Winston & Strawn Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. 2018

Winston & Strawn is recognized as a top-tier firm in two practice areas and recommended in an additional 42 categories in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. In addition, 166 lawyers are recommended across 44 practices, 9 lawyers are listed as “Leading Lawyers,” and five lawyers are recognized as “Next Generation Lawyers.” 

Top-tier Firm:

• Industry focus - Transport: shipping - regulation
• M&A/corporate and commercial - M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

“Leading Lawyers”:

• Oscar David: M&A/corporate and commercial - M&A - middle-market ($500m-999m)
• Michael Elkin: Intellectual property - Copyright
• Jeffrey Kessler: Industry focus - Sport
• Scott Landau: Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - design
• George Lombardi: Dispute resolution - Leading trial lawyers and Dispute resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action - consumer products (including tobacco), and Intellectual property - Patent litigation - full coverage
• Abbe Lowell: Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and Dispute resolution - leading trial lawyers
• Charlie Papavizas: Industry focus - Transport - shipping - regulation
• David Rogers: Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - transactional
• Dan Webb: Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense and Dispute resolution – leading trial lawyers

“Next Generation Lawyers”:

• Eva Cole: Antitrust - Cartel 
• Laurae Rossi: Industry focus - Energy - renewable/alternative
• Kurt Mathas: Intellectual property - Patent litigation - full coverage
• Steve Flores: Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - design

View the full rankings here.

The Legal 500 is a prominent UK-based publishing organization that conducts extensive research within key legal markets to evaluate law firm practice areas based on, among other things, reputation, and attorney and client feedback.