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Chambers USA 2007 Recognizes 109 Morgan Lewis Lawyers as “Leaders in Their Field”
PHILADELPHIA, May 1, 2007: Morgan Lewis is pleased to announce that the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business will feature 109 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, and 102 lawyers in 2006. Additionally, Morgan Lewis's Insurance Recovery Practice was recently nominated for a 2007 "Chambers USA Award for Excellence" in the Insurance category.
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 2007:
| David Ackerman | Chicago | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Illinois) |
| Sari Alamuddin | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Barry Hartstein | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Charles Jackson | Chicago | ERISA Litigation (National) Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| Thomas Marrinson* | Chicago | Insurance: Coverage Litigation (Illinois) |
| Philip Miscimarra | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| John Shugrue* | Chicago | Insurance: Coverage Litigation (Illinois) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
| Nina Stillman | Chicago | Labor & Employment (Illinois) |
| John Funk | Dallas | Business Process Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (Texas) |
| Jerry Selinger | Dallas | Intellectual Property (Texas) |
| Maxine Woelfling | Harrisburg | Environment (Pennsylvania) |
| David Halbreich* | Los Angeles | Insurance: Policy Holder (California) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
| John 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 (California) |
| Anne Estevez | Miami | Labor & Employment (Florida) |
| Russell Hamilton* | Miami | Labor & Employment (Florida) |
| Mark Zelek | Miami | Labor & Employment (Florida) |
| Howard Beltzer | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Edward Cerasia | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Michael Curley | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| R. Alec Dawson | New York | Corporate/M&A (New York) |
| Christie Del Rey-Cone | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Charles Engros | New York | Corporate/M&A (New York) Media & Entertainment: Corporate (New York) |
| Edward Hansen | New York | Business Process Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (New York) |
| Robert Mendelson | New York | Financial Services Regulation: Securities (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations) (National) |
| Christopher Reynolds* | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Robert Romano | New York | Financial Services Regulation: Securities (Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations) (National) |
| Andrew Schaffran | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Robert Scheibe | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Samuel Shaulson | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Louis Singer | New York | Investment Funds: Private Equity (New York) |
| Akiba Stern | New York | Business Process Outsourcing (National) Technology & IT Outsourcing (New York) |
| Richard Toder | New York | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) |
| Kenneth Turnbull | New York | Labor & Employment (New York) |
| Philip Werner | New York | Private Equity: Buyouts (New York) |
| Ira White | New York | Private Equity: Buyouts (New York) |
| Jedd Wider | New York | Investment Funds: Private Equity (New York) |
| S. James DiBernardo | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (California) |
| Zaitun Poonja | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (California) |
| Melinda Riechert | Palo Alto | Labor & Employment (California) |
| Robert Abramowitz | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael Banks | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael Bloom | Philadelphia | Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Pennsylvania) |
| J.J. Broderick | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) |
| J. Gordon Cooney | Philadelphia | Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania) |
| Robert Cooney | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) |
| Joseph Costello | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Doreen Davis | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| William Delany | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Mark Dichter | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| John Dodds | Philadelphia | Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Pennsylvania) |
| Mark Edwards | Philadelphia | Antitrust (Pennsylvania) |
| Stephen Goodman | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) Corporate/M&A: Venture Capital (Pennsylvania) |
| Judith Harris | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Robert Lichtenstein | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| Edward Mazurek | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| James McKenzie | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania) REITs (National) |
| Barbara Murphy Melby | Philadelphia | Business Process Outsourcing (National) |
| Timothy O'Reilly | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Brian Ortelere | Philadelphia | ERISA Litigation (National) |
| Michael Ossip | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael Pedrick | Philadelphia | Banking & Finance (Pennsylvania) |
| Michael Pillion | Philadelphia | Business Process Outsourcing (National) |
| Alan Singer | Philadelphia | Corporate/M&A: Securities (Pennsylvania) |
| Marc Sonnenfeld | Philadelphia | Litigation: General Commercial (Pennsylvania) Litigation: Securities (Pennsylvania) |
| Eric Stern | Philadelphia | Real Estate (Pennsylvania) REITs (National) |
| Glen Stuart | Philadelphia | Environment (Pennsylvania) |
| Steven Wall | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment (Pennsylvania) |
| Mims Maynard Zabriskie | Philadelphia | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (Pennsylvania) |
| W. Ryan Davis | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) |
| David Gerson | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) Corporate/M&A: Private Equity (Pennsylvania) |
| Marlee Myers | Pittsburgh | Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Pennsylvania) Corporate/M&A: Venture Capital (Pennsylvania) |
| Steven Cohen | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| Andrew Gilbert | Princeton | Corporate/M&A (New Jersey) |
| Richard Rosenblatt | Princeton | Labor & Employment (New Jersey) |
| Mark Boxer | San Francisco | Labor & Employment: Benefits & Compensation (California) |
| Susan Diamond | San Francisco | Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (California) |
| Rebecca Eisen | San Francisco | Labor & Employment (California) |
| John Hemann | San Francisco | Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (California) |
| Daniel Johnson | San Francisco | Intellectual Property: Patent (California) |
| D. Ward Kallstrom | San Francisco | ERISA Litigation (National) |
| John Larson | San Francisco | Corporate/M&A: Northern California (California) |
| Jeffrey Raskin | San Francisco | Insurance: Policy Holder (California) |
| A James Vázquez-Azpiri | San Francisco | Immigration (California) |
| Mark Bravin | Washington, D.C. | International Arbitration (National) |
| Charles Cohen | Washington, D.C. | Labor & Employment (District of Columbia) |
| George Edgar | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Miriam Fisher | Washington, D.C. | Tax: Fraud (National) |
| John Ford | Washington, D.C. | Financial Services Regulation: Asset Management Regulation (National) |
| Steven Frantz | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Jay Gutierrez | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Thomas Harman | Washington, D.C. | Financial Services Regulation: Asset Management Regulation (National) |
| Mark Haskell | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Oil & Gas (District of Columbia) |
| James Kelley | Washington, D.C. | Labor & Employment (District of Columbia) |
| Donald Klawiter* | Washington, D.C. | Antitrust (District of Columbia) |
| William Lewis | Washington, D.C. | Environment (District of Columbia) |
| John McGrane | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Electricity (District of Columbia) |
| W. John McGuire | Washington, D.C. | Financial Services Regulation: Asset Management Regulation (National) |
| Karol Lyn Newman | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Oil & Gas (District of Columbia) |
| Floyd Norton | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Electricity (District of Columbia) |
| Eleanor Pelta | Washington, D.C. | Immigration (District of Columbia) |
| Celia Roady | Washington, D.C. | Tax (District of Columbia) |
| Michael Steinberg | Washington, D.C. | Environment (District of Columbia) |
| Steven Stone | Washington, D.C. | Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer Regulation (National) |
| Kathryn Sutton | Washington, D.C. | Energy: Nuclear (District of Columbia) |
| Willard Tom | Washington, D.C. | Antitrust (District of Columbia) |
| Gary Wilcox | Washington, D.C. | Tax (District of Columbia) |
| Paul Zevnik | Washington, D.C. | Insurance: Policy Holder (District of Columbia) Insurance: Policy Holder (National) |
*Has retired or left firm since survey was completed.
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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