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Rankings: Rising Stars
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July 22, 2024
Rising Star: Filippatos' Tanvir H. Rahman
Tanvir Rahman of Filippatos PLLC secured a $12 million settlement for a former Fox News producer who said she was used as a scapegoat during the network's legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
Rising Star: Jackson Lewis' Douglas J. Klein
Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 Names 2024's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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June 26, 2023
Rising Star: Skadden's Anne E. Villanueva
Anne E. Villanueva of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been at the forefront of labor and employment issues for some of the biggest tech deals in the last few years, including Microsoft's proposed $75 billion acquisition of Activision and Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 23, 2023
Rising Star: Jones Day's Kelsey Israel-Trummel
Kelsey Israel-Trummel of Jones Day steered a California water treatment and purification company to a precedential win in a statewide class action challenging the company's calculation of workers' regular wage rates, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 22, 2023
Rising Star: Lieff Cabraser's Michelle Lamy
Michelle Lamy of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has represented women in class actions against huge employers such as Google and Goldman Sachs in efforts to level the playing field for women in the workplace, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2023
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Thomas Ahlering
Thomas Ahlering of King & Spalding LLP has led many employers to legal victories in biometric privacy disputes and helped architect a novel, winning legal theory in a privacy case against United Airlines at the Seventh Circuit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 20, 2023
Rising Star: Norton Rose's Kimberly Cheeseman
Kimberly Cheeseman of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has advised energy companies and other employers on how to navigate workers' discrimination and wage-and-hour claims, including a recent U.S. Supreme Court case over the salary basis test, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 19, 2023
Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Jolie Pavlos
Jolie Pavlos of Morgan & Morgan has helped secure multimillion-dollar verdicts and class action settlements for workers by successfully arguing against the enforceability of arbitration agreements at both trial and appeals courts, landing her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2023
Law360 Names 2023's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2023, our list of 183 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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June 06, 2022
Rising Star: Stueve Siegel's Alexander Ricke
Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP's Alexander Ricke has earned casino workers more than $45 million in total settlements and litigated numerous other cases concerning a range of wage and hour violations in the industry, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 03, 2022
Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Qiaojing Ella Zheng
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP's Qiaojing Ella Zheng has blazed a path for communities underrepresented in law and leverages her bicultural knowledge to serve clients, including securing an $8.3 million arbitration award in a contract breach case that spanned both Chinese and American legal systems, earning her a spot among the employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 02, 2022
Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Ashley M. Farrell Pickett
Ashley M. Farrell Pickett of Greenberg Traurig LLP has advised major companies on how to navigate wage and hour and wrongful termination claims, including defending McDonald's and a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee against class actions, 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: 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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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 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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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Lauren Blas
Lauren Blas of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped Ashley Judd revive a sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein and secured a successful decertification bid of a class of 11,000 drivers for J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., earning her a spot among the top employment law practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Jocelyn R. Cuttino
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner Jocelyn Cuttino has carved out a practice helping organizations like National Public Radio, Vice Media Inc. and UNICEF work through difficult diversity and inclusion issues, earning her a spot on this year's list of employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 15, 2021
Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Danielle Fuschetti
Danielle Fuschetti of Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP has negotiated pay discrimination settlements that included millions of dollars in payouts and programmatic changes in the workplace, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 14, 2021
Rising Star: Berger Montague's Camille Fundora Rodriguez
Camille Fundora Rodriguez of Berger Montague has racked up six and seven-figure settlements on behalf of scores of workers who say they were underpaid, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 11, 2021
Rising Star: Hunton's Amber Rogers
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner Amber Rogers convinced the Fifth Circuit to overturn a pair of National Labor Relations Board decisions and snagged a trial victory in an unusually drawn-out race discrimination case, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 28, 2021
Law360 Names 2021's Top Attorneys Under 40
We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2021, our list of 180 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
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July 10, 2020
Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Russell Kornblith
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP's Russell Kornblith represents a group of female attorneys who charge white shoe firm Jones Day with pay discrimination, forcing Big Law to reckon with its own gender inequality in the "black box" compensation model and earning him a spot among the five employment law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Ryan Derry
Paul Hastings' Ryan Derry has demonstrated a solid track record of securing trial victories in thorny labor cases for major clients, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's John Richards
John Richards of Greenberg Traurig LLP has guided Abercrombie & Fitch and Stanley Steemer through high-stakes class actions and has established himself as a go-to lawyer for helping global retail brands navigate a maze of workplace compliance challenges, earning him a spot as one of Law360's employment law Rising Stars.