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Rankings: Rising Stars
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June 02, 2022
Rising Star: O'Melveny's Stephen McIntyre
Stephen McIntyre of O'Melveny & Myers LLP defended Samsung Electronics Co. against price-fixing claims that were dismissed in 2019 and 2020 and Novartis Pharmaceuticals against an antitrust lawsuit that was tossed in February, earning him a spot among the competition law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Megan Cooney
Megan Cooney of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP steered Amazon to a trial victory when a California federal judge found that a former employee of the company was exempt from wage and hour requirements, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Grant & Eisenhofer's Kyle J. McGee
Kyle J. McGee of Grant & Eisenhofer PA frequently partners with state attorneys general to hold large polluters accountable, including repeatedly going toe-to-toe with Monsanto over alleged environmental damage caused by man-made chemicals and helping secure upward of $100 million in settlement funds from the company this year alone, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Douglas Litvack
Douglas Litvack of Jenner & Block LLP's competition team has helped clients like ProMedica and Dartmouth University defend against high-stakes antitrust claims, after several years of litigating hospital mergers and working on other matters at the Federal Trade Commission, earning him a spot among the antitrust practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Molly J. Bowen
Molly J. Bowen of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC played a key role in shareholder derivative litigation against Pinterest that led to major commitments to governance reform at the social media company and convinced a Manhattan federal judge to keep investor claims alive against Wells Fargo in a suit over the company's noncompliance with federal consent decrees. These accomplishments and others have earned her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Kilpatrick Townsend's Kollin Zimmermann
Kollin Zimmermann of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as co-lead counsel helped Yahoo Holdings Inc. fend off a billion-dollar countersuit from Mozilla Corp. over a paid advertising and search technology contract, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Bradley Hamburger
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Bradley Hamburger helped defend insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group in a class action over its valuation method for totaled cars and successfully argued against class certification in a wage and hour suit brought against Amazon subsidiary Prime Now, earning him a spot among the class action attorneys under age 40 honored as a Law360 Rising Star.
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June 01, 2022
Rising Star: Freshfields' Jenny Hochenberg
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP partner Jenny Hochenberg has played a lead role in some of the biggest-ever cross-border acquisitions at a busy time for mergers and acquisitions across the globe, advising on deals worth a total of $85 billion in 2021, earning her a spot among the M&A attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Scott R. Foglietta
Scott R. Foglietta of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has played a role in securing several large recoveries for investors, including $480 million in a case against Wells Fargo and $210 million against Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Cooley's Ian Nussbaum
Ian Nussbaum of Cooley LLP helped represent Tableau in its $15.7 billion sale to Salesforce and advised NeoPhotonics on its $918 million deal with Lumentum, earning him a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Beveridge & Diamond's Stacey Sublett Halliday
Stacey Sublett Halliday's deep knowledge of corporate and governmental processes and environmental justice issues has made her a valuable asset at Beveridge & Diamond PC, where she leads the firm's environmental justice practice and helped oversee Volkswagen's compliance with a historic settlement with the federal government, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Alston & Bird's Alexandra Garrison Barnett
Alston & Bird LLP partner Alexandra Garrison Barnett has played a lead role in defending employer clients including UPS from lawsuits by workers, earning her a spot among the employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Covington & Burling's Brianne Bharkhda
Covington & Burling LLP partner Brianne Bharkhda has defended patents for major drugmakers who sell the blockbuster cancer drug Imbruvica and antidepressant Trintellix, earning her a spot among intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Christopher J. Orrico
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's Christopher Orrico helped secure massive wins for shareholders suing TransCanada Corp. over a $13 billion acquisition and for stockholders crying foul over Starz Inc.'s $4.4 billion tie-up with Lions Gate, making him one of the class action attorneys under 40 honored as a Law360 Rising Star.
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May 31, 2022
Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Daniel H. Silverman
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's Daniel H. Silverman has scored important class certification wins, including on behalf of animators who successfully forced major film studios to settle no-poach allegations, making him one of the competition attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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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.
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July 15, 2021
Rising Star: DLA Piper's Scott Wilson
DLA Piper partner Scott Wilson has played a lead role in counseling prominent companies ensnared in federal and state regulatory matters, experience that helped spark a recent effort to launch a state attorney general practice, earning him a spot among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 15, 2021
Rising Star: Covington's Ranga Sudarshan
Ranga Sudarshan of Covington & Burling LLP advises clients on a range of cases involving off-the-road tires, bedsheet linens, smartphones and fiber optic cables, and he recently helped an Israeli defense contractor win a $33 million settlement in a patent infringement suit, landing him a spot among the technology law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 15, 2021
Rising Star: Feuerstein Kulick's Samantha Gleit
Samantha Gleit of Feuerstein Kulick LLP has structured long-term loans for some of the biggest players in the cannabis space — including a $300 million loan for pot giant Curaleaf — and pioneered debt financing in an industry on the rise, earning her a spot as one of the top cannabis law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2021
Rising Star: Hughes Hubbard's Mike DeBernardis
Hughes Hubbard LLP's Mike DeBernardis is a budding star in the area of government investigations and compliance, guiding Chinese state-owned enterprises to adopt complex, multipronged compliance programs, landing him a spot as one of the top compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2021
Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Meredith Dearborn
Meredith Dearborn of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP led the legal team that secured the dismissal of a major class action suit against Apple, earning her a spot among the technology law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2021
Rising Star: Holland & Knight's Leila George-Wheeler
Leila George-Wheeler of Holland & Knight LLP has represented health services contractor Comprehensive Health Services Inc. when it was scrutinized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Dominica Maritime Registry when it faced an Office of Foreign Assets Control probe. These accomplishments and others have earned her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2021
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Zachary Zweihorn
Zachary Zweihorn of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped advise Morgan Stanley on its $13 billion acquisition of E-Trade and Charles Schwab in its $26 billion purchase of TD Ameritrade, and helped cryptocurrency trading platforms obtain key regulatory wins, earning him a spot among the fintech practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2021
Rising Star: Greenspoon Marder's Irina Dashevsky
Irina Dashevsky of Greenspoon Marder LLP helped her former firm, Locke Lord LLP, launch a cannabis practice and represented would-be dispensary operators suing the state of Illinois over its management of the state's newly legal recreational cannabis industry, earning her a spot among the cannabis law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2021
Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Tristan Morales
O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Tristan Morales has successfully defended American Airlines, United Airlines and other air carriers in multiple class actions concerning pilots' military leaves of absence, earning him a spot among the top transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.