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 11, 2012

    Insurance MVP: O'Melveny's Tancred Schiavoni

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Tancred Schiavoni persuaded the Ninth Circuit to allow insurers to challenge bankruptcy plans made without their input that subject them to huge potential losses, one of several accomplishments that earned him a spot as one of Law360's Insurance MVPs.

  • December 10, 2012

    Insurance MVP: Latham & Watkins' Brook Roberts

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Brook Roberts walloped an attempt by insurers to drastically restrict coverage for Fluor Corp.'s long-tail asbestos claims in a case of first impression that fellow California policyholder attorneys are already citing, landing him a spot among Law360's 2012 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Insurance MVP: Anderson Kill's Robert Horkovich

    Anderson Kill & Olick PC's Robert M. Horkovich helped policyholders secure significant insurance victories in a landmark California Supreme Court decision regarding the Stringfellow Acid Pits Superfund cleanup project and in a former Coca-Cola Co. unit's asbestos coverage fight, making him one of this year's Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • November 30, 2012

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Top Guns From 52 Firms

    Over the next several weeks, Law360 will profile the winners of this year's MVP awards honoring attorneys whose achievements in major litigation or transactions have set a new standard for accomplishment in corporate law.

  • December 12, 2011

    Insurance MVP: Covington's William Skinner

    William Skinner of Covington & Burling LLP helped Chiquita Brands International Inc. secure a ruling that its insurer must cover the cost of defending suits alleging that the company is liable for thousands of killings by Colombian extremists, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Insurance MVPs.

  • December 09, 2011

    Insurance MVP: Dickstein Shapiro's James Murray

    James R. Murray, deputy leader of Dickstein Shapiro LLP's insurance coverage group, helped secure the largest ever single-insurer payment in a clergy sex abuse case this year, earning him a spot among Law360's Insurance MVPs.

  • December 08, 2011

    Insurance MVP: Covington's David Goodwin

    While working to obtain insurance coverage for the costs that BP PLC incurred from the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that United HealthCare Corp. spent to resolve a $350 million consumer class action, David Goodwin of Covington & Burling LLP was also helping Atlantic Richfield Co. finalize a multimillion-dollar recovery stemming from a more than decade-old accident, earning him a place among Law360's Insurance MVPs.

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