Covington Receives Top Tier Nods in Legal 500 U.S.

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Covington Receives Top Tier Nods in Legal 500 U.S.

June 7, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2013 — The Legal 500 U.S. has ranked Covington & Burling as a top tier firm in six practice areas and recognized 21 individual attorneys as “Leading Lawyers” in the directory’s 2013 edition. Additionally, Legal 500 “recommended” 38 Covington practice areas and 148 Covington lawyers.

The six Covington practices given the top tier ranking are:

Energy: Litigation
Healthcare: Life Sciences
Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
International Trade
Technology: Data protection and Privacy
Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory

The 21 Covington attorneys named “Leading Lawyers” in their respective fields are:

Donald Brown (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
Mike Brock (Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices)
Rob Culbertson (International Tax)
Mitchell Dolin (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
Peter Flanagan (International Trade)
Oscar Garibaldi (International Arbitration)
Saul Goodman (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
William Greaney (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
Eugene Gulland (International Arbitration)
Nigel Howard (Technology: Transactions)
Jeffrey Huvelle (ERISA Litigation)
Richard Kingham (Healthcare: Life Sciences)
Benedict Lenhart (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
Amy Moore (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation)
Mark Plotkin (Technology: Data Protection and Privacy)
William Paul (Financial Products)
Mace Rosenstein (Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory & Transactional)
Peter Safir (Healthcare: Life Sciences)
William Skinner (Insurance: Advice to Policyholders)
Sturgis Sobin (Patent Litigation: International Trade Commission)
Lee Tiedrich (Patent Licensing and Transactional)

Legal 500 reviews the strengths and strategies of law firms in more than 90 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America, and the Caribbean.

The complete list of Covington lawyers and practices identified in The Legal 500 U.S. 2013 guide can be found here.