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August 03, 2026
Greenberg Traurig LLP's Friederike Görgens has successfully represented domestic and foreign producers in a variety of trade law disputes, earning her a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
Connor Sullivan of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped secure a first-of-its-kind defamation victory for OpenAI and persuaded a New York judge to dismiss Sean "Diddy" Combs' $100 million suit against NBCUniversal, earning him a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
Sophie Mancall-Bitel of Mayer Brown LLP has made a career defending big-name companies like TikTok, Google and YouTube in high-stakes privacy litigation, earning her a spot among the technology practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
David V. Simon of Covington & Burling LLP counseled Justin Ishbia in a minority investment in MLB's Chicago White Sox designed to obtain majority ownership as soon as 2029, and guided the sale of the NHL's Arizona Coyotes to Utah investors who re-started the franchise in Salt Lake City, earning him a spot among the sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
Mahru Madjidi, a managing shareholder at Shegerian & Associates, helped a client secure a historic $103 million trial victory in an age discrimination suit brought against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2026
Alison Deich of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll LLP represented poultry plant workers who forced producers into a wage-suppression settlement that was touted as the largest of its kind, earning her a spot as one of the antitrust lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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August 21, 2025
Clifford Chance LLP partner Neil Barlow has helped lead the growth of the firm's U.S. private equity practice while advising on high-profile cross-border deals, including KKR and Carlyle's $10.1 billion acquisition of a student loan portfolio and the sale of global fund administrator Alter Domus, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2025
Michael H. Waldman of Latham & Watkins LLP helped guide a landmark $2 billion private credit loan to Dropbox last year and has advised on multiple billion-dollar cross-border financing deals, earning a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2025
Dechert LLP's finance and real estate partner Nitya K. Goyal worked on major loan deals last year, such as representing Bank of America and Deutsche Bank in a $1.58 billion mortgage loan origination that used nine luxury hotels as collateral, earning her a spot among the real estate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2025
Latham & Watkins LLP partner Daniel Williams has steered several multibillion-dollar deals, including SRS' $18.25 billion acquisition by Home Depot and Cogentrix Energy's $3 billion sale to Quantum Capital Group, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2025
Nikolaus Caro of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is advising Sycamore Partners in its take-private acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2025
David Kennedy, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's finance practice group, advised one of the largest-ever private credit deals in the U.S., with the refinancing of Finastra Group's existing first-lien and second-lien credit facilities, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 18, 2025
Jennifer Lee of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped Nationstar Mortgage LLC defeat a slew of claims tied to the sale of nearly $2 billion in delinquent loans and represented Credit Suisse in a two-week trial in New York state court involving nine-figure litigation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 18, 2025
Eva Mak of Freshfields LLP has several multibillion-dollar deals under her belt, including a $16.5 billion take-private acquisition of cloud computing company Citrix Systems Inc., earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Last year, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC partner Thomas Schultz helped sports streaming service FuboTV prevail in a bet-the-company antitrust case against entertainment heavyweights like ESPN and Disney, and played an instrumental role in a massive opioid crisis trial in Florida, earning him a spot as one of the trials attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Ted Brackemyre of Wiley Rein LLP served as the lead associate helping the U.S.'s largest steel producer keep highly contested antidumping and countervailing duty orders on 19 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Parker Rider-Longmaid of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped the Innocence Project persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to extend the statute of limitations on appealing DNA test orders for a man who has been on death row for over 25 years, earning him a spot among appellate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Timothy Burns of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP led the team representing Glencore, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. on their exit from Viterra through its $18 billion sale to Bunge, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Meredith Karp of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has represented Paramount in multiple actions related to its $8 billion merger with Skydance and counseled TD Bank in litigation arising from the second-largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
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.
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August 15, 2025
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.
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August 14, 2025
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.
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August 14, 2025
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.
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August 14, 2025
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.