100 WilmerHale Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010

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100 WilmerHale Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010

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One hundred individual WilmerHale lawyers from across the country were named in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America, along with 10 WilmerHale’s practices earning number one rankings. Rankings are based on a comprehensive annual peer-review survey with more than 2.8 million votes cast by attorneys ranking the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.

WilmerHale practice recognitions include number one rankings in:

Banking Law in DC
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law in Massachusetts and Boston
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law in DC
Corporate Law in Waltham
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law in Massachusetts and Boston
Information Technology Law in DC, Massachusetts and Boston
Land Use & Zoning Law in Massachusetts and Boston
Mergers & Acquisitions Law in DC, Massachusetts and Boston
Technology Law in Massachusetts and Boston
Venture Capital Law in Massachusetts and Waltham

The individual WilmerHale lawyers recognized as “Best Lawyers” for their respective areas of practice are as follows:

Boston- Mitchel Appelbaum (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Katharine E. Bachman (Land Use and Zoning Law and Real Estate Law); Keith R. Barnett (Real Estate Law); William C. Benjamin (International Trade and Finance Law and Tax Law); Mark G. Borden (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law and Venture Capital Law); Jay E. Bothwick (Mergers & Acquisitions Law); Sean T. Boulger (Real Estate Law); John A. Burgess (International Trade and Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law); James R. Burke (Corporate Law); James C. Burling (Antitrust Law); Andrew H. Cohn (Real Estate Law); Paul P. Daley (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Michael L. Fay (Trusts and Estates); A. Silvana Giner (Trusts and Estates); Richard W. Giuliani (Tax Law); Karen F. Green (Criminal Defense: White-Collar); Neil Jacobs (Labor and Employment Law); Paul Jakubowski (Real Estate Law); Dennis L. Jenkins (Structured Finance Law); Richard A. Johnston (International Arbitration); Robert D. Keefe (Criminal Defense: White-Collar); Robert C. Kirsch (Environmental Law); James B. Lampert (Intellectual Property Law); William F. Lee (Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law); Michelle D. Miller (Antitrust Law); Stephen H. Oleskey (Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law); William R. O'Reilly, Jr. (Land Use & Zoning Law and Real Estate Law); William H. Paine (Securities Law); David E. Redlick (Biotechnology Law and Corporate Law); Roger M. Ritt (Tax Law); Patrick J. Rondeau (Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law and Venture Capital Law); Sarah Rothermel (Private Funds Law); Jeffrey B. Rudman (Commercial Litigation and Securities Law); Melvin R. Shuman (Land Use & Zoning Law); John D. Sigel (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Steven D. Singer (Biotechnology Law, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law); Joel H. Sirkin (Real Estate Law); Jennifer C. Snyder (Trusts and Estates); C. Hall Swaim (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Robert Tuchmann (Land Use & Zoning Law and Real Estate Law); David A. Westenberg (Corporate Law, Information Technology Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Technology Law and Venture Capital Law); Jonathan Wolfman (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law)

New York- Philip Anker (Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights Law); Paul A. Engelmayer (Criminal Defense: White-Collar); Lori A. Martin (Mutual Funds Law); Robert B. McCaw (Bet-The-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Corporate Governance and Compliance Law); Bruce H. Newman (Administrative Law); Michael J. O’Brien (Private Funds Law); Charles C. Platt (Insurance Law); Steven D. Singer (Biotechnology Law, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law); Peter K. Vigeland (Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White- Collar); Roger Witten (Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar)

Waltham- Michael D. Bain (Corporate Law and Venture Capital Law)

Washington- James E. Anderson (Mutual Funds Law); Robert G. Bagnall (Mutual Funds Law); Charlene Barshefsky (Government Relations Law and International Trade and Finance Law); Robert B. Bell (Antitrust Law); Russell J. Bruemmer (Banking Law); J. Beckwith Burr (Information Technology Law); Matthew A. Chambers (Securities Law); Lynn Charytan (Communications Law); Louis R. Cohen (Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Securities Law); Bruce E. Coolidge (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law); Edward C. DuMont (Appellate Law); Craig Goldblatt (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Jack Goodman (Communications Law); Jamie Gorelick (Bet-The-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar); John D. Greenwald (International Trade and Finance Law); Brent Gurney (Criminal Defense: White Collar); John H. Harwood (Communications Law); A. Stephen Hut, Jr. (Commercial Litigation); William J. Kolasky (Antitrust Law); F. David Lake, Jr.(Tax Law); Scott Lassman (Administrative Law); Yoon-Young Lee (Corporate Law); James W. Lowe (Antitrust Law); Martin E. Lybecker (Banking Law and Mutual Funds Law); Ronald Machen (Commercial Litigation); William R, McLucas (Bet-The-Company, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law and Securities Law); David Medine (Banking Law); A. Douglas Melamed (Antitrust Law); Ronald I. Meltzer (International Trade and Finance Law); Thomas E.D. Millspaugh (Real Estate Law); Randolph Moss (Commercial Litigation); Thomas Mueller (Antitrust Law); Robert T. Novick (International Trade and Finance Law); Jonathan E. Nuechterlein (Communications Law); William J. Perlstein (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law); Howard M. Shapiro (Bet-The-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar); John B. Watkins (Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law); Seth P. Waxman (Appellate Law, Bet-The-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law, Criminal Defense: White- Collar); Harry J. Weiss (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law and Securities Law); Laura S. Wertheimer (Commercial Litigation); Thomas W. White (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law); William J. Wilkins (Tax Law); Paul R.Q. Wolfson (Appellate Law); Soo J. Yim (Securities Law).

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