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November 18, 2025
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.
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November 17, 2025
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.
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November 14, 2025
Jason C. Schwartz, co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice, convinced Maryland's Supreme Court to create new case law in favor of his client Amazon clarifying the state's wage and hour statutes, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 13, 2025
Jennifer A. Riley of Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defeat conditional certification in a nationwide collective action, defended an industrial staffing company from California state law claims and helped several companies negotiate favorable settlements of wage and hour claims, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2025
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC partner Christine E. Webber helped secure more than $65 million in settlements with major institutions over allegations of gender discrimination, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 10, 2025
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 15, 2024
This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Jason C. Schwartz, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, secured rulings from the bench in a case about his client Fearless Foundation's awarding of grants to Black female entrepreneurs and in another dispute representing DraftKings as the company sought to stop a former executive from soliciting customers ahead of the Super Bowl, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has helped his clients fend off potentially catastrophic exposures, including a suit alleging Geico misclassified thousands of insurance agents, by utilizing defense strategies to gut the claims before courts were able to assess the merits of the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 06, 2024
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.
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October 18, 2024
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 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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October 13, 2023
Philip A. Miscimarra, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, played a key role in helping the United States Football League negotiate its first collective bargaining agreement covering about 350 professional athletes, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 12, 2023
Cara E. Greene of Outten & Golden LLP was a lead attorney on the team that landed the largest pre-trial sex bias settlement of all time: a $215 million deal with Goldman Sachs, secured on behalf of hundreds of female executives, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 11, 2023
Kelly Dermody and Anne Shaver of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's employment practice served as co-lead counsel in a years-long gender discrimination class action against Goldman Sachs that ended in a record $215 million settlement and helped secure a $118 million settlement for thousands of female Google employees in another class action, earning them a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
Theane Evangelis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's employment practice defended large companies operating in the gig economy and argued the first and only successful constitutional challenge to California's assembly bill governing employee classification, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has taken on mammoth employment law class action cases and successfully whittled down the suits that posed existential threats to the businesses he represents, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 01, 2023
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2023 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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September 12, 2022
David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm APC led a team that won a record $440 million in punitive damages for two workers who brought a retaliation suit against a California utility, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
Over the past year, Liza Velazquez of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP successfully defended several big clients, including the New York State Unified Court System, from an onslaught of legal challenges to their COVID-19 vaccine policies, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 08, 2022
Michael D. Weil of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's employment law group became a go-to litigator for the novel practice of defending employers' COVID-19 vaccine mandates against employee challenges, including for pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 07, 2022
Amanda Sommerfeld, a partner at Jones Day's labor and employment practice, helped corporate giants McDonald's Corp. and SkyWest Airlines Inc. avoid big payouts to employees accusing them of workplace violations, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 06, 2022
Jason C. Schwartz of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice fended off the New York attorney general's condemnation of Amazon's COVID-19 safety standards and pivoted at the last minute to an in-person overtime exemption trial in a separate case, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 02, 2022
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.