The Legal 500 United States 2026 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

The Legal 500 United States 2026 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

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The Legal 500 recognized WilmerHale across 42 practice areas in the 2026 edition. The guide also highlighted individual excellence, naming five lawyers to its “Hall of Fame,” 26 as “Leading Partners,” one as a “Leading Associate,” and six as “Next Generation Partners.”

Rankings are based on a combination of factors, including feedback from clients, peers and participating firms, as well as an assessment of market visibility and overall reputation.

The recognized practice categories are as follows:

Antitrust: Cartel
Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
Antitrust: Merger Control
Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Courts of Appeal
Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
Dispute Resolution: Financial Services Litigation
Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes
Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
Environment: Environment: Regulatory
Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings - Advice to Issuers
Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Issuers
Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Managers
Finance: Commercial Lending - Advice to Borrowers
Finance: Financial services regulation: Banking
Finance: Financial services regulation: Consumer finance
Finance: Fintech
Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy) - Corporate
Government: Government Contracts
Government: Government Relations
Government: State Attorneys General
Healthcare: Life sciences
Industry Focus: Education
Industry Focus: Native American law
Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
Intellectual Property: Trade secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)
International Trade and National Security: CFIUS
International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans - Transactional
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Corporate governance
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture capital and emerging companies
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including data privacy and data protection)
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment - Litigation
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions
Real Estate: Real Estate – Mid-Market ($0-500m)
Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious

Five WilmerHale Lawyers are named to the Hall of Fame in their areas of practice:

  • Bill Lee (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
  • Robert Finkel (Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing)
  • Ronald Meltzer (International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)
  • Thomas Mueller (Antitrust: Cartel)
  • Seth Waxman (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))

Twenty-Six WilmerHale Lawyers are named elite “Leading Partners” in their areas of practice:

  • Andrew Bonnes (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
  • Andrew Shipley (Government: Government Contracts)
  • Benjamin Powell (International Trade and National Security: CFIUS and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection))
  • Brittany Amadi (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
  • Bruce Berman (Industry Focus: Education)
  • Chris Barnstable-Brown (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
  • Daniel Volchok (Industry Focus: Native American Law)
  • David Ross (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)
  • Felicia Ellsworth (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes - premium ($500m+))
  • Hal Leibowitz (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M-999M))
  • Hallie Levin (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes - premium ($500m+)))
  • Howard Shapiro (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)
  • Jason Chipman (International Trade and National Security: CFIUS)
  • Joseph Mueller (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
  • Judith Hasko (Healthcare: Life Sciences)
  • Lisa Brown (Industry Focus: Education)
  • Mark Fleming (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))
  • Michael Bongiorno (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)
  • Omar Khan (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
  • Peggy Otum (Environment: Environment: Regulatory)
  • Rachael Kent (Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration)
  • Ronald Machen (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)
  • Seth Waxman (Industry Focus: Native American Law and Industry Focus: Education)
  • Sonal Mehta (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
  • Stephanie Evans (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
  • Tiffany Smith (Finance: Fintech)

One WilmerHale Lawyer is recognized as a “Leading Associate” in their area of practice:

  • Benjamin Conery (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)

Six WilmerHale Lawyers are recognized as “Next Generation Partners” in their areas of practice:

  • George Varghese (Industry focus: Education)
  • Jekkie Kim (Intellectual Property: Patents: Licensing)
  • Lauren Mandell (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)
  • Mark Ford (Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense)
  • Nana Wilberforce (Antitrust: Cartel)
  • Timothy Perla (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)

To read more, visit The Legal 500 United States website.

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