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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: Gibson Dunn's Michael J. Kahn

    Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Bleichmar Fonti's George N. Bauer

    George Bauer of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped a pension fund win a landmark settlement that returned more than $734 million to Tesla following allegations its directors awarded themselves excessive compensation, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Winston & Strawn's Kerry Donovan

    Kerry Donovan of Winston & Strawn LLP was a key member of a team representing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. and former executives at the U.S. Supreme Court that ultimately secured a 9-0 victory in a stock-drop class action, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Labaton Keller's Jake Bissell-Linsk

    Jake Bissell-Linsk of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has litigated on behalf of Boeing shareholders following safety failures involving 737 Max planes, resulting in several major victories, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Akin's Kate Shapiro

    Kaitlin D. Shapiro of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP successfully defended Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. from a suit demanding it return $11 million in short-swing profits, and helped another client beat a Delaware Chancery Court action over Genomic Health Inc.'s $2.8 billion sale to Exact Sciences Corp., earning her a spot among securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2025

    Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Andrew Blumberg

    Andrew Blumberg of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has won a near record-breaking victory for former investors in a Santander subsidiary and a rare nod of approval from Delaware's highest court, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under 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.

  • 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.