Overview
(June 5, 2019, Washington, DC) — Steptoe has received 30 practice mentions and 149 individual mentions in the 2019 edition of The Legal 500 United States. Four of those practices have been designated as top-tier practices.
In addition, 16 partners have been named "Leading Lawyers" in their fields, five lawyers have been designated as "Next Generation Lawyers," and two associates have been designated as "Rising Stars." Now in its 32nd 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
- Tax - Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, and national trade associations and charities)
The following Steptoe practices are recommended:
- Dispute resolution - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution - General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution - International litigation
- Dispute resolution - Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution - Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort - defense
- Government - Government contracts
- Government - Government relations
- Industry focus - Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Industry focus - Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Industry focus - Environment: litigation
- Industry focus - Insurance: advice to insurers
- Industry focus - Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation
- Industry focus - Transport: aviation and air travel - regulation
- Industry focus - Transport: rail and road - litigation
- Industry focus - Transport: rail and road - regulation
- Intellectual property - Copyright
- 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
- Labor and employment - Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms - Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax - International tax
- Tax - US taxes: contentious
- Tax - US taxes: non-contentious
The following Steptoe partners are listed as "Leading Lawyers" in their fields:
- Steve Brose - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
- Dick Cunningham - Dispute Resolution - International trade
- Markham Erickson - Media, technology and telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast - regulatory
- Suzanne McDowell - Tax - Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, and national trade associations and charities)
- Charley Mills - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power
- 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 - ERISA litigation
- Dave Raskin - Industry focus - Energy litigation - conventional power; Industry focus - Energy regulation - conventional power
- Steve Reed - Industry focus - Energy regulation - oil and gas
- Jim Rocap - Leading individuals - Insurance - advice to insurers - coverage
- 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)
- Roger Warin - Leading individuals - Insurance - advice to insurers - coverage
- Reid Weingarten - Leading individuals - Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - advice to individuals; Leading Trial Lawyers
The following Steptoe lawyers are listed as "Next Generation Lawyers" in their fields:
- Matthew Bathon - Intellectual property - Patents - litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Pablo Bentes - Dispute resolution - International trade
- Alan Cohn - Media, technology and telecoms - Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- 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
- Georgios Leris - Media, technology and telecoms - Telecoms and broadcast - regulatory
To see the full list of Steptoe lawyers recommended, please visit The Legal 500 US.
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, London, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
