Chambers USA 2008 Recognizes 123 Morgan Lewis Lawyers as “Leaders in Their Field”
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PHILADELPHIA, February 20, 2008: Morgan Lewis is pleased to announce that the 2008 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business will feature 123 Morgan Lewis lawyers when it is published later this year. This continues our trend of significant increases in the number of Morgan Lewis lawyers who have been listed in previous years, starting with 27 lawyers in 2003—the first year Chambers listed U.S. lawyers—to 43 lawyers in 2004, 76 lawyers in 2005, 102 lawyers in 2006, and 109 lawyers in 2007.
The London-based Chambers is widely accepted as the standard for legal distinction around the world. The publication’s selection process is based on interviews with in-house law departments and with other attorneys around the country. The rankings are based on qualities such as technical legal ability, professional conduct, commitment, client service, and commercial awareness.
Established in 1873, Morgan Lewis is no stranger to leading lawyer directories—our attorneys frequently appear in surveys listing top practitioners, in publications such as Best Lawyers, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The National Law Journal, and in a Corporate Board Member survey of America’s best corporate lawyers. Morgan Lewis lawyers are also named fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Bankruptcy, the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and the American College of Tax Counsel. Chambers has also ranked many of our European colleagues in their UK and Global editions.
The following Morgan Lewis lawyers are listed in Chambers USA for 2008:
| Barry A. Hartstein | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Charles C. Jackson | Chicago | ERISA Litigation (National) Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| David Ackerman | Chicago | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Illinois) |
| Elizabeth S. Perdue | Chicago | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Illinois) |
| John Shugrue | Chicago | Insurance: Coverage Litigation (Illinois) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
| Nina G. Stillman | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Philip A. Miscimarra | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Sari M. Alamuddin | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Theodore Becker | Chicago | Litigation: General Commercial (Illinois) |
| Jerry Selinger | Dallas | Intellectual Property (Texas) |
| John A. Funk | Dallas | Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (Texas) |
| Ron Manthey | Dallas | Labor & Employment (Texas) |
| Maxine Woelfling | Harrisburg | Environment (Pennsylvania) |
| Winstol D. Carter Jr. | Houston | Litigation: General Commercial (Texas) |
| L. Bruce Fischer | Irvine | Real Estate (California) |
| Dino Barajas | Los Angeles | Projects & Energy: Transactional (California) |
| John F. Hartigan | Los Angeles | Corporate/M&A: Southern California (California) |
| Michel Yves Horton | Los Angeles | Insurance: Policy Holder (California) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
| Richard Shortz | Los Angeles | Projects & Energy: Transactional (California) |
| Thomas Meador | Los Angeles | Environment (California) |
| Wayne W. Song | Los Angeles | Projects & Energy: Transactional (California) |
| Anne M. Estevez | Miami | Labor & Employment (Florida) |
| Mark E. Zelek | Miami | Labor & Employment (Florida) |
| Akiba Stern | New York | Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (New York) |
| Andrew Schaffran | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Ben Indek | New York | Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer Regulation (National) |
| Charles E. Engros Jr. | New York | Corporate/M&A (New York) Media & Entertainment: Corporate (New York) |
| David A. Luttinger Jr. | New York | Insurance: Dispute Resolution (New York) |
| Edward J. Hansen | New York | Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (New York) |
| Gary S. Rothstein | New York | Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York) |
| Georgette A. Schaefer | New York | Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation (National) |
| Howard S. Beltzer | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Ira White | New York | Investment Funds: Private Equity: Buyouts (National) |
| Jedd Wider | New York | Investment Funds: Hedge Funds (National) |
| Judith A. Walkoff | New York | Environment: Mainly Transactional (New York) |
| Kenneth J. Turnbull | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Louis H. Singer | New York | Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation (National) |
| Michael Curley | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| R. Alec Dawson | New York | Corporate/M&A (New York) |
| Richard Toder | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Robert C. Mendelson | New York |
Financial Services Regulation: Securities (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations) (National) |
| Robert H. Scheibe | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Robert M. Romano | New York |
Financial Services Regulation: Securities (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations) (National) |
| Samuel S. Shaulson | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Melinda S. Riechert | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment (California) |
| Rahul Kapoor | Palo Alto | IT & IT Outsourcing (California) |
| S. James DiBernardo | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (California) |
| William F. Colgin Jr. | Palo Alto | Tax: Controversy (National) |
| Zaitun Poonja | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (California) |
| Alan Singer | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania) |
| Barbara Murphy Melby | Philadelphia | Outsourcing (National) |
| Brian T. Ortelere | Philadelphia | ERISA Litigation (National) |
| Christian Mixter | Philadelphia | Securities Regulation: Enforcement (District of Columbia) |
| Doreen Davis | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Edward S. Mazurek | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Eric L. Stern | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) REITs (National) |
| Eric W. Sitarchuk | Philadelphia | Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania) |
| Glen R. Stuart | Philadelphia | Environment (Pennsylvania) |
| J. Gordon Cooney | Philadelphia | Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania) |
| James McKenzie | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania) REITs (National) |
| J.J. Broderick | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) |
| John C. Dodds | Philadelphia | Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania) |
| Joseph J. Costello | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Judith E. Harris | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Justin W. Chairman | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania) |
| Marc Sonnenfeld | Philadelphia | Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania) Litigation: Securities (Pennsylvania) |
| Mark Dichter | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Mark Edwards | Philadelphia | Antitrust (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael Bloom | Philadelphia | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael J. Ossip | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael J. Pedrick | Philadelphia | Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael L. Banks | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael L. Pillion | Philadelphia | Outsourcing (National) |
| Mims Maynard Zabriskie | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Robert Abramowitz | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Robert J. Lichtenstein | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Robert L. Cooney Jr. | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) |
| Sarah Bouchard | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Stephen M. Goodman | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) Corporate/M&A: Venture Capital (Pennsylvania) |
| Steven D. Spencer | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Steven R. Wall | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Timothy O'Reilly | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Timothy W. Levin | Philadelphia | Investment Funds: Registered Funds (National) |
| David Gerson | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) |
| Marlee Myers | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) Corporate/M&A: Venture Capital (Pennsylvania) |
| W. Ryan Davis | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A: Private Equity (Pennsylvania) |
| Andrew P. Gilbert | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| David G. Glazer | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| Randall B. Sunberg | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| Richard G. Rosenblatt | Princeton | Labor & Employment (New Jersey) |
| Steven Cohen | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| A. James Vázquez-Azpiri | San Francisco | Immigration (California) |
| D. Ward Kallstrom | San Francisco | ERISA Litigation (National) |
| Daniel Johnson Jr. | San Francisco | Intellectual Property: Patent (California) |
| Jeffrey S. Raskin | San Francisco | Insurance: Policy Holder (California) |
| John H. Hemann | San Francisco | Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (California) |
| Peter Phleger | San Francisco | Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation (National) |
| Rebecca Eisen | San Francisco | Labor & Employment (California) |
| Susan Diamond | San Francisco | Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (California) |
| Celia Roady | Washington, D.C. | Tax (District of Columbia) |
| Charles Cohen | Washington, D.C. | Labor & Employment (District of Columbia) |
| Eleanor Pelta | Washington, D.C. | Immigration (District of Columbia) |
| Floyd L. Norton IV | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Electricity (District of Columbia) |
| Gary B. Wilcox | Washington, D.C. | Tax (District of Columbia) |
| George Edgar | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Gregory C. Braden | Washington, D.C. | ERISA Litigation (National) |
| James J. Kelley | Washington, D.C. | Labor & Employment (District of Columbia) |
| Jay Gutierrez | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| John McGrane | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Electricity (District of Columbia) |
| John M. Ford | Washington, D.C. | Investment Funds: Registered Funds (National) |
| Karol Lyn Newman | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Oil & Gas (District of Columbia) |
| Kathryn M. Sutton | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Mark Haskell | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Oil & Gas (District of Columbia) |
| Mark N. Bravin | Washington, D.C. | International Arbitration (National) |
| Michael W. Steinberg | Washington, D.C. | Environment (District of Columbia) |
| Miriam L. Fisher | Washington, D.C. | Tax: Controversy (National) Tax: Fraud (National) |
| Paul Zevnik | Washington, D.C. | Insurance: Policy Holder (District of Columbia) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
| Steven Frantz | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Steven W. Stone | Washington, D.C. | Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer Regulation (National) |
| Thomas Harman | Washington, D.C. | Investment Funds: Registered Funds (National) |
| W. John McGuire | Washington, D.C. | Investment Funds: Registered Funds (National) |
| Willard K. Tom | Washington, D.C. | Antitrust (District of Columbia) |
| William Lewis | Washington, D.C. | Environment (District of Columbia) |
Chambers’ interviewers identify the best practitioners in all the main areas of business law. Their results are compiled into tables that rank the leading law firms and individuals based on technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by clients. The rankings and editorial comments about attorneys are independent and objective. Inclusion in the guide is based solely on the findings of the Chambers research team. No one can “buy their way in.”
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