Winston & Strawn is recognized as a top-tier firm in five practice areas and recommended in an additional 48 categories in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. In addition, 10 lawyers are listed in the Hall of Fame, 14 lawyers are recognized as Leading Lawyers, five attorneys are listed as Next Generation Partners, and four associates are recognized as Rising Stars.

Top-Tier Firm:

  • E-Discovery
  • Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
  • Leading Trial Lawyers
  • M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • Sport

Hall of Fame:

  • Jonathan Birenbaum: Energy: renewable/alternative power
  • Oscar David: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • Michael Elkin: Copyright
  • Tom Jarvis: Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
  • Jeffrey Kessler: Sport
  • George Lombardi: Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action - Defense: Consumer Products; Leading Trial Lawyers; Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
  • Abbe Lowell: Leading Trial Lawyers; Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
  • Allen Miller: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • David Rogers: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
  • Dan Webb: Leading Trial Lawyers; Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense; Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices

Leading Lawyers:

  • Matt Bergmann: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • Jonathan Birenbaum: Energy Transactions: Conventional Power
  • Suzanne Jaffe Bloom: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
  • Eva Cole: Cartel
  • Pam Davis: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
  • Isaac Griesbaum: Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
  • David Greenspan: Sport
  • Jim Herbison: Civil Litigation/Class Action: Defense
  • Scott Landau: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
  • Charlie Papavizas: Transport: Shipping - Litigation and Regulation
  • John Rosenthal: E-Discovery
  • Laurae Rossi: Energy - Renewable/Alternative Power
  • Denise Scofield: General Commercial Disputes

Next Generation Partners:

  • Jonathan Amoona: Sport
  • Katie Blaszak: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • Eva Cole: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
  • Timothy Kincaid: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
  • Erin Ranahan: Copyright

Rising Stars:

  • Jason Campbell: Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions): Defense
  • Adam Dale: Sport
  • Maria Kenny: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, and Retirement Plans: Transactional
  • Imad Khan: International Arbitration

View the full rankings here.

The Legal 500 is a prominent UK-based publishing organization that conducts extensive research within key legal markets to evaluate law firm practice areas based on, among other things, reputation and attorney and client feedback.