Rankings: Rising Stars

Law360’s Rising Stars profiles the top legal talent under 40. The winners are comprised of top litigators and dealmakers practicing at a level usually seen from veteran attorneys. Submissions highlight the winner’s age and reasons why his or her record deserves attention.
  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ana M. González Pérez

    Ana M. González Pérez of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped steer Credit Suisse through its merger and integration with UBS and co-negotiated investment terms that pulled a struggling New York Community Bancorp back from the brink, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's R. Courtland Morrice

    New York-based R. Courtland Morrice of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP counsels companies, investment firms and other financial players on such subjects as liability management, private debt, structured finance and capital markets — including advising Neiman Marcus Group on its nearly $3 billion acquisition in 2024 by Hudson's Bay Co. — earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Wesley Sze

    Wesley Sze of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been representing a slew of major tech companies and helped them secure multimillion-dollar settlements, including a $310 million deal on behalf of Apple in multidistrict litigation claiming that software updates lowered older phones' battery life, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Emma Ross

    Emma Ross of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP has taken key roles in trials for Bayer over the pesticide Roundup and for Merck defending the safety of the Gardasil vaccine, earning her a spot among the trials attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's Javier Ortiz

    Javier Ortiz of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP advised financing banks on an unusual and complex cross-border asset-based loan for Apollo Global Management's $6 billion acquisition of auto parts-maker Tenneco Inc., earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Katie Wellington

    Hogan Lovells' Katie Wellington was one of the chief architects of an argument that resulted in a win for a voting rights group in a dispute over the so-called independent state legislature theory before the U.S. Supreme Court, preventing state legislatures from changing election rules and maps without being subject to judicial review, earning her a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Margaret Nettesheim

    Margaret Nettesheim of King & Spalding LLP is overseeing the development of the third-party risk management process at an international infrastructure company in the Middle East as it builds a megaproject, earning her a spot among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Troutman's Elizabeth Phillips Corey

    Elizabeth Phillips Corey's scientific aptitude, legal chops and client relations have made her an asset at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, where she's helped save an oil field that was in danger of being shut down and worked with a company hoping to usher in new nanotechnology, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Ruchi Gill

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Ruchi Gill was key in guiding a court-ordered national security agreement in a major transaction for her client, earning her a spot among international trade lawyers named as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Skadden's Katie Clarke

    For advising major acquisitions, including sovereign wealth funds, before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and, more recently, guiding a major mobile games company in its acquisition of the makers of Pokémon Go, Katie Clarke of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP earned a spot among international trade practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Jason Zarrow

    Jason Zarrow of O'Melveny & Myers LLP was instrumental in two U.S. Supreme Court victories reining in the government's prosecution of identity theft and public corruption, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Beveridge & Diamond's Andrew Silton

    Andrew Silton of Beveridge & Diamond PC led a landmark Clean Water Act victory before the U.S. Supreme Court that reshaped how environmental permits are written nationwide, and he's helping cities, developers and tech firms navigate the next wave of environmental law enforcement — earning him a spot among the environmental law attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Cleary's Samuel Levander

    Samuel Levander of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP played key defense roles in two closely watched securities enforcement suits among the first to address how securities laws may apply to digital assets, earning him a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Sara Clark

    Sara Clark of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was a key member of the team that secured a midtrial dismissal of a manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in connection with a fatal shooting during the filming of the movie "Rust," earning her a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Katie Roddy

    Katie Roddy of Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Hudson Pacific Properties on its $700 million sale of a shuttered Los Angeles mall to UCLA after the pandemic complicated Hudson's office redevelopment plans, earning her a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Covington's David Lefebvre

    Covington & Burling LLP's David Lefebvre's practice sits at the center of the changing landscape of media and entertainment programming and includes participating in forming the recent multibillion-dollar Disney joint venture with Reliance Industries in India, earning him a spot among the practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Thomas Prommer

    Thomas Prommer of Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as lead counsel on a $7.5 billion private credit facility co-led by Blackstone and Magnetar Capital that provided cloud computing company CoreWeave with critical capital for expanding operations, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Christopher K.L. Young

    Christopher K.L. Young of Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP helped secure a $375 million settlement for mixed martial arts fighters in a class action against the UFC after nearly a decade of litigation, earning him a spot among the class action attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Moore & Van Allen's Kate Wellman

    Kate Wellman of Moore & Van Allen helped a systemically important bank transition loan portfolios tied to U.S. dollar Libor and the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index, earning her a spot among compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Benesch's Meegan Brooks

    Meegan Brooks of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has helped her retail clients fend off millions of dollars in potential liability by convincing judges to toss cases claiming Ulta and Peet's Coffee pushed illegal nondisparagement agreements and by shutting down claims that Aeropostale hosted deceptive sales, earning her a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Clare Nida

    Clare Nida of Latham & Watkins LLP represented a client who faced scrutiny during a long-running multinational fraud investigation, ultimately helping the client to avoid prosecution and earning a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Sidley's Evie Whiting

    Evie Whiting of Sidley Austin LLP helped in the creation of a joint venture involving Warner Bros. Discovery, which marked a historic TV and film music rights deal covering almost a century's worth of music copyrights, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Kelley Drye's Joshua Morey

    Joshua Morey of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has racked up several trade wins for the U.S. domestic industry, including duty orders on aluminum sheets imported from 16 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Avi Kupfer

    Avi Kupfer of Mayer Brown LLP has used his unique governmental experience as a litigator and administrator to, as a private practitioner, help clients such as the U.S. Postal Service navigate the intricacies of administrative law, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Manatt's Mike Katz

    Mike Katz of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP co-led the team that represented blockchain infrastructure firm Orangefin Ventures LLC in a deal to sell three of its high-speed crypto validator systems and related assets to Sol Strategies, a Canadian company that invests in fast, low-cost decentralized networks, earning him a spot among fintech practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.