Overview
(July 7, 2020, Washington, DC) — Steptoe has received 28 practice rankings and 29 individual awards for lawyers in the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 United States. Four of those practices have been designated as top-tier practices. Now in its 33rd year, The Legal 500 series is an independent guide that recommends firms and individuals purely on merit.
The following practices are recognized as top-tier practices:
- Dispute resolution - International trade
- Industry focus - Energy litigation: conventional power
- Industry focus - Energy regulation: conventional power
- Industry focus - Energy regulation: oil and gas
The following Steptoe practices are recommended:
- Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
- Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
- Dispute resolution - General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution - International litigation
- Dispute resolution - Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class action – defense: toxic tort
- Government - Government contracts
- Government - Government relations
- Industry focus - Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Industry focus - Environment: litigation
- Industry focus - Insurance: advice to insurers
- Industry focus - Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation
- Industry focus - Transport: rail and road - litigation and regulation
- Intellectual property - Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property - Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment - ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms - Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms - Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax - International tax
- Tax - Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Tax - US taxes: contentious
- Tax - US taxes: non-contentious
The following Steptoe partners are listed as "Hall of Fame" in their fields:
- Mark Moran - Dispute resolution - International trade
- Melanie Nussdorf - Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - design
- Paul Ondrasik - Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - design; Labor and employment - Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans - transactional; Labor and employment - ERISA litigation
- Roger Warin - Industry focus - Insurance: advice to insurers
- Reid Weingarten - Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense; Leading trial lawyers
The following Steptoe partners are listed as "Leading Lawyers" in their fields:
- Steve Brose - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
- Brian Egan - Dispute Resolution - International trade
- Toni Ianniello - Industry focus - Insurance: advice to insurers
- Suzanne McDowell - Tax - Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Charley Mills - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power
- Dave Raskin - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power; Industry focus - Energy regulation - conventional power
- Steve Reed - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
- Rick Roberts - Industry focus - Energy regulation - conventional power
- Jim Rocap - Industry focus - Insurance: advice to insurers
- Steven Ross - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power
- Eric Serron - Labor and employment - ERISA litigation
- Michael Vatis - Media, technology and telecoms - Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
The following Steptoe lawyers are listed as "Next Generation Partners" in their fields:
- Matthew Bathon - Intellectual property - Patents - litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Amy Lentz - Dispute Resolution - International trade
- Sara Pikofsky - Labor and employment - ERISA litigation
- Leah Quadrino - Dispute resolution - General commercial disputes
The following Steptoe lawyers are listed as "Rising Stars" in their fields:
- Karen Bruni - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power
- Joshua Runyan - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
- Monique Watson - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
About Steptoe
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
