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Rankings: Rising Stars
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March 30, 2012
Rising Star: Sidley Austin's Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan F. Cohn, a partner in Sidley Austin LLP's Washington office, was named the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's civil appellate litigation division when he was 34, making him the youngest person ever named to that position. Now 39, he's one of five attorneys under 40 selected by Law360 as a rising star in appellate litigation.
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March 30, 2012
Rising Star: Reed Smith's Paul Bond
Finding success litigating for large clients like E-Trade Financial Corp. and providing critical compliance counsel for corporations, Reed Smith LLP partner Paul Bond has earned a place among Law360's four rising stars under 40 to watch in the privacy and consumer protection industry.
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March 30, 2012
Rising Star: Cravath's Gary Bornstein
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Gary Bornstein sees himself not as a younger partner but as an accomplished litigator able to go head-to-head with senior attorneys in any case, such as his representation of Delphi Financial Group Inc.'s special committee in a shareholder suit over a $3 billion buyout — work that helped land him a spot among Law360's five securities rising stars to watch.
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March 30, 2012
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Elizabeth Cooper
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Elizabeth Cooper's work on Charles Schwab Corp.'s $1 billion acquisition of optionsXpress Holdings Inc. and her representation of the U.S. Treasury in connection with the $250 billion TARP program have earned her a spot as one of Law360's top five M&A lawyers under 40.
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March 29, 2012
Rising Star: Weil Gotshal's Randi Singer
Through her work for clients like eBay Inc. and Procter & Gamble, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Randi Singer has earned a reputation as a go-to attorney for copyright and Lanham Act false advertising and trademark litigation, earning her a spot among Law360's five rising media and entertainment stars under 40.
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March 29, 2012
Rising Star: Akin Gump's David Quigley
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's David Quigley has helped clients manage environmental due diligence related to more than $1 billion in acquisitions, using an innovative approach tailored to the risks faced by financial services companies, one of many accomplishments earning him a spot among Law360's top five environmental attorneys under 40.
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March 29, 2012
Rising Star: Akin Gump's Daniel Sinaiko
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner Daniel Sinaiko's recent project list includes North America's biggest wind and solar farms and a down-to-the-wire deal for a U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee, earning him a place among Law360's five top project attorneys under 40.
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March 29, 2012
Rising Star: Seyfarth Shaw's Rebecca Woods
Rebecca Woods of Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a young partner with the unique experience of successfully representing both sides of insurance disputes, making her a sought-after advocate for clients and earning her a spot among Law360's top insurance attorneys under 40.
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March 29, 2012
Rising Star: Hunton & Williams' Ryan Shores
Hunton & Williams LLP's Ryan Shores has quickly earned a reputation as a go-to attorney with a keen sense for designing case theories that have helped him successfully defend a Florida concrete company against price-fixing allegations, landing him a spot on Law360's list of top five competition partners under 40 to watch.
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March 28, 2012
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's David Singer
Behind Fox Broadcasting Co.'s successful defeat of sweeping document requests by former college athletes in a contentious antitrust fight was Jenner & Block LLP's David Singer, selected as one of Law360's five rising media and entertainment law stars under 40 for his role in distribution and liability cases that have shaped an industry transformed by technology.
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March 28, 2012
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Deborah Stein
In a career barely older than a decade, Deborah L. Stein of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has already earned a reputation as a go-to litigator for major insurers like The Standard Fire Insurance Co. and National Fire & Marine Insurance Co., landing her a spot on Law360's list of five rising insurance stars under 40.
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March 28, 2012
Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Corey Roush
Hogan Lovells partner Corey Roush has scored big wins for health care providers and others facing antitrust claims, including fending off a government challenge to Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings' $58 million acquisition of Westcliff Medical Laboratories Inc., earning him a spot on Law360's list of five competition attorneys under 40 to watch.
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March 28, 2012
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Inosi Nyatta
Whether helping a Canadian mining company finance a massive acquisition or securing initial financing for a $10 billion South African energy endeavor, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP project finance ace Inosi M. Nyatta keeps pace with a rapidly evolving area of the law, earning her one of five spots on Law360's list of rising stars under 40 in the practice area.
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March 28, 2012
Rising Star: Baker Botts' Scott Janoe
Scott Janoe of Baker Botts LLP helped steer BP Products North America Inc. through a settlement with the state of Texas for half of the $100 million the state originally sought for air pollution allegedly resulting from a deadly refinery explosion, making him one of Law360's five rising environmental law stars under 40.
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March 27, 2012
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Laura Godfrey
Latham & Watkins LLP partner Laura Godfrey has helped Southern California Edison Co. and other companies in the western U.S. fend off federal and local environmental challenges — both inside and outside court — on their way to gaining regulatory approval for large-scale transmission capacity projects, earning her a place among Law360's five rising environmental stars under 40.
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March 27, 2012
Rising Star: Stroock's James Sammataro
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP partner James Sammataro has scored big for several clients, including securing a $7.5 million settlement for the bankruptcy trustee for the estate of boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman in a contract and copyright suit over the MTV show "Making the Band," earning him a spot among Law360's five rising media and entertainment law stars under 40.
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March 27, 2012
Rising Star: Jones Day's Howard Sidman
Jones Day's Howard Sidman has been a driving force behind the rapid growth of the firm's insurance recovery practice, bringing home upwards of a half billion dollars for policyholders in his short tenure as partner, landing him a spot among Law360's rising stars of insurance law.
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March 27, 2012
Rising Star: Hausfeld's Megan Jones
Hausfeld LLP founding partner Megan Jones has helped secure more than $500 million for cartel victims in big-ticket antitrust cases like the ongoing municipal derivatives litigation in New York and founded an organization for female antitrust plaintiffs' attorneys, two of the achievements that landed her a spot on Law360's list of five competition attorneys under 40 to watch.
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March 27, 2012
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Stephen McWilliams
Stephen McWilliams is one of the youngest office managing partners in BigLaw and has grown Latham & Watkins LLP's Singapore branch from an island outpost advising mostly on domestic power plants to a regional infrastructure heavyweight with a $100 billion deal pipeline and some of Australasia's most innovative financings to its name, earning him a spot among Law360's top project attorneys under 40.
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March 26, 2012
Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' J. Clayton Everett
J. Clayton Everett Jr. is a trusted resource for Pfizer Inc., Hitachi Ltd. and other heavyweights in need of counsel from a Morgan Lewis LLP partner who has landed one of five spots for antitrust attorneys on Law360's list of rising stars under 40.
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March 26, 2012
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Robert Goldberg
From gearing international financing toward an Israeli toll road to leveraged lease financing for wind farms, Robert S. Goldberg of Mayer Brown LLP has earned a spot among Law360's top five project finance attorneys under 40 for his work on some of the most innovative project finance deals.
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March 26, 2012
Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Gary Seligman
Gary Seligman of Wiley Rein LLP is known within the insurance industry as a skillful lawyer whose handle on complicated law and deft brief writing have saved clients like Federal Insurance Co. millions of dollars, earning him a spot on Law360's list of insurance law's rising stars.
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March 26, 2012
Rising Star: Baker Hostetler's Mark DeLaquil
Texas, Asarco LLC, industry groups and academics have all counted on Baker Hostetler partner Mark DeLaquil during high-profile battles over global warming and attempts to regulate greenhouse gas and other emissions, making the 32-year-old one of Law360's top five environmental attorneys under 40.
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March 26, 2012
Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Nancy Bruington
O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Nancy Bruington has helped Hollywood studios secure fleeting financing and negotiated complex deals, including advising on the two-picture adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," earning her a place among Law360's five rising media and entertainment law stars under 40.
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March 23, 2012
Rising Star: Reed Smith's Tom Ara
Reed Smith LLP's Tom Ara has represented several Chinese investors financing Hollywood films and worked on Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $2.3 billion purchase of a media company, nabbing him a spot among Law360's rising media and entertainment stars under 40.