Chambers USA has recognized 185 Ballard Spahr attorneys and 76 firm practices in the newly released 2025 edition of its industry guide to leading lawyers and law firms.
Once again, the firm earned a Band 1 national ranking in Public Finance law as well as Band 1 Public Finance rankings in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and—new this year—Arizona.
Ballard Spahr also once again earned a Band 1 national ranking in First Amendment Litigation, and the firm’s Delaware litigators received a new top-tier state ranking in the White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations category.
At the state level, Ballard Spahr is ranked in Band 1 in Pennsylvania in seven areas: Banking and Finance; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Litigation: Securities; Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; Public Finance; Real Estate; and Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use.
The firm also is ranked in Band 1 in state rankings for Real Estate and Public Finance in Maryland and in Media and Entertainment and Public Finance in Washington, D.C.
Ballard Spahr combined with Lane Powell on January 1, 2025, and the firm’s 2025 rankings now include significant recognition in the Pacific Northwest. Nineteen of the firm’s practice areas across Alaska, Oregon, and Washington State received rankings for 2025. These include Band 1 rankings for Banking and Finance; Construction; and Health Care in Washington State, as well as Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Oregon. Fifty-one attorneys in the Pacific Northwest were ranked.
Twenty-two Ballard Spahr lawyers increased in their individual band rankings and 24 others were ranked for the first time.
The Chambers USA methodology involves client interviews, peer reviews, and independent research. The rankings reflect the criteria considered most valued by clients—legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness, diligence, and value.
Ballard Spahr 2025 Chambers USA-Ranked Practices
National
Cannabis Law
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement and Investigations)
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
First Amendment Litigation
Gaming and Licensing
Political Law
Projects: PPP
Public Finance
Real Estate
REITs: Maryland Counsel
Retail
Alaska
Litigation: General Commercial
Real Estate
Arizona
Corporate/M&A
Environment
Intellectual Property
Labor and Employment
Public Finance
Real Estate
Colorado
Litigation: General Commercial
Real Estate
Delaware
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Chancery
Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations
District of Columbia
Media and Entertainment
Public Finance
Real Estate
Georgia
Intellectual Property
Maryland
Corporate/M&A
Public Finance
Real Estate
Minnesota
Corporate/M&A
Real Estate
New Jersey
Labor and Employment
New York
Intellectual Property: Patent
Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations
Media and Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation
Media and Entertainment: Litigation
Oregon
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Corporate/M&A
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Labor and Employment
Litigation: General Commercial
Real Estate
Pennsylvania
Antitrust
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Environment
Intellectual Property
Labor and Employment
Litigation: General Commercial
Litigation: Securities
Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations
Public Finance
Real Estate
Real Estate: Finance
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Tax
South Dakota
Corporate/Commercial
Litigation: General Commercial
Utah
Litigation: General Commercial
Real Estate
Washington
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Construction
Corporate/M&A
Environment
Health Care
Immigration
Insurance
Labor and Employment
Litigation: General Commercial
Tax
Ballard Spahr 2025 Chambers USA Leading Lawyers
Business and Transactions
Richard J. Andreano, Jr., Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Compliance (Nationwide); Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Enforcement and Investigations (Nationwide)
Amy L. Arndt, Corporate/Commercial (South Dakota)
Kara Backus, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (Oregon)
J. Thomas Bashore II, REITs: Maryland Counsel (Nationwide)
Noelle Cooper, Health Care (Washington)
John L. Culhane, Jr., Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Compliance (Nationwide); Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Enforcement and Investigations (Nationwide); Banking and Finance: Mainly Regulatory (Pennsylvania)
Paige L. Davis, Corporate/M&A (Washington)
Brian D. Doerner, Corporate/M&A and Private Equity (Pennsylvania)
Brett Durbin, Tax (Washington)
Scott M. Edwards, Tax (Washington)
Douglas M. Fox, REITs: Maryland Counsel (Nationwide); Corporate/M&A (Maryland)
Patrick J. Franke, Corporate/M&A (Washington)
Laura C. Giles, Corporate/M&A (Arizona)
Gerald J. Guarcini, Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania)
Kenneth R. Haglund, Corporate/M&A (Oregon)
Lewis M. Horowitz, Cannabis Law: Western U.S. (Nationwide); Tax (Washington)
Christopher A. Jones, Tax (Pennsylvania)
Alan S. Kaplinsky, Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Compliance (Nationwide); Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Enforcement and Investigations (Nationwide); Banking and Finance, Mainly Regulatory (Pennsylvania)
Robert C. Kim, Corporate/Commercial (Nevada)
Justin P. Klein, Corporate/M&A and Private Equity (Pennsylvania); Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania)
Michael R. Kuhn, Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
Edward I. Leeds, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (Pennsylvania)
Carin A. Marney, Health Care (Washington)
Karen C. McConnell, Corporate/M&A (Arizona)
Charles R. Moran, REITs: Maryland Counsel (Nationwide); Corporate/M&A (Maryland)
Mike E. Morgan, Corporate/M&A (Washington)
Christopher A. Motta-Wurst, Immigration (Washington)
Dustin J. O’Quinn, Immigration (Washington)
Brian M. Pinheiro, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (Pennsylvania)
Lisa D. Poplawski, Corporate/M&A (Oregon)
D. Finn Pressly, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (Florida)
Gregory T. Pyle, Corporate/M&A (Washington); Health Care (Washington)
Nathan E. Seiler, Corporate/M&A (Colorado)
Maggie M. Tatton, Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
Robert E. Tunheim, Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
John D. Wambold, Corporate/M&A (Minnesota)
Jeffrey C. Wolfstone, Corporate/M&A (Oregon)
Betty N. Wong, Immigration (Washington)
Finance
Valarie J. Allen, Public Finance (Pennsylvania)
Chrissey L. Barba, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania)
Michele L. Bax, Public Finance (Arizona)
Alicia B. Clark, Real Estate (Colorado)
Tyler M. Cobb, Public Finance (Arizona)
Dominic J. De Simone, Real Estate: Finance (Pennsylvania)
David J. Fernandez, Public Finance (New York)
Teri M. Guarnaccia, Public Finance (Maryland)
Thomas A. Hauser, Real Estate (Maryland)
Charles S. Henck, Public Finance (District of Columbia)
Anastasia G. Khokhryakova, Public Finance (Colorado)
Kimberly D. Magrini, Public Finance (Pennsylvania)
Steven M. Miller, Banking and Finance (Pennsylvania)
Emilie R. Ninan, Public Finance (District of Columbia)
Marybeth Orsini, Public Finance (Maryland)
Michael Parise, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Alaska); Real Estate (Alaska)
Steve T. Park, Projects: PPP (Nationwide)
Richard S. Perelman, Banking and Finance (Pennsylvania)
William C. Rhodes, Public Finance (Pennsylvania)
Jennifer Santangelo, Banking and Finance (Pennsylvania)
Julie H. Seidenstein, Real Estate (Washington)
John P. Smolen, Projects: PPP (Nationwide)
P. Andrew Spicknall, Public Finance (District of Columbia)
Stephanie Stephens, Banking and Finance (Washington)
Randall J. Towers, Public Finance (Pennsylvania)
Maulin Vidwans, Banking and Finance (Pennsylvania)
L. Frederick Williams, Jr., Public Finance (Arizona)
Sandra Wintner, Banking and Finance (Pennsylvania)
Intellectual Property
Joseph P. Anderson III, Intellectual Property (Georgia)
Margaret "Peg" Bolce Brivanlou, Ph.D., Intellectual Property: Patent: Transactional (New York)
Kenneth R. Davis II, Intellectual Property (Oregon); Litigation: General Commercial (Oregon)
Brian W. LaCorte, Intellectual Property (Arizona)
Scott D. Marty, Ph.D., Intellectual Property (Georgia)
Richard Miller, Intellectual Property (Georgia)
Lynn E. Rzonca, Intellectual Property (Pennsylvania)
D. Brian Shortell, Ph.D., Intellectual Property (Georgia)
Kenneth H. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D., Intellectual Property: Patent (New York)
Litigation
David J. Armstrong, Environment (Arizona
David L. Axelrod, Litigation: Securities (Pennsylvania); Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
Michael B. Baylous, Litigation: General Commercial (Alaska)
Stanton P. Beck, Construction (Washington)
Kate A. Belinski, Political Law (Nationwide)
Seth D. Berlin, Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
Michael Berry, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide)
Jennifer McMillan Beyerlein, Construction (Washington)
David J. Bodney, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide)
Lorene L. Boudreau, Environment (Pennsylvania)
Chad R. Bowman, Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
Katheryn Bradley, Labor and Employment (Washington)
Jay Ward Brown, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide); Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
Thomas Burke, Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Litigation (Nationwide)
Bruce Cahn, Litigation: General Commercial (Oregon)
Callie Castillo, Litigation: General Commercial (Washington)
Louis L. Chodoff, Labor and Employment (New Jersey)
Brendan K. Collins, Environment (Pennsylvania)
Melissa R. Costello, Labor and Employment (Arizona)
David W. Criswell, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Oregon)
Meredith S. Dante, Labor and Employment (Pennsylvania)
Stephania Camp Denton, Insurance (Washington)
John S. Devlin, Litigation: General Commercial (Washington)
Barbara J. Duffy, Health Care (Washington); Litigation: General Commercial (Washington)
Charles R. Ekberg, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Washington)
Michael D. Fabius, Gaming and Licensing (Nationwide)
Shannon D. Farmer, Labor and Employment (Pennsylvania)
Gregory R. Fox, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Washington)
Pilar C. French, Litigation: General Commercial (Oregon)
Daniel R. Fritz, Litigation: General Commercial (South Dakota)
Andrew J. Gabel, Construction (Washington)
Mark R. Gaylord, Litigation: General Commercial (Utah)
M. Norman Goldberger, Litigation: Securities (Pennsylvania)
Kaitlin M. Gurney, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide)
Theodore J. Hartl, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Colorado)
David A. Haworth, Environment (New Jersey)
Leslie C. Heilman, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
Henry E. Hockeimer, Jr., Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
David G. Hosenpud, Labor and Employment (Oregon)
Brewster H. Jamieson, Litigation: General Commercial (Alaska)
Timothy W. Jenkins, Political Law (Nationwide)
Stephen J. Kastenberg, Antitrust (Pennsylvania); Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania)
Matthew E. Kelley, Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
Denise M. Keyser, Labor and Employment (New Jersey)
Adrian R. King, Jr., Gaming and Licensing (Nationwide)
Mark S. Kokanovich, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Arizona)
Janet Knauss Larsen, Litigation: General Commercial (Oregon)
Jason A. Leckerman, Antitrust (Pennsylvania)
David J. Margules, Chancery (Delaware)
Devon McCurdy, Litigation: General Commercial (Washington)
Emilia McKee Vassallo, White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
Daniel JT McKenna, Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance, Litigation (Nationwide)
Maxwell S. Mishkin, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide); Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
James A. Mitchell, Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations (New York)
Beth Moskow-Schnoll, Litigation: White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Delaware)
Michael A. Nesteroff, Environment (Washington)
Lynn Oberlander, Media and Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation (New York)
Paul M. Ostroff, Labor and Employment (Oregon)
Douglas S. Parker, Labor and Employment (Oregon)
Kellen F. Patterson, Construction (Washington)
Brian D. Pedrow, Labor and Employment (Pennsylvania)
Marjorie J. Peerce, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (New York)
Ellie Perka, Construction (Washington)
Louis P. Petrich, Media and Entertainment: Litigation (California)
Andrew J. Petrie, Litigation: General Commercial (Colorado)
Lea A. Phillips, Environment (Arizona)
D. Michael Reilly, Labor and Employment (Washington)
Jeffrey W. Robinson, Litigation: General Commercial (Alaska)
Michael P. Robotti, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (New York
Edward D. Rogers, Antitrust (Pennsylvania)
Laurel D. Roglen, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware)
Jacquelyn N. Schell, Media and Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation (New York)
David A. Schulz, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide); Media and Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation (New York)
Elizabeth A. Sloan, Chancery (Delaware)
Alia L. Smith, Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
R. Stephen Stigall, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Pennsylvania)
Thomas B. Sullivan, Media and Entertainment: Litigation (New York); Media and Entertainment: First Amendment Litigation (New York)
Christine Thelen, Labor and Employment (Oregon)
Charles D. Tobin, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide); Media and Entertainment (District of Columbia)
Melanie J. Vartabedian, Litigation: General Commercial (Utah)
Priya B. Vivian, Labor and Employment (Washington)
Diane E. Vuocolo, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania)
Leita Walker, First Amendment Litigation (Nationwide)
Neal Walters, Litigation: Product Liability (New Jersey)
Harry Weiss, Environment (Pennsylvania)
Lesley Frieder Wolf, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Delaware)
James B. Zack, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Washington)
Jay A. Zweig, Labor and Employment (Arizona)
Real Estate
Jeremy R. Bader, Real Estate (Oregon)
Angela M. Christy, Real Estate (Minnesota)
Garret W. Crawshaw, Real Estate (Oregon)
Ashley E. DeLuca, Real Estate (Pennsylvania)
Nicole C. Evans, Real Estate (Utah)
Eben C. Hansel, Real Estate (Maryland)
Wendi L. Kotzen, Tax (Pennsylvania)
Jon M. Laria, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Maryland)
Tina R. Makoulian, Real Estate (Pennsylvania); Real Estate Finance (Pennsylvania)
Matthew N. McClure, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Pennsylvania)
Bart I. Mellits, Real Estate (Pennsylvania)
Maren Parry, Gaming and Licensing (Nationwide); Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Nevada)
Christopher W. Payne, Real Estate: Hotels and Leisure (Colorado)
Mark Pollak, Real Estate (Maryland)
Bryan E. Powell, Real Estate (Oregon)
Alan S. Ritterband, Real Estate (Pennsylvania)
Nicole L. Simmons, Real Estate (Arizona)
Raymond G. Truitt, Real Estate (Maryland)
James R. Walston, Real Estate (Minnesota)
Roger D. Winston, Real Estate (District of Columbia)
Additional Leading Lawyers: Associates to Watch
Matthew G. Kussmaul, Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations (Delaware)
Elizabeth P. Weissert, Antitrust, Pennsylvania