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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 01, 2024

    MVP: Cooley's Travis LeBlanc

    Cooley LLP partner Travis LeBlanc secured the dismissal of groundbreaking litigation accusing Google of unlawfully eavesdropping on Verizon users' calls through a customer service product powered by generative artificial intelligence, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner

    Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP led the team that recently succeeded in gutting a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case against software developer SolarWinds Corp., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.

  • October 30, 2024

    MVP: Winston & Strawn's Sean G. Wieber

    Winston & Strawn LLP's Sean Wieber successfully defended OnlyFans in a suit accusing the popular content subscription site of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, earning him earn a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.

  • October 29, 2024

    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

    John Yanchunis, head of the class action group at plaintiffs' injury firm Morgan & Morgan, helped secure a deal whereby Google agreed to settle claims that the search giant misled Chrome users about the privacy features of the browser's "Incognito Mode," earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 28, 2024

    MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton

    Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped the developer of a popular "magic avatar" app shake sprawling class claims that its AI-generated portraits unlawfully harvest Illinois residents' biometric data, earning her a place among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 18, 2024

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms

    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.

  • October 13, 2023

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Stephen Broome

    Stephen Broome, co-chairman of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's data privacy and security practice, was lead counsel in defense of Google in its nationwide data privacy class action surrounding Chrome user data collection, and his team's favorable resolution of that case earns him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 12, 2023

    MVP: Morgan Lewis' Beth Herrington

    Beth Herrington of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP steered major changes in the interpretation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, landing her a spot among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.

  • October 11, 2023

    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

    John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA's cybersecurity practice has taken on some major companies, including Capital One and Google, to establish stronger data storage standards and help protect consumers from data breaches and identity theft, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity MVPs.

  • October 10, 2023

    MVP: Latham's Michael Rubin

    Michael Rubin of Latham & Watkins LLP's privacy and cybersecurity practice has worked on many notable cases throughout the year, such as guiding Apple through a dismissal of a punitive class action after the iPhone maker installed security updates that slowed down the processing speed of its devices, and obtaining a dismissal with prejudice from the bench in a class action over tracking software installed by car data services platform Otonomo Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Jones Day's John Vogt

    Jones Day partner John Vogt has helped Experian Data Corp. escape the San Diego city attorney's multimillion-dollar enforcement action over a data breach and obtained a novel ruling axing claims that engineering company HDR Inc. unlawfully monitored and collected communications from purportedly private Facebook groups, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 01, 2023

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 171 Attys At 76 Firms

    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.

  • September 15, 2022

    MVP: Squire Patton's Kristin Bryan

    Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs LLP helped get the dismissal of privacy-related claims against insurance software developer Vertafore Inc. through her successful contention that the private right of action in a federal privacy law doesn't extend to civil claims concerning data storage or security, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 14, 2022

    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's Jean Martin

    Jean Martin of Morgan & Morgan boasts a deep roster of data breach class actions, including a case in which Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million to resolve claims it did not scrub its servers of personal data before selling them to third parties, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.

  • September 13, 2022

    MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner

    Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP secured a groundbreaking decision in April dismissing a class action against the online game developer Zynga with a novel application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent that could extend to other data breach cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: DiCello Levitt's David A. Straite

    David Straite of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped reach a novel settlement with Facebook in which the tech company will pay $90 million and delete browsing history that users said was harvested illegally, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton

    Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped Flo Health navigate the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which ramped up pressure on period and fertility tracking apps to protect health and location data from law enforcement access, earning her a place among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.  

  • September 02, 2022

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 188 Attys From 78 Firms

    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.

  • September 16, 2021

    MVP: Cooley's Michael Rhodes

    Cooley LLP's Michael Rhodes steered Facebook through final approval of a $650 million settlement resolving claims that its face-scanning feature breached Illinois' biometric privacy law, and continues to be a go-to lawyer for other tech giants facing novel privacy allegations, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 15, 2021

    MVP: Hausfeld's James Pizzirusso

    James Pizzirusso of Hausfeld LLP's cybersecurity and privacy practice secured groundbreaking decisions in a Marriott data breach lawsuit involving the theft of 25 million passport numbers, and also drove Equifax to change its business security practices as part of a $1.5 billion settlement with consumers, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 14, 2021

    MVP: BakerHostetler's David A. Carney

    BakerHostetler partner David A. Carney has helped Excellus BlueCross BlueShield stave off a proposed class of customers seeking to recover damages over a data breach and Assured Imaging LLC escape claims over a ransomware attack, earning him a place among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 13, 2021

    MVP: Hunton's Ann Marie Mortimer

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP's Ann Marie Mortimer helped Walmart beat a lawsuit claiming that it breached the California Consumer Privacy Act by having lax security practices and worked with Facebook to police fake engagement on its platforms, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • September 10, 2021

    MVP: Covington's Alexander A. Berengaut

    Alex Berengaut led a Covington & Burling LLP team that scored a high-profile win for TikTok Inc. and its parent company when former President Donald Trump's attempt to ban the popular video-sharing network was blocked in federal court, earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • August 30, 2021

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 182 Attys From 77 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • October 23, 2020

    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

    John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan's complex litigation group served as lead counsel to secure a major $117.5 million settlement for more than 194 million American and Israeli victims of a sprawling Yahoo data breach, snagging him a spot among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.