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 02, 2024

    Rising Star: Cooley's Brett De Jarnette

    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.

  • August 01, 2024

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Colin Davis

    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.

  • July 31, 2024

    Rising Star: Robbins Geller's Ting H. Liu

    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.

  • July 30, 2024

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Leonid Traps

    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.

  • July 29, 2024

    Rising Star: Skadden's Tansy Woan

    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.

  • July 26, 2024

    Rising Star: Labaton Keller's Brendan W. Sullivan

    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.

  • 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.

  • August 07, 2023

    Rising Star: Labaton Sucharow's James T. Christie

    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.

  • August 04, 2023

    Rising Star: Cooley's Tijana Martinovic Brien

    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.

  • August 03, 2023

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Jesse Bernstein

    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.

  • August 02, 2023

    Rising Star: Saxena White's Thomas Curry

    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.

  • August 01, 2023

    Rising Star: Robbins Geller's Erika Oliver

    Erika Oliver of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP helped secure a $141 million settlement for McKesson Corp. investors, and she played key roles in a pending $300 million investor settlement with Wells Fargo. These accomplishments and others earned her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2023

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Brittany Rogers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Brittany Rogers has litigated several headline-making securities suits, including a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in a unanimous win, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by 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 07, 2022

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Julia Malkina

    Julia Malkina of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP was part of the legal team that scored a U.S. Supreme Court win for Goldman Sachs in a securities class action, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 06, 2022

    Rising Star: Skadden's Sarah Runnells Martin

    Sarah Runnells Martin of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP played a key role in defeating an injunction that would have stopped a $12.5 billion merger for one of the firm's top clients, earning her a spot among the securities practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 03, 2022

    Rising Star: The Rosen Law Firm's Yu Shi

    Fluent in spoken and written Chinese, Yu Shi of the Rosen Law Firm PA has represented several parties making claims against China-based companies publicly listed in the U.S., including helping investors reach a $9 million settlement with peer-to-peer lender PPDAI Group Inc. in 2021, earning him a spot among the securities lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 02, 2022

    Rising Star: Latham's Jooyoung Yeu

    Jooyoung Yeu of Latham & Watkins LLP has worked on several securities class actions throughout her career, including representing big-name clients such as General Electric Co. and Philip Morris International Inc., in which Yeu and other Latham members successfully won dismissal at the pleading stage, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 01, 2022

    Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Molly J. Bowen

    Molly J. Bowen of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC played a key role in shareholder derivative litigation against Pinterest that led to major commitments to governance reform at the social media company and convinced a Manhattan federal judge to keep investor claims alive against Wells Fargo in a suit over the company's noncompliance with federal consent decrees. These accomplishments and others have earned her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • May 31, 2022

    Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Scott R. Foglietta

    Scott R. Foglietta of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has played a role in securing several large recoveries for investors, including $480 million in a case against Wells Fargo and $210 million against Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • May 30, 2022

    Law360 Names 2022's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2022, our list of 176 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • June 10, 2021

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Stephen Blake

    Stephen Blake of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has represented Alibaba through a series of multibillion-dollar securities class actions, including securing a $250 million settlement with investors who alleged that the company caused a $33 billion stock drop, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 09, 2021

    Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Laura McNally

    Laura McNally of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has successfully argued pivotal motions to dismiss and examined expert witnesses at trial in several high-stakes securities disputes — something very few lawyers can say at her age — earning her a spot among the top securities law practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • June 08, 2021

    Rising Star: Lieff Cabraser's Katherine Lubin Benson

    Katherine Lubin Benson of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has established herself as a top-tier plaintiff-side securities and antitrust attorney who recently helped shareholders land a multi-million dollar settlement with Wells Fargo, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 07, 2021

    Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Gavin Masuda

    Latham & Watkins LLP partner Gavin Masuda locked down an industry-shaking victory for Restoration Robotics in California state court last year and has deftly defended accounting firms and underwriter banks from major professional liability, post-IPO and merger-related litigations, earning him a spot as one of seven securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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