107 Akin Lawyers Named Among the Best Lawyers in America

(Washington, D.C.) – 107 Akin Gump lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2023 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.

Now in its 29th edition, Best Lawyers has been published annually since 1983, ranking lawyers solely through peer–review surveys, compiling lists of outstanding attorneys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers. The 3rd edition of “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” recognizes attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.

Six Akin Gump lawyers have been recognized as “Lawyer of the Year,” which recognizes one lawyer per practice area in each metro region: partners Scott Barnard (Litigation - Securities; Dallas/Fort Worth), Steven D. Maslowski (Litigation - Patent; Philadelphia), Matthew R. Nicely (International Trade and Finance Law; Washington, D.C.), Marissa Román Griffith (Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television; Los Angeles) and Neal Ross Marder (Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants; Los Angeles) and partner emeritus Steven R. Ross (Government Relations Practice; Washington, D.C.).

The following Akin Gump lawyers were named to this year's edition of Best Lawyers:

Dallas

• Matthew B. Alexander (Ones to Watch: Banking and Finance Law)
• Alex Agahzadeh (Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law)
• John Bain (Real Estate Law)
• Scott Barnard (Litigation - Securities)
• Ashton Barrineau Butcher (Ones to Watch: Corporate Governance; Compliance Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Kathryn D. Betts (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Rachel Biblo Block (Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy)
• Garrett DeVries (Corporate Law)
• Katie C. Dinett (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law)
• Jessica W. Hammons (Corporate Law)
• Adam Hilkemann (Corporate Law)
• Lacy Lawrence (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Brennan Meier (Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants)
• Seth R. Molay (Corporate Law; Energy Law)
• Kate Ortbahn (Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law)
• Michelle A. Reed (Litigation - Securities)
• Sarah Link Schultz (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Frankie Shulkin (Ones to Watch: Corporate Governance; Compliance Law)
• Wes Smith (Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law)
• A. Michael Warnecke (Litigation - Antitrust)
• Wesley P. Williams (Corporate Law)
• Thomas H. Yang (Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)

Fort Worth

• Cole Bredthauer (Oil and Gas Law)
• Marc N. Epstein (Real Estate Law)

Houston

• Alison L. Chen (Tax Law)
• David Patrick Elder (Corporate Law)
• John Goodgame (Corporate Law; Oil and Gas Law)
• J. Hayden Harms (Ones to Watch: Energy Law)
• Dasha Hodge (Ones to Watch: Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Matthew A. Kapinos (Energy Law)
• Thomas J. McCaffrey (Corporate Law; Real Estate Law)
• Chad Nichols (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law)
• Kevin W. Schott (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• W. Robert Shearer (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Amanda Marie Thienpont (Ones to Watch: Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Jim Wetwiska (Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants)

Los Angeles

• Thomas Ian Dupuis (Project Finance Law)
• Marissa Román Griffith (Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television)
• Gregory W. Knopp (Litigation - Labor and Employment)
• Neal Ross Marder (Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants)
• Kevin G. McBride (Litigation - Patent)
• Alissa Miller (Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television)
• Vanessa Roman (Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television

New York

• James J. Benjamin Jr. (Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy))
• David H. Botter (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Ira S. Dizengoff (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Philip C. Dublin (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Patrick B. Fenn (Tax Law)
• John Hunt (Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation)
• Ross Karlik (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law)
• Brooks J. Kenyon (Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation)
• Stuart E. Leblang (Tax Law)  
• Lauren Leyden (Litigation - Labor and Employment)
• Prakash Mehta (Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law)
• Caitlin E. Olwell (Ones to Watch: Litigation - Intellectual Property; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants)
• Kate Powers (Ones to Watch: Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
• Arik Preis (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Abid Qureshi (Litigation - Bankruptcy)
• Doug Rappaport (Corporate Law)
• Gary Ritacco (Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Elizabeth C. Rosen (Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation)
• Seth D. Slotkin (Trusts and Estates)
• Joseph Sorkin (Litigation - Bankruptcy)
• Michael S. Stamer (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy)
• Stephen M. Vine (Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law)

Philadelphia

• Steven D. Maslowski (Litigation - Patent)

San Antonio

• Cynthia Perez Angell (Ones to Watch: Corporate Law)
• Daniel L. Moffett (Litigation - Patent)

Washington, DC

• Louis Agnello (Ones to Watch: Health Care Law)
• Scott L. Alberino (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Hunter Bates (Government Relations Practice)
• Matthew Berry (Communications Law)
• Allison C. Binney (Native American Law)
• Naboth van den Broek (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Katie Brossy (Native American Law)
• Amanda Amelia Butler-Jones (Ones to Watch: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law)
• Cono A. Carrano (Litigation - Patent)
• James C. Crowley (Ones to Watch: Litigation - Labor and Employment)
• Chuck Connolly (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
• Tom W. Davidson (Communications Law)
• Stacey Eisenstein (Litigation - Labor and Employment)
• Spencer S. Griffith (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Paul B. Hewitt (Antitrust Law)
• Lars-Erik A. Hjelm (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Howard B. Jacobson (Tax Law)
• Bernd Janzen (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Gorav Jindal (Antitrust Law)
• Susan Kovarovics (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Mark J. MacDougall (Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
• Thomas J. McCarthy (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Jeffrey McMillen (Government Relations Practice)
• Yujin McNamara (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Daniel L. Nash (Litigation - Labor and Employment; Sports Law)
• Matthew R. Nicely (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Lide Paterno (Ones to Watch: Appellate Practice)
• Brian Arthur Pomper (Government Relations Practice)
• Donald R. Pongrace (Native American Law)
• Brian Rafkin (Ones to Watch: Antitrust Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
• Jennifer Richter (Communications Law)
• Steven R. Ross (Government Relations Practice)
• Steve Rowings (Ones to Watch: Communications Law; Technology Law)
• Robert S. Salcido (Health Care Law)
• James Savin (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
• Wynn Segall (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Pratik A. Shah (Appellate Practice; Native American Law)
• Hal S. Shapiro (International Trade and Finance Law)
• Kevin J. Wolf (International Trade and Finance Law)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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