WASHINGTON — June 17, 2024 — BakerHostetler is pleased to announce that the 2024 Legal 500 guide recognized the firm with 118 attorney honors and 27 practice area commendations. These recognitions are a result of Legal 500’s assessment of hundreds of law firms across the United States, using a methodology involving in-depth market research, client and peer feedback and law firm submissions.
Most notable in the 2024 Legal 500 Guide is a new recognition for the firm’s Government Contracts practice and the guide’s continued acknowledgment of BakerHostetler as a Tier 1 firm in the Media, Technology and Telecoms – Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory category. BakerHostetler was also listed as a Firm to Watch in the Intellectual Property – Patents: Licensing category.
You can find all BakerHostetler’s 2024 ranked practice areas and individual attorney recommendations listed below.
Practice Area Rankings
- Antitrust – Civil Litigations/Class Actions: Defense (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – International Litigation (Tier 3)
- Dispute Resolution – International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions (Tier 3)
- Dispute Resolution – Securities Litigation: Defense (Tier 4)
- Government – Government Contracts (Tier 4) (New)
- Industry Focus – Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas (Tier 3)
- Industry Focus – Healthcare: Service Providers (Tier 5)
- Intellectual Property – Patents: Licensing (Firms to Watch) (New)
- Intellectual Property – Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage) (Tier 5)
- Intellectual Property – Patents: Prosecution (Including Re-examination and Post-grant Proceedings) (Tier 4)
- Intellectual Property – Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters) (Tier 3)
- Labor and Employment – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design (Tier 4)
- Labor and Employment – Immigration (Tier 4)
- Labor and Employment – Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions) (Tier 3)
- Labor and Employment – Labor-management Relations (Tier 3)
- Labor and Employment – Workplace and Employment Counseling (Tier 3)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m) (Tier 2)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory (Tier 1)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection) (Tier 2)
- Real Estate – Real Estate (Tier 4)
- Tax – Contentious (Tier 4)
- Tax – International Tax (Tier 3)
- Tax – Non-contentious (Tier 4)
- Tax – Not-for-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations) (Tier 2)
Individual Rankings – Special Mentions
Hall of Fame
- Linda A. Goldstein – Media, Technology and Telecoms – Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
- Mark J. Itri – Intellectual Property: Patents: Prosecution (Including Re-examination and Post-grant Proceedings)
Next Generation Partners
- Lana Muranovic – International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
Rising Stars
- John P. Ferry – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
- Matthew D. Gases – M&A/Corporate Commercial: M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m)
Leading Lawyers
- Steven H. Goldberg – M&A/Corporate Commercial – M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Craig A. Hoffman – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- Theodore J. Kobus – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- Melissa B. Mannino – International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
- Amy Ralph Mudge – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
- Alexander L. Reid – Tax: Not-for-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations)
- John Siegal – Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters)
- Amy J. Traub – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions)
Recommended Attorneys
Attorneys with a * received multiple recognitions.
Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
- Jeffry W. Duffy
- Danyll W. Foix
- John R. Fornaciari
- Carl W. Hittinger
- Bridget S. McCabe
- Marc G. Schildkraut
Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Robb C. Adkins
- Jonathan R. Barr
- John J. Carney
- Teresa Goody Guillén
- Rachel Palmer Hooper
- Albert G. Lin
- Carlos F. Ortiz*
- Carole S. Rendon
- Lauren J. Resnick
- George A. Stamboulidis
Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration
- Sashe D. Dimitroff
- Analia Gonzalez
- Paul M. Levine
- Marco Molina
- Kenneth B. Reisenfeld
- Mary Kate Wagner
- Gonzalo S. Zeballos
Dispute Resolution – Securities Litigation: Defense
- Douglas W. Greene
- Douglas L. Shively
- Genevieve G. York-Erwin
Energy Litigation – Oil and Gas
- Mark S. Barron
- L. Poe Leggette
- Alexander K. Obrecht
- W. Ray Whitman
Government Contracts
- Kevin T. Barnett
- Todd J. Canni
- Kevin N. Dorn
- Stephen E. Ruscus
Healthcare – Service Providers
- Derek S. Bauer
- Charlene L. McGinty
- Frank C. Miller
- Lynn Sessions*
- Jim G. Wiehl
Intellectual Property – Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
- Christopher M. Arena
- William C. Bergmann
- Lisa N. Collins
- Daniel J. Goettle
- Jason F. Hoffman
- David A. Mancino
- Leif R. Sigmond
- T. Cy Walker
Intellectual Property – Patents: Prosecution (Including Re-examination and Post-grant Proceedings)
- Timothy D. Casey
- Brendan E. Clark
- David N. Farsiou
- Felicity E. Groth
- Mark J. Itri
- Ronald C. Kern
- Winston S. Kirton
- Mark H. Krietzman
- Stephanie A. Lodise
- Michael W. Moyer
- Mark H. Tidman
- Timothy A. Worrall
Intellectual Property – Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters)
- Joyce Ackerbaum Cox*
- Kevin W. Kirsch
- M. Scott McIntyre*
- John Siegal
- Amy J. Traub*
International Trade – Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
- Matthew W. Caligur
- Barbara D. Linney
- Melissa B. Mannino
- Lana Muranovic
- Michael S. Snarr
Labor and Employment – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
- Ann M. Caresani
- Seth J. Hanft
- Susan N. Lubow
- Jennifer A. Mills
- Stefan P. Smith
- Stacy E. Wilhite
Labor and Employment – Immigration
- Michelle D. Barhorst
- John A. Foerster
- Pamela D. Nieto
- David M. Serwer
- Amy J. Traub*
Labor and Employment – Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions): Defense
- Matthew C. Kane
- M. Scott McIntyre*
- Gregory V. Mersol
- Mark D. Temple
- Amy J. Traub*
Labor and Employment – Labor-management Relations
- Jay P. Krupin
- Patrick M. Muldowney
- Paul Rosenberg
- Amy J. Traub*
Labor and Employment – Workplace and Employment Counseling
- Joyce Ackerbaum Cox*
- Jason D’Cruz
- Caroline M. Landt
- Amy J. Traub*
M&A/Corporate Commercial – M&A: Middle-market ($500m-900m)
- John J. Allotta
- Will S. Chuchawat
- Matthew D. Gases
- Steven H. Goldberg
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
- John P. Ferry
- Linda A. Goldstein
- Daniel Kaufman
- Amy Ralph Mudge
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- Casie D. Collignon
- Sara M. Goldstein
- Craig A. Hoffman
- Andreas T. Kaltsounis
- Paul G. Karlsgodt
- Theodore J. Kobus
- Jennifer L. Mitchell
- Lynn Sessions*
- Nichole L. Sterling
Tax – Contentious
- David D. Ebersole
- Michelle M. Hervey
- Nicholas C. Mowbray*
- Jeffrey H. Paravano*
- Alexander L. Reid
- Paul M. Schmidt*
- Elizabeth Ann Smith
Tax – International Tax
- J. Brian Davis
- John R. Lehrer*
- Nicholas C. Mowbray*
- Carlos F. Ortiz*
- Jeffrey H. Paravano*
- Peter J. Roskam
- Paul M. Schmidt*
Tax – Non-contentious
- Matthew R. Elkin*
- John R. Lehrer*
- Jeffrey H. Paravano*
- Alexander L. Reid*
- Alexander J. Szilvas
- Nathan F. Ware
Tax – Not-for-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations)
- Edward J. Beckwith
- Matthew R. Elkin*
- Chad W. Makuch
- Jeffrey H. Paravano*
- Alexander L. Reid*
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