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Washington, DC Super Lawyers Recognizes 65 Steptoe Attorneys

April 24, 2017

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(April 24, 2017, Washington, DC) — Sixty-five Steptoe attorneys have been selected to the 2017 Washington, DC Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list. The annual list selects only five percent of the total lawyers in the region based on peer review and the publication’s independent research.

For the third year in a row, Paul Ondrasik has been placed among the “Top 10” lawyers in Washington for receiving the highest point totals in the nomination, research, and review process.

Steve Brose and Reid Weingarten have been selected among the “Top 100” attorneys in Washington. Mr. Weingarten has been selected to the list of “Top 100” lawyers every year since 2007. 

The following Steptoe attorneys were named to the 2017 Washington, DC Super Lawyers list:

  • Fil Agusti – Bankruptcy: Business
  • Robert Ayers – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Brigida Benitez – Civil Litigation: Defense
  • Bruce Bishop – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Steve Brose – Energy & Natural Resources (Top 100)
  • Joe Caldwell – Business Litigation
  • John Caracappa – Intellectual Property
  • Betty Jo Christian – Transportation: Maritime
  • Dick Cunningham – International
  • Steve Davidson – International
  • Eric Emerson – International
  • Markham Erickson – Communications
  • Susan Esserman – International
  • Ken Ewing – Antitrust Litigation
  • Doug Green – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Bill Hassler – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Brian Heberlig – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Jim Hibey – Antitrust Litigation
  • Toni Ianniello – Insurance Coverage
  • Scott Katzman – Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Phil Khinda – Securities Litigation
  • Ed Krauland – International
  • Sharon Larkin – Government Contracts
  • Tony LaRocca – Transportation: Maritime
  • Harry Lee – Insurance Coverage
  • Patrick Linehan – Securities & Corporate Finance
  • Lucinda Low – International
  • Ed Mackiewicz – Employee Benefits
  • Alfred Mamlet – Communications/Intellectual Property
  • Suzanne McDowell – Nonprofit Organizations
  • Pantelis Michalopoulos – Communications
  • Paul Mickey – Employment & Labor
  • Charles Mills – Administrative Law/Energy & Natural Resources
  • Mark Moran – International
  • Melanie Nussdorf – Employee Benefits
  • Paul Ondrasik – Employee Benefits (Top 10)
  • Dave Raskin – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Steve Reed – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Rick Roberts – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Jim Rocap – Insurance Coverage
  • Steven Ross – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Charles Schill – Intellectual Property/International
  • Ed Schwartz – Antitrust Litigation
  • Eric Serron – Employee Benefits
  • Mark Silverman – Tax
  • Sam Sipe – Transportation: Maritime
  • Marc Spitzer – Energy & Natural Resources
  • Roger Warin – Professional Liability: Defense
  • Reid Weingarten – Criminal Defense: White Collar (Top 100)
  • Jason Weinstein – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Phil West – Tax
  • Frank Winston – Insurance Coverage
  • Lisa Zarlenga – Tax 

The following Steptoe attorneys were named to the 2017 Washington, DC Rising Stars list:

  • Linda Bailey – Litigation
  • Shawn Davisson – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Will Drake – Criminal Defense: White Collar
  • Molly Bruder Fox – Business Litigation
  • Sarah Gordon – Insurance Coverage
  • Andrew Guhr – Communications
  • Li Guo – Intellectual Property
  • Jamie Hertz – Class Action/Mass Torts
  • Tremayne Norris – Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Patty Palacios – Business Litigation
  • Stephanie Roberts – Intellectual Property
  • Stephanie Roy – Intellectual Property 

For more information on Steptoe's presence in the professional community, see the Honors and Rankings page.

About Steptoe

Steptoe & Johnson LLP is an international law firm widely recognized for vigorous advocacy in complex litigation and arbitration, successful representation of clients before governmental agencies, and creative and practical advice in guiding business transactions. The firm has more than 500 lawyers and other professionals in offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Phoenix and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.

Professionals

Filiberto Agusti
Filiberto Agusti is a prominent commercial and insolvency litigator with a roster of clients that includes the pilots' union in the American Airlines reorganization, celebrity chef José Andrés and...

Partner

Robert A. Ayers
Robert Ayers successfully defends corporate executives, public officials, and other individuals in federal criminal investigations and prosecutions. Robert handles matters involving allegations of...

Of Counsel

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations

Brigida Benitez
Brigida Benitez solves challenging problems that stem from business disputes, employment relationships, and compliance matters. With a focus on complex litigation, internal investigations, and global...

Partner

Independent & Internal Investigations, FCPA/Anti-Corruption, Commercial Litigation, World Bank/IFI Investigations

Bruce C. Bishop
Bruce Bishop focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense and appellate advocacy. Bruce represents individual, corporate, and nonprofit clients in federal appeals in the areas of white-collar...

Of Counsel

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations, Appeals & Advocacy

Steven H. Brose
Steve Brose provides oil and natural gas pipeline companies with leading representation and counsel on their most complex administrative, judicial, compliance, and transactional matters, including...

Partner

Energy, Oil & Gas Pipelines

Joe Robert Caldwell, Jr.
Having litigated more than 100 jury trials, Joe Caldwell is a widely sought, talented advocate for his corporate and individual clients in their most complicated commercial disputes and white-collar...

Partner

Commercial Litigation, White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations

John Caracappa
John Caracappa, who serves as the co-chair of Steptoe's Intellectual Property group, personally handles every aspect of a client's case, from fact discovery and witness preparation to Markman...

Partner

Copyright, Section 337, Patent Litigation, Patent Office Practice

Betty Jo Christian
Betty Jo Christian represents railroads, motor carriers, port authorities, rail facility developers, and other parties in a wide range of regulatory and court proceedings. She also advises...

Senior Counsel

Appeals & Advocacy, Regulatory Litigation, Rail Transportation, Transportation

Richard O. Cunningham
Dick Cunningham has been recognized for more than 40 years as one of America's leading international trade lawyers. His practice includes the handling of antidumping and countervailing duty cases for...

Partner

Trade Policy & Negotiations, Trade Remedies, WTO Disputes, Customs

Steven K. Davidson
As a recognized leader in international disputes and judgment enforcement, Steve Davidson regularly serves as lead counsel for top Fortune 500 corporations in complex litigation and arbitration....

Partner

Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, Judgment Enforcement & Asset Recovery, Professional Liability

Eric C. Emerson
Eric Emerson, chair of the International Trade and Investment Group, represents companies across various industries on all aspects of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) proceedings before...

Partner

Trade Remedies, Trade Policy & Negotiations, Customs, Retail & E-Commerce

Markham Cho Erickson
Markham Erickson is chair of Steptoe's Internet, Telecom, and Technology practice group, where he counsels clients in some of the most highly visible, complex legal matters in these sectors. He...

Partner

Internet, Telecom & Media, Privacy & Cybersecurity, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Government Affairs & Public Policy

Susan Esserman
Ambassador Susan G. Esserman
Ambassador Susan Esserman is a former Deputy US Trade Representative who leads Steptoe's International Trade Policy practice. A principal focus of her practice is on advising US and foreign clients in...

Partner

Trade Policy & Negotiations, Trade Remedies, Government Affairs & Public Policy

Kenneth P. Ewing
Ken Ewing defends companies and individuals in US and multijurisdictional criminal cartel investigations and related civil damages suits and civil investigations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...

Senior Counsel

Antitrust/Competition, Antitrust Mergers, Acquisitions, & Joint Ventures, Cartels & Conspiracies, Independent & Internal Investigations

Douglas G. Green
Doug Green has long been recognized as one of the nation's leading lawyers in handling major competition and litigation issues in the electric power industry. Described by Chambers as "the definitive...

Partner

Energy, Electric Power, Antitrust/Competition, Energy Litigation

William T. Hassler
Bill Hassler's practice encompasses a broad range of civil and criminal cases.Bill litigates a variety of civil disputes involving environmental matters, including enforcement issues relating to...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations, Environmental, Product, & Mass Tort, Congressional Oversight & Investigations

Brian M. Heberlig
Brian Heberlig is an accomplished trial lawyer who successfully defends executives, public officials, and corporations in all phases of federal criminal investigations and prosecutions. Chambers USA...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations, Securities Enforcement, FCPA/Anti-Corruption

Jim Hibey
James F. Hibey
Jim Hibey is an accomplished trial lawyer with 40 years of experience in both government and private practice. As a former federal prosecutor with more than 120 jury and non-jury trials to his credit...

Partner

Commercial Litigation, White-Collar Defense, FCPA/Anti-Corruption, Securities Enforcement

Antonia B. Ianniello
Toni Ianniello heads the Litigation Department at Steptoe and is one of the leading insurance coverage lawyers in the nation. Over more than 30 years of practice, she has served as lead counsel for...

Partner

Commercial Litigation, Insurance & Reinsurance, International Arbitration, Professional Liability

Scott Katzman
Scott H. Katzman
Scott Katzman represents privately held and publicly traded companies in domestic and cross-border merger and acquisitions, joint ventures, and investment transactions. His recent transactions have...

Partner

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Philip S. Khinda
Philip Khinda is one of the nation's leading securities lawyers, litigators, and advisers to public companies, corporate boards, special committees, and financial institutions dealing with corporate...

Partner

Crisis Management, Securities Enforcement, Independent & Internal Investigations, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Edward J. Krauland
Edward J. Krauland represents clients on matters involving US and multilateral economic sanctions, dual use, defense and nuclear export controls, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, anti-boycott,...

Partner

Export Controls, Economic Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, FCPA/Anti-Corruption

Anthony J. LaRocca
Anthony LaRocca advises railroad clients on complex economic regulations and preemption matters. His multi-faceted background in economic regulation in areas ranging from antitrust to antidumping law...

Partner

Transportation, Rail Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles, Antitrust/Competition

Harry Lee
Harry Lee represents clients in their most challenging insurance and reinsurance disputes. He also assists clients in a variety of commercial disputes, including mass tort bankruptcies, insurance...

Partner

Insurance & Reinsurance, Professional Liability, Commercial Litigation, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Patrick F. Linehan
Patrick Linehan's diverse practice focuses on representing corporate and individual clients in both civil litigation and criminal investigations and prosecutions. He has defended clients in all phases...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Cartels & Conspiracies, Independent & Internal Investigations, Securities Enforcement

Lucinda A. Low
Lucinda Low's practice includes representing audit committees, boards of directors, and companies in internal, government, and international financial institution audits, investigations, and...

Partner

FCPA/Anti-Corruption, World Bank/IFI Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering, Business & Human Rights

Edward R. Mackiewicz
Ed Mackiewicz practices primarily in the employee benefits area, with particular emphasis on multiemployer (Taft-Hartley) plans, plan terminations, and fiduciary litigation. He represents clients...

Senior Counsel

Employee Benefits & ERISA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, ERISA Litigation

Alfred M. Mamlet
Alfred Mamlet provides value-added strategic advice to telecommunications and other technology companies on regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. For more than 20 years, Alfred has...

Partner

Internet, Telecom & Media, Patent Litigation

Suzanne Ross McDowell
Suzanne Ross McDowell
Suzanne Ross McDowell advises charities, private foundations, trade associations and professional societies, social welfare organizations, educational institutions and other exempt organizations and...

Senior Counsel

Exempt Organizations, Tax, Tax Policy, Private Client

Pantelis Michalopoulos
Pantelis Michalopoulos helps clients navigate (or litigate) in frequently uncharted areas of telecommunications and technology law. Praised by clients in Chambers USA for "his ability to come up with...

Partner

Internet, Telecom & Media, Regulatory Litigation, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Antitrust/Competition

Charles R. Mills
Charley Mills counsels and represents licensed market intermediaries, traders, and end users (hedgers) in the derivatives, commodities, and securities markets. His practice focuses on enforcement...

Partner

Energy, Financial Services, Securities Enforcement

Mark A. Moran
Mark A. Moran's practice centers on representing governments and private parties in international trade and investment litigation and arbitration as well as in bilateral and multilateral treaty...

Partner

China, Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, Trade Policy & Negotiations

Melanie Nussdrof
Melanie Nussdorf
Melanie Nussdorf advises some of the world's largest financial institutions on fiduciary issues, including prohibited transaction exemption questions under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code,...

Partner

Employee Benefits & ERISA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Tax

Paul Ondrasik
Paul J. Ondrasik, Jr.
Widely recognized as one of the country's premier ERISA litigators, Paul Ondrasik has served as lead counsel in numerous ERISA class actions and individual cases throughout the United States involving...

Partner

Employee Benefits & ERISA, ERISA Litigation, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Commercial Litigation

David B. Raskin
Dave Raskin has more than 35 years of experience representing clients in the electric power industry. He is described by Chambers Global sources as "a really fantastic lawyer, a clear communicator; he...

Partner

Electric Power, Energy

Steven Reed
Steve Reed helps major US oil pipeline companies resolve their most difficult regulatory problems. Because of his exceptional experience with complex pipeline issues and his deep understanding of the...

Partner

Energy, Oil & Gas Pipelines, Appeals & Advocacy

Richard Roberts
Richard L. Roberts
Rick Roberts is one of the nation’s leading energy litigators, handling litigation and antitrust matters for prominent players in energy and power. Chambers USA recently described Rick as a “superb...

Partner

Electric Power, Energy, Antitrust

James E. Rocap, III
James Rocap is a respected litigator and adviser in complex insurance coverage disputes. For the past 35 years, he has represented major casualty and property insurers in disputes over coverage for...

Partner

Insurance & Reinsurance

Steven J. Ross
Steven Ross has nearly three decades of experience representing clients in the electric power industry in private practice and before that as a supervisory trial lawyer and advisor to a former Federal...

Partner

Energy, Electric Power, Regulatory Litigation, Oil & Gas Pipelines

Eric G. Serron
Eric Serron has more than 25 years of experience assisting clients with ERISA litigation and fiduciary responsibility issues.Eric regularly provides advice and counsel to clients regarding their...

Partner

Employee Benefits & ERISA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, ERISA Litigation

Mark J. Silverman
Widely recognized as one of the top corporate tax lawyers, Mark Silverman advises large public corporations as well as closely held businesses on tax planning and transactional matters. He has...

Partner

Tax, Transactional Tax, Tax Controversies & Litigation, Tax Policy

Samuel M. Sipe, Jr.
Sam Sipe solves problems for clients involved in the railroad industry. He has represented railroads in merger cases, rate cases, rulemakings, and other proceedings before the Surface Transportation...

Partner

Rail Transportation, Transportation

Marc L. Spitzer
Marc Spitzer counsels and represents utilities and energy companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), at state utility commissions, Congress, federal agencies and state...

Partner

Electric Power, Energy, Oil & Gas Pipelines, Government Affairs & Public Policy

Roger E. Warin
Roger Warin served as chair of Steptoe from 2003-2013, and has for more than 30 years successfully handled a wide range of complex commercial litigation, appearing in courts throughout the United...

Partner

Insurance & Reinsurance, Commercial Litigation, Professional Liability, Securities Enforcement

Reid H. Weingarten
Reid Weingarten is widely recognized as one of the nation's top white-collar criminal defense lawyers. Since 2013, Reid has been given the rare distinction of a "star" ranking by Chambers USA in both...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Securities Enforcement, Congressional Oversight & Investigations, Independent & Internal Investigations

Jason Weinstein
Jason M. Weinstein
Jason Weinstein conducts internal investigations and represents companies and individuals in high-profile criminal matters. With 15 years of experience in senior positions at the US Department of...

Partner

Independent & Internal Investigations, White-Collar Defense, Congressional Oversight & Investigations, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Philip R. West
Phil West, Steptoe's chair, is a trusted adviser to major multinationals and high-net-worth individuals on international tax issues, and is widely regarded as one of the premier international tax...

Chair

International Tax, Tax, Private Client, Tax Controversies & Litigation

Frank Winston, Jr.
Frank Winston, Jr. is nationally esteemed for his insurance coverage litigation and counseling practice. Frank has litigated many high-profile and precedent-setting cases in more than 30 state and...

Partner

Insurance & Reinsurance, Commercial Litigation

Lisa M. Zarlenga
Lisa Zarlenga represents public and private companies on federal income taxation issues, with a focus on tax policy issues with respect to tax legislation and Treasury guidance as well as on corporate...

Partner

Tax, Tax Policy, Transactional Tax, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Linda C. Bailey
Linda Bailey focuses her practice on civil litigation, with a particular focus on national defense and foreign relations litigation, white-collar criminal defense, appellate, and administrative law....

Of Counsel

Commercial Litigation, Appeals & Advocacy, Regulatory Litigation, White-Collar Defense

Shawn Davisson
Shawn P. Davisson
Shawn Davisson focuses his practice primarily on white-collar criminal defense matters, government and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, securities litigation and enforcement,...

Of Counsel

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations, Securities Enforcement, FCPA/Anti-Corruption

William L. Drake
Will Drake focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. Having worked as a political campaign strategist before beginning his legal career, he is well versed in...

Partner

White-Collar Defense, Independent & Internal Investigations

Molly Bruder Fox
Molly Bruder Fox focuses on a wide range of complex commercial cross border disputes, judgment enforcement matters, and recognition of arbitral awards, including many involving foreign sovereigns....

Partner

Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, Professional Liability, Judgment Enforcement & Asset Recovery

Sarah Gordon
Sarah D. Gordon
Sarah Gordon maintains a multifaceted litigation practice that encompasses insurance and reinsurance, employee benefits, and professional liability. She handles a wide variety of coverage disputes,...

Partner

Insurance & Reinsurance, Professional Liability, Employee Benefits & ERISA, Commercial Litigation

Li Guo, Ph.D.
Li Guo focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation. Li represents companies in patent, copyright, and trade secret cases in federal district court, in Section 337 investigations before...

Associate

Patent, Patent Litigation, Patent Office Practice, Post-Grant Proceedings

Jamie Hertz
Jamie Hertz focuses her practice on environmental, product and mass tort, as well as commercial litigation. She has experience supporting all aspects of the litigation cycle from initial strategy...

Attorney

Environmental, Product, & Mass Tort, Commercial Litigation

Patricia Palacios
Patricia Palacios partners with clients to successfully manage high-stakes litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters in a number of industries including mining, railroad, automotive...

Partner

Class Action Defense, Commercial Litigation, Environmental, Product, & Mass Tort, Independent & Internal Investigations

Practices

Antitrust/Competition

Insolvency & Restructuring

Commercial Litigation

Corporate

Energy

Employee Benefits & ERISA

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Government Contracts

Insurance & Reinsurance

International Arbitration

Mergers & Acquisitions

Environmental, Product, & Mass Tort

Professional Liability

Tax

Exempt Organizations

Internet, Telecom & Media

Transportation

White-Collar Defense

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