Winston & Strawn Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S., 2017 Edition

Winston & Strawn has been recognized in the 2017 edition of The Legal 500, U.S. as a top-tier firm in two practice areas and recommended in an additional 34 categories. 101 lawyers were recommend across 35 practices. In addition, 7 lawyers are listed in the elite “Leading lawyers” list.

Top-tier Firm:

• M&A/corporate and commercial - M&A: middle-market ($500M-$999M)
• Media, technology and telecoms - Advertising and marketing

“Leading lawyers”:

• Jerry Bloom: Industry focus - Energy - renewable/alternative
• Oscar David: M&A/corporate and commercial - M&A - middle-market ($500M-$999M)
• Michael Elkin: Intellectual property - Copyright
• Jeffrey Kessler: Industry focus - Sport
• George Lombardi: Dispute resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action - consumer products (including tobacco); Dispute resolution - Leading trial lawyer; and Intellectual property - Patent litigation - full coverage
• Charlie Papavizas: Industry Focus - Transport - shipping
• Dan Webb: Dispute resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action - consumer products (including tobacco); Dispute resolution - Leading trial lawyer; and Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

The firm’s complete list of U.S. rankings is available here.

The Legal 500 is a prominent UK-based publishing organization that conducts extensive research within key legal markets to evaluate law firm practice areas based on, among other things, reputation and attorney and client feedback.