For all of the litigation firm and lawyer of the year shortlists, please see below. The nominees have been chosen based upon research conducted between March and November 2017. Please note that there will be no pro bono firm of the year, impact case, or Hall of Fame winner shortlists. Those winners will be announced on the evening of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be held on Thursday, February 15th 2018 at The Pierre, New York.
Midwest and Northeast firms, please contact: Rebecca Synnott at Rebecca.synnott@euromoneyny.com or on 212-224-3337 to reserve your place.
Firms from the South and from the West, please contact José Zarza at jose.zarza@euromoneyny.com or on 212-224-3339 to reserve your place.
STATE FIRM AWARDS
Alabama
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Cunningham Bounds
Lightfoot Franklin & White
Starnes Davis Florie
Alaska
Ashburn & Mason
Dorsey & Whitney
Squire Patton Boggs
Arizona
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Osborn Maledon
Perkins Coie
Polsinelli
Arkansas
Friday Eldredge & Clark
Quattlebaum Grooms & Tull
Wright Lindsey Jennings
California
Cooley
Farella Braun + Martel
Keker Van Nest & Peters
Latham & Watkins
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
O’Melveny & Myers
Colorado
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
Holland & Hart
Reilly Pozner
Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Connecticut
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder
Robinson + Cole
Wiggin and Dana
Delaware
Ashby & Geddes
Friedlander & Gorris
Grant & Eisenhofer
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Richards Layton & Finger
District of Columbia
Covington & Burling
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Zuckerman Spaeder
Florida
Akerman
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod
Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen
Podhurst Orseck
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson
Georgia
King & Spalding
Rogers & Hardin
Eversheds Sutherland
Troutman Sanders
Hawaii
Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing
Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel
Kobayashi Sugita & Goda
Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher
Idaho
Gjording Fouser
Holland & Hart
Stoel Rives
Illinois
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Sidley Austin
Winston & Strawn
Indiana
Barnes & Thornburg
Faegre Baker Daniels
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Iowa
Ahlers & Cooney
Nyemaster Goode
Kansas
Foulston Siefkin
Hite Fanning & Honeyman
Stinson Leonard Street
Kentucky
Frost Brown Todd
Stites & Harbison
Stoll Keenon Ogden
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs
Louisiana
Adams and Reese
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver
Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson
Phelps Dunbar
Maine
Berman & Simmons
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios
Verrill Dana
Maryland
Kramon & Graham
Miles & Stockbridge
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg
Venable
Whiteford Taylor & Preston
Massachusetts
Goodwin Procter
McDermott Will & Emery
Ropes & Gray
WilmerHale
Michigan
Bodman
Dickinson Wright
Dykema Gossett
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Minnesota
Blackwell Burke
Bowman and Brooke
Ciresi Conlin
Dorsey & Whitney
Robins Kaplan
Winthrop & Weinstine
Mississippi
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes
Butler Snow
Watkins & Eager
Missouri
Armstrong Teasdale
Bryan Cave
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale
Polsinelli
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Montana
Boone Karlberg
Crowley Fleck
Goetz Baldwin & Geddes
Nebraska
Baird Holm
Kutak Rock
Nevada
Bailey Kennedy
Campbell & Williams
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
New Hampshire
Devine Millimet & Branch
Nixon Peabody
Sheehan Phinney
New Jersey
Cole Schotz
Gibbons
Lowenstein Sandler
McCarter & English
Sills Cummis & Gross
New Mexico
Modrall Sperling
Rodey Law
Sutin Thayer & Browne
New York
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
North Carolina
Brooks Pierce
Ellis & Winters
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson
Smith Anderson
North Dakota
Maring Williams Law Office
Vogel Law Firm
Zuger Kirmis & Smith
Ohio
Dinsmore & Shohl
Jones Day
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Thompson Hine
Ulmer & Berne
Oklahoma
Crowe & Dunlevy
GableGotwals
Hall Estill
McAfee & Taft
Oregon
Lane Powell
Markowitz Herbold
Perkins Coie
Stoll Berne
Pennsylvania
Ballard Spahr
Dechert
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Rhode Island
Adler Pollock & Sheehan
Partridge Snow & Hahn
South Carolina
Motley Rice
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Nexsen Pruet
Turner Padget Graham & Laney
South Dakota
Davenport Evans Hurwitz
Heidepriem Purtell Siegel
Johnson Janklow Abdallah Reiter & Parsons
Tennessee
Bass Berry & Sims
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Butler Snow
Texas
Gibbs & Bruns
Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst
McKool Smith
Reynolds Frizzell
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka
Utah
Ballard Spahr
Fabian VanCott
Holland & Hart
Parr Brown Gee & Loveless
Vermont
Gravel & Shea
Paul Frank + Collins
Sheehey Furlong & Behm
Virginia
Hunton & Williams
LeClairRyan
McGuireWoods
Williams Mullen
Washington
Corr Cronin Michelson Baumgardner Fogg & Moore
Lane Powell
Perkins Coie
Summit Law Group
West Virginia
Bowles Rice
Dinsmore & Shohl
Jackson Kelly
Wisconsin
Foley & Lardner
Gass Weber Mullins
Godfrey & Kahn
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
Wyoming
Davis & Cannon
Hirst Applegate
Holland & Hart
PRACTICE AREA AWARDS
Antitrust
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Boies Schiller & Flexner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Sidley Austin
White & Case
Winston & Strawn
Appellate
Boies Schiller & Flexner
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Jones Day
Mayer Brown
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Bankruptcy
Brown Rudnick
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
General Commercial
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Williams & Connolly
Insurance
Anderson Kill
Blank Rome
Covington & Burling
McKool Smith
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Intellectual Property
Durie Tangri
Sidley Austin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Winston & Strawn
International Arbitration
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
King & Spalding
Shearman & Sterling
White & Case
Product Liability
Butler Snow
Kirkland & Ellis
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
Securities
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
White Collar Crime/Enforcement/Investigations
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Debevoise & Plimpton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello
Sullivan & Cromwell
BOUTIQUE FIRM OF THE YEAR
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
Hueston Hennigan
Keker Van Nest & Peters
MoloLamken
Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz
PLAINTIFF FIRM OF THE YEAR
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Labaton Sucharow
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR
Spencer Burkholz, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Richard Heimann, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
David Kessler, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
Mark Lanier, The Lanier Law Firm
Blair Nicholas, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
TRIAL LAWYER OF THE YEAR
Gregory Joseph, Joseph Hage Aaronson
Randy Mastro, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Stephen Neal, Cooley
Daniel Petrocelli, O’Melveny & Myers
Richard Werder, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz
Bart Williams, Proskauer Rose
PRACTICE AREA ATTORNEYS OF THE YEAR
Antitrust
Daniel Brockett, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
George Cary, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Christopher Curran, White & Case
Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn
Steven Newborn, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John Treece, Sidley Austin
Appellate
Neal Katyal, Hogan Lovells
Mark Perry, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin
Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Kannon Shanmugam, Williams & Connolly
Kathleen Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Bankruptcy
James Bendernagel, Sidley Austin
James Bromley, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Susheel Kirpalani, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Andrew Leblanc, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Christopher Shore, White & Case
General Commercial
Jay Cohen, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Darin McAtee, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Thomas Rice, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Richard Werder, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Insurance
Jane Byrne, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Robin Cohen, McKool Smith
Mary Beth Forshaw, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Robert Horkovich, Anderson Kill
Intellectual Property
Jared Bobrow, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson
James Dabney, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
William Lee, WilmerHale
George Lombardi, Winston & Strawn
International Arbitration
Stanimir Alexandrov, Stanimir A Alexandrov
Doak Bishop, King & Spalding
Mark Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton
Gregory Litt, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Michael Nolan, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Abby Cohen Smutny, White & Case
Labor/Employment
Rachel Bien, Outten & Golden
Elise Bloom, Proskauer Rose
Kelly Dermody, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Lynne Hermle, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Product Liability
Mike Brock, Kirkland & Ellis
Ralph Campillo, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
Nina Gussack, Pepper Hamilton
Joseph Petrosinelli, Williams & Connolly
Christy Jones, Butler Snow
Securities
Reed Brodsky, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Adam Hakki, Shearman & Sterling
Sharon Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Marc Wolinsky, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Jonathan Youngwood, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
White Collar Crime/Investigations/Enforcement
William Burck, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Stephen Neal, Cooley
Michael Pauzé and John Richter, King & Spalding
Jonathan Polkes, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John Richter, King & Spalding
John Savarese, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
REGIONAL FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Northeast
Nixon Peabody
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios
Verrill Dana
Northwest
Holland & Hart
Lane Powell
Perkins Coie
Stoel Rives
Midwest
Faegre Baker Daniels
Stinson Leonard Street
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Tucker Ellis
Southeast
Akerman
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
LeClairRyan
Troutman Sanders
Southwest
Fennemore Craig
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Snell & Wilmer