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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 08, 2020

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Deepa Acharya

    Deepa Acharya, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has notched important victories against Silicon Valley giants, including a recent $1.1 billion jury verdict against Apple Inc., landing her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 08, 2020

    Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's John Richards

    John Richards of Greenberg Traurig LLP has guided Abercrombie & Fitch and Stanley Steemer through high-stakes class actions and has established himself as a go-to lawyer for helping global retail brands navigate a maze of workplace compliance challenges, earning him a spot as one of Law360's employment law Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Cravath's Allison M. Wein

    Allison Wein of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has helped steer several blockbuster deals, including Disney's $85 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox and Occidental's $57 billion Anadarko buy, earning her a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Fenwick's Julia Ushakova-Stein

    Fenwick & West LLP's Julia Ushakova-Stein has successfully navigated clients through litigation spanning her expertise in merger and acquisition implications, international planning and tax controversies, earning her a spot as one of five tax attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Yaakov M. Roth

    Jones Day partner Yaakov M. Roth convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to clear the conviction of a former New Jersey public official caught up in the infamous Bridgegate scandal, earning him a spot among five appellate attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Molly Senger

    Molly Senger has become a go-to litigator under the tutelage of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's crack team of employment attorneys, helping Ford beat class claims in a sprawling sexual harassment suit to earn a spot as one of five employment law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2020

    Rising Star: McKool Smith's Nick Mathews

    Nicholas Mathews of McKool Smith PC has secured several victories on behalf of Ericsson, including a defense verdict in HTC Corp.'s patent dispute over standard essential patent licensing fees, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Elisabeth Theodore

    Elisabeth Theodore of Arnold & Porter has argued in a series of partisan gerrymandering cases and challenged the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, earning her a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Shaylyn Cochran

    Shaylyn Cochran of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has steered a settlement with BarBri Inc. on behalf of a group of blind bar exam takers, moving the test prep giant to make its offerings accessible to test takers with vision disabilities and earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under 40 honored as a Law360 Rising Star.

  • July 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Fish & Richardson's Adam Shartzer

    Fish & Richardson PC principal Adam Shartzer helped Micron invalidate University of Illinois semiconductor patents and then beat a related breach of contract case, while using damages reports to beat several other patent cases, earning him a spot among intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Cleary's Kyle Harris

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Kyle Harris has guided many major mergers and acquisitions since joining the firm in 2011, including last year's complicated $45.4 billion tie-up of fragrance giant IFF and the nutrition and biosciences business of DuPont, earning him a spot as one of five M&A attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 02, 2020

    Law360 Names Top Attorneys Under 40

    We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2020, our list of 176 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.

  • October 18, 2019

    Rising Star: Wachtell's Raaj Narayan

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz partner Raaj Narayan has helped guide several large deals on behalf of technology companies, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $8.8 billion cross-border spinoff and Salesforce's $15.7 billion purchase of Tableau, earning him a spot as one of four technology law Rising Stars honored by Law360.

  • October 18, 2019

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Robert Lee

    Robert Lee of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised investment firm EQT Partners on several multibillion-dollar transactions, including a €9 billion infrastructure fund that closed within six months of its launch, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 18, 2019

    Rising Star: Dentons' Clay Counts

    Denton's Clay Counts has worked with national developer McCormack Baron Salazar regarding projects in a dozen states and territories, represented the owner of Chicago’s Willis Tower in modernizing its elevators, and helped handle a $300 million dispute regarding a natural gas facility, earning him a spot among the construction law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 18, 2019

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Tessa Capeloto

    Wiley Rein LLP's Tessa Capeloto has scored key victories for American manufacturers in trade investigations, while spearheading the firm's efforts to challenge importers' bids to dodge the Trump administration's recent tariffs on steel and aluminum, earning her a spot among Law360's international trade Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Christopher Humby

    Quinn Emanuel’s Christopher Humby is representing a hospital owner in a multibillion-dollar international arbitration case over construction of the hospital in the Middle East, helping earn him a spot among the construction attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Fish & Richardson's Ben Thompson

    Fish & Richardson PC's Ben Thompson has successfully navigated complex U.S. International Trade Commission matters for clients such as German lens maker Carl Zeiss AG, earning him a spot among the international trade attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Ropes & Gray's Vincent Ip

    Vincent Ip of Ropes & Gray LLP advises the world's top sovereign wealth funds and most prestigious asset managers, including representing a major sovereign fund in its sale of $2 billion of fund stakes to a preeminent investment bank, one of the largest-ever secondaries sales of limited partner private funds, earning him a spot among fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Manatt's Brandon Young

    Brandon Young of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has worked on high-stakes state and local contract issues, including helping a client navigate a multibillion-dollar renegotiation with the city of Los Angeles, earning him a spot as one of three Government Contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360. 

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Jordan R. Jaffe

    Jordan Jaffe of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP led the technology legal team for Google's Waymo in a high-profile case against Uber over self-driving car technology, earning him a spot among the technology law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Weil's Shawn Kodes

    Weil partner Shawn Kodes is well-versed in advising companies on how best to manage their books, serving in the firm’s structured finance and derivatives practice in New York where he has advised major financial institutions such as Guggenheim Securities in its role as lead bookrunner to a $300 million asset backed security bond offering, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s Rising Stars.

  • October 17, 2019

    Rising Star: Troutman Sanders' Virginia Bell Flynn

    Troutman Sanders' Virginia Bell Flynn has successfully represented health care companies in cases involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and has advised major settlements for her clients, such as representing Anthem in what was a record-breaking deal to end litigation over its 2015 data breach, earning her a spot as one of five consumer protection practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • October 16, 2019

    Rising Star: Constantine Cannon's Michael Ronickher

    Constantine Cannon LLP's Michael Ronickher has landed notable wins for whistleblowers, including in the first successful cybersecurity whistleblower case, earning him a spot among three government contracts attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.

  • October 16, 2019

    Rising Star: Barnes & Thornburg's Clinton Yu

    Clinton Yu of Barnes & Thornburg LLP in 2019 secured a win for the U.S. Curtain Wall Coalition by convincing the Federal Circuit that certain curtain wall products from China should be slapped with tariffs, earning him a spot among the international trade law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.