May 8, 2019 (NEW YORK) – In the 2019 edition of Chambers USA, Proskauer was once again recognized as a top-tier law firm, earning praise in 68 practice areas, with 91 individuals achieving leading lawyer rankings. The Firm achieved Band 1 rankings in nine practice areas and Band 1, Star Individuals and Senior Statespeople rankings for 25 individual lawyers.
Band 1-Ranked Practices:
- Banking & Finance (Massachusetts)
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York)
- Healthcare (New York)
- Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policyholder (Illinois)
- Labor & Employment (Nationwide, Louisiana and New York)
- Private Equity: Fund Formation (Massachusetts)
- Sports Law (Nationwide)
Senior Statespeople and Star Individuals:
- Peter Fass (Senior Statespeople) (Nationwide: REITs and New York: Real Estate: Finance)
- Howard Ganz (Senior Statespeople) (Nationwide: Sports Law and New York: Labor & Employment)
- Robin Painter (Star Individuals) (Massachusetts: Private Equity: Fund Formation)
- Howard Shapiro (Star Individuals) (Louisiana: Labor & Employment: EBEC)
Band 1-Ranked Lawyers:
- Mark Batten (Massachusetts: Labor & Employment)
- Steven Bauer (Massachusetts: Intellectual Property)
- Robert Cleary (New York: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations)
- Stuart Coleman (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds)
- Steven Ellis (Massachusetts: Banking & Finance)
- Scott Faust (Massachusetts: Labor & Employment)
- David Grunblatt (Nationwide and New York: Immigration)
- Paul Hamburger (District of Columbia: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- Edward Kornreich (New York: Healthcare)
- Joseph Leccese (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Kathleen McKenna (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Anthony Oncidi (California: Labor & Employment)
- Bettina Plevan (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Marc Rosenthal (Illinois: Insurance: Dispute Resolution)
- Bradley Ruskin (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Paul Salvatore (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Ronald Sernau (New York: Real Estate: Mainly Dirt)
- Howard Shapiro (Nationwide: ERISA Litigation)
- Mark Thomas (Illinois: Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Lawrence Weinstein (Nationwide: Advertising Litigation)
- Steven Weise (California: Banking & Finance)
- Richard Zall (New York: Healthcare)
Inaugural Lawyer Rankings:
- Christine Lazatin (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Janna Manes (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds)
- Michael Mavrides (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Hedge Funds)
- Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks (California: Media & Entertainment: Litigation)
Additional Practices Recognized:
- Nationwide: Advertising Litigation
- Nationwide: Banking & Finance
- Nationwide: Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Nationwide: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Nationwide: Capital Markets: High-Yield Products
- Nationwide: Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
- Nationwide: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Nationwide: ERISA Litigation
- Nationwide: Healthcare
- Nationwide: Healthcare: Transactional
- Nationwide: Healthcare: Regulatory & Litigation
- Nationwide: Insurance: Disputes: Policy Holder
- Nationwide: International Arbitration
- Nationwide: Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
- Nationwide: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds
- Nationwide: Investment Funds: Venture Capital
- Nationwide: Leisure & Hospitality
- Nationwide: Private Equity: Buyouts
- Nationwide: Real Estate
- Nationwide: REITS
- Nationwide: Tax: Corporate & Finance
- California: Banking & Finance
- California: EBEC
- California: Labor & Employment
- California: Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
- California: Litigation: General Commercial
- California: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- California: Real Estate
- California: Tax
- District of Columbia: Antitrust
- District of Columbia: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- District of Columbia: Labor & Employment
- Illinois: Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Illinois: Healthcare
- Illinois: Labor & Employment
- Louisiana: Labor & Employment: EBEC
- Massachusetts: Corporate/M&A
- Massachusetts: Intellectual Property
- Massachusetts: Labor & Employment
- Massachusetts: Litigation: General Commercial
- Massachusetts: Tax
- New Jersey: Labor & Employment
- New York: Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- New York: Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
- New York: Environment
- New York: Environment: Mainly Transactional
- New York: Immigration
- New York: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policy Holder
- New York: Litigation: General Commercial
- New York: Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
- New York: Litigation: White Collar & Government Investigation
- New York: Media & Entertainment: Corporate
- New York: Media & Entertainment: Entertainment Litigation
- New York: Real Estate: Corporate
- New York: Real Estate: Finance
- New York: Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance
- New York: Real Estate: Mainly Dirt
- New York: Tax
- New York: Technology & Outsourcing
Additional Lawyers Ranked:
- Neil Abramson (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Peter Antoszyk (Massachusetts: Banking & Finance)
- John Barry (New Jersey: Labor & Employment)
- Joseph Baumgarten (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Howard Beber (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Venture Capital; Nationwide: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation; Massachusetts: Private Equity: Fund Formation)
- Martin Bienenstock (Nationwide: Bankruptcy/Restructuring; New York: Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Allan Bloom (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Elise Bloom (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Ira Bogner (New York: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- Stephen Boyko (Nationwide: Banking & Finance; Massachusetts: Banking & Finance)
- Joseph Capraro Jr. (Massachusetts: Intellectual Property)
- Michael Choate (Nationwide: REITS)
- Aliza Cinamon (New York: Environment: Mainly Transactional)
- Erika Collins (New York: Labor & Employment)
- Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks (New York: Media & Entertainment: Entertainment Litigation)
- Gary Creem (Massachusetts: Banking & Finance)
- Nicole Eichberger (Louisiana: Labor & Employment)
- Steven Ellis (Nationwide: Banking & Finance)
- John Failla (New York: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policy Holder)
- Michael Fernhoff (California: Tax)
- Siegmund Gutman (California: Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation)
- Colleen Hart (California: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- Jeffrey Horwitz (Nationwide: Leisure & Hospitality)
- Scott Jones (Massachusetts: Tax)
- Colin Kass (District of Columbia: Antitrust: Litigation Specialists)
- Wayne Katz (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Edward Kornreich (Nationwide: Healthcare: Transactional; Nationwide: Healthcare: Regulatory & Litigation)
- Robert Leonard (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Hedge Funds)
- Steven Lichtenfeld (New York: Real Estate: Corporate)
- David Manko (New York: Healthcare)
- Jeff Marwil (Illinois: Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Arnold May (Massachusetts: Tax)
- Stephen Mears (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Venture Capital; Massachusetts: Private Equity: Fund Formation)
- David Miller (New York: Tax)
- Sandra Lee Montgomery (California: Banking & Finance)
- Timothy Mungovan (Massachusetts: Litigation: General Commercial)
- Jeffrey Neuburger (New York: Technology & Outsourcing)
- Amanda Nussbaum (New York: Tax)
- Jon Oram (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Brendan O'Rourke (Nationwide: Advertising Litigation; New York: Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Copyright)
- Robin Painter (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation; Nationwide: Investment Funds: Venture Capital)
- Steven Peck (Massachusetts: Corporate/M&A; Massachusetts: Private Equity: Buyouts)
- Steve Pearlman (Illinois: Labor & Employment)
- Robert Plaze (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds)
- Bernard Plum (New York: Labor & Employment; New York: Labor Relations)
- Jamiel Poindexter (Massachusetts: Tax)
- Gail Port (New York: Environment; New York: Environment: Mainly Transactional)
- Paul Possinger (Illinois: Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Andrea Rattner (New York: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- Stuart Rosow (New York: Tax)
- Myron Rumeld (Nationwide: ERISA Litigation)
- Nicole Runyan (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds)
- Bradley Ruskin (New York: Litigation: General Commercial; Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Seth Safra (District of Columbia: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)
- Paul Salvatore (New York Labor Relations)
- Lawrence Sandak (New Jersey: Labor & Employment)
- Frank Saviano (Nationwide: Sports Law)
- Seth Schafler (Nationwide: Insurance: Dispute: Policy Holder; New York: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Policy Holder)
- Jurate Schwartz (Florida: Labor & Employment)
- Peter Sherwin (Nationwide: International Arbitration)
- Dietrich Snell (New York: Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations)
- Albert Stemp (California: Real Estate)
- David Stephens (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Registered Funds)
- David Tegeler (Massachusetts: Private Equity: Fund Formation; Nationwide: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation)
- Nigel Telman (Illinois: Labor & Employment)
- Mark Thomas (Nationwide: Bankruptcy/Restructuring)
- Christopher Wells (Nationwide: Investment Funds: Hedge Funds)
- David Weinberger (New York: Real Estate: Finance)
- Bart Williams (Nationwide: Litigation: Trial Lawyers; California: Litigation: General Commercial; California: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)
- Richard Zall (Nationwide: Healthcare: Transactional)