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Lifetime Achievement Winners

  • Max Berger, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
  • Jamie Gorelick, WilmerHale
  • Gene Locks, Locks Law Firm
  • Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin

DC Attorney of the Year Finalists

  • Ian Gershengorn, Jenner & Block — WINNER
  • Neal Katyal, Milbank
  • Eugene Scalia, Gibson Dunn

Law Firm of the Year Finalists

  • Covington & Burling
  • Gibson Dunn
  • WilmerHale
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  • Williams & Connolly — WINNER

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Appellate Hot List Finalists

  • Arnold & Porter
  • Clement & Murphy — WINNER
  • Dechert
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Gupta Wessler
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
  • Hunton Andrews Kurth
  • Jenner & Block
  • Jones Day
  • Latham & Watkins
  • O'Melveny & Myers
  • Paul Weiss
  • Sidley Austin
  • Sullivan & Cromwell
  • Williams & Connolly
  • WilmerHale
  • Winston & Strawn
  • Wilson Sonsini

Winning Litigators - Defense Finalists

  • Adam Alper and Michael DeVries, Kirkland & Ellis
  • Carol Pitzel Cruz, Knobbe Martens
  • Phyllis Jones, Covington & Burling
  • Moez Kaba, Hueston Hennigan
  • Lionel Lavenue, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
  • Michael McKeon, Fish & Richardson
  • William Michael, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Mike Morin, Latham & Watkins
  • Brian Rosenthal, Gibson Dunn — WINNER
  • Beth Wilkinson and Brian Stekloff, Wilkinson Stekloff

Winning Litigators - Plaintiffs Finalists

  • Thomas D'Amore, D'Amore Law Group
  • Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
  • David DeRubertis, The deRubertis Law Firm
  • Jessica Falk, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  • Tor Hoerman and Jake Plattenberger, TorHoerman Law
  • Douglass Kreis, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz
  • Jeroen van Kwawegen, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
  • Pete Marketos and Josh Russ, Reese Marketos — WINNER
  • Matthew McNicholas, McNicholas & McNicholas
  • Megan Meier and Daniel Watkins, Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch

Appellate Attorney of the Year Finalists

  • Shay Dvoretzky, Skadden
  • Noel Francisco, Jones Day
  • Greg Garre, Latham & Watkins
  • Deepak Gupta, Gupta Wessler
  • Allyson Ho, Gibson Dunn
  • Nicole Saharsky, Mayer Brown
  • Kannon Shanmugam, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Jeffrey Wall, Sullivan & Cromwell — WINNER

Litigation Departments of the Year, General Litigation Finalists

  • Covington & Burling
  • King & Spalding
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  • Wiley Rein
  • Williams & Connolly — WINNER
  • WilmerHale

Litigation Departments of the Year: Antitrust Finalists

  • Covington & Burling
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Simpson Thacher
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges — WINNER
  • WilmerHale

Litigation Departments of the Year, Intellectual Property Finalists

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Kirkland & Ellis — WINNER
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Williams & Connolly
  • WilmerHale

Litigation Departments of the Year, White Collar Finalists

  • Covington & Burling — WINNER
  • Gibson Dunn
  • King & Spalding
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Paul Hastings
  • Wiggin and Dana
  • WilmerHale

Litigation Departments of the Year, Products Liability Finalists

  • Covington & Burling
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Sidley Austin — WINNER
  • Skadden
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  • Williams & Connolly

Litigation Departments of the Year, Labor and Employment Winner

  • Gibson Dunn

Community Impact Leaders Finalists

  • Covington & Burling
  • Dechert — WINNER
  • Duane Morris
  • Everytown Law
  • Munger Tolles
  • WilmerHale

Crisis Management and Government Oversight Finalists

  • Cahill Gordon
  • Covington & Burling
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Morrison Foerster
  • Paul Hastings
  • Paul Weiss
  • Sullivan & Cromwell — WINNER

Government Relations/Lobbying Finalists

  • Akin Gump
  • Arnold & Porter
  • Covington & Burling — WINNER
  • Dentons
  • Hogan Lovells
  • King & Spalding

DC Managing Partner of the Year Finalists

  • Jeny Maier, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider
  • Luca Salvi, Sheppard Mullin
  • Joel S. Green, WilmerHale — WINNER
  • Priscilla Muhlenkamp, Fragomen
  • Mandy Reeves, Latham & Watkins
  • Kristin Koehler, Sidley Austin
  • Maurice Bellan, Baker McKenzie

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GC Impact Finalists

  • Brad Blackwell, Churchill Downs Incorporated
  • Sujit Raman, TRM Labs — WINNER
  • Heather McAllister, Topgolf Callaway Brands Corporation

Washington D.C. Rising Stars Winners

  • Adam Adler, Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg
  • Ilene Albala, Goodwin
  • Brendan Benedict, Benedict Law Group
  • Grant Bermann, Milbank
  • Nicholas Brechbill, Clare Locke
  • Robyn Burrows, Blank Rome
  • Kevin Chu, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
  • Tore DeBella, Faegre Drinker
  • Stephanie Fishman, Hogan Lovells
  • Melissa Gohlke, Cooley
  • Benjamin W. Graham, Williams & Connolly
  • Lauren Hartz, Jenner & Block
  • Amy Hoang, Seyfarth Shaw
  • Steven Horn, WilmerHale
  • Patrick Jaicomo, Institute for Justice
  • Michelle Kallen, Steptoe
  • Rachel Levick, Gibson Dunn
  • Jaclyn Phillips, White & Case
  • Amanda Reed, Caplin & Drysdale
  • Derrick Rowe, Wilson Sonsini
  • Mike Wagner, Covington & Burling
  • Max Warren, Wilkinson Stekloff