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Rankings: MVPs of the Year

Law360’s MVPs of the Year recognizes the five attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year. The series showcases standout attorneys across the practice areas and industries covered by Law360.
  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Kirkland's Andrew Calder

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Andrew Calder helped guide a host of multibillion-dollar energy deals to completion during the past year, including a novel development tie-up between private equity giant Blackstone and oil and gas driller Sanchez Energy and the sale of bankrupt Texas utility Energy Future Holdings, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Energy MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Seyfarth's Jon Meer

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Jon Meer has secured numerous victories for companies in wage-related class actions recently, including a significant win in a “bag check” case for shoe giant Nike, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of 2017 Employment MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Cooley's Michael Rhodes

    Cooley LLP partner Michael Rhodes helped swat away, for good, $15 billion multidistrict litigation accusing Facebook of unlawfully tracking users, while defending the makers of “Pokemon Go” from novel claims that sending users to real-life locations in pursuit of virtual creatures encouraged trespassing, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: White & Case's Christopher Curran

    White & Case LLP’s Christopher M. Curran continued his work for Toshiba Corp. this year, defending against a series of alleged cartel cases involving electronic components, and he also scored a big win for Nestle Purina Petcare Co. in a suit over the pricing of prescription pet food, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Taft Stettinius' Robert Bilott

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP's Robert Bilott was the driving force behind litigation over the dumping of a cancer-linked chemical that led to a $670.7 million settlement with DuPont and spinoff Chemours this year, making him one of Law360’s 2017 Class Action MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Deanne Maynard

    As co-chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP’s appellate and Supreme Court practice, Deanne Maynard notched several big victories this year at the high court and the Ninth Circuit, including a decision that speeds the path to market for biosimilar medicines, securing her a place among Law360’s 2017 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Andy Dietderich

    Among his key contributions in large restructuring cases over the past year, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Andy Dietderich was instrumental in putting together a complex deal that allowed renewable energy giant SunEdison Inc. to confirm a Chapter 11 plan, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2017 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's Howard Cayne

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s Howard Cayne has scored several wins representing the Federal Housing Finance Agency before state and federal courts in the past year, including defeating attempts by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders to declare the agency unconstitutional, securing him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Banking MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Skadden's Jay Goffman

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Jay Goffman shepherded SunEdison through an enormously complicated bankruptcy and completed a six-day billion-dollar prepack for a foreign vodka company this year, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Bankruptcy MVPs for 2017.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Douglas Meal

    Ropes & Gray LLP partner Douglas Meal helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a key victory for Media Innovation Group and other internet advertisers in a case involving online tracking while continuing his work steering LabMD through a vital challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's data security enforcement, earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Latham's Alfred Pfeiffer

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Alfred Pfeiffer helped Cox Communications Inc. defeat a tying antitrust suit over set-top box sales that threatened an industrywide business model, earning him a place among Law360's 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Montgomery McCracken's Charles Casper

    Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP’s Charles Casper has scored several major wins this year defending against class action suits for his clients, including a Supreme Court victory in Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, earning him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Class Action MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Brad Karp

    Working as chairman of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP isn’t enough for Brad S. Karp. The lawyer has found time the past year to help Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and other financial titans negotiate settlements and fend off lawsuits with billions of dollars on the line, making him one of Law360’s 2017 Banking MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Mayer Brown's Andrew Pincus

    Mayer Brown LLP partner Andrew Pincus has argued 27 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including two successful appeals this past year that had major impacts on patent exhaustion and the enforceability of arbitration agreements, earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 08, 2017

    The Law Firms Of The 2017 MVPs

    Law360's MVP award goes to attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers in litigation, deals and other complex matters. Find the MVPs at your firm here.

  • December 08, 2017

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 78 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2017 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • January 03, 2017

    Food & Beverage MVP: Patterson Belknap's Steve Zalesin

    Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP’s Steven A. Zalesin’s helped achieve a trial victory for The Coca-Cola Co. in a seven-year-long pomegranate juice false advertising battle with Pom Wonderful LLC this year, earning him the label of a Law360 2016 Food and Beverage MVP.

  • December 22, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Latham & Watkins' Kenneth Parsigian

    Latham & Watkins partner Kenneth Parsigian's work in helping defeat a class of healthy Marlboro smokers who were seeking to stick Philip Morris with a nearly $190 million tab for annual preventive lung screenings won a spot on this year's list of Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Retail MVP: Simpson Thacher's Kathryn King Sudol

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Kathryn King Sudol’s representation of the world’s largest retailer through a bevy of deals has kept her team busy in 2016, continues to build up the firm’s Hong Kong operations and lands her among Law360’s Retail MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Media And Entertainment MVP: Baker Botts' Renee L. Wilm

    Baker Botts LLP partner Renee L. Wilm led the firm's efforts in coordinating transactions and investments worth nearly $20 billion for media and entertainment clients in recent months, earning her a spot on Law360's 2016 list of Media and Entertainment MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Trials MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Charles Verhoeven

    When Google was being chased by a lawsuit-happy patent rival, it brought in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Charles Verhoeven, whose rout of the nonpracticing entity in one $300 million trial and demolishment of a sibling case via shrewd preclusion footwork earned him a spot among Law360’s 2016 Trials MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Asset Management MVP: Debevoise's Shannon Rose Selden

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP litigation partner Shannon Rose Selden has represented private equity and hedge funds in some of the year’s highest-stakes cases, including a rift over the sale of a $2.4 billion wind farm operator, earning her a spot on Law360’s list of 2016 asset management MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Technology MVP: Jenner & Block's Rick Richmond

    Jenner & Block’s Rick Richmond earned himself a place on Law360’s list of Technology MVPs when he secured a $940 million jury award for Epic Systems Corp. in its trade secrets suit against Indian conglomerate Tata Group — believed to be the largest jury verdict in Wisconsin history.

  • December 22, 2016

    Sports MVP: Latham & Watkins' Russell F. Sauer

    Latham & Watkins LLP partner Russell F. Sauer played a critical role in saving this past summer’s Copa America Centenario, guiding the U.S. Soccer Federation in a complete restructuring of the deals for the event amid a U.S.-led corruption investigation into global soccer, as well as representing U.S. Soccer in multiple labor disputes with the U.S. Women’s National Team, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 Sports MVPs.

  • December 22, 2016

    Native American Law MVP: Dentons' Heather Sibbison

    Heather Sibbison of Dentons led a team that scored a major victory in the D.C. Circuit this summer defending the federal government’s decision to take land into trust for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, securing her place on Law360’s 2016 list of MVPs for Native American law.

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