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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 25, 2025

    Rising Star: Cohen & Gresser's Vincent Desry

    Vincent Desry of Cohen & Gresser LLP had such a strong courtroom presence at a relatively young age that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy hired Desry to be his attorney for the appeal of a criminal conviction on illegal campaign funding charges, one of several high-profile achievements earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2025

    Rising Star: Selendy Gay's Temidayo Aganga-Williams

    Temidayo Aganga-Williams served as senior investigative counsel to the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he was responsible for investigating the facts and causes of the riot and shaping what would become the historical record of it, earning him a spot among the white collar attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 23, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jacob Croke

    Jacob Croke helped Sullivan & Cromwell LLP locate and recover billions of dollars worth of missing assets left over from the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 22, 2025

    Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's Kiersten A. Fletcher

    Kiersten Fletcher of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured the conviction of a former congressional representative for insider trading as a prosecutor and in private practice defended a client accused of stealing bitcoins worth over $10 billion, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Steptoe's Galen Kast

    Galen Kast of Steptoe LLP led a team of associates who played key roles in the trial defense of the late British tech billionaire Michael Lynch and served as lead associate representing Bitfinex and the cryptocurrency exchange's parent company in parallel fraud investigations, earning him a spot among the white collar 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.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Nicole Lueddeke

    Nicole Lueddeke of Paul Hastings LLP represented a multibillion-dollar Japanese medical device company in a U.S. Department of Justice investigation involving alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in one of the firm's largest white collar defense cases, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 08, 2024

    Rising Star: Akin's Thomas Moyer

    Thomas Moyer of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented a multinational bank caught in a legal and political crossfire between then-President Donald Trump and two congressional committees and led his firm's pro bono work in a high-profile case involving the Lafayette Square protesters in Washington, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2024

    Rising Star: Cohen & Gresser's Sri Kuehnlenz

    Sri Kuehnlenz of Cohen & Gresser LLP was instrumental in securing the dismissal of six out of 13 criminal counts leveled against Sam Bankman-Fried for fraud related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and she helped an engineer avoid prosecution who was swept up in the U.S. Department of Justice's China Initiative, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2024

    Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Eden Schiffmann

    Eden Schiffmann of Williams & Connolly LLP has successfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari several times, including most recently in 2023, when he helped bring before the justices the first contested criminal case against a foreign sovereign instrumentality in U.S. history. His work before the high court, and other high-profile matters involving a broad range of legal issues, have earned him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2024

    Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Tali Leinwand

    Tali Leinwand is helping to lead the monitorship of Glencore Ltd. after the trading giant pled guilty to a multiyear commodities fraud scheme and has taken time to "pay it forward" by mentoring junior attorneys, landing her a spot among the white collar attorneys 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 11, 2023

    Rising Star: Mintz's Mathilda McGee-Tubb

    Mathilda McGee-Tubb of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC defended parents charged in the "Varsity Blues" case, leading to one of the first acquittals in the high-profile case and earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Nixon Peabody's Joshua Sharp

    Joshua Sharp of Nixon Peabody LLP represented one of the few defendants in the "Varsity Blues" case to go to trial, ultimately securing a successful appeal at the First Circuit in May, and is representing former U.S. Labor Secretary and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in a state whistleblower case, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Reichman Jorgensen's Laura Carwile

    Laura Carwile was part of the Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP team that navigated a broiler chicken industry executive through an epic price-fixing case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2023

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Daniel Koffmann

    Daniel Koffmann of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has represented clients caught up in high-profile government investigations, including the Theranos fraud scandal, Brazil's massive Operation Car Wash anti-corruption probe and an ongoing federal inquiry into the privacy program at X, the former Twitter, earning a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 08, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Ronak D. Desai

    Ronak D. Desai of Paul Hastings LLP founded the firm's congressional investigations practice and is defending one of the world's largest and most prominent religious organizations in a criminal investigation and civil lawsuit, earning him a spot among the white collar 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 16, 2022

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Brandon J. Moss

    Brandon J. Moss of Wiley Rein LLP has advised clients on fraud investigations and white collar crimes for 11 years, including successfully defending former pharmaceutical executive Timothy Baxter against charges over opioid marketing, earning her a spot among the white collar attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 15, 2022

    Rising Star: Steptoe & Johnson's Katie Dubyak

    Katie Dubyak of Steptoe & Johnson LLP steered Volkswagen AG through a three-year monitorship imposed after its emissions-cheating scandal and conducted a sweeping investigation into corruption at the Baltimore Police Department, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 14, 2022

    Rising Star: Moore & Van Allen's Frank Schall

    Frank Schall of Moore & Van Allen PLLC will go head-to-head against the U.S. Department of Justice in an unprecedented third price-fixing criminal trial against poultry executives and provided counsel to a large financial institution after the publication of the Panama Papers, earning him a spot among the white collar attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 13, 2022

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Brian C. Rabbitt

    Jones Day partner Brian Rabbitt steered the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division to a landmark Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlement and kick-started the DOJ's ongoing crackdown on pandemic loan fraud, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 10, 2022

    Rising Star: Bird Marella's Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk

    Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk of Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow PC helped return millions of dollars' worth of valuables to more than 30 clients whose private vaults were unconstitutionally raided by the government and beat a pharmaceutical distributor executive's $100 million fraud rap over widespread attorney-client privilege violations, earning her a spot among the white collar 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.

  • July 07, 2021

    Rising Star: Alston & Bird's Brian Frey

    Brian Frey of Alston & Bird defended Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra Wilkinson against a Bivens action in district court and on appeal before the Fourth Circuit, earning him a spot among the white-collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.