Chambers USA 2026 has recognized 87 Goodwin practices, and 144 lawyers were highly ranked in its newly released rankings. For over two decades, Chambers has been a trusted resource for helping clients identify the premiere lawyers and firms across the United States.
Client feedback praised Goodwin for having "excellent lawyers with in-depth knowledge and experience." They also highlighted that the firm's practice groups "integrate seamlessly" and that it is "very easy to obtain prompt advice on matters requiring experts in varied subject matters."
This year, the firm added three new practice rankings and secured 22 Band 1 practice rankings. Goodwin lawyers were recognized in 60 categories across 10 US regions, including 22 Band 1 practitioners and nine Up and Coming lawyers.
The breadth and strength of Goodwin's collaborative team have made it the firm of choice for innovators and investors in the United States and around the world.
The Goodwin practice rankings in Chambers USA 2026 include:
- Antitrust
- Appellate Law
- Banking & Finance
- Banking & Finance: Corporate & Regulatory
- Cannabis Law
- Capital Markets
- Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel
- Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel
- Corporate Crime & Investigations
- Corporate/M&A
- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- ERISA Litigation
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institution M&A
- Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation
- General Commercial Litigation
- Healthcare
- Healthcare: Medical/Pharmaceutical Products Regulatory
- Impact Investing
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property: Appellate
- Intellectual Property: Litigation
- Intellectual Property: Patent
- Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
- Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
- Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyrights & Trade Secrets
- International Trade: CFIUS Experts
- International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
- Labor & Employment
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Life Sciences
- Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
- Privacy & Data Security
- Private Equity: Buyouts
- Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market
- Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Litigation
- Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance
- Registered Funds
- REITs
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation: Advisory
- Startups & Emerging Companies
- Tax
- Tax: Corporate & Finance
- Technology
- Venture Capital
- Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Litigation
Goodwin lawyers ranked this year include:
- Alex Jacobs (Southern CA) Real Estate
- Alison Douglass (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- Allan Medina (DC) Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Allison Schoenthal (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Amy Keller (CA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Andrew Roeder (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Andrew Sucoff (MA) Real Estate
- Anna Dodson (MA) Banking & Finance
- Annie Railton (NY) Healthcare / (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Anthony McCusker (CA) Venture Capital / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Barbara Shander (PA: Philadelphia & Surrounds) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Bibek Pandey (DC) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Bill Christiansen (Washington) Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
- Bradley Weber (CA) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity / (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United States
- Brett Schuman (Nationwide) Cannabis Law: Western United States / (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
- Brian McPeake (CA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Brooks Brown (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Brynn Peltz (Nationwide) Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance
- Caine Moss (CA) Venture Capital
- Caroline Bullerjahn (MA) Litigation: Securities
- Chauncey Swalwell (Southern CA) Real Estate
- Christina Lewis (MA) Labor and Employment
- Christopher Holding (MA) Antitrust
- Cisco Palao-Ricketts (CA: SF, SV & Surrounds) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Crystal Kaldjob (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Daniel Roeser (NY) Litigation: Securities
- Daniel Karelitz (MA) Tax
- Danielle Lauzon (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- David Cross (DC) Antitrust: Litigation Specialists
- David Lynn (Nationwide) Securities: Regulation: Advisory
- David Cappillo (MA) Healthcare / (MA) Technology
- Deborah Birnbach (MA) Litigation: Securities
- Diana Brummer (NY) Real Estate: Finance
- Diane McCabe (MA) Real Estate
- Douglas Kline (MA) Intellectual Property
- Duncan Greenhalgh (MA) Intellectual Property
- Dylan Brown (CA) Banking & Finance
- Edward Glazer (Nationwide) REITs: Tax
- Elaine Blais (MA) Intellectual Property
- Ettore Santucci (MA) Capital Markets / (Nationwide) REITs
- Freddie Akrouche (MA) Real Estate
- Grace Wirth (DC) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Gilbert Menna (Nationwide) REITs
- Grant Fondo (CA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- H. Neal Sandford (MA) Tax / (Nationwide) REITs: Tax
- Howard Cubell (MA) Tax
- Huiya Wu (NY) Intellectual Property: Patent
- Ian O'Donnell (CA) Venture Capital: Fund Formation / (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Ilene Albala (DC) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Jacob Osborn (Nationwide) International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions / (Nationwide) International Trade: CFIUS Experts
- Jacquelyn Burke (MA) Insurance
- Jaime Santos (Nationwide) Appellate Law / (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- James Barri (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- James Fleckner (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- James Mattus (MA) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- James Gatta (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- James Hutchinson (DC) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Jennifer Chunias (MA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Jennifer Fisher (Nationwide) Cannabis Law: Western United States
- Jennifer Fay (MA) Labor & Employment
- Jeremy Senderowicz (Nationwide) Registered Funds
- John Servidio (Nationwide) Derivatives
- John Jones (PA) Healthcare
- John Egan (MA) Technology / (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment / (MA) Corporate/M&A / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- John LeClaire (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Jon Herzog (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Jon Novotny (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Jonathan Shapiro (CA) Litigation: Securities
- Jonathan Hecht (Nationwide) Securities Regulation: Enforcement
- Joseph Theis (MA) Capital Markets / (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Joshua Klatzkin (DC) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Joshua Rottner (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Joshua Zachariah (NY) Corporate/M&A
- Jud Welle (Nationwide) Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity
- Julie Tibbets (DC) Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory / (Nationwide) Life Sciences: Regulatory/Compliance
- Justin Pierce (Nationwide) International Trade: CFIUS Experts
- Karen Turk (MA) Tax
- Kate MacLeman (MA) Litigation: General Commercial
- Kelsey Lemaster (Northern CA) Tax
- Ken Gordon (MA) Technology
- Kevin Kabler (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
- Kimberly Monty Holzel (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Kingsley Taft (MA) Life Sciences / (Nationwide) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Kirk Ogrosky (DC) Healthcare / (Nationwide) False Claims Act
- Koray Bulut (CA) Labor & Employment
- Kristopher Ring (CA) Banking & Finance
- Lawrence Chu (CA: SF, SV & Surrounds) Corporate/M&A
- Lisa Haddad (MA) Corporate/M&A
- Lori Gordon (Nationwide) Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
- Lynda Galligan (CA: SF, SV & Surrounds) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Maggie Wong (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial / (CA) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity / (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United States
- Mandee Gruen (Nationwide) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Mark Bettencourt (MA) Corporate/M&A
- Matthew Giles (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Matthew Sheldon (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation) / (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Matt Wetzel (DC) Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory
- Michael Bison (MA) Life Sciences
- Michael Shuster (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution / (CA) Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
- Michael Kendall (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Michelle Treadwell Briggs (Nationwide) E-Discovery & Information Governance
- Michelle Knoop (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Minta Kay (MA) Real Estate
- Miranda Hooker (MA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Mitchell Bloom (MA) Corporate/M&A / (MA) Capital Markets / (MA) Life Sciences / (Nationwide) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial / (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Naomi Birbach (NY) Intellectual Property: Patent
- Natascha George (MA) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Nicole Aiken-Shaban (PA) Healthcare
- Nicole Peppe (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation / (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Omer Tene (Nationwide) Privacy & Data Security: Privacy
- Ora Grinberg (Northern CA) Tax
- Pat Mitchell (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Patrick Menasco (DC) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Paul Verbesey (Nationwide) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- PJ McCarthy (Nationwide) International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
- Rachael Bushey (PA: Philadelphia & Surrounds) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Rachel Frankeny (DC) Corporate M&A & Private Equity
- Richard Matheny (Nationwide) International Trade: CFIUS Experts / (Nationwide) International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Richard Strassberg (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Robert Puopolo (MA) Capital Markets / (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Robert Fore (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Robert Hale (MA) Labor & Employment
- Roger Cohen (NY) Healthcare
- Romina Weiss (NY) Tax
- Sabrina Rose-Smith (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Sam Zucker (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Sarah Bock (MA) Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Sarah Solomon (MA) Life Sciences
- Scott Bluni (MA) Intellectual Property
- Shane Albright (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Siobhan Murphy (MA) Real Estate
- Simone Waterbury (MA) Antirust
- Stephen Charkoudian (MA) Intellectual Property: Licensing / (MA) Technology
- Stuart Cable (MA) Corporate/M&A / (MA) Life Sciences
- Theresa Kavanaugh (MA) Intellectual Property: Licensing
- Thomas Gallagher (PA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Thomas Beaudoin (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation / (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Thomas Hefferon (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- William Goldberg (Nationwide) REITs
- William Harrington (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- William Weiss (NY) Tax
- William Jay (Nationwide) Appellate Law / (Nationwide) Intellectual Property: Appellate
- William Stern (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
- Yoel Kranz (Nationwide) REITs
To learn more about Goodwin's results, visit Chambers USA 2026.