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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 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Ashley L. Criss

    Ashley Criss of Wiley Rein LLP successfully argued to the Sixth Circuit that an insurer owed no coverage for a government investigation, and further represented an excess insurer in the Boy Scouts of America's bankruptcy, earning her a spot among insurance law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Steptoe's Galen Kast

    Galen Kast of Steptoe LLP led a team of associates who played key roles in the trial defense of the late British tech billionaire Michael Lynch and served as lead associate representing Bitfinex and the cryptocurrency exchange's parent company in parallel fraud investigations, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Weil's Michelle Sargent

    Michelle Sargent of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has advised on a range of multimillion- and billion-dollar deals across multiple continents and industries, including a $5 billion purchase by Canada's largest communications company of the U.S. Pacific Northwest's leading fiber internet provider, earning her a spot among the mergers and acquisitions law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Aliza Slansky

    Aliza Slansky of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is lead counsel in Sycamore Partners' $23 billion acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance and advised Missouri tech company Emerson on a series of multibillion-dollar sales, earning her a spot among the tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Reed Smith's Jason Mayer

    Jason Mayer of Reed Smith LLP helped secure influential decisions last year on the enforcement of arbitration awards in medical-billing disputes and the venue considerations for proposed class actions, earning him a spot among the healthcare law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Dechert's Benjamin Sadun

    Benjamin Sadun of Dechert LLP helped the developer of a "magic avatar" app shake a pair of sprawling and groundbreaking artificial intelligence-related lawsuits over the alleged mishandling of biometric data, earning him a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2025

    Law360 Names 2025's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • August 15, 2024

    Rising Star: K&L Gates' Elle Stuart

    K&L Gates LLP's Elle Stuart has helped shape maritime legislation in the wake of the turbulent waters of COVID-19 disruptions and increasingly strong hurricane seasons, earning her a spot as one of the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2024

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Blair Adams

    Blair Adams of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has advised on numerous structured finance disputes focused on residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and has represented clients such as ACIS Capital Management LP and MBIA Inc., earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2024

    Rising Star: Cooley's Milson Yu

    Milson Yu of Cooley LLP has shepherded grocery shopping app Instacart Inc. through an initial public offering in an otherwise sluggish market and advised an Australian life sciences company as it went public, earning him a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2024

    Rising Star: Covington's Greg Halperin

    Greg Halperin of Covington & Burling LLP helped McKesson Corp. win a key bellwether trial against distributors in sprawling opioid multidistrict litigation, and helped defend Boehringer Ingelheim from thousands of suits over the drug Pradaxa, earning him a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2024

    Rising Star: Perkins Coie's Julia Fox

    Julia Fox of Perkins Coie LLP beat back bid protests against her client KBR Inc.'s contract awards in an $82 billion U.S. Army procurement and juggled an ever-growing U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding contract fight in a $3 billion bid protest against Austal USA, earning her a spot among the top government contracts attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Latham's Brittany Ruiz

    Brittany Ruiz represented the underwriters for Instacart's $660 million initial public offering — the largest IPO globally in 2023 — earning her a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2024

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Michael Shultz

    Michael Shultz of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has advised investor Blue Owl on several major transactions, including its $15 billion acquisition of real estate investment trust STORE Capital Corp. with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC, earning him a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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.