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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 07, 2024

    MVP: Keller Rohrback's Ryan McDevitt

    Keller Rohrback LLP's Ryan McDevitt secured a $150 million settlement for drivers suing General Motors over allegedly faulty batteries in Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles that could catch fire, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law36 Transportation MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Irell's Jason Sheasby And Lisa Glasser

    Lisa Glasser and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP's trials practice won three cases in court over just five weeks this spring, resulting in more than half a billion in damages and earning them spots on the list of 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • 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.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Cadwalader's Holly Chamberlain

    Holly Chamberlain led teams from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in advising major lenders on several significant deals this year, including the origination of three mortgage loans worth a combined $3.1 billion as part of Blackstone's $10 billion take-private transaction of multifamily owner AIR Communities, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Skadden's Boris Bershteyn

    Boris Bershteyn of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP scored a pair of wins for casino hotel clients accused of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme through algorithmic software, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: McGuireWoods' Joanne Katsantonis

    Joanne Katsantonis of McGuireWoods advised Dominion Energy Inc. in negotiating the $14 billion sale of three gas companies to natural gas giant Enbridge, as well as its sale of a 50% noncontrolling interest in the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project for more than $5.6 billion, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Keith McKenna

    Keith McKenna of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna won Walmart Inc. defense coverage for underlying opioid lawsuits and helped New York State policyholders enshrine their rights to payback for frivolous insurer suits — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo

    Rahim Moloo of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's international arbitration practice preserved a San Diego salvage company's $9 billion claim to sunken treasure and secured a $250 million award for an oil refinery investor against Morocco, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 06, 2024

    MVP: Winston & Strawn's Jeffrey Kessler

    Jeffrey Kessler, co-executive chair at Winston & Strawn LLP, was co-lead counsel for the class of former college athletes that reached a $2.78 billion antitrust settlement that will distribute past name, image and likeness compensation and create an unprecedented revenue-sharing system in college sports, and led a court challenge to international soccer's ban on competition outside the teams' home nations, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Norton Rose's Jeffrey Webb

    Jeffrey Webb of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP helped a Marathon Petroleum Corp. unit fend off trespassing claims against its pipeline in western North Dakota and challenge federal government decisions related to it, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Covington's Gretchen Hoff Varner

    Gretchen Hoff Varner of Covington & Burling LLP secured a $70 million judgment in favor of Brooklyn Union Gas Co., now owned by National Grid, establishing coverage for decades of environmental contamination along New York's Gowanus Canal, earning her a spot as a 2024 Law360 Insurance MVP.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Mayer Brown's John Nadolenco

    John Nadolenco of Mayer Brown LLP helped General Motors Co. beat a defective airbag proposed class action and make a graceful exit from another class action over battery fires in Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Christopher Yates

    Chris Yates of Latham & Watkins LLP's antitrust and competition practice has guided prominent clients such as the U.S. Soccer Federation, Atlantic Coast Conference and UFC through some of the most closely watched antitrust litigation in the sports world, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Weil's David Lender

    David Lender of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP won a trade secrets arbitration for GoodRx and a contract jury trial for ExxonMobil against BP over an oil spill in north Brooklyn — where he grew up — after just two hours of jury deliberations and having the opportunity to cross-examine former federal judge Shira Scheindlin, an expert witness in the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Freshfields' Caroline Richard

    Caroline Richard served as lead partner when Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP recently achieved two back-to-back international arbitration wins for mining companies against Colombia in precedent-setting investor-state disputes — earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway

    Audra Soloway, co-chair of Paul Weiss' securities litigation and enforcement group, secured a favorable result for Goldman Sachs in a 13-year class action, obtained a dismissal in an investor suit against Snapchat and secured the first substantive ruling applying a 2021 Supreme Court ruling in the Second Circuit, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Proskauer's Bart Williams

    Proskauer Rose LLP partner Bart Williams led Gilead Sciences Inc. to a victory over a $3.6 billion antitrust lawsuit, and helped Netflix resolve claims that Ava DuVernay's show about the Central Park Five defamed the prosecutor of the later-exonerated men, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Amy Lally

    Amy Lally, global co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's consumer class actions practice, is a creative litigator who has had unique success in getting internet privacy cases dismissed early in California courts for clients like The Container Store and biotechnology giant Amgen Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Holland & Knight's Gerald Morrissey

    Holland & Knight LLP's Gerald A. Morrissey III advised marine transportation services provider Centerline Logistics in its acquisition of JMB Shipping and a $425 million debt refinancing, and successfully defended rail giant CSX Transportation in a dispute over detention and demurrage charges, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Chuck Baker

    Chuck Baker, co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP's entertainment, sports and media group, has handled some of the biggest deals in the sporting world, including the $6.5 billion purchase of the Washington Commanders and sale of the Angel City women's soccer club, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Amy Roma

    Amy Roma of Hogan Lovells has continued to work at the cutting edge of nuclear energy development over the past year, including on the licensing of advanced reactors, small-scale reactors and microreactors, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs — her second year in a row to make the list.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's Álvaro Nistal

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's Álvaro Nistal played a key role in helping Peru dodge a more than $154 million arbitration claim filed by a Miami-based gold trader over the alleged wrongful seizure of its gold shipments, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Andrew T. Frankel

    Andrew Frankel, the head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's insurance and reinsurance practice, has represented insurers in complex coverage disputes over mass tort litigation, including a PFAS case, talc injury claims against Johnson & Johnson and thorny receivership issues in South Carolina asbestos litigation, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Andy Dietderich

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Andy Dietderich led the legal team that represented FTX Trading Ltd. in its $16 billion Chapter 11 reorganization — from its precipitous bankruptcy filing to the recent successful confirmation hearing — and shepherded fire-suppression company Kidde-Fenwal Inc. through the first bankruptcy stemming from mass tort claims related to PFAS chemicals, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Staci Yablon

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Staci Yablon provided ace counsel to Goldman Sachs that helped it beat back class certification in a sprawling interest-rate swaps antitrust case, deal a major blow to a New Mexico case involving credit default swaps and clinch a win against U.S. government bond-rigging claims, landing her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.