Morgan Lewis Lawyers, Practices Recognized by LMG Life Sciences for 2025 Guide, Americas Awards

NEW YORK, November 7, 2025: Morgan Lewis has received 14 practice rankings and 32 individual lawyer recognitions in the 2025 edition of Legal Media Group’s (LMG’s) LMG Life Sciences guide, an annual guide that honors law firms and lawyers for outstanding work in life sciences. The firm was also recognized at the 13th annual LMG Americas Life Sciences Awards, which reward top life sciences practitioners and law firms across a range of jurisdictions and key practice areas—regulatory, IP, financial and corporate, and non-IP litigation and enforcement—following a rigorous research process and interviews with leading lawyers from the field.

The Morgan Lewis practice rankings and individual lawyer recognitions are as follows:

PRACTICE RANKINGS

• Antitrust
• Corporate
• FDA: Medical Device
• FDA: Pharmaceutical
• General Patent Litigation
• Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation
• Licensing & Collaboration
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement
• Patent Prosecution
• Patent Strategy & Management
• Product Liability
• Venture Capital
• White Collar/Government Investigations
  
  

LIFE SCIENCES STARS

• Michael Abernathy, General Patent Litigation, Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation
• Stephen Altieri, Ph.D., Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy & Management
• Louis Beardell, Jr., Patent Strategy & Management
• Jacqueline Berman, FDA: Medical Device, FDA: Pharmaceutical
• Christopher Betti, Ph.D., General Patent Litigation, Patent Strategy & Management
• Michele Buenafe, FDA: Medical Device
• J. Gordon Cooney, Jr., Antitrust, Product Liability
• Jack Dodds, White Collar/Government Investigations
• Suzanne Filippi, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Natalie Georges, Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement
• David Glazer, Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Dennis Gucciardo, FDA: Medical Device
• Eric Kraeutler, General Patent Litigation
• Alan Leeds, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Jeffry Mann, Ph.D., Patent Prosecution, Patent Strategy & Management
• Scott Memmott, White Collar/Government Investigations
• Steven Navarro, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
• John Pease, White Collar/Government Investigations
• Benjamin Pensak, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Esther Phu, Licensing & Collaboration
• Ali Razai, General Patent Litigation
• Steven Reed, Antitrust
• Kathleen Sanzo, FDA: Medical Device, FDA: Pharmaceutical (Hall of Fame)
• David Schwartz, Venture Capital
• Eric Sitarchuk, White Collar/Government Investigations
• Mark Stein, Corporate, Licensing & Collaboration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital
• Julio Vega, Corporate, Venture Capital
• Amanda Williamson, General Patent Litigation
• Howard Young, White Collar/Government Investigations

Partner Natalie Georges and associate Esther Phu were further recognized as 2025 Rising Stars.

At the LMG Life Sciences 2025 Americas Awards in September, the firm was shortlisted in the Life Cycle Firm of the Year category, while three lawyers were shortlisted in individual categories: partner Mike Abernathy was a finalist in the General Patent Litigator of the Year – Midwest category; partner Christopher Betti was shortlisted in the Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – Midwest category; and partner Michele Buenafe was a finalist in the Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Medical Device category.

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