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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.
  • March 20, 2013

    Rising Star: Sidley Austin's Christopher Lyons

    Sidley Austin LLP's Christopher Lyons never planned on a career representing energy firms, but his intense study of pipelines and electricity grids vaulted Lyons to the upper ranks of the field and earned him a spot among Law360's top five energy attorneys under the age of 40.

  • March 19, 2013

    Rising Star: Hunton & Williams' Ryan Ketchum

    Hunton & Williams LLP partner Ryan Ketchum works on some of the biggest energy projects in emerging markets in Africa and Eastern Europe, such as the $1 billion Bujagali hydroelectric project in Uganda, earning him a place among five young energy lawyers honored by Law360.

  • March 19, 2013

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Brian Resnick

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Brian Resnick was instrumental in sealing a multibillion-dollar settlement between Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its European affiliates, and has proven equally adept at counseling big banks on the lender side and representing debtors fighting for their very survival, earning this Juilliard-trained musician turned restructuring pro a spot among five young bankruptcy lawyers honored by Law360.

  • March 19, 2013

    Rising Star: White & Case's Seth Kerschner

    White & Case LLP's Seth Kerschner helped smooth out environmental requirements to finance a $4.5 billion petrochemical project in Mexico — the biggest private sector deal to close in Latin America in 2012 — while also juggling global climate change work and pollution lawsuits for both defendants and plaintiffs, making the 31-year-old one of Law360's five young environmental attorneys to watch.

  • March 19, 2013

    Rising Star: Cooley's Colleen Gillis Snow

    Cooley LLP partner Colleen Gillis Snow has worked on a broad range of projects in northern Virginia, including the $5 billion westward extension of Washington's Metrorail, and her growing reputation for deftly representing corporate clients before a patchwork of local interests has earned her a spot among Law360's top six real estate attorneys under the age of 40.

  • March 19, 2013

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Theane Evangelis Kapur

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Theane Evangelis Kapur has some impressive appellate briefing chops, serving as one of the firm’s principal drafters in the landmark Wal-Mart v. Dukes litigation and the constitutional challenge against California’s Proposition 8, putting her on Law360’s Rising Star list of five young top attorneys in appellate law.

  • March 18, 2013

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Andrew Parlen

    Just four years out of law school, O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Andrew Parlen took on the challenge of representing subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp. in the largest Chapter 11 case of 2007, the first of many career highlights that earned him a spot on Law360's list of five outstanding bankruptcy law attorneys under 40.

  • March 18, 2013

    Rising Star: Katten Muchin's Karl Heisler

    From guiding Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. to the successful resolution of a massive pesticide investigation to securing an acquittal for a wastewater company facing a host of criminal charges, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner Karl Heisler has built a reputation for success and earned a spot among five young environmental attorneys recently honored by Law360.

  • March 18, 2013

    Rising Star: Fried Frank's Avi Feinberg

    Though he has been a partner for just six months, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's Avi D. Feinberg has developed a reputation as a skilled real estate finance attorney with a knack for completing the industry's most complex deals, earning him a spot among six young real estate attorneys recognized by Law360.

  • March 18, 2013

    Rising Star: Hausfeld's Brent Landau

    Hausfeld LLP partner Brent Landau has helped obtain hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of plaintiffs in massive antitrust litigation alleging airlines fixed cargo rates and was part of a team that won a $162.3 million judgment against Chinese vitamin C manufacturers accused of price-fixing, victories that helped earn the 36-year-old a place among the five up and coming competition attorneys recently recognized by Law360.

  • March 18, 2013

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Mark Fleming

    WilmerHale's Mark Fleming has successfully argued two cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and is gearing up for more blockbuster litigation as counsel for Medtronic Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent in two upcoming Federal Circuit appeals, earning himself a spot among five appellate attorneys recognized by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Kelley Drye's Wayne D'Angelo

    Less than a decade out of law school, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP attorney Wayne D'Angelo found himself in a leading role in industry's fight against key U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal regulations, landing him a place among five environmental attorneys recently honored by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Mark Lebovitch

    Mark Lebovitch has a fascination with fiduciary duty, a love of litigation and a slew of victories on behalf of shareholders, all of which have earned the Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner a place among Law360's list of top five attorneys in securities law under 40.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Eric Enson

    In successfully fending off an antitrust challenge to a California hospital's decisions concerning the treatment of spine injuries and defending a group that oversees Internet domains, Jones Day partner Eric Enson has earned himself a spot among five competition attorneys recognized by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Vinson & Elkins' John B. Connally IV

    When passions boil over during high-stakes dealmaking, Vinson & Elkins LLP has turned time and again to oil and gas partner John B. Connally IV, whose cool-under-fire mien has helped lock down one multibillion-dollar transaction after another, making him one of six young energy attorneys honored recently by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Lisa Laukitis

    Jones Day partner Lisa Laukitis doesn't just participate in bankruptcy and restructuring cases such as Hostess Brands Inc., she also often takes on a lead partner role — a pattern that lands her among the five young attorneys in bankruptcy law recently recognized by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Pryor Cashman's Joshua Bernstein

    Pryor Cashman LLP's Joshua Bernstein has secured multimillion-dollar judgments for developers fighting back against global hoteliers in some of the firm's most high-profile commercial real estate cases, making him one of the six real estate partners under the age of 40 recognized by Law360.

  • March 15, 2013

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's William Consovoy

    Wiley Rein LLP's William Consovoy has been an instrumental player in some of the nation's most closely watched litigation, from the Fisher v. Texas affirmative action saga to a voting rights act challenge in Alabama, landing him a spot among five young appellate attorneys recognized by Law360.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Skadden's Peter Morrison

    Peter Morrison, a fourth-year securities partner and first-chair trial attorney for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, literally wrote the book on Delaware mergers and acquisitions litigation in 2012 while still winning major victories for his clients, earning him a spot among Law360’s top five securities rising stars under 40.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Kaye Scholer's Angela Vicari

    Kaye Scholer LLP's Angela Vicari has played a key role in developing strategies that helped Endo Pharmaceutical Inc. and Pfizer Inc. escape claims over allegedly defective birth control pills and Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. settle a suit over the effectiveness of professional baseball helmets, earning the newly-elevated counsel a spot among Law360's five product liability rising stars under 40.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Weil Gotshal's Heath Tarbert

    Heath Tarbert's work on the financial reforms passed after the 2008 market collapse has led some of the world's largest financial institutions to turn to the Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner for help navigating the web of new regulations, earning him a spot among Law360's five rising stars for banking.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Neal Potischman

    For successfully helming several of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's most high-profile assignments recently, including defeating class certification in a group of cases over off-label marketing of a Pfizer Inc. seizure medication, Neal Potischman has earned a spot among Law360's five rising stars in class action law.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Janette Wipper

    Sanford Heisler LLP's Janette Wipper uncovered a flaw in a defense expert's statistical analysis in a gender bias class action against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. that gave the plaintiffs the upper hand and led to a $175 million settlement, just one of the accomplishments that landed her a place on Law360's list of five rising stars in the employment law arena.

  • March 14, 2013

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Marc Williams

    Though he's often among the youngest at the negotiating table, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Marc Williams knows how to overcome pressure to ink deals, making him one of the firm's go-to attorneys for high-stakes transactions and earning him a spot among Law360's five mergers and acquisitions rising stars.

  • March 13, 2013

    Rising Star: Latham's Brian Glennon

    In defending corporate giants like Oracle Corp. against disgruntled shareholders, or guiding "Big Four" accounting firms through high-stakes arbitration and litigation, Brian Glennon has prevailed at trial on claims totaling almost $2 billion and dispensed with multibillion-dollar class actions in short order, earning the Latham & Watkins LLP partner a spot among Law360's five rising stars under 40 in securities law.