on a derivatives exchange and has represented exchange platform Kalshi in disputes with state regulators in New Jersey and Nevada, earning himself a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Proskauer's Michael Suppappola

    Michael Suppappola steered the Proskauer Rose LLP team that represented the lead investor in Silver Lake's $13 billion purchase of Endeavor Group Holdings, in what the firm calls the largest private equity sponsor take-private deal in 10 years and the biggest ever in the media and entertainment sector, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Mayer Brown's Brantley Webb

    Brantley Webb, co-chair of Mayer Brown LLP's Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation group, helped Nordstrom defeat a proposed class action claiming the company cost workers over $36 million in retirement savings by allowing excessive account fees and misusing forfeited funds, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Jones Day's Daniel McMillan

    Jones Day global construction group leader Daniel McMillan guided Kiewit to victory in a massive dispute over the construction of an LNG facility and negotiated a novel settlement for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Construction MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Latham's David Della Rocca

    David Della Rocca of Latham & Watkins LLP served as lead benefits counsel on high-profile mergers and acquisitions over the past year, including Cox Communications' $34.5 billion merger with Charter Communications and Permira's $7.2 billion acquisition of Squarespace, earning him a spot as one of 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Davis Polk's Daniel P. Gibbons

    Daniel P. Gibbons of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's fintech practice helped spearhead Circle Internet Group Inc.'s upsized $1.2 billion initial public offering, which was the first IPO of a stablecoin issuer, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey Scott

    Jeffrey Scott of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP chaired the trial team that won the first-ever litigated insider trading case in Delaware Chancery Court history, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Angelo Bonvino

    Angelo Bonvino of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP worked on a string of multibillion-dollar deals this year, including guiding PCI Pharma and its lead investor Kohlberg & Co. through a $10 billion investment, on top of guiding growth in Paul Weiss' historically small London office, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 private equity MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Morgan Lewis' Asa 'Geordie' Herald

    Asa "Geordie" Herald, partner in the structured transactions group at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, has helped lead a series of cutting-edge deals to securitize Small Business Administration loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars, among other accomplishments that helped earn him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Brian Rosenthal

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Brian Rosenthal was lead counsel during three trial victories for Cisco Systems Inc., including a rare directed verdict in the patent-friendly Western District of Texas with $121 million at stake, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Wigdor's David E. Gottlieb

    David E. Gottlieb of Wigdor LLP tested the reach of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, securing a significant win in a discrimination case that reached the Second Circuit and earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Covington's Emily Henn

    Emily Henn of Covington & Burling LLP spent the past year helping clients like Papa John's, Bloomingdale's and Delta Air Lines notch wins in privacy lawsuits against them over personal data, including at the Third, Eighth and Ninth circuits, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • November 18, 2025

    MVP: Nichols Law's Carla Weiss

    Carla Weiss, who leads Nichols Law LLP's bid protest practice, delivered back-to-back protest wins including the U.S. Government Accountability Office's sustain of Anika Systems' challenge to a $68.8 million data strategy task order, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Paul Hastings' Cameron W. Fox

    Cameron W. Fox, chair of Paul Hastings LLP's traditional labor practice group and partner in its employment law department, persevered through a trial during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles and secured a win for Levi Strauss & Co. in a discrimination case where the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than 20 minutes, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Goodwin's Jamie Fleckner

    This past year, Goodwin Procter LLP partner Jamie Fleckner led the way to several hard-fought wins for big-name clients in class actions brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.