Baker & Hostetler issued the following announcement on June 3.
BakerHostetler is pleased to announce the firm has again increased its number of favorable rankings across several practice areas as well as among individual attorneys in the latest The Legal 500 guide. Over the past five years, the firm has seen a marked increase, from 13 practice areas in 2015 to 33 in 2019, and from 39 attorney honors in 2015 to 138 in 2019. For a second consecutive year, the firm’s Privacy and Data Protection team’s leadership in the field topped the ranks as a Tier 1 group in the Media, Technology and Telecoms – Data Protection and Data Breach Response category. The following includes a full list of practice area and individual attorney rankings.
Practice Area Rankings
The firm was recognized in the following practice areas:
- Antitrust – Civil Litigations/Class Actions: Defense (Tier 5)
- Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-collar Criminal Defense (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals (Tier 4) (new)
- Dispute Resolution – International Arbitration (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – International Litigation (Tier 3)
- Dispute Resolution – International Trade (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution – Securities Litigation: Defense (Tier 4)
- Industry Focus – Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas (Tier 3)
- Industry Focus – Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas (Tier 5)
- Industry Focus – Environment: Litigation (Tier 4)
- Industry Focus – Healthcare: Service Providers (Tier 5)
- Industry Focus – Sport (Tier 4)
- Industry Focus – Transport: Rail and Road Litigation (Tier 3)
- Intellectual Property – Copyright (Tier 3)
- Intellectual Property – Patent Litigation: Full Coverage (Tier 6)
- Intellectual Property – Patents: Prosecution (including Re-examination and Post-grant Proceedings) (Tier 4)
- Intellectual Property – Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters) (Tier 4)
- Intellectual Property – Trademarks: Non-Contentious (Including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing) (Tier 3) (new)
- Labor and Employment – Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Design (Tier 5)
- Labor and Employment – Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Transactional (Tier 5)
- Labor and Employment – Immigration (Tier 4)
- Labor and Employment – Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense (Tier 4)
- Labor and Employment – Labor-management Relations (Tier 3)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial – Corporate Governance (Tier 3)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m) (Tier 2)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Advertising and Marketing: Transactional (Tier 2)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Cyber Law (including Data Protection and Privacy) (Tier 2)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms – Data Protection and Data Breach Response (Tier 1)
- Real Estate (Tier 5)
- Real Estate – Construction (including Construction Litigation) (Tier 4)
- Tax – International Tax (Tier 4)
- Tax – U.S. Taxes: Contentious (Tier 5) (new)
- Tax – U.S. Taxes: Non-contentious (Tier 6)
Partners Steven Goldberg (M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: Middle–market ($500m-$999m)), Linda Goldstein and Amy Ralph Mudge (Media, Technology and Telecoms – Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory and Media) and Craig Hoffman and Theodore Kobus (Media, Technology and Telecoms – Cyber Law (Including Data Protection and Privacy)) stood out as “Leading Lawyers” in the 2019 guide.
New this year was Ian Cohen in the M&A/Corporate and Commercial – Middle-Market ($500m-$999m) category, who was designated a “Rising Star.”
Once again, the following attorneys were ranked “Next Generation”:
- William R. Daugherty – Media, Technology and Telecoms – Cyber Law (including Data Protection and Privacy)
- Susan Nolan Lubow – Labor and Employment – Employee Health and Retirement Plans
- Melinda L. McLellan – Media, Technology and Telecoms – Cyber Law (including Data Protection and Privacy)
Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
- Robert J. Brookhiser
- Gregory J. Commins, Jr.
- Danyll W. Foix
- John R. Fornaciari
- Thomas E. Hogan
- Sally Y. Qin
- Jonathan R. Barr
- John J. Carney
- Jonathan New (new)
- Carole S. Rendon
- Lauren J. Resnick
- George A. Stamboulidis
- Mark A. Cymrot
- Kenneth B. Reisenfeld
- Mark A. Cymrot
- Irving Picard
- Oren J. Warshavsky
- Gonzalo S. Zeballos
- John J. Burke
- Elliot Feldman (new)
- Kerry T. Scarlott
- Michael S. Snarr
- Jonathan R. Barr (new)
- John J. Carney (new)
- Douglas Greene (new)
- Marc D. Powers
- Mark S. Barron
- L. Poe Leggette
- W. Ray Whitman
- Gary Alletag (new)
- L. Poe Leggette (new)
- Martin T. Booher
- Mark DeLaquil (new)
- Thomas Hogan (new)
- Robert N. Steinwurtzel
- Charlene L. McGinty
- Gregory S. Saikin
- Lynn Sessions (new)
- Focus – Sport
- Jack A. Bjerke
- Gregory D. Lee
- Billy M. Donley
- David R. Jarrett
- Elizabeth McNellie
- Keith Russell (new)
- Robertson Beckerlegge (new)
- Robert (Red) Horowitz (new)
- Oren J. Warshavsky
- Mark Tidman (new)
- Cy Walker (new)
- Hussein Akhavannik (new)
- Tayan Patel (new)
- John Weber (new)
- Kenneth J. Sheehan
- Joyce Ackerbaum Cox
- Edward L. Friedman
- Patrick M. Muldowney (new)
- John Siegal (new)
- Drew B. Tipton
- Robert (Red) Horowitz (new)
- Mark Tidman (new)
- Deborah Wilcox (new)
- John W. Boyd
- Susan Nolan Lublow
- Raymond M. Malone
- John J. McGowan, Jr.
- Georgeann G. Peters
- Raymond M. Malone
- Georgeann G. Peters
- Matthew W. Hoyt
- James D. Levine
- Joyce Ackerbaum Cox (new)
- Eric L. Barnum
- Louis Cannon (new)
- Jason D’Cruz (new)
- Dennis Duffy (new)
- Jennifer Edwards (new)
- Shareef Farag (new)
- Peter G. Fischer
- Edward L. Friedman
- David A. Grant
- Joel Griswold
- Brian Harris (new)
- M. Scott McIntyre (new)
- Gregory Mersol (new)
- Patrick M. Muldowney (new)
- Margaret Rosenthal
- Kevin W. Shaughnessy
- Drew B. Tipton
- Amy J. Traub
- Martin T. Wymer (new)
- Mark Zisholtz (new)
- Mike Asensio (new)
- Louis Cannon (new)
- Peter G. Fischer
- David A. Grant
- Daniel J. Guttman
- Jay P. Krupin
- Patrick M. Muldowney
- Jeffrey E. Decker
- Suzanne K. Hanselman
- Janet A. Spreen
- Ian Cohen (new)
- John M. Gherlein
- Steven H. Goldberg
- Ronald A. Stepanovic
- Alan L. Friel
- Linda A. Goldstein
- Amy Ralph Mudge (new)
- Randall Shaheen (new)
- William R. Daugherty
- Craig A. Hoffman
- Laura E. Jehl
- Theodore J. Kobus III
- Melinda L. McLellan
- Albert Adams (new)
- Jacqueline Best (new)
- Robert H. Gebaide
- Joann Gallagher Jones (new)
- Amy E. Kellogg
- John Melicharek (new)
- Dennis Durkin (new)
- Benjamin Pergament (new)
- Panida Pollawit (new)
- Laurin D. Quiat
- Robert Sowell (new)
- Samantha Tillotson (new)
- John R. Lehrer
- Paul M. Schmidt
- Michelle Hervey (new)
- Kevin Johnson (new)
- Jeffrey Paravano (new)
- Paul M. Schmidt (new)
- Elizabeth Smith (new)
- John R. Lehrer (new)
- Edward Ptaszek (new)
- Paul M. Schmidt