Squire Patton Boggs practices and lawyers were highly ranked in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500: United States, a leading guide to the US legal market. This year’s guide recognizes seven practice areas and 33 individual lawyers, including one each named as a “Leading Lawyer” and a “Next Generation Lawyer.”
The Legal 500 assesses the strengths of law firms in more than 100 jurisdictions, based on feedback from 300,000 clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews conducted by a team of researchers.
The individual lawyers and practice groups recognized are as follows:
Leading Practices
- Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
- Dispute resolution – International arbitration
- Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Government – Government relations
- Industry focus – Insurance: advice to insurers
- M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms – Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
Leading Lawyers
- Larry P. Schiffer – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
Recommended Lawyers
- David W. Alexander – Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Stephen P. Anway – Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Peter M. Bean – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Daniel G. Berick – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- Paul C. Besozzi – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Abby E. Brown – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- Carolyn J. Buller – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- Suman Chakraborty – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Mark F. Dever – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Patrick J. Dugan – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Eduardo R. Guzmán – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Mary Jo Hudson – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Deirdre G. Johnson – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Paul W. Kalish – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Robert B. Kelly – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Stephen Lerner – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): Corporate
- Stephen C. Mahon – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- George von Mehren – Dispute Resolution: International arbitration
- Luka S. Misetic – Dispute Resolution: International arbitration
- Frank M. Placenti – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- Eridania Perez – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Mark D. Sheridan – Industry focus: Insurance: Advice to insurers
- Kelly E. Singer – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): Corporate
- Rodney E. Slater – Dispute resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Robert E. Stup Jr. – Media, technology, and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: Regulatory
- Fred A. Summer – Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): Corporate
- Jeffrey L. Turner – Government: Government relations
- Nicholas Unkovic – M&A/ corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market (sub $500M)
- Joseph Walker – Dispute resolution: corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Next Generation Lawyers
- Tara M. Swaminatha – Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)