Three Winston Attorneys Inducted Into the 2025 Lawdragon Hall of Fame

Winston & Strawn partners Paula Hinton and George Lombardi and Government Investigations, Enforcement & Compliance Practice Co-Chair Abbe Lowell were named among the 2025 class of The Lawdragon Hall of Fame inductees. This honor recognizes outstanding lawyers who have made remarkable and lasting contributions to the legal profession.

Paula is a go-to trial lawyer who focuses her practice on representing businesses in complex civil litigation. Paula’s work frequently merits recognition from Chambers USA and Best Lawyers®, she is lauded as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation (2015–2024), and is ranked in The Legal 500 US as a “Key Lawyer” for General Commercial Disputes and for Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas. Paula is also ranked in The Legal 500 Latin America for International Firms for City-Focus Houston. Her clients have told The Best Lawyers in America® that “Paula is one of the best trial lawyers I have worked with. She easily grasps complex issues and is able to explain them to the fact finder in simple effective terms.”

George is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who routinely serves as lead trial counsel for companies in high profile cases. His skills have been widely recognized by a number of leading legal directories including The American Lawyer (2014) which named him a “Litigator of the Year.” He is also described by IAM Patent 1000 as a “truly gifted lawyer and one of the finest trial lawyers anywhere in the world.”

Abbe is one of the country’s foremost white collar defense and trial lawyers who is regularly lauded as one of the top litigators in the U.S. by Lawdragon, Legal 500, and Chambers. He has tried civil and criminal cases before judges and juries in more than a dozen states, argued numerous appeals before courts that include the U.S. Supreme Court, led complex international investigations, and navigated clients through congressional and administrative proceedings, often under the glare of intense media scrutiny.

See the full list of inductees here.