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August 17, 2026
Alex Rodney of Kirkland secured Target a complete precedent-setting dismissal of a $25 billion proposed class action that accused the retail giant of loading its inventory beyond consumer demand as COVID-19 restrictions lifted, earning him a spot among the securities lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 14, 2026
Pavithra Rajesh of Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP helped win a $120 million settlement for investors in a secondary offering by ViacomCBS Inc. and fought her way through several pleading motions in order to reach a settlement-in-principle in a securities fraud class action against United Natural Foods Inc., earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 13, 2026
Josh Baker of The Rosen Law Firm has helped win multimillion-dollar settlements in securities claims against mutual fund giant Vanguard and event ticket behemoth Live Nation, earning him a spot among the fund securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 12, 2026
Kristina Bunting of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has secured victories for clients including General Motors, Coinbase, Snap and Goldman Sachs in some of the most closely watched securities and digital assets litigation of recent years, including a landmark U.S. Supreme Court win, earning her a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2026
Jeffrey Steinfeld of White & Case LLP has won the dismissal of a lawsuit involving memecoins and a precedent-setting Delaware Supreme Court decision on the calculation of post-judgment interest, earning him a spot among the securities lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 10, 2026
Thayne Stoddard of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped secure a $420 million settlement for Teva investors and struck a deal with Tesla's board of directors that led to the return of $919 million to the company, earning him a spot among securities law practitioners 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 04, 2025
Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
George Bauer of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped a pension fund win a landmark settlement that returned more than $734 million to Tesla following allegations its directors awarded themselves excessive compensation, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Kerry Donovan of Winston & Strawn LLP was a key member of a team representing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. and former executives at the U.S. Supreme Court that ultimately secured a 9-0 victory in a stock-drop class action, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
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.
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July 29, 2025
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.
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July 28, 2025
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.
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July 18, 2025
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.
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August 02, 2024
Brett De Jarnette of Cooley LLP's unusual move of netting a dismissal of a stock drop claim during the class certification phase of a securities case, as well as the wide variety of industries he's worked in, from the biotechnology to commerce to social media, has earned him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2024
Colin Davis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has advised company directors in complex shareholder suits, allowing them to beat fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from major corporate transactions, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2024
Ting H. Liu of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP helped investors secure a $350 million settlement against Alphabet after the Google parent company suffered a data breach, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2024
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Leonid Traps helped win a motion dismissing a multibillion-dollar securities fraud suit against Citigroup and aided AT&T in securing a full dismissal of two rare multilevel court cases seeking billions of dollars in damages, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2024
Tansy Woan of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has used her litigation prowess to score a one-of-a-kind victory in a crypto case, as well as successfully argue for the Second Circuit to free JPMorgan Chase from a long-running lawsuit, earning her spot as one of the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 26, 2024
Brendan W. Sullivan has helped Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP notch big wins in securities cases, including a $1 billion cash settlement from Dell, one of the largest ever in any state-level court, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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August 07, 2023
Labaton Sucharow LLP's James T. Christie has litigated several high-profile, high-payout lawsuits on behalf of investors in companies across various sectors and occasionally across borders, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2023
Cooley LLP's Tijana Martinovic Brien helped land a precedent-setting California decision for Gilead Sciences and aided videoconferencing provider Zoom in escaping the bulk of proposed class claims alleging it misled investors about its security capabilities, earning her a spot among the securities law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2023
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Jesse Bernstein helped secure a rare securities class action victory on behalf of Tesla and Elon Musk and successfully defended a software company facing a post-merger lawsuit, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 02, 2023
Thomas Curry of Saxena White PA helped represent a group of FirstEnergy Corp. shareholders whose $180 million settlement with the company last year marks the largest recovery in a derivative suit in Sixth Circuit history, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.