WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2010 — Covington & Burling LLP received 138 individual mentions in 40 areas of law in the 2011 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, Jennifer Johnson, and Robert Long
Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mitchell Dolin, Eugene Gulland, and Robert Sayler
Antitrust: Harvey Applebaum, Thomas Barnett, Gregg Levy, Robert Sayler, Anita Stork, and Theodore Voorhees
Appellate: Edward Bruce, Gregg Levy, and Robert Long
Banking: Mark Plotkin, David Rosinus, Stuart Stock, and Jean Veta
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights: Michael St. Patrick Baxter and Benjamin Hoch
Bet-the-Company Litigation: Robert Haslam, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, and Alan Vinegrad
Biotechnology: Erika Lietzan and Jim Snipes
Commercial Litigation: Harvey Applebaum, Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Donald Brown, Mitchell Dolin, Saul Goodman, Eugene Gulland, Robert Haslam, David Isbell, William Iverson, Gregg Levy, Robert Long, Mark Lynch, George Pappas, Ethan Posner, Robert Sayler, Stuart Stock, and Alan Vinegrad
Communications: Jonathan Blake, Mace Rosenstein, and Stephen Weiswasser
Corporate: Philip Howard, David Martin, and Scott Smith
Corporate Governance and Compliance: Bruce Baird, David Bayless, Len Chazen, Philip Howard, and David Martin
Criminal Defense - White Collar: Stephen Anthony, Bruce Baird, Ethan Posner, and Alan Vinegrad
Derivatives: Bruce Bennett
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: Scott Danzis, Ellen Flannery, Peter Barton Hutt, Richard Kingham, Michael Labson, and Peter Safir
Government Relations: Roderick DeArment, Stuart Eizenstat, Martin Gold, and Jack Schenendorf
Health Care: Peter Barton Hutt and Ethan Posner
Information Technology: Nigel Howard and Bert Wells
Insurance: Donald Brown, John Buchanan, Mitchell Dolin, Saul Goodman, David Goodwin, William Greaney, Lawrence Hobel, Ben Lenhart, Robert Sayler, and William Skinner
Intellectual Property: Robert Fram, Robert Haslam, 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, Peter Flanagan, and Peter Trooboff
Labor and Employment: Jeffrey Huvelle
Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity: Paul Rogers
Mergers & Acquisitions: David Brown, Len Chazen, and Bruce Wilson
Personal Injury Litigation: Chad Morriss
Product Liability Litigation: Patrick Davies, Mark Lynch, Keith Teel, and Ted Voorhees
Railroad: Linda Morgan
Real Estate: Robert Gage
Securities: Bruce Bennett and David Martin
Sports: 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