WilmerHale Lawyers Named Among the 2025 Best Lawyers in America®, Seven Recognized as Lawyers of the Year

WilmerHale Lawyers Named Among the 2025 Best Lawyers in America®, Seven Recognized as Lawyers of the Year

Recognition

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

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