Morgan Lewis has again been recognized by the distinguished Legal 500 United States guide for the quality of counsel its lawyers provide and its standing in the legal industry.

The highly selective 2015 edition recommended the firm in 47 practice areas and designated 27 Morgan Lewis practitioners “Leading Lawyers,” the highest designation awarded by the directory to individuals it chooses to feature. Only five other firms received more than 150 total lawyer recommendations in the guide. Morgan Lewis lawyers were recommended 184 times, largely as a result of direct client feedback.

This year the firm also garnered recognition in 11 new areas of practice, including Antitrust: Cartel; Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions; Antitrust: Merger Control; Industry Focus: Environment - Transactional and Regulatory; Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative; Litigation: Commercial Litigation; Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices; Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast - Regulatory; Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast - Transactional; Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate; and Tax: Domestic Tax. Of the 184 individual recommendations Morgan Lewis lawyers received, 95 were new this year.

Recognized Practice Categories

• Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation
• Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Tax: Tax Controversy
• Antitrust: Cartel
• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Antitrust: Merger Control
• Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings - Advice to Issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings - Advice to Managers
• Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings - Advice to Issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings - Advice to Managers
• Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Finance: Financial Services - Litigation
• Finance: Project Finance - Advice to Sponsor
• Finance: Structured Finance
• Industry Focus: Energy - Litigation
• Industry Focus: Energy - Regulatory
• Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative
• Industry Focus: Energy - Transactions
• Industry Focus: Environment - Litigation
• Industry Focus: Environment - Transactional and Regulatory
• Industry Focus: Healthcare - Health Insurers
• Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
• Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
• Labor and Employment: Immigration
• Litigation: Commercial Litigation
• Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense -Toxic Tort
• Litigation: Securities: Shareholder Litigation
• Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate - Supreme Court
• Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate - Appellate
• Litigation: White-Collar Criminal Defense
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology - Outsourcing
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology - Transactions
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast - Regulatory
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast - Transactional
• Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate
• Tax: Domestic Tax

Recognized Lawyers

• Michael Reilly – Leading Lawyer, Finance: Corporate restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Celia Roady – Leading Lawyer, Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• David Asmus – Leading Lawyer, Industry Focus: Energy – Transactions and Finance: Project Finance
• James Dragna – Leading Lawyer, Industry Focus: Environment – Litigation and Industry Focus:
  Environment - Transactional and Regulatory
• Edward Strohbehn – Leading Lawyer, Industry Focus: Environment - Transactional and Regulatory
• Paul Zevnik – Leading Lawyer, Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
• Michel Horton – Leading Lawyer, Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
• Roger Joseph – Leading Lawyer, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Steven Stone – Leading Lawyer, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Thomas Harman – Leading Lawyer, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Louis Singer – Leading Lawyer, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
• Charles Jackson – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Gregory Braden – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Brian Ortelere – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Steven Spencer – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Eleanor Pelta – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Immigration
• Grace Speights – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation and Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Joseph Costello – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation and Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Michael Banks – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation
• Jonathan Fritts – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Joseph Santucci – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Steven Wall – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations and Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation
• David Bowman – Leading Lawyer, Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Barbara Melby – Leading Lawyer, Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Outsourcing and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Transactions
• Michael Pillion – Leading Lawyer, Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Outsourcing and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology - Transactions
• Andrew Lipman – Leading Lawyer, Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast – Transactional and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast – Regulatory
• John Magee – Leading Lawyer, Tax: Tax Controversy and Tax: Domestic Tax
• Clayton Everett Jr. – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Frank Hinman – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions and Antitrust: Merger Control
• Gordon Cooney Jr. – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Leiv Blad – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust - Civil litigation/Class Actions and Antitrust: Merger Control
• Marc Sonnenfeld – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust - Civil Litigation/Class Actions and Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
• Mark Krotoski – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust - Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Scott Stempel – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust Civil Litigation/Class Actions and Antitrust: Merger Control
• Steven Reed – Antitrust: Cartel and Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions; Litigation - Commercial Litigation; and Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
• Harry Robins – Antitrust: Merger Control
• Allan Reiss – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings
• Keith Gottfried – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings; Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings; and Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Linda Griggs – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings and Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings
• Rani Doyle – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings; Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings
• Steve Farrell – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt Offerings and Finance: Capital Markets - Equity Offerings
• Tom Giblin – Finance: Capital Markets - Debt offerings
• Andrew Gallo – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Glenn Siegel – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Harold Horwich – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• James Garrity – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• John Goodchild – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• John Rosenthal – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Julia Frost-Davies – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Sabin Willett – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Timothy DeSieno – Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
• Jami McKeon – Finance: Financial Services – Litigation
• Jeffrey Smith – Finance: Financial Services – Litigation
• Kenneth Kliebard – Finance: Financial services – Litigation
• Merri Jo Gillette – Finance: Financial Services – Litigation and Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
• Michele Coffey – Finance: Financial Services – Litigation
• Timothy Burke – Finance: Financial Services – Litigation
• Alexander Reid – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Barton Bassett – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Mary Hevener – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations) and Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Matthew Elkin – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Paul McCoy – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• William Colgin – Finance: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Brian Bradshaw – Finance: Project Finance and Industry Focus: Energy – Transactions
• Richard Filosa – Finance: Project Finance and Industry Focus: Energy – Transactions
• Wayne Song – Finance: Project Finance and Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative
• Joshua Sterling – Finance: Structured Finance and Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Mark Haskell – Finance: Structured Finance and Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
• Matthew Joseph – Finance: Structured Finance
• Michael Philipp – Finance: Structured Finance
• Reed Auerbach – Finance: Structured Finance
• Steve Levitan – Finance: Structured Finance
• Thomas D’Ambrosio – Finance: Structured Finance
• Brad Fagg – Industry Focus: Energy – Litigation
• David Schrader – Industry Focus: Energy – Litigation
• Hugh Tanner – Industry Focus: Energy – Litigation and Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Toxic Tort
• Anna Jones – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
• Brett Snyder – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
• Don Silverman – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
• Heather Feingold – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
  
• John Matthews – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
  
• Mark Williams – Industry Focus: Energy – Regulatory
  
• Stephen Burdick Industry Focus: Energy - Regulatory
  
• Steve Frantz – Industry Focus: Energy - Regulatory
  
• Elizabeth Hanigan – Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative
  
• Evelyn Kim – Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative
  
• James Tynion – Industry Focus: Energy - Renewable/Alternative
  
• Joe Roger - Industry Focus: Energy – Transactions
  
• Ella Foley Gannon – Industry Focus: Environment – Litigation
  
• Glen Stuart – Industry Focus: Environment – Litigation
  
• John McGahren – Industry Focus: Environment – Litigation and Industry Focus: Environment - Transactional and Regulatory
  
• Ronald Tenpas – Industry Focus: Environment – Litigation
  
• Maxine Woelfling – Industry Focus: Environment - Transactional and Regulatory
  
• Molly Lane – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Health Insurers
• Ann Begley – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
  
• Benjamin Pensak – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
• John Dodds – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
  
• Kathleen Sanzo – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
• Randall Sunberg – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
  
• Stephen Mahinka – Industry Focus: Healthcare - Life Sciences
  
• Charles Malaret – Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
  
• Daniel Chefitz – Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
  
• David Luttinger – Industry Focus: Insurance - Advice to Policyholders
  
• Ethan Johnson – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds and Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
  
• Jedd Wider – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
  
• Richard Goldman – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
  
• Stephen Walters – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
  
• John McGuire – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
  
• Richard Morris – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
• Sean Graber – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
  
• Timothy Levin – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
  
• Daniel Nelson – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
  
• Georgette Schaefer – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
  
• Gerald Kehoe – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds
  
• Steven Giordano Investment fund formation and management: Private equity funds
  
• Allyson Ho – Labor and employment: ERISA Litigation; Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate; and Litigation: White-Collar Criminal Defense
  
• Christopher Weals – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Jeremy Blumenfeld – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
  
• Nicole Diller – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
  
• Randall Tracht – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
  
• Craig Bitman – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
  
• Daniel Hogans – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
  
• Gary Rothstein – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
  
• Patrick Rehfield – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
  
• A. James Vázquez-Azpiri – Labor and Employment: Immigration
  
• Eric Bord – Labor and Employment: Immigration
  
• Lisa Burton – Labor and Employment: Immigration
  
• Roland Lechner – Labor and Employment: Immigration
  
• Anne Marie Estevez – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation
  
• Eric Meckley – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Litigation
  
• Michael Burkhardt – Labor and Employment - Labor and Employment Litigation
  
• John Ring – Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
  
• Joseph Ragaglia – Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
  
• Ross Friedman – Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
  
• Thomas Reinert – Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
  
• Tim Lynch – Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
  
• Carol Freeman – Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Jonathan Snare – Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
  
• Rollin Chippey – Litigation: Commercial Litigation
  
• James Pagliaro – Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Toxic Tort
  
• John Lavelle – Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and Litigation: Product liability and Mass Tort Defense - Toxic Tort
  
• Troy Brown – Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Collie James – Litigation: Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense - Toxic Tort
  
• Amy Greer – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Dale Barnes – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Jason Frank – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Jordan Hershman – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Michael Kraut – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Peter Chan – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Steven Brody – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Susan DiCicco – Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation
  
• Thomas Peterson – Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate
  
• Eric Sitarchuk – Litigation: White-Collar Criminal Defense
  
• Martha Stolley – Litigation: White-Collar Criminal Defense
  
• James Loss – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+) and M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
  
• Jonathan Morris – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+)
  
• Julio Vega – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+) and M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
  
• Richard Aldridge – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large deals ($1bn+)
  
• Steven Browne – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+)
  
• Steven Navarro – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A - Large Deals ($1bn+)
  
• Alec Dawson – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
  
• Barbara Shander – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
  
• David Gerson – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
  
• Joanne Soslow – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
  
• Stephen Goodman – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
  
• Steven Cohen – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
  
• Tom Kellerman – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
  
• Doneld Shelkey – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Outsourcing and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Transactions
• Vito Petretti – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Outsourcing and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Transactions
  
• Peter Watt-Morse – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Transactions
  
• Rahul Kapoor – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology – Transactions
  
• William Wilhelm – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast – Regulatory
  
• Catherine Wang – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast – Regulatory and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast – Transactional
  
• Carol Dillon – Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate
  
• Eric Stern – Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate
  
• Marc Liverant – Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate
  
• Michael Pickett – Real Estate and Construction: Real Estate
  
• James Bridgeman – Tax: Domestic Tax and Tax: Tax Controversy
  
• Robert Kirschenbaum – Tax: Domestic Tax and Tax: Tax Controversy
  
• Sanford Stark – Tax: Domestic Tax and Tax: Tax controversy
  
• Scott Farmer – Tax: Domestic Tax
  
• William McKee – Tax: Domestic Tax
  
• William Nelson – Tax: Domestic Tax and Tax: Tax Controversy
  
• David Curtin – Tax: Tax Controversy