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Adam Abramowitz
Recognized since 2024
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Adam Abramowitz
Adam Abramowitz extensive knowledge of comprehensive estate planning and trust, estate, and charitable administration, provides clients with tailored strategies to achieve their long-term goals. Adam prides himself on conveying an understanding of the practical nature of each plan, knowing that the building blocks originate solely from a client’s goals and intentions. He is often overheard counseling clients to be proactive, not reactive with their planning objectives. His experience sp...
Adam Abramowitz
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
International Trade and Finance Law
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Qui Tam Law
Andrew Adelman
Recognized since 2021
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Civil Rights Law
Employment Law - Individuals
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Andrew Adelman
Andrew M. Adelman is a Senior Associate with Correia & Puth, PLLC and represents employees in all aspects of the firm’s employment litigation practice, including sex discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, and disability discrimination. Mr. Adelman’s practice is exclusively dedicated to advocating for the rights of employees, and he regularly represents employees in discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower cases in federal and state court. Areas of Focus Mr. Adelman h...
Andrew Adelman
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Real Estate Law
Sanford K. Ain
Recognized since 1983
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Family Law
Real Estate Law
Specific Focus
Alimony
Sanford K. Ain
Cook Alciati
Recognized since 2024
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Cook Alciati
Cook Alciati specializes in intellectual property litigation, with a particular emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Alciati’s work as lead counsel in district courts throughout the country and representation before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have now led to recognition by multiple publications over consecutive years. Mr. Alciati has experience in all aspects of patent litigation from the filing of the complaint ...
Cook Alciati
Kristin D. Alden
Recognized since 2012
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Civil Rights Law
Employment Law - Individuals
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Kristin D. Alden
Kristin D. Alden is a skilled litigator and fierce advocate dedicated to protecting employees’ rights in the workplace. Kristin and her firm have fought tirelessly to enforce the laws prohibiting harassment and discrimination, to protect brave employees who speak up against wrongdoing, and to compel employers to accommodate employees’ medical needs and pay them the wages they earn. Kristin manages the firm’s practice while also representing its clients from virtually every w...
Kristin D. Alden
James D. Alexander
Recognized since 2013
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Immigration Law
James D. Alexander
James Alexander is a Managing Shareholder at Maggio + Kattar. Jim is committed to upholding the firm's international reputation for creative thinking and legal excellence across a wide variety of disciplines within the practice of immigration law.Jim is a nationally recognized expert in a wide variety of highly specialized areas within the immigration law field including corporate compliance, such as I-9 compliance and e-Verify, complex naturalization matters, gay and HIV positive issues, as ...
James D. Alexander
Recognized since 2024
Washington, DC
Anthony Alexis
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Financial Services Regulation Law
Anthony Alexis
Anthony Alexis is a partner in Goodwin’s Complex Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Financial Industry Litigation practices focusing on Consumer Financial Services Litigation and serves as the head of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Enforcement practice. Mr. Alexis’ practice focuses on representing financial services institutions and litigation matters, with a focus on class action litigation and government and regulatory investigations. Prior to joining G...
Anthony Alexis
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Natanya H. Allan
Recognized since 2018
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Trusts and Estates
Natanya H. Allan
Natanya is a highly respected wealth planning attorney who appreciates the sensitive and technical nature of her practice. A specialist in estate planning and charitable matters, she places a high priority on understanding her clients’ concerns and goals at a holistic level, so her legal work meets each client’s unique needs. Natanya approaches every estate planning engagement with empathy, honesty and pragmatism. She communicates in a way that her clients understand, and ensures ...
Natanya H. Allan
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Consumer Protection Law
Mary Jane Alves
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
International Trade and Finance Law
Mary Jane Alves
Mary Jane Alves is a partner in Cassidy Levy Kent’s Washington, DC office. Her practice focuses on antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard enforcement and compliance. Her experience in unfair trade cases spans a range of industries, such as agriculture, chemicals, electronics, pharmaceutical, energy, textiles, carbon and stainless steel, other metals and minerals, and manufactured goods. Before returning to private practice, Ms. Alves worked for 17 years at the U.S. Internationa...
Mary Jane Alves
Laurie A. Amell
Recognized since 2007
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Laurie A. Amell
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Roberta Anderson Sutton
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Insurance Law
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Roberta Anderson Sutton
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Antitrust Law
Litigation - Antitrust
Peter Asaad
Recognized since 2020
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Immigration Law
Peter Asaad
Recognized since 2009
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Criminal Defense: General Practice
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Specific Focus
SEC Enforcement
Harold J. Ashner
Recognized since 2016
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Harold J. Ashner
Sean A. Atkins
Recognized since 2020
Washington, DC
Sean A. Atkins
Daniel F. Attridge
Recognized since 2005
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Litigation - Antitrust
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Daniel F. Attridge
Dan Attridge has practiced in Kirkland's Washington, D.C., office since 1980 and served as the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office from 1998 to 2013. He is a very experienced trial and appellate lawyer who has litigated cases before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels throughout the United States. His cases have involved a wide range of industries and practice areas, including intellectual property; antitrust and unfair competition; commercia...
Daniel F. Attridge
Steven A. Augustino
Recognized since 2018
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Communications Law
Steven A. Augustino
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Health Care Law
Stephanie Avakian
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Securities Regulation
Stephanie Avakian
Christopher E. Babbitt
Recognized since 2020
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Native American Law
Qui Tam Law
Christopher E. Babbitt
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Christopher E. Babbitt
Yohai Baisburd
Recognized since 2016
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
International Trade and Finance Law
Yohai Baisburd
Yohai Baisburd counsels companies, trade associations and governments in a variety of international trade matters in the United States and globally. Mr. Baisburd’s practice focuses on trade remedy (antidumping, subsidies, safeguards) litigation and import/export compliance and enforcement proceedings. He is recognized by Chambers and Partners for his Customs Law expertise and in The Best Lawyers in America for International Trade and Finance Law. Mr. Baisburd is on the roster of potenti...
Yohai Baisburd
Allyson B. Baker
Recognized since 2019
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
FinTech Practice
Allyson B. Baker
Allyson Baker serves as the Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings, Co-Chair of the firm’s litigation practice in Washington, D.C., and as a partner in the Fintech & Payment and Investigations & White Collar Defense practices. Ms. Baker is a trial attorney, civil litigator, and counselor with significant experience in the federal government and private practice. She represents consumer finance companies and individuals in confide...
Allyson B. Baker
Ciara R.M. Baker
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Ciara R.M. Baker
Emily C. Baker
Recognized since 2020
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Collaborative Law: Family Law
Family Law
Family Law Mediation
Emily C. Baker
Emily Baker, a family law attorney and partner at Tucker Family Law, is based in Northern Virginia and mainly serves clients in Fairfax County, Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, Loudoun County, and Washington, D.C. With a focus on separation and divorce , including complex and high-net-worth family law matters , Emily believes in the importance of listening carefully to her clients as they develop their goals. “I value being able to really be there for someone during what’...
Emily C. Baker
Philip Baker-Shenk
Recognized since 2013
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Native American Law
Philip Baker-Shenk
Philip Baker-Shenk is a partner in our firm's Indian Law Practice Group and our Entertainment Law Practice Group. He provides legal and policy representation to dozens of Native American Indian Tribal governments as well as Tribal organizations and companies doing business with Indian Tribes. Mr. Baker-Shenk began working on behalf of Indian Tribes in our Nation's capital in 1976. For half a decade, he served as staff in the U.S. Senate, including two years as Majority General Counsel to Indi...
Philip Baker-Shenk
W. Todd Baker
Recognized since 2020
Washington, DC
Specific Focus
Patent
W. Todd Baker
W. Todd Baker is an IP litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Todd is experienced handling post-grant matters at the USPTO including all aspects of IPR proceedings at the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He advises clients on issues of patentability, derivation, inventorship and priority related to post grant matters before the PTAB as a supplement or an alternative to traditional litigation-based patent validity challenges. Todd litigates...
W. Todd Baker
Sonia Baldia
Recognized since 2022
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Information Technology Law
Specific Focus
Outsourcing
Sonia Baldia
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Health Care Law
Anne I. Bandes
Recognized since 2021
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Anne I. Bandes
Anne Bandes advises sponsors, borrowers and lenders in connection with structuring and documenting U.S. and international debt financing transactions. Her area of focus includes acquisition, recapitalization and other leveraged financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, and other debt financings up and down the capital structure. She also has experience with debtor-in-possession and exit financings, workouts, restructurings, and bankruptcies. Before joining Goodwin, Anne was a partner ...
Anne I. Bandes
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Lisa J. Banks
Recognized since 2009
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Civil Rights Law
Employment Law - Individuals
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Specific Focus
Employment
Lisa J. Banks
Lisa Banks is a founding partner of Katz Banks Kumin LLP, where she concentrates her practice on sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation , as well as employment discrimination, Title IX, SEC and CFTC whistleblower tips, and contractual employment disputes. Considered to be one of the leading attorneys of the #MeToo movement, Ms. Banks has successfully litigated employment discrimination and whistleblower protection cases at the trial court and appellate level for over 25 years. Ms. Ba...
Lisa J. Banks
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Government Relations Practice
Marina S. Barannik
Recognized since 2018
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Collaborative Law: Family Law
Family Law
Family Law Arbitration
Marina S. Barannik
Marina excels in dealing with international and complex family law matters. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) as well as the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and has been consistently named a Washingtonian Top Lawyer since 2015. Always emphasizing the importance of family, Marina is skilled at resolving complex custody and property division cases. Marina serves a wide range of clients, including accomplished career executives, stay-at-home spo...
Marina S. Barannik
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Civil Rights Law
Collaborative Law: Family Law
Family Law
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Financial Services Regulation Law
Recognized since 2021
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Brooksany Barrowes
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Energy Law
Energy Regulatory Law
Brooksany Barrowes
Brooksany Barrowes is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Brooksany represents clients in regulatory litigation and transactional matters that relate to the energy industry and energy commodity markets. She has worked on cases before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, state public utility commissions including the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Department of Energy, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and federal and state courts. She h...
Brooksany Barrowes
Leigh-Alexandra Basha
Recognized since 2012
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates
Leigh-Alexandra Basha
Leigh-Alexandra Basha focuses her practice on domestic and international estate and tax planning. She counsels an affluent international client base on a wide range of sophisticated matters, including estate and trust administration, family wealth preservation, tax compliance, as well as business succession, expatriation and pre-immigration planning. Leigh is head of the Firm’s Washington, DC, Private Client Practice Group. Please view more on Leigh-Alexandra's biography here: https://w...
Leigh-Alexandra Basha
Maurice Baskin
Recognized since 2008
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Employment Law - Management
Labor Law - Management
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Specific Focus
Employment
Maurice Baskin
Maury Baskin focuses his Washington, DC-based practice on national labor policy, challenging excessive government regulation on behalf of small and large businesses, while advising employers in compliance issues. He has extensive experience in dealing with labor relations and union pressure tactics, employment discrimination and wage and hour law. He has represented a variety of industry sectors, advising clients involved in construction, government contracting, higher education, telecommunic...
Maurice Baskin
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Real Estate Law
Adrian L. Bastianelli
Recognized since 2003
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Arbitration
Mediation
Specific Focus
Arbitration
Adrian L. Bastianelli
Adrian L. Bastianelli, III is a partner at Peckar & Abramson. His practice focuses on construction claims and litigation, with an emphasis on government construction claims. He represents all sectors of the construction industry, including general contractors, subcontractors, owners, design professionals and sureties. Mr. Bastianelli also has an active alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice. He has served as an arbitrator and a mediator on hundreds of construction disputes. He has ...
Adrian L. Bastianelli
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Leila Marie Jackson Batties
Recognized since 2024
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Real Estate Law
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Leila Marie Jackson Batties
Michael Battle
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Michael Battle
Criminal defense lawyer and civil litigator Michael Battle is focused on white collar criminal matters. Having previously served as a prosecutor and judge himself, Michael understands their perspectives and designs compelling arguments that have the best chance of defending his clients and mitigating their exposure to prosecution. After leaving public service for private practice, Michael has counseled numerous clients on cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), healthcare fr...
Michael Battle
Deborah B. Baum
Recognized since 2018
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
Litigation - Real Estate
Deborah B. Baum
Samuel W. Beavers
Recognized since 2024
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Samuel W. Beavers
Stephan E. Becker
Recognized since 2018
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
International Trade and Finance Law
Stephan E. Becker
John H. Beisner
Recognized since 2008
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Specific Focus
Appellate
John H. Beisner
John Beisner is the leader of Skadden’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group. He focuses on the defense of purported class actions, mass tort matters and other complex civil litigation in both federal and state courts. He also regularly handles appellate litigations and has appeared in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Over the past 25 years, he has defended major U.S. and international corporations in more than 600 purported class actions filed in federal courts and...
John H. Beisner
Thomas M. Beline
Recognized since 2022
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
International Trade and Finance Law
Thomas M. Beline
Thomas Beline is a partner in Cassidy Levy Kent’s Washington DC office. Mr. Beline’s practice focuses on advising clients on all areas of import regulatory compliance and policy, trade remedies, and international trade litigation. Mr. Beline regularly appears as lead counsel before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and North American Free Trade Agreemen...
Thomas M. Beline
Brian Benczkowski
Recognized since 2023
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Brian Benczkowski
Brian Benczkowski is a partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office. He is a member of the Firm’s Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group. Brian has deep and diverse government enforcement and investigations experience, bolstered by his service in multiple leadership positions at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and on Capitol Hill. From 2018–2020, he served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Criminal...
Brian Benczkowski
Kathleen Benway
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Privacy and Data Security Law
Kathleen Benway
A former chief of staff at the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Kathleen Benway helps clients develop practical strategies for compliance with applicable state, federal, and global consumer protection and privacy laws. Kathleen’s experience makes her uniquely positioned to represent clients before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other government agencies. She has over 12 years of senior-level experience with the FTC, including chief of staff to three directors of the Bu...
Kathleen Benway
Michelle Bercovici
Recognized since 2022
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Civil Rights Law
Employment Law - Individuals
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Michelle Bercovici
Thomas C. Berger
Recognized since 2025
Washington, DC
Practice Areas
Environmental Law
Specific Focus
Chemical Control
Thomas C. Berger
Thomas (Tom) Berger’s practice is based on an in-depth understanding of and experience with the chemicals, plastics, and electronics industries. As a preeminent practitioner with over 30 years of experience, Tom helps clients commercialize new chemical products and preserve supply chains for existing chemical products utilizing an interdisciplinary team approach combining law and science, with an emphasis on emerging technologies in the industrial and consumer chemicals areas. Tom&rsquo...
Thomas C. Berger