Best Lawyers in America® has named seven WilmerHale partners as 2025 Lawyers of the Year, with the peer-review publication recognizing 120 attorneys from the firm overall.
The Lawyer of the Year recognition highlights only one lawyer for each legal practice specialty and location. This year’s edition has selected the following WilmerHale partners:
- William Lee: Copyright Law, Patent Law
- Ronald Machen: Securities Regulation
- Lori Martin: Mutual Funds Law
- William McLucas: Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Joseph Mueller: Litigation - Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent
- Nora Passamaneck: Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Seth Waxman: Litigation - First Amendment, Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
Additionally, Best Lawyers in America® compiles its lists of outstanding lawyers by conducting peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers. The following WilmerHale lawyers were selected for the 2025 edition:
Boston:
Mick Bain
Steven Barrett
Douglas Burton
John Butts
William Caporizzo
Peter Dichiara
Felicia Ellsworth
Stuart Falber
Vinita Ferrera
Robert Fitzpatrick, Jr.
Lauren Fletcher
Mark Ford
Molly Fox
David Gold
Monica Grewal
Daniel Halston
Jordan Hirsch
John Hobgood
Sarah Hogan
Robert Keefe
Jason Kropp
Bill Lee
Hal Leibowitz
Benjamin Loveland
Dominic Massa
Mark Matuschak
Cynthia Mazareas
Joseph Mueller
Amy Null
William Paine
Timothy Perla
Lisa Pirozzolo
Julie Hogan Rodgers
Laura Schneider
Amy Segal
Michael Summersgill
Louis Tompros
George Varghese
Cynthia Vreeland
Thomas Ward
Kimberly Wethly
Emily Whelan
Jonathan Wolfman
Denver:
Ben Fernandez
Michael Kaplan
Nora Passamaneck
Chalyse Robinson
Mindy Sooter
Keith Trammell
Los Angeles:
David Marcus
New York:
Philip Anker
David Bassett
Michael Bongiorno
Robert Boone
Meredith Cross
Amy Doberman
Robert Finkel
Andrew Goldman
David Gringer
Bob Gunther
Jay Holtmeier
Fraser Hunter, Jr.
Boyd Johnson
Omar Khan
Lori Martin
Anjan Sahni
Claudio Salas
George Shuster, Jr.
Palo Alto:
Mark Flanagan
Judith Hasko
Sonal Mehta
San Francisco:
Joshua Lerner
Kevin Muck
Susan Muck
Michael Mugmon
Peggy Otum
Davina Pujari
Washington DC:
Stephanie Avakian
Christopher Babbitt
Ciara Baker
David Bowker
Lily Brown
David Cavanaugh
Christopher Cestaro
Steven Cherry
Jason Chipman
Christopher Davies
Michael Dawson
Jamie Gorelick
Joel Green
Leon Greenfield
Brent Gurney
Franca Harris Gutierrez
Barry Hurewitz
Rachael Kent
R. Scott Kilgore
Robert Kimmitt
Matthew Kulkin
Brenda Lee
Yoon-Young Lee
Michael Leotta
Ronald Machen
Matthew Martens
William McLucas
Ronald Meltzer
Thomas Mueller
Kirk Nahra
Robert Novick
Edward O'Callaghan
David Ogden
Andre Owens
Kimberly Parker
Benjamin Powell
David Ross
Thomas Saunders
Howard Shapiro
Andrew Shipley
Charles Speth
Daniel Volchok
Seth Waxman