CORE PRACTICE AREAS

Intellectual Property

• National
  • Intellectual Property (Firm Band 1)
  • Life Sciences (Firm Band 1)
  • Life Sciences: Commercial
    • Jonathan S Dickstein (Band 2)
  • Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
    • Kate H Murashige (Band 1)
  • Outsourcing (Firm Band 3)
    • John Delaney (Band 2)
    • Vivian L Hanson (Band 4)
      
      
• Regional
  
  
• New York
  • Technology & IT Outsourcing (Firm Band 2)
    • John Delaney (Band 1)
    • Vivian L Hanson (Band 3)
    • Gabriel Meister (Up and coming)
      
      
• California
  • Intellectual Property (Firm Band 1)
  • Intellectual Property: Patent
    • Harold J McElhinny (Band 1)
    • Michael A Jacobs (Band 2)
    • Kate H Murashige (Band 3)
    • Rachel Krevans (Band 3)
    • David C Doyle (Band 4)
  • IT & IT Outsourcing (Firm Band 2)
    • William Schwartz (Band 2)
    • Paul E Jahn (Band 3)
  • Life Sciences (Firm Band 1)
  • Life Sciences: Commercial
    • John W Campbell (Band 1)
    • Jonathan S Dickstein (Band 1)
  • Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
    • Gladys H Monroy (Band 1)
    • Kate H Murashige (Band 1)
    • Thomas Ciotti (Band 1)
      
      
• Virginia
  • Intellectual Property: Northern Virginia (Firm Band 2)
    • Barry E Bretschneider (Band 1)
      

Corporate M&A

• National
  
  • Corporate/M&A (Firm Band 4)
    
    
• Regional
  
  
• California
  • Corporate/M&A: Deals in Asia
    • Robert S Townsend (Band 2)
  • Corporate/M&A: Northern California (Firm Band 3)
    • Robert S Townsend (Band 4)
      
      
• Colorado
  • Corporate/M&A (Firm Band 3)
    • Whitney Holmes (Band 2)
      
      
• Virginia
  • Corporate/M&A: Northern Virginia (Firm Band 2)
    • Lawrence T Yanowitch (Band 1)
    • Thomas J Knox (Band 1)
    • Jack L Lewis (Senior Statesman)
    • Charles Katz (Up and coming)

Capital Markets

• National
  • Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Firm Band 4)
    • James Tanenbaum (Band 3)
  • Capital Markets: Derivatives (Firm Band 3)
    • Anna Pinedo (Band 3)
    • David Kaufman (Band 3)
  • Capital Markets: Structured Products (Firm Band 3)
    
    
• Regional
  
  
• California
  • Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Firm Band 4)
    • William D Sherman (Band 3)

Litigation

• National
  • Appellate Law (Firm Band 4)
  • Government: Government Contracts
    • Richard J Vacura (Band 4)
  • Insurance: Insurer Firms
    • David B Babbe (Band 3)
  • International Arbitration (Firm Band 5)
    • Cedric Chao (Band 4)
      
      
• Regional
  
  
• New York
  • Antitrust
    • Dennis P Orr (Band 4)
  • Litigation: General Commercial
    • Dennis P Orr (Band 3)
  • Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded (Firm Band 3)
  • Litigation: Securities
    • Jack Auspitz (Band 3)
  • Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
    • Carl H Loewenson Jr (Band 3)
      
      
• District of Columbia
  • Litigation: Appellate
    • Beth Brinkmann (Band 2)
      
      
• California
  • Antitrust (Firm Band 3)
    • Penelope A Preovolos (Band 2)
  • Insurance: Insurer Firms
    • David B Babbe (Band 2)
  • Labor & Employment (Firm Band 3)
    • Raymond Wheeler (Band 3)
    • Rick Bergstrom (Band 4)
  • Litigation: General Commercial (Firm Band 2)
    • James P Bennett (Band 3)
    • James Brosnahan (Senior Statesman)
  • Litigation: Securities
    • Jordan Eth (Band 1)
    • Melvin Goldman (Senior Statesman)
  • Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
    • James Brosnahan (Senior Statesman)

Financial Services

• National
  • Financial Services Regulation: Banking & Securities (Regulatory Compliance) (Firm Band 2)
    • L Richard Fischer (Band 1)
    • Henry M Fields (Band 2)
    • Oliver I Ireland (Band 2)
    • Joseph Gabai (Band 3)
  • Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations) (Firm Band 3)
    • Henry M Fields (Band 2)
  • Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Financial Services Regulation (Firm Band 1)
    • L Richard Fischer (Band 1)
  • Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institutions M&A (Firm Band 3)
    • Henry M Fields (Band 3)
  • Financial Services Regulation: Securities (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations)
    • Darryl P Rains (Band 3)
  • Investment Funds: Registered Funds
    • Marco Adelfio (Band 3)
      
      
  Regional
  
  
• California
  • Banking & Finance (Firm Band 3)
    • F Daniel Leventhal (Band 3)
    • Pauline M Stevens (Band 3)

Other Recognized Specialties

National

• Privacy & Data Security (Firm Band 1)
• L Richard Fischer (Band 1)
• Miriam Wugmeister (Band 1)
• Joan P Warrington (Band 2)
  

Regional

• New York
  • Real Estate: Finance
    • Mark S Edelstein (Band 3)
      
      
• California
  • Environment (Firm Band 2)
    • Michèle B Corash (Band 1)
  • Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation
    • Patrick McCabe (Band 4)
  • Projects & Energy (Firm Band 1)
    • Gordon Erspamer (Band 2)
    • Peter Hanschen (Band 2)
  • Real Estate (Firm Band 2)
    • Carl (Kim) Seneker (Band 1)
    • Thomas Fileti (Band 2)
  • Tax (Firm Band 3)
  • Tax: State & Local
• Eric J Coffill (Band 1)
• Carley A Roberts (Up and coming)
  
  
• District of Columbia
  • Energy: Oil & Gas
    • Robert H Loeffler (Band 3)
  • Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite: Regulatory (Firm Band 2)
    • Cheryl Tritt (Band 1)
    • William F Maher Jr (Band 4)

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