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