CLEVELAND – May 3, 2018 – Chambers and Partners ranked and recognized 118 BakerHostetler attorneys and 45 practice areas in the 2018 edition of the Chambers USA Guide: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Four practice areas are new to the list, and five practice areas are ranked in Band 1. Eight attorney recognitions are new on this year’s list, and seven attorneys are ranked in Band 1.
Attorney rankings – highlights
Attorneys ranked in Band 1 include: Dennis P. Duffy (Labor & Employment, TX); John M. Gherlein (Corporate/M&A, OH); Elizabeth A. Green (Bankruptcy/Restructuring, FL); Joseph F. Hutchinson Jr. (Bankruptcy/Restructuring, OH); Ronald G. Linville (Labor & Employment, OH); John J. McGowan Jr. (Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, OH); and Georgeann G. Peters (Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, OH). Linda Goldstein (Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory, Nationwide) was again ranked a “Star Individual.”
Additionally, the firm had 12 attorneys move up in this year’s rankings: David K. Brown, Emily Crosby, Edward L. Friedman, R. Steven Kestner, Gilbert S. Keteltas, Georgeann Peters, Katrina M. Quicker, Lauren J. Resnick, Drew B. Tipton, Peter W. Van Euwen, Daniel R. Warren, Robert J. Webb.
New attorney rankings include: Mark Barron (Natural Resources & Environment, CO); Jason D’Cruz (Employment & Labor, GA); Eric Goodman (Bankruptcy/Restructuring, DC); Matthew Graban (Corporate/M&A, OH); Steven B. Samuels (Intellectual Property, PA); and Donald Workman (Bankruptcy/Restructuring, DC).
Twenty attorneys were named "Recognized" practitioners. Those new to the list include Kerry T. Scarlott (Litigation, Nationwide); John Siegal (Litigation, NY); Michael S. Snarr (Litigation, Nationwide); Alex Szilvas (Business, OH).
Jason P. Grier and Andrew V. Layden were named “Associates to Watch” category, James Sherer was named “Up & Coming” and Bruce W. Sanford was named a “Senior Statesman.”
Practice area rankings – highlights
Practice areas ranked in Band 1 are Bankruptcy/Restructuring (OH), Corporate/M&A (OH), Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (OH), Intellectual Property (PA) and Labor & Employment (OH). The firm moved up in the rankings in Labor & Employment (FL). Also new to the list is the Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory (Nationwide) category.
Seventeen practice areas were named to the "Recognized" list, three for the first time. Those new to the list are Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory (Nationwide), Banking/Restructuring (DC and Nationwide), and Real Estate (TX).
Chambers USA Guide: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business is an independent and objective directory based on interviews with thousands of in-house and outside counsel across the country. Interviews are conducted by Chambers USA, a division of Chambers and Partners. Individual lawyers and practice areas are ranked on the following factors: legal knowledge and experience, ability, effectiveness and client-service. Additionally, practice areas are ranked on effectiveness and capability of the department as a whole.
BakerHostetler’s ranked practice areas are:
- Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory, Nationwide
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring (FL)
- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (FL)
- Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (NY)
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (OH)
- Healthcare (FL, GA, OH, TX)
- Intellectual Property (OH, GA, PA)
- Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Copyright (NY)
- International Trade: Customs (Nationwide)
- International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions (Nationwide)
- International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy (Nationwide)
- Labor & Employment (FL, OH, TX)
- Leisure & Hospitality (Nationwide)
- Litigation: General Commercial (OH)
- Media & Entertainment (DC)
- Privacy & Data Security (Nationwide)
- Real Estate (FL, OH, TX) (TX new)
- Tax (DC)
BakerHostetler’s “recognized” practice areas are:
- Banking & Finance (OH)
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Nationwide, DC) (both new)
- Environment (DC, FL)
- Healthcare : Privacy & Data Security (Nationwide)
- Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory (DC)
- Intellectual Property: Litigation (DC)
- Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution (DC)
- Labor & Employment (CA, DC)
- Litigation: General Commercial (CO)
- Litigation: General Commercial (FL)
- Natural Resources & Environment (CO)
- Real Estate (TX) (new)
- Retail (Nationwide)
- Tax: Controversy (Nationwide)
BakerHostetler’s ranked attorneys are:
Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory
- Linda A. Goldstein (Star Individual)
Antitrust
- Robert G. Abrams
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Brian A. Bash
- Matthew R. Goldman
- Eric Goodman (new)
- Elizabeth A. Green
- Joseph F. Hutchinson Jr
- Andrew V. Layden (Associates to Watch)
- Jimmy D. Parrish
- Tiffany D. Payne
- Irving H. Picard
- Michael A. VanNiel
- Donald A. Workman
Construction
- Brian C. Blair
- Denis L. Durkin
Corporate/M&A
- John Allotta
- David K. Brown
- Matt Graban
- Steven Goldberg
- Ronald A. Stepanovic
- Peter W. Van Euwen
- John M. Gherlein
- Suzanne K. Hanselman
- R. Steven Kestner
- Robert A. Weible
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
- Jeffrey E. Decker
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Raymond M. Malone
- Ruth Ann Maloney
- John J. McGowan Jr.
- Georgeann G. Peters
Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
- L. Poe Leggette
Environment
- Mark DeLaquil
- William L. Pence
- Robert N. Steinwurtzel
First Amendment Litigation
- Bruce W. Sanford (Senior Statesman)
Healthcare
- Emily Crosby
- Mark A. Kadzielski
- Charlene L. McGinty
- James C. Rawls
- Robert K. Rupp
- David L. Schick
- Lynn Sessions
- Christopher J. Swift
- Robert M. Wolin
Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory
- Lindsay P. Holmes
- Lee H. Rosebush (Up & Coming)
Immigration
- James D. Levine
Intellectual Property
- John P. Donohue Jr.
- Nancy R. Frandsen
- Jason P. Grier (Associates to Watch)
- Dale M. Heist
- John S. Letchinger
- Joseph Lucci
- Katrina M. Quicker
- Steven J. Rocci
- Kevin W. Kirsch
- David A. Mancino
- Steven B. Samuels (new)
- Thomas H. Shunk
- Deborah A. Wilcox
Intellectual Property: Litigation
- William Bergmann
Intellectual Property: Patent
- Benjamin C. Hsing
Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Copyright
- Robert (Red) Horowitz
- Oren Warshavsky
International Trade: Customs
- Melvin S. Schwechter
International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Melvin S. Schwechter
International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy
- Elliot J. Feldman
Labor & Employment
- Joyce Ackerbaum Cox
- M.J. Asensio
- Eric L. Barnum
- Dennis P. Duffy
- Edward L. Friedman
- Daniel J. Guttman
- Todd Lebowitz
- Ronald G. Linville
- M. Scott McIntyre
- Gregory V. Mersol
- Patrick M. Muldowney
- Kevin W. Shaughnessy
- Drew B. Tipton
- Amy J. Traub
- Martin T. Wymer
Leisure & Hospitality
- John Melicharek Jr
- Robert J. Webb
Litigation: E-Discovery
- Gilbert S. Keteltas
- James Sherer (Up & Coming)
Litigation: General Commercial
- Douglas Greene
- Paul G. Karlsgodt
- Robert M. Kincaid Jr.
- Thomas R. Lucchesi
- Ernest E. Vargo
- Daniel R. Warren
- Thomas D. Warren
Litigation: Securities
- Marc D. Powers
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Jonathan R. Barr
- John J. Carney
- Lauren J. Resnick
- George A. Stamboulidis
Media & Entertainment
- Bruce W. Sanford
Natural Resources & Environment
- Mark Barron
- Martin T. Booher
- L. Poe Leggette
Privacy & Data Security
- Theodore J. Kobus
- Lynn Sessions
Real Estate
- Gary M. Alletag
- Joann Gallagher Jones
- Amy E. Kellogg
- Lawrence V. Lindberg
- Michael J. Pappert
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
- Gregory D. Lee
Tax
- John D. Bates (Up & Coming)
- Kevin M. Johnson
- Mark S. Lange
- Jeffrey H. Paravano
- Paul M. Schmidt
BakerHostetler’s recognized attorneys are:
- John W. Boyd (Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- John J. Burke (International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions)
- Phillip M. Callesen (Banking & Finance)
- Sashe D. Dimitroff (International Arbitration)
- Daniel J. Goettle (Intellectual Property)
- David A. Grant (Labor & Employment)
- Elizabeth A. Green (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Bruce R. Greene (Real Estate)
- Kurt P. Gruber (Leisure & Hospitality)
- Craig A. Hoffman (Privacy)
- Jay P. Krupin (Labor & Employment )
- Wendy W. Markham (Real Estate)
- Margaret Rosenthal (Labor & Employment)
- Kerry T. Scarlott (International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions) (new)
- James W. Seegers (Labor & Employment)
- John Siegal (Litigation: General Commercial) (new)
- Michael S. Snarr (International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy) (new)
- Alex Szilvas (Real Estate) (new)
- W. Ray Whitman (Litigation: Energy & Natural Resources)
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Contact:
Ivette Delgado, 212.847.7089 (idelgado@bakerlaw.com) or Jacob Fischler, 202.861.1647 (jfischler@bakerlaw.com)