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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 04, 2025

    Rising Star: McDermott's Chris Braham

    Chris Braham of McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped Circle K defeat a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that went to a California appellate court and helped Darden Restaurants survive an advocacy organization's discrimination suit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Justin Martin

    Justin Martin of Jones Day has represented McDonald's and Google in high-profile litigation before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice cases that alleged the companies jointly employed workers with franchisees and contractors, earning him a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Proskauer's Rachel Fischer

    Proskauer Rose's Rachel Fischer has successfully defended high-profile clients such as Fox News in a former producer's sexual harassment and assault suit and the MLB in an umpire's race discrimination suit, earning her a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Seyfarth's Leo Li

    Leo Li of Seyfarth Shaw LLP has championed clients facing wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act claims, including by securing a win on appeal for a Southern California Pizza Hut franchisee after a decade of litigation involving thousands of delivery drivers, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Harini Srinivasan

    Harini Srinivasan of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured a $45 million settlement on behalf of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who claimed pregnancy discrimination and also challenged AT&T's attendance point system, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Shegerian & Associates' John David

    John David of Shegerian & Associates helped a former bank branch manager secure a $14 million jury verdict in her sex discrimination lawsuit and led a consultant to victory in his disability bias case, earning him a spot among the employment 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.

  • July 25, 2024

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Kristina Yost

    Kristina Yost of Jones Day has acted as lead counsel for Bloomberg LP in several high-profile Fair Labor Standards Act suits, helped a manufacturing company defeat a suit claiming it failed to pay overtime and worked to resolve an age discrimination case against IBM, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2024

    Rising Star: Weil's Rebecca Sivitz

    Rebecca Sivitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has helped several companies successfully handle mergers and restructuring, including helping The Kroger Co. face a first-of-its-kind challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 23, 2024

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Ryan Stewart

    Ryan Stewart of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped car rental giant Enterprise dodge $160 million in claims that it illegally collected biometric data from workers when it used their fingerprints to register their arrival at work, on top of other victories he secured for Amazon and sales company Credico, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 22, 2024

    Rising Star: Filippatos' Tanvir H. Rahman

    Tanvir Rahman of Filippatos PLLC secured a $12 million settlement for a former Fox News producer who said she was used as a scapegoat during the network's legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2024

    Rising Star: Jackson Lewis' Douglas J. Klein

    Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2024

    Law360 Names 2024's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • June 26, 2023

    Rising Star: Skadden's Anne E. Villanueva

    Anne E. Villanueva of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been at the forefront of labor and employment issues for some of the biggest tech deals in the last few years, including Microsoft's proposed $75 billion acquisition of Activision and Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 23, 2023

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Kelsey Israel-Trummel

    Kelsey Israel-Trummel of Jones Day steered a California water treatment and purification company to a precedential win in a statewide class action challenging the company's calculation of workers' regular wage rates, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 22, 2023

    Rising Star: Lieff Cabraser's Michelle Lamy

    Michelle Lamy of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has represented women in class actions against huge employers such as Google and Goldman Sachs in efforts to level the playing field for women in the workplace, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 21, 2023

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Thomas Ahlering

    Thomas Ahlering of King & Spalding LLP has led many employers to legal victories in biometric privacy disputes and helped architect a novel, winning legal theory in a privacy case against United Airlines at the Seventh Circuit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 20, 2023

    Rising Star: Norton Rose's Kimberly Cheeseman

    Kimberly Cheeseman of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has advised energy companies and other employers on how to navigate workers' discrimination and wage-and-hour claims, including a recent U.S. Supreme Court case over the salary basis test, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 19, 2023

    Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Jolie Pavlos

    Jolie Pavlos of Morgan & Morgan has helped secure multimillion-dollar verdicts and class action settlements for workers by successfully arguing against the enforceability of arbitration agreements at both trial and appeals courts, landing her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 17, 2023

    Law360 Names 2023's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2023, our list of 183 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • June 06, 2022

    Rising Star: Stueve Siegel's Alexander Ricke

    Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP's Alexander Ricke has earned casino workers more than $45 million in total settlements and litigated numerous other cases concerning a range of wage and hour violations in the industry, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 03, 2022

    Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Qiaojing Ella Zheng

    Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP's Qiaojing Ella Zheng has blazed a path for communities underrepresented in law and leverages her bicultural knowledge to serve clients, including securing an $8.3 million arbitration award in a contract breach case that spanned both Chinese and American legal systems, earning her a spot among the employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 02, 2022

    Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Ashley M. Farrell Pickett

    Ashley M. Farrell Pickett of Greenberg Traurig LLP has advised major companies on how to navigate wage and hour and wrongful termination claims, including defending McDonald's and a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee against class actions, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 01, 2022

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Megan Cooney

    Megan Cooney of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP steered Amazon to a trial victory when a California federal judge found that a former employee of the company was exempt from wage and hour requirements, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • May 31, 2022

    Rising Star: Alston & Bird's Alexandra Garrison Barnett

    Alston & Bird LLP partner Alexandra Garrison Barnett has played a lead role in defending employer clients including UPS from lawsuits by workers, earning her a spot among the employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.