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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.
  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's TaCara Harris

    King & Spalding LLP's TaCara Harris' work investigating allegations of sexual assault by coaches in the National Women's Soccer League, as well as her work on the litigation over claims that Zantac causes cancer, is why she won a spot on the 2024 list of product liability Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Russell Hedman

    Russell Hedman of Hogan Lovells co-led the legal team that advised the ownership group that purchased the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion, earning him a spot among the sports and betting practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Lindsay Paulin

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Lindsay Paulin's work in high-profile and novel cases, such as a dispute that helped convince the Pentagon to abandon a controversial $10 billion cloud contract, has earned her a position among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Latham's Dustin Paige

    Latham & Watkins LLP counsel Dustin Paige's work on large, complex deals, including a $7 billion joint venture between Digital Realty Trust and Blackstone Inc. to develop four hyperscale data center campuses and Flynn Properties' $1.1 billion acquisition of an 89-hotel portfolio and its subsequent refinancing, has earned him a spot among the real estate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Norton Rose's Utsav Mathur

    Norton Rose Fulbright's Utsav Mathur represented energy companies in their challenge of the financing structure for a billion-dollar infrastructure project that ultimately made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, earning him a spot as one of the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Dechert's Matthew Fischer

    Dechert LLP's Matthew Fischer has opened up the agricultural market to lenders, guided small banks through major securitizations and navigated an ever-changing regulatory landscape on behalf of his clients as they juggle valuable assets, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Latham's Joe Bargnesi

    Joe Bargnesi of Latham & Watkins LLP advises dozens of private equity firms and represented Honeywell as it fought back on a bribery probe the U.S. Department of Justice launched against it, earning him a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Perkins Coie's Mica Klein

    Mica Klein of Perkins Coie LLP has advised Microsoft on a series of data center and electrical substation construction projects across North, Central and South America and represents the Seattle Mariners in a major stadium renovation, earning her a spot among the construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Skadden's Laura Salvati

    Complex financial instrument law may not be fine art, but if you ask Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Laura Salvati, creativity is important, and her artistic nature has helped her build novel financing structures for her clients' billion-dollar deals. That creativity, in part, has made her one of the attorneys under age 40 practicing complex financial instrument law selected by Law360 as a Rising Star.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Matthew Clark

    Hogan Lovells' Matthew Clark is helping to chart new regulatory pathways for commercially deploying unmanned aircraft systems in the U.S., earning him a spot among transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Christodoulos Kaoutzanis

    Christodoulos Kaoutzanis of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has led multibillion-dollar offerings, including Savers Value Village's $461.4 million and Rocket Cos.' $2 billion initial public offerings, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Matthew Schwartz

    Matthew Schwartz has been counsel to the disruptive upstart golf circuit LIV Golf Investments since its inception in 2022 and, as a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner, guided the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys in a set of acquisitions involving a premium experiences company, earning him a spot among the sports and betting attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Juliet Gunev

    Juliet Gunev of Mayer Brown LLP has spent her career helping global corporations build out their compliance programs, developing a specialty in corporate investigations and anticorruption law in the process and earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Lieff Cabraser's Andrew Kaufman

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's Andrew Kaufman has helped lead cases in multidistrict litigation against Juul Labs Inc. over its marketing of vapes and Uber Technologies Inc. over allegations of sexual assault of passengers, earning him a spot among product liability attorneys under age 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2024

    Rising Star: Morrison Foerster's Caitlin Crujido

    Morrison Foerster LLP's Caitlin Crujido's work on prominent contractor acquisition deals and a successful challenge to a $45 billion U.S. Department of Energy contract has earned her a spot among the government contracts attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Alana F. Genderson

    Alana Genderson of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has played a key role in helping companies navigate a maze of safety and health requirements, including developing COVID-19 policies for some of the world's largest employers, earning her a spot among the compliance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Barnes & Thornburg's Erin Pauley

    Erin Pauley of Barnes & Thornburg LLP has represented clients such as pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and national food and drug retailers against personal injury and product liability cases throughout the country, earning her a spot among the product liability practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Caroline Dotolo

    WilmerHale partner Caroline Dotolo has guided life science research firms and others through major capital offerings, including as lead partner for a $350 million private investment in public equity offering for pharmaceutical developer Arvinas in 2023, earning her a top spot as one of the capital markets attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Kathryn Bonacorsi

    Kathryn "Kate" Bonacorsi of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has led the legal team that earned two significant victories in the Washington Nationals' dispute with the Baltimore Orioles over Major League Baseball broadcast rights payments, and counseled sports collectibles giant Fanatics in two important cases against rival Panini, earning her a spot among the sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Weil's Brian Parness

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Brian Parness has earned the trust of private equity firms that required advice on huge transactions — as shown by TPG Inc.'s acquisition of Angelo Gordon, as well as TPG's own initial public offering — landing him a spot among private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Blank Rome's Robyn N. Burrows

    Blank Rome LLP's Robyn Burrows helped undo a U.S. Government Accountability Office ruling on a personnel dispute that cost KPMG a contract and convinced the U.S. Department of Energy to allow millions of dollars of costs for a Hanford Site contractor, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Faegre Drinker's Michelle Francois

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's Michelle Francois helped an environmental remediation services company successfully protest an $80 million contract and persuaded the U.S. Small Business Administration to offer a company relief from a loan repayment plan that would have decimated its operations, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Nicole Lueddeke

    Nicole Lueddeke of Paul Hastings LLP represented a multibillion-dollar Japanese medical device company in a U.S. Department of Justice investigation involving alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in one of the firm's largest white collar defense cases, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Seeger Weiss' Caleb Seeley

    Caleb Seeley of Seeger Weiss LLP has advocated for plaintiffs facing the often life-altering effects of lapses in products used by millions of consumers, including in what is thought to be the largest mass tort in American history, earning him a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Covington's Nikhil Gore

    Nikhil Gore of Covington & Burling LLP has fought for Ukraine, its military and its businesses throughout Russia's war and shut down a startup's purportedly insincere "David and Goliath" suit against an international air carrier in Singapore, earning him a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.