Winston & Strawn Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. 2020

Winston & Strawn is recognized as a top-tier firm in four practice areas and recommended in an additional 44 categories in the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. In addition, our lawyers are recommended across 48 practices, recognized in the Hall of Fame, recognized as Leading Lawyers, listed as Next Generation Partners, and recognized as Rising Stars.

Top-Tier Firm:

• E-Discovery
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
• Leading Trial Lawyers
• M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)

Hall of Fame:

• Oscar David: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
• Jeffrey Kessler: Sport
• George Lombardi: Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action - Defense: Automative/Transport, Leading Trial Lawyers, Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
• David Rogers: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Robert Wall: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
• Dan Webb: Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action - Defense: Automative/Transport, Leading Trial Lawyers, Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices, Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense

Leading Lawyers:

• Matt Bergmann: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
• Jonathan Birenbaum: Energy - Renewable/Alternative Power
• Suzanne Jaffe Bloom: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
• Eva Cole: Cartel
• Oscar David: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
• Michael Elkin: Copyright
• George Lombardi: Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Consumer Products (including tobacco)
• Charlie Papavizas: Transport: Shipping - Litigation and Regulation
• John Rosenthal: E-Discovery
• Laurae Rossi: Energy - Renewable/Alternative Power
• Dan Webb: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates

Next Generation Partners:

• Jonathan Amoona: Sport
• Steve Flores: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, and Retirement Plans: Design
• Timothy Kincaid: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
• Kurt Mathas: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)

Rising Stars:

• Jason Campbell: Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions): Defense
• Adam Dale: Sport
• Maria Kenny: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Shawn Obi: General Commercial Disputes

View the full rankings 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.