WASHINGTON, DC, September 29, 2008 — Covington & Burling LLP received 124 individual mentions in 40 areas of law in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. This annual compilation of top US lawyers is based on peer-review surveys and is used as a referral guide in the legal profession. The Covington lawyers recognized are as follows:
Administrative: Edward Bruce and Robert Long
Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, and Robert Sayler
Antitrust: Harvey Applebaum, Jim Atwood, Gregg Levy, Robert Sayler, and Ted Voorhees
Appellate: Edward Bruce, Gregg Levy, and Robert Long
Banking: Mark Plotkin, Stuart Stock, and Jean Veta
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor: Michael Baxter and Benjamin Hoch
Bet-the-Company Litigation: Eric Holder and Robert Sayler
Biotechnology: Erika Lietzan and James Snipes
Commercial Litigation: Harvey Applebaum, Bruce Baird, Lanny Breuer, Donald Brown, Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, Eric Holder, David Isbell, William Iverson, Gregg Levy, Mark Lynch, Aaron Marcu, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, and Alan Vinegrad
Communications: Jonathan Blake, Mace Rosenstein, and Stephen Weiswasser
Corporate: David Martin and Scott Smith
Corporate Governance and Compliance: Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Lanny Breuer, Aaron Marcu, and David Martin
Employee Benefits: Julie Edmond, Amy Moore, Richard Shea, and John Vine
Energy: Robert Fleishman, William Massey, and Richard Meserve
Entertainment: Laurence Silverman
Environmental: Ted Garrett, Richard Meserve, and Allan Topol
FDA: Ellen Flannery, Peter Barton Hutt, Richard Kingham, and Peter Safir
Government Relations: Roderick DeArment, Stuart Eizenstat, Marty Gold, and Jack Schenendorf
Health Care: Lanny Breuer, Peter Barton Hutt, Keith Korenchuk, and Ethan Posner
Information Technology: Nigel Howard and Bert Wells
Insurance: Donald Brown, John Buchanan, Mitchell Dolin, David Goodwin, William Greaney, Lawrence Hobel, Robert Sayler, and William Skinner
Intellectual Property: Roderick McKelvie, George Pappas, Richard Rainey, and Chris Sipes
International Arbitration: Mitchell Dolin, Oscar Garibaldi, Eugene Gulland, and Tom Johnson
International Trade and Finance: Harvey Applebaum, Stuart Eizenstat, and Peter Trooboff
Labor and Employment: Jeffrey Huvelle
Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law: Paul Rogers
Mass Tort Litigation: Lanny Breuer
Mergers and Acquisitions: David Brown and Leonard Chazen
Personal Injury Litigation: Donald Brown
Product Liability: Lanny Breuer, Patrick Davies, Mark Lynch, Keith Teel, and Ted Voorhees
Railroad: Linda Morgan
Real Estate: Robert Gage
Securities: David Martin
Sports: Andrew Friedman, Douglas Gibson, Gregg Levy, and Bruce Wilson
Tax: Roderick DeArment, William Paul, and Reeves Westbrook
Technology: Mark Plotkin
Transportation: Linda Morgan, Michael Rosenthal, and Jack Schenendorf
Trusts and Estates: Doris Blazek-White
Water: Ted Garrett
White-Collar Criminal Defense: Stephen Anthony, Bruce Baird, Lanny Breuer, Eric Holder, Aaron Marcu, and Alan Vinegrad