June 22, 2022
Gibson Dunn received 55 practice area rankings, including 17 top tier rankings in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 – United States. Thirteen partners have been inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame to recognize individuals who receive constant feedback from their clients for continued excellence. Twenty-nine partners have been named Lead Counsel in their respective practices, and a further fifteen partners have been recognized as Next Generation Lawyers.
The company achieved top rankings in the following categories:
- Antitrust Law – Antitrust
- Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
- Dispute Resolution – Appeal: Courts of Appeal
- Dispute Resolution – Appeals: Supreme Courts (Federal and State)
- Dispute resolution – corporate investigations and white collar crime defense (advising corporates)
- Dispute Resolution – General Commercial Disputes
- Dispute Resolution – International Litigation
- Dispute Resolution – Leading Litigation Lawyers
- Dispute Resolution – Securities Disputes: Defense
- Industry Focus – Environment: Litigation
- Industry focus – Transport: rail and road – Litigation and regulation
- Labor and Employment – Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Media and Entertainment: Litigation
- Media, Technology and Telecom Outsourcing
- Real Estate – Land Use/Zoning
- Real Estate – Finance
- property
The 2022 Legal 500 Hall of Fame consists of: Jesse Sharf, Partner of Century City (Real Estate and Construction – Real Estate); Houston Partner Michael P. Darden (Energy Transactions – Oil & Gas); Partners in Los Angeles are Theodore Boutrous (Dispute Resolution – Appellate Body: Supreme Court, and Product Liability, Mass Torts and Class Action – Defense: Automotive/Transportation), Patrick Dennis (Environmental Litigation), Perlette Jura (Dispute Resolution – International Litigation) and Daniel Swanson (Antitrust – Civil Litigation /Class Actions – Defense); New York partners Peter Hanlon (energy transactions – conventional energy), Stephen Nordahl (media, technology and telecommunications – outsourcing) and Randy Mastro (dispute resolution – international litigation, general commercial litigation and senior litigators); and Washington, DC Partners Scott Hammond (Antitrust – Antitrust), Theodore Olson (Dispute Resolution – Appellate Body: Supreme Court (Federal and State)), Richard Parker (Dispute Resolution – Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Action Defense) and F. Joseph Warin ( Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigation and Economic Criminal Defense).
The partners named as Leading Lawyers are:
Antitrust:
- Cynthia Richman, Partner in Washington, DC (Antitrust and Civil Litigation/Class Actions – Defense)
Dispute resolution:
Finances:
- New York partners Andrew Fabens (Capital Markets: Bond Offerings) and Douglas Horowitz (Capital Markets: Bond Offerings, High Yield Bond Offerings and Commercial Lending)
- New York partner Scott Greenberg (restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate)
industry focus
- New York Partner Nicholas Politan (Energy – Renewable/Alternative Energies)
- Stacie Fletcher, Partner in Washington, DC (Industry Focus – Environmental Litigation)
- Los Angeles Partner Deborah Stein (Insurance: advising insurers)
- Washington, DC Partner Thomas Dupree Jr. (Transportation: Rail and Road – Litigation and Regulation)
Intellectual property
- New York Partner Josh Krevitt (Patents: Litigation (full coverage))
work and employment
M&A/corporate and commercial law
Media, Technology and Telecom
real estate and construction
Tax
The partners referred to as Next Generation Lawyers are: Abbey Hudson (Industry Focus – Environment – Litigation), Benyamin Ross (Media, Technology and Telecoms – Media and Entertainment – Transactional) and Douglas Champion (Real Estate and Construction – Land use /zoning). ); The New York partners Anne Champion (Dispute Resolution – International Litigation), Joshua Brody (Finance – Restructuring (incl. bankruptcy): corporate law), Madalyn Miller (Industry Focus – Transport: Aviation and Air Travel – Finance), Daniel Angel (Media, Technology and Telecoms – Outsourcing and Technology Transactions), Noam Haberman (Real Estate and Construction – Real Estate Financing), Rahim Moloo (Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration), and Edward Wei (Taxes – US Taxes – Non-Disputed); San Francisco Partner Kahlil Yearwood (Real Estate and Construction – Real Estate Finance); and Washington, DC partners Michael Perry (antitrust – merger control), Molly Senger (labor and employment – labor and employment disputes), Saul Mezei (taxes – US taxes – disputed) and Terrell Ussing (taxes – US taxes – disputed) .