The Legal 500 United States 2025 Recognizes Arnold & Porter Lawyers, Practices

The 2025 edition of The Legal 500 United States recognized 50 Arnold & Porter practice areas and 164 lawyers, including 24 lawyers who were distinguished as “Leading Partners,” 13 lawyers as “Next Generation Partners,” and two lawyers as “Rising Stars.” Six Arnold & Porter lawyers were also included in The Legal 500’s “Hall of Fame,” a recognition that is achieved when lawyers are “widely regarded as being at the very top of the profession” and “have been consistently ranked as leading individuals by The Legal 500 for a number of years.”

The Legal 500 commended Arnold & Porter for “striking a balance of knowledge depth and practicality,” noting that despite being a larger firm, “they have an individual approach to each client.” The firm was also praised as “best in class” with “an excellent reputation in handling legal matters.” The guide features coverage of the U.S. legal market, highlighting new trends and developments across the jurisdiction’s elite firms by using feedback from in-house counsels and lawyers worldwide.

The following practices were recommended by The Legal 500 United States 2025:

• Antitrust: Cartel
• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
• Antitrust: Merger Control
• Appellate: Courts of Appeals 
• Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal) 
• Cannabis
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings (Advice to Issuers)
• Capital Markets: Global Offerings (Advice to Issuers)
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense (Advice to Corporates)
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense (Advice to Individuals) 
• Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas
• Energy Regulatory: Electric Power
• Environment: Litigation
• Environment: Regulatory
• Financial Services Regulation: Banking
• Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance
• Financial Services: Litigation
• Fintech
• General Commercial Disputes
• Government Contracts
• Government Relations
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy 
• Insurance: Advice to Insurers
• Intellectual Property: Copyright
• Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation (Full Coverage)
• Intellectual Property: Patents: Prosecution (Including Re-Examination and Post-Grant Proceedings)
• Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation
• International Arbitration
• International Litigation 
• M&A: Middle-Market (Sub-$500m) 
• M&A: Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (up to $500m)
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection) 
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactional
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products (Including Tobacco)
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Defense
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Toxic Tort - Defense
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Finance
• Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Securities Litigation: Defense
• Sport
• Structured Finance: Securitization
• Tax: Non-Contentious
• Tax: Not-For-Profit (Non-Profit and Tax-Exempt Orgs)
• Transport Aviation and Air Travel: Litigation and Regulation

The following lawyers were ranked in the “Hall of Fame”:

• Anand Agneshwar—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Paolo Di Rosa—International Arbitration 
• Debbie Feinstein—Antitrust: Merger Control
• Jeffrey Handwerker—Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Daniel Kracov—Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Kevin Lavin—M&A: Middle-Market (Sub-$500m)

The following lawyers were ranked as “Leading Partners”:

• Arthur Brown—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Maria Chedid—International Arbitration
• Lauren Daniel—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Toxic Tort
• Kara Daniels—Government Contracts
• Michael Daneker—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Toxic Tort
• Mahnu Davar—Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Edward Deibert—M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• John Elwood—Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
• David Freeman—Financial Services Regulation
• Jonathan Gleklen—Antitrust: Merger Control
• Stephen Gliatta—Real Estate Finance
• Andre Geverola—Antitrust: Cartel
• Mélida Hodgson—International Arbitration
• Craig Holman—Government Contracts
• Allon Kedem—Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
• Jonathan Martel—Environment: Regulatory
• Evelina Norwinski—Cannabis
• Kevin O’Neill—Government Relations
• Daphne O'Connor—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action-Defense: Consumer Products (Including Tobacco)
• David Park—International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
• Sandra Rizzo—Energy Regulation: Electric Power
• Allison Rumsey—Environment: Litigation
• Ethan Shenkman—Environment: Regulatory
• Allison Shuren—Healthcare: Service Providers

The following lawyers were ranked as “Next Generation Partners”:

• Michael B. Bernstein—Antitrust: Merger Control
• Michelle Gillice—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Consumer Products (Including Tobacco)
• Sarah Grey—Environment: Regulatory
• Abeba Habtemariam—Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Stacey Halliday—Environment: Regulatory
• Kristin Hicks—Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Michael Kim Krouse—Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense 
• Elissa Preheim—Environment: Litigation
• Kathleen Reilly—Financial Services: Litigation
• Paige Sharpe—Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Christian Sheehan—Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense 
• Elisabeth Theodore—Appellate: Courts of Appeal / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
• Marisa White—M&A: Middle Market (Sub-$500m)

The following lawyers were ranked as “Rising Stars”:

• Alice Ho—Intellectual Property: Patents: Prosecution (Including Re-Examination and Post-Grant Proceedings)
• Andrew Tutt—Appellate: Courts of Appeal / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)