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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.
  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Labaton Keller's Jake Bissell-Linsk

    Jake Bissell-Linsk of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has litigated on behalf of Boeing shareholders following safety failures involving 737 Max planes, resulting in several major victories, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Seyfarth's Leo Li

    Leo Li of Seyfarth Shaw LLP has championed clients facing wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act claims, including by securing a win on appeal for a Southern California Pizza Hut franchisee after a decade of litigation involving thousands of delivery drivers, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Brown Rudnick's Tristan Axelrod

    Tristan Axelrod of Brown Rudnick LLP steered bankrupt cryptocurrency platform BlockFi through an $874 million settlement with FTX and a Chapter 11 reorganization that paid creditors in full, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Salvatore Vanchieri

    Latham & Watkins LLP partner Salvatore Vanchieri has steered a gamut of groundbreaking deals, from electric-truck startup Rivian's blockbuster $11.9 billion initial public offering to private equity giant Sixth Street's investment in baseball's San Francisco Giants, landing him a spot among capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Catherine Mullaley

    Catherine "Kate" Mullaley of Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped Johnson & Johnson win personal injury trials over its baby powder and vaginal mesh products while at a prior firm, and she is trial counsel for Snap Inc. in a suit claiming its social media platform is defective, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Steptoe's Karen Bruni

    Karen Bruni of Steptoe LLP secured approvals from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to help complete multimillion-dollar energy transactions such as the sale of one company's shares in wind projects for nearly a total $1 billion, earning a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Wilkinson Stekloff's Cali Arat

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP partner Cali Arat helped secure Monsanto's first jury trial win that changed the tide in high-stakes litigation alleging that the company's Roundup herbicide caused cancer, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Covington's Alicia Zhang

    Covington & Burling LLP's Alicia Zhang has helped steer a slew of high-profile capital-raising efforts, including advising J.P. Morgan on Kyverna Therapeutics' $367 million initial public offering and guiding BioNTech's $200 million investment in Autolus Therapeutics, earning her a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Robins Kaplan's Jessica Gutierrez

    Robins Kaplan LLP's Jessica Gutierrez helped an artificial Christmas tree company win a $42 million patent infringement verdict and secured a $13 million judgment in a software company's copyright litigation against the U.S. government, earning her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Akin's Kate Shapiro

    Kaitlin D. Shapiro of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP successfully defended Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. from a suit demanding it return $11 million in short-swing profits, and helped another client beat a Delaware Chancery Court action over Genomic Health Inc.'s $2.8 billion sale to Exact Sciences Corp., earning her a spot among securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Harini Srinivasan

    Harini Srinivasan of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured a $45 million settlement on behalf of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who claimed pregnancy discrimination and also challenged AT&T's attendance point system, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Weil's David Cohen

    David J. Cohen of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has represented Steward Health Care in its sprawling Chapter 11 bankruptcy involving 31 hospitals across eight states, and he was selected to lead the firm's growing Miami office, earning him a spot among bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Alex Herman

    Paul Hastings LLP partner Alex Herman has guided novel financing deals around the world, including complex arrangements that benefit Latin American and Caribbean clients, plus cross-border initial public offerings, such as U.S. pork giant Smithfield Foods Inc.'s $522 million listing, earning her a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Benjamin Beller

    Benjamin Beller of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX through its Chapter 11 case and its disputes with other crypto debtors that culminated in a $14 billion-plus reorganization plan, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Andrew Blumberg

    Andrew Blumberg of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has won a near record-breaking victory for former investors in a Santander subsidiary and a rare nod of approval from Delaware's highest court, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Con Edison's Ben Falber

    Ben Falber has helped craft clean energy transition policies for both New York and some of the Empire State's largest utilities, including energy storage and advanced technology programs for the state and long-term gas system plans for utility company National Grid, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Allyson Miller Julien

    Allyson Miller Julien of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP helped Merck win a major victory in multidistrict litigation over its Gardasil HPV vaccine, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Reichman Jorgensen's Adam Adler

    Adam Adler of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP liberated Marvel Characters' "Super Hero" trademark and took on Amazon Web Services to protect a startup's cloud data storage patents, earning him a spot among the intellectual property law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Shegerian & Associates' John David

    John David of Shegerian & Associates helped a former bank branch manager secure a $14 million jury verdict in her sex discrimination lawsuit and led a consultant to victory in his disability bias case, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 25, 2025

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael Q. Cannon

    Michael Q. Cannon of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been the lead attorney on several high-profile cases, including playing a key role in advising on the tax aspects of the world's largest merger and acquisition deal in 2023, earning him a spot among the tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 25, 2025

    Rising Star: Cohen & Gresser's Vincent Desry

    Vincent Desry of Cohen & Gresser LLP had such a strong courtroom presence at a relatively young age that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy hired Desry to be his attorney for the appeal of a criminal conviction on illegal campaign funding charges, one of several high-profile achievements earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 25, 2025

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Michael Gilson

    Michael Gilson of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advised Altair Engineering Inc. through its $10 billion acquisition by Siemens, guided AssetMark Inc. through its $2.7 billion acquisition by private equity firm GTCR and also helped steer Elliott Management through its €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) sale of the soccer team AC Milan to RedBird Capital Partners, earning him a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 25, 2025

    Rising Star: BakerHostetler's Sarah Ballard

    Sarah Ballard of BakerHostetler has helped an Arizona medical center shake negligence claims brought in the wake of a ransomware attack and has been on the front lines of the recent explosion of online tracking litigation, earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2025

    Rising Star: McDermott's Michael Bruno

    Michael Bruno of McDermott Will & Emery LLP was tapped as lead tax counsel by two legendary athletes — Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry — for the rollouts of their respective beverage brands, earning him recognition as one of the tax attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2025

    Rising Star: Selendy Gay's Temidayo Aganga-Williams

    Temidayo Aganga-Williams served as senior investigative counsel to the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he was responsible for investigating the facts and causes of the riot and shaping what would become the historical record of it, earning him a spot among the white collar attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.