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MVP: Bernstein Litowitz's Jeroen van Kwawegen
Jeroen van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has helped to secure hundreds of millions in settlements of shareholder suits against Banco Santander, Walmart, WarnerMedia and others, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: Crowell & Moring's David Chung
Crowell & Moring LLP partner David Chung spent the last year racking up various accomplishments, including successfully arguing federal appeals cases 12 days apart on opposite coasts and supporting the winning side of a U.S. Supreme Court case, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki
A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki beat back investor derivative claims against Bank of America, helped douse securities litigation against Norfolk Southern's underwriters and freed PayPal from a high-dollar stock fraud suit, earning a place as one of the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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MVP: Simpson Thacher's Hui Lin
Hui Lin of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's capital markets practice helped private equity firm Silver Lake complete its $13 billion deal to take sports and entertainment company Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. private, and represented Mars Inc. in its $26 billion senior notes offering, earning her a spot as one of 2025 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Sally Wagner Partin
Sally Wagner Partin of Sidley Austin LLP represented Stryker Corp. in its $4.9 billion acquisition of the maker of medical technology used to remove blood clots without the need for clot-dissolving drugs, earning her a spot as one the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: WilmerHale's Felicia Ellsworth
WilmerHale partner Felicia Ellsworth handled a breadth of matters in the last year, from successfully defending The New York Times at trial from defamation charges brought by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to litigating a local land dispute in Martha's Vineyard, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Wright's Katherine Bolger
Katherine Bolger of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP won the dismissal of actor Justin Baldoni's libel lawsuit against The New York Times, successfully defended CNN in defamation claims brought by high-profile officials and defeated a New York Philharmonic musician's lawsuit against Vox Media over its investigative reporting, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Polk's Andrew M. Ahern
Andrew M. Ahern of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP co-led a $6 billion fund for PSG Equity LLC, a $2.2 billion buyout fund for J.F. Lehman & Co. and multiple funds totaling $2 billion for Lightspeed Venture Partners amid a move to his new firm, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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MVP: Kreindler & Kreindler's Daniel O. Rose
Kreindler & Kreindler LLP partner Daniel O. Rose is spearheading personal injury and wrongful death litigation over the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and the midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
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MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis
John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA helped Google account holders secure a $425 million jury verdict over the tech giant's allegedly secret tracking of their app activity and notched several multimillion-dollar settlements for consumers affected by data breaches at companies such as MGM Resorts and insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher, earning him a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Steven A. Cohen And Steven R. Green
Steven A. Cohen and Steven R. Green of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised Charter Communications on its $34.5 billion combination with Cox Communications Inc. and on its $15 billion acquisition of Liberty Broadband Corp., earning them a spot among the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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Dechert Increases Partnership Class To 17 Attorneys
After more than doubling its partner class from that of the previous year at the end of 2024, Dechert LLP announced Monday that it has grown its partner class again with the promotion of 17 attorneys across six practices and eight offices.
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Clifford Chance Hires Another Day Pitney Energy Expert In DC
A little less than a year after joining Day Pitney LLP's energy practice, an attorney who moved there alongside a longtime colleague has followed him to a new firm once more, joining Clifford Chance's energy regulatory and markets practice as a counsel, the firm announced Monday.
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Paul Hastings Adds Winston & Strawn Litigation Duo In Dallas
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a pair of seasoned litigators in Dallas who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP.
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Split 6th Circ. Shields Baker Donelson, Not City Councilman
In a published opinion, the Sixth Circuit has found that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is shielded by qualified immunity as outside counsel for the city of Nashville in litigation over the law firm's firing of a city election commission chair and member of the firm.
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MVP: Ropes & Gray's Abigail Gregor
Abigail Gregor of Ropes & Gray LLP advised Bain Capital on the formation of a new biopharmaceutical company focused on autoimmune disease treatments and AbbVie on its acquisition of a cell therapy developer in a potentially $2.1 billion deal, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Steptoe's Pantelis Michalopoulos
Pantelis Michalopoulos of Steptoe LLP fought the Federal Communications Commission's decision to consider revisiting an extension given to Dish Network parent company EchoStar that jeopardized its spectrum licenses and helped resolve a carriage dispute between Comcast and a local New York sports network, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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MVP: Singleton Schreiber's Brett Schreiber
Brett Schreiber of Singleton Schreiber LLP won a $329 million verdict in a headline-grabbing suit against Tesla over a fatal crash in the Florida Keys, the first case to find Tesla's autopilot system defective, a win that secured him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's Lewis Kneib
Lewis Kneib of Latham & Watkins LLP helped space exploration firm Voyager achieve liftoff with a $440 million initial public offering, led self-storage operator SmartStop's $810 million IPO and worked on warehouse giant Lineage's $4.4 billion IPO, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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MVP: Reese Marketos' Pete Marketos And Josh Russ
Pete Marketos and Josh Russ of Reese Marketos LLP won a $1.64 billion award in a False Claims Act case against Janssen Products — thought to be the largest judgment ever in a qui tam case that went to trial — earning them spots as two of the 2025 Law360 Trial MVPs.
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MVP: Proskauer's Bradley Ruskin
Proskauer Rose LLP partner Bradley Ruskin successfully defeated antitrust allegations against Major League Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Federation, and guided the NBA and NFL in rebuffing a request for sensitive information from racing teams suing NASCAR over an alleged monopoly, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Paul Bond
Paul Bond of Holland & Knight LLP's data strategy, security and privacy team has handled sprawling data privacy litigation in a rapidly evolving legal landscape, even ushering in a change to state law that curbed what he calls a "cottage industry" created by plaintiffs' attorneys, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.
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Blank Rome's Reelected Leader Sees Values As Key To Growth
As he prepares to begin a second four-year term as Blank Rome LLP's managing partner and chair, Grant Palmer said a commitment to longstanding values like teamwork and diversity have helped the firm navigate changes in the legal market since it launched in Philadelphia nearly 80 years ago.
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Akerman Matches 2023 Partnership Class With 15 Additions
Akerman LLP announced Tuesday that it has promoted 15 lawyers to its partnership, the same number it promoted to partner in 2023 and five fewer than it tapped in 2024.
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Magic Circle Firms Enchant Associates With Top-Tier Bonuses
U.S. associates at Linklaters LLP and Clifford Chance LLP have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, as the Magic Circle firms Wednesday became the latest to match the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.