July 11, 2019
Gibson Dunn earned 54 practice area rankings, including 18 top-tier rankings in the 2019 edition of The Legal 500 – United States, and 32 partners were named Leading Lawyers in their respective practices with an additional 15 partners recognized as Next Generation Lawyers and two attorneys recognized as Rising Stars.
The firm achieved first-tier rankings in the following categories: Antitrust – Cartel; Antitrust – Civil litigation/class actions: defense; Dispute resolution – Appellate – Courts of Appeals; Dispute resolution – Appellate: Supreme Courts (federal and state); Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – advice to corporates; Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – advice to individuals; Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes; Dispute resolution – International litigation; Dispute resolution – Securities litigation: defense; Industry focus – Energy transactions: oil and gas; Industry focus – Environment: litigation; Industry focus – Transport: rail and road – litigation; Industry focus – Transport: rail and road – regulation; Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense; Media, technology and telecoms – Media and entertainment: litigation; Media, technology and telecoms – Outsourcing; Real estate – Land use/zoning; and Real estate.
The partners named as Leading Lawyers are Scott Hammond (Antitrust: Cartel), Richard Parker (Antitrust: Cartel, Antitrust – Civil ligation/Class Actions – Defense), Daniel Swanson (Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions – Defense), Allyson Ho, Miguel Estrada and Theodore Olson (Dispute Resolution: Appellate), Reed Brodsky and F. Joseph Warin (Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense), Randy Mastro (Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense, General Commercial Disputes, International Litigation and Leading Trial Lawyer), Deborah Stein (General Commercial Disputes), Perlette Jura (International Litigation), Orin Snyder (Leading Trial Lawyers), Brian Lutz(M&A Litigation Defense), Mark Kirsch (Securities Litigation – Defense), Karen Manos (Government Contracts), Nicholas Politan (Energy – Renewable/Alternative), Peter Hanlon (Energy Transactions – Conventional Power), Michael Darden (Energy Transactions – Oil and Gas), Patrick Dennis (Environmental Litigation), Andrew Tulumello (Sport), Thomas Dupree Jr. (Transport: Rail and Road – Litigation and Transport: Rail and Road – Regulation), Catherine Conway, Eugene Scalia and Jason Schwartz (Labor and Employment Disputes), Scott Edelman (Media and Entertainment – Litigation), Ruth Fisher (Media and Entertainment – Transactional), Daniel Mummery, Stephen Nordahl and William Peters (Outsourcing), Eric Feuerstein and Jesse Sharf (Real Estate), Amy Forbes and Mary Murphy (Real Estate Land Use/Zoning).
The partners named Next Generation Lawyers are Cynthia Richman (Antitrust: Cartel, Civil litigation/class actions and Merger Control), Adam Di Vincenzo (Merger Control), Matthew McGill (Dispute Resolution: Appellate), Anne Champion (International Litigation), Alexander Mircheff (M&A Litigation Defense), Robyn Zolman (Capital Markets Debt Offerings), Justin Stolte (Energy Transactions – Oil & Gas), Stacie Fletcher (Environmental Litigation), Gabrielle Levin and Katherine Smith (Labor and Employment Disputes), Benyamin Ross (Media and Entertainment – Transactional), Daniel Angel (Outsourcing and Technology Transactions), Douglas Champion (Real estate – Land use/zoning) and Noam Haberman and Kahlil Yearwood (Real Estate). The attorneys recognized as Rising Stars are David Schnitzer (Rail and Road: Litigation) and Molly Senger (Labor and Employment Disputes).