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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.
  • September 10, 2019

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Amanda P. Ellison

    Jones Day's Amanda P. Ellison has been instrumental in securing major coverage and arbitration decisions for the Los Angeles Unified School District, including a published opinion from the California Court of Appeal, landing her among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as a Rising Star.

  • September 10, 2019

    Rising Star: Butler Snow's Alyson Jones

    Butler Snow's Alyson B. Jones has amassed numerous victories on behalf of her life sciences clients over her career, like representing Johnson & Johnson in multidistrict litigation over claims that Tylenol can cause liver failure, earning her a spot as a Law360 Rising Star.

  • September 10, 2019

    Rising Star: Debevoise & Plimpton's Megan K. Bannigan

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP counsel Megan K. Bannigan may not have set out to be an intellectual property litigator, but she has taken the field by storm, helping companies like Kate Spade and PayPal defend their trademarks and other IP, landing her a spot as a Law360 Rising Star.

  • September 10, 2019

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Katherine Smith

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Katherine V.A. Smith has helped businesses like Ford Motor Co. and K12 Inc. defeat workers' certification bids in high-profile class actions and was one of the lead partners tasked by Wynn Resorts to probe alleged sexual misconduct by then-CEO Steve Wynn, landing her among the five employment lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 10, 2019

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Jennifer Chu

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s Jennifer Chu has closed scores of deals on behalf of clients in the health care and insurance industries including a complex deal for Kindred Healthcare, earning her a spot as one of five mergers and acquisitions law practitioners honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Daniel Brass

    Davis Polk's Daniel Brass has helped steer industry giants such as Shire, Ferrero and Reckitt Benckiser through multiple billion-dollar deals across the globe, landing him among the mergers and acquisitions law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as a Rising Star.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Fisher Phillips' Todd Scherwin

    Fisher Phillips’ Todd Scherwin notched his first-ever U.S. Supreme Court win last year after rapidly rising through the ranks of the national employment law boutique, earning him a spot as one of five employment law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Jonathan Kidwell

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Jonathan Kidwell has been responsible over the past year for handling the environmental side of large deals, such as private equity firm GTCR LLC's acquisition of defense and aerospace battery manufacturer EaglePicher Technologies LLC, earning him a spot as one of five environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Eric Rothman

    Arnold & Porter's Eric Rothman has backed pharmaceutical and life sciences companies on complex deals, including Novartis' sale of its cystic fibrosis products to Mylan, earning him a spot among life sciences attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as a Rising Star.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Caldwell Cassady's Austin Curry

    Caldwell Cassady & Curry's Austin Curry has helped companies win more than $2 billion in trial verdicts, headlined by VirnetX's high-profile patent showdown with Apple, making him one of Law360's intellectual property Rising Stars.

  • September 09, 2019

    Rising Star: Debevoise & Plimpton's Susan Gittes

    Debevoise & Plimpton's Susan Gittes has helped a slew of life insurance companies defeat a multibillion-dollar suit brought under the New York False Claims Act, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 06, 2019

    Law360 Names Top Attorneys Under 40

    We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2019, our list of 175 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Perkins Coie's Andrew L. Greene

    Perkins Coie LLP partner Andrew L. Greene’s work on one of the most high-profile construction disputes in the nation, involving the State Route 99 tunnel project under Seattle, has helped land him a spot among the three construction lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Pillsbury Winthrop's Fabio Leonardi

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Fabio Leonardi has traveled the globe getting favorable deals for Swiss banks and a Nicaraguan soccer official, making him one of five white collar attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Leland Jones

    Wiley Rein LLP partner Leland Jones obtained an Eleventh Circuit victory for a liability insurer in a contaminated-medicine case and helped a client win a Ninth Circuit ruling in litigation over the meaning of “professional services,” making him one of five insurance attorneys under 40 to land on Law360's list of Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Cleary's Jared Gerber

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP partner Jared Gerber helped lead Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras to a major appellate victory related to its closely watched corruption scandal and scored a landmark ruling for dozens of Lehman Brothers underwriters at the U.S. Supreme Court, making him one of six securities attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Keker Van Nest's Adam Lauridsen

    Keker Van Nest & Peters partner Adam Lauridsen has worked on a number of cases involving the controversial issue of how far ballparks have to go to protect their fans from foul balls and broken bats, including helping to defeat a class action against Major League Baseball and its clubs in California, landing him among the four sports attorneys dubbed Law360 Rising Stars. 

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Maaren Shah

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Maaren A. Shah is a litigator who won a favorable result for FirstEnergy Generation LLC in its disputes with railroads over transportation contracts and went on to assist it in connection with its significant bankruptcy filing, earning her a spot as one of five energy practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Anna Cartwright

    Jones Day partner Anna K. Cartwright has had her hand in more than 40 deals since the start of 2017, piloting teams of attorneys that guided billions of dollars worth of transactions for a list of clients that includes major private equity firms and real estate investment trusts, earning her a spot as one of five private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 29, 2018

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Byron Rooney

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Byron Rooney has guided watershed capital markets deals, from initial public offerings like payment processor First Data Corp.'s massive $2.6 billion IPO to more novel transactions that experiment with blockchain technology, the underpinning of digital currency, earning him a spot as one of three capital markets law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 28, 2018

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Matthew J. Alexander

    Matthew J. Alexander of Mayer Brown LLP has guided some of the world’s largest multinational corporations through enforcement proceedings and internal probes, including Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s $7 million deal to shake a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation, earning him a spot as one of five white collar attorneys under 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 28, 2018

    Rising Star: Jones Day's J. Laurens Wilkes

    J. Laurens Wilkes of Jones Day successfully defended an international engineering company in a wrongful death suit brought by the families of four deceased DuPont workers and is currently representing a major toll road operator in an adversary proceeding related to a $1 billion infrastructure project, earning him a spot as one of five construction attorneys under 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 28, 2018

    Rising Star: Kennedys' Heather Simpson

    Kennedys CMK LLP partner Heather E. Simpson has spent the last year helping more than a dozen insurance companies dig through the NFL’s records as they battle to avoid paying for the league’s massive $1 billion-plus concussion settlement, a monumental undertaking that landed her a spot as one of five insurance attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 28, 2018

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Nina Yadava

    Jones Day partner Nina Yadava has represented comScore in securities battles in three different states and was instrumental in crafting the settlement strategy that helped put the suits to bed, making her one of six securities attorneys under 40 selected for Law360’s Rising Stars.

  • August 28, 2018

    Rising Star: Goodwin Procter's Gemma Roberts

    In just two weeks, Goodwin Procter’s Gemma Roberts navigated the challenges of a massive international merger, leading a team representing U.S.-based GTT Communications in its $2.3 billion purchase of privately held European-based Interoute Communications, earning her a spot among the five private equity attorneys under the age of 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.