The Lawdragon Legends includes the truly select lawyers who have made our elite annual guide 10 times since our founding in 2005. The Legends are a dazzling array of law firm leaders, plaintiff icons, Supreme Court justices, corporate counsel and public interest attorneys. We first published the Legends in 2015, as part of our 10th Year Anniversary celebration.
| Name | Organization | City | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Arnold | Arnold & Itkin | Houston | 2024 |
| Johnine P. Barnes | Greenberg Traurig | Washington, D.C. | 2024 |
| Paul M. Basta | Paul Weiss | New York | 2024 |
| LaBarron Boone | Beasley Allen | Montgomery, Ala. | 2024 |
| John D. Buretta | Cravath | New York | 2024 |
| Michael Carlinsky | Quinn Emanuel | New York | 2024 |
| Vincent H. Cohen Jr. | Dechert | Washington, D.C. | 2024 |
| Stephen D'Amore | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 2024 |
| Karin A. DeMasi | Cravath | New York | 2024 |
| Diane M. Doolittle | Quinn Emanuel | Redwood Shores, Calif. | 2024 |
| Gregory G. Garre | Latham | Washington, D.C. | 2024 |
| Elizabeth 'Beth' Graham | Grant & Eisenhofer | San Francisco | 2024 |
| Erica Harris | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2024 |
| Jason Itkin | Arnold & Itkin | Houston | 2024 |
| Rachel Jensen | Robbins Geller | San Diego | 2024 |
| Christopher Keller | Labaton Sucharow | New York | 2024 |
| Kathy Love | McGinn Montoya | Albuquerque, N.M. | 2024 |
| Edward Micheletti | Skadden | Wilmington | 2024 |
| Donald A. Migliori | Motley Rice | Mount Pleasant, S.C. | 2024 |
| Sharon Nelles | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2024 |
| Sean F. O'Shea | Cadwalader | New York | 2024 |
| Stephanie E. Parker | Jones Day | Atlanta | 2024 |
| Brian A. Ratner | Hausfeld | Washington, D.C. | 2024 |
| Noelle M. Reed | Skadden | Houston | 2024 |
| William T. Reid IV | Reid Collins | Austin | 2024 |
| Lorin L. Reisner | Paul Weiss | New York | 2024 |
| David Ring | Taylor Ring | Manhattan Beach, Calif. | 2024 |
| Kathryn Ruemmler | Goldman Sachs | New York | 2024 |
| Gina N. Shishima | Norton Rose Fulbright | Austin | 2024 |
| Tara D. Sutton | Robins Kaplan | Minneapolis, Minn. | 2024 |
| Jeroen van Kwawegen | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2024 |
| Milton Williams | Walden Macht | New York | 2024 |
| Bruce E. Yannett | Debevoise | New York | 2024 |
| Barry Berke | Kramer Levin | New York | 2023 |
| Andrew R. Brownstein | Wachtell | New York | 2023 |
| Mats Carlston | Winston & Strawn | New York | 2023 |
| Brian Duwe | Skadden | Chicago | 2023 |
| Howard Ellin | Skadden | New York | 2023 |
| Fidelma L. Fitzpatrick | Motley Rice | Providence | 2023 |
| Ilene Knable Gotts | Wachtell | New York | 2023 |
| Benjamin Gruenstein | Cravath | New York | 2023 |
| Melinda Haag | Paul Weiss | San Francisco | 2023 |
| Heidi Hubbard | Williams & Connolly | Washington, D.C. | 2023 |
| Jameel Jaffer | Knight First Amendment Institute | New York | 2023 |
| Erika A. Kelton | Phillips & Cohen | Washington, D.C. | 2023 |
| Gayle R. Klein | Schulte Roth | New York | 2023 |
| Wendi Lazar | Outten & Golden | New York | 2023 |
| Paola Lozano | Skadden | New York | 2023 |
| Tom Melsheimer | Winston & Strawn | Dallas | 2023 |
| Gerard G. Pecht | Norton Rose Fulbright | Houston | 2023 |
| Hannah Ross | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2023 |
| Antony L. Ryan | Cravath | New York | 2023 |
| Rachel G. Skaistis | Cravath | New York | 2023 |
| Cate Stetson | Hogan Lovells | Washington, D.C. | 2023 |
| Jamie L. Wine | Latham | New York | 2023 |
| Taurie M. Zeitzer | White & Case | New York | 2023 |
| Michael Aiello | Weil | New York | 2022 |
| Frank Aquila | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2022 |
| Sean Berkowitz | Latham | Chicago | 2022 |
| Ray Boucher | Boucher LLP | Los Angeles | 2022 |
| E. Leon Carter | Carter Arnett | Dallas | 2022 |
| Apalla Chopra | O'Melveny | Los Angeles | 2022 |
| Steven Fineman | Lieff Cabraser | New York | 2022 |
| Katherine B. Forrest | Paul Weiss | New York | 2022 |
| Kenneth Gallo | Paul Weiss | Washington, D.C. | 2022 |
| Elaine Golin | Wachtell | New York | 2022 |
| Jeh Charles Johnson | Paul Weiss | New York | 2022 |
| Debra Katz | Katz Marshall | Washington, D.C. | 2022 |
| Paul Lancaster Adams | Ogletree Deakins | Philadelphia | 2022 |
| Colette Matzzie | Phillips & Cohen | Washington, D.C. | 2022 |
| Christopher Meade | BlackRock | New York | 2022 |
| Patrick Quinn | Cadwalader | New York | 2022 |
| Grace Speights | Morgan Lewis | Washington, D.C. | 2022 |
| John C. Taylor | Taylor & Ring | Los Angeles | 2022 |
| Shawn Williams | Robbins Geller | San Diego | 2022 |
| Debra Wong Yang | Gibson Dunn | Los Angeles | 2022 |
| Baher Azmy | Center for Constitutional Rights | New York | 2021 |
| Peter Barbur | Cravath | New York | 2021 |
| Erica Berthou | Kirkland | New York | 2021 |
| Vineet Bhatia | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2021 |
| Lisa Blatt | Williams & Connolly | Washington, D.C. | 2021 |
| Andre Bouchard | Paul Weiss | Wilmington | 2021 |
| Shauna Clark | Norton Rose | Houston | 2021 |
| Lori Cohen | Greenberg Traurig | Atlanta | 2021 |
| Mary Louise Cohen | Phillips & Cohen | Washington, D.C. | 2021 |
| Philip Harnett Corboy Jr. | Corboy & Demetrio | Chicago | 2021 |
| Mike Delikat | Orrick | New York | 2021 |
| Daralyn Durie | Durie Tangri | San Francisco | 2021 |
| Keith Flaum | Hogan Lovells | Menlo Park, Calif. | 2021 |
| Steve Gavin | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 2021 |
| Faith Gay | Selendy Gay | New York | 2021 |
| Glenn Gerstell | Center for Strategic & International Studies | Washington, D.C. | 2021 |
| Nicholas Groombridge | Groombridge Wu | New York | 2021 |
| Geoffrey Harrison | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2021 |
| Adam Klein | Outten & Golden | New York | 2021 |
| George Lombardi | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 2021 |
| Larry Rogers, Jr. | Power Rogers | Chicago | 2021 |
| William Savitt | Wachtell | New York | 2021 |
| Ronald Schutz | Robins Kaplan | Minneapolis | 2021 |
| Philippe Selendy | Selendy Gay | New York | 2021 |
| Paul Shim | Cleary Gottlieb | New York | 2021 |
| Paul Singerman | Berger Singerman | Miami | 2021 |
| Richard Stark | Cravath | New York | 2021 |
| Adam Streisand | Sheppard Mullin | Los Angeles | 2021 |
| Kathleen Sullivan | Quinn Emanuel | New York | 2021 |
| Max Tribble | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2021 |
| Helgi Walker | Gibson Dunn | Washington, D.C. | 2021 |
| David Zornow | Skadden | New York | 2021 |
| Matthew Abbott | Paul Weiss | New York | 2020 |
| Stephen Arcano | Skadden | New York | 2020 |
| Judy Barrasso | Barrasso Usdin | New Orleans | 2020 |
| Timothy Cameron | Cravath | New York | 2020 |
| Michael Elkin | Winston & Strawn | New York | 2020 |
| Miguel Estrada | Gibson Dunn | Washington | 2020 |
| Ora Fisher | Latham | Menlo Park | 2020 |
| Paul Geller | Robbins Geller | Boca Raton | 2020 |
| Salvatore Graziano | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2020 |
| Shawn Holley | Kinsella Weitzman | Santa Monica | 2020 |
| Sherrilyn Ifill | NAACP-LDF | New York | 2020 |
| Roberta Kaplan | Kaplan Hecker & Fink | New York | 2020 |
| David Karp | Wachtell | New York | 2020 |
| Jennifer Keller | Keller Anderle | Irvine | 2020 |
| Ethan Klingsberg | Freshfields | New York | 2020 |
| Mark Lebovitch | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2020 |
| Sandra Leung | Bristol-Myers Squibb | New York | 2020 |
| Jonathan Lowy | Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence | Washington | 2020 |
| David Marriott | Cravath | New York | 2020 |
| Randi McGinn | McGinn Carpenter | Albuquerque | 2020 |
| David Nevin | Nevin Benjamin | Boise | 2020 |
| Robin Panovka | Wachtell | New York | 2020 |
| Kathy Patrick | Gibbs & Bruns | Houston | 2020 |
| Anthony Romero | ACLU | New York | 2020 |
| Steven Rosenblum | Wachtell | New York | 2020 |
| Susan Saltzstein | Skadden | New York | 2020 |
| Karen Patton Seymour | Goldman Sachs | New York | 2020 |
| Tony West | Uber | San Francisco | 2020 |
| Marc Wolinsky | Wachtell | New York | 2020 |
| Damien Zoubek | Freshfields | New York | 2020 |
| Charla Aldous | Aldous Walker | Dallas | 2019 |
| Samuel Alito | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington | 2019 |
| Kim Askew | K&L Gates | Dallas | 2019 |
| Robert Barnett | Williams & Connolly | Washington | 2019 |
| George ‘Gar’ Bason | Davis Polk | New York | 2019 |
| Donald Godwin | Godwin Bowman | Dallas | 2019 |
| Cari Dawson | Alston & Bird | Atlanta | 2019 |
| Kelly Dermody | Lieff Cabraser | San Francisco | 2019 |
| Jodi Flowers | Motley Rice | Mount Pleasant | 2019 |
| Agnieszka Fryszman | Cohen Milstein | Washington | 2019 |
| Sergio Galvis | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2019 |
| David Goldschmidt | Skadden | New York | 2019 |
| Thomas Goldstein | Goldstein & Russell | Bethesda | 2019 |
| Richard Hall | Cravath | New York | 2019 |
| Michael Hausfeld | Hausfeld | Washington | 2019 |
| Lynne Hermle | Orrick | Menlo Park | 2019 |
| James Hurst | Kirkland | Chicago | 2019 |
| Elena Kagan | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington | 2019 |
| Jeffrey Kessler | Winston & Strawn | New York | 2019 |
| William Lafferty | Morris Nichols | Wilmington | 2019 |
| Mark Lanier | Lanier Law Firm | Houston | 2019 |
| David Lira | Girardi Keese | Los Angeles | 2019 |
| Katharine Martin | Wilson Sonsini | Palo Alto | 2019 |
| Mark Mendelsohn | Paul Weiss | Washington | 2019 |
| Scott Musoff | Skadden | New York | 2019 |
| Stacy Phillips | Blank Rome | Los Angeles | 2019 |
| Darren Robbins | Robbins Geller | San Diego | 2019 |
| John Savarese | Wachtell | New York | 2019 |
| Kannon Shanmugam | Paul Weiss | Washington | 2019 |
| Steve Toll | Cohen Milstein | Washington | 2019 |
| Robert Townsend | Cravath | New York | 2019 |
| Linda Addison | Norton Rose | New York | 2018 |
| David Anders | Wachtell | New York | 2018 |
| Steve Berman | Hagens Berman | Seattle | 2018 |
| Steve Bochner | Wilson Sonsini | Palo Alto | 2018 |
| Ted Boutrous | Gibson Dunn | Los Angeles | 2018 |
| David Braff | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2018 |
| John Branca | Ziffren Brittenham | Los Angeles | 2018 |
| Susanna Buergel | Paul Weiss | New York | 2018 |
| James Carroll | Skadden | Boston | 2018 |
| Paul Clement | Kirkland | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Ty Cobb | The White House | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Robin Cohen | McKool Smith | New York | 2018 |
| Karen Dyer | Boies Schiller | Orlando | 2018 |
| Stuart Grant | Grant & Eisenhofer | Wilmington | 2018 |
| Nicholas Gravante | Boies Schiller | New York | 2018 |
| William Isaacson | Paul Weiss | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Klein | Weil Gotshal | New York | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Lamken | MoloLamken | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Carolyn Lamm | White & Case | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Steve Molo | MoloLamken | New York | 2018 |
| Francis Patrick Murphy | Corboy & Demetrio | Chicago | 2018 |
| Faiza Saeed | Cravath | New York | 2018 |
| Jonathan Schiller | Boies Schiller | New York | 2018 |
| Allison Schneirov | Skadden | New York | 2018 |
| Roman Silberfeld | Robins Kaplan | Los Angeles | 2018 |
| Gerald Silk | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2018 |
| Daniel Slifkin | Cravath | New York | 2018 |
| Sonia Sotomayor | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Clarence Thomas | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Beth Wilkinson | Wilkinson Walsh | Washington, D.C. | 2018 |
| Greg Williams | Richards Layton | Wilmington | 2018 |
| Scott Barshay | Paul Weiss | New York | 2017 |
| Scott Edelman | Milbank | New York | 2017 |
| Jay Eisenhofer | Grant & Eisenhofer | New York | 2017 |
| Patricia Glaser | Glaser Weil | Los Angeles | 2017 |
| Jamie Gorelick | WilmerHale | Washington, D.C. | 2017 |
| Mark Greene | Cravath | New York | 2017 |
| Nina Gussack | Pepper Hamilton | Philadelphia | 2017 |
| Kenton King | Skadden | Palo Alto | 2017 |
| Colleen Mahoney | Skadden | Washington | 2017 |
| Pat McGroder | Gallagher & Kennedy | Phoenix | 2017 |
| Mark Morton | Potter Anderson | Wilmington | 2017 |
| Brian Panish | Panish Shea | Los Angeles | 2017 |
| Christian Searcy | Searcy Denny | Miami | 2017 |
| Joseph Shenker | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2017 |
| Diane Sullivan | Weil | Princeton, N.J. | 2017 |
| Jonathan Turley | George Washington University Law School | Washington, D.C. | 2017 |
| Leigh Walton | Bass Berry | Nashville | 2017 |
| Mary Alexander | Mary Alexander & Associates | San Francisco | 2016 |
| Riley Allen | Riley Allen Law | Orlando | 2016 |
| Corinne Ball | Jones Day | New York | 2016 |
| Robert Baron | Cravath | New York | 2016 |
| Hilarie Bass | Greenberg Traurig | Miami | 2016 |
| Sam Baxter | McKool Smith | Dallas | 2016 |
| Stephen Breyer | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Bill Carmody | Susman Godfrey | New York | 2016 |
| Frank Darras | Darras Law | Ontario, Calif. | 2016 |
| Adam Emmerich | Wachtell Lipton | New York | 2016 |
| Pat Fitzgerald | Skadden | Chicago | 2016 |
| James Garner | Sher Garner | New Orleans | 2016 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Robert Giuffra | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 2016 |
| Sandra Goldstein | Kirkland | New York | 2016 |
| Edward Herlihy | Wachtell Lipton | New York | 2016 |
| Jay Kasner | Skadden | New York | 2016 |
| Neal Katyal | Hogan Lovells | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Steve Lane | Herman Herman | New Orleans | 2016 |
| Neal Manne | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2016 |
| Mike McKool | McKool Smith | Dallas | 2016 |
| Ted Mirvis | Wachtell Lipton | New York | 2016 |
| Gary Naftalis | Kramer Levin | New York | 2016 |
| Steven Newborn | Weil Gotshal | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Eileen Nugent | Skadden | New York | 2016 |
| Carter Phillips | Sidley Austin | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Joe Power | Power Rogers | Chicago | 2016 |
| Gordon Rather | Wright Lindsey | Little Rock, Ark. | 2016 |
| Alison Ressler | Sullivan & Cromwell | Los Angeles | 2016 |
| Paul Schnell | Skadden | New York | 2016 |
| Robert Schumer | Paul Weiss | New York | 2016 |
| Chris Seeger | Seeger Weiss | New York | 2016 |
| Joe Sellers | Cohen Milstein | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Leopold Sher | Sher Garner | New Orleans | 2016 |
| Stuart Singer | Boies Schiller | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. | 2016 |
| Robert Spatt | Simpson Thacher | New York | 2016 |
| Bryan Stevenson | Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, Ala. | 2016 |
| Donald Verrilli | U.S. Solicitor General | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
| Donald Wolfe | Potter Anderson | Wilmington | 2016 |
| Steve Yerrid | Yerrid Law | Tampa, Fla. | 2016 |
| Michael Young | Willkie Farr | New York | 2016 |
| Kevin Arquit | Simpson Thacher | New York | 2015 |
| Max Berger | Bernstein Litowitz | New York | 2015 |
| Martha Bergmark | Voices for Civil Justice | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| David Boies | Boies Schiller | New York | 2015 |
| Brad Brian | Munger Tolles | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Elizabeth Cabraser | Lieff Cabraser | San Francisco | 2015 |
| Evan Chesler | Cravath | New York | 2015 |
| Richard Clary | Cravath | New York | 2015 |
| Richard Climan | Weil Gotshal | Redwood Shores, Calif. | 2015 |
| Thomas Demetrio | Corboy & Demetrio | Chicago | 2015 |
| Robert Denham | Munger Tolles | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Marcia Goldstein | Weil Gotshal | New York | 2015 |
| Kris Heinzelman | Cravath | New York | 2015 |
| Russ Herman | Herman Herman | New Orleans | 2015 |
| Brad Karp | Paul Weiss | New York | 2015 |
| David Katz | Wachtell | New York | 2015 |
| Anthony Kennedy | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Tom Kline | Kline & Specter | Philadelphia | 2015 |
| Walter J. Lack | Engstrom Lipscomb | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| William Lee | WilmerHale | Boston | 2015 |
| Andrew Levander | Dechert | New York | 2015 |
| Judith Livingston | Kramer Dillof | New York | 2015 |
| Gregory Markel | Cadwalader | New York | 2015 |
| Brian McCarthy | Skadden | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| William McLucas | WilmerHale | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Thomas A. Moore | Kramer Dillof | New York | 2015 |
| Daniel Neff | Wachtell | New York | 2015 |
| Thomas Nolan | Skadden | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Theodore Olson | Gibson Dunn | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Ronald Olson | Munger Tolles | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Wayne Outten | Outten & Golden | New York | 2015 |
| Kathleen Flynn Peterson | Robins Kaplan | Minneapolis | 2015 |
| Aaron Podhurst | Podhurst Orseck | Miami | 2015 |
| John Quinn | Quinn Emaneul | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| John Roberts | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Kelli Sager | Davis Wright | Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Gloria Santona | McDonald’s | Chicago | 2015 |
| Antonin Scalia | U.S. Supreme Court | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Brad Smith | Microsoft | Redmond, Wash. | 2015 |
| Larry Sonsini | Wilson Sonsini | Palo Alto | 2015 |
| Myron Steele | Potter Anderson | Dover, Del. | 2015 |
| Leo Strine | Delaware Supreme Court | Wilmington | 2015 |
| Stephen Susman | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 2015 |
| John Tarantino | Adler Pollock | Providence, R.I. | 2015 |
| Seth Waxman | WilmerHale | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
| Dan Webb | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 2015 |
| Theodore Wells | Paul Weiss | New York | 2015 |
| John White | Cravath | New York | 2015 |
| Mary Jo White | SEC | Washington, D.C. | 2015 |
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