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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 13, 2025

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Jason Zarrow

    Jason Zarrow of O'Melveny & Myers LLP was instrumental in two U.S. Supreme Court victories reining in the government's prosecution of identity theft and public corruption, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Sara Clark

    Sara Clark of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was a key member of the team that secured a midtrial dismissal of a manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in connection with a fatal shooting during the filming of the movie "Rust," earning her a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Covington's David Lefebvre

    Covington & Burling LLP's David Lefebvre's practice sits at the center of the changing landscape of media and entertainment programming and includes participating in forming the recent multibillion-dollar Disney joint venture with Reliance Industries in India, earning him a spot among the practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Christopher K.L. Young

    Christopher K.L. Young of Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP helped secure a $375 million settlement for mixed martial arts fighters in a class action against the UFC after nearly a decade of litigation, earning him a spot among the class action attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Thomas Prommer

    Thomas Prommer of Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as lead counsel on a $7.5 billion private credit facility co-led by Blackstone and Magnetar Capital that provided cloud computing company CoreWeave with critical capital for expanding operations, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Katie Roddy

    Katie Roddy of Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Hudson Pacific Properties on its $700 million sale of a shuttered Los Angeles mall to UCLA after the pandemic complicated Hudson's office redevelopment plans, earning her a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Moore & Van Allen's Kate Wellman

    Kate Wellman of Moore & Van Allen helped a systemically important bank transition loan portfolios tied to U.S. dollar Libor and the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index, earning her a spot among compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Benesch's Meegan Brooks

    Meegan Brooks of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has helped her retail clients fend off millions of dollars in potential liability by convincing judges to toss cases claiming Ulta and Peet's Coffee pushed illegal nondisparagement agreements and by shutting down claims that Aeropostale hosted deceptive sales, earning her a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Clare Nida

    Clare Nida of Latham & Watkins LLP represented a client who faced scrutiny during a long-running multinational fraud investigation, ultimately helping the client to avoid prosecution and earning a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Avi Kupfer

    Avi Kupfer of Mayer Brown LLP has used his unique governmental experience as a litigator and administrator to, as a private practitioner, help clients such as the U.S. Postal Service navigate the intricacies of administrative law, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Manatt's Mike Katz

    Mike Katz of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP co-led the team that represented blockchain infrastructure firm Orangefin Ventures LLC in a deal to sell three of its high-speed crypto validator systems and related assets to Sol Strategies, a Canadian company that invests in fast, low-cost decentralized networks, earning him a spot among fintech practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Sidley's Evie Whiting

    Evie Whiting of Sidley Austin LLP helped in the creation of a joint venture involving Warner Bros. Discovery, which marked a historic TV and film music rights deal covering almost a century's worth of music copyrights, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Kelley Drye's Joshua Morey

    Joshua Morey of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has racked up several trade wins for the U.S. domestic industry, including duty orders on aluminum sheets imported from 16 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Brinton Lucas

    Brinton Lucas of Jones Day successfully challenged a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring public companies to describe their reasoning behind stock buybacks, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Breit Biniazan's Kevin Biniazan

    Kevin Biniazan of Breit Biniazan PC is in the midst of handling a large case in which over 50 clients allege the medical director of a Virginia hospital sexually abused them, with the first trial in September resulting in what the firm said was the largest tort verdict in Virginia history at $360 million, earning him a place among the attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Dechert's Melissa Wollis

    Melissa Wollis of Dechert LLP steered the largest collateralized loan obligation transaction in history at over $2.3 billion for Golub Capital Partners and helped create the first such transaction since the 2008 financial crisis to offer liabilities denominated in multiple currencies, earning her a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Luci Hague

    Lucille Hague of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has helped clients secure approvals in international transactions, such as a transaction to take public the space industry startup Momentus Inc. and the sale of cybersecurity company Venafi to Israel-based CyberArk, earning her a spot among the international trade law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: McGuireWoods' Brian Schmalzbach

    Brian Schmalzbach of McGuireWoods LLP argued a civil rights case addressing attorney fees before the U.S. Supreme Court last fall, earning him a spot among appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's David Siegel

    David Siegel of Latham & Watkins LLP helped advise Guggenheim Securities in connection with structuring the first-ever data center securitization for a hyperscale data center operator, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Keller Rohrback's Adele Daniel

    Adele Daniel of Keller Rohrback LLP has been helping her firm win big-money cases for clients alleging toxic pollution, facing determined opponents in court, working on every stage of the litigation and earning a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Jack McNeily

    Jack McNeily of Latham & Watkins LLP defended the former chief technology officer of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in one of the U.S. government's flagship crypto enforcement cases, earning him a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Lauren Greene

    Jenner & Block LLP's Lauren Greene helped NBCUniversal block the sale of knockoff "Friday Night Lights" merch and settle a trademark dispute over the "Back to the Future" DeLorean time machine, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Thomas James

    Thomas James of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has represented numerous classes of investors as they take on corporate misconduct, including winning verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Bloch & White's Benjamin White

    Ben White of Bloch & White LLP won a major false-conviction trial over the alleged false testimony of three NYPD narcotics officers, was instrumental in obtaining a $26 million verdict over the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally, and started his own firm with a colleague, earning him a spot among the trials attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Katelyn Hilferty

    In the months since U.S. tariff policy was remade under a new presidential administration, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Katie Hilferty has worked closely with clients facing significant sudden uncertainties to help resolve their international trade compliance questions and avoid disruption to their businesses, earning her a place among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.